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Prof Lucie Middlemiss
@luciemidd.bsky.social
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Environmental social scientist from University of Leeds

sustainable consumption, community, energy poverty, social relations of retrofit, just transitions, inclusion
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harrietthew.bsky.social
This week we launched the West Yorkshire hub of @justcentre.bsky.social with 30+ regional partners to explore how to put social justice at the heart of climate change conversation and action. A huge thank you to everyone who joined us, we are excited for what lies ahead!
October 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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amybrown.xyz
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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brisunipress.bsky.social
@prof-carolynsnell.bsky.social and @luciemidd.bsky.social argue that while #NetZero policies are vital for tackling #ClimateChange, they must be shaped around everyday realities and social inequalities to ensure they enhance rather than diminish people’s lives: buff.ly/nFn4lI0
A just climate future for Jim and beyond - Transforming Society
Carolyn Snell and Lucie Middlemiss, authors of 'Just Climate Futures', argue that while Net Zero policies are vital for tackling climate change, they must be shaped around everyday realities and…
www.transformingsociety.co.uk
August 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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illdottore.bsky.social
Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed
After many requests, I finally accessed what turned out to be the saddest and smallest library I have ever seen. I was surprised to find that the books were not categorized by author or Dewey number but size. I tried to find a book before my allotted time ended and picked a cooking book; the second time I got a novel. I began flipping through the pages in search of solace, as books have always been my safe haven. To my surprise, I discovered handwritten notes scattered throughout the book, dated and written by various detainees over time. These messages were filled with reminders of hope, strength, and the assurance that this, too, shall pass. Tears welled up in my eyes as I read their heartfelt expressions. It’s incredible how human beings can find ways to uplift each other, transcending time, space, and borders if they want to and if they choose to. I continued to turn the pages, holding on to the hope of finding brighter moments in this terrifying situation—all thanks to the kindness of people I had never met.
July 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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envleeds.bsky.social
Well done to @luciemidd.bsky.social and @profmarkdavis.bsky.social, who were awarded Best Paper by Energy Research & Social Science! 👏

Their paper investigates how social relations impact public decision-making and action around energy use.

Read more: environment.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
Sustainability research team wins Best Paper Award
Professors Lucie Middlemiss and Mark Davis have been honoured with the Best Paper Award by Energy Research & Social Science for their groundbreaking research.
environment.leeds.ac.uk
July 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
luciemidd.bsky.social
Our paper “Developing a relational approach to energy demand: A methodological and conceptual guide” has won a prize: the Energy Research & Social Science Best Paper Award! You can read it here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... thanks to funding from @ukerc.bsky.social
Developing a relational approach to energy demand: A methodological and conceptual guide
In a recent review of research on the role of social relations in shaping energy demand, authors documented increasing interest in relational approach…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 15, 2025 at 9:54 AM
luciemidd.bsky.social
giuliomattioli.bsky.social Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · Jul 7
Very interesting new report on emissions from private jets.

They account for just about 3% of total aviation emissions, and they are overwhelmingly concentrated in the US (65% of flights) theicct.org/publication/...
July 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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justcentre.bsky.social
🚨Join us for the International Launch of the JUST Centre, with keynote remarks from Prof. Julian Agyeman and a discussion with Centre Director Prof. Sherilyn MacGregor, Co-Investigators Prof. Lucie Middlemiss, Prof. Stefan Bouzarovski and Prof. Rebecca Willis.

Register here: tinyurl.com/5bxfdb2z
June 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
luciemidd.bsky.social
Interested in #health #equity and #buildings join Doug's new 'HESTIA' network!
douglasbooker.bsky.social Douglas Booker @douglasbooker.bsky.social · Jun 19
This Clean Air Day, I am delighted to announce a new EPSRC funded network, HESTIA.

In HESTIA we are co-developing a health-equity-centred approach to home design & retrofit, integrating existing + emerging building technologies to ⬆️ human & environmental health co-benefits, + ⬇️ health inequalities
Text on slide: Home Environment Solutions through Technology and Innovation for All: HESTIA Douglas Booker, Suzanne Bartington, Ruth Doherty, Helen Fisher, Rajat Gupta, Anna Mavrogianni, Alejandro Moreno-Rangel, Catherine Noakes, Amber Yeoman The slide also includes a picture of the HESTIA logo, which include a circle with each element of IEQ, and a greek goddess cradling a home Text on slide: (Just) transitions? The UK housing stock is undergoing an unprecedented transformation to reduce carbon emissions The impacts of these changes on Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ), physical and mental health and wellbeing, and equity are less well known There is also a picture of a row of houses that have been retrofitted, with one that has not. Integrated technologies Delivering low-carbon, healthy, and equitable homes through design and retrofit will need multiple different technologies Current efforts focus primarily on building fabric or system upgrades, yet there are significant opportunities through replacement technologies, smart devices, and consumer products The picture shows a house with a range of different technologies varying from building fabric and systems upgrades, to consumer products.
June 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
luciemidd.bsky.social
Very pleased to be a co-author on this new paper by @linzhang55.bsky.social which summarises the policy context in #China in relation to #EnergyPoverty.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Analysing policy responses to energy poverty in China: A perspective on socio-spatial vulnerability lens
Millions of Chinese households suffer from varying degrees of energy poverty, threatening their access to sufficient energy services. China lacks a na…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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sundersays.bsky.social
The case for using "global majority" by institutions should be rejected unless + until it can be shown
- most people understand what it means (most don't)
- most people it is about would like it used (most don't)

