Maru Mormina
@marumormina.bsky.social
Associate fellow at the European University Institute. Research in ethics of public policy. Using systems thinking and collective intelligence to foster more participatory governance.
In a parallel universe, I’m a local councillor for the Greens.
In a parallel universe, I’m a local councillor for the Greens.
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Wealth taxes are back on the agenda – and Prof Richard Murphy shows why the data demands them.
200 years of evidence: capitalism funnels wealth upward unless govts intervene. So what's stopping them?
His must-read analysis👇
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @richardjmurphy.bsky.social with thanks
200 years of evidence: capitalism funnels wealth upward unless govts intervene. So what's stopping them?
His must-read analysis👇
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @richardjmurphy.bsky.social with thanks
How capitalism drives inequality: and how to stop it
Wealth taxes are on Rachel Reeves’ agenda. Thomas Piketty has shown why it matters, and how we could stop the growth of inequality
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Wealth taxes are back on the agenda – and Prof Richard Murphy shows why the data demands them.
200 years of evidence: capitalism funnels wealth upward unless govts intervene. So what's stopping them?
His must-read analysis👇
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @richardjmurphy.bsky.social with thanks
200 years of evidence: capitalism funnels wealth upward unless govts intervene. So what's stopping them?
His must-read analysis👇
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @richardjmurphy.bsky.social with thanks
Daniel Levy tells it as it is.
📹NEW VIDEO -- Ex-Israeli negotiator EXPOSES Trump's Gaza plan
Former negotiator Daniel Levy told Declassified that there needs to be "accountability" for the genocide in Gaza before serious talks between Palestinians and Israelis can take place👇
youtube.com/watch?v=_S5JIU5eos4&feature=youtu.be
Former negotiator Daniel Levy told Declassified that there needs to be "accountability" for the genocide in Gaza before serious talks between Palestinians and Israelis can take place👇
youtube.com/watch?v=_S5JIU5eos4&feature=youtu.be
Ex-Israeli negotiator EXPOSES Trump's Gaza plan
YouTube video by Declassified UK
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October 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Daniel Levy tells it as it is.
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The House of Lords just released a major report on media literacy. Its core message is that the UK is falling behind, and it’s putting democracy at risk.
committees.parliament.uk/work/9030/me...
committees.parliament.uk/work/9030/me...
Media literacy - Committees - UK Parliament
This inquiry will seek to establish a clear vision for what good media literacy would look like in the UK, and examine the barriers to achieving this vision. The committee will consider the roles and ...
committees.parliament.uk
July 30, 2025 at 8:04 AM
The House of Lords just released a major report on media literacy. Its core message is that the UK is falling behind, and it’s putting democracy at risk.
committees.parliament.uk/work/9030/me...
committees.parliament.uk/work/9030/me...
Trump tariffs have wiped out +60 years of economic consensus, exposing the failures of globalisation. The question is whether we can channel such seismic disruption into a just transformation, rather than regression.
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Common Ground | Maru Mormina | Substack
The common ground is that place where ideas converge and thoughtful discourse thrives. A rare destination these days but the journey is worth the while. Let's have meaningful conversations about the i...
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April 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Trump tariffs have wiped out +60 years of economic consensus, exposing the failures of globalisation. The question is whether we can channel such seismic disruption into a just transformation, rather than regression.
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So poignant … x.com/hossamshabat...
حسام شبات on X: "This is Hossam’s team, and we are sharing his final message : “If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed—most likely targeted—by the Israeli occupation forces. When this all began, I was only 21 years old—a college student with dreams like anyone else. For past 18 https://t.co/80aNO6wtfO" / X
This is Hossam’s team, and we are sharing his final message : “If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed—most likely targeted—by the Israeli occupation forces. When this all began, I was only 21 years old—a college student with dreams like anyone else. For past 18 https://t.co/80aNO6wtfO
x.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
So poignant … x.com/hossamshabat...
