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Idalina Baptista
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A wee political junkie researching various things urban / energy / infrastructures / governance. Also, Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. Views my own, not anyone else’s
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We’re looking for nominations for the #energy #justice Activism Award 2025! You can nominate yourself or others, individuals or organisations. Deadline is 30 May!
Announcing our new Activism Award 🏆 Celebrating individuals & organisations driving energy justice in the UK – through research, teaching, activism, or community action. 🌍⚡ Nominate now! Deadline 5pm GMT, Friday, 30 May 2025👇 www.energygeographies.org/activisim-aw...
Activisim Award | EnGRG
www.energygeographies.org
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🚨 We're excited to announce a one-day online conference for postgraduate and early career researchers on Just Energy Transitions - 10/07/25📆. For further information see below 👇 Apply: forms.gle/1dHmPM2kbnYw.... Deadline 10/06! @ignitenetplus.bsky.social @ukerc.bsky.social @edrc-uk.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 10:15 AM
12 days to the deadline to participate in the Activism Award in #energygeographies #energyresearch. We know there is no shortage of excellent candidates out there who have made great impact over the last year (and beyond). Please self-nominate or nominate people who have made a difference! 🤩🤩🤩
Announcing our new Activism Award 🏆 Celebrating individuals & organisations driving energy justice in the UK – through research, teaching, activism, or community action. 🌍⚡ Nominate now! Deadline 5pm GMT, Friday, 30 May 2025👇 www.energygeographies.org/activisim-aw...
Activisim Award | EnGRG
www.energygeographies.org
May 18, 2025 at 9:19 AM
12 days to the deadline to participate in the PGRs Paper Prize in #energygeographies #energyresearch. Please encourage your students to submit! Winners will see their work disseminated through our online channels and promoted across and beyond the RGS-IBG network... and they get a few £££ to boot! 😉
📢 PGRs in energy research - this one's for you!🏆 Enter our PGR Paper Prize for a chance to win £75! We will work with the winners to promote their work. Categories - conceptual, impact & methods. 🗓 Deadline: 5PM GMT 30 May
More info 👉 www.energygeographies.org/pgr-paper-co... @rgsibg.bsky.social
PGR Paper Competition | EnGRG
www.energygeographies.org
May 18, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Announcing our new Activism Award 🏆 Celebrating individuals & organisations driving energy justice in the UK – through research, teaching, activism, or community action. 🌍⚡ Nominate now! Deadline 5pm GMT, Friday, 30 May 2025👇 www.energygeographies.org/activisim-aw...
Activisim Award | EnGRG
www.energygeographies.org
March 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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📢 PGRs in energy research - this one's for you!🏆 Enter our PGR Paper Prize for a chance to win £75! We will work with the winners to promote their work. Categories - conceptual, impact & methods. 🗓 Deadline: 5PM GMT 30 May
More info 👉 www.energygeographies.org/pgr-paper-co... @rgsibg.bsky.social
PGR Paper Competition | EnGRG
www.energygeographies.org
April 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Congrats @fdrubio1977.bsky.social ! This looks fantastic!
Today is publication date for our Fragilities volume!

"At a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, the book is an invitation to think from fragility to build life-affirming politics and ethics"

It's got an amazing line-up & it is open-access! 🤓
Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair
An original essay collection that explores the generative dimensions of fragility, which can help reveal new life-affirming politics and ethics.At a time w
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April 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Are you a PGR student (Masters or PhD) working on #energygeography? Consider applying to one of our PGR paper prizes! Check out the application in the link below 👇
📢 PGRs in energy research - this one's for you!🏆 Enter our PGR Paper Prize for a chance to win £75! We will work with the winners to promote their work. Categories - conceptual, impact & methods. 🗓 Deadline: 5PM GMT 30 May
More info 👉 www.energygeographies.org/pgr-paper-co... @rgsibg.bsky.social
PGR Paper Competition | EnGRG
www.energygeographies.org
April 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
To all the #energyjustice peeps out there: have you considered submitting and application to our Activism Award yet? Know someone who should be considered? #energy #geography #justice #envhum #climatepolitics #climate
Announcing our new Activism Award 🏆 Celebrating individuals & organisations driving energy justice in the UK – through research, teaching, activism, or community action. 🌍⚡ Nominate now! Deadline 5pm GMT, Friday, 30 May 2025👇 www.energygeographies.org/activisim-aw...
Activisim Award | EnGRG
www.energygeographies.org
April 8, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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The Open University has published a framework for learning and teaching Critical AI Literacy Skills. Although the framework is intended for Open University staff and students, it is relevant for any organisation looking to develop inclusive training in AI literacy. about.open.ac.uk/sites/about....
about.open.ac.uk
February 3, 2025 at 11:41 AM
We’re looking for nominations for the #energy #justice Activism Award 2025! You can nominate yourself or others, individuals or organisations. Deadline is 30 May!
Announcing our new Activism Award 🏆 Celebrating individuals & organisations driving energy justice in the UK – through research, teaching, activism, or community action. 🌍⚡ Nominate now! Deadline 5pm GMT, Friday, 30 May 2025👇 www.energygeographies.org/activisim-aw...
Activisim Award | EnGRG
www.energygeographies.org
March 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Last week, we caught up with @mcbrisbois.bsky.social from @sussexnrggroup.bsky.social for #IWD! 🚨 We talked motivation, her impactful work with @edrc-uk.bsky.social, and the two must-read papers topping her list right now.📚 www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS8R...
EnGRG A Spotlight on... Marie Claire Brisbois
YouTube video by Energy Geographies Research Group
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March 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Announcing our third webinar - 19/03, 9-10AM GMT.
@yolandestreng.bsky.social will give a talk on "Digital Energy Futures: anticipating new worlds with design ethnography and scenario planning". Please register here 👇 www.energygeographies.org/event-detail...
Energy X Digital: Professor Yolande Strengers | EnGRG
Digital Energy Futures: anticipating new worlds with design ethnography and scenario planning
www.energygeographies.org
March 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Announcing our second webinar - 05/03 2-3PM GMT. @olamichalec.bsky.social will give a talk on "Developing digital twins in the energy industry – lessons for innovators, policy makers and infrastructure operators". Please register here 👇 www.energygeographies.org/event-detail...
Energy X Digital: Dr Ola Michalec | EnGRG
Developing digital twins in the energy industry – lessons for innovators, policy makers and infrastructure operators
www.energygeographies.org
February 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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🔎 Our National Map of community energy projects has been viewed over 110,000 times!

