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Dr Josh Lait @joshualait.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

@teamlabouruk.bsky.social can we have something positive like this in England a bit sooner? It's over £40 pounds travelling an hour on an overcrowded train from Brighton or Hove to London on a peak train...

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Energy Geography Research Group @energygeography.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

🚨Please check out our guide to the Energy Geography Research Group's sponsored sessions for today at the RGS 2025 👇👀

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Dr Josh Lait @joshualait.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Local authorities are developing new governance tools that take a broader view of the benefits and risks of climate action. Check out our recent case study on Cornwall Council's Decision Wheels!

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Energy Geography Research Group @energygeography.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

🚨1-day online PGR conference on Just Energy Transitions! 10-4PM GMT 10th July. Please join us for a day of exciting talks. Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/fc808b... @edrc-uk.bsky.social @ignitenetplus.bsky.social @ukerc.bsky.social @accessnetwork.bsky.social

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Transport Geography Research Group @tgrg-rgs-ibg.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Hello Bluesky! We are the @rgsibg.bsky.social Transport Geography Research Group. 🗺️🚇 Follow us for updates on our sessions at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference and posts on the latest research across transport geography...

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Energy Geography Research Group @energygeography.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

🚨 We're excited to announce a one-day online conference for postgraduate and early career researchers on Just Energy Transitions - 10/07/25📆. For further information see below 👇 Apply: forms.gle/1dHmPM2kbnYw.... Deadline 10/06! @ignitenetplus.bsky.social @ukerc.bsky.social @edrc-uk.bsky.social

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Energy Geography Research Group @energygeography.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

A reminder of our rescheduled final webinar on today 2-3PM GMT! @isoutar.bsky.social will give a talk on "Inevitable and enabling? Digitalisation and the UK energy system". Please register here 👇 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/b614d8...

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Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams

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Energy Geography Research Group @energygeography.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

📢 PGRs in energy research - this one's for you!🏆 Enter our PGR Paper Prize for a chance to win £75! We will work with the winners to promote their work. Categories - conceptual, impact & methods. 🗓 Deadline: 5PM GMT 30 May More info 👉 www.energygeographies.org/pgr-paper-co... @rgsibg.bsky.social

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PGR Paper Competition | EnGRG

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Sussex Energy Group @sussexnrggroup.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Are you interested in the current UK energy landscape? Join us for our 2025 Keynote Lecture with @dharavyas.bsky.social, Chief Executive of @energy-uk.org.uk, giving her perspective on the latest energy policy developments in the UK. More details here 👉 bit.ly/4bVd5UT #energypolicy #energy

Poster of Sussex Energy Group Keynote Lecture 2025, featuring Dhara Vyas, Chief Executive of Energy UK, on energy policy developments in the UK.

2nd April 17:30-19:00pm. Arts A - A01 Lecture Theatre. University of Sussex.

All Welcome - no booking required.
Dhara joined Energy UK in 2021 and is an expert in energy consumer issues and the energy transition. She has previously worked at Citizens Advice and local government, and is on the Board of Green Alliance and EVA England.

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Dr Josh Lait @joshualait.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Seeing school travel, especially for SEND students, as just a cost makes children seem like a burden to local authorities. Our research shows that national education policy reforms have made school commutes longer, undermining health and environmental goals (1/4) www.bera.ac.uk/blog/escalat...

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Escalating school travel costs: Recognising the role of national policy

A BBC news article from March 2024 highlights that local authority spending on school travel for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) has increased from £728m in 2018 to...

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Energy Geography Research Group @energygeography.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Announcing our new Activism Award 🏆 Celebrating individuals & organisations driving energy justice in the UK – through research, teaching, activism, or community action. 🌍⚡ Nominate now! Deadline 5pm GMT, Friday, 30 May 2025👇 www.energygeographies.org/activisim-aw...

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Activisim Award | EnGRG

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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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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Meta pirated eighteen of my publications--an edited book, a book review, chapters and journal articles--to train Llama 3, its AI. Wonder how happy Elsevier, Bloomsbury etc are about that?

A lisitng of some of my publications pirated by Meta

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

15+ years old, but still VERY relevent — and if we had acted 15 years ago, the “better world” we’d be creating would be a LOT better & easier to reach. There are real consequences we’re just starting to see to not heeding this cartoon a lot sooner. Even worse if we don’t heed it now. #ClimateCrisis

Iconic cartoon with people looking at a long list of public benefits connected with climate action, asking “What if it’s a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?”

