East Asian Studies is being gutted at Sheffield - all staff at risk with 8.6 FTE proposed to go (a third of us). Biggest cuts in Chinese and Japanese Studies. We’ll be taking a few days to process. Solidarity to Materials and Chemistry colleagues who are also dealing with similarly bad news.

I'm not a plumber. But I'm pretty sure that's not how sinks work.

The recent removal of FiveThirtyEight's archive is a reminder of how fleeting digital content can be. Our research found 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 were no longer accessible a decade later. www.pewresearch.org/...

Tajik scientists warn that a Pamir glacier is melting even above 5,000 meters, raising new concerns over Central Asia’s long-term water security https://ow.ly/2xQn50Z1FxE #Tajikistan #Pamir #Glaciers #Climate #WaterSecurity #GlacierMelting #CentralAsiaClimate

Central Asia ranks among the world’s biggest water users per person http://timesca.com/central-asian-countries-rank-among-worlds-highest-water-consumers/ #WaterSecurity #Climate #WaterConservation #CentralAsia #WaterUsage #WaterManagement

An exciting and important book! Share widely and ask your University library to order it!

From The Last Stand photobook. Lamba Ness, Unst, Shetland, Scotland. 2013 Because of their proximity to occupied Norway, where the Germans had established U-boat and Luftwaffe bases from which they threatened Allied shipping... www.marcwilson.co.uk/book-print-s...

'But a key trend over the period concerned students’ attendance on campus, with 63 per cent of undergraduates attending all their scheduled classes in 2006, compared with just under 48 per cent by 2025.' 3/3

Who could have guessed?

We need to be clear, Israel's attempts to destroy UNRWA records is not only an attempt to prevent justice for the Nakba, it is also an act of genocide. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

For further context: almost everyone in the Faculty of Arts is at risk of redundancy. Music, Modern Languages & American & Canadian Studies courses to close completely. History will not close but staff numbers will be significantly reduced. This is what 'right-sizing' looks like, apparently.

TOM BOMBADIL, TECH SUPPORTE: Hey dol, merry dol! Floweres and starres and rayne! Turne off your machyne and wayte, then turne it on agayne!

Every single member of the History Department at Uni of Nottingham is at risk of redundancy. Every single one of us.

Just published! My book, Easting the West: Theorizing the Postliberal Conjuncture from China, is now available online for institutional users with subscription to Oxford Scholarship Online! academic.oup.com/book/62722 The print version will come out next month.

"The list of platforms that now mediate the basic functions of education ... is almost comically long ... most schools are running 10–15 different EdTech products that all promise efficiency, but in reality create confusion, frustration, and complicate what was once much simpler." 🎯

“officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”

The Belmont Forum funded project 'Wrench' along with Occupy Climate Change! are holding a three-days interdisciplinary summer school titled "Reshaping Memory and Nature: Commons in the Face of Climate Change" 15-19 July details from [email protected]

94% of us say that blossom makes us feel happier, so once again this spring we're reminding you to pause and take a breather in blossom. 📷 Mike Selby

Global trade in sea cucumbers has escalated since 2013, putting numerous species at risk. Despite a brief pandemic dip, the market remains "alarming." Researchers are calling for immediate conservation measures to halt the overexploitation of these vital marine organisms. Edward Carver reports.

Proper meat-and-potatoes old school scandal. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The High Court found "the OfS approached the decision with a closed mind and had therefore unlawfully predetermined the decision" [para 455] and "The decision-maker here was biased in the sense of having a closed mind to the legal and factual merits of the University’s position" [para 443].

These are extraordinary findings for the High Court to make. Hard to see how the so-called Office for Students can survive in its current form.

Please share! Two PDRA jobs available on the UKRI-funded interdisciplinary MoonRISE project researching the effective governance of sites of cultural, scientific and environmental interest on the Moon. One Geography/STS slant, one law/governance. A great team at the OU led by Dr Alessandra Marino.

