The internet offered a world of connection and cooperation. What we got was a world of ruthless monopolies and oligarchs. 👉 tcnv.link/DpgGpem

I've been to a Starbucks maybe once in my life because they're evil, but if you are a customer, now is just as good a time as 'forever' to deny them your business. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The unsustainable production of food and fossil fuels causes $5bn of environmental damage PER HOUR - major UN report. A global transformation of governance, economics and finance is required “before collapse becomes inevitable” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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#TaxTheRich #JailMillionaireTaxAvoiders #AbolishBillionaires #SocialistSunday meme via Trevor Boardman

“Rest is resistance and sleep is political. Systemic nightmares threaten our sleep.” - Alexis Pauline Gumbs, ‘Undrowned: Black femminist lessons from marine mammals’ ✊🏼🐬🐳

This #TrusteesWeek we celebrate the PSA trustees and recognise the difference they make to our charity.💙 buff.ly/qC1d7TZ @drdonnasmith.bsky.social @dralberro.bsky.social @profnjallen.bsky.social @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social @rosegann.bsky.social @stefwolff.bsky.social @teachpolitics.bsky.social

Hands off Venezuela! 🇻🇪✊🏼

My TA sleeping on the job yet again 🥹😍🥰🤪🐱. #cats

Review (2025) of our book Entangled Futurities (Routledge 2024) by Sarah Lohmann in Science Fiction Studies journal! online.ucpress.edu/sfs/article-... @sarahlohmann.bsky.social @routledgebooks.bsky.social @dralberro.bsky.social @rhifirth.bsky.social @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social

Here's a website that helps you switch to a greener bank. Investments should build a better future, not destroy it. makemymoneymatter.co.uk/banks/

I've never heard a better political speech than that just delivered by @zackpolanski.bsky.social at #gpconf 👏 Truthfulness, decency & kindness in politics, imagine that! #GreenParty

🚨CfP closing soon! We would love to host your paper at the 2026 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social conference in Oxford. More details here: www.psa.ac.uk/events/psa-a... Just select 'Environmental Politics Specialist Group' in the ‘Topics’ section when submitting your abstract.

Exicting events on a great new book 👇

Frantz making sure we all damn well know how cute he is 😍🥰🐈 #cats

“An economic order that contains inequalities as extreme as ours- in which the vanity rocket ships of billionaires sail over seas of human misery- is its own kind of depravity, and that level of injustice reproduces more depravity as a matter of course.” - Doppelganger @naomiaklein.bsky.social ✊🏼

This is a huge story. Don't let him get away with it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

📢 Don’t miss out! ♻️ Come to the one-day workshop organised by the @psaenvironmental.bsky.social Specialist Group with the topic “Environmental Politics in an Age of Insecurity” 🙌🏻 🗓️ 17 September at @manchester.ac.uk Programme & registration⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-e...

Our dominant socioeconomic systems have “a Midas problem. There’s no endgame, just a stagnant pyramiding scheme. Endless, pointless prosperity”… - Richard Powers, The Overstory 🌱🌳

📢 In case you missed out! Send your paper proposal for the #PSA26 Annual Conference by 17 Oct 2025 🎉 Why attend? ✅ A great place to present your research & get feedback 💡 ✅ Network with peers & senior academics 🫱🏽‍🫲🏼 ✅ Get involved in Specialist Groups 👀 More info⬇️

“The world is not made for our utility…what use are we to trees?” - Richard Powers, ‘The Overstory’ 🌳💚🌍

🚨 In case you missed it! 🚨 Come to the one-day workshop organised by the @psaenvironmental.bsky.social Specialist Group with the topic “Environmental Politics in an Age of Insecurity”. Save the date 🤓 🗓️ 17 September. ♻️ To register and find out more, click on the link below ⬇️

Tuesday vibes 🤪😸

It's alive! Publication day! Play in Utopian and Dystopian Ficion arrived in the mail. Thanks Liverpool University Press for producing such a beautiful book.

“There are more lives up here, in his one maple, than there are people in all of Belleville” - Richard Powers, The Overstory 🫶🏼🌳🌍

🚨 Full programme announced for our September workshop 'Environmental Politics in an Age of Insecurity'! Registration and full details below @cisk.bsky.social @matpaterson.bsky.social @ruthtownend.bsky.social @dralberro.bsky.social @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-e...

From this month's edition of The Onion.

"The tumbleweed, an icon of the American West, is not native to the United States or even the Americas. Indeed, none of the classically quintessential American icons—the cowboy and his accessories of horse, cattle, and tumbleweed—are native to the United States" - Banu Subramaniam, Botany of Empire

“Tomorrow was created yesterday, you see…and by the day before yesterday, too. To ignore history is to ignore the wolf at the door.” - John Le Carré, A Most Wanted Man

My new book is out. Utopia in the Factory: Prefigurative Knowledge Against Cybernetics. It's open access you can read it free here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Today is Emancipation Day in Canada, across the Caribbean, and other regions - marking the day slavery was abolished in the British Empire. My book, The Book of Possibilities, has been featured on a few Emancipation Day reading lists, and I'm grateful! Lemme tell y'all a bit about the day:

Is ChatGPT making us stupid? In 2008, we asked the same about Google. Now #AI isn’t just finding info, it’s “thinking” and analyzing for us.

"Why can't we count past two? Why look through the eyes of European puritanical sexuality to see only a binary cis-heterosexual male/female (plant) world?"- Banu Subramaniam, 'The Botany of Empire' ✊💚🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌱

Some articles by Bruno Latour on technology: 1. ‘Opening Doors’: bruno-latour.fr/node/381 2. ‘Can we have our Materialism Back?’: bruno-latour.fr/node/241.html 3. ‘Simondon’: bruno-latour.fr/fr/node/138 See also books: ‘Aramis: Love of Technology’, ‘La Clef de Berlin’, chap 8 of ‘The Inquiry’.

“Plants are anything but passive. They made the world” 🌎🌳🌱🫶🏼 - ‘Orwell’s Roses’🌹 @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

Friends & fellow 🪴 enthusiasts! I’m conducting research on key factors underlying the ‘(post)pandemic plant craze’, and what draws people to plants. Please fill out the brief anonymous survey below, & share this post with others. Thanks! 🙏🏼👇🏼🪴 www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

Migration is not anomalous but “a recurrent rhythm fundamental to our planet’s dynamism, where change is the welcome constant rather than feared, controlled and villainized” - Tran et al, ‘Decentering humans in sustainability…’ 🫶🏼✊🏼🌊🌏

"Now is the time of monsters."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Protest is a fundamental right, essential for any functioning democracy. This should send shivers down everyone’s spine…

In a recent paper, Saleem Ali and co-authors (including GDI's Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira) propose the creation of a Global Minerals Trust. In a new podcast ep, Saleem joins Tomas Frederiksen to discuss the proposal, including its potential implications for developing countries. 👂: bit.ly/40x4VgU

chng.it/DbVCd8PBx8 A horrific and dangerous breach of our civil liberties. Sign & share!

This is oligarchy. This is obscene. While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%. End this oligarchy.

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

Coal miners are fighting Trump’s safety cuts — and winning. grist.org/regulation/c... #Coal #Unions #Environment #Climate #Jobs #Politics #Health