Good to be on @beltandroadpod.bsky.social speaking about justice in the so-called just energy transition.

Mass starvation. Ethnic cleansing. Genocide. That is what our government is enabling — and it should be eternally ashamed. End all arms sales to Israel now.

This is what fascism looks like, folks

“I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free.” Hossam Shabat’s final message to the world, shared by his team after Israel assassinated him this morning in northern Gaza.

Some spaces still available at this event for teachers & others interested in revealing hidden histories & geographies of empire: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/revealing-...

Fossil interests have funded politics to undermine climate action for decades. See my @WorldDevJournal paper for fossil lobbies pressuring US politicians into backtracking on international climate commitments well before Trump: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Returned journal paper without review as author conversing with converted. In refs to lit, acronyms etc., assumption that we know their canon. 'Canon building is empire building': Toni Morrison. In politics, teaching, writing, academics need to question & dismantle empire, not shore it up.

Critique of the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) deal the G7 signed with Indonesia. By @professorsud.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Unjust energy transition: Vignettes from the COPs, climate finance and a coal hotspot New, open access. I trace the shift from 20C env justice struggles to depoliticized just transition agenda. I then study N-S climate finance JETP, showing takeover by capital www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Two mainstream headlines. With @bbcnewsofficial.bsky.social highlighting 2 day temp injunction as *win* for Cambridge. Whereas judge ruled *against* 5 year protest ban uni lawyers sought. Win for right to protest and free speech. Yet more evidence BBC down the tubes. 0 credibility.

Back to school after more than a year of horror, many lost classmates, and most schools bombed to rubble. Meanwhile girls in Afghanistan are still not in school.

Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate? www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

Received pages of constructive comments from 3 journal reviewers. Academia is being squeezed by narrowing public budgets, right wing suspicion of education, and degrees as credentialisation. But mad respect for so many people I'm honoured to call colleagues, even the anonymous ones.

So this is how empires fall. One bad leader after the next, takeover by oligarchic cliques, backing war and genocide, antagonising allies, losing in the trade and production stakes to rising powers and losing their s*** in the process.

Looking forward to presenting from new @leverhulme.bsky.social funded research on the politics of energy transition in the big coal economies. @slcc-lse.bsky.social next Thursday, and at ISS, The Hague day after tomorrow.

Some hostages have names, family lives, feelings, health updates. Others are a nameless mass, easily overlooked.

Disappointing editorial from @indianexpress.com Calling Opp leader "petulant" fits Pappu propaganda. As a scholar, I'd go into layeredness of the state in hour long lecture. RG equating compromised institutions with "the state" in party speech is unremarkable. indianexpress.com/article/opin...

A ceasefire imminent. Israel bombing Gaza, attacking the West Bank, colonizing more land, torturing more Palestinians, collectively punishing an occupied people. We celebrate, we cry, we hold our breath to see what the next day brings.

Ugly pushback against the small gains made with movements such as Black Lives Matter and Rhodes Must Fall, which began in the global cores of slavery and apartheid. Even the rallying call 'anti-woke' is telling. It demeans African American lingo around the revolutionary ideas of awakening, uprising

My 19 yo son wrote for @labourlist.bsky.social on why young men are attracted to Reform. The commentariat talk a lot about this phenomenon, but we rarely hear from the young men themselves. What struck me was that although "anti-woke" is part of it, so is economics. labourlist.org/2025/01/news...

Another baby in Gaza has died of hypothermia – the eighth such death as temperatures plummet amid the Israeli genocide in the besieged enclave. 🔴 LIVE Updates ⤵️

Legacy of a genocidaire 🤮 www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/...

Looking at proofs for an article accepted for publication in a top journal in my field. Publisher: @elsevierconnect.bsky.social Elsevier charges 1000s of £s for article processing, but my article has had no copyediting. Cursory 'edit' has introduced errors. Are journals just 💰 for publishers now?

The centre can't out-Right the Right. The Centre leans Rightward, and its constituency is poached. Liberals across institutional spaces attempting to 'meet other side halfway'. Result is validation of Right's performative agendas of being 'marginalised/minoritised', Hindu-phobia, Christian-bans, etc

New year, continued horrors www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

1/7 The @telegraphnews.bsky.social has published an attack on a Home Office course on British History that’s offered to civil servants. It’s revealing in more than one way. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

Notices seen at London Heathrow airport: 'If you have been in Israel/Palestinian Territories and have witnessed or been a victim of terrorism, war crimes or crimes against humanity, then you can report this to the UK police.'

Head in the clouds convo with GP surgery Me: hello, I have a letter from NHS for a cervical screening. Receptionist: Do you have a cycle? Me: yes. I park along the side of the building. Receptionist: (ignoring this!) Good, we'll see you mid-cycle. How about... So many euphemisms for women's health

MP Priyanka Gandhi in 🇮🇳 parliament with colleagues. Been attacked for carrying this 🇵🇸 bag by the Hindu Right that's asking why she hasn't made statements about other causes in a similar manner. For the idiots in the house, again: Solidarity is not transactional, or a tit for tat.

What are your favourite festive fruit and nut cake / dessert recipes? These are dry fruits and nuts soaking in rum. Now what?

What's happening to academic journals? Top one in my field took months to process paper. Told me 'Revise & Resubmit' despite very +ve feedback from 2 reviewers. I did so, and have got another R&R 2 months later. New reviewer also very +ve. Asks for some definitional clarification. What?

As a K-drama fan, have to say today's episode Democracy was the best ever.

Heard on the train: "they had an acrimonious divorce. She kicked him out. She's educated and feisty. Not a proper woman."

Top on the spot reporting from Seoul 👏🏽

Internet, can you think of colonial banking, energy, infrastructure corporations that are now investing in green energy, esp in the Global South? Writing a paper on renewables capitalism. Wasn't looking for these links across time, but keep coming across them. Thanks

A personal piece on turning to nature in polycrises aeon.co/essays/an-es...

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