James Palmer
@jamesrpalmer.bsky.social
Environmental Geographer, University of Bristol
See also @peatscapes.bsky.social (http://peatscapes.com), funded by @leverhulme.bsky.social
See also @peatscapes.bsky.social (http://peatscapes.com), funded by @leverhulme.bsky.social
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SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
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This week: Deep Disillusionment with Stewart Lee. Does what it says in the title. And then some. #StrongMessageHere www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Strong Message Here - Deep Disillusionment in This Country (with Stewart Lee) - BBC Sounds
Armando Iannucci and Stewart Lee find the sources of deep disillusionment in this country.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 10:06 AM
This week: Deep Disillusionment with Stewart Lee. Does what it says in the title. And then some. #StrongMessageHere www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Proud to share our first project output in Estonian! 🇪🇪
Our Roosa Rytkönen presents this poster today at the "Habitat restoration and conservation" conference in Saaremaa, Estonia, organized by key national experts and the State Forest Management Centre, RMK. Excited for feedback! @leverhulme.ac.uk
Our Roosa Rytkönen presents this poster today at the "Habitat restoration and conservation" conference in Saaremaa, Estonia, organized by key national experts and the State Forest Management Centre, RMK. Excited for feedback! @leverhulme.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Proud to share our first project output in Estonian! 🇪🇪
Our Roosa Rytkönen presents this poster today at the "Habitat restoration and conservation" conference in Saaremaa, Estonia, organized by key national experts and the State Forest Management Centre, RMK. Excited for feedback! @leverhulme.ac.uk
Our Roosa Rytkönen presents this poster today at the "Habitat restoration and conservation" conference in Saaremaa, Estonia, organized by key national experts and the State Forest Management Centre, RMK. Excited for feedback! @leverhulme.ac.uk
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On peat restoration, the govt's new Carbon Budget Delivery Plan states that the "main delivery vehicle" will be ELMs, especially Landscape Recovery.
Unfortunately, the govt has refused to publish maps of existing Landscape Recovery projects; how much peat do they cover?!
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Unfortunately, the govt has refused to publish maps of existing Landscape Recovery projects; how much peat do they cover?!
www.gov.uk/government/p...
October 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
On peat restoration, the govt's new Carbon Budget Delivery Plan states that the "main delivery vehicle" will be ELMs, especially Landscape Recovery.
Unfortunately, the govt has refused to publish maps of existing Landscape Recovery projects; how much peat do they cover?!
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Unfortunately, the govt has refused to publish maps of existing Landscape Recovery projects; how much peat do they cover?!
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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AI is all about stealing
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia contains copied Wikipedia pages
Ironic.
www.theverge.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
AI is all about stealing
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I made my students a little “book” (just using Google slides) to show them how you all answered my question about how you take notes for research. Just to show the variety.
How Do Scholars Take Notes?
How do scholars take notes? I like seeing examples of different people’s notetaking, so I asked scholars to show me how they take notes for research.
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October 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I made my students a little “book” (just using Google slides) to show them how you all answered my question about how you take notes for research. Just to show the variety.
"In the end, generative AI might be a blip in tech history, over-promising and under-delivering until finally the cash runs out. But it seems it’s arrived just in time to shove universities over a cliff edge they’d already walked themselves up to."
defector.com/higher-eds-r...
defector.com/higher-eds-r...
Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector
If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...
defector.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
"In the end, generative AI might be a blip in tech history, over-promising and under-delivering until finally the cash runs out. But it seems it’s arrived just in time to shove universities over a cliff edge they’d already walked themselves up to."
defector.com/higher-eds-r...
defector.com/higher-eds-r...
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It's the official publication day for ETHANOL: A HEMISPHERIC HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE OF BIOFUELS. Want to know why the US turns 40 percent of the corn crop into fuel? How the US and Brazil became the world's two largest ethanol producers? Tom Rogers and I have answers.
www.oupress.com/978080619601...
www.oupress.com/978080619601...
Ethanol - University of Oklahoma Press
Though ethanol, a liquid fuel made from agricultural byproducts, has generated controversy in recent years—good or bad for the environment? a big-ag boon o...
www.oupress.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
It's the official publication day for ETHANOL: A HEMISPHERIC HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE OF BIOFUELS. Want to know why the US turns 40 percent of the corn crop into fuel? How the US and Brazil became the world's two largest ethanol producers? Tom Rogers and I have answers.
www.oupress.com/978080619601...
www.oupress.com/978080619601...
