Rob Ralston

Lecturer in Public Policy at @EdinburghUni currently researching corporate power and the UN plastics treaty | now on bluesky using the same handle

[Rob Ralston @PolicyRelevant]

Taylor Swift as critical public health texts

[GENeva Environment Network @GENetwork]

#Live now!

Join this #GENeva #BeatPlasticPollution Dialogue held on the #RoadToBusan #INC5 for a discussion on the importance of the principles of transparency, accountability & justice for a successful #PlasticsTreaty.

▶️ https://t.co/U0JWEcliP4
🎥 https://t.co/XvqP0Ahzaa

[Center for International Environmental Law @ciel_tweets]

NEW: In an open letter to @antonioguterres, 130+ organizations are calling out @UNEP Executive Director @andersen_inger for comments that the groups say prejudge the upcoming #PlasticsTreaty negotiations, aligning with positions taken by petrostates and industry.

[GENeva Environment Network @GENetwork]

On the #RoadToBusan, join this #GENeva #BeatPlasticPollution Dialogue sharing how prioritizing principles of accountability, transparency & justice is essential to a successful #PlasticsTreaty towards ending #plasticpollution.

📅 29 October, 14:00 CET
▶️ https://t.co/U0JWEcliP4

[Center for International Environmental Law @ciel_tweets]

🌍 Global leaders are meeting at and around #UNGA and #ClimateWeekNYC to determine the future of the #PlasticsTreaty.

Over 160 organizations are urging them to commit to reducing plastic production in the future #PlasticsTreaty

[Rob Ralston @PolicyRelevant]

deeply saddened to hear @Majdiashour has passed away after a short illness

Majdi worked as a medical officer in UNRWA before undertaking a PhD on health systems in the Gaza Strip. He was a deeply committed and gifted researcher and I feel immensely privileged to have known him

[Rob Ralston @PolicyRelevant]

will be posting on here less often due to twitter becoming increasingly unusable - same @ on bluesky as I can’t bring myself to use linkedin

[Edward Luce @EdwardGLuce]

Can't say this enough; Elon Musk's menace to democracy is intolerable. He's using the largest & most influential platform in the democratic world to stoke racial conflict and civil breakdown - in his own posts & what X promotes. Democracies can no longer ignore this.

[Rob Ralston @PolicyRelevant]

[lecturer of undergrad ‘introduction to the welfare state’ course]: You know what’s SO Brat? Esping Andersen’s worlds of welfare

[Rob Ralston @PolicyRelevant]

in the queue at a chaotic Lidl during the first week of the edinburgh fringe and the cashier has accidentally inputted £450 instead of £45 and there’s no manger to fix it

secondhand anxiety is hitting uncut gems levels

[L @MsLMG79]

The first two are a Scottish person looking for their Vauxhall.

[Rob Ralston @PolicyRelevant]

@Rob_Percival_ @kesievert had basically the same thought - interesting how some of more radical aspects of UPF as an idea have been stripped away as it has travelled

[Rob Ralston @PolicyRelevant]

@piercepenniless as someone who researches corporate power, I find the concept useful in understanding the core products and business models of ‘big food’

but the discourse has shifted towards moralising / individualist understanding which is feel much less comfortable with

[Rob Ralston @PolicyRelevant]

@DrDionGeorgiou I mean, I'd read that blog for sure

[Rob Ralston @PolicyRelevant]

has pitbull been reading Erving Goffman

[Pitbull @pitbull]

People take so many pictures, they miss the big picture. They’re so connected, they’re disconnected.

[Rob Ralston @PolicyRelevant]

@MIALONMelissa I think there’s also an important distinction between ‘markets’ and corporations - a point made by Susan Strange

[Rob Ralston @PolicyRelevant]

me sketching out the lofty aims of a massive research grant: haha fuck yeah!! Yes!!

me having to draft a budget table annex that includes a realistic estimation of costs: well this fucking sucks. what the fuck.

[Rob Ralston @PolicyRelevant]

@R_Hughes1 < screams into the void >

[Rob Ralston @PolicyRelevant]

my partner has encouraged me to upgrade my office chair, so naturally I've become hyper-fixated on a bauhaus design I will never be able to afford

[Rob Ralston @PolicyRelevant]

@PhilipProudfoot @jana_bacevic This is from 2019 - not sure you can support radical solutions without recognising the role of civil society and social moments in advocating for them

[Max @MFRP92]

Microsoft outage but Teams and Outlook are both fine is the adult version of snow that doesn’t settle enough for a school closure.