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Elia Valentini

@eval80.bsky.social
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Psychologist, Researcher, Educator. We are in a planetary emergency.

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Adfree Cities @adfreecities.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Our Policy Director Charlotte just spoke on BBC Radio Berkshire about the importance of councils introducing Advertising & Sponsorship Policies that restrict products & services that impact on our public health & the planet - listen below & maybe #Berkshire will be next? 🧐
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Scientist Rebellion Germany @scientistrebger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨Disruption of Sustainability in Higher Education Conference🚨 Academia should live up to its responsibility to society and convey urgency. Shouldn’t we turn academic conferences into emergency briefings? Shouldn’t we organize ourselves to face this unbearable situation together?
Paper pasting at conference Speech disruption by banner holding and speech
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Factcheck: Reform UK’s 45 false or misleading claims about climate and energy www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-re...
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Factcheck: Reform UK’s 45 false or misleading claims about climate and energy - Carbon Brief
Reform UK, led by Nigel Farage, has emerged as a major force in UK politics in recent years – pushing…
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Elia Valentini @eval80.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Urgent: the government is soon to decide whether to give the green light to Rosebank, a move that would lock us into decades more climate-wrecking oil. Let's stop that with @friends-earth.bsky.social action.friendsoftheearth.uk/target/deman...
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Demand an end to climate-wrecking fossil fuel projects
Take action The fight to stop new oil and gas is heating up. And it’s a fight we can’t afford to lose. After a summer of record-breaking heatwaves, climate breakdown is impossible to ignore. Yet Prime...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Climeworks' Mammoth facility in Iceland removed 675 tonnes of CO₂ in the first half of 2026, almost 6x as much as in 2025. If they keep it up, that'll be 1350 tonnes a year*. That's a time machine that takes us back 1 whole second in a year! 🙄 *Mammoth has a stated capacity of 36,000 tonnes. 🫠
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Carbon Removal Pioneer Climeworks Increases CO2 Capture Sixfold
The world’s largest direct air capture plant is sucking more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at a lower cost, an improvement for a sector struggling to scale economically as global warming surpasse...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We live in Rip Off Britain. The same corporations who are ripping us off are also destroying nature too. My speech to the Wild Summit 👇🏽 www.youtube.com/live/bbUxIM4...
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Greens leader Zack Polanski gives speech at summit
YouTube video by Sky News
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Scientists on Survival @scientistsonsurviv.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just Stop Oil made a comeback this afternoon, blocking the road outside Parliament for several hours. JSO are acting on the science that shows new oil and gas means more fires, more floods and more deaths.... Will the UK government do the same? #StopRosebank #JustStopOil
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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
OUT NOW! Part 4 of our video series “Core research topics of PIK”: @rahmstorf.bsky.social explains how #ClimateChange is putting the very important Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation #AMOC at risk, and what this could mean for Europe and the world. 👇 youtu.be/sNOSCWxrc3Q
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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Time to take back the microphones from the climate-trashing media billionaires who stole them. MediaSovereignty.org/Petition
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Petition - Media Sovereignty Act Campaign
Sign the Parliamentary Petition Do YOU want Britain to take back control of our media and democracy from the international billionaires who have hijacked it? They use it to force our politicians to ac...
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Scientists on Survival @scientistsonsurviv.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
1/ Today Scientists on Survival visited the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero to remind the government of the scientific facts. New oil and gas 🛢️ = more fire 🔥, more extreme weather ⛈️, more food shortages🚫 and more death ☠️. For more details see thread🧵...
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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Brian Eno, Massive Attack, Robert Smith, Thom Yorke, Paris Paloma, and over 200 other musicians have added their voice urging Prime Minister @andyburnham.bsky.social to stop the enormous Rosebank oil field.
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Scientists on Survival @scientistsonsurviv.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We're changing our name: Scientists for XR is now Scientists on Survival (SOS). For 7 years, we've brought together hundreds of scientists across all disciplines, united by one goal: Confronting the catastrophic climate & nature emergency. 1/4🧵 scientistsonsurvival.org
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Water nationalisation for our water security? End north sea oil & gas - invest in renewables for our energy security? A maximum workplace temperature for worker security? No. A request not to sell BBQs. This is dire from Andy Burnham. Spectacularly mishandling the crisis.
Burnham had faced calls from the green party to chair a cobra meeting on the heatwaves with leader Zack Polanski accusing the pm of inaction amid threats to public health and food supplies
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Dr Abi Perrin @abiperrin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Combining science and activism.... does it damage public trust? Or could it be the only thing powerful enough to combat the disinformation and passivity that is holding back urgent action on existential threats such the Climate Emergency? More from us in @nature.com today: rdcu.be/fzcmS
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Whilst the cost of living crisis continues to spiral, with food and fuel prices soaring, so do global oil and gas companies profits. Shell has today announced it's profits have more than doubled. This is obscene. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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Shell profit more than doubles to $9.8 billion, second-highest on record, as Iran war lifts prices
Shell's ​net profit more than doubled from last year to $9.84 billion in the second quarter, beating expectations, helped by ‌higher energy prices and increased market volatility during the Middle Eas...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I'm not qualified to judge whether such people are psychopaths. All I can say is that they behave as if they are. From today's Telegraph.
Column by Allister Heath

