Rob Ralston
@PolicyRelevant
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Lecturer in Public Policy at @EdinburghUni currently researching corporate power and the UN plastics treaty | now on bluesky using the same handle
Edinburgh
Joined August 2014
RT @GENetwork: #Live now!. Join this #GENeva #BeatPlasticPollution Dialogue held on the #RoadToBusan #INC5 for a discussion on the importan….
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RT @ciel_tweets: NEW: In an open letter to @antonioguterres, 130+ organizations are calling out @UNEP Executive Director @andersen_inger fo….
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RT @GENetwork: On the #RoadToBusan, join this #GENeva #BeatPlasticPollution Dialogue sharing how prioritizing principles of accountability,….
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RT @ciel_tweets: 🌍 Global leaders are meeting at and around #UNGA and #ClimateWeekNYC to determine the future of the #PlasticsTreaty. Ove….
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deeply saddened to hear @Majdiashour has passed away after a short illness. Majdi worked as a medical officer in UNRWA before undertaking a PhD on health systems in the Gaza Strip. He was a deeply committed and gifted researcher and I feel immensely privileged to have known him.
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will be posting on here less often due to twitter becoming increasingly unusable - same @ on bluesky as I can’t bring myself to use linkedin.
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RT @EdwardGLuce: Can't say this enough; Elon Musk's menace to democracy is intolerable. He's using the largest & most influential platform….
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[lecturer of undergrad ‘introduction to the welfare state’ course]: You know what’s SO Brat? Esping Andersen’s worlds of welfare.
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in the queue at a chaotic Lidl during the first week of the edinburgh fringe and the cashier has accidentally inputted £450 instead of £45 and there’s no manger to fix it . secondhand anxiety is hitting uncut gems levels.
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has pitbull been reading Erving Goffman.
People take so many pictures, they miss the big picture. They’re so connected, they’re disconnected.
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me sketching out the lofty aims of a massive research grant: haha fuck yeah!! Yes!!. me having to draft a budget table annex that includes a realistic estimation of costs: well this fucking sucks. what the fuck.
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my partner has encouraged me to upgrade my office chair, so naturally I've become hyper-fixated on a bauhaus design I will never be able to afford
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RT @MaxPollard92: Microsoft outage but Teams and Outlook are both fine is the adult version of snow that doesn’t settle enough for a school….
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RT @GeoffDembicki: It wasn't just Exxon and Shell tracking climate science decades ago. I found a 1977 company mag from Marathon Oil predi….
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RT @JamesOzden: Sentenced to 5 years in prison for attending a Zoom call and planning a nonviolent protest. absolutely nuts.
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RT @FraserJMcQueen: Paddington - reactionary, tainted by association w the UK monarchy. Winnie the Pooh - cannot be appropriated by forces….
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Adobe: upgrade to the new Acrobat for an exceptional user experience!!. Also Adobe: this program will randomly crash if you dare try to open more than 5 pdfs
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RT @danieladurang6: "The most fundamental and far-reaching step that must be taken to contain the global plastics crisis is to impose a glo….
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Whole-Of-Government Approach, reading about Labour's new mission-driven model
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