We're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

On the subject of Melvyn Bragg, I think of this Private Eye cartoon more frequently than I care to admit, when I’m struggling to raise the energy for a lecture or graduate supervision

Happening this Friday evening at @bookhaus.bsky.social , featuring one of our talented CEH members, the poet Suzannah V Evans. This will be a very special event 💙

The UK government will evacuate nine of the 40+ students in Gaza with scholarship at UK universities. My PhD student Shaimaa isn't included. We must now make sure they help the other students - email your MP today. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

💥 COMING UP: Join Suzannah V Evans (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) for the launch of her debut poetry collection, Under the Blue Told through a series of prose poems & postcards, Under the Blue is a meditation on humanity & empathy 📅 Fri 5 September, 7-9pm 📍 @bookhaus.bsky.social 🎟️ bit.ly/3V9L7Nv

Published this week: ANIMALITY AND HORROR CINEMA: CREATURELY FEAR ON FILM. Another fantastic title from Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature. Brilliantly edited from Peter Sands, Mo O'Neill and @samjhind.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Pls sign and share this open letter to the Bristol VC, against the School of Humanities's decision to withdraw the BA in English Literature and Community Engagement (ELCE): the only part-time, flexible undergraduate degree programme available at the University forms.gle/SbyhXPSJgQTc...

True patriots and now, I assume, proscribed terrorists.

Poem of the day: Mist by the marvellous Alice Oswald who was arrested yesterday in the Palestine protests. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Alice Oswald arrested this afternoon for supporting Palestine Action.

Come and get Weird with us in Loughborough! Save the date for 1-4 July 2026 (also coincides with my birthday!) @lboroenglish.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social

Looking for a #postdoc in Aquatic #STS! MARBLOOM analyses algal blooms from a social scientific perspective with emphasis on the changing relationship between humans and the environment. Position for 3+ years. Deadline 14.08.25. Link to #opencall: tinyurl.com/49wn7vzh

I was excited to find out that my book is available for pre-order! One for anyone interested in energy, climate, and the history of Britain. Thanks to MUP for making it pretty and affordable 🫶 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/

🌍 Dive into Tao Leigh Goffe’s *Dark Laboratory*—a visionary exploration linking colonialism’s legacy to today’s climate crisis. Unpacking Caribbean histories of extraction & racism. #DarkLaboratory #ClimateJustice #DecolonizeThePlanet #CaribbeanEcologies #ClimateActionNow 🌱

There are still good things

@bookhaus.bsky.social’s owners are retiring, and the manager - the brilliant Darran McLaughlin (alongside the equally brilliant Phil Wrigglesworth) are crowdfunding to buy the bookshop - they deserve all your support: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bookhaus--...

Wise words.

UCU members at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social are striking today over University of Edinburgh plans to make £140million in cuts and threaten jobs We're fighting against these reckless proposals Share to show your support ✊

Just back from a fabulous field trip in Wales. I couldn’t imagine a better bunch to be navigating the tricky terrain of academia with!

This week we've been descending into mines, scaling coal-spoil tips, and swimming under waterfalls. Read about our recent CEH field trip in our latest blog post: environmentalhumanities.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/06/20/t... #envhum

So many of you are so immensely learned but have you heard @rachelmurray.bsky.social on the subject of sea critters and Coney Island, Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore, and TSE of course? Grateful to have heard the talk version of this essay!

For #ModWrite this week, how about a ModRead? Our new Eliot Studies Annual is out now. Chew on these: - Special forum: THE ELIOT WE NEED Higher ed is collapsing, climate crises abound. Our Prez asks: "in what contemporary struggles could we enlist Eliot as an ally?"

🦀🌊 My latest article 'Feeling Stupid at the Beach' is now available to read in the latest T. S. Eliot Studies Annual: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/tsesa/7/1 @livunipress.bsky.social

As a counter to recent rants, I should say that I've read some great student work recently. You can tell as you read that there's a real person behind it, thinking hard and trying to make sense of complex material. Their work, with all its rough edges, is infinitely better than AI's empty polish.

The AGWG has our next Globalising Animal Geographies seminar with @lisaonaga.bsky.social on Friday! I am so excited to hear about Lisa's work on Silkworms and Sericulture 🐛 Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/13eE...

