‘We regularly call the cops on our students. Now we’ve sold them to Microsoft’.

It has been exactly one year since launch of #ForeverLobbying Project & our own Chemical Reaction report. Together we exposed access, strategies, & misleading messaging of prominent parts of #PFAS industry against proposed ban. ➡️ corporateeurope.org/en/chemical-... ➡️ foreverpollution.eu/lobbying/

🔉Call for Papers! This September Jay Todd @jaytoddgla.bsky.social & I will be organising a session on "Queering Environmental Justice" at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference @rgsibg.bsky.social ⏰ Abstract deadline: 18 February 2026 🔗 Conference website: www.rgs.org/research/ann...

"In the few months since the second Trump administration began, the federal government’s efforts to control silicosis have been destroyed," David Michaels and Gregory Wagner write:

The EPA IRIS database specifies the cancer + noncancer risk of > 500 chemicals. It's the rosetta stone to calculating the relationship between exposure and risk. It powered our tox map and formaldehyde map. Killing it would destroy the ability to regulate or even show how harmful toxic chems are.

📣 Upcoming event with Prof. @jennypickerill.bsky.social "'How do we carry on?’ Political activism in an era of uncertainty" | Thursday 20 March 2025 | 12:30 - 17:30 | Location: Thuis Wageningen (Stationsstraat 32, Wageningen, the Netherlands. Info ⬇️ centreforspaceplacesociety.com/2025/03/03/e...

NEW: While all eyes are on Trump and DOGE, a bill recently introduced in both the House and Senate would cripple the EPA's ability to regulate. It's a very serious threat and experts told me it could pass www.propublica.org/article/legi...

One week left to submit your abstracts!

A new analysis confirms links between early life #PFAS exposure and stunted “cognitive, motor, and language development” as well as “behavioral issues like hyperactivity.” #foreverchemicals appear to be damaging children’s brains, and not only highly exposed kids. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39888511/

Excited to see this is out - and with an expanded online edition alongside! Congratulations and thank you @erindurban.bsky.social and team for all the work that went into it

📼 For those who missed todays Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage online symposium session with @farhanasultana.com, Gabriela de Matos and Amali Tower on “Decolonising #ClimateColoniality and Re-Centering Marginalised Voices and Knowledges” the video is now online! 🥳 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrqZ...

Making Asbestos Great Again www.propublica.org/article/davi...

@4sweb.bsky.social and fellow STSers invested in projects of liberation! We invite folks to submit to our open panel, Reverberations of Power and Justice in Critical Science and Technology Studies. #207 findable here: www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...

⚠️#PFAS are ubiquitous to our environment and a new #ForeverLobbying Project has estimated they will cost billions to clean up!   🚫CHEM Trust calls on the UK Government to act now to #BanPFAS.   Read more here: https://buff.ly/40imRLz Find the project here: https://buff.ly/3Z6DNCq 

CFP! At the Nordic STS conference this June in Stockholm @emmapdc.bsky.social & I are organising "Towards just pollution interventions: public experiments beyond the lab" We welcome abstracts from any discipline or practice. Deadline March 1. Reach out for questions www.nordicsts.se/call-for-abs...

‘High-risk sites’: where are the UK’s ‘forever chemical’ hotspots? What you need to know. #ForeverLobbying www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The #ForeverLobbying Project exposes the real cost of #PFAS pollution on the environment, science, and politics. 46 journalists teamed up with 18 experts to investigate the worst pollution crisis humanity has ever faced, caused by the “poison of the century”. foreverpollution.eu/lobbying/

Big news: A new EPA study finds that millions of acres of farmland are likely polluted w/ #PFAS from sewage sludge spread over the fields as fertilizer—a practice EPA has long promoted. The implications for our food system are hard to overstate. h/t @ewg www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...

Chemical recycling doesnt work at scale; it’s neither environmentally or economically viable ioplus.nl/en/posts/ano...

“The first Trump admin altered or deleted numerous federal web pages containing public-facing climate information, according to monitoring efforts by the nonprofit Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, which tracks changes on federal websites.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...

Heading home to Melbourne next week - if you're around and keen to chat about pollution, chemicals, or waste, I'll be there throughout December. (Also would appreciate hot takes on good cafes as my coffee map is 6 years out of date...)

Today 20.000+ people came together in The Hague to protest the proposed cuts in education funding. To protest against layoffs. Against a penalty for study delays. Against the closure of degree programmes. And to fight for academic freedom, equal opportunities, and the right to study. #WOinActie

More than 20,000 people protesting the budget cuts in higher education in the Netherlands #WOinActie

This summer Hiilei Hobart and I, among others, will "contribute to the theorization, imagination, and practice of socially just and ecologically hopeful futures" includding workshops on works-in-progress with participants. Apply!

Solidarity with colleagues at the University of Wollongong in geography, history, language, maths, environmental science, physics and public health. Entire units being cut, short sighted and devastating. Petition here: betteruniversities.work/uow-petition...

There you have it! An official Starter Pack of people working on #PFAS issues curated by @saferstates.bsky.social go.bsky.app/ThQN6Zs

Starter Pack on Colonialism, Decolonisation & Race 👇. Interdisciplinary and not limited to academics. Set it up last week so I may have missed people who joined recently - pls let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed). ..Overlapping starter packs v.welcome! go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q

Hey Bluesky, I am excited by all the energy coalescing on this platform. It seems like a place for strategic thinking, which we badly need. A few initial thoughts: 🧵

#Jobalert We are hiring! Come and join us in the Cultural Geography Group at Wageningen University. We are seeking 3 PhD candidates to research the generative tensions of slavery and colonial heritage tourism on the FRICTIONS project team, funded by the ERC Starting grant: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/t...

For new #publichealth followers, please follow @cphjournal.bsky.social for latest papers - we're celebrating 1st year since our departure from commercial publisher!

UNEP has clarified the interpretation of the non-governmental requirement. We hope that this will result in more public universities being accredited with UNEP and thereby able to attend UNEA meetings. Yay! www.ipcp.ch/activities/c...

slowly leaving twitter. hello all.