Why ‘green’ finance isn’t always as sustainable as it seems At its most basic level, sciencewashing entails using the vocabulary of science, and borrowing its authority, to claim sustainability outcomes.

What makes finance 'green'?

A contribution to the Conversation, with Sarah Bracking, which draws on five years of research on innovations in green finance.

If green finance is to serve collective wellbeing we need proactive regulations on what green finance ought to account for.

One herbarium’s thorny future: Duke to close century-old 'gem' of biodiversity research Duke’s collection of more than 800,000 specimens of fungi, plants and algae makes the herbarium one of the largest in the country. The move to close it has drawn criticism from faculty and researchers...

Despite the outcry, Duke University still plans to close its huge herbarium, because it doesn't want to spend $25 million to repair the collection's building.

Duke's endowment was $11.6 billion as of 2022; it is also the primary beneficiary (32%) of the independent $3.69 billion Duke Endowment.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

🔍 Full-time Post doc(s) on my ERC project on 'Advocacy, Social Media & Political Representation' @ Department of Political Economy, King's College

Background in polsci, soc data/computer science, polcom, etc.

📅 March 6, start date negotiable

Shares appreciated 👏 1/3
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/084546-...

1) Lecturer in Climate Change & Environmental Science
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2) Lecturer in Climate & Society
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Two climate-related posts @kclgeography, one of which particularly suited for applicants with interests in environmental knowledge politics, geographies of climate knowledges, and/or science-policy interactions. Deadline March 13th 🌱👇

I am pleased to share the video of my keynote lecture for the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ), sept 2023, Leipzig:

“The future of biodiversity: transforming research and practice beyond conservation”

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Application deadline: February 18th, 2024, PhD Start: September/October 2024.

@drgeorgeadamson.bsky.social @ckweatherill.bsky.social @warrenpearce.bsky.social @estherturnhout.bsky.social @fpvantaggiato.bsky.social maybe of interest to some people in your networks? Feel free to circulate 🙏

Application deadline: February 18th, 2024, PhD Start: September/October 2024.

Please circulate widely🙏

☀️ 🌀 Have you ever wondered how climate data are used? Who engages? With what [type of] information? To do what?

I'm advertising a fully-funded PhD Studentship with Dr James Porter and the UK MetOffice on "Mapping engagement with climate adaptation information"!

More details: bit.ly/3Ha1djf

Post-doctoral Research Associate

Join our team at King’s as a post-doctoral research associate!
10-month postdoc focused on the governance of climate adaptation at local level in the UK
Deadline: 10th January 2024.
Start date: 1st March 2024.
More info at kcl.ac.uk/jobs/080307-...

🌱 Emerging from previous explorations with forest soundscapes and their potential to facilitate different ways to attend and engage with forest issues, Forestscapes is now on display in London until January 26th : bit.ly/-arcade

More about the project 👇
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How do young Britons see the massacre in Gaza? These Luton students will tell you | Aditya Chakrabor... For many people under 25, the daily pulverisation of Gaza has become their generation’s rallying cause , says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

This is a very powerful and important report, including an interesting aside about the depoliticisation of climate
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job alert, quant methods so may be open to non-Finnish speakers: 3-year postdoc in social-ecological resilience of forests. "This position will assess how forest stakeholder’ preferences and values can help to achieve sustainable forest management." www.jyu.fi/science/en/b...

Job alert, lecturer in #geography human geography in Loughbourgh, geography and #environment For details on www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDD737/l...