Nils Markusson
@nilsom.bsky.social
Politics of environmental technology; carbon removal (he, him, that bugger)
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📢📢📢We made it to the national news! This time with an important win for our branch!
Management has decided to withdraw compulsory redundancies for academic staff at least until July 2026. ASOS and next week's strikes are therefore called off.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Management has decided to withdraw compulsory redundancies for academic staff at least until July 2026. ASOS and next week's strikes are therefore called off.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Strikes suspended in Lancaster University staff job cuts row - BBC News
The university is trying to save £30m amid rising costs and a fall in international student numbers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
📢📢📢We made it to the national news! This time with an important win for our branch!
Management has decided to withdraw compulsory redundancies for academic staff at least until July 2026. ASOS and next week's strikes are therefore called off.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Management has decided to withdraw compulsory redundancies for academic staff at least until July 2026. ASOS and next week's strikes are therefore called off.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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🚨 STRIKE ACTION ON THE 27 & 28 NOVEMBER 🚨
We’ve now served formal notice of strike action on 27 & 28 November.
Management must withdraw the plan to make 400+ of us redundant or risk escalating and sustained industrial action.
@ucu.org.uk
We’ve now served formal notice of strike action on 27 & 28 November.
Management must withdraw the plan to make 400+ of us redundant or risk escalating and sustained industrial action.
@ucu.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 9:30 PM
🚨 STRIKE ACTION ON THE 27 & 28 NOVEMBER 🚨
We’ve now served formal notice of strike action on 27 & 28 November.
Management must withdraw the plan to make 400+ of us redundant or risk escalating and sustained industrial action.
@ucu.org.uk
We’ve now served formal notice of strike action on 27 & 28 November.
Management must withdraw the plan to make 400+ of us redundant or risk escalating and sustained industrial action.
@ucu.org.uk
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Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today.
https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia
https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia
London’s Trans Pride March Just Shattered Its Turnout Record
Organizers say it was the largest transgender rights march in the world.
www.them.us
September 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today.
https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia
https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia
Stop compulsory redundancies!
September 14, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Stop compulsory redundancies!
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The head of the UK's leading funder of social research has spoken against funding projects on post-growth and degrowth. Our research environment is wedded to an economic system that does harm daily to all human and non-human life. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
ESRC ‘bar against’ degrowth research branded ‘anti-scientific’ - Research Professional News
Research council leader signals shift against funding projects that question benefits of economic growth
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The head of the UK's leading funder of social research has spoken against funding projects on post-growth and degrowth. Our research environment is wedded to an economic system that does harm daily to all human and non-human life. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
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My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
www.nytimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
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lancasterucu.home.blog
Check out Lancaster UCU branch's blog for updates on ongoing situation and other matters.
Check out Lancaster UCU branch's blog for updates on ongoing situation and other matters.
Lancaster UCU
#AngryDucks on the picket lines
lancasterucu.home.blog
August 22, 2025 at 11:19 AM
lancasterucu.home.blog
Check out Lancaster UCU branch's blog for updates on ongoing situation and other matters.
Check out Lancaster UCU branch's blog for updates on ongoing situation and other matters.
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Den här listan är från UBS Global Wealth Report 2025. Den visar koncentration av förmögenheter. Sverige är på sjätte plats här. Lite bättre än Saudiarabien och Förenade Arabemiraten, men sämre än USA och samtliga andra EU-länder.
August 7, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Den här listan är från UBS Global Wealth Report 2025. Den visar koncentration av förmögenheter. Sverige är på sjätte plats här. Lite bättre än Saudiarabien och Förenade Arabemiraten, men sämre än USA och samtliga andra EU-länder.
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3-year postdoc @lancasteruni.bsky.social w/ Dr's John Childs & Nicola Firth
Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Countermapping Territory, Heritage & Knowledge
Offering an alternative t0 mainstream approaches to understanding the political geography of the deep seabed
hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Countermapping Territory, Heritage & Knowledge
Offering an alternative t0 mainstream approaches to understanding the political geography of the deep seabed
hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Senior Research Associate - Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Countermapping Territory, Heritage and Knowledge
Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) is pleased to announce a Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) position as part of a Leverhulme Trust-funded project ‘Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Counterma...
hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk
August 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
3-year postdoc @lancasteruni.bsky.social w/ Dr's John Childs & Nicola Firth
Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Countermapping Territory, Heritage & Knowledge
Offering an alternative t0 mainstream approaches to understanding the political geography of the deep seabed
hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Countermapping Territory, Heritage & Knowledge
Offering an alternative t0 mainstream approaches to understanding the political geography of the deep seabed
hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030.
Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.
Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.
Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality
across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates
show that, unless the a...
www.thelancet.com
July 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030.
Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.
Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.
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NEW from me: China's CO2 emissions fell ~1.6% in the first quarter and have now been flat or down for more than a year. This is the first time on record that emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand.
NEW – Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social
Read here: buff.ly/6eAcjRU
Read here: buff.ly/6eAcjRU
May 15, 2025 at 5:45 AM
NEW from me: China's CO2 emissions fell ~1.6% in the first quarter and have now been flat or down for more than a year. This is the first time on record that emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand.
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wow - first Marine Le Pen, now this
Trump‘s efforts to be the EU salesman of the year are producing results:
Even the previously eurosceptic Swedish far right party Sweden Democrats now think that ”the EU is needed” in the difficult security situation since Trump took office
Even the previously eurosceptic Swedish far right party Sweden Democrats now think that ”the EU is needed” in the difficult security situation since Trump took office
Sverigedemokraterna: I det här läget behövs EU
Sverigedemokraterna har sedan starten varit ett starkt EU-kritiskt parti. Men efter Donald Trumps tillträde i Vita huset och det kraftigt försämrade säkerhetsläget är tongångarna annorlunda. – I det h...
www.svt.se
March 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
wow - first Marine Le Pen, now this
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Just tearing up Article 5 like it's nothing.
REPORTER: Are you gonna make it US policy that the US wouldn't defend NATO countries that don't pay their fair share?
TRUMP: Well, I think it's common sense. If they don't pay I'm not gonna defend them. No, I'm not gonna defend them.
TRUMP: Well, I think it's common sense. If they don't pay I'm not gonna defend them. No, I'm not gonna defend them.
March 6, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Just tearing up Article 5 like it's nothing.
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Dutch universities will go on strike! Against the 1.3 billion cuts!
March 10: Leiden University
March 11: Utrecht University
March 13: University Nijmegen
March 17: University of Amsterdam
March 20: Maastricht University
March 27: VU Amsterdam
April 10: Tilburg University
@woinactie.bsky.social
March 10: Leiden University
March 11: Utrecht University
March 13: University Nijmegen
March 17: University of Amsterdam
March 20: Maastricht University
March 27: VU Amsterdam
April 10: Tilburg University
@woinactie.bsky.social
February 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Dutch universities will go on strike! Against the 1.3 billion cuts!
March 10: Leiden University
March 11: Utrecht University
March 13: University Nijmegen
March 17: University of Amsterdam
March 20: Maastricht University
March 27: VU Amsterdam
April 10: Tilburg University
@woinactie.bsky.social
March 10: Leiden University
March 11: Utrecht University
March 13: University Nijmegen
March 17: University of Amsterdam
March 20: Maastricht University
March 27: VU Amsterdam
April 10: Tilburg University
@woinactie.bsky.social
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I can be as critical as anyone of the government's occasionally muddled message on growth but Look! At! This! Chart!! Anything they've done pales next to this GIGANTIC UNFORCED ERROR COMMITTED IN 2016!
(fagpacket maths follows)
on.ft.com/4hzyvbJ
(fagpacket maths follows)
on.ft.com/4hzyvbJ
January 29, 2025 at 6:56 AM
I can be as critical as anyone of the government's occasionally muddled message on growth but Look! At! This! Chart!! Anything they've done pales next to this GIGANTIC UNFORCED ERROR COMMITTED IN 2016!
(fagpacket maths follows)
on.ft.com/4hzyvbJ
(fagpacket maths follows)
on.ft.com/4hzyvbJ
Sign this letter in support of separate targets (for CDR and emissions reductions) in the EU
carbonmarketwatch.org/publications...
carbonmarketwatch.org/publications...
Open letter on separate targets in 2040 climate framework - Carbon Market Watch
Letter sent to the European Commission by 116 academics, businesses, civil society organisations and research institutions urging the EU to separate
carbonmarketwatch.org
January 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Sign this letter in support of separate targets (for CDR and emissions reductions) in the EU
carbonmarketwatch.org/publications...
carbonmarketwatch.org/publications...
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It was the best of times, it was the dumbest of times.
'Make Carbon Dioxide Great Again' law would ban carbon reduction efforts in Wyoming - WyoFile
Sen. Steinmetz wants to repeal Wyoming's carbon capture mandate for coal plants.
wyofile.com
January 10, 2025 at 2:33 AM
It was the best of times, it was the dumbest of times.
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On a related note, the passing of same sex marriage laws in the United States (and the resultant disappearance of the culture war around it and accusations of "gay agenda" coincided with a drastic reduction in gay teen suicide
arstechnica.com/science/2017...
arstechnica.com/science/2017...
