Our 2025 Impact Report is here!🤩 Over the past year, we supported more than 1,000 people seeking refuge and asylum through immigration advice, homelessness support, ESOL classes, wellbeing groups, employability support, and our food bank.🧡 www.voicesinexile.org/wp-content/u... 🔗

In Whitelye Common, Sphagnum moss is overtaken by fast growing purple moor grass, forming tussocks of built on foundations of decaying moss. A consequence of draining and nitrogen enrichment from the surrounding farmland, with complicated consequences for carbon storage.

Climate Justice Universities Union has just published a guide to moving away from big tech. Useful for both individuals and organisations. climatejusticeuniversitiesunion.org/action-guide...

£1.5 billion a day is being spent by the US on its illegal war on Iran - billions that could instead be spent providing genuine security to millions of people. A lesson for Keir Starmer to prioritise #NursesNotNukes and #WelfareNotWarfare! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Call them concentration camps!

The Menopause and Mind end of year report is now up. Sad to be leaving but very proud to be involved in this initiative and excited to see where the fantastic board members take this next! menoandmind.org/2026/04/22/m...

I'm not familiar with any articles but have any #utopianstudies or #dystopianstudies scholars out there been writing/reading on For All Mankind? It looks like our kind of mediascape! #alternativefutures #reimaginedhistories #scifianalysis

Clever Spring Signs (10 Photos) Spring has a way of announcing itself with clever little signals. Sometimes it arrives as a wall full of flowers, sometimes as a handmade note beside free blooms, sometimes as a bird returning to a branch, and sometimes as a patch of “weeds” that turns out to be a…

This utopian care cafe space has been lingering on the edges of my mind and work timespace, it seems to have now grown moss... I think I prefer this metasteps.com/viewer/adc09... #microutopia #utopianstudies #playandconnection #collectivecare

When Trees Become Art (14 Photos) Forget the gallery walls. Mother Nature just opened her own exhibition, and she’s not taking any prisoners. When street artists trade concrete and spray paint for living bark, twisting roots, and massive canopies, something magical happens. This isn’t just art in…

When Liv Nervo’s story about being abused by her billionaire ex-boyfriend went viral, Meta took down the videos. Coincidence? 👀 Stop women being silenced👇 goodlaw.social/ouzo

🎓 New article by Lucy Finchett-Maddock which uses ice as an in-between state of land/solid and water/fluid to look at "percolating sovereignty". www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Very honoured to be included in this exhibition, please stop by and see our nanoutopian moment during a break in lockdown if you happen to be in London! #selfcare101 #utopianstudies #fuandurasides

Stop men abusing the law to gaslight goodlawproject.org/s/88eac0

Our general submissions for Issue 2 are NOW OPEN until April 21st! If you are a 2SLGBTQIA+ writer, send us your work! You can submit one story and up to three poems. Wondering what we like? Issue 1 is free to read on our site! But please don't self-reject—we can't wait to read your work 🗡️🪐🌈

“Hollow space with sparks, this will probably remain our condition for a long time, but a hollow space which allows us to walk undisguised, and with sparks which increasingly model a figure of direction. The paths in the midst of collapse are layable, right through the middle” – Ernst Bloch

A bit of hope in the darkness... www.opendemocracy.net/en/surveilla... #microutopia #nanoutopia

An invite to the third Menopause and Mind AGM in Brighton! It's a lovely group, have made so many memories over the last few years, so going to miss it. 💜https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/menopause-mind-agm-brighton-29-april-1830-menopause-and-mind-2hkye

When Elon Musk bought Twitter, he said he wouldn’t make it a “free-for-all hellscape” – but that’s exactly what has happened 👀 Take action and hold Musk and X to account https://goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/x-is-not-above-the-law/

Want to explore Utopia and Failure Creative Network content in 3D? We now have our Metasteps world up and running, you can view videos and photos from the Academic Care Cafe and the projects that inspired it. Learn more about the project here! www.magneticideals.org/home/utopia-... #utopianstudies

NEW CAMPAIGN 🚨 Right now, people are pushed into poverty when councils send in bailiffs for council tax debt. But there’s another way. Together, we can stop this. Together, we can have dignity not debt. Together, we can make Britain Bailiff Free👇 🔗 acorntheunion.org.uk/bailiffs/

Reality is hitting, Chris and I are actually moving to Berlin from Brighton in just over a month, many of you probably know already. The cats are coming too! #berlin #newhorizons

The Wastelands ad Wonderlands collection explores a wide range of utopias and dystopias in film and literature and their important relationship to our present moment. #utopia #dystopia #fiction #hope #futures

Very honoured to be part of this publication in dark time so multiple crises. Programmes like Utopia Falls offer some hope in dark times. Huge thanks to @matthewleggatt.bsky.social to pulling this together and all of the other authors that I will soon add to this account!

Terrible news today: This year, one-third of coral cover has been destroyed in two northern sections of the Great Barrier reef due to anthropogenic heating. Results for the southern sections (which were even hotter) have not been officially released. www.aims.gov.au/information-...

Thanks @matthewleggatt.bsky.social and Dr Liam Knight for the chance for some blue sky thinking on this podcast! Great to be involved with the project, encourage you to listen to the other episodes and follow too, really thought-provoking.

Slowly but steadily growing our network of utopians on bsky Recently added: @danhf.bsky.social @hlmurray.bsky.social @utopiennerach.bsky.social @tedilta.bsky.social @alirizataskale.bsky.social @ccakir.bsky.social @saramartin.bsky.social @cphiliphaines.bsky.social @markusschwarz.bsky.social …