This is excellent news!! Here’s to this new GCSE inspiring the next generation of David Attenboroughs and Jane Goodalls
Brilliant news! At last, confirmation that the Govt *will* go ahead with the #NaturalHistoryGCSE 🎉 We have to get to know our fellow travellers on this planet again. Young people who know & love nature are far more likely to protect & restore it - as well as enjoying better physical & mental health
Department for Education confirms launch of natural history GCSE
Campaigners have been calling for the qualification for years but plan stalled despite a curriculum being drawn up
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
This is excellent news!! Here’s to this new GCSE inspiring the next generation of David Attenboroughs and Jane Goodalls
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Cross-cultural dialogue is an alternative to integration in #transdisciplinary research. It aims at #cocreating solutions that make sense in relation to all relevant ways of knowing, allowing incommensurable and incompatible ways of knowing to equally contribute. i2insights.org/2025/03/04/c...
Using cross-cultural dialogue to break down inappropriate knowledge hierarchies
By Roxana Roos. How can indigenous, local, artisanal, craft, tacit, counter, gendered and experiential knowledge better inform solutions to complex problems, such as climate change? How—when faced …
i2insights.org
March 4, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Cross-cultural dialogue is an alternative to integration in #transdisciplinary research. It aims at #cocreating solutions that make sense in relation to all relevant ways of knowing, allowing incommensurable and incompatible ways of knowing to equally contribute. i2insights.org/2025/03/04/c...
Here’s a new concept: climate populism (or popularism), by the one and only Caroline Lucas. If the political elite is reneging on the climate, at the grassroots level climate action is alive and well. A much needed injection of hope from the ground up.
It’s time for climate populism
As politics turns against net zero, we need to mobilise a genuine mass movement against ecological catastrophe.
www.newstatesman.com
February 14, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Here’s a new concept: climate populism (or popularism), by the one and only Caroline Lucas. If the political elite is reneging on the climate, at the grassroots level climate action is alive and well. A much needed injection of hope from the ground up.
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Latin American nations are at the forefront of a movement to create restrictions on global technology firms to prevent misinformation or misuse.
Latin America is moving fast to protect democracy from excesses of big tech
Latin American nations are at the forefront of a movement to create restrictions on global technology firms to prevent misinformation or misuse.
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February 11, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Latin American nations are at the forefront of a movement to create restrictions on global technology firms to prevent misinformation or misuse.
An the same in academic writing
The same in science communication
The most important thing I can tell everyone that I've learned from being a YouTuber who explains how stuff works is that each and every time I thought "this is common knowledge and doesn't need to be explained" I was wrong.
February 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
An the same in academic writing
Delighted that this absolute legend, @sfuntowicz.bsky.social, and his partner in crime are being recognised once more for their work, which has inspired generations of researchers and activists in the climate movement and beyond. I’m forever indebted to their wisdom and our always lively discussions
Our warmest congratulations to our guest researcher @sfuntowicz.bsky.social and his colleague and friend Jerome Ravetz for receiving the 2025 Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award for Ecological Economics, in honour of their work on Post-Normal Science and quality in science!🧪 #degrowth #STS #SciPol 🦋🦫
Post-normal science founders awarded for contributions to ecological economics
University of Bergen guest researcher Silvio Funtowicz and his long-time colleague and friend Jerome Ravetz receive 2025 Boulding Award for lifetime contributions to ecological economics.
www.uib.no
January 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Delighted that this absolute legend, @sfuntowicz.bsky.social, and his partner in crime are being recognised once more for their work, which has inspired generations of researchers and activists in the climate movement and beyond. I’m forever indebted to their wisdom and our always lively discussions
Very powerful.
Now that a ceasefire has been agreed to in Gaza, the bombs will stop falling, and the world will breathe a sigh of relief. Yet, for those of us who survived, the war hasn’t ended—it has merely transformed.
