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Simeon Shtebunaev
@shtebunaev.bsky.social
Senior Researcher at Social Life | Doctoral research at Birmingham City University in youth and urban planning | Trustee RTPI | Design Council Expert Linkedin: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/simeonshtebunaev
When people tell you who they are, believe them. *** Meta quits clean energy pledge amid data center expansion ground.news/article/meta...
Meta quits clean energy pledge amid data center expansion
Meta has abandoned a global pledge made by leading companies to source all of their electricity from renewable sources, the social media giant has confirmed. RE100, an initiative of the UK-based nonpr...
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Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.
Climate change is making extreme weather events more frequent and more dangerous, even in Europe. It's not something that happens to other people. It's not something that will happen in the future. It's happening now, TO ALL OF US, and it will keep getting worse until we decide to act.
Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf@rahmstorf.bsky.social · 2w agoHoliday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.
Loved this week in Copenhagen as part of UNLEASH! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj2U...
UNLEASH Europe
YouTube video by UNLEASH
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Unless this “honesty” involves the recognition that immigrants are *not* the root cause of the UK’s problems *but* actually a part of the solution to them, this will be completely pointless. I cannot stress this enough. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Burnham to say UK must be honest about its challenges as he prepares to become PM
Labour leader will visit king to accept role on Monday and will start making cabinet appointments that afternoon
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Keeping Lisa Nandy as Culture Sec and Shabana Mahmood as Home Sec:
🚨 BREAKING: Andy Burnham has appointed Angela Rayner as Housing Secretary
Charlie Stayt, "You haven't given him a chance, have you, he hasn't even started?" Zack Polanski, "He's appointed James Purnell as chief of staff. This is a man who is a corporate lobbyist for private water companies"
Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.
And add to the pile: www.heraldscotland.com/news/2622404... A perfect storm is wiping out the sector.
University bosses to press on with £140m cuts bid despite projected budget surplus
In an email sent to staff last week, principal Sir Peter Mathieson and provost Kim Graham said that the university has an operating surplus of…
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Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · last mo.📣 People are understandably up in the arms about this (it is horrible). But just want to wave a hand out there 👋 as we're going through the same thing in Humanities at Northumbria (1 out of 5 staff need to go by end of July). 1/?
As we celebrate ten years since the UK voted to leave the EU, it's worth just reminding ourselves of the many benefits of Brexit, as clearly articulated by those who voted for it.
The state of higher education in the UK, in a photo
Social Life developed our Community Dynamics data - predicting how people feel about the places they live. We believe the data and the approach have fresh relevance today. Read more: www.social-life.co/blog/post/ma...
Social Life developed our Community Dynamics data - predicting how people feel about the places they live. We believe the data and the approach have fresh relevance today. Read more: www.social-life.co/blog/post/ma...
Social cohesion, belonging and neighbourhood quality have become urgent topics, as fracturing community cohesion generates increasing concern and debate. Social Life developed our Community Dynamics data - predicting how people feel about the places they live www.social-life.co/blog/post/ma...
Mapping how we feel about the places we live | Social Life
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Today we launch the new World Cities Report ! New data. New realities. New priorities. This is one of the key global references on urbanisation — shaping how governments, cities and organisations think about: - housing - inequality - climate - urban growth If you want to understand where cities a
Second day at #WUF13 was exciting with sessions at the UK Pavillion with Policy Lab, Global Planners Network @rtpiplanners.bsky.social
Arrived at Baku, Azerbaijan for the 13th session of the World Urban Forum #WUF13 Exited to chat about cities, housing and youth, get in touch! @unhabitatyouth.bsky.social
Super excited to see Pullens Yard, my workplace, a finalist for best neighbourhood from the @academyofurbanism.bsky.social!
Hello May 👋 Lots to look forward to this month as we get the ball rolling on the #UrbanismAwards assessment visits, publish a new e-journal and hear from our 2025 YU Small Grants Scheme recipient, Hal Mellen - also, double bank holiday… For more info and registration visit theaou.org/events
Wow. According to this analysis, 98% of the environmental commitments from meat & dairy companies involved some degree of greenwashing. 98%. We need to do much better, folks. journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
Environmental claims, climate promises, and ‘greenwashing’ by meat and dairy companies
Animal agriculture has disproportionate environmental impacts relative to other forms of food production and accounts for at least 16.5% of all global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Many of the large...
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Homophobic and anti-LGBTQ literature in the North Edgebaston Ward, Birmingham - what a bunch of opportunists
There's two basic problems with Labour's Ed Balls. 1) He hates the left. 2) He has a very thin skin.
Why #VoteGreenInBrum in the local elections on May 7? To bring hope back to Birmingham. birmingham.greenparty.org.uk/why-vote-gre...
So disappointing to see the lack of political will now in Birmingham for safer streets. After questions from Babiker Yahia, whose 4-year-old daughter Mayar was killed by a driver in April 2024, only one candidate (after quite a pause) backed 20mph limits on all residential streets.
Beautiful statements from our neighbours in the Civic Square's planning application!
Zack Polanski calls for UK to withdraw trade agreement with Israel after strikes on Lebanon www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Zack Polanski calls for UK to withdraw trade agreement with Israel after strikes on Lebanon
Green leader says PM should impose tougher sanctions on Israel and accuses country of acting in ‘completely uncontrolled way’
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