So many thanks to @changekitchen who provided the most sustainable + tasty catering I’ve ever had for our event at @unibirmingham. Proves that food can be tasty, locally sourced, and affordable without being wrapped in plastic and pesticides. Thanks so much!
Just learned of the passing of @deborahbirdrose. Mourning the passing of a truly remarkable public intellectual.
Excited to be lecturing for the #environmentalhumanities doctoral school at @Stockholm_Uni today on post-secular + post-colonial political ecology. https://jeremykidwell.info/talk/201811_stockholm/
Hey #psychology twitter. I want to use #personality tests to facilitate UG student reflection on their role within a small team. Strengths finder, belbin, DISC etc. are all great, but are EXPENSIVE. Is anyone working on #open approaches to testing team dynamics?
John Rawls: ‚”In discussing what I call the wide view of public political culture, we shall see that the idea of public reason applies more strictly to judges than to others, but that the requirements of public justification for that reason are always the same‚” Huh. Times change.
So pleased that our (w/ Franklin Ginn @msnorthcott @eebomberg & @alicehague2) article on @ecocongregation is out today in the journal Geo. It’s open access, so check it out here: https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/geo2.59 ‚”Christian climate care: Slow change, modesty and eco-theo‚ citizenship”
Astonishing study: the cost of too much finance‚ About £2.7bn loss for British economy. https://taxjustice.net/2018/03/06/video-the-high-cost-of-finance-and-the-finance-curse/
very happy to share about my work on geospatial data and at #basrisasr this morning! Slides are here for the curious: https://jeremykidwell.info/talk/201809-basr/
If you use the command line (and you should) you’ll really love this epic survey of new and improved versions of classic CLI tools by @rem https://remysharp.com/2018/08/23/cli-improved. Especially love all the key mappings – muscle memory is hard to overcome!”
I’m really concerned lately to see a range of (mostly white, male, older) academics – some of them theologians – who find themselves out of the limelight and convert from scholar to demagogue. They are richly rewarded.