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Elizabeth Bomberg

@eebomberg.bsky.social

Professor of Politics, University of Edinburgh

75 Followers  |  35 Following  |  15 Posts  |  Joined: 03.07.2024  |  2.1879

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Graphic with text: ‘Scotland’s Climate March: a better world is possible. Saturday 15th November. Assemble at Glasgow Green, 11am. Global solidarity: for a world where everyone is safe, has enough, and is respected. A fair transition: for a fairer Scotland with jobs, transport and homes that support the move beyond fossil fuels. Caring for our planet: restoring nature to reclaim a future where all can thrive.’ Colourful illustrated icons are at the top and bottom of the image, depicting things like people, transport, energy and workers.

Graphic with text: ‘Scotland’s Climate March: a better world is possible. Saturday 15th November. Assemble at Glasgow Green, 11am. Global solidarity: for a world where everyone is safe, has enough, and is respected. A fair transition: for a fairer Scotland with jobs, transport and homes that support the move beyond fossil fuels. Caring for our planet: restoring nature to reclaim a future where all can thrive.’ Colourful illustrated icons are at the top and bottom of the image, depicting things like people, transport, energy and workers.

📢 Join Scotland’s Climate March on Sat 15th Nov to demand a better world as part of a Global Day of Action!

Assemble at 11am, Glasgow Green.

Global Solidarity. A Fair Transition. Caring For Our Planet. Get involved: climatemarch.scot

#ScotlandsClimateMarch

06.10.2025 11:20 — 👍 37    🔁 32    💬 1    📌 2
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Good Morning Scotland - 08/11/2025 - BBC Sounds The latest news from home and abroad, along with sport, travel and weather updates.

Good to speak to #BBC_Radio Scotland this morning about #COP30 prospects and what the absence of a formal US delegation might mean. @edinburghpir.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

08.11.2025 19:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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FACTCHECK: What the Climate Change Act actually means for the UK – and what is a load of old nonsense

Really enjoyed putting this together with colleagues, inc learning new things about the fascinating backstory to the Act

Feat. OG authors of the Act & more

www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...

07.10.2025 14:05 — 👍 102    🔁 49    💬 3    📌 4
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Talking Climate | Katharine Hayhoe | Substack Subscribe to Katharine's newsletter for a clear-eyed and hopeful look at climate science and solutions. Receive weekly climate updates, good climate news, event information, ideas on things to do and ...

Talking Climate www.talkingclimate.ca?r=41e5jg&utm... Great blend of science, politics, hope

07.10.2025 16:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you @benansell.bsky.social and guests for this highly recommended show. Not covered in the podcast, but #ZerosumMentality key to understanding contemporary #Populism as well. @edinburghpir.bsky.social

26.09.2025 17:02 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Well done (and well deserved) @carbonbrief.org 👏

26.09.2025 16:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Really appreciated Scottish parliamentarians @sarahboyack.bsky.social, @foysolchoudhury.bsky.social and @lornaslater.bsky.social taking time to discuss climate solutions w constituents. Action at local and sub-state level is key.

26.09.2025 16:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hugely inspiring to join 100s of citizens and #piper at #ScottishParliament and #DynamicEarth to lobby MSPs to take action on #climatechange. Thank you‬ ‪@sccscot.bsky.social‬ @foescot.bsky.social; @sarahboyack.bsky.social

18.09.2025 18:06 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Check out this short piece on 'Climate Change Politics in the Age of Trump 2.0'. Not as depressing as you'd think. @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social @edinburghpir.bsky.social @psaenvironmental.bsky.social

18.09.2025 17:23 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

What an event. Riveting personal stories, poetry and scholarship. The redemptive power of arts is mistakable. Thank you to @edbookfest.bsky.social @kir-anderson.bsky.social @noellecobden.bsky.social @lady_unchained

19.08.2025 13:31 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow Multispecies Justice Full time, fixed term for 2 years Opportunity to conduct research on Multispecies justice Academic Level B Base Salary from $127,436 + 17% superannuation About the opportunity The School of Social and...

Postdoc Fellowship: Multispecies Justice. Come work with @danycelermajer.bsky.social and me at @seisydney.bsky.social. We're looking at experiments in more-than-human inclusion in democratic decision making on climate and adaptation. More here:
usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...

15.08.2025 09:35 — 👍 18    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 1

I think it's really nice they do this but this is my fairly regular request that someone in the PSA puts the Scottish Higher results day in the diary and creates an equivalent post.

We need Scottish students to study politics as well.

14.08.2025 09:58 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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Climate Mass Lobby - Stop Climate Chaos Scotland

Scottish friends
Act Now, Change Forever Mass Climate Lobby at the #ScottishParl 18 Sept, 12:45pm. Meet your MSPs and encourage them to continue leadership efforts on climate and nature. Small nations can make a difference. #RSPB #ChristianAid #FoE
www.stopclimatechaos.scot/campaign/mas...

12.08.2025 13:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Politics and IR @edinburghpir.bsky.social staff processing at today's @uoe-sps.bsky.social summer grad. Congrats students! @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social

10.07.2025 18:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Wonderful Politics & IR @edinburghpir.bsky.social staff presence at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social summer graduation. Congrats to our fab students! @uoe-sps.bsky.social

10.07.2025 18:41 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Perhaps some of our @uoe-sps.bsky.social 4th years are interested in these paid internships at @instituteforgov.bsky.social

www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/defaul...