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Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Updating my LEGO White House
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I sat in the British Library reading League of Empire Loyalists, BNP & National Front literature for my book and even they claimed to promote *voluntary* repatriation. Forcible deportation was always the ghost behind those ideas, but it’s amazing that UK politicians don’t even bother to hide it.
To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
October 22, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I sat in the British Library reading League of Empire Loyalists, BNP & National Front literature for my book and even they claimed to promote *voluntary* repatriation. Forcible deportation was always the ghost behind those ideas, but it’s amazing that UK politicians don’t even bother to hide it.
"There’s still time to disenchant AI, provincialize it, make it uncompelling and uncool."
Large Language Muddle
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
Large Language Muddle
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
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October 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
"There’s still time to disenchant AI, provincialize it, make it uncompelling and uncool."
Large Language Muddle
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
Large Language Muddle
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
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It's Electric Wind publication day!💨
Join @dudleymarianna.bsky.social for the launch of her new book, online and at @bookhaus.bsky.social.
Details on the MUP Events page🎟️👇
A cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain from the industrial revolution to the present.
Electric Wind is out now💡
Join @dudleymarianna.bsky.social for the launch of her new book, online and at @bookhaus.bsky.social.
Details on the MUP Events page🎟️👇
A cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain from the industrial revolution to the present.
Electric Wind is out now💡
October 14, 2025 at 10:42 AM
It's Electric Wind publication day!💨
Join @dudleymarianna.bsky.social for the launch of her new book, online and at @bookhaus.bsky.social.
Details on the MUP Events page🎟️👇
A cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain from the industrial revolution to the present.
Electric Wind is out now💡
Join @dudleymarianna.bsky.social for the launch of her new book, online and at @bookhaus.bsky.social.
Details on the MUP Events page🎟️👇
A cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain from the industrial revolution to the present.
Electric Wind is out now💡
A scandal so long-running that it predates Brexit.
‘Little lungs are paying’: 1.6m claimants head to high court as carmakers finally face punishment for Dieselgate
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘Little lungs are paying’: 1.6m claimants head to high court as carmakers finally face punishment for Dieselgate
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘Little lungs are paying’: 1.6m claimants head to high court as carmakers finally face punishment for Dieselgate
Carmakers accused of cheating air pollution rules have faced little punishment in UK but trial brought by 1.8m motorists is about to begin
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
A scandal so long-running that it predates Brexit.
‘Little lungs are paying’: 1.6m claimants head to high court as carmakers finally face punishment for Dieselgate
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘Little lungs are paying’: 1.6m claimants head to high court as carmakers finally face punishment for Dieselgate
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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In the newest addition to 𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘴, Pollyanna Rhee portrays the perennial wheatgrass Kernza, challenging its promise of endless abundance and environmental responsibility:
seeingthewoods.org/2025/10/08/f...
#perennials #wheat #envhum #envhist #planetaryhealth @parhee.bsky.social
seeingthewoods.org/2025/10/08/f...
#perennials #wheat #envhum #envhist #planetaryhealth @parhee.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
In the newest addition to 𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘴, Pollyanna Rhee portrays the perennial wheatgrass Kernza, challenging its promise of endless abundance and environmental responsibility:
seeingthewoods.org/2025/10/08/f...
#perennials #wheat #envhum #envhist #planetaryhealth @parhee.bsky.social
seeingthewoods.org/2025/10/08/f...
#perennials #wheat #envhum #envhist #planetaryhealth @parhee.bsky.social
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Coming soon💨
How has energy shaped a nation?
Electric Wind by @DudleyMarianna.bsky.social is a cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain, from the industrial revolution to the aftermath of war, through energy crises and the changing politics of the late twentieth century💡
Pre-order now!
How has energy shaped a nation?
Electric Wind by @DudleyMarianna.bsky.social is a cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain, from the industrial revolution to the aftermath of war, through energy crises and the changing politics of the late twentieth century💡
Pre-order now!
October 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Coming soon💨
How has energy shaped a nation?
Electric Wind by @DudleyMarianna.bsky.social is a cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain, from the industrial revolution to the aftermath of war, through energy crises and the changing politics of the late twentieth century💡
Pre-order now!
How has energy shaped a nation?
Electric Wind by @DudleyMarianna.bsky.social is a cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain, from the industrial revolution to the aftermath of war, through energy crises and the changing politics of the late twentieth century💡
Pre-order now!
