@jamescrooks.bsky.social
Cricket-mad recovering classicist. Currently creating content and running Digital Communications at the Centre for Energy Ethics at the University of St Andrews.
The @energy-ethics.bsky.social and Greener Vision are partnering on an exhibition of The Tabula Project and events exploring new approaches to tackling climate change. The programme focuses on one of the most urgent and profound challenges facing humanity today
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A huge congratulations to our Deputy Director Dr Emilka Skrzypek on receiving a double Golden Dandelion Award for her work developing two modules for our MSc in Energy Policy and Finance
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Less than 3 weeks away from Energy-in-Motion!
The full Conference Programme is now available on our website 👇👇
energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/energy-in-mo...
Be a part of the discussions that this exciting event will help facilitate; tickets are still available for in-person & online attendance
We are very excited to be able to name the Energy-in-Motion Conference Poster competition winner: Rowan Munnery
The brief was to create a promotional poster which represented the artist's interpretations of the main conference themes.
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I was on Reporting Scotland last night discussing what the closure of Grangemouth oil refinery, large local job losses and threats to our energy security. This unjust transition could have been avoided if governments had acted. Workers advocated viable greener alternatives. First report ⬇️
01.05.2025 10:29 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0#FlashbackFriday
In honour of next week's 3MPlanet final (see below), we thought that today we'd take a look back at an episode of the #AllAboutEnergy we did with the winners of our competition back in 2021!
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#EnergySky #EnergyTransition #Research
#DearAcademics,
Explaining your topic simply and succinctly is a highly valuable skill.
Overcomplicating abstracts for articles, books, or seminars is not only a form of gate-keeping, it also hurts your overall goal of trying to get people to engage with your ideas by hiding them behind jargon...
Our 3MPlanet Competition Final is coming up!
If you are in or around @uniofstandrews.bsky.social next week, come & check out the final of our annual undergraduate research competition.
👉 tinyurl.com/mu4xd3rp
1530 - 1630 BST, Thurs 24 April
In-Person online
Check out the link above for more info
Oh, I wasn't worried about feasibility, just the rules of the imaginary universe where this was possible!
Would be be operating on Terminator or Back to the Future rules of time?
How would seeing the future work, though? If it were a set timeline where anything you do would just ironically lead to the future you saw coming true, I might want a different power...
11.04.2025 14:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Energy Cafe Next Week 📣
Join Sarah Rosenberg-Jansen for a discussion of 'Voices in the Dark' (@berghahnbooks.bsky.social) her recently published book looking at the complexities of energy access in refugee settings
1 - 2pm BST, Tue 15 Apr
In-Person & Online
www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
New Blog Post 📣
This piece from Ava Rawson looks at the effect of operator ownership trends in regards to the legal fiscal obligation to decommission, plug & abandon redundant offshore infrastructure.
Read More 👇
#NorthSea #OilAndGas #JustTransition
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This is a really cool idea; I'm looking forward to the series!
03.04.2025 08:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We've put together a new #StarterPack which includes Energy, Climate and Sustainability Research Centres, Alliances and Institutes from around the world!
If you want to keep up with the latest publications, events and activities from these centres, follow them all here.
go.bsky.app/A6kSYd8
Oh hey, they used a review I published during my PhD too...
I suppose at least someone(?) has read it?
📢 There's less than 1 week left to apply for Financial Pathways seed funding!
⭐ Up to £10,000 available
⭐ Awards to be announced mid April
⭐ Submission deadline: 02/04/2025
More information and application here 👉 bit.ly/3X2gjzA
#NetZeroScotland #SeedFunding
Social Media Survey 👇
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I'm trying to get some feedback on social media use for a Digicomms course I'm doing.
It would be amazing if you could take 5 - 10 minutes to fill out this form for me. Please let me know if you have any questions and feel free to share widely.
Check out our latest post over on #TheEnergyBlog from one of our MSc students, Zak Gainey.
2024 might be remembered as a landmark year for #NuclearEnergy; as the year which saw big tech companies advance their own private energy initiatives.
energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/blog/2024-th...
If you want an overview of the situation unfolding at Grangemouth oil refinery, listen to this talk @riyokoshibe.bsky.social and I did for @energy-ethics.bsky.social. We discuss our findings from interviews we recorded with workers and their frustration at the looming discarding of their skills.
25.02.2025 16:56 — 👍 15 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0The PEPtalk series is back!
Join us this Thursday (1 - 2pm GMT) as our expert panel discusses how how energy and climate research can inform and direct policy decisions.
#EnergyEthics #ClimateCrisis
Registration is free; find out more at the link below
www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
Another thought-provoking blog piece from the CEE
16.02.2025 09:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Are you interested in Energy, Climate and/or Sustainability Research?
Follow our CEE Starter pack to link up with our wonderful, world-leading members and affiliates!
#ClimateResearch @uniofstandrews.bsky.social #EnergyEthics
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The stage-setting Preface of my new book is now open-access: academic.oup.com/book/59438/c...
Or use the code AUFLY30 at this link to get 30% of the dead-tree version: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
University folks might have full e-access through your library/while on campus; see link below.
Last year I wrote about Grangemouth's energy history for @energy-ethics.bsky.social. Half a century ago Grangemouth workers were put at the heart of the UK's energy economy - today they are being left behind. energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/blog/grangem...
30.01.2025 10:07 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0I learned about Grangemouth when I worked on a CEE blog post with Riyoko last year (tinyurl.com/kbyxf46r).
This event will provide a unique view into the front-lines of Scotland's Energy Transition and give a voice to those who we as a society cannot afford to leave behind.
#JustTransition
CEE Event Schedule 🗓️
Clear your diaries and be ready to join us with our jam-packed event schedule for the 2025 Spring Semester. We are thrilled to able to present a wide variety of seminars, workshops and our Energy-in-Motion conference all within the next 6-months!
#Events #Energy #ClimateChange
Well done, Connie!
21.01.2025 13:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My book analysing the politics of EIA and its relevance for the just energy transition, developing the theory of Energy Data Justice, available here link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
21.01.2025 13:39 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Upcoming Event 📣
Synthetic Forever: White Suits, Fatbergs & the Breathing Museum
3:00 - 4:30pm GMT Tue 4 Feb
Online
Prof Kirsty Robertson discusses the Museum of London fatberg as an unruly artefact, an evidential representation 21st Century human behaviour
www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
