Amy Peace
@amypeace.bsky.social
Innovation Lead -Circular Economy at Innovate UK
Systems/Sustainability/Engineering/Infographics/QuizMaster/Mum
Born@ 339.2ppmCO2
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Systems/Sustainability/Engineering/Infographics/QuizMaster/Mum
Born@ 339.2ppmCO2
MIChemE FRSA
My opinions here
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Amy Peace
@amypeace.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Noticed that there doesn't seem to be an obvious Circular Economy Starter Pack... So, I've started one here (slightly UK/EU centric). Suggestions for additions welcomed, and also how to add people quickly using the app, as it seems quite convoluted:
go.bsky.app/JFNr8dw
#CircularEconomy
go.bsky.app/JFNr8dw
#CircularEconomy
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
2
CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
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HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
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WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes
Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...
toronto.citynews.ca
November 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
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We have people booked to bring broken food processors, favourite jumpers with damaged zips, and ailing plants. Don't miss this opportunity to repair your stuff with the help of 40 technicians and makers. Repair Café | Sustainable UCL - share.google/2qFlWYPHRPLs...
Repair Café
Bring your broken or damaged possessions to our UCL Repair Café event at UCL East Marshgate on Friday, 7th November.
share.google
November 4, 2025 at 9:08 AM
We have people booked to bring broken food processors, favourite jumpers with damaged zips, and ailing plants. Don't miss this opportunity to repair your stuff with the help of 40 technicians and makers. Repair Café | Sustainable UCL - share.google/2qFlWYPHRPLs...
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November 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Nature (likely via the neighbour’s cat) obviously decided we hadn’t done enough to decorate our house for Halloween…
October 31, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Nature (likely via the neighbour’s cat) obviously decided we hadn’t done enough to decorate our house for Halloween…
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Reimagining Circularity: outline stage #EPSRC
Reimagining Circularity: outline stage
Apply for three years of NetworkPlus funding to build new capacity, strengthen community and enhance research to innovation capabilities focused on the circular economy in built environment, textiles or data and metrics. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding.EPSRC
www.ukri.org
October 30, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Reimagining Circularity: outline stage #EPSRC
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I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
October 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this
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Hurricane Melissa looks, as Marco says, truly staggering
Our house in east London nearly flooded a few years ago after 120mm of rain – and I remember the fallout of the "great storm" in '87, top speed 135mph…
…but I can't even begin to imagine the impact of 1,000mm of rain or 200mph gusts
Our house in east London nearly flooded a few years ago after 120mm of rain – and I remember the fallout of the "great storm" in '87, top speed 135mph…
…but I can't even begin to imagine the impact of 1,000mm of rain or 200mph gusts
#Melissa a staggering cat 5 hurricane 🌀& strengthening
Sustained winds 160mph gusts 200mph
Central pressure 913hpa
The Caribbean, notably Jamaica expecting catastrophic damage from this very slow 🐌 moving storm
1000mm rain possible..London gets ~600/yr!
13ft storm surge
Sustained winds 160mph gusts 200mph
Central pressure 913hpa
The Caribbean, notably Jamaica expecting catastrophic damage from this very slow 🐌 moving storm
1000mm rain possible..London gets ~600/yr!
13ft storm surge
October 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Hurricane Melissa looks, as Marco says, truly staggering
Our house in east London nearly flooded a few years ago after 120mm of rain – and I remember the fallout of the "great storm" in '87, top speed 135mph…
…but I can't even begin to imagine the impact of 1,000mm of rain or 200mph gusts
Our house in east London nearly flooded a few years ago after 120mm of rain – and I remember the fallout of the "great storm" in '87, top speed 135mph…
…but I can't even begin to imagine the impact of 1,000mm of rain or 200mph gusts
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This from a top expert on Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier.
Highly likely that we're committing to an additional 3 meters (10 ft) of sea level rise as we speak. Yes, it'll take time to fully materialize, but when will the enormous damage that we're signing up for sink in with voters and policy makers?
Highly likely that we're committing to an additional 3 meters (10 ft) of sea level rise as we speak. Yes, it'll take time to fully materialize, but when will the enormous damage that we're signing up for sink in with voters and policy makers?
