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I recently published a policy briefing looking towards the new Critical Minerals Strategy as the government's 'securonomics' agenda in action - a testbed of reindustrialisation in pursuit of both national security & environmental sustainability: criticalmineralschallengecentre.co.uk/publications...
Publications & Policy Briefs - Critical Minerals Challenge Centre
Browse our latest publications and policy briefs to explore the evidence, insights, and recommendations shaping the future of critical minerals. These downloadable resources highlight our research imp...
criticalmineralschallengecentre.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Great to see our @ukri.org Critical Minerals Challenge Centre at @exeter.ac.uk mentioned in Vision 2035, the government's new Critical Minerals Strategy. As test case for securonomics in action, it has a clear focus on Cornwall's tin, tungsten & lithium. 🔗in thread below

www.gov.uk/government/p...
November 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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You can read more about how the new Critical Minerals Strategy chimes with the research & policy work of our Critical Minerals Challenge Centre, bringing together Camborne School of Mines with @hass-cornwall.bsky.social & more, via @uniofexeternews.bsky.social here: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
Experts hail Cornwall as the ‘Engine Room’ of PM’s new Critical Minerals Strategy
The UK’s new Critical Minerals Strategy must make domestic extraction, refining, and recycling pillars of sovereign capability, experts have urged. The plan should define critical minerals as key to a...
news.exeter.ac.uk
November 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Research by Karen Nokes @laws.ucl.ac.uk @richardmoorhead.bsky.social Rebecca Helm and Sally Day from @uniexeterlawschool.bsky.social shows "innocent until proven guilty" was rarely taken seriously enough when subpostmasters came into contact with the legal system

news.exeter.ac.uk/uncategorize...
Post Office cases cast doubt on the “golden thread” of British justice, study says
The “golden thread” of British justice – the principle that people are innocent until proven guilty – has been exposed by the Post Office Scandal as more deeply tarnished than previously thought, a ne...
news.exeter.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
“The reported peace plan was negotiated without Ukrainian or European involvement, and it shows" - @drkevorko.bsky.social from @exeterspspa.bsky.social has been analysing what is known so far about the Russia peace plan

www.thesun.co.uk/news/3738732...
France slams US & Russia plan as general warns ‘we'll lose our kids’ in war
FRANCE’S top general has warned the country must be ready to “lose our children” in a future war with Putin as Paris erupted in anger over the secret US-Russia peace plan. General Fabien Mand…
www.thesun.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
On the 12th Day of COP30, the project, We Are The Possible @exeter.ac.uk, releases the final poem of its anthology 'Planet Forest'.

'So Let Us Speak' is a call-to-action that the future of the planet lies in human hands.

greenfutures.exeter.ac.uk/our-impact/w...
Today's Poem - So Let Us Speak · GreenFutures
greenfutures.exeter.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:18 AM
On Day 10 of COP30, producer and actor Nic Jeune reads 'Tree', the tenth poem from the anthology 'Planet Forest', created by We Are The Possible @exeter.ac.uk.

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Today's Poem - Tree · GreenFutures
greenfutures.exeter.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Professor Lee Elliot Major spoke to BBC 5 Live about why social mobility is now less likely, and why change is needed so younger people get a fairer deal

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Nicky Campbell - What's a ticket worth? And has your hometown held you back? - BBC Sounds
What's a ticket worth? And has your hometown held you back? Nicky takes your calls.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Our sense of reality is intimately entwined with our interactions with other people. What happens when those interactions are instead with social AI? See my piece on (so-called) ‘AI-induced psychosis’ in The Conversation

theconversation.com/ai-induced-p...
AI-induced psychosis: the danger of humans and machines hallucinating together
We’ve always relied on friends and family to confirm our sense of reality. Now we’re increasingly expecting AIs to do it instead.
theconversation.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Our latest #COP30 blog looks at the the Parliamentarians' Global Guide to Climate Change and Climate Solutions, launched last Friday.

