This is something I keep thinking about from the people of Gaza. They have been living in the dust from exploded buildings for nearly a year.

PSA for UK academics: when next you visit the British Library, you’ll need a new reader card. It’s part of their recovery of services after the cyber attack. So take your ID.

one of my favourite things about Bristol is that, when the buses do consent to come, their routes almost always drop you conveniently at the *bottom* of the big hills so you can enjoy a nice almost-vertical stroll 🥰

I'm giving a free public talk on Rachel Carson, British nature writing, loss, and wonder. 8 October at the University of Cumbria, Ambleside. It will be engaging and not dryly academic, honest! ticketsource.co.uk/cultural-lands…

#ucu I don’t understand the staging of UCEA pay offer. Why pay a flat £75 then have to make up the difference next March, given budgets are annual and financial years run from 1 Aug? Or are they saying they will pay £75 p/m and only raise that increase to 2.5% from March? 1/2

📣Blue Extinction will be out in November! 🦭🌊🦪🐋🪼 A true labour of love with Dr Vera Fibisan, feat. brilliant contributions from Steve Mentz, Stacy Alaimo, dominic o'k, Rick DeVos, Henry Ivry and many others. You can preorder here: link.springer.com/book/978303169… asleuki ShARC

A man named Matt Nelson self-immolated outside the Israeli consulate in Boston on September 11th, in protest against the Gaza genocide. He is the third person in the United States to have self-immolated outside an Israeli consulate or embassy since October 7th 2023.

PhD fellowship for Palestinian women in an accredited university anywhere in the world: dev.parc-us-pal.org/tanya-baker-as…

‘Her feet were the size of hot-dog buns’ is the best description of the Queen I’ve ever read. (David Sedaris in the New Yorker)

Check this out! Our former president Verena Winiwarter led a craftivist project at the World Congress together with Britta Fluevog, Anna Svensson, and Scott Braun. Congress participants helped create a quilt and this is the result. Read more here: researchcatalogue.net/view/2883441/2… #envhist

This is so horrific because not only does this mean those who need aid can’t get it, but also Palestinians in the West Bank can’t work remotely or freelance because PayPal is the only way they can get paid. We need to stand up to big tech’s complicity in the racism on 🇵🇸

The Ministry of Health in Gaza has just published a 649-page document with the the name, age, gender, ID number of every Palestinian killed in Gaza from October 7 to August 31 that it has info for (over 34k out of 40k). The 1st 14 pages the age is listed as 0 (under 1 year old)

The application portal for our 2025 RCC Landhaus Fellowships is now open! You can find the full call here: carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_even… #rccapplications #cfa #fellowships #landhaus #bavaria #munich #lmu #research #open #applicationsinvited

Temple Meads could never (it could! Bristol City Council 👀)

The UK has managed to design a student loan system that - Is generationally unfair - Has managed to create a high marginal tax rate - Doesn't actually fund universities - Still costs the government quite a lot of money

Me to myself after reading the reviewer reports on my article manuscript