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Michael Lomotey

@michaellomotey.bsky.social
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Doctoral Researcher, analysing antiblackness in climate and ecology. See chapter: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit…

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Michael Lomotey @michaellomotey.bsky.social · 6h
Looking suspiciously like #noctilucent clouds.
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Michael Lomotey @michaellomotey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Why have two #Eurofighter warplanes just flown low over Lloyd Park #walthamstow
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WhoJewThinkYouAre Podcast @whojewthinkur.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca on a Bombay childhood surrounded by Muslims, Christians, Parsis, and Hindus. Her father was Nissim Ezekiel, one of India's most studied poets from the Jewish Bene Israel community. Her own life tells an equally rich story. New episode out now. Links in bio. #jewsky
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WhoJewThinkYouAre Podcast @whojewthinkur.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
On Eruv Rosh Hashanah & with Shabbat tonight, a New Year gift for you. The BBC's @timfranks.bsky.social on being a Jew and a Journalist, and the argument about who gets to decide what a Jew is, and what happens when you refuse to be defined by others. Links in Bio - Subscribe now
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I was asked by a colleague from my oil & gas days (who has remained in the industry) why UK producing its own gas is less acceptable to the Greens (& others) than importing it from America and West Africa.' The full question & my reply is now online at: climateuncensored.com/there-is-no-...
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There Is No Atmospheric Exemption for British Oil and Gas - Climate Uncensored
I was recently contacted by a colleague from my days in the 1980s and 90s when I worked as an engineer in the offshore oil and gas sector. He remains in the
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/09/2026
Reform officials ‘plotted to break law on foreign donations’ in undercover film
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Reform officials ‘plotted to break law on foreign donations’ in undercover film
Investigation broadcast by Channel 4 shows man posing as ‘impermissible donor’ paying for polling that helped Reform Nigel Farage is facing fresh criticism on the eve of the Reform UK party conference after some of his team were filmed appearing to plot to avoid electoral laws on foreign donations in an undercover investigation broadcast by Channel 4. A group of investigative journalists called Verbatim, funded by the Centre for Climate Reporting, posed as a potential Reform supporter and his wealthy American father, an impermissible donor, who paid for £30,000 of polling commissioned by Reform and which benefited the party. Continue reading...
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Had an incredible conversation with wonderful humans @billmckibben.bsky.social and @ayanaeliza.bsky.social about why we don’t need Elon Musk (of all people) to “save” the earth by destroying the night sky and meddling with the weather. See our full Live: naomiklein.substack.com/p/climate-vs...
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🧵1/ Very grateful to @graceblakeley.substack.com for this guest blog on how promoters of carbon capture and storage (CCS) are trying to give Andy #Burnham a deceptively neat-looking get-out-of-jail-free card to drill Rosebank and Jackdaw. This thread explains its flawed carbon accounting
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
2003 was once exceptional. Now it's average. 2024's record will be average by the mid-2040s. The extreme summers of the 2040s don't bear thinking about! 🌡🥵😬 #ClimateEmergency After @edhawkins.org & @stottpeter.bsky.social using ERA5 + CMIP6.
European summer temperature, June to August, over 10°W-40°E, 30-50°N, the region Stott et al. used for the 2003 heatwave, relative to 1961-1990. The black line shows ERA5 observations from 1950 to 2025, rising from about zero in the mid-twentieth century to 2.75°C in 2024. Grey shading is the 5-95% range of 34 CMIP6 models over the historical period, blue shading the same models under SSP2-4.5 to 2100, with the running median in white. Two dotted lines mark the 2003 summer at 2.06°C and the 2024 summer at 2.75°C, each dropping to the year the model median reaches that level: 2027 and 2045. Model region approximated by the IPCC AR6 Mediterranean and West & Central Europe regions, weighted 0.75 to 0.25.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
1/ Kemi Badenoch says she isn't a climate denier. Let's take her at her word. Here are five findings she wrote around this week as though they don't exist. 🧵
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
"As Mayor of Greater Manchester, you oversaw the declaration of a #ClimateEmergency & argued that local government lacked many of the powers necessary to deliver the pace of change demanded by the climate challenge. As Prime Minister, those powers now rest with you"
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Open letter to the PM on Rosebank & Jackdaw oil and gas fields, covered in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/... Full letter here: climateuncensored.com/letter-to-th...
Quote from the letter - the link is in the post.
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
1/7 After @georgemonbiot.bsky.social exposed deep flaws in carbon capture &storage—and the extraordinary sums this Govt is committing to it—CCS industry lobbyists and pro-CCS scientists responded. @sioldridge.bsky.social &I answer them here www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧵
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Carbon capture is a fig leaf for fossil fuel expansion | Letters
Letters: The predicted £264bn cost by 2050 could be even higher, plus renewables avoid a far higher total of emissions than can be captured, writes Andrew Boswell, while Simon Oldridge calls out veste...
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Thoughts on the market’s first manufactured trillionaire.
A black and white photo illustration of Elon Musk making the Nazi salute with a halftone dot effect added on a red background. Text reads:

