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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

Maya SH @msingerhobbs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We called for Housing Associations to have a duty to house homeless tenants, and for councils to make better use of empty homes, in our paper earlier this year These announcements will make it easier to adopt a truly housing-led approach to tackling homelessness www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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Councils to get new homelessness powers in Rayner drive on social housing

Charities hail new powers as gamechanger ahead of housing secretary’s speech to Labour conference

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Maya SH @msingerhobbs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Applies to Labour as well "Trans rights are polling poorly, and so the effective political strategy is to distance yourself ... If I’m being honest I find this type of calculus mildly repulsive. I don’t think that fundamental rights should be haphazardly sacrificed at the altar of polling."

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Maya SH @msingerhobbs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

ONS rent data today: rent inflation is at 3.8% - higher than the 3.1% CPI rate In our paper earlier this year we called for rent stabilisation to protect tenants from exactly this sort of scenario, where rents rise above inflation & hurt renters ability to pay: www.ippr.org/articles/hou...

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High housing costs in the private rental sector: The case for action | IPPR

In the UK today, 2.4 million households renting privately have unaffordable rents, an additional 250,000 since 2023. This is 45 per cent of all private ren

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 16/09/2026

I don't think we should be giving the racist village all that attention, I think they deserve to be ignored

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Climate ‘feedback loops’ could worsen global warming by 30%, study finds - Emissions of planet-heating methane and CO2 from natural sources are worsening the #climatecrisis Story by @olliemilman.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Climate ‘feedback loops’ could worsen global warming by 30%, study finds

Emissions of planet-heating methane and CO2 from natural sources are worsening the climate crisis, paper says

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/09/2026

This is one of the objections I have when people talk about how useful LLMs can be for literature searches or for any kind of search, really. Even beyond the biases that inevitably (and, in some cases, intentionally) show up, part of a good literature search is seeing information *in context.*

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Erin Sikorsky @erinsikorsky.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

1/ My latest newsletter covers the security implications of the climate overshoot report released by UNEP yesterday. The bottom line? Plan for 3 degrees, work like hell for 1.5. Five more takeaways threaded below....

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Security Takeaways from the UNEP Overshoot Report

Plan for Three, Fight for 1.5

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

How about ‘but what are they protesting? The idea that the RNLI should not rescue people in trouble in the sea is abhorrent and inhuman and we should be utterly repelled by it.’

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

People comparing the Arday and James Orr situation. Arday, whatever you think of him, was never was filmed conspiring and committing (what very much seems to be) a crime. At an individual level, there is no comparison. What can be compared is how institutions handle this (Cambridge, media etc)

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Are we going to get the 200 articles on James Orr then? Maybe read and interrogate the footnotes of his doctoral thesis? Is Cambridge going to have to issue out statements about its hiring standards?

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Tadzio Mueller @tadziomueller.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

#climatecollapse: "Global heating will reach at least 1.8C under even the most optimistic future. Overshooting the 1.5C goal inscribed in the landmark Paris agreement of 2015 was now 'unavoidable' and... likely in the next few years. UNEP said: 'There are no good outcomes above 1.5C'."

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Global heating will hit at least 1.8C, UN warns, and there are ‘no good outcomes’

But scientists say the world could get back to 1.5C through deep, rapid emissions cuts and removing carbon from the atmosphere

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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Fed up with people shirking responsibility by arguing that the UK causes just 1% of emissions? Here are two fantastic analogies from a primary school teacher, Mark in Coventry, who called Sheila Fogerty on @lbc.co.uk - one involving dog poo 😆 Other arguments here: www.nebriefing.org/mp-dialogue

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

ULEZ was exactly like when they brought in the seatbelt requirement for car users. People screaming about personal inconvenience or change, while there on the page was clear evidence that this would save lives. it was delivering the biggest improvement in London's health since the smog ban.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Or, in fact, not really a news story at all. I don’t believe at all that this was nationally important and certainly not “third on the BBC 6 o’clock news” important as a story. Cofnas started all of this because he’s a racist and the media ran with it.

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cultauthor.bsky.social @cultauthor.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The British media will monster, bully and hound people to death because there’s money in it. They will then play shocked as they make more money covering the death they have caused. They do not reflect. They do not care. They look for the next victim. Do not claim to be surprised. You know this.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 09/08/2026

Chris Hohn, billionaire hedge fund manager: ‘All these people who say we can't afford net zero - they're completely misunderstanding the gravity of the situation.' www.thetimes.com/article/de38...

