I’ll not denigrate the tongue by trying to do any more Gaelic than what is in the book, but hopefully a chance to speak about anglophone monolingualism and what that does to limit a view of the world too.

It’s a lovely cosy affair if you fancy a reason to get away to Lewis a weekend in the murk.

Delighted that this year I’ll be appearing as part of Faclan: The Hebridean Book Festival alongside Graeme Macrae Burnet and a host of others focusing on the work from and about Harris, Lewis, Uist and Barra. lanntair.com/events/event...

I'll also be chatting to Marianna in Bristol at the end of the month at @bookhaus.bsky.social

Thanks to Wigtown book festival again for having us. Next up is Dundee later this month. More info here www.waterstones.com/events/domin...

Published today: our new paper showing a 44-year trend of increasing global wildfire disasters (fatalities and economic losses) due to climate change-induced extreme weather. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Thanks to @wigtownbooktown.bsky.social for hosting us, and great to share a bill with my colleague and friend Alice Mah whose memoir Red Pockets has deservedly attracted a lot of attention over the past year.

And so it begins! 3pm in the McNeillie tent today.

So the bad news is the London launch event we were hosting at Waterstones Trafalgar square has had to be cancelled due to booking conflicts - details of replacement forthcoming with the novelist Ali Millar in early December, but we have added a new event at Faclan literature fest in Lewis.

This made me LOL but yes. I think you kind of need both but you have to understand how lots of banal everyday narratives also harbour quite existential cosmologies.

One thing that really sticks with me from writing this is that we have more nuclear material in circulation than ever before, and have thrust ourselves into a very long game we do not have the skill to play.

Our monthly column in @scotsman.com is now live on their website. Here are our Insider's Choices for October! The column will also appear in the Scotland on Sunday this weekend if you want to #buyapaper www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...

Ministers are considering a green light to expand existing North Sea oil and gas fields despite Labour’s manifesto pledge to ban new ones. @tessakhan.bsky.social says industry figures for those expansions are a "fantasy" Labour says manifesto will be met Story 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

This was a privelege to write and I only wish I had had more words and more time to unpack it. newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6459

✨ New online: @dominicmhinde.bsky.social travels to Japan to uncover what its experience of two very different nuclear disasters can teach us in an age of conflict and climate change

Det här var visst ett gammalt inslag. Nu är det sju gränser som är passerade.

Oh wow. I had no idea this was on the cards and well, esteemed company and all.

NEW ANALYSIS – I sent FOI requests to 93 local authorities across England and Wales, focusing on areas with significant numbers of people sleeping rough. I wanted to find out how councils are protecting rough sleepers in their communities from extreme heat. www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-use...

Vanuatu working toward UN vote aimed at fighting fossil fuel industry influence - @rregenvanu.bsky.social, climate minister for the island nation said the step was on ‘behalf of everybody’ Story by @ninalakhani.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Reminder that we're doing the first of our UK book events next week at the Wigtown Book Festival ahead of the proper launch next month. I'm also on the same day as the excellent Alice Mah, who I recommend going to see a few hours before. tickets.wigtownbookfestival.com/sales/events...

The cynic in me wants to say a lot of this only comes at the expense pf the rest of the UK. Britain remains the most geographically unequal country in Europe.

For Climate Week, join IPK on September 25 for a book talk with @hannamorris.bsky.social. She will discuss her new book Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power with @aronczyk.bsky.social and @jerolmack.bsky.social. ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...

*new article* We bring the Frankfurt School into the Spotify age — and it was a fun one to write! 😎 'From Adorno to 50 Cent: Financialized platform capitalism, Spotify, and the culture industry in the twenty-first century' in @finandsoc.bsky.social Check it out here: doi.org/10.1017/fas....

Thankyou to Upflift and the Liberal Democrats for organising and hosting this. Not enough time as ever, but hopefully some of what we discussed will be heard where it needs to.

If you're in sunny Bournemouth today, come along to the cracking panel we've organised to discuss how to secure a fair transition for the North Sea. Speakers include Lib Dem climate spokes @pippaheylings.bsky.social MP, Alastair Carmichael MP, Elliot Chapman-Jones & @dominicmhinde.bsky.social (& me)

If I get to Bournemouth (currently stuck on a train in the dark in Hampshire) I’ll be speaking tomorrow at the Marriott together with @tessakhan.bsky.social and @amcarmichaelmp.bsky.social at 11.30 on the future of the North Sea. Come, bring questions, and I’ll do my best to answer them.

