Mark Usher

🌍 Mark Usher and I are bringing professionals working on natural capital in Greater Manchester together for a workshop on Tues 22nd July (bridging Mark's work on natural capital and my own on environmental accounting) Full details below and register here bit.ly/gmnaturalcapit…

new commentary in @DialoguesHG underlining Latour's mounting concern with the state in his political ecology, and the role of geography in earthing it: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

really enjoyed collaborating with Emma Knapik and @l_brandimarte on a paper out this week on how lack of understanding of maintenance needs is a barrier to roll-out of #SuDS, a governance more than technical issue: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@brianrosa @bcnuej @ICTA_UAB V fred dibnah on reflection!

@brianrosa @bcnuej @ICTA_UAB Ruddy bloody brilliant news Brian

@seth_schindler @UniFreiburg @HumboldtUni @ClarkUniversity @OfficialUoM Ah congrats Seth, great news and v well-deserved!

@jevgeniy_b @Sal_DeRosa @rhizomia @markushergeog @HeatherJMiles scratch that - please use this link to get the article open access authors.elsevier.com/a/1hW0g3pILd%7…

Brilliant day of collective/connective stitching, spending time with lovely colleagues from the #CottonopolisCollective We've been working on @QuarryBankNT cotton for our upcoming LITMUS exhibition @TextileBiennial

@NavinSinghKhadk @garethdclay @NimeshDhungana Great to meet you Navin and thanks for your thought provoking contribution to our session!

Late post: With geographers @markushergeog and @garethdclay (centre) of Manchester University after presentation on "#Climate-proofing CNI in Global South: Mission Impossible?" during DSA conf @ Reading University. Thanks convenor @NimeshDhungana Lecturer @ Manchester Uni

About the state of urban research... @WardyKG1969 and I offer our thoughts in @JUAurban, calling for more attention to be paid to issues of disciplinary & geographic partiality and citational absences when surveying a field called 'urban studies' tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

How can this pollution happen during a long spell of dry weather? Local anglers reported a very strong smell of sewage and this muck floating down the River Mersey yesterday just downstream of Warrington. Reported to the EA this morning. Any update @EnvAgencyNW @unitedutilities?

I have a new open access chapter on the sewage scandal in england and #endsewagepollution movement 💩💩💩 Sewage spills linked to austerity and deregulatory zeal of current government . Thanks @Jamie_Woodward_ for images Available here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/display/book/9…

@nate_millington "yous lot" or "yay" in the north west. I haven't yay in a long time granted, I think outside an off licence in 2002

How does English not have a formal version of y'all?

@brianrosa Fred's house in Bolton was on sale when we were looking a few years ago, had a mini museum in his garden! Check it out on zoopla or something. @andrew_speak the modern day dibnah, might have some Bolton inside knowledge

Pitting growth against nature is a false choice. Our economy, food security and health depend on a thriving natural environment Voices from across environment & heritage are calling on @trussliz to protect nature - for wildlife, a healthy society, & a strong economy Read more👇

I've released a new booklet on how to better understand the diverse lives of older people for policy makers and academics. Please find more below or here: amycbarron.com/beyondolderage @age_uk @MICRA_Ageing @agefriendlyshef @AgeFriendlyLDS @AFNorthYorks @AgeFriendlyEU @AgeFriendlyIrl

@InvisibleMapper Looks ace Jon, looking forward to reading!

Finally, I submitted my manuscript to MIT Press. It's now heading into production + hopefully out later in 2023 👀

@trussliz on water regulators as now 'less effective at doing the job' is so cheap: @EnvAgency budget cut 2/3 by her party, while fire service has 1/5 of workforce cut since 2010. Drought/wildfire/sewage now revealing how austerity has eroded resilience: news.sky.com/video/liz-trus…

in new @envplane paper I explore how social/natural disciplines can engage with #restoration from "the inside", offering a #pragmatism approach to politics/democracy, a political urban ecology?? forgot to thank reviewers/editor cos I'm useless so thanks!: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

@jgwilliams88 @CaitHRobin I used this for teaching on desal as soon as I could download, no other paper does what it does, brilliant paper thanks Joe!