This is excellent

In March, I signed a letter alongside more than 100 academics calling for the introduction of universal anti-SLAPP protections to safeguard academic freedom in the UK. Read the letter: antislapp.uk/wp-content/u...

Sign the petition: tinyurl.com/4zsw59eu

#StopSLAPPS
@indexoncensorship.org

A page from the book 1984

Brown University is home to George Orwell's original manuscript of 1984. Most of it is marked up heavily in Orwell's hand-writing but this untouched page caught my eye.

'In Rwanda, the climate crisis is no longer a future threat, it's a daily experience'

Thanks for joining our event at Imagine Festival on the climate crisis as a human rights issue. Huge thanks to our panellists, especially Trócaire Rwanda's Jackline Mugoboka who made clear the effects there.

"The oil crisis is exactly what the net zero brigade wants"

These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."

james connolly looking smug

every environmentalist who has for DECADES been saying we need to get off oil and gas, watching governments panic at this energy crisis

📣 Join us for a panel discussion Thurs 26 March, part of the @imaginebelfast.bsky.social festival

Hear from our panel on why we need urgent climate action & the role governments must play in a fair and funded fossil fuel phase out, from the perspective of both climate & human rights obligations.

Europe spent years debating whether the energy transition was affordable.

Spain quietly answered the question: gas now sets its electricity price in only 7% of hours.

Strategic autonomy doesn’t arrive via summit communiqués. It’s built in advance — in wind farms, solar parks, and grid investment

Rightwing narrative fuelling false belief UK public oppose net zero, study finds Reform, Tory and some media rhetoric runs contrary to poll showing far more voters for net zero than against it Political elites are out of step with the public appetite for net zero, according to analysis that identifies rightwing media narratives as fuelling a false backlash against climate action. Media coverage of net zero is more than twice as likely to be negative than public attitudes and is driving a false perception that net zero policies are unpopular with voters, the analysis found. Continue reading...

Rightwing narrative fuelling false belief UK public oppose net zero, study finds

Sign Now: Tell Stormont to regulate heating oil industry The price of heating oil is skyrocketing! I've signed this petition calling on the NI Executive to regulate the heating oil industry today - will you sign too?

I've signed this petition calling on the NI Executive to regulate the heating oil industry today - will you sign too? @actnowcampaigns.bsky.social my.actnowni.org/petitions/re...

Great graphic showing cities on a triangle graph showing if they are most oriented to public transit, active mobility or cars.

Have you seen this? This recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips that are by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hard to grasp the amount of shamelessness required for Exxon to sue environmentalists for defamation

Our latest news: we have signed our MSCA COFUND grant agreement!
We'll soon announce opportunities for 20 international students to do PhDs in anticipatory governance research at Queen's University Belfast on 5 different research themes.
#Academicsky #AnticipatoryGovernance #PHD #research

Take Back the City | Build a better Belfast Take Back the City is a community coalition that advocates building homes on publicly owned land in Belfast as a way of tackling homelessness and the growing waiting lists for social homes in the city...

Find out about our plans for this site, and the wider Mackie’s site at takebackthecity.ie 🔗

Trigger warning.

“In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.”

Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.

If you're having a rough day, remember that in 1991 Tim Berners-Lee's paper for the World Wide Web was rejected and he was relegated to the poster session.

PhD opportunity:
Enhancing community resilience and adaptive capacity through ocean literacy: an action research approach to community participation in marine planning
Queen's University Belfast

Application Deadline - 30th April 2025

Cover sheet of a journal article: "Why do cars get a free ride? The social-ecological roots of motonormativity" by Ian Walker and Marco te Brömmelstroet

HOT RESEARCH NEWS!

Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people making rational judgements about driving en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor...

Our new study shows where this bias comes from AND how it makes people think they're odd for supporting changes to the transport system 🧵

Man standing in front of a line of Cybertrucks in a cartoon resembling the scene in Tiananmen Square.

Get the message?

By Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz.

Make this viral

ANNOUNCEMENT: EMERGENCY GENERAL MEETING - 6th February 11am

Members will have seen this morning that the University is launching a Voluntary Severance Scheme (VSS), hot on the heels of announcing a new Indian campus, while budgets for faculties, schools and directorates have all been slashed. (1/4)

This is the elephant in the room that needs to be recognised: due almost entirely to the proliferation of single houses in the countryside, Ireland has >four times< the length of overhead electricity wires than the European average. That’s why it’s taking ESB so long to restore power after Éowyn …

Calls for Dáil to be recalled in aftermath of Storm Éowyn As Sinn Fein Leader Mary Lou McDonald has said she has written to the Taoiseach calling for a reconvening of the Dail, Michael Collins of Independent Ireland is on the line urging immediate Government...

Gobshitery taken to epic new levels by rural independent TD Michael Collins today, calling for removal of ALL trees “within 30 metres of a public road”.

Yes, you heard that right. That would be MILLIONS of trees this joker proposes destroying.

www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

SLAPP law suits are alive and kicking

Cheating on an exam by memorizing everything the professor taught in advance so I can easily answer all the questions

Donald Trump has declared the U.S. is in a “national-energy emergency.” “The actual emergency, obviously, is with the climate,” @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.
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This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance.

Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.

Scientists make disturbing new discovery while studying human urine samples: 'We urgently need to classify [this]' A recent study found high levels of two potentially deadly chemicals in humans' urine, raising concerns about tire pollution.

“It's not easy to be exact, but studies estimate that tires create anywhere from 10-28% of the world's microplastic pollution, according to National Geographic. These particles don't just disappear — they end up in our water, our soil, and our bodies.”