Britain can’t stop climate change. Scrap net zero and embrace Mediterranean life

We’ve lost the war against global warming so let’s learn to handle hotter weather
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Media Tell The Truth @mediatellthetruth.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Hi @yougov.co.uk, you left off the correct answer which is "This will be one of the coolest summers of the rest of our lives and they will keep getting hotter and hotter until we stop burning fossil fuels".
YouGov survey: Thinking of the weather so far this summer, which of the following comes closest to your expectation:

Majority say "most summers will be like this from now on"
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Elia Valentini @eval80.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I've signed @zero-hour.bsky.social's petition calling on Andy Burnham to Secure Our Future—to meet the UK's climate and nature commitments, pass the Nature + National Security Bill, and reject all new oil and gas. Will you join me? www.zerohour.uk/andy
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Secure Our Future For Us
Andy Burnham has a chance to Secure Our Future. Will you tell him not to waste it? Sign below.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Excellent BBC article on the risk of a catastrophic ocean circulation change in the Atlantic. Time to act before it’s too late. #AMOC www.bbc.com/news/article...
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After record heat, could the Atlantic make Britain's weather even more extreme?
As temperatures rise, scientists are investigating whether a changing Atlantic could bring more volatile weather to the UK
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
So excited to see this! Over 4 episodes I cover the hugely alarming conclusions of the Joint Intelligence Ctte Report, shamefully suppressed by Government, & explore its implications for our food and water security. @nebriefing.bsky.social @climatemajority.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 03/07/2026
For too long, Labour’s housing model has served private developers, not people, and failed to deliver genuinely affordable housing. Today, Geraldine Coggins will announce the first step in her plans to change that as Green Mayor
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Zero Hour: the campaign for climate and nature @zero-hour.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
🚨 Heatwaves, wildfires, droughts. Food insecurity, infrastructure closures, hospitals stretched. 🌿 Andy Burnham has a choice. Prioritise people or polluters. 💥 Donate to our Crowdfunder, and help us call on Andy to act now to Secure Our Future. 👉 crowdfunder.co.uk/p/secure-our-future-for-us
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Elia Valentini @eval80.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Dear Mark Henderson, It is not by accident that a part of the ideological spectrum is adverse to scientific consensus and the prosocial values that the scientific community largely uphold.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
There is a toxic combination of sky high bills and wages that are far too low. We need buzzing high streets with thriving businesses and community spaces. The Green Party is offering hope & a plan to end Rip Off Britain.
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Elia Valentini @eval80.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I just donated to the Venezuelan people via the UN Crisis Relief share.google/KH7NAf8Z1A8C... Please share with your contacts.
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UN Crisis Relief
United Nations Crisis Relief connects people who care to people in crisis, providing support where it matters most.
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Elia Valentini @eval80.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Thanks to the amazing Team organising #ReadEmo26 for having me! It was such an amazing experience. Very informative talks and inspiring conversations. I am looking forward to having again the opportunity to attend Reading Emotions again.
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Elia Valentini @eval80.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Saw The People's Emergency Briefing at Essex last night — Packham's film from the Nov 2025 Westminster briefing. The evidence is grim; the message, hopeful: we already hold the tools. The waste is choosing not to use them. Find or host a screening: nebriefing.org/screening-map we need everyone
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National Emergency Briefing
Find a People's Emergency Briefing screening near you, or spot a gap that you can fill by hosting a screening.
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British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience @bacn.co.uk · 20/02/2026
Join us in Brighton this September! www.bacn.co.uk/conferences Symposium submissions due 31 March.
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Current, Future and past meetings — BACN
Conferences
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Elia Valentini @eval80.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
We keep observing the same dynamics over and over. A perverse playbook of neoliberal marketisation politics. Importantly, workers and students ultimately pay the price of manager's poor choices and of a no-fit-for-purpose High Education system. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Thousands of University of Nottingham staff told they are at risk of redundancy
Institution says it could run out of money by 2031 and wants to cut more than 600 academic and support posts
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Elia Valentini @eval80.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
1/ It is time to end the destructive political power of the illiberal far-right foreign and domestic billionaires. It is time to END media billionairism. Help by Signing and sharing the Parliamentary Petition calling for the passing of the Media Sovereignty Act mediasovereignty.org/petition/
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Parliamentary Petition Do YOU want Britain to take back control of our media and democracy from the international billionaires who have hijacked it?They use it to force our politicians to act again…
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Every second, $6,000 in fossil fuel subsidies are handed out globally. That’s $5 trillion/year. Renewables? Barely a fraction. We have 6–7 years to halve emissions. The industry has zero years of conscience. Share if you’ve had enough. 🌍✊
