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Simon Batterbury @simonbatterbury.bsky.social · 17h

Yes, but ours was not missing a pen

Simon Batterbury @simonbatterbury.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mike Hulme citing the Breakthrough Institute for support? Seriously? Minimising the climate emergency in this way is definitely something I can't support. the fact that businesses and the right don't like the term is not a reason to somehow minimise its use.

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Simon Batterbury @simonbatterbury.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Oh, very confusing. I have no idea where our own journal sits. Since there are no author or reader fees, all is OA,no budget, and authorship is not restricted. Does that make us diamond or gold? the usage seems to be Diamond these days. @journalofpoliticalecology

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

HG Wells is alleged to have remarked "Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race”. You could see this shocking chart as an index of civilisation. A country which gets this issue so badly wrong is likely to fail in many other ways.

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Journal of Political Ecology @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Tornel, C., Luz López, A. & Martinez-Alier, J., (2026) “Major Latin America's contributions to global political ecology and environmental justice” Journal of Political Ecology 33(1): 9615. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe.... [a 24,000 word paper, our longest!] @pollenetwork.bsky.social

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Major Latin America's contributions to global political ecology and environmental justice

This article examines Latin America's critical contributions to global political ecology through concepts such as extractivism, ecological debt, ecologically unequal exchange, epistemic equity, body-t...

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Simon Batterbury @simonbatterbury.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Bloody freezing in Melbourne right now

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Simon Batterbury @simonbatterbury.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

www.bbc.com/news/article... 'seizing and destroying' so-called 'illegal' ebikes is really beginning to piss me off. Never seems to happen with any other mode of transport, and why on earth crush these things when there are parts to be salvaged? Roll on the legitimation of 35kmh or so ebikes

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Record 2,500 illegal e-bikes and e-scooters seized by Met Police

The seizures are part of an operation to crack down on road safety and phone snatching.

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Simon Batterbury @simonbatterbury.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I have edited the Journal of Political Ecology, since 2002, free and OA since 1994, one of the oldest. We have been called many things without changing our CCBY free OA model. I would be very happy if we settled on Diamond OA and leave it there, having gone though Gold and all the other iterations.

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Simon Batterbury @simonbatterbury.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

....happy about Switzerland beating Colombia? ...overheated? ...missing us in Melbourne?

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Simon Batterbury @simonbatterbury.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Seems the correct move, but i'm not really a scientist in this area. I do however, have the office next to Kate Dooley's at Melbourne and I will find out more. And I once worked with Dominic Waughray on a livelihood project in Niger in the 1990s!

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Simon Batterbury @simonbatterbury.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Another lecture, linking radical things things together. LUCSUS seminar: Lund University, Sweden. "Political ecology stories unfolding, curated, and lived" 10.30am CET, 20 May. www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/luc...

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Simon Batterbury @simonbatterbury.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Surprised the poll doesn't show a higher figure wanting a return to Europe. But then I realized old white conservatives do participate in polls. They are the ones holding the country back.As maybe even Johnson may have realized by now. i'm writing from Sweden. People still can't believe brexit here

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Simon Batterbury @simonbatterbury.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Liberals policy sounds morally offensive.

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Simon Batterbury @simonbatterbury.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Part of my UK memories. He went a bit crazy for a bit, but his broadcasting with Walters & Peel was extraordinary

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Simon Batterbury @simonbatterbury.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

"We're not here to give the public what it wants. We're here to give the public what it didn't know it wanted " www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Simon Batterbury @simonbatterbury.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

The flip side is people in established academic jobs who do very little in terms of productivity or helping others, and do not retire. [I am set on retiring early]

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Simon Batterbury @simonbatterbury.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

These are countries where people may claim asylum because they are actually persecuted. I have worked with people from all of them here in Australia. Shame on UK government.

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 12/02/2026

"Through this special issue, we invite broader discussion on Diamond OA and its future(s), from the highly conceptual to the deeply infrastructural. What is next for Diamond OA as it oscillates between the potential for either a technocratic or community-led and commons-based future?"

