Thanks to SME Connect for producing this report on our 'Smart strategy/smart policy: advancing digital transparency in the EU food system' meeting at @europarl.europa.eu last week smeconnect.eu/past-events/... @cugeogplan.bsky.social #foodsystem #transparency #digitalisation #foodpolicy

Smart strategy, smart policy: advancing digital transparency in the EU food system - SME Connect

On 22 April 2026, SME Connect and the TITAN Project convened a working breakfast entitled “Smart strategy, smart policy: advancing digital transparency in the EU food system” hosted by Kristian Vigeni...

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Two very rewarding days spent in Brussels, co-organising two events with @ilsieurope.bsky.social, @w-u-r.bsky.social and SMEConnect, revolving around the findings of the TITAN project on enhancing food system transparency. @cugeogplan.bsky.social #transparency #foodsystem #digitaltransformation

En route to Brussels, where I'm looking forward to co-organising a workshop tomorrow on Shaping Transparent Food Systems as part of titanproject.eu. #foodsystem #transparency #sustainability @cugeogplan.bsky.social @ilsieurope.bsky.social

A rare thing: *four* three-year hums/soc-sci posts in animal studies, on the Multispecies Mutualisms project at UoSheffield - with @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social, me, Robert McKay and Alasdair Cochrane; see here for a video explainer: digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...

Multispecies Mutualisms - Join Our Research Team!

We’re hiring 4 Postdoctoral Research Associates (PDRAs) In this video, members of the team share insights into four exciting PDRA opportunities currently available. If you are ready to take the next s...

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Our new TITAN policy brief on food system transparency is out: titanproject.eu/publications... #EUPolicy #FoodSystems #FoodPolicy #Transparency @cugeogplan.bsky.social

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Petition: Continue funding Technocamps to provide the support that schools and teachers across Wales rely on. petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...

So sad to hear this news. John was such a kind and generous person, and a great lecturer. Incredibly supportive from my first tutorial as an undergrad and beyond. www.abdn.ac.uk/staffnet/new...

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New open access paper out with Verity Jones on 'Learning to Care for the Food System: Education for Sustainable Development resources, food education and the farming of animals for food' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Learning to care in the food system: Education for Sustainable Development resources, food education and the farming of animals for food

Despite calls for curricula to be repurposed around environmental concerns, and the related significance of food-related emissions to global climate change, consideration of the wider impacts of th...

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It is a relief that University management has backed away from the brutal plans to cut up to 700 jobs. This backtracking is in no doubt down to the relentless pressure from UCU, from all the campus unions and the support from the city of Dundee, local communities and across the political spectrum.

Day two of the strike, and we've ben getting a lot of questions from students about the action. What's it for, why are we doing it now, and how can they help. So let's run through some Strike Questions! 🧵

There's several petitions going around following the Cardiff Uni announcement about job losses. Please consider signing and sharing. www.change.org/p/save-cardi... www.change.org/p/save-cardi... www.change.org/p/save-cardi... www.change.org/p/save-mlang... petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...

The CU Fight Back website is live and acts as a repository for info, events, petitions, letters, stories, and perspectives from Cardiff University staff and students, and beyond. We will resist the proposed cuts. Our first letter is from Dr Tim Johnston cufightback.wordpress.com/2025/02/01/l...

Letter to the VC – Dr Tom Johnston

From Dr Tim Johnston, former academic staff at Cardiff University in composition Dear Vice Chancellor, I am writing to you to express my dismay and great distress at the news of Cardiff’s exception…

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I thought my first post on here should be about something significant. So...

I have begun to compile a starter pack of human geographers, so if you are new to BlueSky it’s worth checking out. Also please let me know who I should add, I’m sure I’m missing lots of people go.bsky.app/SAK9wfm