CFP: Environments and Societies at the Crossroads: Socio-Environmental Justice in Europe and the Americas in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Workshop at UC Berkeley www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications! We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections. Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li... 📆Closing date: 5 January 2026 #UofGLibraryFellows

#CFP: "Poetry's Environments" June 9-11, 2026 (University of Leeds, UK) Keynote speaker: Simon Armitage Deadline for proposal: December 5th 2025 Info: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro... #envhum #envhist #ecolit #environment #poetry #ecocriticism

Off to catch the train to Paris, then to the Barcelona Landscape Biennial, where I'll be in conversation with James Bridle, Thomas Woltz, and Divya Shah. Excited? Yes. landscape.coac.net/en

🌱 Spain’s community energy revolution is spreading! From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are providing cheap, clean electricity to homes, including low-income families, while promoting local ownership and fighting fuel poverty. We love to see a community-led energy transition 🤩

The Labour Party: hate immigrants, tax the poor, destroy universities. How is this useful when this is also the strategy of Tories and Farage's Fascist party?

The fact that this person remains Health Secretary is objectively one of the most significant British political scandals of the post-Covid era. But because he's doing something the media barons like, everyone has decided it's fine.

The British Academy invite applications for the Stein-Arnold Exploration Fund 2026. The scheme encourages research on the antiquities, historical geography, early history or arts in parts of Asia: https://bit.ly/488Axh7

This album just completely sends me every time I hear it. Such a fine thing. lisa-oneill.bandcamp.com/album/all-of...

Well, I've been meaning to de-google my life, and now the time has come. www.404media.co/google-has-c...

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Pinging Rachel Reeves and her immense intellectual abilities:

'The prospect of hundreds of job cuts at Lancaster University could damage the city's economy, students have warned.' 'Could'? Surely 'will'.

Imagine being the worst person Epstein's ever met.

CFP: Livable Cities, Manchester 2026: Heritages: From the Built to the Social amps-research.com/livable-citi...

One of our all-time favourites (for many obvious reasons 😍, and not least because it's the first bronze statue of a manual labourer), William Hamo Thornycroft's "The Mower", 1882-1884, at Liverpool's @walkerartgallery.bsky.social 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

One time around 2004 in Brooklyn I broke up with a guy on New Year’s Eve when he said the most horrifying words I’d ever heard. They were: “Who’s” and “Johnny” and “Cash?” Without hesitation I said, “This isn’t gonna work,” and walked out. Anyway, looks like he runs Bluesky Safety now.

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you're a PG student or an ECR working on any aspect of London's history, do consider submitting! And if you're not but you know of, or maybe even supervise, someone who does, encourage them to submit!

CFP for the inaugural issue of Slow Mode Journal, focusing on slow technology and slow design. ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/sl...

New sleeper services will run from Paris to Berlin next year

BREAKING: European Sleeper will start a Paris-Berlin sleeper train from 26 March 2026, after Nightjet pulls out in December. It'll run via Brussels (with Eurostar connection from London) 3 times a week. This + existing train = Brussels-Berlin 6 times a week. www.europeansleeper.eu/paris

I'm looking forward to the Barcelona Landscape Biennial next week, where I'll be introducing @jamesbridle.bsky.social and moderating a discussion between Thomas Woltz of Nelson Byrd Woltz and Divya Shah, CEPT University Ahmedabad. landscape.coac.net/en/noticies/...

'Prof Nicola Ranger, the union’s general secretary, said: “A sustained campaign of anti-migrant rhetoric is fuelling a growing cesspool of racism, including against international and ethnic minority nursing staff, without whom our health and care system would simply cease to function.' 1/2

Schumer smugly squanders every show of strength against the regime and its goons. His only plan "contrast." To get it he traded leverage for nothing, has let the regime roll over us, voted in appointments. Excoriate the Vichy Dems and would be Quislings, let them know no peace (202) 224-3121

When you book a flight through major travel sites, a data broker owned by U.S. airlines will sell details about your flight—your name, credit card used, and where you’re flying to the government. We found out how to opt-out of ARC selling your travel data. A guide: www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...

Excellent article here. Our students are our greatest advocates. Counter proposals will be put forward, and we are supporting colleagues in Music, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Nottingham with their campaigns www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Reflecting on publishing demands, attending conferences, and seeking mentorships, I critique toxic cultures that not only valorize overwork but also ignore the detrimental impact it can have on physical and mental well-being.” [1/1] journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

the Iranian drought story is insanely undercovered. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/07/i...

"Bold politics works. Not managerialism. Not triangulation. But the courage to tell the truth, and show how you will act on that truth": @zackpolanski.bsky.social. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

“Improving job quality in agriculture is important not just for the economic viability of regional food systems, but also because agricultural work is notoriously dangerous, dirty, demeaning and devalued.”

3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)

CFP: The Alter-lives of Independence Movements: Frustrated Hopes, Renewed Utopias. Lisbon, Portugal. ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/al...

Lots of universities are starting to resemble football clubs that have no academy - some other unnamed institution will do all the professional training, won’t they? The only difference is, in football managers are sacked for failing, not the team.

'D66 “have really embraced” universities’ call for the Netherlands to “grow towards a 3 per cent of GDP investment in research and innovation”, said van den Berg, while the party has pledged that “they won’t enter a government coalition that wants to cut back on the whole educational sector”.'

'More than 1,000 staff will be affected as Cardiff University undertakes a “massive” restructuring of its professional services team.' After all, it's a policy that is/has gone so very swimmingly well at every other university that's implemented it...

A new paper [2023] based on long-lost documents confirms that DNA discoverer Rosalind Franklin should be credited for discovering the double helix. www.livescience.com/health/genet...

New book, coming soon! Duncan Bell & Douglas Mao, Utopia (Oxford UP, 2026) It's a short interdisciplinary volume in the recently launched OUP Literature and Politics series. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

I'm reviewing a PhD thesis draft this week, and I've just found myself writing appreciatively in the margin, "There's an unbelievable amount of flatulence on this page." It's even better that it's trolls doing the farting.

Event: Being Black in Construction, University of Westminster, 18 November. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/being-blac...

⌛There is one week left to submit your abstract. Submit your proposal by 17:00 GMT Friday 14 November.  The Resilient Landscapes and Seas (RLAS) Symposium 2026 brings together leading organisations and stakeholders to tackle biodiversity loss and climate change through collaboration at scale.

CFP: Turtle Island Journal of Indigenous Health: The 'Building Canada Act' and the ongoing extraction and exploitation of Indigenous lands and Knowledges. jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/ti...

I do wish to be ungrateful. This is an average building but I love these crazy scuppers. They'll be lost under this greenwashing project, at least until it's removed when the living wall dies in a couple of years because we have laid off the maintenance staff for daft performances like this.

‘Choose’

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

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...