Jon Turney

Climate Courage Schools www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/climate-co...

Very good piece

BRUNO CARVALHO @brunocarvalho.bsky.social THE INVENTION OF THE FUTURE - A Harvard professor presents a sprawling urban history - @jonturney.bsky.social is intrigued, and impressed by this tale of new cities @princetonupress.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/books/bruno-...

Six months' work here, and great to see it out in the world. And a real pleasure to work with @jonturney.bsky.social properly for the first time after 20-odd years of editing/proofing/discussing each other's work.

KCL_R4Neurodev_Roadmap

A thing launched yesterday that I and @eleanorturney.co.uk helped lick into shape about neurotechnology’s potential to help neurodiverse kids

view.genially.com/699c69c3d6f8...

Taking a moment from the relief/delight of a thumping by-election win for the Greens to note that Tory candidate lost their deposit. Hurrah for that too!

ONS: UK's low carbon and clean energy sectors generate record revenues of £77bn in 2024 Impressive growth in turnover and employment continues across the UK's low carbon and renewable energy industries, latest Office for National Statistics data confirms

ICYM In a year when the UK economy grew 1.1% the Low Carbon and Renewable Energy Economy grew 12 per cent. And yet somehow it remains received wisdom on much of the right of British politics that clean technologies are bad and must be stopped. www.businessgreen.com/news/4526135...

Israel is responsible for two in three journalist killings across the globe in 2024 and 2025. The Israeli military has committed more targeted killings of journalists than any other government’s military since CPJ began documentation in 1992.

Read more in CPJ’s #2025KilledReport: cpj.org?p=553549

Care to comment on this @lucympowell.bsky.social?

For classy Eurojazz, Red Kite, who played a superb show in Bristol tonight, take some beating :)

#jazzsky

Looking for somewhere to eat in an unfamiliar London neighbourhood. First few restaurant review sites that come up are obvious AI generated garbage. AI wastes so much of everyone’s time…

or he's just you know, lying?

As if that's not going to happen.

Book Review: The Societal Impact of Genetic Research In “What We Inherit,” Sam Trejo and Daphne O. Martschenko examine the link between genetic myths and social genomics.

I reviewed "What we inherit" for Undark. "If even two experts writing a book together don’t always see eye to eye about genetics research, then the public discussion is even more of a minefield." 🧪 undark.org/2026/02/20/b...

The government's immigration plans: a dog’s dinner of half-conceived policy, Reform rhetoric, mean-spirited sentiment, and profound intellectual muddle iandunt.substack.com/p/can-we-ext...

Nice spread in New Scientist about current RWA Bristol exhibition

I loved Otherlands, but the kids’ illustrated version is blowing my mind all over again

In utterly predictable but unconvincing opinions from legacy media stroking their readers today…

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

A vital part of parenting :)

Oh good - waiting for my second dose :)

Is the Nonfiction Book Crisis for Real? And Are Podcasts to Blame? The Panic Makes for a Good Story. But the Numbers Tell a Different Tale

Convincing explanation of why the “non-fiction books are in decline” story is bogus

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

Meta banking on people willing to be pay to be haunted is end-times kitsch

Hey, my new book has a new name! It's now revelling in the title "35 Inventions That Changed Your World: How We Built Modern Life", and is about how humanity has reshaped the planet around itself by inventing the concepts of buildings, cities and infrastructure.

www.waterstones.com/book/35%20In...

★★★★ 'If this briefer-than-normal statement leaves the listener wanting more, where’s the harm in that?':Maria Schneider's American Crow rewards close listening says Sebastian Scotney www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/am...

DIY low traffic neighbourhoods!

but surely they believed what they said about "sustainable aviation fuels"?

the thing the people (men) who express concern for the future of their rather repellant concept of White Britain is that, if they are representative, it would obviously be best for everyone if it did just fade away...

Surprising how often I encounter the "climate disasters have an upside in punishing feckless breeders and showing us how bad we've been" -- often from environmentalists. There's a streak of misanthropy running through environmentalism. (Obvs JE is extreme sociopath)