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/01/the-gaza-ceasefire-will-not-cure-the-wounds-of-genocide/
#Pa…
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/01/the-gaza-ceasefire-will-not-cure-the-wounds-of-genocide/
#Pa…
The Gaza ceasefire will not cure the wounds of genocide
Now that a ceasefire has been agreed to in Gaza, the bombs will stop falling, and the world will breathe a sigh of relief. Yet, for those of us who survived, the war hasn’t ended—it has merely transformed.
mondoweiss.net
January 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Very powerful.
As a society, we are hyper focused on the end result (winning) that the process of how we got there gets swept under the proverbial rug, and with it also the human damage. www.linkedin.com/posts/ted-co...
TED Conferences on LinkedIn: "Real success is developing champions in life — not for your team, not for… | 200 comments
"Real success is developing champions in life — not for your team, not for your business."
Learn how to redefine success from Valorie Kondos-Field, one of… | 200 comments on LinkedIn
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January 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
As a society, we are hyper focused on the end result (winning) that the process of how we got there gets swept under the proverbial rug, and with it also the human damage. www.linkedin.com/posts/ted-co...
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Since no other party has the guts to say it, we will; #Brexit was an utter disaster, materially impacting the lives of everyone in the country for the worst, foisted on us by malicious actors and should be reversed as soon as possible.
#BrexitDisaster #RejoinEU
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
#BrexitDisaster #RejoinEU
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on
As January marks five years on from Britain leaving the EU, Alicja Hagopian and Kate Devlin explore its impact
www.independent.co.uk
January 5, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Since no other party has the guts to say it, we will; #Brexit was an utter disaster, materially impacting the lives of everyone in the country for the worst, foisted on us by malicious actors and should be reversed as soon as possible.
#BrexitDisaster #RejoinEU
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
#BrexitDisaster #RejoinEU
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Defending free speech can no longer mean enabling the cesspit that X has become. For democracy’s sake, we need legislation to to limit its reach. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Elon Musk Is Posting Nonstop Falsehoods About 'Grooming Gangs'
Musk’s posts, which have racked up hundreds of millions of views on X, are his latest effort at inserting himself into UK politics.
www.wired.com
January 5, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Defending free speech can no longer mean enabling the cesspit that X has become. For democracy’s sake, we need legislation to to limit its reach. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
This will change how you think about corruption. And it doesn’t just apply to Africa. thetricontinental.org/dossier-how-...
How Neoliberalism Has Wielded ‘Corruption’ to Privatise Life in Africa
In Africa, the leading forces of capitalism have ruthlessly wielded a neoliberal conception of corruption to undermine states’ sovereignty and open the continent to plunder at the hands of Western mul...
thetricontinental.org
December 19, 2024 at 5:23 PM
This will change how you think about corruption. And it doesn’t just apply to Africa. thetricontinental.org/dossier-how-...
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Should be in every newsagents window.
December 17, 2024 at 10:38 PM
Should be in every newsagents window.
I’ve been part of innumerable multidisciplinary efforts, most with a clear focus but none with the right facilitation to bridge siloed language, assumptions and power dynamics. Lesson? Don’t leave it to the project lead to bring the team together, invest in proper, external and neutral facilitation
I've been part of innumerable multidisciplinary (esp btwn STEM, social sci, & humanities) efforts. The only ones that have a chance of working have: 1) a clear focus (e.g, working jointly on a paper); 2) facilitation in identifying and addressing assumptions, power disparities, and miscommunication.
