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Dr Helena Hastie

@helenahastie.bsky.social
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Lecturer at the University of Exeter, focusing on renewable energy transitions and electricity access in southern Africa.

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Femke Nijsse @femkenijsse.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
This #EarthDay, we're back with the #100days100edits campaign improving Wikipedia's content about climate change To start, I updated "electric car" with the latest on sales and costs Did you know that EVs are now cheaper to buy in the UK than petrol cars? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electri...
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Electric car - Wikipedia
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Dr Helena Hastie @helenahastie.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Fantastic open day at University of Exeter, showcasing our excellent teaching in Geography
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Dr Helena Hastie @helenahastie.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Great to have a live lecture today from Dr Simon Hull at the University of Cape Town, speaking to my Exeter Geography students about land use for solar energy in South Africa. This is part of our 'Global Classrooms' teaching grant 🌍
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Dr Helena Hastie @helenahastie.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Great to be part of this Global Classrooms project, sharing knowledge across Geography departments at Exeter, Cape Town and Pretoria
An online call with 9 people from the UK and South Africa
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Dr Helena Hastie @helenahastie.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 18/01/2026
This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.
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University of Exeter - Discover University @discoveruniexe.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
1 day to go until our Discover University UCAS Process session. Any questions about where to start, or what to add, come along and get your questions answered. ex.ac.uk/dXa #DiscoverUniversity #StudentSupport
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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%). Lay article attached:
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One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources isn’t straws or grocery bags – it’s your tires
Every few years, the tires on your car wear thin and need to be replaced. But where does that lost tire material go? The answer, unfortunately, is often waterways, where the tiny microplastic particle...
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Dr Helena Hastie @helenahastie.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.  August 2019. 415ppm CO2"
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Israel continues to block aid and materials into Gaza for shelters, thus purposefully denying conditions necessary for life as winter comes on. They are continuing the genocide in full view of the world.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
This Is Fascism
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Dr Helena Hastie @helenahastie.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Really pleased that my new paper on electricity generation in Southern Africa has been published: doi.org/10.1088/2753...
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Dr Helena Hastie @helenahastie.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Great to have a chance to present my new paper on peripheral electricity generation in Southern Africa at the @rgsibg.bsky.social conference. In this paper I look specifically at electricity generation in Namibia and Eswatini 🌍
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Winderful @winderful.uk · 04/08/2025
Right now #wind is meeting 60% of the National Grid's electricity demand. winderful.uk
The winderful.uk dashboard showing that wind is generating 13,225 MW. That's enough to run 12,595,238 washing machines.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/07/2025
“Svalbard is at the front line of the climate crisis, warming at six to seven times the global average rate" www.404media.co/scientists-r...
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Scientists Report Surreal Scenes In the World’s Most Northern Town
Researchers witnessing warming in Svalbard worry that “we have been too cautious” with climate warnings.
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Dr Helena Hastie @helenahastie.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Graduation!
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Dr Helena Hastie @helenahastie.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Just got back from a fantastic research trip to Limpopo Province, South Africa. Our team is investigating solar power being constructed on tribal land, identifying challenges and best practice @exeter.ac.uk #ExeterGeography #Solar #Energy
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rebeccagiffard.bsky.social @rebeccagiffard.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
What a fantastic two days sharing my paper and listening to so many fascinating speakers. Thank you to the organisers of @earlymodern2025.bsky.social for such an excellent conference!
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Prof Katherine Brickell FBA @kbrickell.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social are advertising its AI+ Academic Fellowships: three years of 80% ‘protected’ research time (i.e. minimal teaching and admin) with a view to a permanent academic position. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/role/ki... Love to see feminist geographical research represented!
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King's AI+ Academic Fellowships (leading to an open-ended academic post)
King’s is making a major strategic investment into driving AI activity across our nine academic Faculties. Our ambition is to accelerate growth in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data-driven research...
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 09/04/2025
At @cardiffuniversity.bsky.social leadership are slashing jobs while opening a new campus in Kazakhstan @drjogrady.bsky.social tells the Education Select Committee what universities are spending on while making staff redundant #StopTheCuts
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 13/04/2025
Our rising seas. This is only going to get harder to ignore. This NASA visualization was created by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5520/
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Veronica White @veronicaawhite.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I'm recruiting women in farming for my PhD research! Please share with any farming contacts living/working near Okehampton, London, Wisbech, Market Rasen, Stokesley, and Penrith! #PhDbyBike
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Reminder that Exeter are currently advertising a 1 year post for an #EarlyModern #History lecturer to cover teaching while my colleague and I are on research leave during year 3 of our Leverhulme project:
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Dr Helena Hastie @helenahastie.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
PGR paper prize from the Energy Geographies research group of the RGS #AcademicSky #Energy #Geography @aag-energy.bsky.social
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Veronica White @veronicaawhite.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The @uniofexeternews.bsky.social press release for my upcoming #PhDbyBike is live! news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
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Researcher to tour England by bike to interview women in farming
A University of Exeter researcher will cycle hundreds of miles across England to interview women in farming about their visions for the future. PhD student Veronica White will set off from Land’s End ...
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/04/2025
100,000+ people marched at the #HandsOff rally in New York!