Deadline is Tuesday 29 April at 11:00

01.04.2025 12:26 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’ Writers will gather at the Facebook owner’s King’s Cross office in opposition to its use of the LibGen database to train its AI models

The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social is staging a #demonstration outside #Meta's offices at Granary Square, King's Cross today at 1.30pm to protest against their #illegal #pirating of our work.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

03.04.2025 08:07 — 👍 156    🔁 92    💬 5    📌 4
META BOOK THIEVES - They Must Do The Write Thing

The Society of Authors are protesting Meta’s HQ today 

This image shows illustrations of authors holding placards saying “make it fair” and “do the write thing”

META BOOK THIEVES - They Must Do The Write Thing The Society of Authors are protesting Meta’s HQ today This image shows illustrations of authors holding placards saying “make it fair” and “do the write thing”

Today UK authors are protesting against Meta for stealing our work to train their AI model. Authors earn an average of £7000 per year, we are not rich, and yet a trillion dollar company decided it didn’t want to license our work fairly as it was “too expensive”

Theft is not a valid alternative.

03.04.2025 08:57 — 👍 1584    🔁 760    💬 15    📌 22
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Public support for climate action: can governments deliver on citizens’ expectations? How can governments gain Europeans' trust in the green transition?

Join @heathergrabbe.bsky.social & me for the launch of our @bruegel.bsky.social report at a hybrid event on 25Feb using @dpart.bsky.social research (conducted with @neeleeilers.bsky.social) asking whether publics really stopped caring about climate change. Sign up👇
www.bruegel.org/event/public...

19.02.2025 10:11 — 👍 6    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you David @olefeldt.bsky.social‬ and @katherinhayhoe.com for sharing the magic of #peatlands: where #climate science, art and music collide. See: karinepolwart.com/blogs/blog-1... PS: we must get musician #KarinePolwart on @bsky.app

13.02.2025 19:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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One of my favorite things about #peatlands is their patterning at different scales caused by millennia of interplay between hydrology and peat accumulation - mainly Sphagnum mosses. Spent my Saturday evening looking at satellite images of the Hudson Bay Lowlands - a perfectly reasonable activity…

26.01.2025 04:30 — 👍 138    🔁 23    💬 7    📌 3
An image of Sandra Díaz & Eduardo Brondízio with the Tyler Prize logo. Overlay text reads "'Nobel Prize for Environment' awarded to two powerful voices from the Global South."

An image of Sandra Díaz & Eduardo Brondízio with the Tyler Prize logo. Overlay text reads "'Nobel Prize for Environment' awarded to two powerful voices from the Global South."

The 2025 @tylerprize.bsky.social has been awarded to Sandra Díaz & Eduardo Brondízio for their stellar bodies-of-work. Not only are they the 1st recipients from S. America, but they were also 2/3 co-Chairs of @ipbes.net #GlobalAssessment. 🌍🧪

Congratulations!

Read more: www.tylerprize.org

12.02.2025 10:00 — 👍 237    🔁 65    💬 1    📌 6
Aerial visual of oilsands landscape. Text reads: Living with the Oil Sands. Indigenous Stories of Struggle and Strength. A discussion from the front lines of the battle against settler colonialism. Two women from the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation outline life growing up in Alberta, Canada, working with and against the Oilsands. Join us to hear how their experiences shaped their indigeneity.

Aerial visual of oilsands landscape. Text reads: Living with the Oil Sands. Indigenous Stories of Struggle and Strength. A discussion from the front lines of the battle against settler colonialism. Two women from the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation outline life growing up in Alberta, Canada, working with and against the Oilsands. Join us to hear how their experiences shaped their indigeneity.

Living with the Oil Sands
Indigenous Stories of Struggle and Strength
March 5, 4pm - 5.30pm

Two women from the Athabasca Chipeyan First Nation outline life growing up in Alberta, Canada, working with and against the Oil Sands.

Info/registration:
https://edin.ac/3QbsxlH

13.02.2025 11:02 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Nature lovers needing a break from the news: check out gorgeous broadcast premiere of composer Erland Cooper’s tribute to David Attenborough’s career: Birds of Paradise w Freya Goldmark on violin. @hjm.bsky.social ‪@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social‬ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

08.02.2025 12:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Fantastic opportunity for grad students to explore hugely impt topic @edinburghpir.bsky.social

30.01.2025 10:16 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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6 months is a long time in politics YouGov pollster Jemma Conner will talk through the state of UK and Scottish public opinion about politics since the 2024 general election.

Join us on February 12 for The Politics in Contested Times series!

📅 Event: Six Months Is a Long Time in Politics
🎤 Speaker: Jemma Conner
🔗 Book your spot: edin.ac/4hoaXGE

29.01.2025 09:36 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Civics 101 How do landmark Supreme Court decisions affect our lives? What does the 2nd Amendment really say? Why does the Senate have so much power? Civics 101 is the podcast about how our democracy works…or is ...

Recorded this @npr.org show before Inauguration Day, anticipating the env and climate impact of the new US Administration but underestimating its speed & intensity. Robust science, citizen/global/substate action now more impt than ever @katharinehayhoe.com @michaelemann.bsky.social edin.ac/4jPrGoD

29.01.2025 09:44 — 👍 24    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1

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