END TIMES
FASCISM
Brought to you by
Capitalism
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Michael Lomotey @michaellomotey.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Planets #Jupiter and #Venus are about to kiss. Look up. They are getting closer. Whispering sweet words. There must be a poet amongst us who can conjure something in tribute? It’s grim in the news so a bit of Black Joy would be welcome. 🙏🏾
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Michael Lomotey @michaellomotey.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Far right newspapers are trying to run a smear campaign against Misan Harriman. We can't let them. Add your name to the open letter, and stand against hate and division. goodlawproject.org/s/4ca10b
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Stand in solidarity with Misan Harriman | Good Law Project
Far right newspapers are trying to run a smear campaign against Misan Harriman. Add your name to the open letter, and stand against hate and division.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026
#Introduction: Theoretical physicist. Black Feminist theorist. Writer. I do: dark matter, neutron stars, & science studies. Web: chanda.science Newsletter: news.chanda.science Insta/threads: chanda.prescod.weinstein Author of award-winning #DisorderedCosmos and now #EdgeOfSpaceTime!
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The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos “With this extraordinary book, Prescod-Weinstein cements her status.....
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Michael Lomotey @michaellomotey.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Yves Sakila. #Lynched. www.rte.ie/news/2026/05...
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Vigil held for Congolese man, investigation under way
A vigil has been held on Henry Street in Dublin city centre in memory of a Congolese man who died following an alleged shoplifting incident last Friday.
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Mr Sakila didn’t just become passively unresponsive at the scene - the video shows multiple men restraining him on the ground with their body weight, including one who knelt and then with his hands pressed down in his neck. Truly disturbing footage www.thejournal.ie/yves-sakila-...
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Concern over 'disturbing' footage of man being restrained on ground before his death
Yves Sakila died on Friday afternoon in Dublin.
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Michael Lomotey @michaellomotey.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
So wonderful to hear you are Mayor @zoegarbett.bsky.social. A lovely person who is knowledgeable, caring and who understands that diversity is not just about nature but is what makes a community.
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John Doffing @johndoffing.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
"Spain's pivot to renewables has been a big win for household energy bills. In 2019, prior to its wind and solar revolution, it had some of the highest electricity prices in Europe. Now it has some of the cheapest . . . " www.euronews.com/2026/03/11/s...
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Spain could be the only EU country to beat energy price hikes
Spain spent the last six years investing heavily in wind and solar energy, leading to some of the cheapest power prices in Europe.
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Clapton CFC @claptoncfc.co.uk · 02/05/2026
121' Full Time (AET) Clapton CFC 4 Rayleigh Town 2 CLAPTON COMMUNITY FC ARE GOING UP!!!!
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
AOC: “This is a threat of genocide & merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing & cannot be trusted. To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., attends a news conference in the U.S. Capitol. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Let's face it, I'm back on twitter, because that's where the news and journalists and everyone are and everything is happening. Sorry bsky. Anyway, I wrote this thing. t.co/EOeCxoUK2l
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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2029468556555964887.html
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Michael Lomotey @michaellomotey.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
So will our government condemn this or give it a bye? @stellacreasy.bsky.social @kierstarmerpm.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump shares video with racist imagery of Barack and Michelle Obama in late-night posting spree
In clip amplifying false claim that Trump won 2020 election, the Obamas’ faces are superimposed on bodies of apes
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
This thread responds to Prof. Christian Dunn’s Telegraph piece on #climate communication. I argue it misdiagnoses public disengagement, underplays escalating scientific risk, & reproduces a media narrative that has actively shaped, not merely reflected, public resistance to climate action 🧵
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
This year has been brutal for the #climate movement. Rollbacks, repression, & outright denial, especially in the US, have made progress feel fragile & uneven. Which is exactly why it matters to pause & look back at what did move forward in 2025. Here are 12 real wins 🏆, one for each month 🧵⬇️
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Comms Declare @commsdeclare.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
NEW REPORT! ⛽Shell's Queensland gas business is funding science lessons for hundreds of thousands of students and teachers, via the Queensland Museum. Here's why that's a problem. 🧵
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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Open letter from over 1,000 UK scientists urging all MPs to attend the National Emergency Briefing. A huge list full of highly respected names. "Without much more urgent and decisive action, we risk seeing these impacts overwhelm our capacity to respond." Please share with your MP #NEB2025
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National Emergency Briefing
An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...
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Scientists on Survival @scientistsonsurviv.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
The National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social in Westminster today is a call to action for politicians. @chrisgpackham.bsky.social started with “let’s work on creating hope, where there isn’t much of it left”
Chris Packham speaking to the audienceExpert assessment
Ten leading scientists and other experts will present the latest, authoritative assessment of the climate and nature crisis, highlighting the implications for the UK and pathways forward.

