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Petr Nuska<p>P.S.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>EUCommission</span></a></span> envisions every <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MSCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MSCA</span></a>, as well as other <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/HorizonEurope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HorizonEurope</span></a> (<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/HorizonEU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HorizonEU</span></a>), projects to be implemented in a green way. </p><p>If you are in a similar position, let’s join efforts!</p><p>You can check this document here for more guidance =&gt; <a href="https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/1369305f-6c9d-11ee-9220-01aa75ed71a1/language-en" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">op.europa.eu/en/publication-de</span><span class="invisible">tail/-/publication/1369305f-6c9d-11ee-9220-01aa75ed71a1/language-en</span></a>)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GreenMSCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenMSCA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GreenAcadeMiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenAcadeMiles</span></a></p>
Petr Nuska<p>Are you with me?</p><p>Just follow <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GreenMSCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenMSCA</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GreenAcadeMiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenAcadeMiles</span></a> so as not to miss any posts.</p><p>You can also follow the hashtag <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/TravelHack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TravelHack</span></a>, where I’ll post general tips that may be helpful also for non-academics.</p><p>You may also boost/favourite this post =&gt; <a href="https://mastodon.world/@petrnuska/114382338611854815" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.world/@petrnuska/1143</span><span class="invisible">82338611854815</span></a> which will function as a directory for these threads. You will then get a Mastodon notification whenever there is a new update.</p><p>Stay tuned for the first thread on the trip to Balkan (to be revealed soon!)</p><p>🧵16/17</p>
Petr Nuska<p>So, what are these threads going to be about? I would like to share tips and tricks especially suited for academics. </p><p>* Tips on how to buy cheap tickets to comply with our tight budgets.</p><p>* Tips on how to proceed with complex ticketing in academic bookkeeping.</p><p>* Tips on how to stay productive on long journeys. </p><p>* Tips on how to stay healthy and enjoy sustainable trips.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GreenMSCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenMSCA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GreenAcadeMiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenAcadeMiles</span></a></p><p>🧵15/17</p>
Petr Nuska<p>Can I make any difference with these threads? Well, let me see. But I believe so. </p><p>Every persuaded sustainable traveller pressures the market for sustainable travel options to exist (and for the non-sustainable ones to cease existing). </p><p>And every persuaded *academic* traveller multiplies – thanks to our impact on various policies and the youngest generations of future intellectual elites.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GreenMSCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenMSCA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GreenAcadeMiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenAcadeMiles</span></a></p><p>🧵14/17</p>
Petr Nuska<p>I have to admit that I don’t yet have children, so I often hear the argument: “Wait, once you become a parent, you will choose wisely whether to fly or spend days on your academic wanderings!”</p><p>But what if your kids once asked us, “Dad, you were really flying from Prague to Frankfurt just because it was [slightly] faster and [slightly] cheaper?”</p><p>Shouldn’t we try to balance our time management with *their* future?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GreenMSCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenMSCA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GreenAcadeMiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenAcadeMiles</span></a></p><p>🧵13/17</p>
Petr Nuska<p>What are all my other motivations? </p><p>To inspire other academic colleagues. We can all do this. Or at least try. Or try our best at the very least. </p><p>These threads will show that better (i.e., more sustainable) options exist, are doable, and sometimes fun.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GreenMSCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenMSCA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GreenAcadeMiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenAcadeMiles</span></a></p><p>🧵11/17</p>
Petr Nuska<p>But let’s be clear – this will not be another semi-romantic thread series about train travels. Sometimes, trains are not an option for academic travel. </p><p>Last year, I also travelled 30 hours on Flixbus, simply because I didn’t find a reasonably priced train ticket that would be OK with my academic budget.</p><p>For my Balkan academic trip, the trains were not an option at all (to be revealed soon in the upcoming <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GreenAcadeMiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenAcadeMiles</span></a> thread).</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GreenMSCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenMSCA</span></a> </p><p>🧵10/17</p>
Petr Nuska<p>What motivates me to travel sustainably? </p><p>Well, I have to admit I’m a train-lover. Last summer, I spent over 10,000 kilometres on trains when we travelled with my wife towards the Polar Circle by train (yeah, I’m lucky to have met a wife who shares this passion with me).</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GreenMSCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenMSCA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GreenAcadeMiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenAcadeMiles</span></a></p><p>🧵9/17</p>
