Nation’s 56,000 Acres Of Spinach Crops Cooked Down To Single Half-Cup Serving

yet another food safety scandal in China

How do Dongbei crime dramas draw on Dongbei’s marginality to envisage alternative femininities? check out our new blog post by Min Xu: Sister in furs: female gangsters in northeastern Chinese crime dramas 穿貂皮的姐：东北悬疑剧里的女性黑帮形象 oddchinaout.wordpress.com/2025/08/21/h...

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

⛽️ USA: Gas Stations & Stores, 1972 from our Visual Culture archive. Small-town gas stations that doubled as stores, photographed before interstate expansion. 🖼️ 10¢ Beef is in our 50x50 sale, £50 each, edition of 50. See More: sidegallery.co.uk/visual-cu... Print: shop.amber-online.com/produ...

Our Department has been ranked #1 for Geography and Environmental Science in the Times Higher and Sunday Times rankings for 2026. This includes the highest scores for research and teaching quality (68.8 and 90.9 respectively) and a score of 94.4 for graduate prospects.

2) 'Egypt's geographical tradition: The post-independence moment and shifting regional imaginations' In her contribution, @ayanassar.bsky.social considers how different worlds and regions are imagined in the non-west from the vantage point of Egypt. doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

Latest from our @joelucbarnes.bsky.social Uzbekistan and the Taliban spar over helicopters but the real battles are over rail links and Amu Darya water timesca.com/rail-water-a... #Uzbekistan #Afghanistan #CentralAsia #WaterSecurity #GeopoliticalAnalysis

In China’s booming immersive tourism industry, “non-playable characters” are thousands of young performers in costume, working marathon shifts of duels and dances to keep tourists entertained.

I wish there were more attention and support for projects that have been trying for over a decade to address this problem

My department @uwmadison.bsky.social is hiring an assistant professor with expertise in environmental politics. Send us your application. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Our democracy is too precious to be a plaything for foreign tech barons. Elon Musk doesn’t care about the British people or our rights. He only cares about himself and his ego.

'Analysis of almost 45,000 courses in Times Higher Education’s Courses 360 databases found that roughly 3,900 had shut down between 2024-25 and the upcoming academic year.' 1/2

🚨🚨Three two year research posts on AHRC funded Green Corridors North East project: The posts focus on: -heritage & history @durham-university.bsky.social bit.ly/3IggWS5 -culture & creativity @teessideuni.bsky.social bit.ly/3IjiyKL -nature & natural heritage @newcastleuni.bsky.social bit.ly/4nlgoJs

A massive, dangerous and disgusting scandal, of which far too few people are yet aware. At @fightingdirty.bsky.social we'll keep pushing to stop it. Congrats to @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social for continuing to shine the light: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

No ‘Trump bump’ for British universities, alas. Not helped by Jacqui Smith, whose view of international students is similar to Basil Fawlty’s to hotel customers.

The medium-term implications of this are wild.

Talked to 23 people who suddenly have to pay huge tariffs or otherwise cannot get chainmail from Pakistan, yarn from France, retro computers from Japan, metal music from the Netherlands, DVDs from Germany, cosplay supplies, sunscreen, etc. www.404media.co/its-just-a-m...

Job opportunity - Postdoctoral Research Associate working alongside @crangma.bsky.social - durham.taleo.net/careersectio... closing date 11.59pm, 7th October 2025

2 year researcher post @geogdurham.bsky.social on Green Corridors North East project, focusing on heritage & culture; developing new co-created arts- and humanities-led research that will contribute to the regeneration of green corridors in the UK and beyond durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

A great opportunity with >2 year research post to join the @ukri.org Green Corridors North East team in @teessideuni.bsky.social focusing on culture and creativity, eg inclusive creative methods to co-produce artworks that promote environmental empathy and enhance well-being bit.ly/485QjcU

The "Karakoram anomaly," where glaciers in the Karakorams and Pamirs bucked the global melting trend, may be over timesca.com/pamir-loses-...

Mobilizing Culture and Heritage for Climate Resilience: African Solutions from the Ground Up Showcasing traditional knowledge, indigenous practices, and heritage-based adaptation strategies. September 8, 2025, 6:00–7:30 PM (Addis/Nairobi Time) us05web.zoom.us/j/8366799982...