Chris Packham CBE- Opening Statement
Prof Mike Berners-Lee- Chair
Prof Kevin Anderson- Climate
Tessa Khan- Energy Transition
Prof Hayley Fowler -Weather Extremes
Prof Nathalie Seddon- Nature
Prof Paul Behrens- Food Security
Prof Hugh Montgomery OBE- Health
Lt Gen Richard Nugee CB CVO CBE- National Security
Angela Francis- Economics
Prof Tim Lenton- Tipping Points
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
9/ #Sudan is regarded as one of the countries in the world most vulnerable to climate change. The rapidly changing #climate is causing worsening desertification across much of the region.
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Sudan: One of 10 countries most vulnerable to climate change
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
"What makes Sudan's crisis even more alarming is its invisibility. The world is not watching closely enough" The Sudanese civil war is creating the world's worst humanitarian disaster with 12 million people now displaced This 🧵traces the deep connections b/w this conflict & the #ClimateCrisis 1/n
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"The cost of silence in Sudan’s civil war is too high"
As Sudan’s brutal civil war rages on, more than 12 million people have been displaced — deepening an already devastating protection and humanitarian crisis. In this episode of The Humans in Human Righ...
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🌍🌾 ViaCampesinaBE/FR/NL/DE⁂ :mastodon: @viacampesinabe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/11/2025
EN | #COP30: #LaViaCampesina’s Manifesto – Land and Rights for Those Who Cool the Planet! viacampesina.org/en/2025/10/cop-30-… This manifesto is our roadmap at this decisive […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

EN | #COP30: #LaViaCampesina’s Manifesto – Land and Rights for Those Who Cool the Planet! https://viacampesina.org/en/2025/10/cop-30-la-via-campesinas-manifesto-land-and-rights-for-those-who-cool-the-planet

This manifesto is our roadmap at this decisive moment, the pulse of collective action, a requirement for deep systemic transformation. We invite you to join the struggle, to walk with us, shoulder to shoulder.

The manifesto is organized into 3 parts: the structural causes of the crisis, our demands, and our solutions
https://cloud.viacampesina.org/s/i38eLWZxBYtyMpe

