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Steph Hill @sahill.bsky.social · 1d

Keep it in the headlines!

Ember @ember-energy.org · 1d

NEW | Solar and wind OUTPACED global electricity demand growth in the first half of 2025, leading to a fall in fossil fuels compared to this time last year ☀️🌪️

Record solar and steady wind growth is reshaping global power as renewables OVERTAKE coal for the first time.

https://loom.ly/c-MNZSk

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Steph Hill @sahill.bsky.social · 3d

Great to see/hear Melissa on @drilledmedia.bsky.social talking about the role of PR and discussing the greenwashing assessment framework!

Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 3d

In the @drilledmedia.bsky.social episode on 'The Media As a Tool of Climate Obstruction', Melissa Aronczyk also introduces the Greenwashing Assessment Framework—a "clear and coherent framework to identify greenwashing & to lay out a set of criteria that anyone can use"

👀🧵 by lead author 👇

Steph Hill @sahill.bsky.social · Jun 9

Revised greenwashing assessment framework just published in ecology and society! I'm really proud of the work that the spinning climate change working group put into this one and wanted to share the paper and a couple of thoughts. ecologyandsociety.org/vol30/iss2/a...
@cssn.org #CommSky #AcademicSky

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Literary Leicester 2025 @litleic.bsky.social · 15d

Plot twist — we’re back! Mark your calendars for #litleics26, coming your way in March. As always, all events are FREE! 🥳

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Sep 2

It would be super cool to go back to 2014, find a rando and ask them whether a fall in EU coal use for power generation of 60% in 10 years feels possible or even likely

ember-energy.org/data/electri...

a chart showing a steep decline of coal power use in Europe from 2010 onwards

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Steph Hill @sahill.bsky.social · 29d

This thread communicates better than many a graduate seminar that I have attended.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29d

Although it's rarely expressed in outright terms, people often use a very simple heuristic when solving fashion problems: they wish to look rich, which is often disguised as "respectable."

I will show you why this rarely leads to good outfits. 🧵

Jeff Bezos in a black polo and a gray puffer vest

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Sep 9

This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it?
Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules

Defra says blanket ban on ‘destructive’ fishing practice disproportionate as MPs urge minister to reconsider

www.theguardian.com

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Rebecca Altman, PhD @rebecca-altman.bsky.social · Sep 7

Pennsylvania plastic producer held accountable for nurdle/preproduction plastic pollution into local river system. insideclimatenews.org/news/0409202... #plasticstreaty

Pennsylvania Plastics Pollution Settlement Could Set a National Precedent for Control of Pellets - Inside Climate News

The case is the first citizen suit to successfully settle over “nurdles” in an inland waterway. State regulators weighed in to help.

insideclimatenews.org

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Steph Hill @sahill.bsky.social · Sep 5

My aspirational/delusional maternity leave reading pile. #CommSky #AcademicSky

A stack of five books: Gaming Democracy, Profit Over Privacy, The Cancel Culture Panic, Cloud Empires, and Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge.

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Steph Hill @sahill.bsky.social · Aug 30

I think I like it because OF COURSE these are the kinds of people who work for Facebook.

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Steph Hill @sahill.bsky.social · Aug 30

I'm enjoying the book but the author is trying to walk a fine line and not always succeeding. I get that she is trying to seem relatable and excuse why she is still there, but after a few stories of comical mixups it seems less like she is a mislead idealist and more like she's a little dumb, maybe?

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · Aug 30

Pants across Toronto are wet this morning in fear of this spreading here.

𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · Aug 29

I have an essay in @theglobeandmail.com this weekend.

It's about how I and a group of parents fought to have street outside our children's elementary school closed to cars.

This year, we succeeded!

Now we're going to have to fight to keep it in place.

🧵

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

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Steph Hill @sahill.bsky.social · Aug 27

Such a good list.

Josh Braun @joshbraun.bsky.social · Aug 26

Annually, I prepare a list of books undergrads in my Media, Technology & Culture course can select for their final projects. Always fun to assemble and I get kick out of sharing it, too, so here it is! #commsky

Pic of Seth Long's book, my favorite new cover.

umass-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...

The cover image for Seth Long's new book, "The Last Mixtape: Physical Media and Nostalgic Cycles." It is a stylized line art image that makes the front of the book resemble the old classroom tape decks so ubiquitous in the 1970s and 1980s, complete with a loaded audio cassette and physical playback buttons. The color scheme is late 70s/early 80s, too, with the body of the recorder in a blue-green color that belongs to the same color palette as avocado wallpaper and appliances. There are similarly retro red-orange highlights. The whitespace is colored to look like aged paper.

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · Aug 25

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.

NYT just covered it. 1/n

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

www.nytimes.com

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Earth Negotiations Bulletin @enb.iisd.org · Aug 9

At #INC5_2, Chair Luis Vayas says: There is no more time to keep adding positions already stated... a real push to achieve our common goal is needed... We must deliver by 14 August 2025."
#PlasticsTreaty
@unep.org

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Steph Hill @sahill.bsky.social · Aug 7

As usual, the ENB indispensable for us following along from home.

Having watched some of the webcasts, I propose that the phrase "worked tirelessly" be retired from the discussions. I bet a lot of those people are plenty tired.

Earth Negotiations Bulletin @enb.iisd.org · Aug 7

Delegates at #INC5_2 are meeting in contact group settings this morning to discuss matters related to capacity building, technical assistance and #technology transfer, including international #cooperation and an article related to existing #plasticpollution

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GENeva Environment Network @genevaenvironmentnetwork.org · Aug 6

In the margins of #PlasticsTreaty #INC-5.2, the GENis at "No Plastics in Nature: Turning the Tide Together" organized by WWF.

The gathering will reflect on 5 years of progress against #PlasticPollution & look ahead to what’s needed from the treaty and beyond.

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Steph Hill @sahill.bsky.social · Jul 25

I'm spending the summer feeding newborn twins and I have never been more grateful for cosy museum content. youtu.be/bd6GRXPD0Fw?...

Unboxing Tarot Decks Through the Ages 🔮💀🌙 | Ancient Rare Historical & Modern Tarot Cards

YouTube video by Victoria and Albert Museum

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kate conger @kateconger.com · Jul 25

Between Musk & the Trump administration, Media Matters has been squeezed to the brink. In settlement discussions, lawyers for X demanded the organization hand over all its cash and shut down — all because MM reported ads appeared on X next to antisemitic content. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...

Under Siege From Trump and Musk, a Top Liberal Group Falls Into Crisis

www.nytimes.com

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · Jul 18

Toronto knows what’s up.

Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · Jul 18

Spotted in the wild, on Wellesley near Bay. @tomflood.bsky.social

A "do not leave car idling turn off engine" sign violently oversprayed in pink. On top of the pink is a tidy black sticker that reads "bicycles deliver the freedom the auto ads promise."

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CE (Catie) Murphy @cemurphy.bsky.social · Jul 19

Left: Hugh Jackman in the male gaze
Right: Hugh Jackman in the female gaze

i mean like literally. one's a muscle mag for lads & the other is GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, for god's sake

Two magazine covers, both featuring Wolverine actor Hugh Jackman. On the men's magazine MUSCLE & FITNESS, he's shirtless, dehydrated, jacked, popping claws and glaring at the camera. This is the male gaze.

On the women's magazine GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, he's smiling, wearing a v-necked teal sweater, torso slightly arched gracefully away from the camera. This is the female gaze.

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · Jul 19

Not many politicians in the UK tell the truth about farming or are brave enough to criticise the cakeism of the main farming unions.

But Lee Waters MS does in this refreshingly honest speech. Almost every word of it applies to England as much as Wales.

amanwy.blogspot.com/2025/07/we-n...

We need to re-set the debate on farming

Speech in the Senedd on 16th July 2025 Let me start with the obvious: Farming is hard. I am proud to come from a family of farmers, and I un...

amanwy.blogspot.com

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Ryan Turnbull @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · Jul 14

On the one hand, yes I buy the argument that modern camping has really weird patriarchal/colonial origins and overtones but on the other hand, academics, if you don’t want to go camping, you can just say so.

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IAMCR @iamcr.org · Jun 4

2025 Climate Communication Award Winners announced! 🏆 They are Elena Maydell, Massey University (New Zealand) and Inessa Love, University of Hawaii (USA) and Daniel Renz Roc, University of the Philippines Los Baños (the Philippines). Read more about them and their work:
iamcr.org/awards/clima...

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IAMCR @iamcr.org · Jun 25

🌐✨ Meet the winners of IAMCR’s 2025 Decolonising the Digital Awards!
From Indigenous language activism to feminist AI, these groundbreaking projects reimagine technology from the margins.
👉 Read more: iamcr.org/awards/decol...
#IAMCR2025 #DecoloniseTheDigital #DigitalJustice

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IAMCR @iamcr.org · Jul 3

🎓🏆 Congrats to the winners of the 2025 Stuart Hall Award!
Their work examines media witnessing, menstrual stigma (@xiaodongyan.bsky.social), and the politics of representation.
Full story: iamcr.org/awards/hall2...
#IAMCR2025 #StuartHallAward #MediaStudies

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