1/ I’m an Israeli academic. My community is too silent about the ongoing war in Gaza. Here is how I see things based on reading hundreds of articles and watching thousands of videos and images about the war. This tweet chain contains my conclusions as a sort of executive summary.
Paul Kelly has released a new song to support the Yes campaign ahead of the Voice referendum. The song called 'If Not Now' was uploaded to YouTube earlier today.
🧵 1. It's official: Australia will vote in just over six weeks on putting a Voice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the country's constitution.
Here's what that means: trib.al/knSz8kD
Hey Australia, all I want for my birthday is for everyone to #VoteYes in the #VoiceToParliament referendum. Nothing says happy birthday like constitutional change!
Australians will hold an October vote on a proposed law to create a so-called Indigenous Voice to Parliament. The legislation is aimed at giving the nation’s most disadvantaged ethnic minority more say on government policy. apnews.com/article/australia…
Social and healthcare sector plays an important role in promoting Finland's national environmental goals. EKO SOTE project calculated the sector’s carbon footprint and created a steering model towards a more ecologically sustainable healthcare sector. @vnteas 1/3
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Our latest publication, *A new ethos for the civil service* is now live. It makes the case for transforming the civil service, shares case studies & insights from civil servants as well as recommendations for how to move forward.
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Final keynote of D1 @LassiLinnanen lists top 3 environmental problems of Anthropocene as: 1. Materialism 2. Asymmetrical power relations 3. Lock-in of exploitative and extractive systems (he adds, not climate change not biodiversity loss; these are symptoms not causes) #SSD2023
My single-tweet-size summary of the fantastic keynote by @IFazey: "We are at the end of the world as we know it.................. To become transformative, we've got to come back to our senses." We need to feel, embody, sense...
My sustainability class just finished a module about disinformation. I had them write me a letter assuming they were flunking and arguing that they deserve an A, using the techniques of disinformation we discussed, like cherry picking, false experts and ad hominem. HOO-boy. 1/n
an australian climate charity got a polling agency to ask people about extreme weather and mental health and the numbers of people hit are just jaw-dropping 1/
On a bus in rural Sweden & a couple of teenagers are singing along to ‘Dumb ways to die’, which has apparently gone viral again on TikTok. Super weird to hear the song from a public safety campaign for trains from my hometown from years ago.
@metrotrainsjalopnik.com/tiktok-dumb-way…
Two months ago today I defended my doctoral dissertation in #UrbanAgroecology at @helsinkiuni. Endless thanks to my Opponent Prof. Sonnino and Custos Prof. Juha Helenius for a brilliant discussion!
Dissertation available here: helda.helsinki.fi/handle/101…
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In the paper, we document why the process of digitalisation has not represented society's wider interests & set a direction for how it can.
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