⚖️ 🌍 ⚡ 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐮𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 🇳🇱 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞: 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝, @milieudefensie.bsky.social et al. v. Shell. #ClimateJustice #ClimateCaseShell 🧵 ⬇️ analysis in thread below

for anyone interested in just how similar tobacco and oil industry strategies are, search Philip Morris ‘Unsmoke the World’ exact same discourse around transitioning away from the commodity that sustains their profitability

my partner’s dad is a spurs fan and I am exercising frankly superhuman levels of self-restraint in the groupchat right now

I recently did an interview for the Land & Climate Review, talking about the research I've been doing on the political economy of plastics, the circular economy, and corporate power @landclimate.bsky.social

Don’t trust someone who doesn’t have VLC on their laptop.

"The objective is really to divert attention away from the production of plastics". This week on the Land and Climate Podcast, Alasdair speaks to Dr Rob Ralston @policyrelevant.bsky.social, lecturer in Public Policy at the University of Edinburgh. Listen now: landclimate.org/plastics-cir...

America's oil execs have pocketed $1.4 billion selling stock during the Iran war, the WSJ reports This cash windfall won’t go primarily toward yachts and private jets, but toward political campaigns and lobbying orgs dedicated to blocking climate policy and fueling authoritarianism

hi, uk centre left posting expert here! memeing ed miliband into being pm is not funny, uk centre left posters only do this when the labour party is in extreme distress.

Beautiful, insightful post by el alcalde, @andresdelcas.bsky.social on the #SantaMarta process and the #justtransition away from fossil fuels. "The Santa Marta Process is not a fist striking the table; it is the construction of a new table." www.linkedin.com/pulse/letter...

FAO have just released a report on plastic and food contact materials, and finds that recycled plastics are associated with higher levels of chemical migration into foods to me, this underlines the limits of a 'circular economy' and the need to reduce plastics + shift to reuse models

really interesting piece by @danielagabor.bsky.social and @benbraun.eurosky.social on 'decarbonized sovereignty' in light of the recent high-level conference in Santa Marta, Colombia on transitioning away from fossil fuels

My book Myth of the Garbage Patch is out now on Thousands Press! I’m grateful to Sally Boyd for publishing this accumulation archive. 🌊 thousandspress.com/shop/p/myth-...

Scotland confirmed to have our first trans MSP! Congratulations @irisduane.bsky.social!

i'm sorry but have you tried to edit your university profile page - a Kafkaeque undertaking

20 years since we last made the CL final COYG!

for all the corporate citizenspeak about addressing the plastics pollution crisis, Big Food companies continue to lobby against single-use bans and alternative reuse models

Santa Marta: Key outcomes from first summit on ‘transitioning away’ from fossil fuels ✍️ @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Read here ⬇️

“After years stuck in endless debates about whether to phase out fossil fuels, finally we are focusing on the how. We are no longer fighting for recognition of the problem, but creating solutions." Tzeporah Berman

the atleti fan that starts making his jamon sandwiches just before half-time is the ideal of 'chaotic good'

I’m mindful that proposals for a fossil fuel phase out treaty are squarely in my research interests of petrochemicals + plastics, but I’m genuinely surprised at how little media coverage has been given to some pretty significant govt commitments linked to the first round of talks

decent FT piece on the 'coalition of the willing' involved in the first conference of a potential Fossil Fuel Treaty will be interesting to see whether petrochemicals / plastics feature in the discussions

just witnessed somene having a run near my university wearing a LACAN t-shirt in the NASA font ngl it was pretty sick

if haemorrhaging money doesn’t matter, I’d set up a gym for neurodiverse people no loud music, ban on people recording for social media, mood lighting, some nice house plants maybe

this second half is a great illustration of the 'invisible' work that Havertz does in terms of pressing, link play, and positioning. he's incredibly frustrating at points, but our overall play is much worse without him

