Whilst the cost of living crisis continues to spiral, with food and fuel prices soaring, so do global oil and gas companies profits. Shell has today announced it's profits have more than doubled. This is obscene. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Shell profit more than doubles to $9.8 billion, second-highest on record, as Iran war lifts prices

Shell's ​net profit more than doubled from last year to $9.84 billion in the second quarter, beating expectations, helped by ‌higher energy prices and increased market volatility during the Middle Eas...

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I'm not qualified to judge whether such people are psychopaths. All I can say is that they behave as if they are. From today's Telegraph.

Hi @yougov.co.uk, you left off the correct answer which is "This will be one of the coolest summers of the rest of our lives and they will keep getting hotter and hotter until we stop burning fossil fuels".

I've signed @zero-hour.bsky.social's petition calling on Andy Burnham to Secure Our Future—to meet the UK's climate and nature commitments, pass the Nature + National Security Bill, and reject all new oil and gas. Will you join me? www.zerohour.uk/andy

Secure Our Future For Us

Andy Burnham has a chance to Secure Our Future. Will you tell him not to waste it? Sign below.

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Excellent BBC article on the risk of a catastrophic ocean circulation change in the Atlantic. Time to act before it’s too late. #AMOC www.bbc.com/news/article...

After record heat, could the Atlantic make Britain's weather even more extreme?

As temperatures rise, scientists are investigating whether a changing Atlantic could bring more volatile weather to the UK

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So excited to see this! Over 4 episodes I cover the hugely alarming conclusions of the Joint Intelligence Ctte Report, shamefully suppressed by Government, & explore its implications for our food and water security. @nebriefing.bsky.social @climatemajority.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social

The Rest Is Politics@therestpolitics.bsky.social · 3w ago

Climate breakdown isn't just an environmental issue - it's fast becoming a national security crisis. Our major new investigative series with Caroline Lucas starts Friday, exclusively for TRIP + members.

For too long, Labour’s housing model has served private developers, not people, and failed to deliver genuinely affordable housing. Today, Geraldine Coggins will announce the first step in her plans to change that as Green Mayor

🚨 Heatwaves, wildfires, droughts. Food insecurity, infrastructure closures, hospitals stretched. 🌿 Andy Burnham has a choice. Prioritise people or polluters. 💥 Donate to our Crowdfunder, and help us call on Andy to act now to Secure Our Future. 👉 crowdfunder.co.uk/p/secure-our-future-for-us

Dear Mark Henderson, It is not by accident that a part of the ideological spectrum is adverse to scientific consensus and the prosocial values that the scientific community largely uphold.

Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · last mo.

As someone in this picture I find it a little odd that @natureportfolio.nature.com chose this image to illustrate the point. We were very careful when choosing a slogan for our signs that it be scientificly defenceable. "Science says New Oil & Gas = Death" is a plain statement of fact 🧵

There is a toxic combination of sky high bills and wages that are far too low. We need buzzing high streets with thriving businesses and community spaces. The Green Party is offering hope & a plan to end Rip Off Britain.

I just donated to the Venezuelan people via the UN Crisis Relief share.google/KH7NAf8Z1A8C... Please share with your contacts.

UN Crisis Relief

United Nations Crisis Relief connects people who care to people in crisis, providing support where it matters most.

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Thanks to the amazing Team organising #ReadEmo26 for having me! It was such an amazing experience. Very informative talks and inspiring conversations. I am looking forward to having again the opportunity to attend Reading Emotions again.

Carien van Reekum@carien.bsky.social · last mo.

Fantastic short talks #ReadEmo26: imagining spinal cord? @liviasimela.bsky.social has it sorted! Lydia Tidmarsh presenting work in progress on long COVID, pain and neuroinflammation, and @eval80.bsky.social highlighting that EEG pain signatures are perhaps not what they may seem to some

Saw The People's Emergency Briefing at Essex last night — Packham's film from the Nov 2025 Westminster briefing. The evidence is grim; the message, hopeful: we already hold the tools. The waste is choosing not to use them. Find or host a screening: nebriefing.org/screening-map we need everyone

National Emergency Briefing

Find a People's Emergency Briefing screening near you, or spot a gap that you can fill by hosting a screening.

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Join us in Brighton this September! www.bacn.co.uk/conferences Symposium submissions due 31 March.

