🔊SCI DOUBLE BOOK LAUNCH🔊 ManchesterSCI Helen Holmes and critical friend Manisha Anantharaman have recently published fantastic books we’d love you to know more about 📗 🕐Tuesday 19th March - 3-5pm 👉AMBS Room 3.049 & Zoom bit.ly/3q5XwpP bit.ly/4a1ptR3

The #CircularEconomy’s going to reconcile the planet and the #economy ! ♻ Right? Not if you look at the second-hand #fashion market👗👕 In a new article for BBC News (World) , @AldenWicker delves into the economics of second-hand clothing: bbc.com/worklife/artic… 🧵(1/9)

Deadline to apply to work with me at the University of St Andrews as a 2 year post-doc on Just Transition, Waste Pickers and the Plastics' Treaty is this Friday March 15th! More information here: tinyurl.com/mv8uh53h

Last night I realised if I read approx 40 books a year and I live for approx another 40 years then I’ll only read 1,600 new books. This seems like a tiny number - particularly given the size of my bedside “to read pile” 📚 Choose how to spend your Easter weekend wisely pals.

THREAD: What is happening in UK universities is astonishing. Right now about quarter of universities are laying off staff. Almost all universities expect to make a loss this year. And the entire thing is happening in an effort to deceive the population about migration statistics.

Maria Jose' Zapata Campos, John Chweya, Patrick O'Hare (Patrick O'Hare) & Michael Rendon talk about #waste work policy, research and practices at the #OTB3 conference - rb.gy/utii0z Thanks Lucy Wishart for hosting! Lancaster University Management School The Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business Centre for Technological Futures

If you are helping mitigate climate change by being a repair/reuse citizen rather than 'consumer' please do contribute to our Big Repair Project. We are 80 away from reaching 6000 contributors. Love to get there by tmw when we report to our funders😬 bigrepairproject.org.uk

If you are a lego owner/lover/devotee, my friend is doing a survey to understand the ultimate sustainability question. Have we reached peak lego brick? To take part click here: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cZ…

How should we act in the face of climate change? How might policy play a vital role in shaping our future? Join us - in-person at University of St Andrews or online - as we explore past action & future opportunities for building a #NetZeroScotland Register 👇 tickettailor.com/events/centref…

A glorious day 🌞 for Centre for Energy Ethics conference “Acting on Climate Change: Policy, Rights and Net Zero” University of St Andrews Great way to spend a Friday.

An exciting week University of St Andrews School of Management - our oyster catcher chicks have hatched 🥰 (Sorry for the grubby windows - we forgo constructs of clean March- June in favour of our wee nesting feathered friends)

My article today on why the ‘cloud’ is not fuzzy and light but carbon heavy. And why we need carbon disclosures for the supply chain of AI, and tech more generally. “The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Some personal news: in July I'm joining University of Edinburgh to take up a lectureship in the #CircularEconomy & Sustainable Transitions Tonight I attended the Scottish Parliament CE Cross Party Group on Education & Skills👇-gave me lots of ideas to follow up on - exciting times ahead🤞

The result of the Stage 3 vote on the Circular Economy (Scotland) Bill is: ✅ Yes - 116 ❌ No - 0 🟣 Abstain - 0 The bill is therefore passed. You can find out more online at ow.ly/afcq50SqjT8

I actually genuinely do think about this all the time. What dinosaur epoch do we call this - plasticene - time of the Indominus Rex ?

“[the judge] ruled that the jury should not take into account evidence about climate breakdown, which the defendants wanted to point to as the key motivation behind their actions” Why? theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Thinking about how to make more ethical choices with your Christmas shopping? Read Lucy Wishart, Stephanie Schreven, and my piece on 'How to get on board with secondhand shopping this Christmas' theconversation.com/how-to-get-on-… via The Conversation