Noel Longhurst

I was never a prolific Twitter poster but it was great for picking up useful things. However, I no longer want to support a site that promotes division and disinformation. I am no longer active here, and like many people in the energy / climate space have migrated to Bluesky.

@newtrix4dogs @MichaelRosenYes @mekonmcfc These figure are not hidden away, I found them with one google search. They come from an annual survey which you can find here: gov.uk/government/col… You are sharing disinformation, perhaps deliberately?

@noellonghurst @MichaelRosenYes @mekonmcfc Never trust the figures hidden away by a government (Uniparty) that is in the process of destroying the Nation State Having a chat with someone who works in the Social Housing sector (oh and social hotels 🤡) might enlighten you to what us plebs know is really going on

Some people don't like the word 'Islamophobic'. I'm trying to think of another word that describes 'attacking a mosque' or 'attacking people because they "look Muslim".'

@newtrix4dogs @MichaelRosenYes @mekonmcfc Never trust a graph without a source. Especially on Twitter. Government figures show that 77.6% of new social housing lets went to White British people in 2023. See here ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/housing/social…

@MichaelRosenYes @mekonmcfc What about this then? Social housing occupants in 2001

No prison for protest. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/no-p…

⛓️ To give you a sense of how horrifying and brutal these prison sentences for #JustStopOil activists are: Average sentence for violent crime = 1.7 years. Average sentence for the JSO activists = 4.3 years.

@CllrTerryJermy Amazing to see you go down in history @CllrTerryJermy! A richly deserved reward for all the hard work that you have put into Thetford and Breckland over the years. Good luck getting to grips with you MP duties!

How it started…. How it’s going! Great first day at the House of Commons. Staff incredibly welcoming and helpful. Still somewhat overwhelmed at this new role but determined to give it my all and be the best possible Member of Parliament for South West #Norfolk

Are you a student interested in big data and the environment? We have a new MSc Data Science for Environmental Science! Come and join us at UEA @ueaenv uea.ac.uk/course/postgra…

How the Tories pushed universities to the brink of disaster, by William Davies theguardian.com/politics/ng-in…

Just published co-authored article “Developing a minifesta for effective academic-activist collaboration in the context of the climate emergency” Frontiers in Education frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

BREAKING: Judge Silas Reid has today sent the indomitable Amy Pritchard to prison for 10 months. He suspended the sentences of four others, who joined her in breaking windows at JP Morgan. Here's what Amy said to Judge Reid that riled him so much

Paris has tripled parking rates for SUVs. Parking 6 hours will costs 225 euros instead of the current 75 euros. The new rates, which come into effect on Oct. 1, apply in the central arrondissements I to XI. #Echobox=1716308705" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">liberation.fr/environnement/…

OK who out there is interested in working up a postdoc application looking at big data communism/economic planning in the context of the climate crisis? How about putting it alongside more grassroots diverse economies perspectives? …sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/postdo…

In our new article @clift_ben and I question five key assumptions underpinning IPCC scenarios and integrated assessment models and explain why they matter so much for the politics of climate change mitigation - @BlondeelMathieu @st_pye @JamesJEPrice tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Truly delighted to share that our new paper ‘Ecologies of Co-production’ was published open access today in @progenvgeog. The paper builds on the theoretical + conceptual approach I used during my PhD work @jasondchilvers @3SResearchGroup journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/27…

Revealed: UK ‘double counting’ £500m of aid for war-torn countries as climate finance  carbonbrief.org/revealed-uk-do…

I would like to see more universities tell the @dailytelegraph to jog on...

Sorry to rain on your parade @Telegraph 1. We haven't issued a denial 2. We aren't cloud seeding in UAE 3. Our weather and climate scientists are providing evidence-based comments to explain what happened 4. Read more from them at rdg.ac/49GVsW3 5. Jog on

Academics often "had not applied for an external grant (...).  They felt that the effort involved in writing the application, and the time spent waiting for an outcome with a high likelihood of failure, could be better spent actually doing the research." blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…

Apply for PhD or Post doc in economics and policy of the #EnergyTransition! In spite of dramatic cost declines of #renewables, they are grow too slowly for the #Climate. Let's figure out why together! We start reviewing applications April 7th! chalmers.se/en/about-chalm…