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UCL Anthropocene

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Twitter Web App : Companies are now investing in already-built wind and solar farms to avoid reducing their own emissions. bit.ly/2LASA89

Twitter Web App : Interesting if mis-titled; focuses on control over political narratives.

Wuhan is at the heart of a battle over the roots of coronavirus ft.com/content/3c2c46… via @financialtimes

Twitter Web App : UCL Creative Fellowships Programme: still open for applications until January 22nd. twitter.com/UCL_IAS/status…

Twitter Web App : There's still time to watch two incredible films about waste and join our discussion with the directors tonight at 19:00 GMT. eventbrite.co.uk/e/art-and-the-… twitter.com/UCLurbanlab/st…

Twitter Web App : Applications are now open for the Lisa Jardine Grant Scheme, which offers the opportunity for early career scholars to exploit history of science collections, including the Royal Society’s, to support research in the field of intellectual history: royalsociety.org/grants-schemes…

iPhone : Members of the Green Innovation Policy Commission including director Prof Paul Ekins have written to the Prime Minister to urge him to to replicate the push for a Covid vaccine in the search for climate solutions. environmentjournal.online/articles/pm-mu…

Twitter Web App : The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology POST (UK Parliament) is urgently looking for a Social Science Adviser (full time). Very important role in getting social science perspectives into UK Parliament
atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/…

Twitter Web App : Social & historical sciences + humanities needed:

'The…questions are less about what to do, & more about how…The gravity of the situation requires fundamental changes to global capitalism, education, & equality…'

Report: tinyurl.com/y37xvp4u

theguardian.com/environment/20…

Twitter Web App : Our Global Governance Futures #podcast has a new look & is now also available on Spotify! Tune in at spoti.fi/3sv9iXo

Twitter Web App : It's the first week of the term, so the ExCiteS "introduction to citizen science & scientific crowdsourcing" course started - it's an open course, so you can join it here extendstore.ucl.ac.uk/product?catalo… - this year UCL Geography study it also remotely...

Twitter Web App : Post-Brexit regulation doesn't match new EU rules to tackle ocean pollution:
theguardian.com/environment/20…

Twitter Web App : Bad news for bees: The Government has bowed to pressure from the National Farmers Union to agree the use of a highly damaging pesticide - neonicotinoid thiamethoxam - for the treatment of sugar beet seed in response to beet yellows virus Defra UK (1/7) gov.uk/government/pub…

Twitter Web App : Our research seminars UCL Geography are open to all and start next week! Join us for amazing new work on radio encounters, Caribbean unmappings, taking refuge, social experiences during COVID, Black and anticolonial methods, city building and more – geog.ucl.ac.uk/news-events/ev…

Twitter Web App : "All types of plastic production assume the privilege of disposability, regardless of whether they are disposable plastics..."

Dr Max Liboiron on plastic pollution and colonial science:

orionmagazine.org/article/plasti…