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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 25/09/2026

🗣️ NEW Critical Commentary in #UrbanStudies Offering reflections and provocations, the Horizons 2024 Collective considers the many contradictions between their doctoral urban research, the colonial neoliberal university and the urban futures they envisage. @centre4cities.bsky.social

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Alexei Trundle @alexeit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wondering what doing an #Urban PhD is like in the post-covid, ai-confused world? Go straight to the source and read this amazing piece led by our 2024 Horizons Academy. A *huge* shout out to @anwynhocking.bsky.social for the mammoth effort leading the collaboration 🙌 📜 #AcademicSky @unimelb.edu.au

Abstract of an Urban Studies Journal Critical Commentary titled "Thinking beyond from within the urban PhD", authored by a cohort of cross-university urban doctoral candidates based in Melbourne, Australia.

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Vanuatu’s Minister for Climate Change, Ralph Regenvanu: ‘We need to stop taking oil and gas and coal out of the ground.” There is no version of reduced emissions, he argued, while extraction continues. @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au's data viz illustrates exactly what he means👇

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Emissions from Australia's fossil fuel exports compared to territorial emissions

A Flourish data visualization by Tim Baxter (Naru Research)

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 03/09/2026

7.3% plus 0% plus 0% plus 0% does not add up to 100%. This promise has not just been broken, it has been shattered, stomped on and kicked into the corner. Something has gone very wrong when government policy can't rise high enough to meet a bar this low. You can read about it here:

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Beetaloo Basin, the Safeguard Mechanism and the Pepper Inquiry

Download the full analysis Key points The 2018 Pepper Inquiry was unequivocal: Australian lifecycle emissions from development of the shale gas industry in the NT must be fully offset. Wherever they o...

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climatecouncil.org.au @climatecouncil.org.au · 31/08/2026

The devastating flash flooding in the Himalayas is a stark reminder of how climate pollution is putting vulnerable communities at growing risk. Our thoughts are with all those affected. Find our full statement on our website.

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I've never seen anything like it. Salta, Argentina, has just recorded its hottest night on record during the climatologically coldest time of the year. The minimum overnight temperature did not fall below 26°C (78.8°F), pulverizing the previous monthly record by 7°C.

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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Labor needs to respond immediately to the reports CSIRO will tomorrow sack a THIRD of the team working on Australia’s national climate model. Australia’s climate science capability is globally significant & locally irreplaceable. A shameful way to treat our scientists.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

No one in govt is talking about before the budget, but just FYI, the level of Jobseeker is now 42% below the poverty line - worse than it was during the Howard years... live.thepoint.com.au

Chart showing level of unemployment benefits relative to the poverty line. It's now at 42% below. In 2007 it was 43%, in 1996 it was 25%

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Dr Jenny Allen @jennyallen13.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

A helpful summary of the government report on the state of research funding in Australia (spoiler alert: it's bad). Maybe now we can actually see some improved investment in Australia's research sector?

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Australia was once a world leader in innovation. A new report shows the system is now ‘broken’

Australia spends less on research and development than most of the developed world, and our productivity growth is the lowest in decades.

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 21/04/2026

It is simply fucking unacceptable that @youth4climate.bsky.social (aka the AYCC) might be forced to close for good after 20 years, and I will not be letting this happen. If I find out a single one of you hasn't given what you are able, I will lose my fucking mind.

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AYCC Next Generation Fund

Help build the next generation of climate justice leaders by making a donation today.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

For every 1°C of warming, the atmosphere can hold approximately 7% more moisture. Just sayin’.

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John Marsham @johnmarsham.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Major threats to our well being from climate change can be avoided, or hugely reduced, by rapid action. Our Nature comment calls for a global risk assessment, effectively communicated to governments, the media and the public, to make clear what is at stake. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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We need a global assessment of avoidable climate-change risks

To understand the urgency of emissions reductions, policymakers and citizens need a full analysis of what is at stake.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Ette Media @ettemedia.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

BREAKING: After being shut down by Melbourne University Publishing in September 2025 amid controversy over alleged Gaza-related censorship, literary journal Meanjin has been given a lifeline by QUT, which says it has “a long history of supporting progressive and new voices and artists.”