I'm looking for a part-time research assistant to support an externally funded, international project on the instrumentalization of anticolonial discourse in Asia and beyond. remote work OK but needs to be UK based. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Yes to a radical bookshop in Newcastle! Help make it happen by contributing to this crowdfunder

As the crowdfunder for the first radical bookshop icon Newcastle for 40 years gets closer to the end I’m making the bold move of calling on all the academics I sort of vaguely know and also those I don’t to share the link for our crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

Latest from our Stephen M. Bland Russia’s halt to Kazakh oil transit to Germany via Druzhba exposes how Europe’s post-Russian energy diversification can still depend on routes controlled by Moscow. https://ow.ly/ffZl50YOYeh #Kazakhstan #Germany #EnergySecurity #OilTransit #DruzhbaPipeline Russia

Can the Aral Sea be reborn? | National Geographic share.google/sYjmmt6Omsnr...

Study Finds Gen Z Drinking Fewer Flagons Of Mead Than Medieval Generations https://theonion.com/study-finds-gen-z-drinking-fewer-flagons-of-mead-than-medieval-generations/

118 angels soar aloft in the hammerbeam roof of a Fenland church—their carved feathers echoing the wings of the Marsh Harriers who once lived in this region in abundance. I made a Radio 4 programme about the entanglements of ornithology & theology, raptors & raptures. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Is this a tennis ball which I see before me, Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A tennis ball of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

CFP for "Disaster and Vulnerability in Asia’s Highest Borderlands: Understanding Geological, Cosmological, Human and Multispecies Agency" Deadline 1 June, workshop March 2027, Bhutan www.iias.asia/events/disas...

To save others from that, here's how Exeter City gave themselves a lifeline to avoid the League One drop after goalkeeper Jack Bycroft's 96th minute equaliser against Stockport County

Exeter City's goalkeeper Jack Bycroft has scored a 96th minute equaliser, a header having gone up the other end for a corner, helping their own relgation battle - and also securing promotion for Cardiff City www.devonlive.com/sport/footba...

3D map of the Chongqing Metro that shows the elevation and decline of each line, with some essentially looking like roller coasters (Chongqing is the Chinese city that went viral for showing how you could be on the ground floor but then walk a bit and be on the 22nd floor, due to the hilly terrain)

"Everyone has the same 24 hours" — sounds fair. But it isn't. After 10 years and interviews w/ 100+ ppl, I found that time anxiety isn't a personal failing. New episode on 新世相 🎧https://www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/episode/69dd2627b977fb2c47da83db

🏗️ New Exhibition: Planned Space Lived Place Bringing together the AmberSide Collection and InSide: Documentary Photography Community to look at how Northern New Towns are shaped through everyday life. 📍 Farrell Centre 🗓️ Open until 28 August 2026 🔗 sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

📢 @geogdurham.bsky.social, a world-leading department for geographical research and education at @durham.ac.uk, is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Physical Geography with expertise in Earth Observation... 🛰️ 1/3

Nearly 1 in 6 UK species are threatened with extinction. We've lost 97% of our wildflower meadows since the 1930s. We have 73 million fewer birds than in the 1970s - a decline of almost a third. And yet some politicians still just see wildlife as a blocker to progress.

there is no chance this massive assault on a civilian population meets the standards of the law of armed conflict, no matter how israel justifies its effort to target hizbollah. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

we look forward to hosting a guest talk by @carwynmorris.bsky.social on wanghong and speculative investment cycles! 🗓️Tuesday 5 May ⏱️2-3:30pm 📍TLC039

At the BSA tomorrow talking about the history of race and colonialism at Durham University through the lens of the student newspaper. Thinking about what the university is and its role in racialisation and colonialism.

From Mercury to Artemis: The evolution of mission control rooms www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic... @shannonmattern.bsky.social

In Global China Lab's monthly digest, there's a round-up of many brilliant articles on China's ethnic politics published in @madeinchinajournal.com and other venues. If you haven't already check this out mailchi.mp/thepeoplesma...

That’s one hell of a cover…..

Hilarious how for years serious people have said that you can't rely on renewables because they are prone to disruptions in supply www.ft.com/content/19f1...

Strikes me as an absurd threat, either we need the 4000 new training places or we don’t