A chance to see the photographs of Easington 1987-1991 from @geogdurham.bsky.social photographer Michele Allan at the Easington Social Welfare Centre, September 8th-12th, 6pm-9pm.

🏗️ Modern Housing – Killingworth shows the bold brutalist towers that once defined a new-town vision in North Tyneside. Demolished in 1987, remembered through Side’s Visual Culture archive. See the project 👉 sidegallery.co.uk/visual-cu... Buy a print 👉 shop.amber-online.com/produ...

Weird, putting tariffs on construction materials and throwing day laborers in concentration camps should have solved the supply problem by now

Be sure to check out our sessions at the @rgsibg.bsky.social Annual Conference tomorrow! The sessions are jam-packed with variety and include live performances and displays of creative work. I wasn't able to attend in-person sadly, but @hywelgriffiths.bsky.social will be chairing in the room!

'The study...found that the main driver of increased red tape was university efficiency reforms. It threw doubt on the idea that increasing automation results in real efficiency, and suggested that Australian universities...had recently shifted towards stronger central executive management.' 1/2

Grasslands are incredibly important for wildlife, and play a crucial role in the world around us. Read this fascinating new blog from Mebrat, one of our Green Team volunteers, about our grasslands and how we're caring for them on the Tyne Derwent Way. www.tynederwentway.co.uk/article/3389...

"Urban residents are adapting to extreme heat through food-delivery services. Li et al. reveal how this adaptation unevenly benefits consumers and presents challenges for food-delivery workers". www.nature.com/articles/s44...

➡️ Reform lead by 15%, their largest ever lead in an opinion poll. Would give them a majority of ~140 seats.

Businessman Does His Work Lying On Bed Like Schoolgirl

I was on BBC’s AntiSocial at the end of last week discussing the growth of asylum hotels in Britain, the history of dispersal, and the importance of community-based housing for asylum seekers (at the 40min mark) @geogdurham.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

They excuse war crimes. They arm apartheid and genocide. But don't you dare protest for peace. Because that's real terrorism.

Dumb policing

The University of Warwick has paid a lot of money, I'm guessing, for their internet banner ads on the Guardian and elsewhere. But they can't spell "curiosity". This isn't a US-UK variant. They just, genuinely, have a massive spelling error in their banner ads.

Really interesting report by @stokel.bsky.social in @newscientist.com The time of day a student takes an oral exam correlates with different pass rates This is not a good thing One for #ltheChat

"It's just fields and fields of gray ash." www.instagram.com/reel/DM8H5L2...

1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵 www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...

Can’t even let your 11th man bat these days. Cos of Woakes.

It’s the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, the world's first public railway to use steam locomotives to transport passengers, which ushered in the railway age. [Just heard about this from Paddy O'Connell on Broadcasting House] www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

Inside the relentless race for AI capacity https://on.ft.com/3H9lQjf

Incredibly instructive reporting on what appears well on its way to becoming the biggest, most concentrated, most energy- and resource-intensive, and most speculative wave of capital investment ever. ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...

Kate Bush during the 'Hounds of Love' photo session with the Weimaraners, Bonnie and Clyde. Kate Bush, born on this day in 1958. 📷© John Carder Bush

Very excited to be starting at @geogdurham.bsky.social today! Looking forwards to new colleagues, friends, & collaborations and already feeling a very warm welcome. And a sincere thank you to friends & colleagues at Northumbria GES & @nuglobaldev.bsky.social for some wonderful years!

We are looking for a Senior Manager for our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social A key person in our team & a future valued colleague. Apply here durham.taleo.net/careersectio... & feel free to DM me. Also look out for our October research fellows posts.

Morning all. With just 9 days to go we have reached 90% of the funding goal to produce and print the new book 'The Edge of Ruin'. Just 25 more backers will get us to our target. If we don't reach it, the book cannot be made. This is the reality of (self) publishing today. shorturl.at/MgbKh

For the love of God, Radio 4, the EU will NOT pay a 15% tax. US consumers will.