This week we launched the West Yorkshire hub of @justcentre.bsky.social with 30+ regional partners to explore how to put social justice at the heart of climate change conversation and action. A huge thank you to everyone who joined us, we are excited for what lies ahead!

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

@prof-carolynsnell.bsky.social and @luciemidd.bsky.social argue that while #NetZero policies are vital for tackling #ClimateChange, they must be shaped around everyday realities and social inequalities to ensure they enhance rather than diminish people’s lives: buff.ly/nFn4lI0

Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed

Well done to @luciemidd.bsky.social and @profmarkdavis.bsky.social, who were awarded Best Paper by Energy Research & Social Science! 👏 Their paper investigates how social relations impact public decision-making and action around energy use. Read more: environment.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...

Our paper “Developing a relational approach to energy demand: A methodological and conceptual guide” has won a prize: the Energy Research & Social Science Best Paper Award! You can read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... thanks to funding from @ukerc.bsky.social

🚨Join us for the International Launch of the JUST Centre, with keynote remarks from Prof. Julian Agyeman and a discussion with Centre Director Prof. Sherilyn MacGregor, Co-Investigators Prof. Lucie Middlemiss, Prof. Stefan Bouzarovski and Prof. Rebecca Willis. Register here: tinyurl.com/5bxfdb2z

Interested in #health #equity and #buildings join Doug's new 'HESTIA' network!

Very pleased to be a co-author on this new paper by @linzhang55.bsky.social which summarises the policy context in #China in relation to #EnergyPoverty. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The case for using "global majority" by institutions should be rejected unless + until it can be shown - most people understand what it means (most don't) - most people it is about would like it used (most don't) I find it a deeply incoherent fiction + a highly regressive term in some many ways

Diary of a Gazan family's descent toward starvation reut.rs/4jB7Dcd

Back-to-back life on Leeds streets caught on camera. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UPDATED: As of Tuesday night, California universities are reporting at least 92 revoked student visas. — 50 at UC campuses. New: UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine and a jump at UC Berkeley to 19 total — 36 at CSU campuses, including San Diego State — 6 at Stanford www.latimes.com/california/s...

The rationale for this cancellation is climate denial. There is no dressing it up, there is no tiptoeing around it. Yet climate change doesn’t care if we believe it. It will destroy our homes, multiply insurance rates, wreak economic havoc and more — regardless of our opinions or voting record.

Interested in residential air quality and environmental justice? Check out this new paper from @douglasbooker.bsky.social and others in the HEICAMM network exploring ten key research questions in this area www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Having a bit of a reminisce today. Five years ago an email arrived that changed my life - a request to produce a paper on what we knew about the environmental transmission of covid-19 for the UK SAGE committee. 1/

This is not an exaggeration: illegally gutting this program will cause Americans to freeze to death in their homes.

Come to our exciting event "Accelerating Social Change in Response to the Climate and Ecological Crisis", 6th June, London, register here: forms.office.com/e/4A078QseKL For more infos here: bit.ly/41O8EIe

New paper led by Stephen Hall: Mission Led government or Radical Incrementalism for electricity and Net Zero? We argue for a relational approach to Net Zero, whether rooted in radical incrementalism or in mission-led government. journal.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/articles/13/...

And the essay I wrote about climate, trees, and David's violin is here (and in my forthcoming anthology No Straight Road Takes You There with Haymarket Books). I'm on the board of OCI, by the way. Since 2017. www.theguardian.com/music/2022/j...

Done, I'm an ally thinking about my son's needs, be an ally whoever you are. More carrot, less stick please.

If you want to write to your Labour MP about disability benefit cuts but have limited spoons, here’s a template from @sensecharity.bsky.social you can use: t.co/E8QB6EDi9o Public backlash *does* work at times so let’s keep the pressure up. You too, non-disabled allies!

What can we do about this? Please share ideas. I realise it is only one of a number of things but it is an important one...

Nationwide protests are planned this weekend after Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University student activist, was arrested by immigration authorities, fueling tensions between the Trump administration and student movements over immigration policy.

Before Mahmoud Khalil's detention last week, ICE came for a Columbia PhD student. She had nothing to do with the Gaza protests, but was arrested last spring during a roundup while trying to walk home. Charges were dismissed. The State Department still revoked her visa.

PhD opportunity with me (RSPB) at Sheffield Hallam combining ecology (building-nesting birds esp. Swift) + building design & planning (Net Zero goals & retrofit). We need a strong student interested in both! Is that you? url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/cNyjCR636C... Please repost.

' #RealistEvaluation: Principles and Practice' Meet the authors: Ana Manzano & Emma Williams. On the 7th May at the Social Research Methods centre of the University of Leeds. Further details and tickets available here: socialresearchmethods.leeds.ac.uk/events/meet-...

More good clean air news. 🎉

time.com/7260543/medi... From my good friend and ally, the brilliant Danilyn Rutherford.

Who will join us at the @justcentre.bsky.social launch in #Manchester? Will be a fun event, and a celebration of #diversity, #inclusion and #environment in these challenging times... Eventbrite below: 📅 12th March, 17:00 – 19:00 📍 The People History Museum www.eventbrite.com/e/just-centr...

Exciting opportunity to join the @changingrealities.bsky.social team at a time when the work we do together has never mattered more. Please do share widely jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

I’m glad Labour is supporting these workers, who are at risk of losing 400 jobs. Would be nice if they were also supporting university workers, where 10,000 jobs are at risk. In the first week of February alone 1,000 job cuts were announced. Nothing from Labour at all in response.

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science. Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics". Silence now *is* political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about". We need to sound the alarm. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Seems like all my research projects come to the same conclusion... #ItsRelationalStupid #trust #person-centred

🚨 New research published today 🚨 For the poorest half of working households, income from work has increased & benefits decreased. But lower income families are spending a disproportionate amount of their income on Council Tax, which has become increasingly regressive. https://buff.ly/4gE0beF

Setting off blearily towards the Eurostar. On an epic trip to Valencia for our final #Wellbased meeting. Impressed by how many people are up and in Leeds station at 530 in the morning.

Yep. This captures it...

Old story for @politico.com Robert, like 1000s during Jim Crow, fled to the USSR. A TIME writer had said, “nowhere else in the world is a Negro so pampered as in [USSR].” But it was all a show. Robert would be spied on and trapped in the USSR for 40 years. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

This is a useful (but day-ruining) post on the current situation (it’s a self-coup), including a list of likely outcomes (civil war is possible, but unlikely). Also, @liberalcurrents.com is clear-eyed and becoming part of my daily reading rotation. www.liberalcurrents.com/is-it-a-coup/

German state repression is spiralling out of control. A German climate activist has been banned from becoming a teacher. Here are some justifications from the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts—they are completely nuts: 1/7

Walking in to NASA’s JPL today as a woman in science leadership felt almost like a protest. They can take us off the webpages and the walls, but we will still be here, absolutely crushing it, and supporting our community while we do it. Happy International Day of Women in Science, everyone.

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

The speed and willingness of compliance. Deeply disturbing.

Just received an email saying that it's not advisable to include the following words in future applications for research funding to the US DOT. Here we are.

Hurrah. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Anyone else here hate being a lab rat? In our recent research about net zero, what comes out loud and clear is a distrust of government *because* infrastructure is shoddy, and falls to support decent lives. We have so much to offer here, but we are doing life with our hands tied behind our backs.