Next month I'm doing a seminar and book talk for the Civil Service, online and available to all civil servants I believe. We'll be talking about energy and everyday life, and what the big story of climate transition is. analysisfunction.civilservice.gov.uk/events/autho...

It’s absolutely horrifying seeing how many members of faculty at US universities are being fired without investigation because of social media posts. It’s been going on a while but has become even more brazen.

Wealthy Danes take their kids to see coral reefs and glaciers "before they disappear", we will mourn the loss of beech forests in spring all the same.

“This policy operates as a prior restraint on publication which is considered the most serious of First Amendment violations,” we told @kenbensinger.bsky.social “The government cannot prohibit journalists from public information merely by claiming it’s a secret or even a national security threat.”

It’s things like this that make you realise just how unready we are for climate impacts. Extreme rainfall is probably the most serious climate effect in Scotland but we’re not talking about it anywhere near as much as we should.

My academic book with Bristol University Press is now up and available for pre order on the UK listings www.amazon.co.uk/Journalism-A...

Don't want to be a pedant, but I keep seeing local newspaper articles about railways using 'full steam ahead' in their headlines. Full steam ahead is famously what you say as a steamer captain, shouting instructions to the engine room. Just another example of eradication of institutional memory.

Would recommend @waterstones.bsky.social and @portybooks.bsky.social in particular, both of whom will have plenty of stock and some signed copies if you’re into that kind of thing.

In 'Drifting north', author, researcher & journalist @dominicmhinde.bsky.social journeys around Scotland, through climate change and fossil capitalism, in search of a sustainable future. Publishing next month, pre-order now from all good bookshops & online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FTc... #booksky

If you're a postgrad at the University of Glasgow making course choices, in semester two I'm running my course in Journalism and Global Change www.gla.ac.uk/coursecatalo...

Great little visual story this from the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, on how tree-felling negatively impacts on the likelihood of landslides and floods under pressure from climate fluctuations special.aftonbladet.se/story/3MvXrL...

Every university needs more mascots.

Sat 15 November I'm in Bristol to speak at Clifton Village Lit Fest. Come along! foccal.com/litfest-even...

Had a great time as ever speaking to Malmö students, got to mention the bit in Blue in the Face where Lou Reed says he finds Sweden scarier than New York www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rq4...

NEW – IEA reiterates ‘no new oil and gas needed’ if global warming is limited to 1.5C | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/SV5n4NW

❓ What is security in an age of catastrophic climate change? 📖 Our special issue "Critical Climate Security" in Geoforum provides new concepts, approaches, and methodologies for rethinking the climate-security nexus from a critical perspective. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Reading some columns that make me think the Overton Window is now just the sky.

Det finns en positiv kraft i klimatrörelsen nu! Vi är 89 procent. Ni gör klokt i att ta oss på allvar, skriver Amanda Bergman, Jenny Wilson, Terese Alshammar och många andra. Bra personer som använder sitt kändisskap för att pressa på i klimatfrågan! www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/a/MnO...

Well, this is reassuring: "We find no significant difference between the climate strategies of companies that purchased carbon offsets and those that did not" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is great. The thing I'd add from Sweden and Finland is that these need to be cheap and available. Saunas basically transform lakes and the sea into public pools. We also need more pontoons/jetties so you don't have to swim off the beach.

Les Etats de l'Union européenne ont repoussé l’adoption de leur objectif climatique 2040 (- 90 % d'émissions de gaz à effet de serre /1990). Jeudi, ils essaieront d'adopter une cible pour 2035, pour ne pas arriver les mains vides à la COP30, mais ils sont très divisés www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...

BBC Sounds has now been switched off outside the UK. It’s just the latest loss—the BBC has been cut by more than 30 per cent since 2010.

My other book out soon is now up on the listings. This one is firmly academic, aimed at students and scholars of journalism and climate, but priced at a very reasonable 19.99. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/journalism...