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Call for Papers: Special Issue on The Future of Diamond Open Access: Possibilities, Perils, and Pathways

Abstract submission deadline: March 23rd 2026 In recent years, Diamond Open Access (OA) has risen to the fore in the ongoing exploration of which knowledge production models are both ideal …

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Simon Batterbury @simonbatterbury.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

See comments. I think they are wrong

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Simon Batterbury @simonbatterbury.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Major annoyance is colleagues is article authorship: profs. shouldn't be authors if not contributing by doing fieldwork etc. Rife, turns out I am not alone in my view. "professors [should] have the guts to allow their group members to publish without them". www.theguardian.com/higher-educa...

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‘My professor demands to be listed as an author on many of my papers’

We need to transform the academic system so that integrity and honesty are the norm in terms of authorship as well as data and results

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Simon Batterbury @simonbatterbury.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Consumption reduction is dismissed as insufficient. There is no real attack on the super rich, Trump is seen as a 'blip' or setback in the preface, and capitalism in general escapes much criticism. The points about poverty alleviation accompanying decarbonization are, however, well taken.

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Simon Batterbury @simonbatterbury.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Somehow, an economically rational innovative future with better market signals and investment in clean tech will prevail, and dig us out of a very deep hole.

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Simon Batterbury @simonbatterbury.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

But what is the political project exactly in this public-facing, only partially scholarly, volume [referencing is pretty thin, I found]? The section on degrowth, although brief, is very out of step with current thinking in Europe and beyond and will upset a lot of its proponents.

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Simon Batterbury @simonbatterbury.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb... I Argument is that climate action and economic growth can be mutually reinforcing

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Simon Batterbury @simonbatterbury.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

This is the company that runs Elsevier, the least liked academic publisher because of its high charges to academics and university libraries. Coupled with a high remuneration to management, this has led me to boycott them since 2011 & the 'cost of knowledge' campaign.

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Simon Batterbury @simonbatterbury.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I review up to 40 a year. I never use AI. I read everything in an hour, and because I type with 3 fingers [badly] I use a dictate into Word, then review that, comments submitted within 1.5 hrs. Honestly, how hard is it to do that, esp. for junior colleagues? Not an imposition on time at all.

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Simon Batterbury @simonbatterbury.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The compassionate conservation approach that they don't like, rings true. I don't really think conservationists should be wiping out predators. distasteful. Darwinian survival is playing out.Cats are not leaving. they are just part of ecosystems.humans are 96% from elsewhere, brought animals.

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Simon Batterbury @simonbatterbury.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Excellent. But "confrontative" is not in common usage, do not think most people ever use it outside this type of research. I would change it to "confrontational" in @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social

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Simon Batterbury @simonbatterbury.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I thought the story was going to be that "I unselfishly gave up my chance of a professorship to support my wife", but no. What lessons should we learn?

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Simon Batterbury @simonbatterbury.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I am British-Australian. I managed 2.5 years at a new professor job in the UK from 2017-19, with my family, but Brexit was a big part of moving back to Australia. The whole thing brought back bad memories of hard right British nationalism in 1970s and 80s SE London - sadly, sentiments back again.

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Simon Batterbury @simonbatterbury.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Rob's article on planetary PE has had its referee comments given to author....

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Simon Batterbury @simonbatterbury.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

What of scholar-led OA publishing? Our article doi.org/10.1111/area... For scholarly work, print-only books are not OA, and therefore unavailable to the world, much of which cannot access them for reasons of geographical location or cost. This is unjust.

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Simon Batterbury @simonbatterbury.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I have been doing this as a social scientist in order to complete a book on the ethics, role of non-human actors, and political economy of pandemics, and goodness me, philosophy is a minefield ! I think we will finish it without a full knowledge of traditions and styles of argumentation.

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Simon Batterbury @simonbatterbury.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

WeCycle www.wecycle-melbourne.com won the City of Darebin Sustainability Award 2025 [I am holding it]. Recognition of years of supplying 1000s of free bikes to people in need. The Shed in Batman Park is also a player, leased from Council.

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