Words and Waves

Words and Waves: a dialogical approach to discourse, community, and marine renewable energy in Orkney. PhD project by Rebecca Ford @NordicUHI

[Robyn Woolston @robynwoolston]

#THREAD right there... @juliecorbett21 @atarbuck @words_waves @polarworld silo-smashing / echo-chamber-revolt / intrinsically interdisciplinary / Vive la révolution!!

[EMEC @EMEC_Ltd]

Marine energy: fighting the headwind. An interesting article in Engineering & Technology by Tim Fryer, providing insight on Orkney's leading role in marine energy technology. https://t.co/N2iX4uzJ7u

[Offshore Energy - Marine Energy @TEToday]

OpenHydro another casualty of innovation ‘valley of death’, EMEC says
Read more: https://t.co/apiHnZpLuZ

@EMEC_Ltd @openhydro #liquidation #innovation #marineenergy #EU

[Jonathan Porterfield @ecocars1]

.@bobbyllew 2nd life happening on #orkney for this rolled, written off 24kwh #leaf battery storage and a possable ev powered boat with the motor/ inverter ! #noLandFillWaste

[Neil Ford @Neil_Ford]

Just before the rain rolled in... #orkney

[Michelle Poland @PichelleMoland]

Sneak preview of the new REF 2021 assessment criteria, to replace starred levels.

[Dr Max Liboiron @MaxLiboiron]

I just finished the last research chapter of *Pollution is Colonialism!" Now, just the conclusion and introduction are ahead! Current TOC:
1. An introduction to plastics, relations, obligations
2. Pollution is colonialism
3. Auntie Plastic
4. Anti-colonial science
5. ...
#AcWri

[Postcards from the Anthropocene @MessageFrom_]

What does #climatechange mean to you? Send us your #postcardsfromtheanthropocene and be part of this year's @OrkSciFest. Visit https://t.co/WF0yS32w5m for more details. A big Thank You! to @robynwoolston for permission to use her wonderful 'Habitus' image

[Karen Munro @kasmunro]

Cargo vessel Priscilla has gone aground on the Pentland Skerries this morning. Tug Green Isle appears to be attempting to refloat the casualty but the tow rope keeps snapping, Thurso @RNLI Lifeboat also on scene. 🤞🏻 for no pollution.

[Words and Waves @words_waves]

@JoanneRCoates You are such an inspiration Jo and I really feel for you. We’re up against a system designed to extract as much as it can get, in return for as little as it can get away with. Sending hugs of solidarity and support xxx

[Words and Waves @words_waves]

@atarbuck Sending gentle hugs x

[Neil Ford @Neil_Ford]

Spent 10 minutes watching this wee spidook building her web mong the drizzle and roses this morning.

[Martin Gray @peediepuss]

Finally! Some evidence of cross-Atlantic drift, Buoy Barnacles (Dosima fascicularis) on a fragment of North American seaweed. The Gulf Stream lives!

[Dr Max Liboiron @MaxLiboiron]

When researchers behave badly in communities, sometimes those groups stand up for themselves. There's been some bad researcher behaviour in Flint, and the community is asking for support from the scientific community: https://t.co/SRKbdwaonC

[Rice Center for Environmental Studies @RiceENST]

"Consider how we can make #knowledge that takes seriously a #politics of #care," advises María Puig de la Bellacasa in our latest #podcast, "without giving ourselves over to the #neoliberal commodification of care." #speculativeethics #environment https://t.co/Gb2eEWepgt

[orkney.com @orkneycom]

Fancy working in #Orkney's innovative #energy sector? @CES_Tweet has an exciting vacancy for a Project Manager based in the islands - apply here https://t.co/TbyuSyrJHz #CommunityEnergy #Hydrogen #RenewableEnergy

[Rice Center for Environmental Studies @RiceENST]

This week's #podcast guest is María Puig de la Bellacasa! Hear María talk about the #politics of care and speculative #ethics! What is alterbiopolitics? Tune in to find out!! #feministphilosophy #philosophy #biopolitics #environmentalphilosophy #ByePruitt https://t.co/Gb2eEWepgt

[Martin Gray @peediepuss]

@dunnjons this whooper of a hybrid Orchid today stands 35cm (14in.)tall. The product of an ill-gotten union between an innocent little Heath Spotted and a swaggering Northern Marsh from the wrong side of the tracks.

[OSFisheries @OSFisheries]

There be #monsters out there! massive 168mm berried female #lobster out on observer trip today. Good news for the fishery and #Sustainability. Large female lobsters are essential for the future recruitment and health of the #Orkney #Inshore #Fisheries