Michael Lomotey

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⛽Shell's Queensland gas business is funding science lessons for hundreds of thousands of students and teachers, via the Queensland Museum.

Here's why that's a problem. 🧵

National Emergency Briefing An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...

Open letter from over 1,000 UK scientists urging all MPs to attend the National Emergency Briefing. A huge list full of highly respected names.

"Without much more urgent and decisive action, we risk seeing these impacts overwhelm our capacity to respond."

Please share with your MP #NEB2025

Chris Packham speaking to the audience

Expert assessment Ten leading scientists and other experts will present the latest, authoritative assessment of the climate and nature crisis, highlighting the implications for the UK and pathways forward. Chris Packham CBE- Opening Statement Prof Mike Berners-Lee- Chair Prof Kevin Anderson- Climate Tessa Khan- Energy Transition Prof Hayley Fowler -Weather Extremes Prof Nathalie Seddon- Nature Prof Paul Behrens- Food Security Prof Hugh Montgomery OBE- Health Lt Gen Richard Nugee CB CVO CBE- National Security Angela Francis- Economics Prof Tim Lenton- Tipping Points

The National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social in Westminster today is a call to action for politicians.

@chrisgpackham.bsky.social started with “let’s work on creating hope, where there isn’t much of it left”

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English Sudan: One of 10 countries most vulnerable to climate change

9/ #Sudan is regarded as one of the countries in the world most vulnerable to climate change.

The rapidly changing #climate is causing worsening desertification across much of the region.

"The cost of silence in Sudan’s civil war is too high" As Sudan’s brutal civil war rages on, more than 12 million people have been displaced — deepening an already devastating protection and humanitarian crisis. In this episode of The Humans in Human Righ...

"What makes Sudan's crisis even more alarming is its invisibility. The world is not watching closely enough"

The Sudanese civil war is creating the world's worst humanitarian disaster with 12 million people now displaced

This 🧵traces the deep connections b/w this conflict & the #ClimateCrisis 1/n

EN | #COP30: #LaViaCampesina’s Manifesto – Land and Rights for Those Who Cool the Planet! https://viacampesina.org/en/2025/10/cop-30-la-via-campesinas-manifesto-land-and-rights-for-those-who-cool-the-planet This manifesto is our roadmap at this decisive moment, the pulse of collective action, a requirement for deep systemic transformation. We invite you to join the struggle, to walk with us, shoulder to shoulder. The manifesto is organized into 3 parts: the structural causes of the crisis, our demands, and our solutions https://cloud.viacampesina.org/s/i38eLWZxBYtyMpe #Cop30Alert #UNDROP @viacampesina_en@movimientos.social

EN | #COP30: #LaViaCampesina’s Manifesto – Land and Rights for Those Who Cool the Planet! https://viacampesina.org/en/2025/10/cop-30-la-via-campesinas-manifesto-land-and-rights-for-those-who-cool-the-planet

This manifesto is our roadmap at this decisive […]

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Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel laureate and Trump critic, says US visa revoked Soyinka, 91, who recently compared US president to Idi Amin, says ‘I have no visa – I am banned’

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Mass protests Downing Street blocking the road #FreeSudan .

@bbc-breaking-news.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Downing Street now. Protest about the war in Sudan.

Thanks in return. I’ve not done anything on reparations, only recognising it as a constituent aspect of fugitivity.

A good read, thank you Tobias. I long to see this acknowledgment spread wider in groups like XR and populist climate movements. I fear instead there is a creep towards exclusionary tendencies, possibly where whiteness defines the terms of climate participation & not enough talk about decoloniality.

Super League Grand Final: Hull KR 24-6 Wigan Warriors - Robins pull off treble Hull KR become only the fifth team to win a Super League Grand Final as they put in a stunning performance to beat Wigan Warriors at Old Trafford and win a historic treble.

When the red red robins come bob bob bobbing along www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-... #HullKingstonRovers #HKR #treble #champions

Has anyone else been dealing with some serious headline whiplash recently?

Even for those of us who follow #climate and #energy matters closely, it can be hard to know what the hell is going on!

So here's a thread to help climate communicators get a grip on how to deal with this 🧵

Stargazing at Walthamstow: Reclaiming the stars: race, power and the night sky | London Wildlife Trust Join StowStargazers to explore the topic of diversity in astronomy and enjoy the reserve after hours.

