Announcing our first winner of the Early-Career Environment and Climate Politics Paper Prize! Congratulations to John Donovan (OU), for his winning paper 'Commercial Gains, Climate Losses: Unpacking the Environmental Costs of Lunar Industrialisation'. www.bisa.ac.uk/news/early-c...

It's time to start planning for next year's conference! Get in touch if you want information on the process, or if you'd like us to share a call for papers!

I feel like putting together a Loss and Damage panel I think. Time to think about it still, but feel free to reach out if you want in.

Good news from POLLEN, and BISA submissions open soon. I'm open to ideas for BISA panels if anyone wants to hang out in Brighton!

A huge thank you to everyone who contributed to today's workshop on Insecurity and Environmental Politics both online and in-person @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social

UN commission: “Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, have incited the commission of genocide.” 5 days ago: Keir Starmer welcoming Isaac Herzog into 10 Downing St

"Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds" The UN joins other experts including the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Holocaust historians, and multitudes of lawyers in concluding this is genocide. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

"Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind."

This Wednesday!

‘We took the gloves off’: ex-IDF chief confirms over 200,000 killed in Gaza. Retired general Herzi Halevi says ‘not once’ had legal advice constrained Israel’s military decisions in the strip www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

I feel like I'm losing my mind. He was just one of the many US white supremacists whose job is to preach hatred on the internet. A US politician and her family were assassinated in June and there was none of this reaction. There is no global condemnation of the snipers who kill Palestinians daily.

I was supposed to be writing today but after a two day crash course in adaptation politics, my brain is mush.

🌟 @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social spotlight out now! 🌟 With Santosh Kumar from Jawaharlal Nehru University who is researching how epigenetic ideas impact societal understandings of air pollution in India as he tells us his background, his research interests & more! 🎉 Read here 👉

Yesterday in the US, three children were shot at one school. At least 72 Palestinians were killed in airstrikes. A random youtuber who defended both of these horrors is the one being eulogised by world leaders.

Day 2 of Accountable Adaptation. Today I get to just listen.

Happening a week today! Wednesday, September 17th 9am - 4pm BST. @psaenvironmental.bsky.social @mybisa.bsky.social Full programme, and registration for both online and in person attendance: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-e...

Slept in a portakabin opposite the Abba arena. #London

Volunteers from the US and Europe volunteer so they can murder. They're not ashamed and they don't deny it. Every day I read /see something that fills me with sick despair that our government not only supports this, but has criminalised protest against it. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

On my way to an Accountable Adaptation workshop at UCL. Going to be talking about vulnerability, you might not be surprised to hear.

Tube strike tomorrow when I'm in London - full support and solidarity to them. Question though: I'm currently planning to walk to Stratford rather than try and navigate the horrors of asking for help in London. Anyone got a better idea?

Didn't really need an absolute bodying by reviewer 2 the day before a two day workshop. Just want to hide in a cave for a while.

We're really excited for our 'Environmental Politics in an Age of Insecurity' workshop in @manchester.ac.uk. Final tickets and details below. @james7jackson.bsky.social @matpaterson.bsky.social @ckweatherill.bsky.social @manchestersci.bsky.social @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social

📣 new article out! together with Marina Oliveira, we show how lithium extraction in Brazil reproduces historical dependencies & inequalities, as well as direct, structural and cultural violences access here: doi.org/10.1080/1071... #greentransition #extractivism #globalsouth

The longer I'm left on pending decision, the more often I'm checking the website. We're down to a ten minute refresh. Help me.

Our next event is taking place 17th October, 13.00-14.30 UK time. Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy. Register now! www.bisa.ac.uk/events/pathw...

This piece is now free to read. @kmilb.bsky.social, @bertrussell.bsky.social and I argue that popular power and social property - rather than merely nationalisation - are important goals for working class struggles today. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/the-...

The latest event for @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social is now open for registration: 'Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy' will have three speakers: @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social ; @kaiheron.bsky.social and Jane Clarke. @mybisa.bsky.social www.bisa.ac.uk/events/pathw...

