I'm part of the Environmental Audit Committee, and today we published our report on PFAS 'forever chemicals' 👇
It's scary how many products contain PFAS, and it's impossible to avoid them through our individual purchasing choices, so govt needs to take action.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
There's a global race to secure EV battery gigafactories & reduce reliance on China.
But not all clean-tech projects are created equal. Some generate good jobs & domestic capacities, others produce ecological harm & low value-added enclaves.
New paper & thread 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Men spent last week debating whether "62 million" was the right number in the CNN rape academy story. Meanwhile, the site is still online. The women in their lives noticed both things. New episode on the psychology of minimization and what it costs women. bit.ly/4tpHR0f
*Palantir execs trying to explain their glorious vision so we’ll invite them inside*
An absolute pleasure!
Pretty sure this will be one of my top books of the year
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Nighty photography shot taken in Dalyan, Turkey. Across a dark river can be seen the ancient cliff side tombs and pillars which are lit by golden floodlights which reflect in the river. A grey boat is moored on the far shore with tall trees in the background and more floodlights reveal a small dock.
Dalyan by night
#Dalyan #ancienttombs #nightphotography #riverview
'Another experiment found that users still listened to AI when it gave them the wrong answer nearly 80 percent of the time — a grim trend the researchers dubbed “cognitive surrender.”'
Cognitive surrender 🥲
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Bluesky - 6,743,577 mentions of research found
Facebook - 6,694,836 mentions of research found
@bsky.app overtakes Facebook for volume of citations to research.
Worth noting we don't track profiles of people on Facebook, rather several hundred thousand public pages - some of which have millions of followers.
We're not running a full festival programme this year, but there are a few things we couldn't pass up the opportunity to platform...
Come and join us #Sheffield
A collage of book covers collated by Storygraph Books as follows: My Heart is an Idiot by Davy Rothbart Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell The Othered Woman by Shahed Ezaydi The Poison Daughter by Sheila Masterson Throne of the Fallen by Kerri Maniscalco Mission Economy by Mariana Mazzucato Powerful by Lauren Roberts Reaper Man, Witches Abroad and Small Gods by Terry Pratchett Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher Against the Machine by Paul Kingsnorth Fairydale by Veronica Lancet Apocalyptic Authoritarianism by Hanna E Morris Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
March reads
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Living the absolute dream today
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🚨 Call for Contributors 🚨
"Lost in Their Words: Rewriting the Political Lexicon of the Far Right"
Editors: Sofia Miola (University of Pavia) & Massimiliano Livi (Goethe University Frankfurt)
🔥 to have these 3 @ Central Library 22nd April. Come hear poems of radical friendship, aromantic & asexual identity, non-binary re-imagining of queer ancestry, sex, love, queerness & political commitment. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-poet... #nationalyearofreading2026 #queerpoetry #poetry #sheffield
A white hand holds a book against a light blue background. The title is Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate crisis, media and power. The author is Hanna E. Morris The cover is dark grey with a black silhouette of the Statue of Liberty holding her torch in front of a red circle.
It's arrived!
Thanks @hannamorris.bsky.social
Excited to get stuck into it this week and look out for a review on the @reacpolrn.bsky.social website soon!
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Great to talk to the wonderful @mirandaioss.bsky.social about this article - ecofascism and the banal NGO aesthetic legitimising populist narratives - appears in more places than you think...
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Two boxes, the larger with a yellow background and the smaller with a red background sit in a wooden table. They are the game Billionaires and Guillotines and expansion pack, Reform or Revolution. The covers feature exaggerated and comedic illustrations of famous billionaires (on the yellow box) and a rat with a pitchfork and pet dog (red box)
My @plutopress.bsky.social cup runneth over with this AND The Othered Woman arriving in the same week
#boardgame #boardgames
It's totally worth it - they're easy, joyful reads you can slip straight into and get carried away with
A collage of book covers collated by Storygraph Books as follows: Perfume by Patrick Suskind Guards! Guards!, Eric and Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett Data Grab by Nick Couldry and Ulises Ali Mejias The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate and The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin This Dreaming Isle - Various authors First Principles and First Values by David J Temple The Far Right and the Environment edited by Bernhard Forchtner First You Write a Sentence by Joe Moran
February reads
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A paperback book is held against a light blue background by a small, white hand. It is titled The Othered Woman: How White Feminism Harms Muslim Women, by Shahed Ezaydi. The cover text is black capital letters against an off white background with a pattern of blue and brown triangles.
Happy to finally get my hands on this after backing its journey to publication when it was still with Unbound - congratulations to Shahed Ezaydi!
The first chapter is already proof of what an impressive and vital piece of writing this is.
@plutopress.bsky.social
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"It is time to accept that the far right doesn’t need to be in power to have far-right politics implemented, and that the current system can indeed accommodate the far right if its survival is threatened by other crises."
Great piece from @aurelmondon.com
reacpol.net/why-red-lines/
There are journal issues...and then there are journal issues! The truly epic 25th Anniversary Special Issue of the GEP journal, titled "Continuity and Change in Global Environmental Politics," is now live and free to read for the next 90 days through @mitpress.bsky.social.
A meme in which a man ignores his girlfriend to whistle at another woman walking past. He is turning to look over his shoulder at a woman in a red top, while his girlfriend in blue looks at him in annoyance. The man is labeled 'me' His girlfriend is labeled 'sentences of reasonable length' The woman he is whistling at is labelled ','
Feeling personally attacked by this whilst chapter drafting... 🫠
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The RPRN's two new publications are open for submissions!
Red Lines is a space for political interventions on resisting reaction. The Reactionary Politics Working Paper series aims to publish cutting-edge scholarship on reactionary politics.
Submit your work below!
reacpol.net/publications/
NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months
* Down in 2025
* Still below Mar 2024
* Clean energy wave a key factor
If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far…
www.carbonbrief.org/...
I'd characterise extreme ecofascism as marginal but growing, and also linked to a number of problematic more mainstream narratives, and they mutually strengthen each other - which widens the Overton Window for harmful policies, but also reinforces and proliferates extremism
Good question - I would say being marginal does not necessarily mean something is not worth closer monitoring, so I'm not sure that's an either/or circumstance and we should be taking care to understand different groups within extremist movements to monitor growth, recruitment etc
Thanks for the share @scenor.at
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🚨New article w/ @kathleenthelen.bsky.social🚨
This paper examines how the cloud hyperscalers (Microsoft, Amazon, and Google) played a critical role in the transition from platform capitalism to the new AI economy. The cloud business model, we argue, also contributed to the new tech-maga politics.
Research shows that 9 in 10 people globally want more action from their governments on climate, and 7 in 10 are prepared to put their own money in to help.
On 14 Feb, South Yorkshire Climate Alliance are hosting a free event in #Sheffield on how we can mobilise this climate majority 🌎
Details ⬇️