To be read with gusto.

'The West Wind' by John Masefield.

“the D. avus skeleton at Cañada Seca and other fox burials hint that an animal didn’t need to be a useful worker to be nurtured by humans — it could simply be a friend.” ❤️

The race is on! 🐦👀 Which of our tagged Cuckoos is going to cross into Europe first? 😃 Cuach Torc is in the lead & has made it to Morocco. 🙌 Trent is hot on his heels, followed by Joe who's forged 1,391 miles north! Follow their race across the world👉 bit.ly/cuckoo_project

Here's the latest book, written with the brilliant Andy McGee: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9… Many thanks to the team at Springer Nature Exeter College, Oxford Faculty of Law

Spring has sprung in our Fellows’ Garden 🌸

Today, and everyday, we’re proud to lay claim to the best view in Oxford 💗

📸 credit: 12atoxford on Instagram

#ExeterCollegeOxford

#Swifts - summer sky joy & exuberance is fading. Fewer tiny nest gaps in soffits of new/renovated buildings. Nest boxes an answer. This in #Pyle Library, S Wales. What a reading list!
Sarah Gibson
Charles Foster 🇬🇷
Helen McDonald et al.
Save Our Swifts
#swiftconservation
Awen Cultural Trust

Huge thanks to all at Square Peg Books especially Marianne 🖤 protect black lives and Emily Martin for producing such a beautiful - and bestselling - book!

Exeter College was founded 710 years ago today 🎊

Today we celebrate our students, staff, fellows, and everyone who has contributed to our rich history of learning and cultivating knowledge 👏

To 710 more years!

#ExeterCollegeOxford

Happy to be teaching Latin at a place where it’s now been going strong for 710 years. Quite something to be the latest link in a chain as long as that.

A tremendous read!

“We humans are losing faith in ourselves”.

A review in Nature, by Candice Odgers, asserts that I have mistaken correlation for causation and that “there is no evidence that using these platforms is rewiring children’s brains or driving an epidemic of mental illness.” Both of these assertions are untrue.…

In de tussentijd publiceerde Bionieuws interview met literator Charles Foster Charles Foster 🇬🇷 naar aanleiding van zijn verblijf in N Nederland op uitnodiging van Fryske Akademy en birdeyes.org University of Groningen om te praten en te denken over onze relaties met andere dieren.

What had the City to do with all this — an Aegean spring hanging upon a thread between winter and the first white puffs of almond blossom?

It was a word merely, and meant little, being scribbled on the margins of a dream.

— Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet

Van Gogh

Lovely to be front cover news today - and page 3 (no, not like that … we’d need considerably bigger books!). Thanks to the New Blackmore Vale Magazine for the lovely feature #shaftesbury #indiebookshop The Bookseller #womenbusinessowners

Just reading this now... Charles Foster 🇬🇷 was the most disturbing speaker at ShaftesburyBookFestival , by which I mean he stirred me from my assumptions and offered a weird challenging and joyful new perspective

.@Chamath speaks for so many parents. We're all stuck in a collective action problem, and one of the functions of government is to solve such problems to avoid the tragedy of the commons, in which 11 year olds are on social media because... most other 11 year olds are on it.

The Wife of Bath was recently spotted in the UL! She appears in a compilation of Chaucer's works made within a few decades of his death: MS Gg.4.27 Cambridge UL Special Collections
See more in the Cambridge Digital Library: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-GG-000…

#CambridgeUniversityLibrary #theUL

The oldest record of honey collecting dates back to 8,000-10,000 years ago.

Cave drawing depicting a person climbing a rope ladder on the edge of a cliff and collecting honey from a dangerous bee nest. Cuevas de la Araña (Spider Cave). Valencia, Spain.

#drthehistories

I would argue that the value of the Humanities is self-evident and that it doesn't need to have economic value to be worthwhile. But if you do need that, a House of Lords report says the economic value of the UK's arts and culture sector was £34 billion in 2022.