George Michael died on Christmas Day in 2016. He will be remembered for his incredible songwriting talent, his gorgeous vocals and for the greatest non-apology video of all time, following his arrest for cottaging.

🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻 #CalvinandHobbes #Christmas

fair play to anyone physically able to cycle 500km in the week over christmas, but I remain baffled as to who the target demographic for this is beyond divorced surgeons with 12 grand cervelos

last day at work is going reallly well, why do you ask

as someone who values @propublica.org reporting on issues like climate and plastics polllution, there is absolutely no way I’m financially supporting them to produce AI slop over proper investigative journalism

I came to have a nice boat tour around Copenhagen, not live out my personal hell

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

be the co-author you want to see in the world

kind of fitting that the FIFA peace prize is one of the most cursed objects I've ever seen

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

incredible that VCs have collectively strategised on the threat of the far-right and democratic backsliding, and somehow the lesson from Columbia, Harvard, UCSF etc is that appeasement works

has anyone read any good pieces on the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) announced at COP30? particularly interested in the role of consultants, private philanthropy and 'de-risking' debates

'One of the programmes...closed entirely was on public policy, and the two women leading it left. Staff claim “there are no longer any women in research leadership positions”, which the institute did not respond to directly, though it stressed its commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.'

Meta’s 2020 research project, Project Mercury, “gauge[d] the effect of ‘deactivating’ Facebook & Instagram, according to Meta docs obtained via discovery…’ppl who stopped using Facebook for a week reported lower feelings of depression, anxiety, loneliness & social comparison,’ internal docs said.”🧪

a thing you quickly learn when researching business power, is the lengths to which seemingly ‘legitimate’ corporations will go to extend markets and maximize profits

Trump out here systematically dismantling every complex theory of policy making we have

my platonic ideal of a secondhand bookshop - just absolute chaos

new article (building on old fieldwork) in the Journal of Critical Public Health an attempt to apply theories of post-politics to multistakeholder governance which highlights how norms of inclusion paradoxically lead to the exclusion of critical voices

surreal watching us qualify for the world cup with a chip from the halfway line this will never be topped

virtually indistinguishable from the plot of an A24 psychological horror I really want to believe that there’s no market for these ghoulish AI apps

'Proximity to drilling wells, processing plants, pipelines + other fossil fuel facilities elevates the risk of cancer, respiratory conditions, heart disease, premature birth + death, as well as posing grave threats to water supplies + air quality, + degrades land.' Other than that, great stuff

new open access paper on the right to science and pollution with several fantastic colleagues including @bcarneyalmroth.bsky.social @jptilsted.bsky.social and @taraolsen.bsky.social

🔴 NEW 🔴 Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30 Interactive map shows the food & farming corporations, trade groups and initiatives at COP30 in Brazil and how these are set to navigate the summit 📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & Gil Alessi👇 www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...

We are featured in over 50 news outlets today: PhD student David Mahoney's research using web archives, @archive.org, to measure historic website emissions, offering a new method and open-source code for analysing & highlighting online environmental impact. www.energylivenews.com/2025/11/11/c...

history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting

It’s one thing to have different environmental/health priorities for your foundation, it’s quite another to have been bankrolling one of the primary sources of bullshit on the topic.

Opinion America First and the Fragmentation of Global Health: How Africa can Reimagine Its Agency www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/06/11/2...

They just gutted Teen Vogue which had top notch political journalism. The media is continuing to purge any sort of political dissent to Trump and the oligarchs. www.vogue.com/article/teen...

PepsiCo follows Coca-Cola in backtracking on commitments to reduce virgin plastic + abandoning reuse despite all the talk of corporate sustainbility in UN plastic treaty negotiations, the reality is that Big Food companies are continuin to expand their use of single use plastics

I’ve said this jokingly to colleagues but a universal research income (URI) of 10k would be a far more equitable and productive system than the current funding model staggering to think of the time and effort put into applications that have a 1% chance of getting funded

🚨 New working paper alert 🚨 Missing summer — and the Tour de France? Don’t worry, we got you covered. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️ In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...

shamelessly promoting this paper again - open access thanks to @uoe-sps.bsky.social

🚨New from me & @fieldnotes.co in @theguardian.com → Revealed: The network of GOP hired guns behind Big Soda’s bid to turn MAGA against MAHA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

[stares forlornly at inertia of Edinburgh city council]

"If geoengineering works well initially & you see this temperature drop, the tempempation to keep going & extracting fossil fuels will be greater than ever, because it will seem that you have a technologically that can cut off the link between temperature rises & fossil fuel combustion."

new article in @reggovjournal.bsky.social that examines how corporations engage in 'venue hopping' as a means to advance agendas in multiple spaces and at multiple levels This riffs off Baumgartner and Jones' notion of venue shopping, but adapts it for an increasingly multistakeholder world

📚 new open access book: "Climate Assemblies - New Civic Institutions for a Climate-Changed World" 🌍 ✅ 25 co-authors examine the state of the field and the reasons behind the growing hope and hype about climate assemblies ✅Free PDF available here 👉🏼 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Is meat the new oil? Five lessons from fossil fuel governance for industrial meat governance By @cleoverk.bsky.social www.sei.org/perspectives...

no coincidence that efforts by governments, development banks and the plastics industry to 'derisk' investment in risky, unproven recycling technologies has targeted countries like Indonesia, which have the highest imports of toxic plastic waste

I'm not sure how far these developments have leaked beyond the global plastics sphere, but UNEP do not come out this looking good

Meat vs EAT-Lancet Planetary Health Diet: The dynamics of an industry-orchestrated online backlash Report by the Changing Markets Foundation changingmarkets.org/report/meat-...

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

an advert so good that I joined the waitlist for a synthesiser I would have no idea how to use

Philadelphia filed an extremely thorough lawsuit on Wed against SC Johnson (Ziploc) and Bimbo Bakeries over claims that their plastic bags are recyclable, accusing the companies of engaging in a "coordinated campaign of deception." @grist.org grist.org/accountabili...

new blog by @benjaminfaude.bsky.social and @jacktaggart.bsky.social on the UN SDGs, drawing on a recent special issue in @globalpolicy.bsky.social lots of great contributions, including a paper by myself and Jack Taggart on institutional hybridity in global plastics governance

Ignorance can be strategically used to promote 'non-knowledge' and deny liability Rather than view this in terms of a lack of knowledge, we need to understand how strategic ignorance is being used as a source of power

amateurish reporting that uncritically reproduces pseudoscientific and eugenic frames @politico.com must retract this piece and issue an apology for using damaging and offensive phrases like the ‘autism problem’

the Cass Sunstein new yorker interview is as bad as everyone is saying, but I would say is not entirely unrepresentative of his work the behavioural economics of 'nudge' is characterised by the same tensions and inconsistencies evident in this piece www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

almost have to laugh at how cartoonish the corporate donors to this are: big tobacco, the arms industry and tech companies specialising in citizen surveillance