It's that time of year again. I don’t know why I have to draft academic writing by hand & in pencil but it’s the only way my thoughts properly form. I just have to accept that the real work will be translating this to type later. #EduSky #SlowThinking #AcademicSky #DesignEducation #DesignResearch

Wild to see wealthy Reform politician "explaining" to poor people they don't understand their own experience. Let's make sure every single person in Gorton & Denton (and the country!) knows exactly that Reform is bankrolled by dodgy donors. Mask is off. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...

Phillips "This is not a country where people get thrown in jail for things they say" @zackpolanski.bsky.social points out 2,700 people have been arrested for holding signs And well done to Zack for challenging Phillips smear that 'from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free' is antisemitic

Politics London discussing driverless taxis casually referring to “jaywalking pedestrians”. Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law. Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.

Reform have totally let the cat out of the bag about who they are. Zia Yusuf lecturing that poverty and peoples everyday struggles with rising bills and rent is exaggerated. A party of the failed status quo, funded and representing big corporate interests.

Fighting age man flees his homeland to seek asylum on overcrowded island.

Repair Manifesto: If we can't fix it, we don't own it. - Repair is better than recycling. - Repair saves us money. - Repair teaches basic engineering. - Repair saves the planet. - Repair connects people and things. - Repair is sustainable. #Minimalism

What an awful human being.

Reform UK is facing a police probe after being accused of deploying a campaign tactic similar to one used in Caerphilly last year, where voters received handwritten-style letters claiming to be from a ‘concerned neighbour’ ✍️Emily Price

Whale evolution makes me uncomfortable

British values

It’s all kicking off down here… The trouble with the WRU is that they have the same view of rugby teams as Dr Beeeching had of railway lines. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...

Whilst many in Wales marked Imbolc and Saint Brigid’s day yesterday, an overlooked Welsh festival, Gŵyl Fair y Canhwyllau takes place today to mark the coming of spring

A reminder that Reform's candidate for Gorton and Denton, Matt Goodwin, has still not explained what he meant by this claim that developments in genetic science will make younger generations more right wing as they understand the "inherent differences" between different groups

That PCC is Labour's Emma Wools, who is paid £88,602 a year by the taxpayer to hold South Wales Police to account. But last year she backed anonymity for Officer F without explaining why, and she didn't even respond when we asked her views on the gym case.

I think at this point the UK has accepted Paddington as the Death Bear, collector of souls. So, I think as a nation we should start smearing marmalade on the eyes of the dead and whisper “fare for the crossing”. It’ll feel weird now but, in three of four generations, no one will question it.

I wonder what Londoners know that the rest of the country don’t?

Just so we're clear, one incident of alleged anti-semitism by a musician = a major national scandal that should be roundly condemned. Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Labour MP Nadia Whittome tells Shabana Mahmood that her plans "fly in the face of decency and compassion" and "will force children and spouses into the hands of the very people smugglers that the Home Secretary is seeking to smash"

This would be a more convincing argument if Keir Starmer had not himself made a whole series of promises which he then declared completely undeliverable as soon as he became leader www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Excited to be joining the lineup for BOUNCE 2026 this January at Trinity College Dublin. A brilliant mix of voices exploring what BEING means in design today — human, ecological, and everything in between. #Design #BOUNCE2025

The leader of a ‘politically neutral’ anti-20mph lobby group has announced her ambitions to stand for Reform UK at the Senedd election next year ✍️Emily Price

Let's make this happen. Together. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/pol...

Meme-ification has screwed us. I blame Dawkins. Let me explain. Dawkins coined the word “meme.” In his book The Selfish Gene, he defined the SOLE purpose of an individual gene as self-replication regardless of the welfare of the living organism that transmits it. He likened this concept to culture1/

Most of Ireland's uplands are commonage, ie co-owned by local farmers. The ONLY real income from commonage is via subsidies, almost always for ecosystem-killing sheep. This is why Irish mountains are all empty wastelands, kept that way by your taxes. Why are we STILL not paying farmers to rewild??

