This week I have been helping to harvest this beautiful field of hemp in Suffolk, UK with the lovely Contemporary Hempery. This crop has required no water for the past 12 weeks and it is lush. #hemp #multispecies #ethnography
Julyan Levy
@julyanlevy.bsky.social
cannabis 🟢 dandelions 🟢 sphagnum moss critical plant studies / economic geography 🌱 phd @Coventry Uni. UK yt european cis male musician member of @greendrugpolicy.bsky.social 🍉🍉🍉 https://about.me/julyan.levy
Left: Gary Linekar, "(Police) carting pensioners off the streets for carrying a placard, it's utterly absurd what we've become" Right: Yvette Cooper and Keir Starmer's legacy is a disgrace, will you end this shambles @andyburnham.bsky.social burnham or will you make it part of your legacy too?
“Neither the Starmer government, nor Andy Burnham’s, can say it didn’t know”: former Green party leader @carolinelucas.bsky.social on the shocking climate reports the UK government didn't want you to see www.thenerve.news/p/caroline-l...
Govt planning c. 100 new data centres by early 2030s, mostly in already water stressed areas. They have no legal obligation to disclose how much water they use. Meanwhile Govt launches £75m publicity campaign to urge us to reduce water use & privatised water companies waste 19% thro leaks. Madness
Our peatlands are so important in the fight against climate breakdown! The plant agent responsible for engineering peatlands is Sphagnum moss. My latest pictorial blog post spotlights this incredible plant. substack.com/home/post/p-... #BogDay #Peatlands #PeatlandRestoration #Sphagnum #Moss
Pictorial ethnographic encounters with Sphagnum moss
One of my three case studies is Sphagnum moss.
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🎥 Zohran Mamdani, alcalde de NY: "Benjamin Netanyahu es un criminal de guerra y no es bienvenido en Nueva York"
It's Day 1 of Andy Burnham being Prime Minister & Donald Trump is celebrating the destruction of our planet. Meanwhile Spain doubled it's renewables - before they had some of the highest bills in Europe and now some of the lowest bills. Labour need to stop appealing to Trump.
My foot in Sphagnum. Sensory multispecies #ethnography #sphagnummoss #peatbog #plantagency #diverseeconomies #phd
#NaturesRights are an essential foundation for a healthy, secure future - from the debate on my bill today hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2026-0...
**WATCH LIVE** Natalie Bennett's speech at the second reading of the UK Nature's Rights Bill. parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
Blue-tailed Damselflies getting busy on the Shropshire Union Canal Llangollen Branch, nr the #sphagnummoss of the Marches Mosses.
This dogmatic obsession with growth is the death of economic imagination and will be responsible for our demise as a species.
Growth mentioned ten times. Climate mentioned zero times. A reminder that the green economy is worth £100bn a year, benefits every part of the UK, and green jobs are paid 11% above the average wage. Burnham must stamp out creeping climate skepticism and deliver for people and for nature.
Thinking of Jimmy Fallon jovially hosting Conor McGregor reminded me of the Bluesky comment that outraged the BBC so much I felt I had no choice but to resign .
Sadly, sexual predators and pedophiles near the King is nothing new - look up the history of the most influential men in his life - Lord Mountbatten and Laurens Van Der Post or his close religious advisor Peter Ball (oh and Jimmy Savile)
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EXCLUSIVE: An interactive map has revealed that developers are proposing a rash of AI data centres right across Scotland – prompting concerns about the impact on electricity prices, communities and the environment
This interactive map shows rise of AI data centres across Scotland
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Starmer makes my blood boil more than any PM since I've been been voting. Except maybe Blair. I'm 52.
AI tutors!! This is next level dystopia. Dont invest in teachers. Humans are messy anyway. WTF! Why not go all out and fit classroom chairs with electric shock technology in case a student dares to talk in class.
Keir Starmer announcing AI tutors for schoolchildren, and AI Jobseekers tools that will write CVs, How many millions/billions are we spending on this trash when we could actually be hiring more teachers and creating jobs to get the job done properly?
Next Monday we welcome Professor Kojo Koram to speak about his new book - The Next Fix: Winners and Losers in the Future of Drugs. Come join us! @kojokoram.bsky.social
Musk's tweet was one of the things that triggered me into writing about the myth of English Indigeneity.
My latest post on my Substack. 'We don't need to legitimise our right to a relationship with the land with an imagined Indigeneity'. #England #ourland #identity julyanlevy.substack.com/p/on-indigen...
On Indigeneity: A response to Nick Hayes
I recently watched a clip of Nick Hayes talking at The Hay festival 2026.
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Stomata on Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) leaf. They remind me of the mouths of Muppets 😊 Credit: Alex Hyde @alexhydephoto.bsky.social