📍 With updated MP constituencies, it's a powerful tool to show the impact of #CommunityEnergy 🌍

Help keep the map accurate—submit your data to #SOTS2025 by 17 March!

communityenergyengland.org/pages/state-...
February 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
This is a great line up of speakers! Joint organization of RGS #energy and #digital #geography research groups
February 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Our Webinar Series 2025 starts next week!! Title: Intersecting Energy and Digital Geographies. Speakers include Ralista Hiteva @olamichalec.bsky.social @yolandestreng.bsky.social @isoutar.bsky.social. First webinar 26/02! www.energygeographies.org/post/announc...
Announcing our Webinar Series 2025: Intersecting Energy and Digital Geographies
Digital and energy systems are often researched separately, yet there is a growing body of analysis addressing the multiple ways in which they overlap and intersect. From analysis addressing the ways ...
www.energygeographies.org
February 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Ralitsa does great work at the intersection of #energy and #digital #geography. Come join us for the 1st EnGRG webinar of 2025
Our webinar series begins next week! Dr Ralitsa Hiteva presents "Digital and energy landscapes in independent living: the case of digital technologies for health and wellbeing in England" 2-3PM GMT 26/02. Register here👇
www.energygeographies.org/event-detail...
Energy X Digital: Dr Ralitsa Hiteva | EnGRG
Digital and energy landscapes in independent living: the case of digital technologies for health and wellbeing in England
www.energygeographies.org
February 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Our webinar series begins next week! Dr Ralitsa Hiteva presents "Digital and energy landscapes in independent living: the case of digital technologies for health and wellbeing in England" 2-3PM GMT 26/02. Register here👇
www.energygeographies.org/event-detail...
Energy X Digital: Dr Ralitsa Hiteva | EnGRG
Digital and energy landscapes in independent living: the case of digital technologies for health and wellbeing in England
www.energygeographies.org
February 21, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Climate change adaptation is happening but so is resistance to these efforts. In our open-access article, @mmikulewicz.bsky.social and I look at 20 cases to understand why resistance is happening and highlight alternative visions for adaptation. We learned 9 key things. 🧵. doi.org/10.1002/wcc....
The Promise of Resistance: A New Lens for Climate Change Adaptation Research and Practice
Over the years, thousands of climate change adaptation projects have been implemented globally. While there has been substantial scholarship on the extent and nature of adaptation efforts, fewer stud....
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January 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Shortcut to some energy starter packs:

UK/Europe 1: go.bsky.app/BAxXdHc
UK/Europe 2: go.bsky.app/DTY2xx3
Women in energy 1: go.bsky.app/AGCURBf
Women in energy 2: go.bsky.app/KtMdVag
Community energy: go.bsky.app/LpqEmbM
January 8, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Watch this great documentary report and understand what “AI” looks like from the ground, in Logan Australia. Actually, it is not just looks, but also sharp commentary, including on the retail model, and magical twins to boot!
Jeni Lee and I made a documentary on drone delivery trials in Logan as part of the AI-in-the-street project w @noortjem.bsky.social @mayameme.bsky.social @alex-taylor.bsky.social @mrsbunz.bsky.social @louhicky.bsky.social

Watch the it in full here (12 mins):
www.careful.industries/ai-in-the-st...
Observatory - Logan — Careful Industries
www.careful.industries
December 19, 2024 at 7:25 AM
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2 postdoctoral researchers in urban anthropology of Africa, based at the University of Helsinki. Deadline to apply: 23.1.2025. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... #urbanism #sociology
Two Postdoctoral Researchers in Urban Anthropology of Africa
Two Postdoctoral Researchers in Urban Anthropology of Africa
jobs.helsinki.fi
December 18, 2024 at 12:09 PM
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Today, feeling close to cosmopolitans or feminists separates voters of the left from right voters who identify with people who are down to earth and hard working.

Yet, these identities do have structural roots, just like class identities did.

Our short CUP book on cleavage formation is out in OA.
New Cambridge Element 'Cleavage Formation in the 21st Century' by Simon Bornschier, @lhaffert.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social, Marco Steenberge & @dpzollinger.bsky.social out now!

Read #OpenAccess here: cup.org/3ZLtQ0o

#cambridgeelements #politics
December 15, 2024 at 6:32 AM
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Our team still studies “collective sensemaking” during breaking news events. What we see with MH17 and Jan6 are attacks on the sensemaking process itself… not just a distortion (like those described in this article) but a denial of service attack on sensemaking. www.cip.uw.edu/2023/12/06/r...
Facts, frames, and (mis)interpretations: Understanding rumors as collective sensemaking
The communicative solution to pervasive misinformation is not better facts, but better frames.
www.cip.uw.edu
December 14, 2024 at 4:24 PM