📢📢📢We made it to the national news! This time with an important win for our branch! Management has decided to withdraw compulsory redundancies for academic staff at least until July 2026. ASOS and next week's strikes are therefore called off. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚨 STRIKE ACTION ON THE 27 & 28 NOVEMBER 🚨 We’ve now served formal notice of strike action on 27 & 28 November. Management must withdraw the plan to make 400+ of us redundant or risk escalating and sustained industrial action. @ucu.org.uk

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today. https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia

Stop compulsory redundancies!

The head of the UK's leading funder of social research has spoken against funding projects on post-growth and degrowth. Our research environment is wedded to an economic system that does harm daily to all human and non-human life. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

lancasterucu.home.blog Check out Lancaster UCU branch's blog for updates on ongoing situation and other matters.

Den här listan är från UBS Global Wealth Report 2025. Den visar koncentration av förmögenheter. Sverige är på sjätte plats här. Lite bättre än Saudiarabien och Förenade Arabemiraten, men sämre än USA och samtliga andra EU-länder.

3-year postdoc @lancasteruni.bsky.social w/ Dr's John Childs & Nicola Firth Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Countermapping Territory, Heritage & Knowledge Offering an alternative t0 mainstream approaches to understanding the political geography of the deep seabed hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030. Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.

NEW from me: China's CO2 emissions fell ~1.6% in the first quarter and have now been flat or down for more than a year. This is the first time on record that emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand.

wow - first Marine Le Pen, now this

Just tearing up Article 5 like it's nothing.

Dutch universities will go on strike! Against the 1.3 billion cuts! March 10: Leiden University March 11: Utrecht University March 13: University Nijmegen March 17: University of Amsterdam March 20: Maastricht University March 27: VU Amsterdam April 10: Tilburg University @woinactie.bsky.social

I can be as critical as anyone of the government's occasionally muddled message on growth but Look! At! This! Chart!! Anything they've done pales next to this GIGANTIC UNFORCED ERROR COMMITTED IN 2016! (fagpacket maths follows) on.ft.com/4hzyvbJ

Sign this letter in support of separate targets (for CDR and emissions reductions) in the EU carbonmarketwatch.org/publications...

It was the best of times, it was the dumbest of times.

On a related note, the passing of same sex marriage laws in the United States (and the resultant disappearance of the culture war around it and accusations of "gay agenda" coincided with a drastic reduction in gay teen suicide arstechnica.com/science/2017...

If you missed our event on the role of carbon removals in the EU's climate policies, not to worry. You can rewatch the entire discussion here. We've even split the video helpfully into chapters so you can easily navigate to the bits that most interest you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxLx...

In November last year the National Audit Office warned that cuts to flood defence spending meant that 25% of flood defence projects had been abandoned and 40% fewer homes would be protected by 2027. A year later, we have this. But the problem isn't actually as simple as government underspending. 1/6

At the COP29 climate summit, Keir Starmer said he wasn't going to tell people how to live their lives. That's not what people want to hear. I've written about what he could have said instead. climatecitizens.org.uk/climate-citi...

IN SUMMARY: Developing countries wanted: Mobilisation: $1.3tn Provision: $600bn Investment: ⛔️ They got: Mobilisation: $300bn Provision: 🤷‍♂️ Investment: $1.3tn (maybe)

On Trump and geoengineering, again. :-/ www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/pu...

Andreas and I wrote this piece in @uk.theconversation.com based on our book and this new Nature piece on overshoot. @versobooks.bsky.social "How mainstream climate science endorsed the fantasy of a global warming time machine." theconversation.com/how-mainstre...

Is there empirical support for #MitigationDeterrence for carbon removal? See case studies in this special issue. tinyurl.com/mr2t6wvp 1/10 @jenslund.bsky.social @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social @wimcarton.bsky.social

I'm afraid the Labour government can't argue that it is the party of educational aspiration if it allows universities to fold. Those most at risk are the ones which have higher rates of participation from minority & working class groups so when they begin to go under will the government just watch?

As always: this is how CCS is meant to work. It is tactical vaporware: - Hoover up subsidies for a few years - Fend off regulation by creating false impression of action - Cancel project bc it's too expensive Repeat over decades environmentaldefence.ca/2024/05/01/s...

This week Climatic Change published two new articles from CSSN scholars on how special interests can influence academia on climate change. Read the research here: link.springer.com/article/10.1... link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The fifth article in our special issue on #MitigationDeterrence in Env Sci & Pol is now out. Juanita von Rothkirch et al. on expectations of CDR in Swiss climate policy. tinyurl.com/2x3bdypk

The fourth article in our special issue on #MitigationDeterrence in Env Sci & Pol is now out. Inge-Merete Hougaard on how biochar is enacted in Denmark. tinyurl.com/mr2t6wvp

“I disagree with the idea of unions. I just don’t like anything which creates a lords-and-peasants kind of thing.” ... said the richest man on earth. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Is the prospect of carbon removal deterring emissions reductions? See case studies in this special issue. 3 papers, so far. #MitigationDeterrence tinyurl.com/mr2t6wvp

The zombie arguments about why we 'need' new oil & gas are quite something. Rehearsed yet again for King's Speech yesterday. The truth is that any new fossil fuel developments mean that we bust through the 1.5 limit and probably 2 degrees. As this paper explains ucl.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...

Now that the manuscript has been submitted, I finally feel comfortable enough to share that this is happening! Overshoot, vol. 1 - to be published by Verso, Autumn 2024.

Calling everyone working on political ecologies of carbon removal, carbon offsetting and net zero! We're now inviting abstracts for our CDR stream at POLLEN24. Deadline is 1 December, more details in the call text below. Join us in Lund next June! politicalecologynetwork.org/2023/10/23/p...