Nils Markusson

Strikes suspended in Lancaster University staff job cuts row - BBC News The university is trying to save £30m amid rising costs and a fall in international student numbers.

📢📢📢We made it to the national news! This time with an important win for our branch!
Management has decided to withdraw compulsory redundancies for academic staff at least until July 2026. ASOS and next week's strikes are therefore called off.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚨 STRIKE ACTION ON THE 27 & 28 NOVEMBER 🚨

We’ve now served formal notice of strike action on 27 & 28 November.

Management must withdraw the plan to make 400+ of us redundant or risk escalating and sustained industrial action.

@ucu.org.uk

@lancasterucu.bsky.social

London’s Trans Pride March Just Shattered Its Turnout Record Organizers say it was the largest transgender rights march in the world.

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today.

https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia

Stop compulsory redundancies!

ESRC ‘bar against’ degrowth research branded ‘anti-scientific’ - Research Professional News Research council leader signals shift against funding projects that question benefits of economic growth

The head of the UK's leading funder of social research has spoken against funding projects on post-growth and degrowth. Our research environment is wedded to an economic system that does harm daily to all human and non-human life. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.

NYT just covered it. 1/n

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Lancaster UCU #AngryDucks on the picket lines

lancasterucu.home.blog

Check out Lancaster UCU branch's blog for updates on ongoing situation and other matters.

Lista, Wealth inequality measured by the Gini coefficient.

Den här listan är från UBS Global Wealth Report 2025. Den visar koncentration av förmögenheter. Sverige är på sjätte plats här. Lite bättre än Saudiarabien och Förenade Arabemiraten, men sämre än USA och samtliga andra EU-länder.

Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Senior Research Associate - Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Countermapping Territory, Heritage and Knowledge Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) is pleased to announce a Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) position as part of a Leverhulme Trust-funded project ‘Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Counterma...

3-year postdoc @lancasteruni.bsky.social w/ Dr's John Childs & Nicola Firth

Decolonising the Deep Seabed: Countermapping Territory, Heritage & Knowledge

Offering an alternative t0 mainstream approaches to understanding the political geography of the deep seabed

hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030.

Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.

Both intentional and unintentional, yes

See this special issue www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

NEW from me: China's CO2 emissions fell ~1.6% in the first quarter and have now been flat or down for more than a year. This is the first time on record that emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand.

Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

wow - first Marine Le Pen, now this

Just tearing up Article 5 like it's nothing.

Dutch universities will go on strike! Against the 1.3 billion cuts!

March 10: Leiden University
March 11: Utrecht University
March 13: University Nijmegen
March 17: University of Amsterdam
March 20: Maastricht University
March 27: VU Amsterdam
April 10: Tilburg University

@woinactie.bsky.social

I can be as critical as anyone of the government's occasionally muddled message on growth but Look! At! This! Chart!! Anything they've done pales next to this GIGANTIC UNFORCED ERROR COMMITTED IN 2016!

(fagpacket maths follows)

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Open letter on separate targets in 2040 climate framework - Carbon Market Watch Letter sent to the European Commission by 116 academics, businesses, civil society organisations and research institutions urging the EU to separate

Sign this letter in support of separate targets (for CDR and emissions reductions) in the EU
carbonmarketwatch.org/publications...

'Make Carbon Dioxide Great Again' law would ban carbon reduction efforts in Wyoming - WyoFile Sen. Steinmetz wants to repeal Wyoming's carbon capture mandate for coal plants.

It was the best of times, it was the dumbest of times.

Same-sex marriage linked to decline in teen suicides States that legalized gay marriage early created a natural experiment.

On a related note, the passing of same sex marriage laws in the United States (and the resultant disappearance of the culture war around it and accusations of "gay agenda" coincided with a drastic reduction in gay teen suicide
arstechnica.com/science/2017...

YouTube video by Carbon Market Watch Towards 2040 and beyond: The role of carbon removals in the EU climate framework

If you missed our event on the role of carbon removals in the EU's climate policies, not to worry. You can rewatch the entire discussion here. We've even split the video helpfully into chapters so you can easily navigate to the bits that most interest you.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxLx...

In November last year the National Audit Office warned that cuts to flood defence spending meant that 25% of flood defence projects had been abandoned and 40% fewer homes would be protected by 2027. A year later, we have this. But the problem isn't actually as simple as government underspending. 1/6

At the COP29 climate summit, Keir Starmer said he wasn't going to tell people how to live their lives.

That's not what people want to hear.

I've written about what he could have said instead.

climatecitizens.org.uk/climate-citi...

IN SUMMARY:

Developing countries wanted:

Mobilisation: $1.3tn
Provision: $600bn
Investment: ⛔️

They got:

Mobilisation: $300bn
Provision: 🤷‍♂️
Investment: $1.3tn (maybe)

On Trump and geoengineering, again. :-/
www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/pu...

How mainstream climate science endorsed the fantasy of a global warming time machine Surpassing 1.5°C of warming can be undone at a later date – using tech, land and resources that don’t exist.

Andreas and I wrote this piece in @uk.theconversation.com based on our book and this new Nature piece on overshoot.

@versobooks.bsky.social

"How mainstream climate science endorsed the fantasy of a global warming time machine."

theconversation.com/how-mainstre...

See introduction (and the other papers) for recommended actions, incl. suggested further research. tinyurl.com/48ahpmru

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Racial capitalism’s role in mitigation deterrence from carbon removal Two major sociopolitical challenges loom over the development of carbon removal. One is mitigation deterrence: that research and deployment of carbon …

Apart from case studies, we (Buck et al) also develop a paper discussing relationship between racial capitalism and mitigation deterrence. tinyurl.com/mwvppuyn

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