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CAMAMAZON_COP30 @camamazon.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
O nosso mais novo blog está disponível no meu site em português. Escrito pela doutora @dr-di.bsky.social, ela traz as perspectivas sobre o território. Link aqui: camamazon.aber.ac.uk/pt/2026/03/1...
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Uma tentativa de sentipensar a COP30 à distância  – CAMAMAZON
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dr-di.bsky.social @dr-di.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Yeah That's me
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CAMAMAZON_COP30 @camamazon.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
New blog on the @camamazon.bsky.social by Dr Diana Valencia-Duarte (@dr-di.bsky.social) which reflects on #COP30 from a distance and through her own territorial relations camamazon.aber.ac.uk/2026/03/19/a...
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
And what on earth is a 'neutral' accent??? Swiss?
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
I really don't understand the categorisation 'world music'. What is 'world music' anyway? As opposed to what? Alien music??? Martian tunes? Venus vibes? Intergalactic operas?
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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Decolonisation and knowledges of decolonisation produced outside academia supersede the fraction of knowledge pooled in by academia on the topic. This realisation, not a hindrance in the labour of epistemic decolonisation, invites us to engage other formations of knowledge.
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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Yay! After a turbulent rollercoaster of emotions these past days, this image brings me joy. It's finally where it should be -- orientations! Order it for your library, read it, cite from it, critique it ...
The SAGE Handbook of Decolonial theory on my shelf. A headman and James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time are placed next to the handbook.
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
One of the tragedies of humanity, I argue here, is that people wrongly think that equality means sameness, and so people do not want or seek equality for those who are not the same as them. When being human has always been enough. folukeafrica.com/difference-e...
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Difference, Equality and Creating the ‘Other’
and why general statements of equality entrench inequality.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
1/6 Elon Musk, Tommy Robinson and other white supremacist fanatics deflect attention from commercialised European trans-Atlantic slavery. They create false equivalences with various systems of largely domestic slavery operated over varying timescales by states that were Muslim.
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 14/07/2025
Campaigners, academics and groups that support asylum seekers have long called for the UK to introduce ‘safe and legal routes’. They argue that this is the only way to reduce demand for unsafe Channel crossings ✍️Gillian McFadyen, Aberystwyth University
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Channel crossings: what is a safe and legal route?
Gillian McFadyen, Lecturer in International Politics, Aberystwyth University Since figures were first recorded in 2018, more than 170,000 people have crossed the Channel in small boats, hoping to…
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Black In Plant Science- UK @blackinplantsci.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
📢Speaker Announcement: Beatrice Ifie 🧾Workshop: Delivering Impact on African Crops Dr Beatrice Elohor Ifie is a Senior Research Fellow in Plant Breeding at the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS), Aberystwyth University, Wales. Learn more here: buff.ly/sFFQC8y
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
This Saturday, Aberystwyth will draw a 'Red Line' against Israel's genocide Hundreds of people from across Wales will gather in Aberystwyth on Saturday 26 July to hold a 500-metre 'Red Line' for Palestine www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
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This Saturday, Aberystwyth will draw a 'Red Line' against Israel's genocide
Hundreds of people from across Wales will gather in Aberystwyth on Saturday 26 July to hold a 500-metre 'Red Line' for Palestine
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Now widely portrayed as having “legitimate grievances”. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse
Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
For anyone who wants to see more research on the English countryside’s relationship with colonialism, there’s this on Capability Brown’s landscape gardens: alanlester.co.uk/blog/capabil...
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Capability Brown and the British Empire
Alan Lester and Sunny Colclough Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown (1716-1783) is the most famous ‘place-maker’ in British history. He has been called an ‘omnipotent magician’ who ‘swept away’ country hou…
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CAMAMAZON_COP30 @camamazon.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
#Amazon by numbers: Americas Quarterly maps the Pan-Amazon region and tracks key indicators on the Brazilian Amazon and #Belém, host of the November #COP30 summit www.americasquarterly.org/article/amaz...
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The Amazon by the Numbers
AQ maps the Pan-Amazon region and tracks key indicators on the Brazilian Amazon and Belém, host of the November COP30 summit.
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Hannah Hughes @hannahhughes.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
We visited Combu island in August during our CAMAMAZON project workshop. Through our 'forest experience' we harvested and feasted on fresh açai and cooled down in the river afterwards - it most definitely offers a living lesson news.mongabay.com/2025/07/risi...
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Rising heat and falling yields plague an Amazon island near COP30 host
A short boat ride from Belém, an Amazon island offers a living lesson of the climate crisis that leaders will debate.
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I wrote this short piece on joy in response to constantly feeling that each morning should come with a trigger warning. "Each morning testifies that I have not been given over to darkness. Each morning says, “Try again.” Each morning is courage. Each morning is joy." folukeafrica.com/joy/
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Joy!
Joy looks at impossibility in the face and commands it to back down.
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CAMAMAZON_COP30 @camamazon.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
#COP30 #Brazil #Presidency includes issue of information integrity in the COP Action Agenda for first time earth.org/cop30-presid...
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COP30 Launches Call to Combat Climate Disinformation
In the face of rampant climate denialism and disinformation, the COP30 presidency is crowdsourcing concrete solutions to address them.
