Faculty for a Future

Helping university staff & students unlock their institutions' transformative potential to navigate the polycrisis through people-powered decision-making.

[Faculty for a Future @faculty_future]

What can we all do right now to get more students the education they deserve, without asking anyone for permission? We’ve developed the Seed Library as one answer to that question. It comes from three observations ... A 🧵(1/6)

https://t.co/LSa1OVlUqF

[Climate Rights Coalition @climaterightsco]

CRC is continuing the efforts of #Elsevier workers who raised #humanRights issues under the @UN Guiding Principles. Our initial message has remarks from researchers, @faculty_future, @FossilFreeSA, @gwmp_org, @OperationNoah & others. Learn more at https://t.co/kGgLraoovL 5/5🧵

[Climate Majority Project @CMP_voice]

How do we teach the truth about climate in a way that protects students' mental health and leads to effective action? Join our call on March 25, from 19:00-20:30 GMT. https://t.co/ub7tJojMMq

[Calum McGeown @calum_mcgeown]

Brilliant to see another university using Popular Assemblies to create inclusive, intergenerational space for discussion and grassroots decision-making 👏 well done to all involved

@faculty_future

[Climate Rights Coalition @climaterightsco]

Contribution from @faculty_future in our message to Elsevier: "We are gravely concerned that already falling trust in scientific institutions will flatline, and academia will no longer have the social license or legitimacy to operate." #climaterights https://t.co/k8c2tdPTtU

[3S Research Group @3SResearchGroup]

Join us on this #PeoplesAssembly co-organised with @UKERC_Engage, @uea_bcan and @faculty_future to create a vision, provide recommendations, and catalyse action to help make @uniofeastanglia fit for a Climate-Changing World!

https://t.co/fRjQ5Myj64 via @3SResearchGroup

[Elliot Honeybun-Arnolda @ellhoneybun]

Universities are increasingly being challenged to show leadership in responding to and addressing climate change - but how can they do so? We are running two events next month to explore this. See below 👇

@uea_bcan
@faculty_future
@UKERC_Engage

ALL WELCOME!

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[Leon Simons 🌍 @LeonSimons8]

As scientists, we are increasingly being asked to tell the public the truth about the crises we face in simple and direct terms. The truth is that we are shocked by the ferocity of the extreme weather events in 2023. We are afraid of the uncharted territory that we have now entered.

This summed up our experience of 2023, as it happened.

It's been an honor to be part of this crucial research, led by the great @WilliamJRipple and Christopher Wolf.

And with co-authors Jillian Gregg, @jrockstrom, @NewsomeTM, Beverly Law, Luiz Marques, Tim Lenton, Chi Xu, (the late😔) @SaleemulHuqand and @Sir_David_King

The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory:

https://t.co/57P3iD1RFr

[John Barry @ProfJohnBarry]

Yup, the democratisation of the academic workplace is a precondition for many of the other necessary transformations needed for it to be 'fit for future purpose', such as decolonisation, decarbonisation, decommodification and demilitarisation
@faculty_future @calum_mcgeown

[Global Systems Institute @GSI_Exeter]

Join us at our first seminar of 2024 as we hear from @JordanChadRaine @faculty_future on the transformative potential of people's assemblies. More info here: https://t.co/0pwYCIDOWD If you're not on our mailing list please email [email protected] for the Zoom link

[Trust The People @TrustThePeople1]

Join our next FREE community organising course, starting November 6th! Meet amazing people, learn new skills and gain ideas on how to change things for the better!

Secure your place at: https://t.co/WBvgOHKCa7

#trustthepeople #course #democracy

[The ABCs of Green Politics 🌾 @AbcsGreen]

Latest episode "U...is for Universities',

Host @ProfJohnBarry is joined by @LauraLoHorn @jenniecstephens & @ThierryAaron to answer the question?:

'If the world is on fire, how can academia and academics continue in a business as usual manner?'

https://t.co/NFUJNcK5Qb

[Climate Nexus @ClimateNexus]

Researchers looking to purchase carbon offsets to reliably cancel out greenhouse gas emissions across its campuses found next to nothing. They are now radically rethink its sustainability plans. https://t.co/Q4YIjObBcs via @techreview

[Dr. Aaron Thierry @ThierryAaron]

From Publications to Public Actions:
Academic Activism in The Climate and Ecological Emergency

@IOPenvironment #ER2023poster
#AcademicTwitter #Climate #Ecology

[Calum McGeown @calum_mcgeown]

Popular Assembly on the Planetary Crisis at @QUBelfast

Students, staff & community members have come together to address the question ‘If QUB is to show leadership on the planetary crisis, what steps should it take and what changes should it make?’

[Claire Mellier @clmellier]

Doing Political Science on the Eve of Destruction: Why I Decided to Leave academia by @ramonvanderdoes
Relevant beyond academia.
What will we do with our spare 80,000 hours over our caree span?
@JamesGDyke @faculty_future @JKSteinberger @StuartBCapstick
https://t.co/u8tBWiQIEW

[Calum McGeown @calum_mcgeown]

The fossil fuel industry should have no place on university campuses. It certainly shouldn't be represented at their careers fairs.

So imagine my "surprise" when, the DAY BEFORE @QUBelfast launches its new net zero plan, I see The Oil Market Journal recruiting Queen's students.

[Dr. Estelí Jiménez-Soto 🐜☕️ @synanthropica]

Our Agroecology lab @UGeosciences USF is accepting PhD and Masters interested in #agroecology, #biodiversity, ecosystem services, urban food sovereignty, & food-migration-climate change intersection. Accepting for 2024!
Share widely 🐜☕️🌱🐝🐞🐛🦋
https://t.co/SqdsMO1DNM

[Dr. Aaron Thierry @ThierryAaron]

"The Negro River, the Amazon’s second largest tributary, on Monday reached its lowest level since official measurements began"

#ClimateEmergency

https://t.co/ISsXQcNmbj

[Faculty for a Future @faculty_future]

"JSO are our students, colleagues, peers. What is driving their disruptive behaviour is the unbearable and widening dissonance between what an honest assessment of the climate and nature crisis reveals and the embarrassed silence of our HE institutions."

https://t.co/jxosS9HwWY

[Calum McGeown @calum_mcgeown]

Centred around discussion and planning next steps, this won't be your 'normal' academic conference. It's been moved to a new location due to high demand - if you weren't able to register before, you can now.

Check Eventbrite link below for full schedule
https://t.co/x0L4T5ApWT