Researching the environment? What are our options for developing our research & careers? Whether you are applying for academic posts, policy related positions or joining activist movements @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social has got you covered 😀Very much looking forward to being part of this discussion ⬇️

The latest event for @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social is now open for registration: 'Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy' will have three speakers: @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social ; @kaiheron.bsky.social and Jane Clarke. @mybisa.bsky.social www.bisa.ac.uk/events/pathw...

"In my research, I write and read about colonial continuities – historicising climate change as a form of colonial violence. From this perspective, participating in high emitting activities means doing harm. Knowingly doing harm." ✍️ From our blog www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2226

Departing from our position of feminist scholars based in Chile and Sweden and conducting research within the fields of education and geography, Ana Luisa Munoz and I ..... www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Maybe a self-indulgent thing to be pleased about, but had a couple of citations lately that make me feel like my work has been helpful, and that's a lovely feeling. For example, Gemma Sou's excellent new article on perceptions of vulnerability in Manchester: doi.org/10.1080/1756...

ECP Early Career Paper Prize 🚨 The deadline is quickly approaching for the @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social prize for the best ECP PG / early-career paper presented at the #BISA2025! Deadline: 16 Aug Learn more & apply: buff.ly/N04b1Vj @ctmcateer.bsky.social @ckweatherill.bsky.social

I don't care whether it works or how it works. The reason AI is bad is because it's environmentally ruinous, socially devastating, and being pushed on us without consent by the worst people in the world.

Deadline approaching! Nominations for our Early-Career Environment and Climate Politics Paper Prize close on 16th August. Eligibility: - PhDs / ECRs - Presented at #BISA2025 on an ECPWG panel. Instructions: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work... @mybisa.bsky.social

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces. #JournalismIsNotACrime

An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza. Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF. #NotATarget Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

I refuse to give dodgy third party services my face or credit card data, so I have no DM access. Just fyi. This stupid ill thought out UK law might finally be driving me off social media?

Good piece outlining how Big Tech companies' carbon emissions are soaring due to the AI boom, but it overlooks a huge piece of the puzzle It's not just the energy use of AI hurting the planet, but the fact that many tech companies are selling AI to oil companies to help them drill more

New Spotlight! PhD candidate Meredith Warren (QMUL) shares her research interests and future plans. Meredith's research sits at the nexus of socio-legal studies and global environmental politics scholarship. www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza. “A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said. Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn

New @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social article out now! 🌎 'Can we imagine what a future climate-changed world will be like?' by Carl Death🌳 "The politics of climate change is inherently future-oriented." Link 👉 buff.ly/EwrmQKv @ckweatherill.bsky.social @notesnthemargin.bsky.social @suraveenayak.bsky.social

Contract signed with Liverpool University Press, for my book 'Vulnerability and Resistance: Islanding Climate Politics', due to be published 2026/2027. Very cool.

We're delighted to support this @psaenvironmental.bsky.social event being held at the University of Manchester, on the 17th September. 'Environmental Politics in an Age of Insecurity'. Keynote by @matpaterson.bsky.social Register for the workshop here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-e...

Contract signed with Liverpool University Press, for my book 'Vulnerability and Resistance: Islanding Climate Politics', due to be published 2026/2027. Very cool.

Former senior UN relief official Jan Eliasson has dismissed these air drops as an "ineffective sideshow". But of course, they're not aimed at stopping the genocide. Nothing Starmer does is aimed at stopping the genocide. Its aimed at managing the domestic politics of his complicity in the genocide.

The latest child to starve to death in Gaza weighed less than when she was born - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

ace to see that Carl Death's new book African Climate Futures is now out. It's a spectacularly good intervention I think. global.oup.com/academic/pro... @uompols.bsky.social @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social @stripple.bsky.social

New blog! Can we imagine what a future climate-changed world will be like? Dr Carl Death discusses climate fiction in the context of his new book: African Climate Futures. @mybisa.bsky.social @uompols.bsky.social @fromagehomme.bsky.social ‪ www.bisa.ac.uk/articles/can...

Early Career Paper Prize - deadline approaching! - Did you present a paper on one of our panels at #BISA2025? - Are you a PhD student or within three years of graduating? - Can you write a draft paper by 16th August? Nominate yourself! Details: www.bisa.ac.uk/news/early-c...