Dr Emma Garnett

YouTube video by Paris Paloma Paris Paloma - labour [Official Video]

How have I only just come across this song?!
The lyrics, melody, build up, video are all perfect.

🎶 All day, every day, therapist, mother, maid
Nymph then virgin, nurse then a servant

24/7 baby machine
So he can live out his picket fence dreams 🎶

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvU4...

Scientists Open Letter - NEB Form for scientists to agree to co-sign the open letter calling on MPs to attend the National Emergency Briefing on 27th November 2025. The letter is intended for publication in a major newspaper. We...

Calling all scientists/anyone with a science PhD!

Please sign this open letter urging MPs to attend the National Emergency Briefing on the nature and climate crises.
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They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Looks like the science community has found a home.
academic.oup.com/icb/article-...

‘Astonishingly good value’ – the best supermarket tofu, tasted and rated | The food filter Tofu is a simple yet wonderfully versatile ingredient, and this week’s test identified some excellent contenders. But whose beancurd is the business?

In the meantime if you have an Aldi near you - I cannot recommend their smoked tofu highly enough!
www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20...

What excellent timing!
I came across this new vegan steak in Aldi today.
I look forward to eating it!

Cow burps have a big impact on global warming - but scientists think they've found a solution Agriculture accounts for 10% of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions, with the country's nine million cows and calves a significant contributor.

“Yes, let's make things more efficient if we can [..]. But it must not be used as a smoke screen for not shifting to more plant-based diets”, Dr @emmagarnett.bsky.social said.
“The most effective way to reduce methane from cows is to farm fewer cows."
💯
news.sky.com/story/the-gr...

My new paper on how to increase sustainable food consumption is continuing to gather positive media attention 🙌

Link to paper:
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sus...

#sustainablefood #sustainability
#vegan #greennudge

Vivera Plant Steaks 100% Delicious!<br>Our Plant-based steak is juicy, tender, and incredibly delicious!<br>Enjoy it as a protein-packed centrepiece, or incorporate it into sizzling fajitas or a rich, creamy stroganoff!

Thank you to @skynewsrss.bsky.social for the interview invite.

Though I'd say you can already get a guilt free steak - it's just made out of plants instead of cow 😉

E.g:
www.tesco.com/groceries/en...
www.ocado.com/products/jui...
thecheekychickpea.com/vegan-steak/

Biodiversity conservation: The key is reducing meat consumption The consumption of animal-sourced food products by humans is one of the most powerful negative forces affecting the conservation of terrestrial ecosys…

Deforestation to feed our demand for meat is a (if not _the_) leading cause of biodiversity loss.

Restoring grazing lands to woodland or wetland would bring huge benefits for carbon sequestration and nature.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Making food production more efficient is welcome (assuming there aren't trade offs with eg animal welfare) - the methane from enteric fermentation is only one of the negative environmental impacts from cows.

There is still methane produced from manure and the huge land-use grazing animals require.

YouTube video by Sky News The 'cool cows' fighting climate change

Will cows burping a bit less methane help fight climate change?
My answer: not really.

The most effective way to reduce methane from cows is to farm fewer cows.
Cows aren't able to fight climate change. We are: by going (mostly) plant-based.
@skynewsrss.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/shorts/HU8Nt...

The pollution court case that could reach far beyond the banks of the River Wye The legal action is being taken on behalf of thousands of claimants.

"if you produce many tonnes of chicken manure and then sell it on to be used as fertiliser, some would argue – as others have argued against big oil – that you have a responsibility to reduce the effects that come later on.”." theconversation.com/the-pollutio...

Comedy Wildlife Awards 2025 – in pictures From a red-throated loon touching down on water, to good and bad hair days, and an airborne squirrel, here is a selection of the finalists in this year’s Nikon Comedy Wildlife awards

These are joyful!
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Scientists Open Letter - NEB Form for scientists to agree to co-sign the open letter calling on MPs to attend the National Emergency Briefing on 27th November 2025. The letter is intended for publication in a major newspaper. We...

Calling all scientists/anyone with a science PhD!

Please sign this open letter urging MPs to attend the National Emergency Briefing on the nature and climate crises.
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Screenshot of the presentation slide with me and Paul on it.

From an email: Thank you so much for your presentations and discussions today, they were brilliant. On the poll we sent out we 100% rating as Excellent (9 responses). We had 75 attendees at peak. Key takeaways were: gradual transition approach is crucial for success; focus on “fibre” may be the way forward; limit red meat consumption; system change is necessary; look out for environmental labels; and think local and act global. Some people also just put ‘hope’, which is probably that they are hopeful following the session – a huge compliment to you! I also came away feeling hopeful that the issues with the food system don’t have to have the final word, even if it’s a long journey!

I really enjoyed presenting to the Civil Service Climate& Environment Network with @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social today on food systems transformations to plant-rich diets (with small/no amounts of meat and dairy).

The feedback was lovely too!

^ thanks @hannahforde.bsky.social for the heads up!

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This looks like an excellent conference!

Urban Transitions
10-12 November 2026 | Sitges, Spain

Submit abstracts by 8 May 2026

Integrating housing, urban and transport planning, environment, climate action, circular economy and health for healthier urban living

www.elsevier.com/events/confe...

Really useful graphics, thanks.

Could you add alt text to future posts for accessibility? Thanks!

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

'The calculus of calories: food environments and body weight… Increased prevalence of obesity isn't due to a lack of willpower - body weight is biologically regulated in ways that make it difficult to lose weight and…

This was a brilliant talk from Dr Kevin Hall on weight changes, calories and how that all interacts with Ultra-processed foods.
Highly recommend watching it.
I even bought his book (despite my usual rule about not buying hardbacks).
www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/the-c...

piss off the racists, make the English kofte kebab from 1660

BREAKING: Jane Goodall has died.

She was my college graduation speaker and an idol of mine.

What a hero. I’m heartbroken to learn of her passing.

Her groundbreaking work with chimpanzees changed science forever, and her tireless advocacy inspired millions to protect our natural world. RIP 🥺

Large Language Muddle | The Editors The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

WHEEWWWWWWWWWW:
"When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers . . . We agree that we would rather deplete our natural resources than make our own art or think our own thoughts."

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Is it too obvious to point out how gendered this is: that the right sees themselves as a collective husband or father, trying to enforce his right to the attention, care, and comfort provided by his wife and mother—that is, American liberals?

"Autism causes vaccines" SMBC comic

Credit to @zachweinersmith.bsky.social

What counts as essential travel? How does this differ across people? What level of mobility can be sustained within planetary boundaries?

These researchers get closer to answering those questions than most. Wish this kind of thinking was more central to climate & transport policy making in the UK.

Big night in Cambridge for decarbonisation.

3 heat pumps together weighing 20t were lifted by a giant crane onto the roof of the Murray Easton Building at @caiuscollege.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk.

Hope Oxford forgives me for promoting the other place but I'm also affiliated with @cisl.cam.ac.uk...

The God of Cake My mom baked the most fantastic cake for my grandfather's 73rd birthday party. The cake was slathered in impossibly thick frosting and topp...

That reminds me of this (which I had not re-read in too long).

hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/10/god-...

His Dark Materials trilogy are some of my favourite books, but I had very mixed feelings about The Secret Commonwealth.
Nonetheless, can't wait to read this!