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Brandon Marc Finn

@brandonmarcfinn.bsky.social
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Research faculty at the School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan Harvard PhD I lead the Informal Sustainability Lab www.informalsustainabilitylab.com Informality, mining, urbanization, sustainability, democracy

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Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Intervention — “AI and the Informalization of the Global Workforce” @brandonmarcfinn.bsky.social antipodeonline.org/2026/08/07/a...
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Intervention — “AI and the Informalization of the Global Workforce” - Antipode Online
Brandon Marc Finn (The Informal Sustainability Lab, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan) The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is culminating in the structural transfo...
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University of Michigan News @umichnews.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
#UMich researcher @brandonmarcfinn.bsky.social & colleagues mapped 20 years of data at Ghana’s Agbogbloshie e-waste site and found a tight link between rapid urban growth and rising PM2.5 from open burning. The team calls for safer, more sustainable recycling pathways. myumi.ch/NrDmP #Science
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The deadly trade-off of electronic waste recycling in Ghana
A University of Michigan study found that people in Ghana and across the Global South who recycle electronic waste face a difficult paradox: earning livelihoods to ensure survival comes at the cost of severe long-term exposure to toxicity and dramatic e...
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Brandon Marc Finn @brandonmarcfinn.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Finally, a shred of courage from one of our higher education institutions
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Jeff Stein @jeffstein.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
It is way too early for so many to have given up, especially if you have big safety nets or smaller targets on your back. I know this is hard. This is be a good time to learn from long-time organizers. Because there are two ways through this: either we learn some new skills or we become complicit.
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Cihan Tugal @cihantugal.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Critical Sociology compiled Michael Burawoy's articles and allowed free access. I hope other journals will do the same. journals.sagepub.com/page/crs/vir...
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Brandon Marc Finn @brandonmarcfinn.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Exciting to see my work translated and published in French! theconversation.com/rdc-lhistoir... Based on this piece: Lubumbashi and cobalt: African city at the crossroads of global decarbonization and neocolonialism doi.org/10.1016/j.ci... @theconversation.com @africa.theconversation.com
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RDC : l'histoire se répète à Lubumbashi, une ville au cœur de la course aux minéraux verts
Peu connue, Lubumbashi a pourtant permis d'électrifier le monde, servi à fabriquer l’arme nucléaire et dicté la transition énergétique, enjeu géopolitique majeur.
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Brandon Marc Finn @brandonmarcfinn.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Thanks for the coverage of our work @theconversation.com @africa.theconversation.com DRC: history is repeating itself in Lubumbashi as the world scrambles for minerals to go green #DRC #cobalt #copper #decarbonization #colonialism #neocolonialism
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Brandon Marc Finn @brandonmarcfinn.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Happy to have coverage of our recent article, featured in @theconversation.com DRC: history is repeating itself in Lubumbashi as the world scrambles for minerals to go green theconversation.com/drc-history-...
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DRC: history is repeating itself in Lubumbashi as the world scrambles for minerals to go green
Lubumbashi is little known, but its minerals electrified the world, created atom bombs and are key to greener energy, the defining geopolitical issue of our time.
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Brandon Marc Finn @brandonmarcfinn.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
The new steel tariffs are going to turbocharge the role of minerals into this new geopolitical era
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 08/02/2025
“It maps almost too neatly to his acquisition of Twitter in 2022: Get rid of most of the workforce. Install loyalists. Rip up safeguards. Remake in your own image… This is the way of the startup.” @wired.com
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The US Government Is Not a Startup
Elon Musk is moving fast and breaking things that can’t afford to be broken.
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Brandon Marc Finn @brandonmarcfinn.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
So long, Twitter. Hopefully this is the place to expose and fight the totalitarian turn of the US government into academia and our everyday lives?
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