As warming increases, we are already accelerating past some well-known #climate tipping points - points of no return - while others are approaching fast. These tipping points mark critical forks in the road. Until now most changes have been manageable, but… 1/

Hektoria Glacier in Antarctica shrinks at fastest rate recorded in modern history www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... via @ABCaustralia

We’re hiring! We are recruiting for Associate Professor in the Material and Public Cultures of Science to join our Department from January 2026. For more info and to apply, please visit: http://bit.ly/48Ll8nU Closing Date: 9th November 2025 #WeAreSTS #education #lecturer

I delighted to announce this news news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

Thanks, @americanstudier.bsky.social !

1stYR EnvHums Climate Emergency fieldschool. Students from ecology, marine science, philosophy & theology, comparative literature, politics & IR, history+ EnvHUMs. We’ve worked on the beach, in gardens, in archives+more & our students hv been inspired & inspiring Photo: Jen McDerra, Hypatia Trust.

This project was a real labour of love and hope during the dark times of UK HE as well as the overwhelm of climate change, where cause for hope can seem illusive. Thanks to all of our wonderful contributors

On Wednesday, the Society's President, Lucy Noakes, and RHS Councillors will be visiting historians at the Cornwall campus of @exeter.ac.uk, at Penryn, Falmouth. The visit includes a public event and reception with Lucy (4.30pm on 21 May) to which all are very welcome bit.ly/4j2po4B 1/2

We have updated our website. Check us out: hass-cornwall.exeter.ac.uk/environmenta...

Absolutely fabulous postdoctoral position, part of the interdisciplinary project «Home in Crisis» at the University of Copenhagen - engaged with the idea of climate change unfolding in our «home» (climate change, law, humanities) jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Counting down to the Easter break so that I can read this

"A weaker current may also allow more warm water to penetrate southwards, exacerbating the melting of Antarctic ice shelves and contributing to global sea-level rise. Faster ice melting could then lead to further weakening of the current, commencing a vicious spiral of current slowdown."

It is fantastic to see this but correction for @theguardian.com our BA Environmental Humanties at @hass-cornwall.bsky.social Uof Exeter was actually the 1st degree of its kind to address environmental crisis, climate change & justice, launched in Sept 2023. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Earth is already shooting through the 1.5°C global warming limit, two major studies show #climatecrisis theconversation.com/earth-is-alr...

I cannot wait to indulge in this and if anyone is around the Penzance area on the 14th, do go to the launch at the Morrab Library at 2pm! 📕 📖❣️ @hass-cornwall.bsky.social

End of term / marking reflection: I’ve managed to instil my obsession with maps / imagined worlds across the student body. A win in my mind!

A great end of term event with some of our @hass-cornwall.bsky.social environmental humanities and history students showcasing some of the work they’ve done this term in Foundations of Env Hums; Caribbean Histories; & Pacific Histories. Lots of posters, wizzy websites, & exciting online exhibitions

All very welcome and may ameliorate the damage, but really many years too late. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Fantastic PhD opportunity in Sweden!

Ok #skystorians (*taps mic*), my first podcast episode announcement on this site: New today from #HistoryInFocus, "Histories of Resilience," our episode on American Historical Review's first ever special issue. @historians.org #HistoryPodcast www.historians.org/podcast/hist...

I have been talking to my students about exactly this over the last term (as well as the environmental impacts).

On the Grenadian island of Carriacou, even the dead are now climate victims #ClimateCrisis Story by Natricia Duncan www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

Is anyone keeping track of numbers across the sector? In the last week alone I’ve seen announcements that total 1100 jobs across 4 universities. Devastating on so many levels

Australia accused of undermining landmark climate change case brought by Pacific nations in international court www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A large number of History posts at Britain's universities have already gone, and many more are under threat. In my view we could lose nearly a third of posts. The @royalhistsoc.bsky.social has prepared a toolkit for colleagues at risk, which is here: blog.royalhistsoc.org/2022/05/24/s...

Might have something to do with sustained attacks on Higher Education in general, and the humanities in particular, by the previous government and its client journalists at the Telegraph, along with massive cuts to funding, caused by that government's policies. You can't have it both ways.

I’m a very proud Essex alumna (best Comparative Literatures degree in the UK there for a while + the sociology of literature + Latin American Studies + deep history of radicalism). I’m gutted for my friends and colleagues who are facing this. I imagine the axe is going to fall hard on the Humanities

Today’s teaching: Caribbean Futures. Sustainability, fugitivity, aquapelago thinking, islanding, humanness after Man (Wynter). My students were *amazing*

Postdoctoral application open for in creative and practice-led methods of research to support the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, “Plants, Enslavement, and Public History: Re-imagining gardens and green spaces as places of heritage and healing” (2024-2028). #envhum www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Today’s teaching: hope in the face of the climate crisis and getting the students prepared for our end of term Environmental Humanities showcase that @emmakluge.bsky.social and I will be running for our 1st, 2nd, & final yr students. Watch this space for more on that ❣️

Bert visits Porthleven

No kind words for these asshole countries from me 🙂

Today’s teaching: coloniality of climate change; resistance through art & literature; remapping the Caribbean. Once again my students reminded me of why we do what we do even as the crisis in the sector deepens.

“Staggering” as well as scandalous

❣️ Percival Everett wins National Book Award for fiction with retelling of Huckleberry Finn www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

Launched today, this British Academy's pilot project maps changes in provision of UK undergraduate courses in Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences. 'Cold spots in SHAPE subject access matter. These subjects play a vital and vibrant role in university life, developing critical thinking'. 1/3 #UKHE

'Sector leaders expected more than 100 of the UK’s 140-odd universities to be making redundancies by the start of 2025, in what has been described as a “cataclysmic” situation where “everything is on the table”.'

Yes! I’ve been banging this drum in my small corner of the world since they took the caps off. It was clear what was going to happen. And look at the state we are in.

This video will break your heart if you care about nature. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A disaster indeed. The destruction and devastation of the arts and humanities is a national (& international) scandal. Solidarity to my friends and previous colleagues at UEA.

#ClimateCrisis to blame for dozens of ‘impossible’ heatwaves, studies reveal Exclusive: Stark evidence of how global heating is already supercharging deadly weather beyond anything ever experienced by humanity #COP29 Story by me Data @carbonbrief.org www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The real chemtrail that we’re not talking about.

Today’s teaching (2nd year UG): tidalectics (Brathwaite) and The Sea is History (Walcott). Hurricanes, climate crisis, colonialism, and Caribbean poetry. The sector (and the world) might be going to hell in a handcart, but I will take solace for two hours with amazing students and Caribbean poetry❤️

12 funded PhD positions available at the Augsburg-Munich International Doctoral Program "Rethinking Environment: The Environmental Humanities and the Ecological Transformation of Society" -> Deadline: January 31, 2025 #envhum #ecocriticism www.uni-augsburg.de/en/forschung...

This afternoon I’ll be introducing our 1st yr Env Hums undergrads to the Blue Humanities through Caribbean literature & art. We have students enrolled from EH, politics, history, marine biology, ecology & conservation, & business, which always makes for really interesting seminar discussions

A short piece I co-authored with Scott Stoneman on AI, energy, capital accumulation, & mystification is up now at Energy Humanities. www.energyhumanities.ca/news/the-ene...

I am co-editing a special issue of Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture--" 'the lesson of the falling leaves': Diversifying the Arboreal Humanties." CFP in link. Please circulate and consider submitting. www.regeneration-journal.org www.regeneration-journal.org/news/763/

⏳⏰🚨 𝘿𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙖𝙮! Submit your abstract for an individual paper, panel, poster, or experimental "different world" session before the end of Friday in Central Europe. 𝟏𝟓 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒, 𝟐𝟑:𝟓𝟗 𝐂𝐄𝐒𝐓 This time around, the conference will take place in Uppsala, Sweden, 18-22 August #envhist #envhum

This is an exciting intervention.