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Antisemitism and Jewish safety is not some abstract concept for me. In fact, in the last 6 weeks alone 2 people have been arrested in relation to antisemitic actions towards me and yesterday the Times newspaper published a vile antisemitic cartoon.."
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Elia Valentini @eval80.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
It is a day of remembrance. This year I am particularly hurt. Sure, relieved, as I have not been made redundant, but I cannot help mourning for those colleagues who have unfairly been targeted by redundancies at the University of Essex.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
"Zack Polanski’s Green Party scored another shock win beating Nigel Farage’s party in Kent." www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
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Fernando Racimo @ferracimo.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Academic journal corps like Elsevier are not just funneling away public research money. They are pouring it into fossil fuels 💸 I document the complicity of academic publishing in Science in Resistance where I interview an employee of Cell fired after digging into its ties to Big 🛢️ Excerpt below 👇
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Elia Valentini @eval80.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The University of Essex plans to close their Southend campus and insist in making redundant many colleagues. Sign the petition and share it with your contacts www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save Essex: Stop the Cuts, Save Southend, Protect Education
These proposed cuts mean people losing their livelihoods in a higher education sector already facing a jobs crisis, where alternative employment is scarce and careers built over many years can be dest...
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UCU Essex @ucuessex.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The VC has planned to cut 400 jobs, close the Southend campus, demolish the Essex Pathways (foundation year) department, and decimate other departments like language & linguistics, maths & stats and business. She met us for an all-staff meeting on Thursday. It was... fascinating! Let's fact-check.
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Elia Valentini @eval80.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Essex is cutting campuses and jobs. Staff and students pay the price. Senior management pay stays protected. That’s not leadership, it’s a moral/ethical failure. Resharing the UCU flyer below. Please read + repost. #UCU #Essex @ucuessex.bsky.social
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
This is a straight up plug, but... If you're curious about what this felt like & exactly what led up to it, I have a chapter in 'Scientists on Survival' where I recount the details. Available in paperback - www.mombooks.com/book/scienti... Or as audiobook- www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0FCMVC437
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Elia Valentini @eval80.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Please support University of Essex workers. If you only do one thing: sign the petition below. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Elia Valentini @eval80.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
1,279 and growing. Please help us to make pressure on decision-makers to look into the alternative savings, we have already shown, are possible! www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save Essex: Stop the Cuts, Save Southend, Protect Education
These proposed cuts mean people losing their livelihoods in a higher education sector already facing a jobs crisis, where alternative employment is scarce and careers built over many years can be dest...
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Elia Valentini @eval80.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
For many of us is now or never. Help us protect these jobs.
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Elia Valentini @eval80.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa... Please share and support!
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Save Essex: Stop the Cuts, Save Southend, Protect Education
These proposed cuts mean people losing their livelihoods in a higher education sector already facing a jobs crisis, where alternative employment is scarce and careers built over many years can be dest...
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Zero Hour: the campaign for climate and nature @zero-hour.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
🐝 Zero Hour is proud to work with many inspiring champions helping to advance the Climate and Nature Bill. 👩‍🔬 On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we want to highlight some of the incredible voices advocating for climate and nature action! 👇 See below! 🧵
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Elia Valentini @eval80.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I just signed the campaign: Save Essex: Stop the Cuts, Save Southend, Protect Education Every name that is added builds momentum around the campaign and makes it more likely for us to get the change we want to see. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...
megaphone.org.uk
Save Essex: Stop the Cuts, Save Southend, Protect Education
These proposed cuts mean people losing their livelihoods in a higher education sector already facing a jobs crisis, where alternative employment is scarce and careers built over many years can be dest...
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Elia Valentini @eval80.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Proposal to save 400 University of Essex jobs put forward
A lecturer says an alternative, fully costed plan has been presented to the University of Essex.
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Elia Valentini @eval80.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
We have a different idea of the future for our University
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Trump started it. Reform and Tories are at it too. And Labour already heading in that direction. All cruel, potentially deadly and does nothing to fix the cost of living crisis.
Conservative party pledges £1.6bn ice style removals force. Woman in Minnesota fatally shot by ICE agent during raid, video shows.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
🔥🌍 The biggest barrier to climate solutions isn’t just denial, it’s propaganda that shapes what we believe is possible. Fossil fuel narratives define what counts as ‘practical’ and subtly limit our imagination. 🎧 Listen, share, and help reshape the conversation. 🔄
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