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Lyla Mehta
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Professor of environment & development; Water, sanitation, climate, covid; human rights; displacement; feminist; anti-fascist; Editor @Natureandspace; UK, India, Austria, Norway. Twitter migrant; also on @Lylamehta@mas.to & LinkedIn. Views my own;
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Lyla Mehta @lylamehta.bsky.social · Jan 11
I resisted signing on another billionaire-led app so it's taken me a while to get here. I had blocked #Musk & carried on Twitter despite unease. But now seeing how he is systematically promoting more far-right leaders is just too much. Looking forward to connecting with old & new friends here.
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Wow oh Wow! Well done Palestine Action - great victory for the right to protest in the UK and also for Palestinian solidarity. More egg on the face of this Labour government. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...
High court rules ban on Palestine Action is unlawful – live
Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:28 AM
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natureandspace.bsky.social
OnlineFirst - "Shifting sands and ecological uncertainties: An urban political ecology of dredging in Mombasa" by @louicy.bsky.social:

#UrbanPoliticalEcology #Infrastructure #PortDevelopment #Dredging #CoastalEnvironments #Africa #PoliticalEconomy #Logistics

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February 12, 2026 at 7:28 PM
lylamehta.bsky.social
Thank you for sharing. I just did it. It is truly horrific and humiliating what they are proposing to do.
February 12, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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sameen-mohsin.bsky.social
Apologies, deadline is tonight (not yesterday)
sameen-mohsin.bsky.social Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social · 1d
I have just completed this horrendous consultation survey after putting it off for months because I found it traumatising - and I'm a very privileged migrant to the UK subject to these proposed changes. Please fill it in if you are in the UK using Amnesty's guidance (linked)-closes 23:59 tonight.
ncecire.bsky.social Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 22d
The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...
February 12, 2026 at 11:38 AM
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natureandspace.bsky.social
OnlineFirst - "Starlings, olives and the idealised fascist landscape: Tracing the time-spaces of a more-than-human Rome" by Andy Morris:

#starlings #Rome #morethanhuman #urbangeographies #aviangeographies #worlding #fascistlandscapes

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February 9, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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Now who is surprised to see New Age guru Deepak Chopra in the Epstein emails with references to 'cute girls' and trips to Israel with girls etc? These "Godmen" really revel in their power, fame, money + sex and sexism . #Epstein #DeepakChopra
February 6, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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normalisland.co.uk
I'm sure you're all as heart broken as I am 💔

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I don't wish to upset you, but Epstein could bring down the British prime minister
It’s been a strange couple of days for me.
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February 6, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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natureandspace.bsky.social
OnlineFirst - "Ecological care work in bamboo value chains: Feminist political ecology insights to care in forest-human relations" by @violetagz.bsky.social and @sabaheta.bsky.social:

#EcologicalCare #FeministPoliticalEcology #Bamboo #Forests

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February 3, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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natureandspace.bsky.social
OnlineFirst - "Thirsty Forests and Expansive Droughts: The environmental impacts of data centers in Latin America" by @ndiazbejarano.bsky.social and @anavaldi.bsky.social:

@oii.ox.ac.uk #Datacenter #datainfrastructure #Chile #Mexico #Queretaro #Quilicura

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February 2, 2026 at 9:31 PM
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Modi, Epstein, Israel, India, US & Ambani nexus

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"Leadership Would Like Your Help": Indian Billionaire Tapped Jeffrey Epstein Before Modi's Visits to U.S. and Israel
New Department of Justice documents reveal Epstein’s direct role in fostering ties between Indian, Israeli, and U.S. elites.
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February 1, 2026 at 11:58 AM
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natureandspace.bsky.social
OnlineFirst - "Eyes on the shoreline: The disciplinary power of the ecological gaze in marine waste governance" by jarviszhuo.bsky.social and Jingzhou Liu:

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January 29, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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OnlineFirst - "Smart adaptation or data colonialism? Interrogating the role of digital technologies in climate adaptation" by Giovanna Gioli and @giobettini.bsky.social:

@digitalclimate.bsky.social

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January 28, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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tankiepotato.bsky.social
‘But who ended the Holocaust?’

