Get yourself a friend who can use a brush, some paint, and paper to bring you much closer to your elderly pug across the pond. Thank you @johnhoganmorris.bsky.social for my lovely portrait of Margo aka Presh 😍

Climate and insurance folks: please join @jathansadowski.com, Leigh Johnson, Stephen Collier and me for an AAG session on insurance, spatial governance and climate adaptation. CFP below, abstract form here:

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Upcoming launch event for a C40 Cities special issue that @zacjtaylor.bsky.social & I have edited on climate risk, finance, and adaptation! We’ll speak with some stellar panelists: @pmbigger.bsky.social, @lindashi.bsky.social, @kellyhereid.bsky.social & Kayin Venner.

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I get that the UK is basically managing decline now, which among other things means that many of its “world leading” universities offer a pittance for research funds, forcing sharp rises in small grant apps. But can we please at least still “fail” through the eyes of a human rather than a machine?

“National grid-private solar generation fights but make it Taylor Swift” (I won’t keep this as the subhead…maybe)

Two months after my cash-strapped university forked over some big ones for vital pigeon removal projects, the birds outside my window have made a condo of twigs. I am absolutely living for this spite.

Mad with power

Unsolicited update: per my research the latest #AAGdelaydriver is wind in Cleveland, not electrical fires in London #cascadingfailures #slowemergencies #sotired

update on the vital anti-pigeon defenses at Sheffield. Turns out they’re not the most effective interventions 🙃 pigeons have already destroyed one and are now destroying a second. Managed to capture how they go about it—brilliant. One useful thing that the uni could do, though, is clean our windows

Real Housewives of Climate Finance jokes either mean that @zacjtaylor.bsky.social and I are nearly done with the framing essay of our forthcoming SI or the framing essay is nearly done with us…

Vive la résistance (also, Sisyphus, meet Rock)

Apparently no amount of financial duress can stop the university from rooting out dangerous, illegal pigeon squatting #freethepigeons

Doing some lecture prep for my planning classes and I wholeheartedly endorse a return to book titles like these

My punishment for buying an Economist while bored at the airport. This phrase is officially Over. We are sculpting / being sculpted by now.

I don’t like it when I see my lame academic turns of phrase in energy ads. Feeling attacked, mocked