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 29/01/2026

US measles cases this year already exceed the total for the whole of 2023 and 2024 combined, and it is only January. Yikes.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago. His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship." He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

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Alexei Trundle @alexeit.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Australian cities are the heartland of our multicultural nation, and my heart is broken this morning for the families and loved ones of those celebrating Hanukkah at Bondi beach in Sydney yesterday. Love and understanding of each other – of all faiths, races, creeds – have never mattered more here.

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Alexei Trundle @alexeit.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Barely back from Honiara 🇸🇧 and our new #OpenAccess @un-habitat.bsky.social article is published in npj Urban Sustainability, lead authored by superstar Lova Jansson! #Climate resilient urban development: an agenda for Small Island Developing States 📃: rdcu.be/eRIYe #SIDS #SDG11 #CoP31 @nature.com

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Climate resilient urban development: an agenda for Small Island Developing States

npj Urban Sustainability - Climate resilient urban development: an agenda for Small Island Developing States

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Scott Hamilton @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

‘As Palau President Surangel Whipps has said, hosting COP31 in the Pacific cannot just be about symbolism – it must demonstrate “tangible benefits” to Pacific peoples.’ #COP30 #COP31 #auspol theconversation.com/how-pacific-...

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How Pacific nations plan to go from spending up to 25% of GDP on fossil fuels to running on 100% renewables

Pacific nations spend billions each year importing fossil fuels for electricity. Now the region’s leaders are aiming for energy independence.

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Alexei Trundle @alexeit.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Interesting.. 🇹🇷 #CoP30 Chief Negotiator Fatma Varank says re. a joint #CoP31 a “consensus text” was “agreed” w/ 🇦🇺, but we later withdrew in order to host a #Pacific CoP (3min mark in the vid). Hadn’t heard that before.. can any #climate folk confirm? youtu.be/Qd3euNrnLV0?...

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Türkiye Pushes Ahead in Bid to Host COP31

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5). An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸 (🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 01/10/2025

The naturalist Jane Goodall died today at 91. Hope, she argued, is not merely “passive wishful thinking” but a “crucial survival trait.” Revisit a conversation with Goodall, from 2021: nyer.cm/F55JtsS

An image of Jane Goodall and a chimpanzee, from 1965. Photo courtesy CBS Photo Archive / Getty.

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Lenore Taylor @lenoret.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

www.theguardian.com/environment/... 50,000 year old art. Oldest known representation of a human face. Industrial pollution WILL damage. "Private negotiations". Remediation delayed. As @adammorton.bsky.social argues here, these laws do NOT work.

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Australia’s laws to protect the environment don’t work. Woodside’s 40-year greenlight proves it

Approval of the North West Shelf extension shows the purpose of the EPBC Act is to allow developments, not to protect and preserve

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Alexei Trundle @alexeit.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Interesting to see Azerbaijan's Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Yalçın Rafiyev saying that 🇦🇿 are acting as mediators between Türkiye and Australia re. #CoP31 hosting rights, including in NY at the #UNGA. Suggests there might be a 'result in the near future'.. 👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAFw...

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XİN müavini: “Azərbaycan COP 31 danışıqlarında vasitəçilik edir” – APA TV

YouTube video by APA TV

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Amnesty Deutschland @amnesty.de · 27/09/2025

Danke Berlin! #AllEyesOnGaza

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University of Melbourne @unimelb.edu.au · 25/09/2025

For Australia’s national climate plans to be meaningful, they need to include an orderly phase-out of its fossil fuel exports, writes Melbourne Climate Futures Research Fellow Arthur Wyns. Read more → unimelb.me/4mwB7cw

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Alexei Trundle @alexeit.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Some as-always brilliant data vis on #climatechange by @nickevershed.bsky.social in @australia.theguardian.com today ... shout out to CSIRO for the massive effort to develop the underlying Aust Climate Services data explorer as well👇 www.acs.gov.au/pages/data-e...

