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Joanna

@joannaallan2020.bsky.social
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Lecturer. Interested in #EnvironmentalJustice and Indigenous meteorologies. Researching resistance to interconnected injustices surrounding #phosphates exploitation, #fertilisers and #foodsystems and posting about the histories of these.

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
🇲🇽 Mexico wipes out #farm debts for tens of thousands of small producers. Claudia Sheinbaum’s government will forgive or #RestructureDebts owed by small farmers, fishers and rural producers to Mexico’s former agricultural finance agency, clearing liabilities for 99.5% of debtors.
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Sheinbaum to forgive debts for tens of thousands of small farmers : Peoples Dispatch
The decision aims to enable 99.5% of debtors to settle or restructure debts that had become impossible to pay and were being used by lawyers to extort farmers and small producers.
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Joanna @joannaallan2020.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Wondering how sustainable the European Sustainable Phosphorus Initiative can be when its annual conference (in Morocco) includes a visit to an OCP #phosphates mine... that's OCP that mines in illegally occupied #WesternSahara
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 02/06/2026
💥🇪🇺 Today brand new research by Corporate Europe Observatory is published! On how the corporate world - global agrochemical and food companies, commodity giants, banks and others - is hi-jacking the concept of ‘regenerative agriculture’. See here: tinyurl.com/mry9wacw #AgroecologyEurope #Ifoam #EEB
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A Degenerative Lobby | Corporate Europe Observatory
Pesticide corporations like Bayer and Syngenta are among a very broad range of actors from the global agribusiness and food sector who are behind the push for what they call “regenerative agriculture”...
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
By Jim Benton
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Western Sahara Resource Watch @wsrw.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
🔴 Morocco’s trade in occupied #WesternSahara’s phosphate rock is shrinking in buyers but growing in value. Our latest report shows #Morocco made around $376.5 million in 2025 from selling #Saharawi phosphate rock to just 3 international buyers. wsrw.org/en/news/reco...
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Joanna @joannaallan2020.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Here's an anonymous painting of the 1888 Rio Tinto massacre, in which the Spanish army shot or bayoneted over 200 Spanish mine workers to protect the interests of the British Rio Tinto Corporation. The workers were protesting peacefully for protection of the local environment...
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Joanna @joannaallan2020.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Spain's new policy to regularise all undocumented migrants sounded wonderful... until I realised it excluded Saharawis. I mean, how outrageous and cruel. #regularizacion2026 #migrantsrights www.euractiv.com/news/statele...
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Stateless refugees excluded from Spain's migrant amnesty | Euractiv
"Spain has abandoned the Sahrawi people," a Sahrawi-Spanish MP told Euractiv
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Joanna @joannaallan2020.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Can't wait to get started on this project using information from poetry to improve climate modelling in the Sahara
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apache/ @apache.be · 24/10/2025
Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
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Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
My PhD student Shaimaa was in @thebookseller.com, talking about our appeal to the UK government to help her get here and take up her place. Thanks to @commapress.bsky.social and @outspokenpress.bsky.social for their support: www.thebookseller.com/news/publish...
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Publishers urge government to defer biometric requirements for Gazan writers
Comma Press and Out-Spoken Press have spoken out about two Gazan writers who are currently unable to take up full-scholarship awards at the University of Edinburgh and Goldsmiths, University of London...
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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
For all of the educators trying to deal with AI, I did a deep dive in early June and these are the four articles I decided to assign to my students. 1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
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We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.
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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
It's time for some visuals!!! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 has a cover. Out this fall with @cambridgeup.bsky.social #envhist #skystorians #PeatSky #energysky
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Joanna @joannaallan2020.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I am completely floored by this. What an honour! Thank you everyone involved @asleuki.bsky.social and congrats to Matt and William.
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Joanna @joannaallan2020.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
"Officers searched the bags of those arrested. In one backpack handled with blue forensic gloves, they uncovered some bread and a milk carton filled with water." #FreePalestine www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Police arrest 474 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London
Number of arrests was highest recorded in relation to single operation in at least past decade, according to Met police
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Joanna @joannaallan2020.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Very honoured that "Saharan Winds" is shortlisted for the ASLE-UK book prize for #ecocriticism and environmental humanities: asle.org.uk/2025-asle-uk... #WesternSahara
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2025 ASLE-UKI Book Prize Shortlists | ASLE-UKI
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FiSahara @fisaharafilmfest.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
#Marruecos quiso legitimar su ocupación del #SaharaOccidental con el rodaje de #TheOdyssey de #ChristopherNolan y, en su lugar, ha hecho más visible su ilegalidad y violación sistemática de derechos humanos contra el pueblo saharaui. #TheOdysseyOnStolenLand #FreeWesternSahara
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Emilio Martí @emiliomarti.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Imagine shooting in occupied Palestine and paying Israel for it? Well, that’s more or less what they are doing in occupied Western Sahara with “the odyssey”, where @christophernolan.bsky.social have been making richer the occupying country, Morocco 😡 (Also, matt damon zendaya and tom holland)
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Joanna @joannaallan2020.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Glad to see @theguardian.com covering this story on Christopher Nolan filming in an illegally occupied territory www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... #WesternSahara
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Christopher Nolan criticised for filming in occupied Western Sahara city
Organisers of local film festival warn production of The Odyssey in Dakhla could normalise repression by Morocco
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FiSahara @fisaharafilmfest.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Legitimizing an illegal invasion and human rights violations is hardly the best publicity for #TheOdyssey by #ChristopherNolan. So denounces Mamine Hachimi, a Sahrawi journalist and activist in the occupied Western Sahara, in @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social. 👉 www.middleeasteye.net/news/sahrawi...