Did you know Harriet Tubman’s song “Follow the Drinking Gourd” is a star-map used to guide enslaved people to freedom? Join us to explore representation in space science and a night walk + tips on urban stargazing. www.wildlondon.org.uk/events/2025-... #BlackHistoryMonthUK #Astronomy #StargazingUK

“Shabbat is not just tradition — it’s rest, wellbeing, and the greatest environmental move you could make. Michael Lomotey shares how weekly ritual grounds his Jewish life. Watch the full… S2 E8 Clip 2 Shabbat as an environmental move

After a painful week for British Jews, it feels hard to share new work.
But as #Shabbat approaches so soon after the tears of Yom Kippor, @michaellomotey.bsky.social reminds us:
‘Shabbat is ... the greatest environmental move you could do.’
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S2 E8 Clip 2 Shabbat as an environmental move

As #Shabbat comes in, we hold onto stories of resilience and belonging.
This week @michaellomotey.bsky.social shares his journey — Jewish, Ghanaian, Black, Yorkshire, British — carried together in faith, family and hope.

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Shabbat Shalom

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As the world rapidly heads into #climate #overshoot I've noticed a disturbing pattern in journal articles recently.

I'll summarize it quickly in this thread 🧵

Michael at the start of his provocation with a title slide pictured with art of a diverse group of black people including a person in a wheelchair. The title is “Black Death from climate impacts: How can climate linked social change work for everyone if it does not address antiblackness?”

A slide that says: “Antiblackness is…. Black people dehumanised in modernity (Mushonga et Al 2022); Pernicious and targeted (Gordon 2016, Grimes 2020); Black Social Death (Patterson 2018); Has a non-anachronistic afterlife (Hartman 2007); Linked inextricably with Racial Capitalism (see Cedric Robertson, 2000; Biedsoe and Wright 2018; Ruth Wilson Gilmore 2021)

Michael in front of a slide that says “Whiteness and the ecofascist creep? - ecofascism and far right ecologist; populist social change movements risk appropriation; - needs a decolonial antiracist approach. A red poster with black text says “Save Bees, Plant Trees, Sh**t Refugees” (image source @TRACterrorism 2024)

🙌 ✊ I’ll let @michaellomotey.bsky.social’s slides do the talking! 💥 (see ALT text)

Stargazing at Walthamstow: An Introduction to Urban Astronomy | London Wildlife Trust Join Stow Stargazers at Walthamstow to learn about and practice urban astronomy and enjoy the reserve after hours.

Our new season of urban stargazing events starts on Tuesday 16th September at 6.30pm. Introduction to Urban Stargazing including an exclusive walk into the reserve to identify constellations (weather permitting - we’ll still go out but be wary of cloud cover). www.wildlondon.org.uk/events/2025-...

Calling all scientists and science supporters! You have a crucial role to play in countering the authoritarian threat we currently face in this country. Learn more about how you can stand up for the facts and truth that are essential for a free and democratic society. blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...

Early doors but possible #noctilucent clouds about tonight. Keep your eyes peeled.

Global Plastic Treaty

A once in a lifetime opportunity to end plastic pollution for good - pollution impacts Ghana. Sign this petition and let's get a Global Plastics Treaty in place!

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@benmsanderson.bsky.social hi. FYI.

In the past year we've had a series of papers with results that've shocked #climate scientists - the globe is heating #FasterThanExpected & we don't fully know why

The public discourse is not keeping up.

Here's a series of 5 new studies that climate hawks & journos need to have on their radar 🧵

Two bread loaves on a cooling rack. One plaited one knotted

#ShabbatShalom y'all

Had an amazing conversation with @michaellomotey.bsky.social for @whojewthinkur.bsky.social this morning and can't wait to share it with you.

He's such a smart, open, and centred guest.

But I'm gonna take his advice and rest this Shabbat!

Scientists on a march

Scientists outside Big Ben.

Proud to be part of a BTO trio joining other scientist friends at @sciencetopolitics.bsky.social today, and also had a really useful chat with @terryjermymp.bsky.social. Now let's hope the people with the power to tackle the climate & nature emergencies get serious, and fast! #NoNatureNoFuture

I’ve just been to Parliament with @chrisgpackham.bsky.social Sir David King and over 100 scientists to demand politics listens to science on the climate and ecological emergency. @sciencetopolitics.bsky.social

They found ourselves made strangers in their own country. Enoch Powell. We risk becoming an island of strangers. Keir Starmer.

Starmer's Britain.

Not even subtle.

YouTube video by Voice Media Plan Z: From Lab Coats To Handcuffs

Went to great online q&a with inspirational scientists @stucap.bsky.social @michaellomotey.bsky.social @dremilygrossman.bsky.social who take action against the bioclimate crisis. Watch this excellent film about scientist protesters fed up with govt ignoring the facts - youtu.be/cNvk-qFN2Ww 23 mins

I shall be there.