98% of sustainability claims made by 33 of the largest meat and dairy companies are "greenwashing", analysis claims

"Benches are where optimistic visions of civic life meet reality. To remove them, or to curate who gets to sit, is to abandon the work of defining a civic ideal and determining, together, how to live up to it." NEW: Why benches are slowly disappearing from public spaces — and why we need them back:

A wildlife disaster unfolds alongside the human tragedy in the Strait of Hormuz @greenpeace.org reports Iranian vessel Shahid Bagheri, stuck by a US warplane in early March, is still leaking oil near the Strait, with nearby wetlands at risk: www.cnn.com/2026/04/17/s... 🧵 1/5

the issue seems to be that contracting private companies creates a profit motive, and profits are highest for (ultra)processed and unhealthy foods I get that schools face financial pressure, but they also have a responsibility to create an enabling and healthy environment for children

for anyone in or near Edinburgh, we have an upcoming SKAPE event on 21 April with @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social presenting his research on health policies in the WTO - link to register below @skape-ed.bsky.social

back on the plastics archive research and the first hit is a 1977 Washington Post article on Coca-Cola funding a shrimp farm that claimed to have bypassed the need for fresh water both really weird and an example of how alert corporations were to environmental concerns like water stewardship

niche complaint, but it's incredibly irritating that some video editor has put a wilhelm scream in the UEFA 'football for all' campaign, and also that nobody has bothered to fix it [yes the arsenal game is pretty tedious, why do you ask]

after taking this picture I had to google ‘is there a difference between cats bathing in the sun and sunbathing’

an interesting example of what Adam Hanieh argues (contra much of the financialisation literature) is the inextricable relationship between oil futures markets and the physical production and delivery of oil

as @dlevialvares.bsky.social and @tris-sia.bsky.social point out in this report, plastics continue to a blindspot in coverage of the current conflict a plausible scenario is that demand destruction for oil + gas in energy systems leads to even more aggressive expansion into petrochemicals

new comment by myself, @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social @katesievert.bsky.social @kimanastasiou.bsky.social and Joe Yates in @natfood.nature.com on ultra-processed foods and the global plastics pollution crisis

At some point you stop writing for readers and start writing for the imaginary objections of Reviewer 2

new open access paper with colleagues @jacktaggart.bsky.social and @jptilsted.bsky.social in @ripejournal.bsky.social it offers a neo-gramscian perspective on the political economy of plastics / plastic pollution, exploring attempts by dominant actors to sustain 'plastic hegemony'

Today looking forward to meeting up with Edinburgh University Greens!

new report from @ciel.org on how private finance is fuelling petrochemical production no surprise that the Big Three asset managers (Vanguard, BlackRock, State Street) are the largest investors in the global petrochemical industry

it is unfathomable to me that an article this made it through a double-blind peer review process the opening sentence alone would surely raise huge red flags for any half-decent reviewer

this has gone under the radar, but this crisis has also caused a global spike in the cost of plastic, which seems almost certain to increase the cost of food similar to energy we need to defossilize food systems, reducing dependence on single-use plastics, shifting to more sustainable reuse models

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

Iran war is the greatest threat to global energy ‘in history’, warns IEA ft.trib.al/BEVJPDk

This is a far bigger fuel, fertilizer, food crisis for Asia and Europe than it is for the US. US dependence on Persian Gulf oil has almost never been lower A thread by @sstapczynski.bsky.social on how Asia is alreaddy within days facing a destabilizing. x.com/SStapczynski...

The war in Iran could trigger a global food shock • More than 1.1mn tonnes of fertiliser and fertiliser inputs is currently stuck in the Gulf • Shortages are starting during northern hemisphere’s planting season, raising the risk of lower harvests for staples like rice www.ft.com/content/1054...

hell is the 0700 LNER sat opposite a person without headphones working through a backlog of linkedin connection requests

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

Talk about the ultimate fucking hot dog guy gif moment…