Amazing afternoon at #NationalMuseumScotland event: ‘Conservation in action: Film showcase and panel’. Breathtaking cinematography, and message of action and hope truly inspiring. Looking forward to the full film conservation film festival in April www.ecff.co.uk
Question from @martinwhitfieldmsp.bsky.social in the Scottish Parliament on cuts and job losses at Edinburgh University as @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social take third day of strike action this week #SaveHE #StopTheCuts www.heraldscotland.com/news/2563152...
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Rain or shine.....
Check out this super useful publication on #COP30. I’m delighted to be part of #EdinburghUniversity’s multidisciplinary team researching #sustainability and #climate action.
#EdinburghEarthInitiative @edinburghpir.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social
earth.ed.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
Graphic with text: ‘Scotland’s Climate March: a better world is possible. Saturday 15th November. Assemble at Glasgow Green, 11am. Global solidarity: for a world where everyone is safe, has enough, and is respected. A fair transition: for a fairer Scotland with jobs, transport and homes that support the move beyond fossil fuels. Caring for our planet: restoring nature to reclaim a future where all can thrive.’ Colourful illustrated icons are at the top and bottom of the image, depicting things like people, transport, energy and workers.
📢 Join Scotland’s Climate March on Sat 15th Nov to demand a better world as part of a Global Day of Action!
Assemble at 11am, Glasgow Green.
Global Solidarity. A Fair Transition. Caring For Our Planet. Get involved: climatemarch.scot
#ScotlandsClimateMarch
Good to speak to #BBC_Radio Scotland this morning about #COP30 prospects and what the absence of a formal US delegation might mean. @edinburghpir.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
FACTCHECK: What the Climate Change Act actually means for the UK – and what is a load of old nonsense
Really enjoyed putting this together with colleagues, inc learning new things about the fascinating backstory to the Act
Feat. OG authors of the Act & more
www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...
Talking Climate www.talkingclimate.ca?r=41e5jg&utm... Great blend of science, politics, hope
Thank you @benansell.bsky.social and guests for this highly recommended show. Not covered in the podcast, but #ZerosumMentality key to understanding contemporary #Populism as well. @edinburghpir.bsky.social
Well done (and well deserved) @carbonbrief.org 👏
Really appreciated Scottish parliamentarians @sarahboyack.bsky.social, @foysolchoudhury.bsky.social and @lornaslater.bsky.social taking time to discuss climate solutions w constituents. Action at local and sub-state level is key.
Hugely inspiring to join 100s of citizens and #piper at #ScottishParliament and #DynamicEarth to lobby MSPs to take action on #climatechange. Thank you @sccscot.bsky.social @foescot.bsky.social; @sarahboyack.bsky.social
Check out this short piece on 'Climate Change Politics in the Age of Trump 2.0'. Not as depressing as you'd think. @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social @edinburghpir.bsky.social @psaenvironmental.bsky.social
What an event. Riveting personal stories, poetry and scholarship. The redemptive power of arts is mistakable. Thank you to @edbookfest.bsky.social @kir-anderson.bsky.social @noellecobden.bsky.social @lady_unchained
Postdoc Fellowship: Multispecies Justice. Come work with @danycelermajer.bsky.social and me at @seisydney.bsky.social. We're looking at experiments in more-than-human inclusion in democratic decision making on climate and adaptation. More here:
usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...
I think it's really nice they do this but this is my fairly regular request that someone in the PSA puts the Scottish Higher results day in the diary and creates an equivalent post.
We need Scottish students to study politics as well.
Scottish friends
Act Now, Change Forever Mass Climate Lobby at the #ScottishParl 18 Sept, 12:45pm. Meet your MSPs and encourage them to continue leadership efforts on climate and nature. Small nations can make a difference. #RSPB #ChristianAid #FoE
www.stopclimatechaos.scot/campaign/mas...
Politics and IR @edinburghpir.bsky.social staff processing at today's @uoe-sps.bsky.social summer grad. Congrats students! @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
Wonderful Politics & IR @edinburghpir.bsky.social staff presence at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social summer graduation. Congrats to our fab students! @uoe-sps.bsky.social
Perhaps some of our @uoe-sps.bsky.social 4th years are interested in these paid internships at @instituteforgov.bsky.social
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/defaul...
Deadline is Tuesday 29 April at 11:00
The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social is staging a #demonstration outside #Meta's offices at Granary Square, King's Cross today at 1.30pm to protest against their #illegal #pirating of our work.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
META BOOK THIEVES - They Must Do The Write Thing The Society of Authors are protesting Meta’s HQ today This image shows illustrations of authors holding placards saying “make it fair” and “do the write thing”
Today UK authors are protesting against Meta for stealing our work to train their AI model. Authors earn an average of £7000 per year, we are not rich, and yet a trillion dollar company decided it didn’t want to license our work fairly as it was “too expensive”
Theft is not a valid alternative.
Join @heathergrabbe.bsky.social & me for the launch of our @bruegel.bsky.social report at a hybrid event on 25Feb using @dpart.bsky.social research (conducted with @neeleeilers.bsky.social) asking whether publics really stopped caring about climate change. Sign up👇
www.bruegel.org/event/public...
Thank you David @olefeldt.bsky.social and @katherinhayhoe.com for sharing the magic of #peatlands: where #climate science, art and music collide. See: karinepolwart.com/blogs/blog-1... PS: we must get musician #KarinePolwart on @bsky.app
One of my favorite things about #peatlands is their patterning at different scales caused by millennia of interplay between hydrology and peat accumulation - mainly Sphagnum mosses. Spent my Saturday evening looking at satellite images of the Hudson Bay Lowlands - a perfectly reasonable activity…
An image of Sandra Díaz & Eduardo Brondízio with the Tyler Prize logo. Overlay text reads "'Nobel Prize for Environment' awarded to two powerful voices from the Global South."
The 2025 @tylerprize.bsky.social has been awarded to Sandra Díaz & Eduardo Brondízio for their stellar bodies-of-work. Not only are they the 1st recipients from S. America, but they were also 2/3 co-Chairs of @ipbes.net #GlobalAssessment. 🌍🧪
Congratulations!
Read more: www.tylerprize.org
Aerial visual of oilsands landscape. Text reads: Living with the Oil Sands. Indigenous Stories of Struggle and Strength. A discussion from the front lines of the battle against settler colonialism. Two women from the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation outline life growing up in Alberta, Canada, working with and against the Oilsands. Join us to hear how their experiences shaped their indigeneity.
Living with the Oil Sands
Indigenous Stories of Struggle and Strength
March 5, 4pm - 5.30pm
Two women from the Athabasca Chipeyan First Nation outline life growing up in Alberta, Canada, working with and against the Oil Sands.
Info/registration:
https://edin.ac/3QbsxlH
Nature lovers needing a break from the news: check out gorgeous broadcast premiere of composer Erland Cooper’s tribute to David Attenborough’s career: Birds of Paradise w Freya Goldmark on violin. @hjm.bsky.social @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Fantastic opportunity for grad students to explore hugely impt topic @edinburghpir.bsky.social
