Richie Nimmo

Sociologist @ Manchester University. Research: human-animal relations, political ecology, technology, ecosocialism. Less and less time for obscurantism. He/him.

[Richie Nimmo @Post_humanist]

“I am pleased to inform you that your manuscript has been formally accepted for publication”. Well, that’s the highlight of my day (…ok, my week) and it’s only 9am on Monday. All downhill now! 😆

[Richie Nimmo @Post_humanist]

Number of wild bee species at risk of extinction in Europe doubles in 10 years | Bees | The Guardian #biodiversity #pollination #bees https://t.co/OyrHrYb0iT

[Spectrum of Communism @CommunistSpectr]

Smart Hives sollen die Landwirtschaft in Kalifornien retten, das Artensterben beenden, Präzisionsbestäubung erlauben und kleinbürgl. Imker in die Lohnarbeit zwingen. Über die reelle Subsumtion der Honigbiene unter das Kapital schrieb @Post_humanist.

https://t.co/VOxjQ0JPbN

[Richie Nimmo @Post_humanist]

Most media coverage of this issue is awful. But this is rather good. . “We’re close to translating animal languages – what happens then?” | Animals | The Guardian https://t.co/Rw2gDu9E0L

[Richie Nimmo @Post_humanist]

Tony Blair is the stopped clock that somehow never tells the right time. #climatechange #decarbonisation

[Richie Nimmo @Post_humanist]

@ New article: 'Digital Hives, Nonhuman Work and the Real Subsumption of Nature: Fixing Pollination in Capitalist Agriculture'. https://t.co/gzoW4fFAxN #socioecologicalcrisis #socioecologicalfix #precisionagriculture #realsubsumption #nonhumanwork

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Orchestrated PR campaign by Meat and Dairy industry lobby group behind plant food study backlash | Food | The Guardian https://t.co/Q4ZamhWRYM

[Richie Nimmo @Post_humanist]

Not many silver linings to the present economic upheaval, to be fair, but one of them could be (please) that sociology finally stops spewing out all that vacuous garbage about globalisation.

[Richie Nimmo @Post_humanist]

Biodiversity loss in all species and every ecosystem linked to humans – report | Biodiversity | The Guardian https://t.co/YrrdIoLgO7

[Leon Simons 🌍 @LeonSimons8]

The RATE of CO₂ increase is increasing!

[Jason W. Moore @oikeios]

Solidarity!

[Richie Nimmo @Post_humanist]

How is it, when governments have access to such breadth and depth of research and evidence based policy guidance, they continue to push poorly conceived knee jerk legislation for the sake of symbolic statements and with no regard for the actual social impacts? #DisabilityBenefits

[Richie Nimmo @Post_humanist]

@jasonhickel True. Though it’s also striking that capitalism gave rise to the very ideas that it’s structurally incapable of ever living up to. Hence immanent critique. Dialectics innit.

[Joe Stanley @JoeWStanley]

In the context of everything farmers & society have been told since 2017, this is insane.

Overnight @UKLabour has ejected the foundational principle that we need more nature & climate action across our landscape in favour of culture wars.

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https://t.co/OqnRcxuHyq

[Dave Goulson @DaveGoulson]

This is bonkers. A huge own goal for Labour :(

[Richie Nimmo @Post_humanist]

@domdyer70 A screenshot rather than than a link?

[Richie Nimmo @Post_humanist]

@BorkNathanial Alas making people care is not one of my superpowers. But yes the plastic sperm story is a vivid one. Some types can accept it’s in their brain but not their balls apparently. 💁🏼‍♂️

[Richie Nimmo @Post_humanist]

Just when you thought you’d heard the worst story of ‘negative value’ in the Capitalocene. “Microplastics hinder plant photosynthesis, study finds, threatening millions with starvation”. Still, microplastics aren’t the cause of starvation, inequality is. https://t.co/Tx5AqhTx1f

[Richie Nimmo @Post_humanist]

*This* is what all that ‘factional infighting’ during the Corbyn leadership was about - trying to secure a Labour Party that wouldn’t contemplate this kind of class war against the poor whilst leaving the ruling class untouched. But the ‘sensible’ people won, and here we are.

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Literally worse than the Tories, and we’re not even a year in. Going further than George Osborne, cutting Personal Independence Payments. ‘No return to austerity’ they said, but austerity we’re getting, because they won’t touch the wealthy. #disabilitycuts https://t.co/Oo1Ncv8MDG

[Richie Nimmo @Post_humanist]

“Labour’s plans include] cutting universal credit for those judged as unfit for work, as an incentive for some disabled people to seek employment.”

Disabled people judged by a medical professional to be ‘unfit for work’ aren’t suffering from a ‘lack of incentives’ are they?