Out in @NatureGeosci ‘A clean energy future isn’t set in stone’. Co-authored with @MandydeWilde. We hope to foster conversations between social and geoscientists about the ways in which sociotechnical visions for a sustainable future shape research: rdcu.be/cv9Ta We argue that scientific research always draws on sociotechnical visions of the future which shape research problems and questions. The clean-energy future is such a vision, originating in ecological modernization, that aspires to establish an economy that grows in a clean way