With mis- and dis-information rife, the guide provides lawmakers with the latest science to better inform their decisions.

greenfutures.exeter.ac.uk/article/exet...
New global guide provides lawmakers with the latest climate science - and solutions · GreenFutures
greenfutures.exeter.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
As we enter the second week at #COP30, our Deputy Vice-Chancellor @stuartbrocklehurst.bsky.social, who's in Belem, observes that the Amazon surroundings are not yet having the desired effect of driving progress.

greenfutures.exeter.ac.uk/article/exet...
Will there be progress at COP30, and on what exactly? · GreenFutures
greenfutures.exeter.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
On day eight of COP30, We Are The Possible @exeter.ac.uk offers a Monday poem called 'Making'. Read by actress Lisa Coleman, 'Making' is about working sustainably, with and alongside the rhythms of nature.

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Today's Poem - Making · GreenFutures
greenfutures.exeter.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM
As we near the halfway point of COP30, We Are The Possible @exeter.ac.uk invites readers to consider the capuchin monkey when its tree is cut down. 'Last One Standing' is poem six in the 12 Days of COP30, and it's read by actor and writer Caroline Pegg.

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Today's Poem - Last One Standing · GreenFutures
greenfutures.exeter.ac.uk
November 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
When did dogs begin to diverge from wolves? That's one of the questions that's been answered by archaeologists @exeter.ac.uk in an extensive study published in the journal, Science. By analysing more than 600 specimens, spanning tens of thousands of years, researchers have traced...
November 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM
On Day Five of COP30 comes a poem about how we navigate nature, time and our surroundings - courtesy of We Are The Possible @exeter.ac.uk.
Read by Nic Jeune, 'Canoe' questions how we can restore the health of our planet.
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Today's Poem - Canoe · GreenFutures
greenfutures.exeter.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Beautiful monastic music has been performed again in St Nicholas Priory in Exeter, closed by Henry VIII. ITV Westcountry came along to see the @exeter.ac.uk Chapel Choir and discover why their performance is thanks to the discovery of a rare collection of medieval chants.
www.itv.com/watch/news/c...
www.itv.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Our story on how shouting at seagulls could save your chips has been widely covered by the media (see 🧵).

The study finds seagulls can detect differences in the acoustics of human voices - something not seen before in wild species. @neeltjeboogert.bsky.social

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
Shouting at seagulls could stop them stealing your food
Shouting at seagulls makes them more likely to leave your food alone, research shows. University of Exeter researchers put a closed Tupperware box of chips on the ground to pique herring gulls’ intere...
news.exeter.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Congratulations to Dr Marc Palen @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social, following the award of the Elise M. Boulding Prize in Peace History to his book, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World (Princeton University Press, 2024).

peacehistorysociety.org/phs2025/awards.php
Peace History Society
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November 13, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Get your fill of Global Carbon Budget 2025 figures and associated data here, released today:
robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2025/
November 13, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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We just published the Global Carbon Budget 2025, with a mix of bad news (CO2 emissions continue to grow) and encouraging news (35 countries saw emissions decline over the past decade while growing their economies).

Read the highlights in a short article:
theconversation.com/the-worlds-c...
November 13, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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📢Global Carbon Budget 2025📢

Fossil CO2 emissions continue to rise in 2025 while the terrestrial carbon sink recovers to pre-El Niño strength.

The key findings are covered in two reports this year:
* ESSDD (preprint): essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...
* Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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November 13, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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For more details, see my @carbonbrief.org article with Global Carbon Budget lead @pfriedling.bsky.social: www.carbonbrief.org/...

And the new Global Carbon Budget paper: essd.copernicus.org/...
Analysis: Fossil-fuel CO2 emissions to set new record in 2025, as land sink ‘recovers’ - Carbon Brief
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuels and cement will rise around 1.1% in 2025,...
www.carbonbrief.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 AM
The 20th annual Global Carbon Budget is published today.

It shows that global carbon emissions from fossil fuels are projected to rise by 1.1% in 2025 – reaching a record high.

Read our press release and the full report here 👉 globalcarbonbudget.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM