Sociologist @ Manchester University. Research: human-animal relations, political ecology, technology, ecosocialism. Less and less time for obscurantism. He/him.
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“I am pleased to inform you that your manuscript has been formally accepted for publication”. Well, that’s the highlight of my day (…ok, my week) and it’s only 9am on Monday. All downhill now! 😆
Number of wild bee species at risk of extinction in Europe doubles in 10 years | Bees | The Guardian #biodiversity #pollination #bees theguardian.com/environment/…
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Smart Hives sollen die Landwirtschaft in Kalifornien retten, das Artensterben beenden, Präzisionsbestäubung erlauben und kleinbürgl. Imker in die Lohnarbeit zwingen. Über die reelle Subsumtion der Honigbiene unter das Kapital schrieb @Post_humanist.
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Most media coverage of this issue is awful. But this is rather good. . “We’re close to translating animal languages – what happens then?” | Animals | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/2025/j…
Tony Blair is the stopped clock that somehow never tells the right time. #climatechange #decarbonisation
@ New article: 'Digital Hives, Nonhuman Work and the Real Subsumption of Nature: Fixing Pollination in Capitalist Agriculture'. doi.org/10.1177/251484862513… #socioecologicalcrisis #socioecologicalfix #precisionagriculture #realsubsumption #nonhumanwork
Orchestrated PR campaign by Meat and Dairy industry lobby group behind plant food study backlash | Food | The Guardian theguardian.com/environment/…
Not many silver linings to the present economic upheaval, to be fair, but one of them could be (please) that sociology finally stops spewing out all that vacuous garbage about globalisation.
Biodiversity loss in all species and every ecosystem linked to humans – report | Biodiversity | The Guardian theguardian.com/environment/…
How is it, when governments have access to such breadth and depth of research and evidence based policy guidance, they continue to push poorly conceived knee jerk legislation for the sake of symbolic statements and with no regard for the actual social impacts? #DisabilityBenefits
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In the context of everything farmers & society have been told since 2017, this is insane.
Overnight @UKLabour has ejected the foundational principle that we need more nature & climate action across our landscape in favour of culture wars.
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This is bonkers. A huge own goal for Labour :(
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Literally worse than the Tories, and we’re not even a year in. Going further than George Osborne, cutting Personal Independence Payments. ‘No return to austerity’ they said, but austerity we’re getting, because they won’t touch the wealthy. #disabilitycuts theguardian.com/politics/202…
“Labour’s plans include] cutting universal credit for those judged as unfit for work, as an incentive for some disabled people to seek employment.”
Disabled people judged by a medical professional to be ‘unfit for work’ aren’t suffering from a ‘lack of incentives’ are they?
Against ‘growth’. Great letters in the Grauniad. “Economic growth for its own sake is ruining Britain” | Economic growth (GDP) | #Degrowth #postgrowth #ecosocialism theguardian.com/business/202…
Just when you thought you’d heard the worst story of ‘negative value’ in the Capitalocene. “Microplastics hinder plant photosynthesis, study finds, threatening millions with starvation”. Still, microplastics aren’t the cause of starvation, inequality is. theguardian.com/environment/…
