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Rounding out our top 5 most read of 2023 is @fuentesresearch and Maria Fuentes's paper 'Making alternative proteins edible: market devices and the qualification of plant-based substitutes' bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/…

Citizenship has long been overlooked in discussions on climate actions in China. My latest article proposes a framework to look at ecological citizenship the country's unique socio-political context. 🌿🏙️ #ClimateActionNow #ChinaEnvironment

“The human race has a tremendous imaginative capacity for cultural change... But we need to understand those processes so we can help shape them.” Dan Welch on our new masters degree in social change, environment & sustainability theguardian.com/an-ma-for-the-… UoM School of Social Sciences @SustainableUoM

🎓 Kobani University has a new campus south of the city in NE Syria with 36 classrooms, a spacious auditorium, central library & administrative offices. An opening ceremony attracted prominent figures & 100s of residents & students from the region. #Rojava npasyria.com/en/111792/

In '21 School of Business sacked academics whose world class scholarship they were ideologically opposed to. Court has found 3 unfairly dismissed timeshighereducation.com/news/academics… via Times Higher Education

Do you study #Commodification, consumption or their impacts on the world around us? We want to hear from you! Consumption and Society is open for submissions: ow.ly/Pljm50QU1N9 #sociologyofconsumption #consumptionresearch Dan Welch @m_sahakian

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Labour source: “Rishi Sunak should tell the truth: did he skip the D Day commemorations this afternoon to try and convince people he’s not a liar?”

Want some high impact #ConsumptionStudies research? Read Consumption and Society’s top 5 most cited papers for free! bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/consoc… BSA Consumption Study Group Dan Welch

Consumption and Society Student Reading List - free to access until 31 October | ESA_RN5 Consumption BSA Consumption Study Group (bristoluniversitypressdigital.com)

So the ‘woke’-bashing ⁦Mail+⁩ lays into ⁦National Trust⁩ again. For doing a bit more to tackle climate change. To be clear we are not banning meat or anything like it, just having a look at making some sensible reductions. RT or like if you stand with us.

I have a new paper with Ulrike Ehgartner in Futures journal from the Imagined Futures of Consumption project: Exploring Cultural Futures | Uni Manchester Sociology @uomsociology.bsky.social ManchesterSCI ImagineSustainability ESA_RN5 Consumption | sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New paper with Dan Welch in Futures journal, offering methodological tools for the analysis of cultural understandings of the future doi.org/10.1016/j.futu… ManchesterSCI School for Business and Society 🏫

This is who @ElonMusk really is. Don’t buy a Tesla. Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam.

🌊 People have spent days protesting Turkey and its proxies bombing of the Tishrin Dam and other areas of North and East #Syria. The dam is at great risk of collapse and a large portion of the region is experiencing power and water shortages. #Rojava anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/n…

Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin (In collaboration with Zentrum für Politische Schönheit)

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Trump deliberately plunged the FAA into chaos as soon as he took office. Musk pushed out the FAA Administrator so the agency was leaderless, Trump fired the entire safety advisory board. He bullied staff to accept buyouts. Not a surprise the tower was “not normal”.

Hey Elon, you know how white guys seem to be in charge of most stuff in the States? Do you think that's because white guys are just smarter than other kinds of folks? Or maybe there's, like, something else going on? #ItsNotRocketScience

🎓Kobani University in NE Syria opens new Faculty of Social Sciences for the 2025–2026 academic year, with departments in Philosophy, Sociology, Jineolojî, History and Geography, to help meet the demand for social science teachers in local schools. #Rojava npasyria.com/en/126857/