Spent some time last week watching these videos- they are really excellent! Thanks Bill Sutherland for making them :)

We're extremely excited to announce that Samuel Barnett will be joining us on stage alongside Petroc Trelawny for My Beloved Man at the @Barbicancentre. barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2024/…

If you haven’t booked for My Beloved Man Barbican Centre yet, you might be interested in this lovely little promo code, which will get you 2 tickets for the price of 1 🎶🏳️‍🌈 Use promo code MBM2FOR1 at check-out 👇 barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2024/…

‘Just relax enjoy the weather they said, catch a tan you’ll look better dead. Life’s a beach and we are drowning in plastic so pass me the spade, I’ll dig my own grave’ open.spotify.com/track/0ZxdCiZs… Hunting Hearts ⚧️ #NewMusic #IndependentArtist #ClimateActionNow

Fantastic to have Petroc Trelawny and Samuel Barnett with us at rehearsals for My Beloved Man today. Hear them read letters Britten & Pears sent to one another, alongside some gorgeous choral music conducted by Nicholas Chalmers, Barbican Centre on Friday! barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2024/…

Finally a UK newspaper has noticed … How the Tories pushed universities to the brink of disaster theguardian.com/politics/ng-in…

Good to see the ⁦The Guardian⁩ nailing the corruption of university managements’ values and academics’ resistance here.

How unexpectedly lovely to be mentioned in Fiona Maddocks’ ‘Week in Classical’ in today’s Observer Petroc Trelawny Nicholas Chalmers

Love this! What a cool family connection to have!

Today we are celebrating one of our Heritage Hub funded projects, with Fishbourne Roman Palace Fishbourne Roman Palace. The project is looking to investigate what the environment around the Palace was like when the Romans were there using sedimentary eDNA and pollen analysis (palynology).

Gorgeous day out on the salt marsh at Fishbourne Channel with Joseph Shakespeare doing vegetation surveys for his PhD! Lovely bit of open oak woodland here too. Heritage Hub @GradSchoolUoP #saltmarsh

We’re holding open rehearsals and auditions for ambitious singers who would like to join London’s LGBTQ+ choir for advanced singers! Particularly looking for altos and low basses #queerchoir #LGBTQchoir #choralsinging #londonchoirs 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ thefourthchoir.com/join-us

Told Joseph Shakespeare he should be grateful to have access to such high tech equipment during his PhD. That’s a spoon gaffa taped to a stick. For science!

6/ An argument re: we shouldn't be political is why should I have to pay a price for the past when things are better? That's a tragic viewpoint for profs to have who prize complexity. It isn't objectivity; it's willful ignorance. Our studies/subjects do not exist in outer space.

Who will win #BUC2024? It's between Cambridge University and @UniofYork! Watch the final now to see which team will get to lift the trophy: youtube.com/watch?v=boILkO…

Spiranthes spiralis in the New Forest today. Wonderful find for my last day off!

BES + Natural England Policy Fellowship now open for applications! Are you a post-doc or PhD student and a member of the BES looking to gain experience working with policy? If so apply here for our new fellowship opportunity by 21st of October (1/3): britishecologicalsociety.org/policy/fellows…

There is curently an opening for a palaeoecology Laboratory and Field Senior Technician in the conservation palaeoecology lab Cambridge University jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48534/

Can’t quite believe this is actually happening, but I’m off to catch pollen in Antarctica for 6 weeks… port.ac.uk/news-events-an…

Scientists from #PortsmouthUniversity embark on an expedition to investigate the effects of tourism and climate change in #Antarctica, living aboard HMS Protector, the Royal Navy’s icebreaker. To read the full story, click here: bit.ly/4ehnnOF Gagah Perasu Royal Navy