Baritone; Uni of Manchester postdoc; just submitted PhD thesis at Cambridge. A story of success against entirely possible odds. Mostly off Twitter these days.
I have a small piece in Contemporary Theatre Review's Backpages, courtesy of the lovely @Csvich! It's available here: https://t.co/akV21yOd9i.
(There are also a couple of fab climate-theatre articles elsewhere in the issue, including one by my brilliant pal Alex Watson!)
In 2021, I was asked to contribute to Critical Hits, an anthology of writers on video games. I began unraveling thoughts about Red Dead Redemption, Arthur, the uncertainty of afterlife, & power. Anthology is out next month. You can read my essay today:
https://t.co/Z4z1CFh7EY
Students: "I wanted to email an academic to compliment their article, but I'm not sure it's appropriate"
Academics receiving praise of any type in any form at any time:
Will never forget Ocean Vuong's comments on competitiveness in the arts. He used the metaphor of a racetrack, calling the race “synthetic." Remove all the man-made elements--the track, the fences, the jockeys and numbers--and you have “horses running together in a field.” 💚
has he considered that a lot of people view university education as an opportunity to learn more about a subject they’re genuinely passionate about rather than simply preparation for making as much money as they possibly can
At the Conservative party conference, energy secretary Claire Coutinho said Labour seems “relaxed about taxing meat”.
Ms Coutinho has not provided evidence to support this claim, and we’ve not found any. Taxing meat is not Labour policy.
https://t.co/CUwa8bGYtC
So, today Civitas has published a great new report, publishing the "realisistic" costs of Net Zero. Apparently, it’s a whopping £4.5 trillion, or £6,000/home/year.
Wow. However, how do these numbers stack up?
(tl;dr: no. but stick around for the 🧵, because it's fun). 1/12
Yesterday, I asked the guys who are doing construction near my office where their burritos were from because they always smell *so* good. They told me that the foreman's mom makes them for them, which was disappointing until this morning when the foreman came running over to
Is reaching #NetZero actually expensive?
We asked @UniofOxford & @INETOxford's Prof Doyne Farmer, who answered based on his peer-reviewed, published and widely cited research.
More:https://t.co/Mo14jnJYvf
@PippaCrerar The most imminent cost was on landlords and was designed to reduce energy bills and fuel poverty for tenants, which is hardly a bad thing.
All the other efficiency and heat pump rules were to be phased in as costs come down and were meant to be backed by incentives.
It was an honour to represent @FreelancersMake at today's Oberto conference. Here is our provocation in full, either as four pictures or a very long thread... I am so proud to be a small part of this amazing team (mostly volunteers!) and to share the research that we are doing.
Just a couple of years ago, the steel industry was allegedly "hard to abate" and routinely used as an excuse to slow global decarbonization. Now, fully 43% of planned steelmaking capacity is based on electric arc furnace technology, up 68% in 1 year
https://t.co/BW0w8nA2Rt
I now have this gender theory syllabus as one of the central resources on my course sites, next to, like, the student support links, because it's that good.