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KarSteN Haustein @khaustein.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Excellent news and proper justice for once! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Marine Le Pen barred from running for French presidency in 2027
Court finds far-right leader guilty of embezzlement of European funds and bars her from public office with immediate effect
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Dr Helena Hastie @helenahastie.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
📢 NEW activism award from the EnGRG. Please do share with your networks 📢
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Dr Helena Hastie @helenahastie.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Fantastic day in Avignon on our Exeter Geography field course, learning about sustainable food production in the city. #AcademicSky #Avignon #ExeterGeography
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Dr Helena Hastie @helenahastie.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Taking our final year @exeter.ac.uk students on the first fieldtrip to Avignon, France. The whole trip is via rail, as #ExeterGeography decarbonises field courses. Led by the fantastic Dr @rebeccasandover.bsky.social
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Energy Geography Research Group @energygeography.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Announcing our final webinar - 26/03, 2-3PM GMT. @isoutar.bsky.social will give a talk on "Inevitable and enabling? Digitalisation and the UK energy system". Please register here 👇 www.energygeographies.org/event-detail...
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Energy X Digital: Dr Iain Soutar | EnGRG
Inevitable and enabling? Digitalisation and the UK energy system
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Dr Helena Hastie @helenahastie.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
It was great to get the opportunity to present at the Geog dept seminar on the topic of motherhood and fieldwork, leading to interesting discussions on barriers to fieldwork #exetergeography #academicsky #geography
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Energy Geography Research Group @energygeography.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Last week, we caught up with @mcbrisbois.bsky.social from @sussexnrggroup.bsky.social for #IWD! 🚨 We talked motivation, her impactful work with @edrc-uk.bsky.social, and the two must-read papers topping her list right now.📚 www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS8R...
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EnGRG A Spotlight on... Marie Claire Brisbois
YouTube video by Energy Geographies Research Group
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
“We have seen an absolutely astonishing rise of solar installations in Britain and also globally. That’s because the cost of solar has plummeted. It has become so cheap that some solar panels are now cheaper than roof tiles or fence panels.” Me in the ipaper inews.co.uk/news/environ...
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The UK's solar revolution, mapped - as 3,500 projects in the pipeline
Up to 20 large-scale solar projects are planned to boost the UK's net-zero goals
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.” #Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
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Copenhagen has taken bicycle commuting to a whole new level
Cycling has been a part of that good life in Copenhagen for decades. In recent years, it has enjoyed yet another unfathomable surge in popularity — taken to the next level thanks to constantly improvi...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/03/2025
If even Germany is embracing higher spending, why on earth can’t Labour? | William Keegan
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If even Germany is embracing higher spending, why on earth can’t Labour? | William Keegan
Russia has pushed Europe into a quasi-Keynesian approach to the defence budget. Only Britain insists on cutting help to the sick to pay for security
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Dr Helena Hastie @helenahastie.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Very happy to share a new paper on energy poverty, co-authored with Dr Leila Dawney and @drcatbutler.bsky.social
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Energy Geography Research Group @energygeography.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Our webinar series begins next week! Dr Ralitsa Hiteva presents "Digital and energy landscapes in independent living: the case of digital technologies for health and wellbeing in England" 2-3PM GMT 26/02. Register here👇 www.energygeographies.org/event-detail...
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Energy X Digital: Dr Ralitsa Hiteva | EnGRG
Digital and energy landscapes in independent living: the case of digital technologies for health and wellbeing in England
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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Around 400,000 people work in universities across the UK, and more then 200,000 of them are academics. The closures and job losses we’re seeing in the sector just now are a major industrial crises affecting the key workplaces and economic drivers of hundreds of towns and cities.
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Dr Helena Hastie @helenahastie.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Finished the week by submitting a grant application and resubmitting two papers. Plus all the teaching of course! Trying to celebrate the wins #ExeterGeography #AcademicSky @exeter.ac.uk
A selfie of Helena with the Geography department sign
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Dr Helena Hastie @helenahastie.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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USAID crisis leaves South Africans living with HIV in turmoil
South Africa is home to one of the world's worst HIV/AIDS epidemics. At least 8.5 million people here are living with HIV - and now their treatment is in doubt thanks to Trump's executive order to fre...
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SSSHARC at Sydney @sssharc.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
From 17 to 28 February, #HISS2025 will bring together 18 researchers from 17 institutions worldwide. Meet Leah Shackman @leahshackman.bsky.social, a PhD researcher from the University of Exeter. Leah is excited to visit Sydney and to connect with sexuality researchers from around the world.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Heard a version of this from a source earlier today: Everyone from USAID working abroad forced to uproot their lives, let alone abandon their work, on three days notice. Uprooting thousands of families on no notice, in an intentionally humiliating and harrowing way.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
This article underestimates the number of job losses (already reported elsewhere to have exceeded 10,000) and employs the misleading adjective 'leading' universities (meaning what, to whom?), but if you've been living under a rock and need a quick introduction to the topic, you could start here.
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Quarter of leading UK universities cutting staff due to budget shortfalls
Up to 10,000 redundancies or job losses feared as institutes undergo restructuring
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Dr Helena Hastie @helenahastie.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Great to be at the AAG Energy conference online, learning from incredible scholars and getting the chance to present my research 🌍 @aag-energy.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk #AcademicSky
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Energy Geography Research Group @energygeography.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Delighted to announce a special online panel event 3-4 PM (GMT), 28/01. It addresses the question – how can we decolonise energy research? Speakers @ankitkumar.bsky.social , @cymene.bsky.social , @idalinabaptista.bsky.social & William Monteith. Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/1a0bb9...
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Dr Helena Hastie @helenahastie.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Got my certificate today to prove I'm officially Dr Helena Hastie 💪🏻🎓
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 15/01/2025
New #vacancy 🚨 ➡️ Do you know how to find, process and analyse data? ➡️ Can you spot opportunities to use data to inform topical talking points? ➡️ Do you want to contribute to accurate reporting of climate change and energy? Apply for the data analyst position here ⬇️
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Vacancy: Data analyst - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief is seeking a skilled data analyst to support our award-winning journalism. You’ll help...
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