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Heather Alberro
@dralberro.bsky.social
Green utopian academic-activist, writer, Lecturer in Sustainability @ University of Manchester, co-convenor for @PSAEnvironment, fellow of all terrestrials. She/her. ✊🏼🌏🌱🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/heather-alberro
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Friends & fellow 🪴 enthusiasts! Have you acquired live houseplants during/since the COVID-19 pandemic? Does your houseplant collection continue to grow? If so, please consider taking part in my research! Details & survey link 👇🏼Please share widely! 😊 🌱 🪴 www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...
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November 16, 2025 at 10:08 AM
“Rest is resistance and sleep is political. Systemic nightmares threaten our sleep.” - Alexis Pauline Gumbs, ‘Undrowned: Black femminist lessons from marine mammals’ ✊🏼🐬🐳
November 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Hands off Venezuela! 🇻🇪✊🏼
November 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
My TA sleeping on the job yet again 🥹😍🥰🤪🐱. #cats
November 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Here's a website that helps you switch to a greener bank.

Investments should build a better future, not destroy it.

makemymoneymatter.co.uk/banks/
October 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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I've never heard a better political speech than that just delivered by @zackpolanski.bsky.social at #gpconf 👏

Truthfulness, decency & kindness in politics, imagine that!

#GreenParty
Zack Polanski leads a conference shout of "migrants and refugees are welcome here"
October 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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🚨CfP closing soon!

We would love to host your paper at the 2026 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social conference in Oxford.

More details here: www.psa.ac.uk/events/psa-a...

Just select 'Environmental Politics Specialist Group' in the ‘Topics’ section when submitting your abstract.
PSA Annual Conference | The Political Studies Association (PSA)
Political Studies Association 76th Annual International ConferencePSA26: Political Studies Futures30 March – 1 April 2026, Oxford Join us in Oxford for PSA26 to discuss 'Political Studies Futures'Our ...
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September 26, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Exicting events on a great new book 👇
Please join us to discuss our book on Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance (thread below). One launch on the 8th Oct, 10am EST, one on the 16th Oct, 4pm EST. See flyer for details and to register. The book is open access so you can quiz us. See you there! @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Frantz making sure we all damn well know how cute he is 😍🥰🐈 #cats
September 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
“An economic order that contains inequalities as extreme as ours- in which the vanity rocket ships of billionaires sail over seas of human misery- is its own kind of depravity, and that level of injustice reproduces more depravity as a matter of course.” - Doppelganger @naomiaklein.bsky.social ✊🏼
September 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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This is a huge story.

Don't let him get away with it.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings
Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum
www.theguardian.com
September 5, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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📢 Don’t miss out! ♻️

Come to the one-day workshop organised by the @psaenvironmental.bsky.social Specialist Group with the topic “Environmental Politics in an Age of Insecurity” 🙌🏻

🗓️ 17 September at @manchester.ac.uk

Programme & registration⬇️

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-e...
Workshop: Environmental Politics in an Age of Insecurity
A one-day workshop on global (in)security, geopolitics and the environment.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
September 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Our dominant socioeconomic systems have “a Midas problem. There’s no endgame, just a stagnant pyramiding scheme. Endless, pointless prosperity”… - Richard Powers, The Overstory 🌱🌳
August 28, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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📢 In case you missed out!

Send your paper proposal for the #PSA26 Annual Conference by 17 Oct 2025 🎉

Why attend?
✅ A great place to present your research & get feedback 💡
✅ Network with peers & senior academics 🫱🏽‍🫲🏼
✅ Get involved in Specialist Groups 👀

More info⬇️
August 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM
“The world is not made for our utility…what use are we to trees?” - Richard Powers, ‘The Overstory’ 🌳💚🌍
August 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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🚨 In case you missed it! 🚨

Come to the one-day workshop organised by the @psaenvironmental.bsky.social Specialist Group with the topic “Environmental Politics in an Age of Insecurity”.

Save the date 🤓 🗓️ 17 September. ♻️

To register and find out more, click on the link below ⬇️
August 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Tuesday vibes 🤪😸
August 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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It's alive! Publication day! Play in Utopian and Dystopian Ficion arrived in the mail. Thanks Liverpool University Press for producing such a beautiful book.
August 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
“There are more lives up here, in his one maple, than there are people in all of Belleville” - Richard Powers, The Overstory 🫶🏼🌳🌍
August 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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🚨 Full programme announced for our September workshop 'Environmental Politics in an Age of Insecurity'!

Registration and full details below @cisk.bsky.social @matpaterson.bsky.social @ruthtownend.bsky.social @dralberro.bsky.social @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-e...
Workshop: Environmental Politics in an Age of Insecurity
A one-day workshop on global (in)security, geopolitics and the environment.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
August 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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From this month's edition of The Onion.
August 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
"The tumbleweed, an icon of the American West, is not native to the United States or even the Americas. Indeed, none of the classically quintessential American icons—the cowboy and his accessories of horse, cattle, and tumbleweed—are native to the United States" - Banu Subramaniam, Botany of Empire
August 8, 2025 at 10:26 AM
“Tomorrow was created yesterday, you see…and by the day before yesterday, too. To ignore history is to ignore the wolf at the door.” - John Le Carré, A Most Wanted Man
August 7, 2025 at 7:53 AM