@uniofnottingham.bsky.social permanently suspends all teaching of Modern Languages, Music, Plant Biology, Microbiology, Theology, Agriculture, Food Science, and, ironically, Education. And that's not even the complete list. #Nottingham

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

Save languages at the University of Nottingham c.org/fWNV5PrpGZ

"Any discussion of Cheney's works must begin with the 2021 assessment of Brown University’s Costs of War Project that found, conservatively, that the War on Terror killed between 897,000 and 929,000 people across five of its battlefields." www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

New in Geo: 'Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality' by Farhana Sultana This paper critically examines the intersections of power, pedagogy and praxis in producing inequitable climate knowledge, global governance, policies and solutions. doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

In Memoriam: Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War

CDC Figures It Easier To Start Tracking People Without Measles

Philip Nelson from the UK’s @greenparty.org.uk outlining very welcome understandings of #heritage. Also positive for #climateheritage contributions to sustainability as well. www.linkedin.com/pulse/greene...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Remarkable online access to a remarkable and rarely findable book

The story behind Umit Bektas photo of cruise ships sent for scrap at Aliağa in Turkey, during COVID www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

“Cartography is another name for stories told by winners. For stories told by those who have lost, there isn’t one.” - Elif Shafak

China Agrees To Purchase 11 U.S. Soybeans

So this doesn't sound good 'Massive Glacier Collapse Reported on Mount Ismoil Somoni in Tajikistan... the detached ice mass measured approximately two kilometers in length, 25 meters in height, and 150-200 meters in width' timesca.com/massive-glac...

Private Eye nailing it.

Please consider signing this in support of Farhana Sultana!

Ukrainka From 'Travelogue 2 - A thousand days of longing’

As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments. #medievalsky www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...

The Conservatives would not deport as many people as Idi Amin. They would deport *more*. www.ft.com/content/9a1d...

🛍️ Thirty-nine years ago this month, the Metrocentre opened in Gateshead. Between 1986 and 1989, Peter Fryer photographed its rise as part of "Coke to Coke", capturing the shift from labour to leisure. See the full collection → sidegallery.co.uk/collectio...

This is the logic of Idi Amin’s expulsions at the scale of the 1923 Greece-Turkey population transfer. Ethnic cleansing by law on a mass scale.

The costs of the UK’s Global Talent Visa looks a trifle high in comparison to competitor countries - largely through the Immigration Health Surcharge (which critics say is a form of double taxation as they contribute to the NHS through normal tax on their earnings)

Here’s the link to the full @royalsociety.org report on UK researcher visa costs compared to other countries royalsociety.org/news-resourc...

Iain Duncan Smith says when Maccabi played a game in Istanbul there was no trouble at all @ianbyrnemp.bsky.social had to point out UEFA moved the game to Hungary after the Turkish authorities refused to stage it &the Hungarian authorities then played it behind closed doors. Hence no trouble

Starting this month, another fascinating seminar series from @livingmaps.bsky.social: 'Mapping Fluid Worlds'. 'The Flood Necklace: an exploration of how data-sculpture can carry a river’s history' - Anne-Laure Fréant. 29th October, 6pm UK, Online: Booking: tinyurl.com/4xc65nnv

Applications for ERC starter grants have risen by 30% in two years. Odds of success now less than 10%. Baffling, as it is not like everyone is being told to up grant income everywhere or anything 🤔 erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

‘Northumbrian miner at his evening meal’ 1937 by Bill Brandt. It’s an image which generates fascination and outrage in equal measure.

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From https://theonion.com/trump-spends-entire-u-k-trip-trying-to-figure-out-where-he-knows-prince-andrew-from/

"Kazakhstan is largely acting alone in efforts to revive the Aral Sea... Across the border, Uzbekistan has pursued more limited measures in the Southern Aral basin"

Eugène Atget’s unflinching, unromantic, street portraits of 1900s Paris. 📷 Eugène Atget | Paris (TASCHEN)

The absolute bloody vandalism of austerity in one chart. Good analysis of the overall picture here.

📝New blog post! Soumya Ranjan Gahir writes about square dancing 广场舞 as an everyday practice that reclaims urban space, asserts gendered visibility in a society that often sidelines older women, and adapts creatively to the rhythms of digital culture. oddchinaout.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/t...

🌾 Red Runway, 2022, by Ukrainian photographer Yevhen Samuchenko — a red poppy field sits alongside green wheat in the Odesa region. Received through our MySide open call, it reflects how landscape can hold memory, identity and quiet strength. Submit to #MySide → sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

2 years ago Jo Grady was on every platform claiming Universities had plenty of money to settle that year's pay claim. If people wonder why HE is not getting a hearing, this is one of the reasons it has little credibility.

The analysis by Whitehall officials provides no data or research to back up the government’s central argument that it is environmental legislation that holds up building. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Now would be a great time to check out this BBC radio 4 series on the far right and racism in Britain by the amazing Camilla Schofield. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Andrew Mitchell’s "In the Shadow of the Rocket" reflects on change in Gateshead, where the Dunston Rocket once stood over the local club and community. Selected from our #MySide open call asking how places shape who we are. Submit by 10 Oct → sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

Police already have huge powers to restrict protests. Handing them more would undermine our rights further while failing to keep people safe from violence like the horrific and heartbreaking anti-Semitic attack in Manchester. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Tbilisi, 🇬🇪 — thousands have taken to the streets right now and are marching toward the presidential palace.

93% of 128km second phase of Afghanistan’s Qosh Tepa Canal completed. It's full length is planned as 285km, and 100m wide by 8.5m deep, and could eventually divert up to 13 billion cubic meters annually, nearly one-quarter of the Amu Darya’s average flow timesca.com/afghanistans...

We updated previous models with September tariffs—over a decade, total employment will return to baseline eventually, but with a permanent structural shift from trade-exposed manufacturing, mining, & agriculture to the service sector & lower real wages for all.

Truly striking images of glacial retreat in the Alps. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Scientists launch high-altitude mission in Tajikistan’s Pamirs to drill deep ice cores before climate change erases vital records timesca.com/learning-abo... #Tajikistan #Pamirs #ClimateChange #ClimateScience #GlacierResearch

Electricity now costs up to 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Did you know that together, all the balconies in Greater Manchester cover an area the size of more than 33 football pitches? Greening just a quarter of these could host enough flowers to support 1.4 million pollinator visits. 🐝

The paperback edition of 'The Time Inheritors' will be released tomorrow! How exciting! Order now from @sunypress.bsky.social website using SNPF25 coupon code to get 30% off! sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...