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Elizabeth Duncan

@wastelizard

PhD student @sydneyunigeo, researching the infrastructures, labours and the materialities of waste.

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Thoroughly enjoyed co-chairing a panel on embodied methodologies today as part of the #IAGNZGS2021. Amazing presentations and discussions! Thanks to @BlancheVerlie Francisco Gelves-Gomez Nicole Gombay, Victoria Radnell, Gen Blades, Anna Dunn, Omar Elkharouf and Hannah Della Bosca!

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Hey Not ScoMo, I’ve read and reread the transcript of your presser yesterday responding to the #IPCCReport, and there’s a bunch of stuff you’re wrong about. Time to bust the Morrison Myths about climate change. Here’s a thread.

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can anyone recommend interesting reading on anticlimax? on living through an anticlimax, on expectations, disappointment, and despondency?

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Excited to present my work on Vaccines as material encounters and encountering as method The Society for Social Studies of Science #4s2021 tonight! In the panel on processual ontology, I’m looking forward to discuss the politics of thinking through the immunological memory of vaccines as a distributed and…

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In a landmark case, the Environment Centre NT are taking the Federal Resources Minister Keith Pitt over his $21million grant to a fracking company. Follow the case here: ecnt.org.au/dont_frack_the…

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Finally got my hands on this baby!(baby no2 still cooking). I decided to write this when I realised work from diverse disciplines was coalescing into a story abt the rise of new pathogen ecologies in homes & cities, yet the disciplines remained disconnected. Some highlights inc:

Finally got my hands on this baby!(baby no2 still cooking). I decided to write this when I realised work from diverse disciplines was coalescing into a story abt the rise of new pathogen ecologies in homes & cities, yet the disciplines remained disconnected. Some highlights inc:
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Just got some teaching feedback for the semester. A nice comment concluded with 'the cat was also great.' Haha - didn't realise that she was such a big feature in my teaching.

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We have to talk about plastic. It dominated the last century and will dominate this one as a leading cause of climate change—not because anyone wants more of the stuff, but because the logic of manufacturing demands that it be made, writes @rebecca_altman. theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

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Urgent reminder that peat is 50% carbon. When you remove peat from its protective boggy ecosystem and spread it in your garden, that carbon ends up in the atmosphere. Peat in bogs not bags. Spread the word. Go #peatfree.

Urgent reminder that peat is 50% carbon. When you remove peat from its protective boggy ecosystem and spread it in your garden, that carbon ends up in the atmosphere. Peat in bogs not bags. Spread the word. Go #peatfree.
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These new billboards are a complete nuisance. Watching mobility impaired seniors try to navigate around this without being taken out by cars and buses wizzing by is heart breaking. Cannot believe these were allowed to be installed.

These new billboards are a complete nuisance. Watching mobility impaired seniors try to navigate around this without being taken out by cars and buses wizzing by is heart breaking. Cannot believe these were allowed to be installed.
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Thesis submitted! Making sense of waste: understanding the (in)visibilities of waste in Sydney through labour and infrastructure

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Contributions from Alistair Sisson, Dallas Rogers and Chris Gibson, Elizabeth Duncan Elizabeth Duncan, Ellen Burke, Laurence Troy, Pratichi Chatterjee, @SophiaMaalsen, Sophie Webber, Wendy Murray Wendy Murray, and me. Illustrations by Wendy Murray. See: sydneyweneedtotalk.com/chapters