Chatbots offer a magnificent bribe - a fast, frictionless route to information that bypasses the discomfort of learning. In this op-ed, we describe this as a Faustian bargain, in which we trade away what it means to be human & universities trade away their value
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Trinity College Dublin @tcddublin.bsky.social endorsing Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
@fossiltreaty.bsky.social !
Great victory for @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social !
#EndFossilFuels
#JustTransition
#ClimateJustice
www.tcd.ie/news_events/...
Great article on the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty and a petition started by my students to urge @tcddublin.bsky.social to back it!
@fossiltreaty.bsky.social
@climatejusticeuni.bsky.social
universitytimes.ie/2026/01/trin...
Fantastic article from @jenniecoughlin.bsky.social on how corporations operate to ensure their interests are prioritised over the needs of the public👇
Want to learn more? Register for the release of a new report exposing corporate power in Ireland on Tues Jan 20: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
My column in the Irish Times on the dangers of corporate capture. Corporate interests dominate public policy while community needs go unmet. Greta Thunberg & BohsFC show us how to reclaim the public good
@thunberggreta.bsky.social @bfcdublin.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
The fossil fuel industry’s “energy security” argument is dangerous, misleading and fundamentally flawed. Ireland should not be building new fossil fuel infrastructure. My piece in today’s Irish Times. #climate #climateobstruction #climatejustice #fossilfuels
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
A student wing of Trinity’s ClimateUni branch is emerging!
👏👏👏
Climate Justice Universities Union
@climatejusticeuni.bsky.social
@tcddublin.bsky.social
#ClimateJustice
President Connolly quoted CJUU Co-Chair @jenniecstephens.bsky.social in her inspiring speech: "the climate crisis is a symptom of bigger structural & systemic problems that are concentrating wealth and power among large corporate interests that are increasingly influencing our democratic processes"
19.11.2025 21:20 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Moral duty ‘to act now’ on climate change for future generations, says President Catherine Connolly
“Transformative action is required, action that places environmental responsibility and climate justice at the heart of everything we do”
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Climate Justice Universities Union @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social marching outside Trinity College Dublin @tcddublin.bsky.social - National Climate Demonstration 15th Nov 2025 #EndFossilPower #ClimateJustice
#COP30
The Climate Justice Universities Union proudly marched with thousands in Dublin today, in solidarity with indigenous peoples in Belém and people all around the world. Together, we called for faster, fairer climate action and an end to fossil power, influence, and obstruction of clinate justice!
15.11.2025 23:04 — 👍 28 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
Climate Justice Universities Union @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social marching in Dublin today - National Climate Demonstration 15th Nov 2025 #EndFossilPower #ClimateJustice
#COP30
National Climate Demo in Dublin today - we will be marching under our ClimateUni flags! @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social
#ClimateJustice
#EndFossilPower
Wonderful to see our students become engaged thanks to the education we provide them with. A particular credit goes to @martinsokol.bsky.social for his finance and climate justice module. Please sign our students' petition!
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New open-access resource on climate obstruction detailing all the ways industry has been strategically sabotaging climate action. Great collaborating with many colleagues at @cssn.org. I’m a lead author on last chapter on resisting climate obstruction. Check it out!
18.10.2025 19:07 — 👍 13 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
GenAI, Big Tech and the critical implications for higher education, Climate Justice Universities Union all-island meeting. SETU Carlow, Kilkenny Road Campus, R93 V960. QR code to this sign up link: https://www.cognitoforms.com/SETU10/ClimateJusticeUniversitiesUnionAllIslandMeetingAtSETU
Join us on Nov 13th for the Climate Justice Universities Union Autumn-Winter All-Ireland Meeting, hosted by SETU Carlow. The focus is GenAI, Big Tech & implications for higher ed, with lots of time to connect with fellow CJUU members. Sign up here: climatejusticeuniversitiesunion.org/events/setu-...
18.10.2025 10:32 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
"while #climate action was, at best, part of the ‘3rd mission’ of the financialized university, it could be seen as the ‘1st mission’ of the climate justice university" - @martinsokol.bsky.social & @jenniecstephens.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Various chapters focus on different economic sectors, with @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social focusing on coal phaseouts, @matpaterson.bsky.social looking at peat politics, @jenniecstephens.bsky.social and @martinsokol.bsky.social at central banking, @vah301.bsky.social at insurance companies. 8/
19.08.2025 16:02 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Just published chapter on on "Politicizing financial innovations for transformative climate justice” with @martinsokol.bsky.social in open access book on climate politics. Thanks to @matpaterson.bsky.social Paul Tobin & @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social 4 editing+
www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
Check out our new research w/ @martinsokol.bsky.social on redistributing higher ed to meet urgent community needs - moving away from financialized universities reinforcing profit-seeking competitiveness toward transformative accessible collective community-based orgs more like public libraries
16.07.2025 10:36 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
Here is a related News article by Trinity College Dublin summarising some key points:
www.tcd.ie/news_events/...
NEW PAPER co-authored with @jenniecstephens.bsky.social :
We need to transform #universities from financialised, entrepreneurial ones to #ClimateJustice universities!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Inspiring Educator Award 2025 (one of 12 in Trinity College Dublin @tcddublin.bsky.social ) Many thanks to my wonderful #Geography students for nominating me!
06.06.2025 14:22 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations @jenniecstephens.bsky.social !
Powerful inaugural with standing ovations! 👏👏👏
@maynoothuniversity.ie
#ClimateJustice
“Central banks and monetary policy in the age of climate disruption: between climate justice and climate obstruction” - joint paper with @jenniecstephens.bsky.social
Great discussion!
#FinGeo conference in Singapore
#climatejustice
#climateobstruction
#centralbanks
Agreed! Also, how central #centralbanks are to all this - especially to #climate !
Great start to the #FinGeo Global Conference!
Great to be in Singapore at the 2nd Global Network on Financial Geography (FinGeo) conference - just opened by our wonderful #FinGeo Chair Dariusz Wojcik
With @karenpylai.bsky.social ,
David Bassens , Michael Grote , and many others
Financial systems have been implicated in climate change from the start. Yet they’re also central to wealth redistribution and thus to CJ. @jenniecstephens.bsky.social and @martinsokol.bsky.social locate a profound contradiction where central banks aim to stabilize an inherently unstable system.
18.02.2025 13:39 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
An analysis of tweets from three major U.S. sectors shows coordinated messaging to reinforce fossil-fuel reliance by denying the science and delaying change. @alainakinol.bsky.social Y. Si, J.Kinol, & @jenniecstephens.bsky.social propose a discourse of climate obstruction framework: bit.ly/4gcA1iW
21.01.2025 14:01 — 👍 25 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
