Potential strike action as QMU staff fight proposed job cuts Queen Margaret University staff in Musselburgh, backed by UCU, are being balloted on strike action over job cuts, redundancies, and changes to…

www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/2604247...

NEW ANALYSIS: My new article in @natenergy.nature.com argues Europe keeps responding to energy crises by changing supplier.

95% of EU oil and 88% of gas was imported in 2024.

The structural fix: reduce fossil fuel demand through electrification and efficiency.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Too often, “transition” is reduced to new technologies or new markets. But the real question is deeper: what kind of future are we building, and who is it for? A just transition must be measured by its ability to sustain life.

🧵👇

$1bn and counting: blacklisted Israeli company raking it in from North Sea oil A firm linked by the UN to West Bank settlements has received the sum through its stake in a North Sea oil company.

Environmental campaigners said that choosing to approve Rosebank would be “morally reprehensible” because it could “bolster" its activities in the West Bank

Strike ballot opens at Edinburgh's Queen Margaret University UCU members at Queen Margaret University (QMU) are being balloted from today for strike action in a dispute over jobs, working conditions and changes to working practices.

Somewhat of a shock to say the least.

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1447...

Data Colonialism: AI Data Centers on Indigenous Land The artificial intelligence industry’s data center boom is the latest chapter in a long history of environmental racism and resource exploitation in vulnerable Native communities, says Oglala Lakota a...

The artificial intelligence industry’s data center boom is the latest chapter in a long history of environmental racism and resource exploitation in vulnerable Native communities, says Oglala Lakota and Northern Cheyenne activist Krystal Two Bulls, the executive director of Honor the Earth.

We've emailed members - members meeting Tues 28th 10-12 in the Halle Lecture Theatre. We're here to support you, hear your views and concerns. In JNCC tomorrow we'll be letting management know this isn't the solution to their financial issues

Colleagues at QMU have just received notification that management are seeking to make up to 20 members of staff redundant in a first phase of organisational change. Sending strength to all colleagues during this challenging time - we will fight against compulsory redundancies 💪🏻

British universities paid security firm to ‘spy’ on pro-Palestine students Investigation reveals how Horus, a company led by ex-military intelligence officials, was hired during protest movement.

No money for jobs. Plenty of money for spying.

Many of the 12 universities who paid private intelligence to spy on pro-Palestine activists are forcing through major job cuts.

@drjogrady.bsky.social it's "shameful", universities have "wasted hundreds of thousands spying on their own students"

Children’s voices matter 📣

Find out what children across Scotland have to say about #Transport and #ActiveTravel.

Read our first ever Children’s Walking and Cycling Index, published today.

👀 sustrans.org.uk/childrens-index/scotland

#WalkingCyclingIndex

QMUCU submission to EHRC consultation QMUCU submitted a response to the Equality and Human Rights Commission about the Supreme Court’s ruling on trans lives.

As a union branch, we are committed to defending the rights & dignity of all our members. Our submission to the EHRC consultation affirms our stance: trans rights are workers’ rights, and we will continue to organise against discrimination in all its forms. Read the submission here:

Surprisingly they didn’t even notice the intrinsic gendered connection between women and democracy and women in conflict zones. This is a picture of white middle class women, how very out of touch they are.

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack review – this crucial film is the stuff of nightmares. But the world needs to see it The film the BBC refused to air shows the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza. Its relentless timeline of horrors will never leave you

@heritage.bsky.social Just read your review of the Gaza documentary. One of those "well done on a great review I wish you never had to write" situations. Thanks for giving the context too. Gonna watch this weekend. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Yvette Cooper- Proscribe the IDF The "IDF" has repeatedly carried out large-scale, deliberate acts of violence against civilians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. It is our sincerely held belief that the atrocities and tactics use...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/yv...

On BBC News this morning

”Sir Keir Starmer has said he "understands what anchors" US President Donald Trump, having built a relationship on shared family values.”

Now I’m worried

Welcome to Britain 2025: where a musician's words cause more outrage than the murder and horror in Gaza | Owen Jones The issue of what happened at Glastonbury is obscuring the outrage about real bombs and actual death, and I think that is deliberate, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Palestine Action spraying paint is not terrorism. As ministers abuse their powers, I feel a duty to speak out | Juliet Stevenson We have laws to deal with crimes linked to protest. What this is really about is ministers complicit in the Gaza atrocities seeking to silence dissent, says actor Juliet Stevenson

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Sadly needs more than just me.

Let’s stop paying the TV licence!

And we are paying for this political suppression through the tv licence…

BBC pulls Gaza medics documentary due to impartiality concerns - BBC News Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, which was due to air in February, was made by an independent company.

Impartiality, my left foot.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Today is #showyourstripes day 🌍
Check out the warming stripes for your own region at showyourstripes.info

Show Your Stripes Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe

showyourstripes.info/s/europe/uni...

Absolute banger OCI report out today - rich countries like Norway and Australia could comfortably phase out oil and gas - cutting both enabled overseas emissions and domestic emissions massively - without skipping a beat.

HELP!, LOOKING FOR PARTICIPANTS-WOMEN WHO WORK WITHIN THE SCOTTISH COMMUNITY WASTE SECTOR.
To take part in 1-2-1 interviews, video and photography activitiesYou need to be working within waste projects based within community/not for profit/NGO.Please fill in this form.
forms.office.com/e/Sc51eJeVXn

Here's a first look at sea surface temperature data from the new NOAA ERSSTv6 dataset... this animation shows the yearly anomalies over the last 100 years.

Data available at www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb...

Strike dates announced at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen The EIS says an initial day of action has been set for 15 April, with more in May and September.

Solidarity with our colleagues at Robert Gordon as they prepare for their strike action ✊ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Literally, cannot wait for this.

More crackdown on Greenpeace protest in the US.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...