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Shoreline demos: The contested place of the public in a marine carbon removal trial
New paper in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space with @a-laurie-waller.bsky.social, Emily Cox and myself
Read one of our major outputs from @co2rehub.bsky.social here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
New paper in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space with @a-laurie-waller.bsky.social, Emily Cox and myself
Read one of our major outputs from @co2rehub.bsky.social here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Shoreline demos: The contested place of the public in a marine carbon removal trial
New paper in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space with @a-laurie-waller.bsky.social, Emily Cox and myself
Read one of our major outputs from @co2rehub.bsky.social here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
New paper in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space with @a-laurie-waller.bsky.social, Emily Cox and myself
Read one of our major outputs from @co2rehub.bsky.social here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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It's time for some visuals!!! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 has a cover. Out this fall with @cambridgeup.bsky.social
#envhist #skystorians #PeatSky #energysky
#envhist #skystorians #PeatSky #energysky
April 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
It's time for some visuals!!! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 has a cover. Out this fall with @cambridgeup.bsky.social
#envhist #skystorians #PeatSky #energysky
#envhist #skystorians #PeatSky #energysky
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Pat Brodie and I have a book coming out in October. Really hoping it can be useful for analysing the imperialist political ecology of big tech and the energy transition.
Big thanks to @kaiheron.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social, Anne Pasek (and others) for their generous words and engagement.
Big thanks to @kaiheron.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social, Anne Pasek (and others) for their generous words and engagement.
September 4, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Pat Brodie and I have a book coming out in October. Really hoping it can be useful for analysing the imperialist political ecology of big tech and the energy transition.
Big thanks to @kaiheron.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social, Anne Pasek (and others) for their generous words and engagement.
Big thanks to @kaiheron.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social, Anne Pasek (and others) for their generous words and engagement.
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Words are magic
September 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Words are magic
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Carbon removal support is tempered by concerns over whether biological methods are worth it
New @co2rehub.bsky.social paper in Communications Earth & Environment with Emily Cox, @a-laurie-waller.bsky.social, @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social and myself
Read open access here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
New @co2rehub.bsky.social paper in Communications Earth & Environment with Emily Cox, @a-laurie-waller.bsky.social, @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social and myself
Read open access here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
August 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Carbon removal support is tempered by concerns over whether biological methods are worth it
New @co2rehub.bsky.social paper in Communications Earth & Environment with Emily Cox, @a-laurie-waller.bsky.social, @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social and myself
Read open access here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
New @co2rehub.bsky.social paper in Communications Earth & Environment with Emily Cox, @a-laurie-waller.bsky.social, @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social and myself
Read open access here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
We have a great line-up for these two @rgsibg.bsky.social sessions this afternoon, on the politics of carbon in land management and restoration!
Please join @kargkama.bsky.social, @annakspeaking.bsky.social and me over in the Alan Walters Building, Room 111, from 14.40 until the end of the day!
Please join @kargkama.bsky.social, @annakspeaking.bsky.social and me over in the Alan Walters Building, Room 111, from 14.40 until the end of the day!
August 27, 2025 at 9:11 AM
We have a great line-up for these two @rgsibg.bsky.social sessions this afternoon, on the politics of carbon in land management and restoration!
Please join @kargkama.bsky.social, @annakspeaking.bsky.social and me over in the Alan Walters Building, Room 111, from 14.40 until the end of the day!
Please join @kargkama.bsky.social, @annakspeaking.bsky.social and me over in the Alan Walters Building, Room 111, from 14.40 until the end of the day!
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Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.
August 27, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.
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Pls sign and share this open letter to the Bristol VC, against the School of Humanities's decision to withdraw the BA in English Literature and Community Engagement (ELCE): the only part-time, flexible undergraduate degree programme available at the University forms.gle/SbyhXPSJgQTc...
Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol
19 August 2025
Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor)
cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students)
The School of Humanities has ...
forms.gle
August 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Pls sign and share this open letter to the Bristol VC, against the School of Humanities's decision to withdraw the BA in English Literature and Community Engagement (ELCE): the only part-time, flexible undergraduate degree programme available at the University forms.gle/SbyhXPSJgQTc...
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I have gotten our @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talks for September & October posted!
Always on Mondays at 16:00 (4pm) Central European time.
For details see: newnatures.org/greenhouse/
Always on Mondays at 16:00 (4pm) Central European time.
For details see: newnatures.org/greenhouse/
August 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I have gotten our @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talks for September & October posted!
Always on Mondays at 16:00 (4pm) Central European time.
For details see: newnatures.org/greenhouse/
Always on Mondays at 16:00 (4pm) Central European time.
For details see: newnatures.org/greenhouse/