Concern about immigration is a “manufactured panic”, a campaign group has said after polling suggested only a quarter of people think it is an important issue locally

Want to help us build higher? Now's a great time join.greenparty.org.uk

Overshooting 1.5°C wasn't 'inevitable.' We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them. Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse. Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR. This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

After more than a year of disastrous political direction it looks like Labour MPs are finally questioning McSweeney's judgement. Remember - this is the man whose strategy is for Starmer to become a Farage tribute act with no solutions

I am pleased to share that my students’ research on circular economies in design education, co-authored by @keith-colton.bsky.social and me, will be presented at #E&PDE2025 in Malta next week. 🔗 doi.org/10.35199/EPD... #EduSky #HigherEd #DesignEducation #CircularEconomy #EandPDE2025 #AcademicSky 🌍

"I’ll get so much done on the train" I tell myself. Reality check: the file with the embedded video never downloads, the tablet dies halfway there, and my travel mug tastes foul. The September commute is officially back. Solidarity to those chasing deadlines between stations. #AcademicSky #EduSky

Pulling together my slide deck for September’s #EPDE conference hosted by the #ied and #thedesignsociety, where I’ll be presenting on the #Low-Tech #Hackathon we ran in Châlons-en-Champagne. This photo captures some of the energy of that event, students gathered around questioning, testing, learning

Great to see Plaid Cymru join others demanding Parliament’s immediate recall over Gaza. Accountability cannot wait.

Proud to see the Materials Intelligence Lab featured in TU Dublin’s sustainability news - a space where waste becomes possibility, and design education meets open experimentation. bit.ly/41OhLIe #EduSky #HigherEd #DesignEducation #OpenLabs #AcademicSky 🌍

Reform UK has come under strong criticism after failing to condemn two notorious fascists who have been organising pro-Reform stunts at road bridges in south Wales ✍️ Martin Shipton

MetroLink and the misleading €23bn headline: The Irish Times can’t have it both ways irishcycle.com/2025/08/15/m...

Sometimes the hardest part of writing isn’t the words, but making space for them. After weeks stuck in routine, I took my notebook outside. A change of place, a patch of sunshine and the thoughts began to untangle. Clarity often comes when we step out of our usual patterns. #EduSky #AcademicSky

Israel is being mythologised as exceptional rather than inevitable. www.planetcritical.com/p/one-day-ev...

A huge congratulations to all those involved in this brilliant campaign to save Capel Rhondda and protect Welsh heritage ⛪️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm219nyk79jo.amp #Wales #History

Any one of the charges here against the former Sun editor should stop Keir Starmer appointing David Dinsmore. When you look at them all together - it's an absolute outrage. Sign the petition 👇🏼 www.hackedoff.org/campaign-act...

We know for a fact that the smear machine will now go into overdrive… Corbyn is a huge threat to fascists and far right neolib elites! But the evidence is crystal clear: The “People are Desperate for Change”. www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/new-corbyn...

Colonialism - the perfect example of destruction, the very opposite of anything you could call "progress" phys.org/news/2025-07...

On my way back from New Designers 2025 and a visit to the V&A. What I saw, or rather what I didn’t see, has left me uneasy. Is the UK quietly turning its back on design? A reflection on #decline, #disinvestment, and why this matters across #education, #culture, #engineering, and #sustainability.

A new study from @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social found that: Americans who think global warming is happening outnumber those who think it is not by a ratio of more than 4 to 1 (69% versus 15%).

Low-Tech Ideation Workshop – What’s Inside Designing with less can do more. Inside the workshop kit: 🧠 Root cause & systems worksheets 🎲 Card-based ideation game ♻️ Circular economy mapping Plan a full session in minutes. 🔗 github.com/cgalmrott/Lo... #EduSky #HigherEd #lowtech #sustainableDesign 🌍

Proud to have co-authored this interdisciplinary paper proposing bold policy direction for higher ed: shifting from digital transformation to digital bifurcation rooted in ethics, sustainability, and responsibility. 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s115... 🌍 #EduSky #HigherEd #Sustainability #LowTech #AcademicSky