Terrifying how ordinary this was. Not a monster, Paul Doyle is an ordinary man, driving an ordinary car, on an ordinary street. With an ordinary view that people in a street were “fucking pricks” who must “get out the fucking way”. The unusual part is he acted on it. metro.co.uk/2025/12/15/l...

The Desert Gardens project has helped thousands of Syrian refugees grow fresh food in the Jordanian desert. Our Co-Director @neofossil-tony.bsky.social is back visiting the Zaatari refugee camp to help install new hydroponic systems 🥬 Find out how you can support the project ➡️ tinyurl.com/2xnhmxr9

Kid, born after legalisation of gay marriage, has gay friends and classmates with gay parents and never occurred to them that this might be strange/wrong. We can create new social norms fast if we want

There's a joke here about not gritting pavements, but i would not sink so low

"AI could invent free renewable energy." Or, y'know, we could deploy the stuff that works and is already cheaper than the fossil alternative, while doing the hard political work of figuring out how to pass the savings on to households, balancing the interests of shareholders and ratepayers.

WHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

a write up on the dispute in @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social for those who subscribe, and if you don't subscribe you probably should. www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/wont-work-ca...

Some reflections on a challenging year in climate communication and freelancing: www.abiperrin.com/p/2025

The world is full of drivers who pass you so they can wait at the traffic light directly in front of you instead of directly behind you.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

COP30 marked 10 years since the Paris Agreement. But how far have we actually come? 🌎 We arranged for Eleni Stathopoulou from @sheffielduni.bsky.social to attend #COP30 as an Official Online Observer. Read her thoughts on the outcomes of the conference here ⬇️ tinyurl.com/mvapns5f

Pillaging and overheating the planet and shafting their staff? They seem nice* www.theguardian.com/business/202...

We're on strike at the moment, so I wrote a thing www.linkedin.com/posts/richar... cc @sheffielducu.bsky.social

It's revealing about taboos around racism that the visceral bullying racism of schoolboy Farage cuts through while the much more consequential thinly veiled racism of adult Farage doesn't. Many people need that veil and flinch when it's removed. You can advocate racist policies but not say the words

We're on strike at the moment, so I wrote a thing www.linkedin.com/posts/richar... cc @sheffielducu.bsky.social

Make every day the day you put things off til tomorrow.

No

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... You can donate to our strike fund here ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/hardship-fund/

Sometimes we all need a little help to escape the winter blues. The calm of nature is proven to help support wellness - even in the colder months! Thanks to support from South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority sessions are free to attend! Full details at: www.wildsheffield.com/winter-wellb...

Cats or Dogs. You decide. @sheffielducu.bsky.social

Expanding airports (while cancelling high-speed rail) is a very poor investment during a climate crisis.

If you haven't yet seen it, here's our report on South Yorkshire Police's decision to arrest 17 people in #Sheffield simply for holding signs, in an action described by local councillor @mineshparekh.bsky.social as "shameful". ✍️ @sammgreg.bsky.social

There is a deep irony in naming of Doncaster Sheffield airport ‘Robin hood’ when borrowing £57m to reopen a climate-destroying unprofitable boondoggle is clearly going to end up robbing from the poor and giving to the rich

The more you have, the less you know it. The only people more likely than not to understand where their income places them in the UK distribution are those with incomes in the lowest fifth.

I was there

Suggs and the boys, great bunch of lads, always said so.

Beautiful sunny morning on the picket line cc. @sheffielducu.bsky.social

A sad day for climate action. Heathrow’s third runway getting government backing sends the message that airport expansion matters more than safeguarding our future. We need leadership that prioritises people and planet. #Climate www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Last call for tickets

Open letter from over 1,000 UK scientists urging all MPs to attend the National Emergency Briefing. A huge list full of highly respected names. "Without much more urgent and decisive action, we risk seeing these impacts overwhelm our capacity to respond." Please share with your MP #NEB2025

Compare and contrast the Government language. £3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’. Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’. And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.

Drowning in denial: one in five homes in Reform UK heartlands faces flooding in 25 years Even as the party rolls back climate action, Reform-controlled councils sit on some of England’s worst rising flood risks By Nafeez Ahmed

"My work with AI is exponentially accelerating the destruction of the 🌎, but once a month, I go camping to reconnect w my own humanity thru nature. I also bike to & from the office, which definitely offsets all the other environmental destruction I work tirelessly to enact from sunup to sundown.."

One week to go! #cycling #films #sheffield

Colder today, but the sun is out! @sheffielducu.bsky.social

On the picket today (until it starts raining at least) cc @sheffielducu.bsky.social

Always remember that a parliamentary majority can (purport to) render a country "safe" by an Act. The Conservatives sought to do that with Rwanda, regardless of the facts.

Why would any city not do this? 📢 Sheffield Cc @felly500.bsky.social

Unexpected chippy tea. A phrase to bring joy to the soul like a cold pillow on a hot, hungover morning. Each one of its nineteen glorious letters like a featherlight kiss on the forehead from an angel.

It says it all

We're back for a another selection of the entertaining, esoteric and engaging films, and the bar will be open! November 27th 6:30pm at Regather, Club Garden Road , Sheffield Book tickets via this link www.eventbrite.com/e/cycling-ci... Follow on Instagram www.instagram.com/cyclingcinem...

"These cuts have probably already taken about 3,000 jobs out of the local economy" We report from the frontline as @ucuhallam.bsky.social members begin a fresh wave of strike action against @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social 🪧 ✍️ @rose-mason.bsky.social #Sheffield @ucu.org.uk @drjogrady.bsky.social

I’ve just announced I’ll be leading a National Emergency Briefing on 27 November . At a time when climate is in free fall on the political agenda , it’s vital our leaders realise what is at stake if we do not accelerate a just , green transition for all . @nebriefing.bsky.social 🇬🇧

frustrating to see climate communicators pivot to talking about tech solutions immediately after calling out people in power for letting climate deniers get away with it. people know the solutions are there. they don't need that kind of reassurance. they need moral courage and pride in the fight.

Slightly too long and slightly too self indulgent perhaps, but what do you do when someone says something about you that isn't true? www.linkedin.com/pulse/doing-...

Access the slides from Our Critical Decade for Climate Action Conference: A vital resource for anyone working on climate transitions, #ClimatePolicy and equity. Find them here: tyndall.ac.uk/conference-s... #AcademicSky #CriticalDecade #ClimateAction #ClimateResearch

I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC. The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.

𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀! Want to join @chrisgpackham.bsky.social in supporting the National Emergency Briefing on Climate & Nature? 🖋️ 𝙋𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙣 𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 urging MPs to attend: lnkd.in/ecGDM3Ry