We keep observing the same dynamics over and over. A perverse playbook of neoliberal marketisation politics. Importantly, workers and students ultimately pay the price of manager's poor choices and of a no-fit-for-purpose High Education system. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Thousands of University of Nottingham staff told they are at risk of redundancy

Institution says it could run out of money by 2031 and wants to cut more than 600 academic and support posts

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1/ It is time to end the destructive political power of the illiberal far-right foreign and domestic billionaires. It is time to END media billionairism. Help by Signing and sharing the Parliamentary Petition calling for the passing of the Media Sovereignty Act mediasovereignty.org/petition/

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Parliamentary Petition Do YOU want Britain to take back control of our media and democracy from the international billionaires who have hijacked it?They use it to force our politicians to act again…

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Every second, $6,000 in fossil fuel subsidies are handed out globally. That’s $5 trillion/year. Renewables? Barely a fraction. We have 6–7 years to halve emissions. The industry has zero years of conscience. Share if you’ve had enough. 🌍✊

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Antisemitism and Jewish safety is not some abstract concept for me. In fact, in the last 6 weeks alone 2 people have been arrested in relation to antisemitic actions towards me and yesterday the Times newspaper published a vile antisemitic cartoon.."

It is a day of remembrance. This year I am particularly hurt. Sure, relieved, as I have not been made redundant, but I cannot help mourning for those colleagues who have unfairly been targeted by redundancies at the University of Essex.

University and College Union (UCU)@ucu.org.uk · 3mo ago

Essex staff on day 17 of strike action today. Fighting for jobs, a campus and a whole community. This campus won't save itself. Saturday 25 April, join the rally. Stand with them.

"Zack Polanski’s Green Party scored another shock win beating Nigel Farage’s party in Kent." www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Academic journal corps like Elsevier are not just funneling away public research money. They are pouring it into fossil fuels 💸 I document the complicity of academic publishing in Science in Resistance where I interview an employee of Cell fired after digging into its ties to Big 🛢️ Excerpt below 👇

The University of Essex plans to close their Southend campus and insist in making redundant many colleagues. Sign the petition and share it with your contacts www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Save Essex: Stop the Cuts, Save Southend, Protect Education

These proposed cuts mean people losing their livelihoods in a higher education sector already facing a jobs crisis, where alternative employment is scarce and careers built over many years can be dest...

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The VC has planned to cut 400 jobs, close the Southend campus, demolish the Essex Pathways (foundation year) department, and decimate other departments like language & linguistics, maths & stats and business. She met us for an all-staff meeting on Thursday. It was... fascinating! Let's fact-check.

Essex is cutting campuses and jobs. Staff and students pay the price. Senior management pay stays protected. That’s not leadership, it’s a moral/ethical failure. Resharing the UCU flyer below. Please read + repost. #UCU #Essex @ucuessex.bsky.social

This is a straight up plug, but... If you're curious about what this felt like & exactly what led up to it, I have a chapter in 'Scientists on Survival' where I recount the details. Available in paperback - www.mombooks.com/book/scienti... Or as audiobook- www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0FCMVC437

Dr Charlie Gardner@charliejgardner.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Fascinating research by @samuelfinnerty.bsky.social on how scientist-activists navigate the tensions between their professional and activist roles, based on research with our group @scientistsforxr.earth

Please support University of Essex workers. If you only do one thing: sign the petition below. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...

1,279 and growing. Please help us to make pressure on decision-makers to look into the alternative savings, we have already shown, are possible! www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Save Essex: Stop the Cuts, Save Southend, Protect Education

These proposed cuts mean people losing their livelihoods in a higher education sector already facing a jobs crisis, where alternative employment is scarce and careers built over many years can be dest...

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For many of us is now or never. Help us protect these jobs.

University and College Union (UCU)@ucu.org.uk · 6mo ago

400 jobs at risk. A campus set to close. This film explains what’s happening at the University of Essex and why staff, students and the local community are organising to stop it. 📍 Southend rally | 5 February

www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa... Please share and support!

Save Essex: Stop the Cuts, Save Southend, Protect Education

These proposed cuts mean people losing their livelihoods in a higher education sector already facing a jobs crisis, where alternative employment is scarce and careers built over many years can be dest...

megaphone.org.uk

🐝 Zero Hour is proud to work with many inspiring champions helping to advance the Climate and Nature Bill. 👩‍🔬 On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we want to highlight some of the incredible voices advocating for climate and nature action! 👇 See below! 🧵