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Adam Standring

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Environmental sociologist with added politics and policy. currently ISEG, formerly DMU, ÖRU and FCSH.

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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · Nov 14

I'm happy to share my newest publication with Rolf Lidskog, our article "Invaluable invisibility: academic housekeeping within the IPCC" is now out open access in Climatic Change.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Invaluable invisibility: academic housekeeping within the IPCC - Climatic Change

This article discusses “academic housekeeping” undertaken within IPCC, understood as the work that is rarely made visible or rewarded, but is nevertheless essential to the success of the organization....

link.springer.com

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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 17h

Interval. The first half definitely has some of my favourites.

Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 18h

Waiting for the first 34 1/2 of Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs.

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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 1d

Extremely precarious times for civil liberties in the UK. The opposition calling for a British ICE, the Labour government cracking down on protest.

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder that this week the Conservatives announced they want a “British ICE”

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 2d

Bang on point:

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 3d

"Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement."

bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 3d

“Deloitte was forced to investigate the report after University of Sydney academic Dr Christopher Rudge highlighted multiple errors in the document.”

www.afr.com/companies/pr...

Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report

Deloitte will issue a partial refund to the government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a report littered with errors.

www.afr.com

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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 4d

We can be outraged and appalled and still recognize that this is a fraction of what many Palestinians have faced on a daily basis for decadesm

Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 4d

Absolutely heinous.

Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 5d

An oldie but a goodie - Desperate Bicycles - Advice on Arrest (1978)

Desperate Bicycles - Advice On Arrest

YouTube video by couldntfeelsafer

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 6d

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 6d

We're undoubtedly going to be seeing a lot of clips of Keeping Up Appearances in the next few days but this was Patricia Routledge's tour de force.

A Lady of Letters

YouTube video by Rick Salvi

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 7d

the extwitter mindset is ultimately about a contempt for knowledge. it was never about "science vs humanities." it is about the idea that it is worthwhile to understand the different facets of a complex system even if you cannot provide an immediately instrumental justification for doing so

Lakshya Jain @lakshya.splitticket.org · 8d

I get this reply a lot. I think people who don't study computer science genuinely do not understand how it's taught.

You *have* to understand logic gates. In Berkeley, students are also made to learn assembly. Less about the language, more about principles. www.theargumentmag.com/p/chatgpt-an...

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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 7d

In the whole cacophony of shite we are facing, environmentally, politically, socially, few things make me more depressed and despairing than the uncritical enthusiasm that many colleagues have for AI.

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

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 ...

www.nplusonemag.com

Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 14d

It's a symptom of how Westminster focused British political commentary is that in almost all the discussion on Andy Burnham's possible challenge for Labour leadership, pretty much no-one has sought to look at what he's actually done in/to Manchester.

Now's your chance to read some urban scholarship

Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 14d

Who are we thinking? Tennant? Cumberbatch?

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 15d

New Open Access paper: "Moving ideas: An agenda for expanding the political scope of the policy mobilities approach" in @proghumgeog.bsky.social. Arguing that the #policymobilities & #socialmovements literatures can be combined to study counter-hegemonic activism. 1/6
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Moving ideas: An agenda for expanding the political scope of the policy mobilities approach - Eugene McCann, 2025

This paper addresses the policy mobilities approach’s relative inattention to counter-hegemonic activism and contentious politics. It outlines one way to expand...

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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 17d

Tom Sawyer Jane Eyre

Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 17d

It is a clear case of factional politics coming back to bite some people in the ass.

Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 17d

I think British politicians, the media and political commentators would be in a much better position to combat the far-right today if they hadn't spent the past 10 years painting every anti-racism campaigner and leftist as a crank and beyond the pale of 'sensible politics'.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 20d

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade

Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’

Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 21d

“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives

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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 21d

So we can now spend a few more days arguing over the 'correct' definition of fascism.

Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 22d

Live images of the entire British political ecosystem.

a blue dumpster is on fire and smoke is coming out of it with a sign on the side that says " no smoking "

ALT: a blue dumpster is on fire and smoke is coming out of it with a sign on the side that says " no smoking "

media.tenor.com

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24d

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

substack.com

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 26d

It do be like that

DEVONTM@Devon_OnEarth •2h
Seems like the sensible politics-knowers' opinion on Starmer has gone from him being a shrewd, forensic political operator to him being a hapless moron, without anyone having to have been wrong, and most assuredly without anyone who knew he was a dolt getting to have been right

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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 28d

Maybe just ban guns

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