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Geographer, mostly posting about work.
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Alexander Kasprzyk
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@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
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Nottingham suspends music, language and nursing courses
University says financial uncertainties continue as government’s proposed student levy will ‘wipe out any benefits’ from rising tuition fees
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/nottingham-suspends-music-language-and-nursing-courses
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George Monbiot
3 days ago
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 …
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Dr Corinne Painter
6 days ago
Save languages at the University of Nottingham
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Nils Gilman
7 days ago
"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...
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His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in US history.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/dick-cheney-war-on-terror-executive-power/
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Angela Last
7 days ago
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!
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Geo: Geography and Environment
13 days ago
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.
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The Onion
9 days ago
In Memoriam: Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
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The Onion
9 days ago
CDC Figures It Easier To Start Tracking People Without Measles
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CDC Figures It Easier To Start Tracking People Without Measles
ATLANTA—As the agency struggles to manage a measles caseload that has erupted to its largest size in decades, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated Monday that at this point, it would ...
https://theonion.com/cdc-figures-it-easier-to-start-tracking-people-without-measles/
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Hana Morel
about 1 month ago
Philip Nelson from the UK’s
@greenparty.org.uk
outlining very welcome understandings of
#heritage
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#climateheritage
contributions to sustainability as well.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/greene...
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A Greener Future for Heritage and Tourism
Putting People, Nature and Place at the Heart of the Conversation The Green Party this weekend adopted a comprehensive new Heritage and Tourism Policy at its Autumn Conference — setting out a bold vis...
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/greener-future-heritage-tourism-philip-nelson-r6gtc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&utm_campaign=share_via
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Dr Selena Wisnom
10 days ago
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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Remarkable online access to a remarkable and rarely findable book
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The story behind Umit Bektas photo of cruise ships sent for scrap at Aliağa in Turkey, during COVID
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
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Covid 2020: Where cruise ships went to die
When Covid-19 took hold, cruise ship operators struggled to stay afloat. One option was to scrap older vessels – giving one photographer a unique perspective.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20251027-covid-2020-where-cruise-ships-went-to-die
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Nils Gilman
13 days ago
“Cartography is another name for stories told by winners. For stories told by those who have lost, there isn’t one.” - Elif Shafak
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The Onion
13 days ago
China Agrees To Purchase 11 U.S. Soybeans
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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'
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Massive Glacier Collapse Reported on Mount Ismoil Somoni in Tajikistan - The Times Of Central Asia
A large section of glacier broke away from Mount Ismoil Somoni in Tajikistan’s Tajikabad district on October 25, according to Asia-Plus, citing the Committee
https://timesca.com/massive-glacier-collapse-reported-on-mount-ismoil-somoni-in-tajikistan/
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Dave Vetter
15 days ago
Private Eye nailing it.
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins
14 days ago
Please consider signing this in support of Farhana Sultana!
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Marc Wilson
14 days ago
Ukrainka From 'Travelogue 2 - A thousand days of longing’
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Cristina Temenos
15 days ago
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
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Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana
As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScmyLJc_B-mJDFxDVWYPDedXLSoUGyYJXi7-njgIR8H4kjwsw/viewform
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Yvonne Seale
20 days ago
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...
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Henry Mance
21 days ago
The Conservatives would not deport as many people as Idi Amin. They would deport *more*.
www.ft.com/content/9a1d...
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Side
22 days ago
🛍️ 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...
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Ned Richardson-Little
22 days ago
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.
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Hetan Shah
23 days ago
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)
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Hetan Shah
23 days ago
Here’s the link to the full
@royalsociety.org
report on UK researcher visa costs compared to other countries
royalsociety.org/news-resourc...
