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new paper with @jacktaggart.bsky.social in @gepjournal.bsky.social on corporate power, multistakeholderism and the Global Plastics Treaty we contend that multistakeholder partnerships constitute a key hedging strategy for companies facing regulatory pressures to address plastics pollution

submitted 8 hours ago • 4 comments

think about this reply to a derek guy thread on 'what academics should wear to conferences' at least once a week

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whenever I read about a VC dismantling their institution, I check their profile on google scholar and their most cited paper (from 1998) is always something like: ‘failing forwards: the influence of neoliberal logic on higher education policy’

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Really enjoyed my conversation with MIT's TILclimate podcast to talk about the fossil energy in food systems with a focus on all the steps from farm to bite of a bag of corn chips! #foodsystems #fossilfuels #climatechange #agroecology tilclimate.simplecast.com/episodes/far...

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Read this. www.garbageday.email/p/you-can-ne...

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Reuse is possible, reuse is here. 🫙🍃 Check out these reuse models in the Philippines. 🇵🇭 👇 #BreakFreeFromPlastic #ZeroWaste #Reuse #Refill #NoToSingleUse @greenpeaceph.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I’d be content with students just doing the essential readings but it’s heartening that political leaders think we’re capable of this level of indoctrination

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

trump exists in a kind of ignorance superposition, where he is simultaneously, and at all times, strategically ignorant and actually ignorant

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

this loan deal seemed pragmatic at the time (particularly given the favourable terms) - feels like a player that’s lost a lot of confidence and really struggled to regain it

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👩‍🔬👨‍🔬The Scientists' Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty is a global network of independent scientific experts providing input to decision-makers and the public to end #plasticpollution. Follow us and check out our resources to learn more 👇

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Cars are getting 1cm wider every two years. That may not sound much, but over time it adds up, and they're showing no signs of slowing down 😬 That's #carspreading. Our new campaign is calling on city leaders to make parking policies fairer by varying costs based on the size of a car. Why? 🧵1/8

submitted 12 days ago • 37 comments

you know what’s a waste of tax payer money? civil servants having to respond to bad faith FOI requests from these absolute losers

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Hi folks! I made a starter pack of #plastic scientists -- many of whom closely follow the #plasticstreaty negotiations. Check them out! go.bsky.app/QA29MA

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Today, the Scientists' Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty, sent a letter to the Bureau of the INC for the Global Plastics Treaty. We stress the crucial importance of #science and observer participation, transparency and evidence-based decisions in the #INC. #PlasticsTreaty @unep.org 🧵

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

a colleague has pointed out to me that the deteriorating financial position of our university coincides with the pro-shorts-at-work agenda that I recklessly supported I want to take this opportunity to apologise for my part in unleashing this chaos

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the next round of plastic treaty negotiations are going to be interesting

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Behind this astonishingly impressive £30k. / month savings (amazing for a health system in crisis) is also an increase in people leading healthier lives, experiencing fewer episodes of poor health, and material steps to closing wide gaps in health inequalities.

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📝 My new article “Facing a fossil free future through the past: The importance of history for understanding fossil fuel phaseouts” is out in Energy Research & Social Science! Read and share: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

as Colin Crouch points out, 'actually existing' neoliberalism is devoted to the dominance of public life by the corporation now more than ever, we need to challenge the comfortable accommodation that exists between the state, market and corporate interests

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Fossil fuel companies will not drive the energy transition of their own accord. Dinosaurs don't invest in asteroids. We have to take the lead to put power back in our own hands, starting with gov clearly ruling out new oil and gas including Rosebank (as promised).

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

The #PEPFAR tracker is following the real time impact of each passing day of the funding suspensions spurred by the USAID funding freeze. Although there is a waiver to allow dispersion of ART, this is not happening because clinic workers have been laid off. People are dying. pepfarimpact.vercel.app

submitted 18 days ago • 21 comments

it feels like we’re in the middle of a shift from accommodation (through corporate ‘social responsibility’ and sustainability initiatives) to more confrontational forms of corporate power Coca-Cola backtracking on plastic pollution; BP and Shell scaling back net zero commitment and now this

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

what is the actual point of a centre-left government if it obstructs policies to tackle economic and social inequalities

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“We are shocked and saddened by the news of Professor Michael Burawoy’s passing. His untimely death is a great loss to sociology & to movements for justice around the world.” @michaelabenson.bsky.social on a collegiate, courageous giant of the discipline. thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

our university's travel agent boasts negotiated fares that it claims offer preferential rates, and literally every fare is 30% more expensive what an absolute racket

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

Among the USAID reports now taken offline by Elon Musk's "Doge" is the one I used on Tuesday to prove the US has spent exactly $0 on condoms for Gaza, not $50 million — false information the White House press secretary said she got from Elon Musk's "Doge" www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

submitted 21 days ago • 44 comments

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

submitted 22 days ago • 230 comments

"we never thought leopards would eat our face" cry fossil fuel industry bankrolling the leopard eating people's faces party www.api.org/news-policy-...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

given that the USAID website has just gone offline, I feel it is profoundly misguided for public health experts to be giving this administration any credit whatsoever

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

The situation is not helped by those climate commentators who...r guilty of ‘hurrah-optimism’, described by Adorno as the ‘constantly enforced insistence that everybody should admit that everything will turn out well’. @brettchristophers.bsky.social smart on overshoot www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

DHSC's now responded to the @houseoflords.parliament.uk 'Recipe for Health' report on how to fix our food system The response includes: -a new food strategy to come from Defra -recognition that it needs a cross-gov approach -industry to remain v much part of the solution www.gov.uk/government/p...

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

important commentary by @adebengyp.bsky.social and colleagues that challenges the technical and apolitical status of global public-private partnerships in development re-politicizing these governance arrangement is a critical part of wider critiques of market-based approaches to planetary health

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Are they annoyed that a company has taken their hard work & intellectual property, used it to advance their business interests without permission or payment? That must be awful for them.

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