‘The Soviet Union, actually.’

The shocked look upon the face of the hostess says it all.

As the world remembers the liberation of Auschwitz 80 years ago, a reminder of a classic case of historical fact vs the rewriting of history.
January 27, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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natureandspace.bsky.social
OnlineFirst - "Microbial shepherding: The creation of culture(s) at the more-than-artisan scale" by Aidan Demsky and Erika Szymanski:

@oxfordgeography.bsky.social

#Microbes #Multispecies #Labor #Work #Value #Cheese #Fermentation #Shepherding #Vermont

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January 27, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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OnlineFirst - "Encountering degrowth" by @davidegilbert.bsky.social, Donatella Gasparro, Giorgos Kallis, Lucia Munoz-Sueiro, Julia Grosinger, Maroula Tsagkari, Feroz Khan, Grace Wright, and Angelos Varvarousis:

@icta-uab.bsky.social

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January 26, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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ledbydonkeys.org
Board of Peace - Season 1
January 24, 2026 at 7:45 AM
lylamehta.bsky.social
ICE is murdering innocent people on the streets in Minneapolis. When are US law-makers (both Republicans and Democrats) going to firmly stand up to Trump, and say enough is enough? #USPol #ICE #Minnesota
January 24, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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ids.ac.uk
Scarcity is more often shaped by the choices we make about who gets to consume, and who is asked to cut back.

At Sparks, @lylamehta.bsky.social explore what it could mean to rethink development from the perspective of abundance, equity and distribution.

Register👇
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Sparks: Igniting new ideas - Institute of Development Studies
Join the Institute of Development Studies for Sparks, a new annual event highlighting innovative, evidence-based ideas that can shape progress on global social and environmental challenges. With the world facing ever more complex challenges, fresh ideas are urgently needed to help us make progress t...
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January 22, 2026 at 11:31 AM
lylamehta.bsky.social
It’s now time to exclude Israel from the UN. Articles 5 & 6 could be evoked. Even if it's vetoed by the Security Council, the General Assembly can vote to remove Israel. Such flagrant violations of international law & UN principles must stop. #UN #Israel #unrwa
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Israel bulldozes Unrwa headquarters in East Jerusalem
Palestinian refugee agency compound is demolished, while teargas is fired at UN vocational school in West Bank
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
If your peace plan includes Vladimir Putin and excludes actual allies, it’s not peace. It’s submission.
January 20, 2026 at 5:26 AM
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ou-gcsj.bsky.social
📘Book Launch📘
*International Relations in a Multipolar Middle East* (edited by Edward Wastnidge & Francesco Belcastro) explores the evolving dynamics of the Middle East in today’s shifting global order.
🔔Fri 23 January (online)
⌚11 AM-12 PM
Register for free 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
January 19, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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natureandspace.bsky.social
OnlineFirst - "The wilderness fetish: The mystification of nature conservation in the age of capital" by Clemens Greiner and Manuel Standop:

@unicologne.bsky.social
@unibonn.bsky.social
@plaasuwc.bsky.social
@crctrr228.bsky.social

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January 19, 2026 at 10:13 PM
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atrupar.com
this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities
We are open: please wait for us to unlock the door. Thank you for your understanding
January 19, 2026 at 2:12 AM
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article-14.com
Domicide, the deliberate, large-scale destruction of homes to erase a community's presence, memory, and sense of belonging, is now widespread in #Israel’s occupied territories & #India’s #BJP-ruled states, writes Harsh Mander in the last of a 6-part series

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Palestine to Prayagraj: State Domicide as Public Spectacle, As India Echoes Israel’s Architecture of Collective Reprisal
From Palestine to India, bulldozers have emerged as instruments of collective, extrajudicial punishment, demolishing homes not just to enforce law but to discipline entire communities. Drawing paralle...
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January 16, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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You can’t make this up. What a flawed candidate for the Nobel peace prize. The Nobel peace committee hang their heads in shame or resign.
#Machado #Trump #USPol #Venezuela

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Machado presents Trump with her Nobel award at White House meeting
Trump thanked Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, calling it
www.bbc.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 12:53 PM