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UK immigration costs: an international comparison of skilled worker, researcher and student visas in 2025 | Royal Society
2025 update to the Royal Society's analyses of upfront immigration costs in the UK and 17 other leading science nations.
https://royalsociety.org/news-resources/publications/2025/summary-visa-costs-analysis-2025/
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Saul Staniforth
24 days ago
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
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Claire Boardman
27 days ago
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
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The Flood Necklace - Anne-Laure Fréant
Join us in the first event of our Mapping Fluid Worlds Series to explore how data-sculpture can carry a river’s history
https://tinyurl.com/4xc65nnv
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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 🤔
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Starting Grants 2026 applications: Facts and figures
The ERC Starting Grants 2026 call closed for applications on 14 October 2025. These are the preliminary data on submitted proposals:
https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/news/starting-grants-2026-applications-facts-and-figures
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Davenant 📸
26 days ago
‘Northumbrian miner at his evening meal’ 1937 by Bill Brandt. It’s an image which generates fascination and outrage in equal measure.
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The Onion
27 days ago
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/
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"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"
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paulseesequasis
29 days ago
Eugène Atget’s unflinching, unromantic, street portraits of 1900s Paris. 📷 Eugène Atget | Paris (TASCHEN)
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Simon Parker
29 days ago
The absolute bloody vandalism of austerity in one chart. Good analysis of the overall picture here.
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Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies
about 1 month ago
📝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...
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The Quiet Power of China’s Dancing Women
One summer evening in Chengdu, a video went viral: hundreds of women in sequined tops and trainers filled a shopping-mall plaza, dancing in synchrony to a remixed pop anthem. The clip was shared mi…
https://oddchinaout.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/the-quiet-power-of-chinas-dancing-women/
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Side
about 1 month ago
🌾 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
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David Ealey
about 1 month ago
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.
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Celia Richardson
6 months ago
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/...
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UK government admits almost no evidence nature protections block development
Whitehall analysis provides no data or research to support the government argument that environmental legislation holds up building
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/07/uk-government-admits-almost-no-evidence-nature-protections-block-development?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Sadiah Qureshi
about 1 month ago
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...
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BBC Radio 4 - Britain's Fascist Thread
Camilla Schofield explores the unbroken thread of fascism in Britain.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000sbdy
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Side
about 1 month ago
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 →
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Omar Khan
about 1 month ago
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
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Liberty
about 1 month ago
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...
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Police to get broader powers to crack down on repeated protests
The move is not a ban on protests but "about restrictions and conditions", Shabana Mahmood tells the BBC.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c24rmdngrrjo
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Olga Nesterova
about 1 month ago
Tbilisi, 🇬🇪 — thousands have taken to the streets right now and are marching toward the presidential palace.
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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
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Afghanistan’s Qosh Tepa Canal Raises Water Security Fears - The Times Of Central Asia
Water has long been one of Central Asia’s most contested resources, shaping agriculture, energy policy, and diplomacy across the region. Recently,
https://timesca.com/afghanistans-qosh-tepa-canal-raises-water-security-concerns/
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Peterson Institute for International Economics
about 1 month ago
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.
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The global trade war: An update
Since February 2025, the United States has undertaken a rolling process of resetting tariffs, driving them up to the highest levels since the 1930s. In this blog, we project the impacts of the US tari...
https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/2025/global-trade-war-update
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Truly striking images of glacial retreat in the Alps.
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Before and after images show glaciers vanishing before our eyes
They are melting like never seen before, changing landscapes around the world beyond recognition.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce32ezzq6zlo
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Ben Whitham
about 1 month ago
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
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Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'
Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2dglp43xmo
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The Times of Central Asia
about 1 month ago
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
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#ClimateChange
#ClimateScience
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Learning About Glaciers: Scientists Extract Ice Cores in Tajikistan - The Times Of Central Asia
A group of international scientists is on a complex, arduous expedition to learn more about the glaciers of the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan, drilling and
https://timesca.com/learning-about-glaciers-scientists-extract-ice-cores-in-tajikistan/
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More Perfect Union
about 1 month ago
Electricity now costs up to 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers.
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AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-data-centers-electricity-prices/
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National Trust
about 1 month ago
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. 🐝
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Dr Cora Lingling Xu 许玲玲博士
about 1 month ago
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-...
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