I find it a deeply incoherent fiction + a highly regressive term in some many ways
May 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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reuters.com
Diary of a Gazan family's descent toward starvation reut.rs/4jB7Dcd
Diary of a Gazan family's descent toward starvation
Mervat Hijazi and her nine children didn't eat at all on Thursday - save her underweight baby who had a sachet of peanut paste.
reut.rs
May 24, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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groomb.bsky.social
Back-to-back life on Leeds streets caught on camera. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Back-to-back life on streets of Leeds caught on camera
Photographer Ricky Adam says the red brick terraces of Leeds are
www.bbc.co.uk
April 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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jaweedkaleem.bsky.social
UPDATED: As of Tuesday night, California universities are reporting at least 92 revoked student visas.

— 50 at UC campuses. New: UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine and a jump at UC Berkeley to 19 total
— 36 at CSU campuses, including San Diego State
— 6 at Stanford

www.latimes.com/california/s...
Caught off-guard, California colleges scramble to determine scope of student visa cancellations
More universities are discovering that international student visas were cancelled last week, causing growing concern and confusion at UCLA and other California campuses.
www.latimes.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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katharinehayhoe.com
The rationale for this cancellation is climate denial.

There is no dressing it up, there is no tiptoeing around it.

Yet climate change doesn’t care if we believe it. It will destroy our homes, multiply insurance rates, wreak economic havoc and more — regardless of our opinions or voting record.
A screen capture of the text of the link below, explaining why they will no longer support cooperative modeling of the earth’s climate system. Another screen capture explaining why they no longer support sub seasonal to seasonal predictability research. That’s weather, folks. They don’t support weather research. A third screen capture explaining why a regional coupled model project is being canceled, as it includes alleged changes to precipitation patterns and sea level rise.
April 9, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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cathnoakes.bsky.social
Interested in residential air quality and environmental justice? Check out this new paper from @douglasbooker.bsky.social and others in the HEICAMM network exploring ten key research questions in this area www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Ten questions concerning the future of residential indoor air quality and its environmental justice implications
Humans spend a large proportion of their time at home, where exposure to poor indoor air quality has detrimental – and often inequitably distributed –…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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cathnoakes.bsky.social
Having a bit of a reminisce today. Five years ago an email arrived that changed my life - a request to produce a paper on what we knew about the environmental transmission of covid-19 for the UK SAGE committee. 1/
April 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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costasamaras.com
This is not an exaggeration: illegally gutting this program will cause Americans to freeze to death in their homes.
April 1, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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viktoriaspaiser.bsky.social
Come to our exciting event "Accelerating Social Change in Response to the Climate and Ecological Crisis", 6th June, London, register here: forms.office.com/e/4A078QseKL
For more infos here: bit.ly/41O8EIe
Event details (place, time, organisers, links, contact details) and schedule
March 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
luciemidd.bsky.social
New paper led by Stephen Hall: Mission Led government or Radical Incrementalism for electricity and Net Zero? We argue for a relational approach to Net Zero, whether rooted in radical incrementalism or in mission-led government.
journal.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/articles/13/...
Mission Led government or Radical Incrementalism for electricity and Net Zero?
Should we govern the energy transition through bold ‘Mission Led’ government or pragmatic ‘Radical Incrementalism’ A Mission Led approach has an emboldened state setting clear goals for transformatio...
journal.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
March 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
And the essay I wrote about climate, trees, and David's violin is here (and in my forthcoming anthology No Straight Road Takes You There with Haymarket Books). I'm on the board of OCI, by the way. Since 2017. www.theguardian.com/music/2022/j...
‘A truce with the trees’: Rebecca Solnit on the wonders of a 300-year old violin
Made with all-renewable materials, this violin from 1721 reflects a time of magnificent culture – a global gathering from before the climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
March 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
luciemidd.bsky.social
Done, I'm an ally thinking about my son's needs, be an ally whoever you are. More carrot, less stick please.
francesryan.bsky.social Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · Mar 16
If you want to write to your Labour MP about disability benefit cuts but have limited spoons, here’s a template from @sensecharity.bsky.social you can use:

t.co/E8QB6EDi9o

Public backlash *does* work at times so let’s keep the pressure up. You too, non-disabled allies!
https://action.sense.org.uk/page/167765/action/1?ea.tracking.id=twt-org
t.co
March 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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francesryan.bsky.social
If you want to write to your Labour MP about disability benefit cuts but have limited spoons, here’s a template from @sensecharity.bsky.social you can use:

t.co/E8QB6EDi9o

Public backlash *does* work at times so let’s keep the pressure up. You too, non-disabled allies!
https://action.sense.org.uk/page/167765/action/1?ea.tracking.id=twt-org
t.co
March 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
luciemidd.bsky.social
What can we do about this? Please share ideas. I realise it is only one of a number of things but it is an important one...
March 16, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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nbcnews.com
Nationwide protests are planned this weekend after Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University student activist, was arrested by immigration authorities, fueling tensions between the Trump administration and student movements over immigration policy.
Nationwide protests planned after arrest of former Columbia University activist by immigration authorities
Mahmoud Khalil was taken into custody by immigration authorities last weekend, prompting outrage.
nbcnews.to
March 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM