Sean Field

Sean is a Senior Research Fellow and the Director of Policy at the Centre for Energy Ethics at the University of St Andrews.

[St Andrews Social Anthropology @StAndrewsAnthro]

Dr Bridget Bradley was interviewed on two BBC radio programmes this morning! Listen to hear her discuss the charity she founded with her research community @BFRB_UK_Ireland and their upcoming conference in Oxford with @TheTrichProf

[Dundee City Archives @DundeeArchives]

1884 Plan of #Dundee to accompany the Directory of that year. This version has been marked up by the City Engineers Department to show the proposed reclamation of land to the west of the rail bridge. Although it be a few more decades under Riverside Park was created. #MapMonday

[Sean Field @Field_SeanS]

We have been saying this for years now. It's nearly impossible to come to the UK to work as a researcher, especially if you have a family.
https://t.co/o3rhkNhg7E

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

The outfits in this are so good.

Dancing by CDK Company (IG cdkcompany)
Directed by Sergio Reis (IG sergiovsreis)

[Cornelia Helmcke @ConnyCastanea]

How should #climaterights shape #netzero? Exciting panel with @lydcole, Daria Shapovalova and Rowan Cruft @EthicsEnergy @univofstandrews

[Sean Field @Field_SeanS]

How should we act in the face of climate change?

Join us on 10 May for "Acting on Climate Change: Policy, Rights, & Net Zero"

Speakers will include: Patrick Harvie, Sarah Boyack, John Swinney

In-person tickets are still available! Register here: https://t.co/7M645PQWqv

[Sean Field @Field_SeanS]

#Dundee

[Sean Field @Field_SeanS]

Seen in Dundee this weekend 🌈

[Sean Field @Field_SeanS]

@NearlyExperts @EthicsEnergy @univofstandrews @OctopusEnergy @ScotGovNetZero Not at all. Generators submit price bids to make money - covering their costs and making what they deem to be acceptable profits.

It would mean that generators wouldn't get paid as if they were generating ⚡using the most inefficient gas turbines.

[Sean Field @Field_SeanS]

@NearlyExperts @EthicsEnergy @univofstandrews @OctopusEnergy @ScotGovNetZero Good question! With marginal pricing (the current system) producers with bid prices below the wholesale price earn more money. What do they do with that money? You'll have to ask them :) But, it means consumers are paying a lot more for electricity than they should be...

[Sean Field @Field_SeanS]

Reforming wholesale electricity prices is vital for decarbonizing heat. Can it be done? Yes. And it will save consumers on their electric bills. There is more than one way to do it - in this short peice I explain avg cost wholesale pricing

[Centre for Energy Ethics @EthicsEnergy]

New Blog Post ✍️

Our Director of Policy Sean Field (@Field_SeanS) takes on the UK's electricity pricing in his latest blog contribution: 'Lowering UK Electricity Prices to Achieve Net Zero?'.

@univofstandrews @OctopusEnergy @ScotGovNetZero

👉https://t.co/8EMSWheWV9

[Sean Field @Field_SeanS]

"The budget is a piece of theatre meant for your consumption. It is a cute moment – a photogenic moment where a multimillionaire can hold up a red box and bribe you with a bit of your money..."

V good and interesting read

https://t.co/RmjFboUhUt

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

In the immediate aftermath of the Hamas-led attacks on October 7, the Israeli state began an intense information warfare campaign with the intention to dehumanize Palestinians as a whole in order to justify the collective punishment of a population of 2.3 million people caged in a territory the size of Philadelphia.

As part of this campaign, Israeli government and military officials, IDF soldiers, media outlets, and members of private Israeli rescue organizations told a series of graphic stories about what occurred on October 7. Several of the most shocking of these, including assertions of group executions of children and the mass beheading of babies, have now been debunked, including through the investigative reporting of major Israeli media outlets.

Among this campaign’s ultimate successes was getting President Biden and other U.S. and international officials to launder and promote false narratives. This pattern has continued during the four month war against Gaza, with the U.S. giving cover to Israel to attack Gaza’s hospitals and bolstering the Israeli campaign to demonize and destroy UNRWA, the most vital aid organization on the ground in Gaza.

I have watched many, many hours of footage from the October 7 attacks and it is harrowing and horrifying. There is no doubt that widespread atrocities and war crimes were committed during the Hamas-led attacks of October 7.

The intentional killing of unarmed civilians, whether by Hamas or by the Israeli military, is a war crime. It is also a war crime to take civilians hostage. Among those taken captive by Hamas and other groups were children, including a 10-month old baby, and the elderly.

It is also true that for decades Israel has repeatedly killed Palestinian civilians in both Gaza and the West Bank. And it maintains a longstanding policy of arresting and prosecuting Palestinian children and youth in military courts, often denying them basic rights.

The Israeli social security agency has published extensive documentation on the identities of the 1,139 Israeli citizens and residents killed on October 7. According to these figures, 695 Israeli civilians were documented to have been killed that day, along with 71 foreigners, most of whom were migrant laborers.

These people and the more than 27,000 Palestinians whose deaths were justified in their names, deserve an unvarnished rendering of the truth. The documentable facts are horrifying enough on their own. When deliberate falsehoods are inserted into the discourse and repeated by U.S. officials, it serves no purpose but to forward the agenda of Netanyahu’s war of annihilation.

In this piece, I tried to offer an overview of how some false stories spread and the role these narratives have played in the horrors that have been meted out against the people of Gaza over the past four months.

https://t.co/cE7yyDtlJj

[Sean Field @Field_SeanS]

Come join us for this new book discussion (see below) with @DominicBoyer! "No More Fossils", available open access here: https://t.co/rFjq2qWuPn

[Centre for Energy Ethics @EthicsEnergy]

Join us and Professor @DominicBoyer for a discussion of his new book.

'No More Fossils' looks at the rise of fossil civilisation & looks towards a just & sustainable electric future

3pm GMT 🕒
Mon 12 Feb 🗓️

Register to attend online or in-person
👇👇

https://t.co/F4vFq6biST

[Sean Field @Field_SeanS]

...the public facing performances of good governance.

Thanks @matthewarcher5 and Sayd Randle for organizing this SI published in Antipode

@EthicsEnergy, @StAndrewsAnthro, @UStAResearch

[Sean Field @Field_SeanS]

I'm excited for the publication of this new OA article:

https://t.co/ygkqwM89AO

The article traces how understandings of natural gas has evolved from excess nuisance, to liability, to potential asset turned commodity in ways that parallel unfolding understandings... 1/x

[Sean Field @Field_SeanS]

... and treatments of CO2. These understandings, I argue, are tied to the materiality of hydorcarbons. This has implications not only for how carbonous substances are stored - above and below ground - but draws attention to what storage spaces mean for... 2/x

[Centre for Energy Ethics @EthicsEnergy]

Wishing you all a happy Burns Night!

Last year CEE Artist-in-Residence Rebecca Sharp (@sharpette) was asked to write something for the University’s online annual celebrations.

@univofstandrews @GlobalOfficeStA

Catch the recording here 👇👇

https://t.co/BqM4STNAKa

[Sean Field @Field_SeanS]

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[Tay Road Bridge @tay_road_bridge]

#StormIsha gave us a peak wind gust of 107.8mph at 22:55 last night. This is just under our record gust of 110.3mph experienced on 29 January 2001. We hope everyone is OK following such a severe storm. Take care on the roads today if you have to go out. @trafficscotland

[Sean Field @Field_SeanS]

@HighMette @univofstandrews @UStAResearch @StAndrewsAnthro Aw thanks 😊