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Nils Markusson

@nilsom.bsky.social
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Politics of environmental technology; carbon removal (he, him, that bugger)

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Lancaster UCU @lancasterucu.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
📢📢📢We made it to the national news! This time with an important win for our branch! Management has decided to withdraw compulsory redundancies for academic staff at least until July 2026. ASOS and next week's strikes are therefore called off. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Strikes suspended in Lancaster University staff job cuts row - BBC News
The university is trying to save £30m amid rising costs and a fall in international student numbers.
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Lancaster UCU @lancasterucu.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
🚨 STRIKE ACTION ON THE 27 & 28 NOVEMBER 🚨 We’ve now served formal notice of strike action on 27 & 28 November. Management must withdraw the plan to make 400+ of us redundant or risk escalating and sustained industrial action. @ucu.org.uk
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THIS ACCOUNT IS MOVING @xtaldave.xtaldave.net.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2025
Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today. www.them.us/story/london-trans-prid…
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London’s Trans Pride March Just Shattered Its Turnout Record
Organizers say it was the largest transgender rights march in the world.
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Nils Markusson @nilsom.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Stop compulsory redundancies!
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Kai Heron @kaiheron.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
The head of the UK's leading funder of social research has spoken against funding projects on post-growth and degrowth. Our research environment is wedded to an economic system that does harm daily to all human and non-human life. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
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ESRC ‘bar against’ degrowth research branded ‘anti-scientific’ - Research Professional News
Research council leader signals shift against funding projects that question benefits of economic growth
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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
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Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
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Lancaster UCU @lancasterucu.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
lancasterucu.home.blog Check out Lancaster UCU branch's blog for updates on ongoing situation and other matters.
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#AngryDucks on the picket lines
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Ali Esbati @aliesbati.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Den här listan är från UBS Global Wealth Report 2025. Den visar koncentration av förmögenheter. Sverige är på sjätte plats här. Lite bättre än Saudiarabien och Förenade Arabemiraten, men sämre än USA och samtliga andra EU-länder.
Lista, Wealth inequality measured by the Gini coefficient.
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Christina Hicks @christinahicks.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
3-year postdoc @lancasteruni.bsky.social w/ Dr's John Childs & Nicola Firth Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Countermapping Territory, Heritage & Knowledge Offering an alternative t0 mainstream approaches to understanding the political geography of the deep seabed hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Senior Research Associate - Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Countermapping Territory, Heritage and Knowledge
Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) is pleased to announce a Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) position as part of a Leverhulme Trust-funded project ‘Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Counterma...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/07/2025
Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030. Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
NEW from me: China's CO2 emissions fell ~1.6% in the first quarter and have now been flat or down for more than a year. This is the first time on record that emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand.
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Nils Markusson @nilsom.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
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Steven Seegel @stevenseegel.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
wow - first Marine Le Pen, now this
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Just tearing up Article 5 like it's nothing.
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Rens Bod @rensbod.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Dutch universities will go on strike! Against the 1.3 billion cuts! March 10: Leiden University March 11: Utrecht University March 13: University Nijmegen March 17: University of Amsterdam March 20: Maastricht University March 27: VU Amsterdam April 10: Tilburg University @woinactie.bsky.social
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I can be as critical as anyone of the government's occasionally muddled message on growth but Look! At! This! Chart!! Anything they've done pales next to this GIGANTIC UNFORCED ERROR COMMITTED IN 2016! (fagpacket maths follows) on.ft.com/4hzyvbJ
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Nils Markusson @nilsom.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Sign this letter in support of separate targets (for CDR and emissions reductions) in the EU carbonmarketwatch.org/publications...
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Open letter on separate targets in 2040 climate framework - Carbon Market Watch
Letter sent to the European Commission by 116 academics, businesses, civil society organisations and research institutions urging the EU to separate
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
It was the best of times, it was the dumbest of times.
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'Make Carbon Dioxide Great Again' law would ban carbon reduction efforts in Wyoming - WyoFile
Sen. Steinmetz wants to repeal Wyoming's carbon capture mandate for coal plants.
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 07/12/2024
On a related note, the passing of same sex marriage laws in the United States (and the resultant disappearance of the culture war around it and accusations of "gay agenda" coincided with a drastic reduction in gay teen suicide arstechnica.com/science/2017...
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Same-sex marriage linked to decline in teen suicides
States that legalized gay marriage early created a natural experiment.
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Carbon Market Watch @carbonmarketwatch.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
If you missed our event on the role of carbon removals in the EU's climate policies, not to worry. You can rewatch the entire discussion here. We've even split the video helpfully into chapters so you can easily navigate to the bits that most interest you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxLx...
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Towards 2040 and beyond: The role of carbon removals in the EU climate framework
YouTube video by Carbon Market Watch
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Kai Heron @kaiheron.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
In November last year the National Audit Office warned that cuts to flood defence spending meant that 25% of flood defence projects had been abandoned and 40% fewer homes would be protected by 2027. A year later, we have this. But the problem isn't actually as simple as government underspending. 1/6
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Rebecca Willis @bankfieldbecky.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
At the COP29 climate summit, Keir Starmer said he wasn't going to tell people how to live their lives. That's not what people want to hear. I've written about what he could have said instead. climatecitizens.org.uk/climate-citi...
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Climate Citizens Blog - Climate Citizens | Lancaster University | Assembly on climate change
Bringing climate policy to the people. Climate Citizens is a project run out of Lancaster University aiming to change how people engage with the creation of climate policy.
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Josh Gabbatiss @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
IN SUMMARY: Developing countries wanted: Mobilisation: $1.3tn Provision: $600bn Investment: ⛔️ They got: Mobilisation: $300bn Provision: 🤷‍♂️ Investment: $1.3tn (maybe)
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Nils Markusson @nilsom.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
On Trump and geoengineering, again. :-/ www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/pu...
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Promises of climate engineering after neoliberalism - Research Portal | Lancaster University
Find out more about Lancaster University's research activities, view details of publications, outputs and awards and make contact with our researchers.
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Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
Andreas and I wrote this piece in @uk.theconversation.com based on our book and this new Nature piece on overshoot. @versobooks.bsky.social "How mainstream climate science endorsed the fantasy of a global warming time machine." theconversation.com/how-mainstre...
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How mainstream climate science endorsed the fantasy of a global warming time machine
Surpassing 1.5°C of warming can be undone at a later date – using tech, land and resources that don’t exist.
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Nils Markusson @nilsom.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
Is there empirical support for #MitigationDeterrence for carbon removal? See case studies in this special issue. tinyurl.com/mr2t6wvp 1/10 @jenslund.bsky.social @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social @wimcarton.bsky.social
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Environmental Science & Policy | Mitigation Deterrence and Carbon Removal in the Age of Net Zero | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect
The notion of net zero, arising out of climate science, now dominates climate policy. Concerns have been raised that in practice, when countries and companies set net zero targets, the prospect of fut...
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Phil Wood @processed.bsky.social · 17/08/2024
I'm afraid the Labour government can't argue that it is the party of educational aspiration if it allows universities to fold. Those most at risk are the ones which have higher rates of participation from minority & working class groups so when they begin to go under will the government just watch?
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 03/05/2024
As always: this is how CCS is meant to work. It is tactical vaporware: - Hoover up subsidies for a few years - Fend off regulation by creating false impression of action - Cancel project bc it's too expensive Repeat over decades environmentaldefence.ca/2024/05/01/s...
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Statement in Response to Another Failed Carbon Capture Project  - Environmental Defence
Statement from Julia Levin, Associate Director, National Climate Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – Today
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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 27/02/2024
This week Climatic Change published two new articles from CSSN scholars on how special interests can influence academia on climate change. Read the research here: link.springer.com/article/10.1... link.springer.com/article/10.1...
a screenshot of two article titles, "Academic Capture in the Anthropocene" and "The animal agriculture industry, US universities, and the obstruction of climate understanding and policy"
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Nils Markusson @nilsom.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
The fifth article in our special issue on #MitigationDeterrence in Env Sci & Pol is now out. Juanita von Rothkirch et al. on expectations of CDR in Swiss climate policy. tinyurl.com/2x3bdypk
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Nils Markusson @nilsom.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
The fourth article in our special issue on #MitigationDeterrence in Env Sci & Pol is now out. Inge-Merete Hougaard on how biochar is enacted in Denmark. tinyurl.com/mr2t6wvp
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Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
“I disagree with the idea of unions. I just don’t like anything which creates a lords-and-peasants kind of thing.” ... said the richest man on earth. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Tesla loses legal action in Sweden as dispute with Nordic unions escalates
Court decides postal service does not have to deliver licence plates, for now, in latest twist in row over collective bargaining
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Nils Markusson @nilsom.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Is the prospect of carbon removal deterring emissions reductions? See case studies in this special issue. 3 papers, so far. #MitigationDeterrence tinyurl.com/mr2t6wvp
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Rebecca Willis @bankfieldbecky.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
The zombie arguments about why we 'need' new oil & gas are quite something. Rehearsed yet again for King's Speech yesterday. The truth is that any new fossil fuel developments mean that we bust through the 1.5 limit and probably 2 degrees. As this paper explains ucl.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
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Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 05/11/2023
Now that the manuscript has been submitted, I finally feel comfortable enough to share that this is happening! Overshoot, vol. 1 - to be published by Verso, Autumn 2024.
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Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
Calling everyone working on political ecologies of carbon removal, carbon offsetting and net zero! We're now inviting abstracts for our CDR stream at POLLEN24. Deadline is 1 December, more details in the call text below. Join us in Lund next June! politicalecologynetwork.org/2023/10/23/p...
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