Sumedha Basu ✊🇵🇸✊

Postdoc at Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds. Interested in the politics of multilevel energy decision-making

[حسام شبات @HossamShabat]

The last time I saw my mother was almost 8 months ago. I decided to stay in the north to keep covering the news while my family evacuated to the south , we thought this would only last a few weeks . My mother left a 21-year-old eager to be a journalist, full of life. Little did I know that in those eight months, I would age 100 years. I would not only be covering the news but also digging mass graves, picking up decomposed bodies off the streets, going through starvation, and trying to console parents over their dead kids. Every day is a hunt for survival; I'm not who I was 8 months ago, and I will never be the same.

[Sumedha Basu ✊🇵🇸✊ @enabasu]

What fun this was! Thank you, @UoLSSI, for this opportunity!

[Leeds Social Sciences Institute @UoLSSI]

Good morning from the team at the Co-production Workshop at the University of Leeds and from BNCA in India. Looking forward to an informative and engaging session!

#coproduction #research #impact

[Leeds Social Sciences Institute @UoLSSI]

Dr Sumedha Basu, Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Urban Energy systems & complexity @UniversityLeeds discussing Co-production approaches, methodology & fieldwork experiences during the project on sustainable cooling in India. https://t.co/5Rm9SqbOwO

[Sumedha Basu ✊🇵🇸✊ @enabasu]

Happening next week! @EnergyFrin

[Leeds Social Sciences Institute @UoLSSI]

Event for @UniversityLeeds researchers 16/5/24. Dr Sumedha Basu received funding from the LSSI Next Gen Co-production Impact Scheme. Sumedha & colleagues will share their experiences of their work using Co-production Research techniques. Book here https://t.co/FN7L02DZn9

[liz chatterjee @natterjee]

Are you a PhD student in Delhi working on a topic in environmental history or the energy humanities/social sciences ⚡️ 🏭? If so, shoot me a DM—I’m organizing a get-together and methods discussion on Thursday. Please pass this along to friends and colleagues!

[AukeHoekstra @AukeHoekstra]

BATTERY OVERSUPPLY
A while ago the media was overflowing with pundits complaining battery production would be unable to keep up with growing demand (hence e.g. @Toyota's claim we should use hybrids with small batteries).

Now we will see complaints about battery overproduction.

[Sumedha Basu ✊🇵🇸✊ @enabasu]

How things are atm in India

[Professor Nitasha Kaul, PhD @NitashaKaul]

IMPORTANT: Denied entry to #India for speaking on democratic & constitutional values. I was invited to a conference as esteemed delegate by Govt of #Karnataka (Congress-ruled state) but Centre refused me entry. All my documents were valid & current (UK passport & OCI). THREAD 1/n

[Sumedha Basu ✊🇵🇸✊ @enabasu]

#ClimateAction at the cost of secularism, democracy, pluralism. Note the QTs hailing this move by Indian PM while invoking a Hindu god and holding a saffron shawl.
A green India will be powered by a saffron India-a violent, majoritarian political force. But hey it's apolitical!

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

सूर्यवंशी भगवान श्री राम के आलोक से विश्व के सभी भक्तगण सदैव ऊर्जा प्राप्त करते हैं।

आज अयोध्या में प्राण-प्रतिष्ठा के शुभ अवसर पर मेरा ये संकल्प और प्रशस्त हुआ कि भारतवासियों के घर की छत पर उनका अपना सोलर रूफ टॉप सिस्टम हो।

अयोध्या से लौटने के बाद मैंने पहला निर्णय लिया है कि हमारी सरकार 1 करोड़ घरों पर रूफटॉप सोलर लगाने के लक्ष्य के साथ “प्रधानमंत्री सूर्योदय योजना” प्रारंभ करेगी।

इससे गरीब और मध्यम वर्ग का बिजली बिल तो कम होगा ही, साथ ही भारत ऊर्जा के क्षेत्र में आत्मनिर्भर भी बनेगा।

[SouthAsia Solidarity @SAsiaSolidarity]

22 DIASPORA GROUPS IN UK, US, AUSTRALIA, FRANCE, CANADA ISSUE JOINT STATEMENT ON RAM MANDIR INAUGURATION: We are extremely concerned about the precedent set by the inauguration of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya by PM Modi #BabriMasjid #AyodhaRamMandir Read full statement in pics 👇🏽🧵

[Sumedha Basu ✊🇵🇸✊ @enabasu]

Extremely sad. Symbolic of the state of research and world class institutions in India

[Mukta Naik @MuktaNaik]

No one gains when globally and nationally well regarded institutions are targeted and destroyed. We all collectively lose. India loses research capacity. Very sad about this. In solidarity with my home institution.

[Ajit Niranjan @NiranjanAjit]

at the height of summer i took a train to europe’s heat death hotspot 1/

[𝕯𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖓𝖆 𝕹𝖔𝖔𝖗 @dharnanoor]

new investigation: dozens of utilities offer homebuilders incentives –including cash and luxury travel – to install gas appliances

trade groups are also training members to sell builders on the continued use of gas, newly revealed recordings show

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https://t.co/bXbCElA8hY

[Dr Frin Bale 🇺🇦 @EnergyFrin]

Looking forward to continuing our work on sustainable cooling in India through this network in Pune, thanks to funding from @HorizonsLeeds https://t.co/MRdRSgTSyC . More info on this coming in 2024! @enaba

[Brandon Wu @brandoncwu]

Some developing countries think the new #COP28 #GlobalStocktake text is decent, but for a reason that REALLY highlights that the failure of developed countries to deliver climate finance underpins almost all the struggles and difficulties we have in this process. (1/6)

[Amitav Ghosh @GhoshAmitav]

Another petro-state will host the next COP. Enough said.
https://t.co/F7tzoxMiPv

[Sumedha Basu ✊🇵🇸✊ @enabasu]

This would make me ineligible if I were to apply today.... Difficult to be motivated this morning as I head to work today.

[Prof. Pragya Agarwal @DrPragyaAgarwal]

This would preclude many very talented academics. I first started at £28k and many post-doctoral positions are still no more than £31k. This could encourage universities to raise the academic salaries in response to this, but it is unlikely to happen. What is likely to happen is that universities are going to become even less diverse in thought and practice & miss out on excellent researchers. It is such short-sightedness.

[Harry Pettit 🇱🇧🇵🇸 @HarrygPettit]

We are up and running! Excited to announce the first session of a seminar series targeted at students but open to all on Situating Palestine, organized by a group of academics across different disciplines at @Radboud_Uni

[Andreas Graf @andreasgraf]

Air to Air heat pumps have seen a lot of technological advancement.
I'm not sure it's common knowledge.
As a result, we also probably don't adequately reflect how efficiently they cool today, and their potential role in space-heating.
https://t.co/ucLBAK13ni