Kazakhstan’s Aral Geopark could become the country’s first UNESCO Global Geopark, bringing new attention to a landscape shaped by the Aral Sea’s collapse https://ow.ly/xrNp50ZlzKB #AralSea #Kazakhstan #UNESCO #Geopark #Environment

The Seneca Meadows landfill, where each year NYC sends about 75,000 tons of waste, is stuck in legal limbo. gothamist.com/news/new-yor...

For no particular reason, obviously, this weekend I found myself remembering all those allegations about mysterious dark money funding untraceable Facebook ads during the Brexit campaign.

Course rationalisation is happening across the UK, and the decline number of courses offered is "concentrated in languages (down 827 courses, or 18 per cent), social sciences, creative arts, history and philosophy, media, education and geography" wonkhe.com/blogs/the-ma...

Entirely obvious:

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The publicly funded clean-up of the former Redcar steelworks has turned into a private windfall. Teesworks Ltd, 90% owned by two local businessmen, holds an option to buy the remediated land at £1 an acre. It’s now agreed in principle to sell 222 acres to AI firm Anthropic for £222m.

11 fully funded PhD positions (13 TV-L/75%) to work on China's Geoeconomic Rise and the Accumulation of Structural Power www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht...

I struggle to understand the fascination with mainstream economists' (broadly accurate) Brexit forecasts... ... the leave forecasts on the other hand www.ft.com/content/f99c...

Look, we're SWEATING in Cambridge today. But down at the UK's largest Antarctic research station, our team are also experiencing a heatwave. It's midwinter on the Antarctic Peninsula: it should be -15°C to -20°C at the moment. It's -2°C. There's almost no sea ice, and there has been rain.

Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey has unveiled a billboard campaign across the UK to mark the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum today. The billboards call out Reform leader Nigel Farage’s £5 million "reward for campaigning for Brexit, whilst people across the country feel the pinch."

Happy 10 years of Brexit 💃💃💃

Happy birthday to the heatwave of 1976 which began today 50 years ago, peaking at 35.9°C. If a comparable heatwave happened in the current climate it would be 3-4°C hotter, peaking at 38-39°C. And the actual forecast is for temperatures of 38-39°C in the next few days with a red heatwave warning.

This site is a real time-saver.

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

AI has started blocking the Wayback Machine from chronicling the web. Considering that nearly 40% of websites disappear after 10 years, this will enforce a giant loss in collective memory.

Breaking News! y-axis alert! Nino 3.4 sea surface temperatures are now more than 3 standard deviations above the 1991-2020 mean, forcing an extension of the y-axis up to 3.5σ. And that line way at the bottom? That's 1988.

For clarification on the left are a group of terrorists and on the right are the results of people expressing ‘legitimate concerns’ in Belfast according to Starmer’s government. Cardboard trumps arson.

A generation of children confined to exclusively posting on LinkedIn, humbled to share that they have been recognised as thought leaders in vertically integrating your mom's supply chain.

Zhanana Kurmasheva’s We Live Here examines life around the Semipalatinsk test site and Kazakhstan’s nuclear legacy https://ow.ly/QQ5t50Zb7GO #Semipalatinsk #DocumentaryFilm #NuclearLegacy #KazakhCinema #WeLiveHere #ZhananaKurmasheva #NuclearTesting

Today I did a studio visit with Xinan Ran, whose current work explores the geopolitics of citrus 🍊 www.xinanran.work

Northern Ireland, functionally, has no immigration. Net immigration last year was about 8000 people in a population of 2 million, and that was a record.

An extremely short story I wrote. It's called Upsetting Miriam's New Car.

📚Introduction free to download📚 It's the official release day of my book and OUP has made the Introduction chapter free to read. academic.oup.com/book/62722/c... Take a look if you're interested in... why do I want to study ideas of 'the west' from without, why do I want to theorize the postliberal

Academic writing should be addressed neither to the public nor to other academics. It should be addressed to a single interlocutor with whom you have a petty rivalry and whose work you are trying to discredit

What does it mean to be a migrant in an increasingly closed and anxious world? Join our #RefugeeWeek 2026 panel on borders, belonging and justice in Europe, with Michelle Pace, Mark Rainey and @jonnydarling.bsky.social. 📅 15 June, 12:30-2pm BST 💻 Online 👉 Register here: bit.ly/43ozHK5

Latest from our Stephen M. Bland an EU sanctions seminar in Bishkek shows how Russia-linked trade risks are turning into daily compliance pressure for Kyrgyz businesses https://ow.ly/46Lj50Z9sWZ #Kyrgyzstan #EU #Sanctions #TradeCompliance #Russia

The ILO says child labor reports rose during Turkmenistan’s 2025 cotton harvest despite some improvements in working conditions https://ow.ly/1ZMV50Z8WEK #Turkmenistan #Cotton #ChildLabor #ForcedLabor #HumanRights

Any parent and applicant planning to attend the Sussex University Open Day today, we can save you the trouble: these are the non-answers staff is told to give you. To send your staff out with this nonsense and treat visitors to this ChatGPT approach is disrespectful to all.

And equal proportion (42%) of people think that the English student finance is fair as think it is unfair: yougov.com/en-gb/tracke... - meanwhile 56% think it is not good value for money (yougov.com/en-gb/tracke...).

This is such sad news. Raul was one of the most generous scholars out there

Treating Nature as Capital Cannot Save the Planet. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

There's strong competition, but Jenkins is a very strong front-runner for the award "Biggest C*nt at the Grauniad". Obviously, he's VERY posh, so listen up, peasants, Sir Simon is talking and he knows more about everything than you.

The Rebellion! exhibition has now been installed at Newcastle City Library and is open to visitors from tomorrow. Initial reaction to the video has been surprisingly good. Passers by seemed fascinated by it which is a good sign.

Tech billionaires should not be able to tilt British democracy from Silicon Valley boardrooms. Here’s how we could legislate to stop social media platforms amplifying the Far Right for profit or political influence. 🧵

Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke Thursdaye Ich care not for thee Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love [catchye hurdy-gurdy riff] Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love

You can always tell when The Stranglers have been in to return their books.

Yep... I seriously don't have words...

I feel these two headlines should be shown together more

OnlineFirst - "Environmental re-turns: Palestinian ecologies as worldmaking practices" by @silviahass.bsky.social and @dajanimuna.bsky.social: #creativeecologies #environmentalism #Palestine #return #solidarity journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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