Same-sex marriage linked to decline in teen suicides
States that legalized gay marriage early created a natural experiment.
arstechnica.com
December 7, 2024 at 2:12 PM
On a related note, the passing of same sex marriage laws in the United States (and the resultant disappearance of the culture war around it and accusations of "gay agenda" coincided with a drastic reduction in gay teen suicide
arstechnica.com/science/2017...
arstechnica.com/science/2017...
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If you missed our event on the role of carbon removals in the EU's climate policies, not to worry. You can rewatch the entire discussion here. We've even split the video helpfully into chapters so you can easily navigate to the bits that most interest you.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxLx...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxLx...
Towards 2040 and beyond: The role of carbon removals in the EU climate framework
YouTube video by Carbon Market Watch
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2024 at 10:00 AM
If you missed our event on the role of carbon removals in the EU's climate policies, not to worry. You can rewatch the entire discussion here. We've even split the video helpfully into chapters so you can easily navigate to the bits that most interest you.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxLx...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxLx...
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In November last year the National Audit Office warned that cuts to flood defence spending meant that 25% of flood defence projects had been abandoned and 40% fewer homes would be protected by 2027. A year later, we have this. But the problem isn't actually as simple as government underspending. 1/6
November 26, 2024 at 12:10 PM
In November last year the National Audit Office warned that cuts to flood defence spending meant that 25% of flood defence projects had been abandoned and 40% fewer homes would be protected by 2027. A year later, we have this. But the problem isn't actually as simple as government underspending. 1/6
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At the COP29 climate summit, Keir Starmer said he wasn't going to tell people how to live their lives.
That's not what people want to hear.
I've written about what he could have said instead.
climatecitizens.org.uk/climate-citi...
That's not what people want to hear.
I've written about what he could have said instead.
climatecitizens.org.uk/climate-citi...
Climate Citizens Blog - Climate Citizens | Lancaster University | Assembly on climate change
Bringing climate policy to the people. Climate Citizens is a project run out of Lancaster University aiming to change how people engage with the creation of climate policy.
climatecitizens.org.uk
November 26, 2024 at 9:13 AM
At the COP29 climate summit, Keir Starmer said he wasn't going to tell people how to live their lives.
That's not what people want to hear.
I've written about what he could have said instead.
climatecitizens.org.uk/climate-citi...
That's not what people want to hear.
I've written about what he could have said instead.
climatecitizens.org.uk/climate-citi...
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IN SUMMARY:
Developing countries wanted:
Mobilisation: $1.3tn
Provision: $600bn
Investment: ⛔️
They got:
Mobilisation: $300bn
Provision: 🤷♂️
Investment: $1.3tn (maybe)
Developing countries wanted:
Mobilisation: $1.3tn
Provision: $600bn
Investment: ⛔️
They got:
Mobilisation: $300bn
Provision: 🤷♂️
Investment: $1.3tn (maybe)
November 25, 2024 at 6:42 PM
IN SUMMARY:
Developing countries wanted:
Mobilisation: $1.3tn
Provision: $600bn
Investment: ⛔️
They got:
Mobilisation: $300bn
Provision: 🤷♂️
Investment: $1.3tn (maybe)
Developing countries wanted:
Mobilisation: $1.3tn
Provision: $600bn
Investment: ⛔️
They got:
Mobilisation: $300bn
Provision: 🤷♂️
Investment: $1.3tn (maybe)
On Trump and geoengineering, again. :-/
www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/pu...
www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/pu...
Promises of climate engineering after neoliberalism - Research Portal | Lancaster University
Find out more about Lancaster University's research activities, view details of publications, outputs and awards and make contact with our researchers.
www.research.lancs.ac.uk
November 6, 2024 at 2:24 PM
On Trump and geoengineering, again. :-/
www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/pu...
www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/pu...
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Andreas and I wrote this piece in @uk.theconversation.com based on our book and this new Nature piece on overshoot.
@versobooks.bsky.social
"How mainstream climate science endorsed the fantasy of a global warming time machine."
theconversation.com/how-mainstre...
@versobooks.bsky.social
"How mainstream climate science endorsed the fantasy of a global warming time machine."
theconversation.com/how-mainstre...
How mainstream climate science endorsed the fantasy of a global warming time machine
Surpassing 1.5°C of warming can be undone at a later date – using tech, land and resources that don’t exist.
theconversation.com
October 9, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Andreas and I wrote this piece in @uk.theconversation.com based on our book and this new Nature piece on overshoot.
@versobooks.bsky.social
"How mainstream climate science endorsed the fantasy of a global warming time machine."
theconversation.com/how-mainstre...
@versobooks.bsky.social
"How mainstream climate science endorsed the fantasy of a global warming time machine."
theconversation.com/how-mainstre...