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Private Eye jokes now 'criminal' as the magazine hits back at dumbass cops Police nonsense over Palestine Action proscription continues as Ian Hislop jokingly bemoans officers never having heard of Private Eye www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
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Private Eye jokes now 'criminal' as the magazine hits back at dumbass cops
Police nonsense over Palestine Action proscription continues as Ian Hislop jokingly bemoans officers never having heard of Private Eye
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Joanna @joannaallan2020.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Really disappointing that Christopher Nolan is filming 'The Odyssey' in an illegally occupied territory: festivalsahara.org/en/news/fisa... (From @fisaharafilmfest.bsky.social)
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FiSahara urges director Christopher Nolan and The Odyssey crew to halt film production in Morocco-occupied Western Sahara
“Dakhla is not just a beautiful location with cinematic sand dunes. Primarily, it is an occupied, militarised city whose indigenous Sahrawi population is subject to brutal repression by occupying Moro...
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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
A reminder about these fellowships, open to early career scholars (c. 7 years from PhD) based in any ODA-recipient country where the British Council operates. Deadline 28 July.
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Jornaleras de Huelva en Lucha @jornalerasl.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Cuando nombramos a #Huelva como zona de sacrificio nos referimos a esto... Invernaderos de frutos rojos🍓 y el Polo Químico💨 con su refinería de crudo humeando al fondo. 📷 Ana P. L. En Palos de la Frontera, el 22/04/2025🗓️
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
"It isn’t just that people are angry that the catastrophe in Gaza isn’t being given due attention: it is that their encounters with observable reality are being flatly denied... ...this is enough to make you feel crazy." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Gaza discourse has been Vylanised – but that diversionary strategy just doesn’t work any more | Archie Bland
Those appalled by Israel’s actions in Gaza, and the kind of media frenzy prompted by Bob Vylan’s Glastonbury appearance, are finding their voice, says Archie Bland, editor of the Guardian’s First Edit...
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Joanna @joannaallan2020.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
New OHCHR report accuses several companies, including Lockheed Martin, of profiting from apartheid, ethic cleansing and genocide in #Gaza: www.un.org/unispal/docu....
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A/HRC/59/23: From economy of occupation to economy of genocide - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 (Advance unedited ...
To learn more about Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council and the Question of Palestine, click here to visit the dedicated webpage. Human Rights Council Fifty-ninth session 16 June–11 July...
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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Role at a great organisation doing really interesting and important work!
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
In BBC coverage, mentions of Israeli and Palestinians deaths competed for space since 7th October. That's despite far more Palestinian deaths. There's one exception - a huge spike in the mentions of Palestinian deaths in early April. The reason for this should disturb you.
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Adam (human animal)🍉 @forcolumb.us · 23/06/2025
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Israel escalates mass killings in Gaza amid impunity and declining media coverage
Acceleration in mass killing operations focused on residential areas and protected civilian infrastructure
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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
It's our open day today and I'm on strike with @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social. Management plans to cut £140 million are opportunistic, misguided and wrong, and will harm the future of the university. Read our Joint Unions Financial Working Group blog: www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/2eppzf7...
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Dire Financial Straits at UoE? NO! — UCU Edinburgh
Are things really as bad as they say? Find out the truth behind the numbers!
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Mark Griffiths @casesofyou.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
we've got a co-authored piece in the latest volume of The American Journal of Public Health: 'The Ongoing Environmental Destruction and Degradation of Gaza: The Resulting Public Health Crisis' ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10....
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The Ongoing Environmental Destruction and Degradation of Gaza: The Resulting Public Health Crisis | AJPH | Vol. 115 Issue 7
This essay examines the resulting environmental health conditions in Gaza since October 2023. Evidence is drawn from international agency reports and peer-reviewed literature to document destruction a...
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Joanna @joannaallan2020.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
How do I find people on here? 🧐
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Joanna @joannaallan2020.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Unbelievably delighted to be on this list! Hoping it can help raise awareness of British corporate involvement in #WesternSahara among a radical, politically-engaged British public
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Joanna @joannaallan2020.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Thank you so much! What an honour!
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Joanna @joannaallan2020.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Good morning bluesky! Looking forward to connecting with old pals from Twitter and making new connections here.
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