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Climate.us @climate.us · 23/09/2025

🚨 NCA5 is now LIVE! 🚨 They took it down, but we've brought it back at: nca5.climate.us Bookmark. 👏 this. 👏 page. 👏 This is just our first step in restoring trusted science information that Americans need to understand what's happening with the climate.

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Ebony Noor! I love garden season! ✊🏿 @darlingebony.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

The sitting President of the United States is in the United Nations complaining that his company did not get the contract to renovate the United States. And above all he is lying about employment, prices, inflation. He is just rambling. This is embarrassing.

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University of Melbourne @unimelb.edu.au · 16/09/2025

Hello 👋 We're the official #UniMelb account! Follow us for news, updates and information about UniMelb. For now, enjoy the blue skies over our Parkville campus 💙

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AYCC @youth4climate.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

We'll be outside Labor MP offices across the continent on Monday making it clear young people don't accept this failure of a target. Details here: www.aycc.org.au/sleeping_on_...

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Climate Target Snap Rallies

Labor is bed in with the fossil fuel industry, with the approval of over 28 new coal and gas projects in their first term, the approval the Woodside North-West Gas Shelf extension, one of the most pol...

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Ralph Regenvanu @rregenvanu.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Speaking at these Side Events today on the margins of the 54th Pacific Island Forum Leaders Summit #piflm54

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I spoke with a brave Australian, Dr Bianca Webb-Pullman, who is sailing to Gaza aboard the Family Boat alongside Greta Thunberg. Following the drone strike on her boat, she has a message for her local member, Josh Burns. Why not help him hear it?

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Australian doctor attacked by drone aboard the Gaza flotilla talks to Dave

YouTube video by The Sunday Shot

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Switzerland UN @swiss-un.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Better together. Congratulations to H.E. Annalena Baerbock of 🇩🇪 for her election as President of the General Assembly for the #UNGA80. 🇨🇭looks forward to working with you during the upcoming session to achieve a stronger UN.

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Alexei Trundle @alexeit.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

🚨 some (sadly) fake news going around that 🇺🇳 #UNGA80 has been moved to Geneva from NYC after the US refused 🇵🇸 visas. 1) No way vote would be 152-2 for/against, esp. a day before the meeting is in session (w/ leaders itineraries etc. locked in) & 2) No way* to vote without the GA being in session!

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US visa refusal for Palestinian delegation prompts calls to move UN meeting to Geneva

General assembly session about two-state solution for Palestine and Israel due to start in New York on Tuesday

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Friends of the Earth Australia @foe.org.au · 09/09/2025

It's a historic day in Victoria: Victoria is today set to become the first state or territory in Australia to introduce a treaty to its parliament. The treaty promises to "reckon with the past" & empower Victoria's First Peoples. More: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

PSA that there is cheap (good!) lunch on campus at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre cafe. The woman today told me I was only the third person in for the day — it’s quiet and they need our support! Level 4 of the building with the student food court. UniMelb people please reshare 🙏🏼

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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

🥰🖤💛❤️

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Charlie Lewis @theshufflediary.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

This, from Jonathan Green, pretty much sums it up: “Meanjin’s financial demand is trivial … a few hundred thousand dollars … the cultural loss of its death is as significant as it is tragic.” www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...

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Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing

Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 04/09/2025

In April, the AAUP & our Harvard chapter sued the Trump admin for demanding that Harvard censor speech & restructure core operations or else face $8.7 billion in funding cuts. We hope this decision clarifies to Harvard’s administration that bargaining w/ tyrannical authoritarians is unacceptable.

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