In summary, the outlook is grim. It is highly likely that Thwaites Glacier will eventually be lost, which will destabilise adjoining parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, increasing the committed long-term rise in global mean sea level by more than 3 m.
October 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
This from a top expert on Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier.
Highly likely that we're committing to an additional 3 meters (10 ft) of sea level rise as we speak. Yes, it'll take time to fully materialize, but when will the enormous damage that we're signing up for sink in with voters and policy makers?
Highly likely that we're committing to an additional 3 meters (10 ft) of sea level rise as we speak. Yes, it'll take time to fully materialize, but when will the enormous damage that we're signing up for sink in with voters and policy makers?
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….you need to read and understand your contracts. You need to have your contracts read and understood by someone who a) understands the purpose of contracts & b) has *your* best interests at heart.
Please, for the love of god, do not rely on some corporation's "AI" to "summaries" your contracts.
Please, for the love of god, do not rely on some corporation's "AI" to "summaries" your contracts.
I just received a contract on Docusign for review and signing, and it offered to give me an AI-generated summary that I could read instead to save time.
That's AN AI-GENERATED SUMMARY ***OF A CONTRACT***, in case you need to let that sink in.
That's AN AI-GENERATED SUMMARY ***OF A CONTRACT***, in case you need to let that sink in.
June 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
….you need to read and understand your contracts. You need to have your contracts read and understood by someone who a) understands the purpose of contracts & b) has *your* best interests at heart.
Please, for the love of god, do not rely on some corporation's "AI" to "summaries" your contracts.
Please, for the love of god, do not rely on some corporation's "AI" to "summaries" your contracts.
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Parents! Carers! Anyone thinking of buying a child a "science kit" for Christmas. For the same / less cost, buy a copy of "Recipes for Wonder" and put together a box of household "ingredients" which will let them do actual science and be a much more personal gift alomshaha.com/portfolio/mr...
October 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Parents! Carers! Anyone thinking of buying a child a "science kit" for Christmas. For the same / less cost, buy a copy of "Recipes for Wonder" and put together a box of household "ingredients" which will let them do actual science and be a much more personal gift alomshaha.com/portfolio/mr...
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This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.
October 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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"OpenAI...constantly needs fresh injections of investor cash, because its costs are bigger than its revenues—keeps announcing deals to invest billions in chip makers. Unless they invent digital god & completely transform the global economy... they’re going to run into some hard accounting realities"
Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.
There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.
My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.
My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
It's Giving Enron
On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash
open.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:18 PM
"OpenAI...constantly needs fresh injections of investor cash, because its costs are bigger than its revenues—keeps announcing deals to invest billions in chip makers. Unless they invent digital god & completely transform the global economy... they’re going to run into some hard accounting realities"
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Will be advertising a PhD studentship on this topic soon. Do get in touch if you are interested.
We need a circular economy for materials. Our critical materials report recommends improved repair, recycling and recovery of electronics to preserve valuable materials stocks like lithium and neodymium. Read now on International e-waste day: https://raeng.org.uk/critical-materials
#EWasteDay
#EWasteDay
Critical materials - reducing demand and ensuring sustainability
Explore a new report from the NEPC about resource efficiency and demand reduction for critical materials to support the UK’s existing Net Zero Strategy.
raeng.org.uk
October 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Will be advertising a PhD studentship on this topic soon. Do get in touch if you are interested.
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We need a circular economy for materials. Our critical materials report recommends improved repair, recycling and recovery of electronics to preserve valuable materials stocks like lithium and neodymium. Read now on International e-waste day: https://raeng.org.uk/critical-materials
#EWasteDay
#EWasteDay
Critical materials - reducing demand and ensuring sustainability
Explore a new report from the NEPC about resource efficiency and demand reduction for critical materials to support the UK’s existing Net Zero Strategy.
raeng.org.uk
October 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
We need a circular economy for materials. Our critical materials report recommends improved repair, recycling and recovery of electronics to preserve valuable materials stocks like lithium and neodymium. Read now on International e-waste day: https://raeng.org.uk/critical-materials
#EWasteDay
#EWasteDay
My recommendation from this week is: if you leave a gig saying "that was so good I could see it again", it's worth checking twickets, even if it's sold out, because then you can do just that #DoubleSelfEsteem 🥳 @selfesteem.music-social.com
September 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
My recommendation from this week is: if you leave a gig saying "that was so good I could see it again", it's worth checking twickets, even if it's sold out, because then you can do just that #DoubleSelfEsteem 🥳 @selfesteem.music-social.com
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This is really cool - we got bored of seeing the same stock pictures of heat pumps over and over again, so my colleagues* have started a library of images anyone can use.