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Maya SH @msingerhobbs.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This policy is capitalising on a sense of unfairness around housing (which colleagues of mine have found in their research) BUT, it's directing that anger at the wrong people. Britain’s housing shortage isn’t caused by migrants in social housing 1/🧵

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 07/08/2026

This violence is not exceptional or limited to the actions of extreme individuals It's the direct result of years of mainstreaming led by mainstream media and politicians who have legitimised racism and other forms of exclusion Arrests will not stop this spiral www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Norfolk police arrest two men after officers injured during unrest over asylum plans

Homes of people believed to be asylum seekers attacked during two nights of violence in Thetford

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Maya SH @msingerhobbs.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

What is so frustrating about this silence is that there's plenty of evidence that talking about this is raises the salience & means progressives can set the terms of the debate My colleagues did some brilliant work earlier this year which goes into more detail: www.ippr.org/articles/apa...

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Apathy and opposition: Understanding the real threats to net zero | IPPR

Watering down ambition offers no electoral advantage; a strong, progressive agenda on climate action remains broadly popular with the public.Elite opinion

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Maya SH @msingerhobbs.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This thread from my colleague Will is exactly why we called for rent stabilisation earlier this year Renters are vulnerable to shocks - there's nothing stopping landlords passing on increases in mortgage costs. We argue these risks should be shouldered more fairly: www.ippr.org/articles/hou...

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ECIU @eciu.net · 30/07/2026

"But we're only 1% of emissions": media in countries collectively emitting 20% of global CO₂ In 200+ national newspapers in 27 countries made claims that because that country accounts for only approx 1% of global emissions, progress in cutting that country’s emissions should be slowed

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Maya SH @msingerhobbs.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This is a great piece - avoids the hysteria that rent controls often seem to induce & takes a more balanced look at critiques & solutions. Points out that 23 of the 38 OECD nations have some form of rent controls Was a pleasure to talk to the FT about our work on this: www.ippr.org/articles/hou...

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I know it's not the biggest news of the day, but I just spotted this... One of Keir Starmer's last acts in Govt is this: Laying legislation that will legalise 'plug-in solar' (aka balcony solar) panels in Britain It means plug-in solar panels do not (legally) have to be wired in by an electrician.

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Timeline - SI 2026/848 - Plugs and Sockets etc. (Safety) Regulations 1994 and Electricity Safety, Quality and Continuity Regulations 2002 (Amendment) Regulations 2026 - Statutory Instruments - UK Parl...

Timeline for Plugs and Sockets etc. (Safety) Regulations 1994 and Electricity Safety, Quality and Continuity Regulations 2002 (Amendment) Regulations 2026

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Maya SH @msingerhobbs.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

In our paper, published last week, we identified a lack of political will as one of the biggest barriers to tackling homelessness and implementing a housing-led approach Today, Burnham made his 1st priority as PM ending rough sleeping 1/🧵 www.ippr.org/articles/hom...

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Home truths: Housing-led approaches to homelessness | IPPR

The most meaningful progress has instead come from places where local leaders have made homelessness a priority, driving improvements in both the provision

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

When the BNP won a single council seat in 1993 it was a national news story for days. Horror. Condemnation. Now an even more far right party is getting 11% across a whole county and it's just normal.

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Maya SH @msingerhobbs.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

My colleagues @avneem.bsky.social and @harryqp.bsky.social have written a piece that names 3 interventions they'd want to see in the 1st 100 days of the Burnham govt. Excited that some bits I've worked on made their way in! 1/🧵 www.ippr.org/articles/the...

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The first 100 days: A blueprint for renewal | IPPR

A crisis of trust and purposeOur new prime minister, Andy Burnham, faces a burning platform: people are turning away from mainstream politics in record num

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The Times has played a key role in laundering transphobia and orchestrating anti-trans moral panics in the UK. Amnesty International UK, along with many trans and feminist organisations, have documented this. Trying to censor/punish people who say transphobia is “anti-rights” just proves the point.