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Energy Geography Research Group @energygeography.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Announcing our third webinar - 19/03, 9-10AM GMT. @yolandestreng.bsky.social will give a talk on "Digital Energy Futures: anticipating new worlds with design ethnography and scenario planning". Please register here 👇 www.energygeographies.org/event-detail...

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Energy X Digital: Professor Yolande Strengers | EnGRG

Digital Energy Futures: anticipating new worlds with design ethnography and scenario planning

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

“The climate crisis poses a bigger existential threat to this country than Putin does or ever will, so if money can be found for the military there’s no reason why it couldn’t also be found to accelerate self-sufficiency in clean energy.That might really do something for national security”. Spot on👇

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Labour needs an urgent history lesson. Its plans couldn’t fund a war and won’t boost growth | Larry Elliott

We are seeing a pale version of military Keynesianism, and for what? That money would be better spent fighting the climate crisis, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott

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Energy Demand Research Centre (EDRC) @edrc-uk.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

📢 How many workers are needed for net zero? A new report by Ian Watt, Faye Wade, @gregmarsden-leeds.bsky.social and Tim Foxon explores: 1️⃣ How many workers are needed by 2030-2035 to deliver energy demand reduction? 2️⃣ How robust is the evidence? 🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/2pkytwsy

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The job potential of energy demand reduction: evaluating available forecasts - Energy Demand Research Centre

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Dr Josh Lait @joshualait.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Refreshing to see someone at the House of Lords question the cult of economic growth! Growth at all costs without considering public good is absurd. This outdated mentality is how we end up with projects like expanding Heathrow during a climate emergency 🙃 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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When politicians tell us to focus on growth we need to ask: ‘Why, and for whom?’

Isolate growth from public good and you are simply planning for breakdown. My research shows that a resilient society should be rooted in wellbeing, not wealth, says former archbishop of Canterbury Ro...

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Energy Geography Research Group @energygeography.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Please join us for our seminar today!

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Dr Josh Lait @joshualait.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Very enjoyable to be up in Leeds meeting colleagues in person for the first time from the Governance and Place themes @edrc-uk.bsky.social. Some great discussions on the place-based well-being benefits of energy demand reduction measures

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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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Dr Josh Lait @joshualait.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

CfP🚨RGS annual conference 26-29/08/25. Session title: Assessing the Place-Based Co-Benefits of Energy and Climate Measures: Frameworks, Complexities, and Policy. Deadline for abstracts 21st Feb 2025. @energygeography.bsky.social

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Energy Geography Research Group @energygeography.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Important paper that offers an evaluation and critique regarding the current state of energy geographies before outlining a few pathways that the authors think can help "move the needle" and advance the subdiscipline. How do you think we can move the subdiscipline forward? doi.org/10.1177/2043...

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Repositioning energy geographies in a time of crisis: Arguments from a subdiscipline on the margins of geography - Thomas Ptak, Ryan Stock, Siddharth Sareen, Ankit Kumar, 2025

While a range of rapidly proliferating crises shaped by anthropogenic climate change is profound and generating a raft of spatially-centred energy research, ene...

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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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un Américain perdu à Paris @paris75009.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

"Streets to Schools" - A map showing all the streets closed in Paris as part of Mayor Hildago's "rues aux ecoles" program, making child safety our city's top priority. #paris #urbanism #15minutecity #schools #streetstoschools #safestreets #thewaroncars capgeo.sig.paris.fr/Apps/RuesAux...

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Dr Josh Lait @joshualait.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Excellent to see the EDRC on here. Definitely worth following for emerging research on energy demand reduction policy issues

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Dr Josh Lait @joshualait.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Sadly, not quite enough for a snow day in Sussex.

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Dr Josh Lait @joshualait.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I really enjoyed assessing this paper. The authors provide an excellent framework for assessing how, where, why and when the co-benefits or co-risks of energy projects emerge

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Dr Josh Lait @joshualait.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Great to see this Energy Geography research group on here!

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Hey new people and people I know from Twitter, welcome! What brings you here? In case you're interested, here's a Starter Pack of journalists who work on climate, energy, and the environment. Bluesky is also more useful if you follow some Feeds. I have some suggestions. 🧵 go.bsky.app/2TNd1Ya

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Dr Josh Lait @joshualait.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Recent analysis on the role of cross-sectoral policy coordination in supporting energy demand reduction and other co-benefits in local/regional transport systems. Includes practical recommendations for policymakers link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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Enhancing Policy Coordination of Schooling and Transport for Net-Zero

We recommend enhancing policy coordination of schooling and transport for achieving Net-Zero. To achieve this policy recommendation, we propose to take into account the following: (1) Education policy...

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