(*a Nesta - Climate Visuals collaboration)
www.climatevisuals.org/heatpumps/
(*a Nesta - Climate Visuals collaboration)
www.climatevisuals.org/heatpumps/
September 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
This is really cool - we got bored of seeing the same stock pictures of heat pumps over and over again, so my colleagues* have started a library of images anyone can use.
(*a Nesta - Climate Visuals collaboration)
www.climatevisuals.org/heatpumps/
(*a Nesta - Climate Visuals collaboration)
www.climatevisuals.org/heatpumps/
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We don’t all share the same internet. The personalised algorithm has siloed us into parallel worlds
September 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
We don’t all share the same internet. The personalised algorithm has siloed us into parallel worlds
Optimistic about this - yeast as a replacement for palm oil...
September 12, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Optimistic about this - yeast as a replacement for palm oil...
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First Past the Post cannot handle this level of fragmentation. It will produce completely freak results.
We can grasp this problem now, or wait for the train to crash.
We can grasp this problem now, or wait for the train to crash.
5 parties on more than 12%, winner gains seat with under 30%. Results like this used to be rare, freak outliers. Now they are routine (there was a second just like this yesterday). Electoral chaos.
Newmarket East (West Suffolk) Council By-Election Result:
➡️ RFM: 29.7% (New)
🌳 CON: 25.0% (+4.1)
🔶 LDM: 17.2% (-3.1)
🌹 LAB: 15.3% (-8.3)
🌍 GRN: 12.8% (New)
No WSI (-19.2) or Ind (-16.1) as previous.
Reform GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2023.
➡️ RFM: 29.7% (New)
🌳 CON: 25.0% (+4.1)
🔶 LDM: 17.2% (-3.1)
🌹 LAB: 15.3% (-8.3)
🌍 GRN: 12.8% (New)
No WSI (-19.2) or Ind (-16.1) as previous.
Reform GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2023.
September 12, 2025 at 8:07 AM
First Past the Post cannot handle this level of fragmentation. It will produce completely freak results.
We can grasp this problem now, or wait for the train to crash.
We can grasp this problem now, or wait for the train to crash.
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In late June, Google quietly scrubbed its pledge to hit net zero by 2030 from its sustainability website as it goes full steam ahead on hyperscale data centers and generative AI.
Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website
Five years ago, Google’s climate action ambitions were the gold standard for Big Tech. Then, with power demand spikes from AI data centres, in July it scrubbed its sustainability website of its 2030 n...
www.nationalobserver.com
September 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
In late June, Google quietly scrubbed its pledge to hit net zero by 2030 from its sustainability website as it goes full steam ahead on hyperscale data centers and generative AI.
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“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute…These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”
How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart
Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent
www.theguardian.com
September 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute…These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”
My contribution to the Angela Raynor resignation debate: The are now 70 people watching a second hand pair of ME+EM green trousers on Vinted now...
September 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
My contribution to the Angela Raynor resignation debate: The are now 70 people watching a second hand pair of ME+EM green trousers on Vinted now...
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And again, things go much faster than expected: The staggeringly rapid expansion of the drying regions was surprising even for the scientists
Satellites have been tracking the water held in glaciers, lakes and the world’s vast underground reserves — aquifers. A extensive analysis of that data reveals water is rapidly disappearing beneath much of humanity’s feet, and large swaths of the Earth are drying out. www.latimes.com/environment/...
Humanity is rapidly depleting water and much of the world is getting drier
Research shows vast portions of the world are losing fresh water and getting drier. Groundwater depletion accounts for two-thirds of the continents' water losses, contributing to rising oceans.
www.latimes.com
September 4, 2025 at 7:30 AM
And again, things go much faster than expected: The staggeringly rapid expansion of the drying regions was surprising even for the scientists