This is beyond outrageous, it is contemptible. A clear signal that there is no quality control process which cannot be skipped when it is expedient. We're watching a mockery being made of the very concept of a university.

They very kindly did a review forum of my book on greenspace experience and everyday practice in Social and Cultural Geog. Thanks to Gordon Walker Jennifer Atchison David Bissell and Cecily Maller for saying nice (also v insightful) things! tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

UK govt has approved the Rosebank development in the North Sea Burning all its production – some 300m+ barrels of oil & gas – would be equivalent to the annual emissions of around 90 countries and 400m people

Looking forward to playing some ska with my band, The Peloton, at the legendary Lancaster music festival this coming weekend. It's always a privilege as this festival, which has been running for over a decade now, is a real gem.

A theme of Helen MacNamara's testimony is the idea - endemic around Johnson - that being "world beating" was an attribute, not an aspiration. That Britain did not need to work hard or plan to *become* world-beating; it simply *was* world-beating, which made planning unnecessary.

If you reduce academic staff numbers by circa 50% (Law), 25% (Security, Crime and Environment) in the middle of a semester, there will be a massive impact on students. Exec can't believe their response to the BBC. The whole process needs urgent review. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Ahead of #FuelPovertyAwarenessDay we've published a comprehensive summary report of all our fuel poverty evidence from over the last year covering: 1⃣ Effects of fuel poverty 2⃣Groups at risk 3⃣Policy analysis 4⃣Solutions Find PDF & accessible versions 👉 fuelpovertyresearch.net/comment/fuel-p…

In our latest guest feature, Gordon Walker of Lancaster University explores the #environmentaljustice and #climatejustice movements, and the role of social scientists in progressing both nationally and internationally. Read now ➡️acss.org.uk/bringing-justi…

Hinkley Point C could be delayed to 2031 and cost up to £35bn, says EDF. Blame Covid, they say, as if previous nuclear projects were all delivered on time and budget! Better to spend the money on wind farms and energy storage. theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Fat shaming is never acceptable unless it's for SUVs that don't fit into a normal parking space.

The #UN Humanitarian Coordinator for #Palestine Jamie McGoldrick says #Israel recently added insulin pens for children to the list of prohibited items that are not allowed into #Gaza and he does not know why. He adds that other medicines for chronic illnesses are also not

New paper (w/ Gordon Walker & Paul Young) now published in ephemera journal! We combine school indoor air quality (IAQ) data & social theory to see how COVID-19 changed the meaning of IAQ, before looking at potential future air inequalities. ephemerajournal.org/contribution/u…

I’m in court today for walking slowly on a road for 10 mins to demand a future for our children. Were any of these tractor drivers arrested for ‘interference with national infrastructure’? No - because they’re not challenging fossil fuel’s power. Neither they nor I are criminals.

Join Lancaster Black History Group at LIT FEST Lancaster Litfest (online or in person) The Lancaster Slavery Business: Connected Histories of Commodities & Commerce with Imogen Tyler 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍉 Alan Rice, Gordon Walker jamesfoxtextileart bella tyler Lela Harris & Bronte Crawford crowdcast.io/c/xwbm4f1ex8tw

I had somehow missed this paper published in NatureClimate in January. How this got through peer-review is beyond me. Claiming to capture "justice considerations in climate research" by erasing 40+ years of environmental justice scholarship & activism is quite an achievement

Very cool moment to hold the book "Post-Carbon Inclusion: Transitions Built on Justice" which I played a —very— small part in writing. I co-authored one of the chapters with Gordon Walker & Paul Young: "Still Breathing Unequally? Air Pollution and Post-Carbon Transition."

"simplistic ideas of academic neutrality or impartiality leave academics complicit with the powerful elites that have failed to take adequate #climate action." - Duncan McLaren et al. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

BBC cut off Angela Rayners victory speech to show Nigel Farage leaving a restaurant? Wtf!

A new ACCESS Network report highlights how the UK can accelerate its journey to #NetZero #FollowtheSocialScience identifying 3 key steps & 8 recommendations. ACCESS | Making a Net Zero Society: Follow the Social Science (accessnetwork.uk) 🧵1/9