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Maya SH @msingerhobbs.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This is a good piece - and obviously particularly relevant while we're all sweltering for the 3rd week in a row 👇

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

It is mad that we have, somehow, allowed net zero - a policy common to all major parties under 5 years ago and supported by a majority of the public - to become a synoym for mad radicalism. It is doubly mad that we've allowed this to happen during the hottest summer on record.

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Maya SH @msingerhobbs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

So pleased to see this project out in the world. Homelessness is the most obvious manifestation of our housing crisis, and such a visible sign of the failure of our public services. We looked at what would be needed to adopt a housing-led approach across the country 1/🧵

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Maya SH @msingerhobbs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Great turn-out today at our parliamentary drop-in on rent controls! Some really productive conversations with MPs and staffers Lovely to host it with @jelliott94.bsky.social, @georgebangham.bsky.social, @bethstratford.bsky.social, @rachaelhenry.bsky.social and Grace Brown 1/2

Five people stand in front of some pull-up banners holding a sign that says "I support fairer rents"

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Generation Rent @generationrent.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Renters - we want to hear from you! Temperatures are smashing through 30 degrees again - are you able to keep your home bearable, and what are you doing to deal with the heat? Tell us in the replies!

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Maya SH @msingerhobbs.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

It's hard to take this in good faith when people across the sector have been making these arguments for years and been shouted down as being NIMBYs 🙃

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Maya SH @msingerhobbs.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I once went to a talk by an academic who studied how the sugar industry funded research into anti-cavity toothpaste (iirc) I think about it often - the industry shaped the debate through pumping funding at something tangential - the scientists did good research, but they were pawns in a bigger game

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Maya SH @msingerhobbs.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It isn't surprising that rent controls are popular - our analysis found that 2.4 million households in the PRS have unaffordable rents - 45% of all private renters in the UK! Our analysis found that this will only get worse without intervention: www.ippr.org/articles/hou...

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High housing costs in the private rental sector: The case for action | IPPR

In the UK today, 2.4 million households renting privately have unaffordable rents, an additional 250,000 since 2023. This is 45 per cent of all private ren

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Maya SH @msingerhobbs.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

We've been working on homelessness, & at the risk of scooping my own paper (due out in July), we found the lack of political will & commitment a major barrier Cynic in me says: "easy to say things before you're in power" BUT, Burnham even mentioning Housing First in the speech today felt promising

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I especially love this diagram.

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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

It seems to have become commonplace to blame net zero for Britain’s high energy bills and/or weak job market… … and I guess I’ll have to explain again why there is very little evidence of this. Britain has plenty of economic problems; net zero is not high on that list (though climate change is) 🧵

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Ed Miliband would be ‘noose around neck’ of job creation as chancellor, union boss warns

Comments by Sharon Graham come as Burnham team explores key government appointments

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Maya SH @msingerhobbs.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I feel like the implication of lower rates of home-ownership on pension adequacy and social care is so underexplored! Both systems are based on an assumption of home ownership, increasing numbers retiring into the PRS has a whole bunch of knock-on impacts

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Maya SH @msingerhobbs.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

In the UK today, there are 2.4m households struggling with unaffordable rents - if we do nothing, 100,000 more households will have unaffordable rents by the end of the Parliament We call for “double-locked” rents - linking rent increases to wages and inflation www.ippr.org/articles/hou... 1/🧵

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High housing costs in the private rental sector: The case for action | IPPR

In the UK today, 2.4 million households renting privately have unaffordable rents, an additional 250,000 since 2023. This is 40 per cent of all private ren

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Maya SH @msingerhobbs.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The Renters Rights Act comes into force today! It's great news and a 1st step towards rebalancing power between tenants and landlords It's impacts fall into 4 main categories: 🔎 Finding a home ✅ Quality of homes 💰 Rents ❌ Ending tenancies 1/🧵

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Maya SH @msingerhobbs.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This news story makes me think of this piece that me and @rosegrayston.bsky.social published a few weeks ago that looked at the current govt's housebuilding agenda and whether it's approach is working

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

As a cis woman it is hard to find the words to articulate how I feel about my safety being used as a pretence for this egregious bullying of children

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 20/03/2026

🚨New policy study🚨 There must be an alternative: Against mainstream defeatism and towards the rejuvenation of the democratic public space We make seven key recommendations to turn the tide @feps-europe.eu 🧵 1/ feps-europe.eu/publication/...

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