December 18, 2024 at 9:25 AM
I’ve been part of innumerable multidisciplinary efforts, most with a clear focus but none with the right facilitation to bridge siloed language, assumptions and power dynamics. Lesson? Don’t leave it to the project lead to bring the team together, invest in proper, external and neutral facilitation
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Global science review concludes tackling climate change, nature loss & food insecurity as ' siloed' separate issues won't work
Biodiversity loss is costing economy up to a quarter of global GDP, $25trillion
Delayed action on biodiversity could double eventual costs
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Biodiversity loss is costing economy up to a quarter of global GDP, $25trillion
Delayed action on biodiversity could double eventual costs
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
IPBES report sees climate, nature and food challenges interlinked
A new approach is needed to tackle the interlinked crises afflicting the planet, scientists warn.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 17, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Global science review concludes tackling climate change, nature loss & food insecurity as ' siloed' separate issues won't work
Biodiversity loss is costing economy up to a quarter of global GDP, $25trillion
Delayed action on biodiversity could double eventual costs
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Biodiversity loss is costing economy up to a quarter of global GDP, $25trillion
Delayed action on biodiversity could double eventual costs
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Bringing into policy the expertise of affected citizens requires redressing the epistemic injustices that constantly devalue lived experience, especially of those in the margins. This is a difficult ask for politicians and civil servants with little exposure to and understanding of those experiences
So yes let’s take some of what start ups do well & bring it into government delivery but let’s also be mindful of whose expertise we bring into policy making and how the language we use to describe the work of governing can be dehumanising and alienating (ends) blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
Before reforming social security, Labour needs to listen to recipients
The shape of social security policy, at least since Margaret Thatcher’s Government, has been dominated by a top-down approach. The Labour Government has the opportunity to do things different…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
December 10, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Bringing into policy the expertise of affected citizens requires redressing the epistemic injustices that constantly devalue lived experience, especially of those in the margins. This is a difficult ask for politicians and civil servants with little exposure to and understanding of those experiences
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The media are focussed on the start-up line, but this reveals something all public service innovators understand: how to experiment, calibrate risk appetite & learn from failure? A state that requires things to be right first time isn’t fit for purpose in complex era. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Government to set out £100m plan to make state 'like a start-up'
As well as urging a
www.bbc.co.uk
December 9, 2024 at 12:20 PM
The media are focussed on the start-up line, but this reveals something all public service innovators understand: how to experiment, calibrate risk appetite & learn from failure? A state that requires things to be right first time isn’t fit for purpose in complex era. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A con man, sure, but one who’s changed Britain’s conversation (and values) beyond the imaginable. That’s why exposing him has little effect with the millions whose minds he now owns. x.com/bydonkeys/st...
x.com
x.com
November 28, 2024 at 2:20 PM
A con man, sure, but one who’s changed Britain’s conversation (and values) beyond the imaginable. That’s why exposing him has little effect with the millions whose minds he now owns. x.com/bydonkeys/st...
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Social Epistemologists: I was trying to populate a starter pack for us manually but got lazy and thought it would be much more fun to turn this into a game!
Post a link to your favourite paper you wrote on the topic below with a post-length abstract and I’ll add you to it!
#PhilSky #SocEpis
Post a link to your favourite paper you wrote on the topic below with a post-length abstract and I’ll add you to it!
#PhilSky #SocEpis
November 27, 2024 at 1:31 PM
This is interesting but without reading the paper it’s not clear if “preference” translates into actual votes. Lots of counter-examples, especially from the UK, in the comments.
working-class voters are more likely to prefer a candidate with a working-class occupation, not due to policy positions or class rhetoric but because they perceive them as more understanding of their problems.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Do working-class candidates activate class-based voting?
After steadily leaving the Democratic Party, working-class voters are increasingly seen as pivotal in US elections. What type of candidates should par…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 25, 2024 at 11:39 PM
This is interesting but without reading the paper it’s not clear if “preference” translates into actual votes. Lots of counter-examples, especially from the UK, in the comments.
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Tech influences the way we talk. From the printing press, to social media and AI, our language absorbs these changes, for better...and worse. Is our language becoming shallower, more incoherent? What we say influences how we think and what we do. #AIEthics
www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
Why Do We Talk This Way?
Technology is dramatically changing political speech, rewarding quantity and variety over the neat messages of the past.
www.newyorker.com
November 24, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Tech influences the way we talk. From the printing press, to social media and AI, our language absorbs these changes, for better...and worse. Is our language becoming shallower, more incoherent? What we say influences how we think and what we do. #AIEthics
www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
www.newyorker.com/culture/open...