Heather Alberro

I've never heard a better political speech than that just delivered by @zackpolanski.bsky.social at #gpconf 👏

Truthfulness, decency & kindness in politics, imagine that!

#GreenParty

Thank you for sharing! 🙏🏼

PSA Annual Conference | The Political Studies Association (PSA) Political Studies Association 76th Annual International ConferencePSA26: Political Studies Futures30 March – 1 April 2026, Oxford Join us in Oxford for PSA26 to discuss 'Political Studies Futures'Our ...

🚨CfP closing soon!

We would love to host your paper at the 2026 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social conference in Oxford.

More details here: www.psa.ac.uk/events/psa-a...

Just select 'Environmental Politics Specialist Group' in the ‘Topics’ section when submitting your abstract.

Exicting events on a great new book 👇

Frantz making sure we all damn well know how cute he is 😍🥰🐈 #cats

“An economic order that contains inequalities as extreme as ours- in which the vanity rocket ships of billionaires sail over seas of human misery- is its own kind of depravity, and that level of injustice reproduces more depravity as a matter of course.” - Doppelganger @naomiaklein.bsky.social ✊🏼

Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum

This is a huge story.

Don't let him get away with it.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Workshop: Environmental Politics in an Age of Insecurity A one-day workshop on global (in)security, geopolitics and the environment.

📢 Don’t miss out! ♻️

Come to the one-day workshop organised by the @psaenvironmental.bsky.social Specialist Group with the topic “Environmental Politics in an Age of Insecurity” 🙌🏻

🗓️ 17 September at @manchester.ac.uk

Programme & registration⬇️

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-e...

Our dominant socioeconomic systems have “a Midas problem. There’s no endgame, just a stagnant pyramiding scheme. Endless, pointless prosperity”… - Richard Powers, The Overstory 🌱🌳

📢 In case you missed out!

Send your paper proposal for the #PSA26 Annual Conference by 17 Oct 2025 🎉

Why attend?
✅ A great place to present your research & get feedback 💡
✅ Network with peers & senior academics 🫱🏽‍🫲🏼
✅ Get involved in Specialist Groups 👀

More info⬇️

“The world is not made for our utility…what use are we to trees?” - Richard Powers, ‘The Overstory’ 🌳💚🌍

🚨 In case you missed it! 🚨

Come to the one-day workshop organised by the @psaenvironmental.bsky.social Specialist Group with the topic “Environmental Politics in an Age of Insecurity”.

Save the date 🤓 🗓️ 17 September. ♻️

To register and find out more, click on the link below ⬇️

Tuesday vibes 🤪😸

Wow, what a cover! Congrats, Matt! Can’t wait to read 🤩🥳👏🏼

It's alive! Publication day! Play in Utopian and Dystopian Ficion arrived in the mail. Thanks Liverpool University Press for producing such a beautiful book.

“There are more lives up here, in his one maple, than there are people in all of Belleville” - Richard Powers, The Overstory 🫶🏼🌳🌍

Workshop: Environmental Politics in an Age of Insecurity A one-day workshop on global (in)security, geopolitics and the environment.

🚨 Full programme announced for our September workshop 'Environmental Politics in an Age of Insecurity'!

Registration and full details below @cisk.bsky.social @matpaterson.bsky.social @ruthtownend.bsky.social @dralberro.bsky.social @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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ICE is hiring! US immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking for highly motivated, morally indifferent individuals to join our team. Open positions include: Senior Goon Racism Enforcement Office Unmarked Van Driver (Part-Time) Experience with children a plus usajobs.gov

From this month's edition of The Onion.

"The tumbleweed, an icon of the American West, is not native to the United States or even the Americas. Indeed, none of the classically quintessential American icons—the cowboy and his accessories of horse, cattle, and tumbleweed—are native to the United States" - Banu Subramaniam, Botany of Empire

“Tomorrow was created yesterday, you see…and by the day before yesterday, too. To ignore history is to ignore the wolf at the door.” - John Le Carré, A Most Wanted Man

Utopia in the Factory This open access book critiques techno-utopias, arguing that human creativity and tacit knowledge remain vital to work and radical organization.

My new book is out. Utopia in the Factory: Prefigurative Knowledge Against Cybernetics. It's open access you can read it free here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

A graphic reading "25 books by Black Canadian authors to read in honour of Emancipation Day" by CBC Books. 5 books are featured.

Today is Emancipation Day in Canada, across the Caribbean, and other regions - marking the day slavery was abolished in the British Empire. My book, The Book of Possibilities, has been featured on a few Emancipation Day reading lists, and I'm grateful!

Lemme tell y'all a bit about the day:

Amazing news! Many congratulations, Khalid! 🥳👏🏼

Is ChatGPT making us stupid? Maybe the tool matters less than the user.

Is ChatGPT making us stupid?

In 2008, we asked the same about Google. Now #AI isn’t just finding info, it’s “thinking” and analyzing for us.

"Why can't we count past two? Why look through the eyes of European puritanical sexuality to see only a binary cis-heterosexual male/female (plant) world?"- Banu Subramaniam, 'The Botany of Empire' ✊💚🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌱

Some articles by Bruno Latour on technology:

1. ‘Opening Doors’: bruno-latour.fr/node/381
2. ‘Can we have our Materialism Back?’: bruno-latour.fr/node/241.html
3. ‘Simondon’: bruno-latour.fr/fr/node/138

See also books: ‘Aramis: Love of Technology’, ‘La Clef de Berlin’, chap 8 of ‘The Inquiry’.

“Plants are anything but passive. They made the world” 🌎🌳🌱🫶🏼 - ‘Orwell’s Roses’🌹 @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

Friends & fellow 🪴 enthusiasts! I’m conducting research on key factors underlying the ‘(post)pandemic plant craze’, and what draws people to plants.

Please fill out the brief anonymous survey below, & share this post with others. Thanks! 🙏🏼👇🏼🪴

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Migration is not anomalous but “a recurrent rhythm fundamental to our planet’s dynamism, where change is the welcome constant rather than feared, controlled and villainized” - Tran et al, ‘Decentering humans in sustainability…’ 🫶🏼✊🏼🌊🌏