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CAMAMAZON_COP30 @camamazon.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Can the threat of Chinese positioning bring the US back into #COP30 negotiations? www.americasquarterly.org/article/the-...
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The U.S. Can’t Afford to Sit Out Brazil’s Climate Summit
The global gathering presents the White House with an opportunity to enhance its leadership in the Western Hemisphere, writes AS/COA's CEO.
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dr-di.bsky.social @dr-di.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Darlings, the first time I'm seeing it in print. Thank you to @dr-di.bsky.social for the photo. Have so many feels. Still awaiting mine. Please share pics when you receive yours. And, request your libraries to order it. All royalties donated to Gaza. Onwards comrades. us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/th...
A copy of the The SAGE Handbook of Decolonial Theory on a desk. Photo credit and permission from Dr Diana Val.
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Aberystwyth University @aberuni.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Rural communities across Wales are invited to apply for a new £20,000 grant to explore ideas that could help shape a better future for their area. 🖱️ tinyurl.com/3xjb92rf @lpipruralwales.bsky.social
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Aberystwyth University @aberuni.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
🎉 Huge congratulations to our student Holly Abbott on winning the Young Wellbeing Advocate award for her mental health work. More: tinyl.co/3TYx ‪@llangollen1947.bsky.social
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Aberystwyth University @aberuni.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
✍️ Writing for The Conversation, Dr Jenny Mathers from the Department of International Politics discusses why negotiations for peace in Ukraine are struggling to get off the ground, despite numerous meetings between US and Russian officials. @interpolaber.bsky.social @jgmaber.bsky.social
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Why is Donald Trump failing to bring peace to Ukraine like he promised?
Negotiations for peace in Ukraine are struggling to get off the ground, despite numerous meetings between US and Russian officials.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
3. 40% of immigrants were ‘not working’ because 680,000 of them (2022) were international students paying between £10K and £70K pa to be here and subsidising UK students.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
2. An immigrant is more likely to get you a doctor’s appointment than to deny you one. Foreign nationals account for 16% of the population and 20% of GPs.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Reform UK’s election broadcast focused solely on immigration misleads in 3 key ways: 1. Small boat crossings are not a significant contribution to immigration. They account for a third of all asylum claims, which account for 7% of immigration. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC One - Party Election Broadcasts: Reform UK
A party election broadcast by Reform UK.
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Eduardo Gudynas @egudynas.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Amazonía: estamos presenciando el colapso social y ecológico de la Amazonía. Para enfrentarlo no podemos repetir acciones (que han fallado por años). Se requiere un cambio radical en las alternativas. Es el tema de mi libro, que ahora se presenta en Lima / Perú. cooperaccion.org.pe/la-amazonia-...
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CAMAMAZON_COP30 @camamazon.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The CAMAMAZON project is live - Centring Climate Agreement-Making in and from the Amazon. Check out our website and blog: camamazon.aber.ac.uk Follow our updates @camamazon.bsky.social and @camamazon on Instagram
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CAMAMAZON – Centring Climate Agreement-Making in and from the Amazon
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Aberystwyth University @aberuni.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Eminent Welsh historian, the late Prof Geraint H Jenkins, has been honoured by the Coleg Cymraeg at its annual gathering in Aberystwyth, and Emeritus Prof Eleri Pryse received an honorary fellowship for lifelong contribution to Welsh language higher education. Full story: 🖱️ tinyurl.com/bdrjad4f
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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Postdoc Opportunity! The Notre Dame’s Initiative on Race and Resilience (IRR) invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship to be located in the Department of Africana Studies, beginning in August 2025. raceandresilience.nd.edu/news-and-eve...
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Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Initiative on Race and Resilience
Apply Now …
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dr-di.bsky.social @dr-di.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I finally found a hard copy of my favourite volume in the collection Historia Doble de la Costa, and it came with the most incredible surprise. I am the gods' favourite 🥰 "To Eric Hobsbawm, teacher and friend, with the affection of always. O. Fals Borda Bogotá/86"
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
My own area of expertise, the British Empire is part of the culture war battlefield. Right wing practitioners now routinely attack books they haven’t read, because their authors are apparently on the progressive ‘side’; create straw men of those they have,
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
2. New support: millionaires who flourished after the polarising 2008 financial crisis, now willing to bankroll propaganda. 3. Propaganda: blames the stagnation or reversal of living standards for White working & middle classes on progressives’ culturally divisive ‘wokery’ & immigration. Also …
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‘The gesture speaks for itself’: Germans respond to Musk’s apparent Nazi salute
Some say it was an unambiguous Nazi salute but others are unsure and say focus should be on Musk’s stated support for far-right
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dr-di.bsky.social @dr-di.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Today I started a new HE adventure. We had our first session on my new MA module about peasant movements in Latin America and the Caribbean in the twentieth century. We will be studying revolutions, agrarian reform, the MST, ANUC, La Via Campesina, Afropeasantry, agroecology. It is very exciting 😁
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Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC) @lossanddamage.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
📼 For those who missed todays Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage online symposium session with @farhanasultana.com, Gabriela de Matos and Amali Tower on “Decolonising #ClimateColoniality and Re-Centering Marginalised Voices and Knowledges” the video is now online! 🥳 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrqZ...
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Decolonising Climate Coloniality and Re-Centering Marginalised Voices and Knowledges
YouTube video by Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage
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