Petr Nuska<p>I’ve recently started my <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MSCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MSCA</span></a> project for my postdoctoral research on <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/RomaniChords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RomaniChords</span></a>. One of the primary goals of this fantastic funding scheme is that junior scholars can decide how they spend some of their research allowances.</p><p>Having this privileged position, I decided to try my best to implement my MSCA project as <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GreenMSCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenMSCA</span></a> (i.e. as green as possible) – especially regarding sustainable academic travelling.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GreenAcadeMiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenAcadeMiles</span></a></p><p>🧵8/17</p>
Petr Nuska<p>The saddest thing of all is that, as an individual academic, you don’t have much agency over how to make things better. The more junior you are, the less chances you have.</p><p>This especially applies to smaller departments and research institutions, not to mention those that have not been lucky enough to be situated in the global North/West.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GreenMSCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenMSCA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GreenAcadeMiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenAcadeMiles</span></a></p><p>🧵7/17</p>
Petr Nuska<p>But sometimes, we – academics – take non-essential flights just because it’s faster and/or cheaper.</p><p>We cannot afford to lose a productive hour in today’s precarious academia. Getting things done quickly, without wasting time, has become an essential condition for sustaining an academic job.</p><p>And since sustainable mobility is often not the cheapest option, we are forced to choose non-sustainable solutions to comply with our tight budgets.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GreenMSCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenMSCA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GreenAcadeMiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenAcadeMiles</span></a></p><p>🧵6/17</p>
Petr Nuska<p>As for b), I’m not a 100%-no-flyer myself. I acknowledge that taking a flight is sometimes necessary and can be beneficial for academic work.</p><p>For instance, I travelled twice during my PhD for the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/SocietyForEthnomusicology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocietyForEthnomusicology</span></a> conference in the US.* Both were life-changing trips without which I wouldn’t be who I am today. No regrets there…</p><p>—<br>* SEM moved entirely online in 2024. There are good and bad things about it, which I hope to cover in some other thread…</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GreenMSCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenMSCA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GreenAcadeMiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenAcadeMiles</span></a></p><p>🧵5/17</p>
Petr Nuska<p>These threads are *not* meant to be advocating for a) banning conferences or b) banning to fly to conferences. </p><p>As for a), I love conferences and consider them beneficial to my work. I believe that leaving the office to check what other colleagues do, getting some fresh inspiration and possibly even getting contacts for long-term collaborations (and, indeed, friendship) should remain part and parcel of our academic routine.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GreenMSCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenMSCA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GreenAcadeMiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenAcadeMiles</span></a></p><p>🧵4/17</p>
Petr Nuska<p>Academic conferences may be the most visible and somewhat iconic example of this issue. </p><p>One-off teacups and food that gets wasted after each coffee break (if it’s not wasted, then it’s because it’s double-packed) seem relatively minor issues when compared to the most glaring fact: carbon footprint raised due to hundred (sometimes thousands) academics flying to one place and back again…</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GreenMSCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenMSCA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GreenAcadeMiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenAcadeMiles</span></a></p><p>🧵3/17</p>
Petr Nuska<p>I’m a professional academic, and one thing that has been bugging me for a long time is how academia – despite being the most crucial source of data about climate change and an essential frame for ongoing debates about it – contributes to it so significantly with its day-to-day operation.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GreenMSCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenMSCA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GreenAcadeMiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenAcadeMiles</span></a></p><p>🧵2/17</p>
Petr Nuska<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Introduction</span></a> to a new series of threads about sustainable travelling *for academics*!</p><p>CCying everyone interested in <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/SustainableTravel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SustainableTravel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/SustainableAcademia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SustainableAcademia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Flyingless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Flyingless</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/SlowTravel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SlowTravel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/CarbonFootprint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CarbonFootprint</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ActOnClimate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActOnClimate</span></a></p><p>Technical note: I’ll be using <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GreenMSCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenMSCA</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GreenAcadeMiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenAcadeMiles</span></a> tags for all my posts related to this topic. If you are not much into my other stuff (<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/visual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>visual</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a>), I suggest you follow these hashtags only.</p><p>Let’s jump into it! </p><p>🧵1/17</p>
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