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We are also looking forward to listening to Jesse Byrant about "Conservatism, the Far Right, and the Environment" & Pancho Lewis talking about "Energy Transition in a Land of Nuclear Entanglements"

Kicking off day 3 by listening to Andrew Macdonald about "Sometimes you just need to make a lot of noise!": Disruptive Youth Climate Protest as a Multifaceted Response to Climate Crises". Such a rich talk about young people, climate anxiety, emotions, futures and agency

We now are discussing "The Regulation of Thermoregulation: Continuity, Change and Crisis in Thermal Cultures" with Janine Morley

We now are starting our first paper session with Sebastian Abrahamsson et al talking about "Versions of the Right to Repair" e waste, consumer autonomy, policy and legislation.

Starting Day 2 of #Britsoc18 with a Stream Plenary "Time and Temporality in the Anthropocene" by Nigel Clark, Bronislaw Szerszynski & Audrey Verma

Going forward and now listening to @Nobila Bano about "Passing Roots to Branches: Unravelling the Role of Intergenerational Knowledge Transfer in mediating South Asian Migrant-Background families’ Connection with/to the Natural World"

We have just started our second paper session with Helen Traill's talk on "What Does the Climate Crisis Ask of Academia? Reflexivity, Activist-Scholarship and Dissonance".

Final paper in the first session is about "Rising Tides, Shifting Minds: The Influence of the 2021 European Flooding on ProEnvironmental Attitudes and Partial Behaviour Transition" by Hamid Bulut & Robin Samuel.. Looking forward to Q&A forum. A good start of the day #britsoc18

Our second paper under Environment & Society stream is "Acceptance and Resistance in Encountering Mortality: Decolonising ‘Bereavement’ Studies in the Face of Planetary Crisis" by Jane Mccarthy et al #britsoc18

Kicking off the very first of #BSA 2024 conference with discussion on Human- Elephant conflict in India, vulnerabilities and livelihood practices by Lalatendu Keshari Das. #britsoc18

BSA Virtual Annual Conference 2024 (3-5 April 2024) As part of the conference programme, Environment & Society Stream is holding 7 paper sessions and one stream plenary Please see details of our sessions on the programme grid here: ac2024_prog_grid.xlsx (live.com)

The politics of emotions and affects in the net zero transition conference in Manchester (28th June) For further inquiries, please contact @pancho_lewis

The politics of emotions and affects in the net zero transition conference in Manchester (28th June) Contributions may focus on Support for or opposition to renewable or ‘green’ energy projects Attachments or resistance to high or low-carbon social practices

Call for abstracts "the politics of emotions and affects in the net zero transition" 28th June (University of Manchester, UK) If interested please fill in this form: url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/AFkhCYQEkc96…

I recently spoke to a room of 1200+ people on the role of activism. This speech took me in a direction I didn't expect. It felt nerve-wracking yet important to expose what I consider to be the biggest climate cover-up in history... 1/7

“It would not be right to stand here and not acknowledge staff who have been fighting for not more than the bare minimum”. How can we thank you enough for this brave and moving oration at Edinburgh Graduation today. @ucuedinburgh @ucu @sssn_edi

I'm delighted to lead the new Energy Demand Research Centre w. @ProfSaraWalker working w. @j_r_barrett @JTorriti @DrGregMarsden @contourgeek Prof Karen Turner & many others + funder @UKRI_News. Energy demand reduction is essential in reaching net zero #energydemand #energypolicy

📢New PhD studentship for Sept 23 start!📢 📺Love the telly? 🌿Interested in climate/environment? ⚙️Got data skills? We have an exciting new PhD project advertised, which will use NLP & computer vision to explore climate/env representations on a diverse range of TV shows.

Despite over 3,000 pages of new detail, our confidence in the UK meeting its goals from 2030 onwards is now markedly less than it was in our previous assessment a year ago. A key opportunity to push a faster pace of progress has been missed. theccc.org.uk/2023/06/28/bet…

One of the most compelling #ShowYourStripes figures is this one by @ed_hawkins showing global temperatures over the past 2000 years along with carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere: