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But maybe this a good time to make certain announcements, despite #COP26 drama. 1. I've been overworked lately, combination of things. My eyes (damaged by cancer drugs) have gone WAY bad, and I can't work very long hours. At all. My emails are a *large* unread dumpster fire.

I am doing twitter because the font is big and I am not obliged to answer anyone. 😂 So I've asked for a work time reduction starting in January, to 80%. Just putting that out there because sometimes people think everything is great for everyone else ... and usually it's not.

I'm still generally healthy and lucky and blahblahblah, don't start being weird. 2. I've got some papers, and a book, I want to finish writing. Really excited about these, especially now the IPCC report is DONE. At least for my side of it. But after those, I'm going to change ...

my focus. And that's my 3rd announcement, the main one I was getting to. 5 tweets in, as usual, doing this really correctly. 3. I want to change my work topic. As lots of you know, I've been leading the AMAZING "Living Well Within Limits" project funded by

@LeverhulmeTrust

Website here (prob not updated!), team includes the extraordinary

and alums

& Joel M-H. lili.leeds.ac.uk

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It has been and continues to be SO great. Honestly, it's been the dream come true of my research career to be able to work on the topic of the energy requirements of well-being with this amazing crew of people. And we have learned SO much over the last few years.

We've learned so much, in fact, that I want to reorient my research direction: it's still going to be about Living Well Within Limits, but much more applied. I'm calling it "Democratizing Provisioning Systems." Basically, we need to move to democratic economic control ...

of the provisioning systems (health, food, housing, mobility, energy, etc etc) that we rely upon for living well. That will be one the main ways we can decarbonise them, make them available/affordable to all, and protect each other in the face of inequality & climate impacts.

I am really excited about this and (almost) can't wait to get started. Of course labour/work plays a huge role here, as well as community involvement. Anyway, the reason I'm mentioning it now is because we need all hands on deck all the time.

So maybe someone else has some thoughts on this, or pointers to references/studies that might be relevant, or wants to start working on it themselves. PLEASE DO! And as soon as I am done finishing up the current batch of papers, I'll jump in too.