#Cop30Alert #UNDROP 
@viacampesina_en@movimientos.social
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Dr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel laureate and Trump critic, says US visa revoked
Soyinka, 91, who recently compared US president to Idi Amin, says ‘I have no visa – I am banned’
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Michael Lomotey @michaellomotey.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Mass protests Downing Street blocking the road #FreeSudan .
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Michael Lomotey @michaellomotey.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
@bbc-breaking-news.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Downing Street now. Protest about the war in Sudan.
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Michael Lomotey @michaellomotey.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
When the red red robins come bob bob bobbing along www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-... #HullKingstonRovers #HKR #treble #champions
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Super League Grand Final: Hull KR 24-6 Wigan Warriors - Robins pull off treble
Hull KR become only the fifth team to win a Super League Grand Final as they put in a stunning performance to beat Wigan Warriors at Old Trafford and win a historic treble.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Has anyone else been dealing with some serious headline whiplash recently? Even for those of us who follow #climate and #energy matters closely, it can be hard to know what the hell is going on! So here's a thread to help climate communicators get a grip on how to deal with this 🧵
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Michael Lomotey @michaellomotey.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Did you know Harriet Tubman’s song “Follow the Drinking Gourd” is a star-map used to guide enslaved people to freedom? Join us to explore representation in space science and a night walk + tips on urban stargazing. www.wildlondon.org.uk/events/2025-... #BlackHistoryMonthUK #Astronomy #StargazingUK
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Stargazing at Walthamstow: Reclaiming the stars: race, power and the night sky | London Wildlife Trust
Join StowStargazers to explore the topic of diversity in astronomy and enjoy the reserve after hours.
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WhoJewThinkYouAre Podcast @whojewthinkur.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
After a painful week for British Jews, it feels hard to share new work. But as #Shabbat approaches so soon after the tears of Yom Kippor, @michaellomotey.bsky.social reminds us: ‘Shabbat is ... the greatest environmental move you could do.’ youtube.com/shorts/msU_I... Links in Bio #jewsky
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S2 E8 Clip 2 Shabbat as an environmental move
“Shabbat is not just tradition — it’s rest, wellbeing, and the greatest environmental move you could make. Michael Lomotey shares how weekly ritual grounds his Jewish life. Watch the full…
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WhoJewThinkYouAre Podcast @whojewthinkur.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
As #Shabbat comes in, we hold onto stories of resilience and belonging. This week @michaellomotey.bsky.social shares his journey — Jewish, Ghanaian, Black, Yorkshire, British — carried together in faith, family and hope. youtube.com/shorts/msU_I... Shabbat Shalom Links in Bio #jewsky
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S2 E8 Clip 2 Shabbat as an environmental move
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
As the world rapidly heads into #climate #overshoot I've noticed a disturbing pattern in journal articles recently. I'll summarize it quickly in this thread 🧵
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Kit Marie Rackley @geogramblings.com · 10/09/2025
🙌 ✊ I’ll let @michaellomotey.bsky.social’s slides do the talking! 💥 (see ALT text)
Michael at the start of his provocation with a title slide pictured with art of a diverse group of black people including a person in a wheelchair. The title is “Black Death from climate impacts: How can climate linked social change work for everyone if it does not address antiblackness?”A slide that says: “Antiblackness is…. Black people dehumanised in modernity (Mushonga et Al 2022); Pernicious and targeted (Gordon 2016, Grimes 2020); Black Social Death (Patterson 2018); Has a non-anachronistic afterlife (Hartman 2007); Linked inextricably with Racial Capitalism (see Cedric Robertson, 2000; Biedsoe and Wright 2018; Ruth Wilson Gilmore 2021)Michael in front of a slide that says “Whiteness and the ecofascist creep? - ecofascism and far right ecologist; populist social change movements risk appropriation; - needs a decolonial antiracist approach. A red poster with black text says “Save Bees, Plant Trees, Sh**t Refugees” (image source @TRACterrorism 2024)
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Michael Lomotey @michaellomotey.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Our new season of urban stargazing events starts on Tuesday 16th September at 6.30pm. Introduction to Urban Stargazing including an exclusive walk into the reserve to identify constellations (weather permitting - we’ll still go out but be wary of cloud cover). www.wildlondon.org.uk/events/2025-...
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Stargazing at Walthamstow: An Introduction to Urban Astronomy | London Wildlife Trust
Join Stow Stargazers at Walthamstow to learn about and practice urban astronomy and enjoy the reserve after hours.
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 14/08/2025
Calling all scientists and science supporters! You have a crucial role to play in countering the authoritarian threat we currently face in this country. Learn more about how you can stand up for the facts and truth that are essential for a free and democratic society. blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...
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Michael Lomotey @michaellomotey.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Early doors but possible #noctilucent clouds about tonight. Keep your eyes peeled.
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Michael Lomotey @michaellomotey.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
A once in a lifetime opportunity to end plastic pollution for good - pollution impacts Ghana. Sign this petition and let's get a Global Plastics Treaty in place! act.gp/3HrhdRu
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Global Plastic Treaty
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Michael Lomotey @michaellomotey.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
@benmsanderson.bsky.social hi. FYI.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
In the past year we've had a series of papers with results that've shocked #climate scientists - the globe is heating #FasterThanExpected & we don't fully know why The public discourse is not keeping up. Here's a series of 5 new studies that climate hawks & journos need to have on their radar 🧵
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Eylan Ezekiel @eylanezekiel.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
#ShabbatShalom y'all Had an amazing conversation with @michaellomotey.bsky.social for @whojewthinkur.bsky.social this morning and can't wait to share it with you. He's such a smart, open, and centred guest. But I'm gonna take his advice and rest this Shabbat!
Two bread loaves on a cooling rack. One  plaited one knotted
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