📣 The draft programme for our Environmental Humanities Summer School has landed and we're so excited to share it with you: bit.ly/4miqI5k ✨ There's still time to apply but you'll need to get your skates on as the deadline is the 25th of May. More details here: bit.ly/4j3sAfi ✨

We're delighted to be hosting this international hybrid symposium today -- a collaboration between three leading environmental humanities research centres at Bristol, Stavanger and Amsterdam. Details below!

Solidarity with friends and former colleagues at @sheffielducu.bsky.social who are on strike today against compulsory redundancies ✊

🌊🌊🌊 New on H-Oceans 🌊🌊🌊 Check out “Ocean Droning: Intimacies, Turbulences, & Aerial Care,” Anna Jackman (@uniofreading.bsky.social)’s rvw of Adam Fish (Uni of New South Wales)’s bk _Oceaning: Governing Marine Life with Drones_ 2024 @dukepress.bsky.social Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social

Delighted to be giving the Gender & History lecture at Uni of Bristol on 15th May (and on Zoom). Join us for a discussion of trans history, colonial history, & non-human animal history. There will, of course, be merfolk. Link here: ticketpass.org/event/ELMPHJ...

Sad news. I teach this text on an MA unit at Bristol called 'Animal Planet' at Bristol and students always find it really thought-provoking 💔

Our next ASLE-UKI Seminar 'The Animal and the Other' brings together Prof. Dr. Marco Caracciolo, Dr. Samantha Hind @samjhind.bsky.social, and Dr. Rob O'Connor on Wednesday, 9 April, 4-6pm GMT. Convened by David Tierney BOOK HERE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asle-uki-s...

Now listed on FindaPhD! The most exciting PhD opportunity you will see this week, if you like foods and history and libraries (and who doesn’t?) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

I’m very excited to be coordinating the Environmental Humanities Summer School at Bristol this July! Join us as we venture into the depths, try our hand at ecological ‘monster’ collage, and explore our vibrant city. More details below!

Join us in Bristol this summer for the Environmental Humanities Summer School! You will be taught be leading experts at the University's world-renowned Centre for Environmental Humanities (1/3)

A. is a brilliant student and really deserves to be able to finish their degree. If you can donate at all, even just a small amount then it would mean such a great deal: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-a-gra...

Proofing my stupidity for the Eliot Studies Annual (out later this year)

This might be the most gorgeous marginalia I’ve ever seen.

Just come across this really useful list on the links between natural history and empire, featuring moi as ‘essential reading’. Perfect if you’re interested in museums or science more broadly too. Also ideal for passing to students as a starting point. daily.jstor.org/natural-hist...

O "O"! Coming in October from @sunypress.bsky.social, ft an epilogue coauthored with the one and only @profchander.bsky.social, with high praise from Jonathan Culler and the ever fab Margaret Ronda. Paperback to follow in April 2026. sunypress.edu/Books/O/O

Good piece on the self-destructive plans announced at Bristol recently. www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...

We had a great time with our EH MA students at Windmill Hill City Farm exploring creative responses to animals with @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social and @alicewould.bsky.social There were kennings, cute kids (of the goat variety), ambiguous becomings, and plenty of biological exuberance.

UK Joyceans/Modernists: because of the UK's unique copyright legislation, access to jamesjoycecorrespondence.org was blocked -- until now. The Joyce letters are now open to UK users, which will make a huge difference for all of us. #jamesjoyce #correspondence #editing

We received some unexpected and delightful post this week from The Learning Something New About Nature Club — a self-described ‘snail mail project whereby you learn something new about nature every month…’ 🪲 🐜 Read more/find out how to sign up: www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/03/the-...

this essay, by Pete Coviello, is simply and extraordinarily beautiful

We had a brilliant time at Bristol Museum with our Environmental Humanities MA students yesterday discussing ways of exhibiting extinction, past and present, and designing our own extinction exhibitions 🦣🦤 🖼️ So many imaginative ideas from the group 🤩💡

The latest Anne Carson essay in the LRB is full of gifts, chief among them this fragment by Catullus on the start of spring: 'Now spring unlocks! ... Now the feet grow leaves so glad to see whose green baits awaits. Oh sweet don’t go back the same way, go a new way.' www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...