Our new piece out today in Times Higher Education about the threats to Geography in the UK - particularly fieldwork - please do share. It links to a recent snapshot survey on the challenges being faced in UK HE, which highlights the inequities of the challenges, but also fears of what is yet to come

Really disgusted by how staff are being treated at Sheffield after participating in legal industrial action, for which they are already lost pay! A new low has been reached. @sheffielducu.bsky.social

Myself & many colleagues are facing this at Sheffield Uni - double punishment for strike action. In the midst of this, yesterday many departments got an email announcing imminent structural reviews (ie redundancies). @sheffielducu.bsky.social

Tsitsi Dangarembga, author of Nervous Conditions, once made a documentary about human–elephant conflicts in Zimbabwe. My essay on the film – and what it says about species conservation in a postcolonial world – is now online at Interventions. DM me if you'd like a PDF. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

I had a swell time reading Anuradha Roy's new book, Called By the Hills, for a piece in The Conversation. doi.org/10.64628/AB....

Fantastic to see that Science, Culture, and Postcolonial Narratives is now published and free to read as open access. I have a chapter in it that explores how Arundhati Roy tells the story of India's vulture extinctions. heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... You can donate to our strike fund here ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/hardship-fund/

AASA is very excited to announce that the winner of the inaugural round of the Siobhan O' Book Prize is Yamini Narayanan for the incredible book Mother Cow Mother India (Stanford UP, 2023)! url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/GCu8CL7EwM...

🎃 Happy Halloween 🎃 Dipping into #MedHums to bring you this timely gem. Georgia Walton & @dominicokey.bsky.social juxtapose the reality of animal experiments done in the name of human reproductive science with the fiction of two recent horror films: Birth/Rebirth (2023) & Lamb (2021).

I’m old enough to remember when everybody agreed that higher education was a “market” and offering “choice” was how the universities were meant to grow on.ft.com/3WTwBue

Really sorry to see news of more voluntary redundancies planned at Sheffield. As a Sheffield evangelist - it famously happens to everyone who studies there! - I'm so sad to see what's being done to my favourite university www.thestar.co.uk/education/un...

I've got a new open access article out in BMJ Medical Humanities, co-written with my friend Georgia Walton. It's about the species politics of animal testing, human reproduction and horror cinema. Basically: what if we see animal testing for the horror that it is? doi.org/10.1136/medh... #medhums

I’ve written a long read for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social about happened with Baillie Gifford, @fossilfreebooks.org and all the festivals. A lot of fake news circulated at the time so, whatever side you came down on, I’d be grateful if you read and shared it. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/writ...

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...

Thanks to Avi Shlaim for covering our open letter in The Independent. Almost 5,000 academics and university workers call for the UK government to defer biometrics requirements for Gaza students: www.independent.co.uk/voices/pales...

Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature is in print! The paperback will be out in Feb. Please request that your library order a copy. 30% off with the discount code SNWF25. @sunypress.bsky.social @rcolesworthy.bsky.social sunypress.edu/Books/A/Anim...

Out Now: Humanimalia 15.2! Featuring timely essays on human–animal entanglements, including 🐴 a taxidermied horse in London, 🐗 a feral pig in Australia, 🐐 “happy” goats in Italy, 🐾 robot dogs in Gaza, 🐦 pheasants in NL, and 🐑 sheepdogs in the UK. 🔓 OA here: humanimalia.org/issue/view/1...

- 400 jobs to go at Lancaster University - 1 in 4 people will be made redundant But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action? Please read 👇 Sign the petition 👇 chng.it/7F52bThYqn

I've written a short essay on animal studies and its methods for English Language Notes' brilliant "Of Note" section @dukepress.bsky.social. A pleasure to write alongside @mortizrobles.bsky.social. read.dukeupress.edu/english-lang...

Humanimalia 15.1 coming soon!

We're supporting the week of action United Against Scholasticide #workplaces4palestine From 23-30 November: ✊ Educate and raise awareness ✊Join the workplace day of action 28 November ✊Send a message of solidarity Find out more and get involved 👇 ucu.org.uk/CeasefireNow

De-mining rats. Stray dogs. Lal Kandhari cows. Marxist cats. And fishy resistance. My review of Animal Studies in 2023 is available here. DM me for the PDF. doi.org/10.1093/ywcc...

My review of Peter Arnds' book 'Wolves at the Door' is now out in Society & Animals. It's paywalled, though, so give me a shout if you'd like the PDF. brill.com/view/journal...

My reading of Aminatta Forna's Happiness, a multicultural & multispecies melting pot of a novel, is now out in Contemporary Literature. Come for the urban foxes, stay for the critique of anthropocene optimism. cl.uwpress.org/content/63/4...

I wrote about elephants, extinction and colonial history in South Africa's Addo national park for Current Conservation. www.currentconservation.org/temporary-ve...

This Friday we're hosting the final session of our conference, Fifty Years of Project Tiger: Conservation, Conflict, Critique. Register here: project-tiger.co.uk

Tomorrow we kick off our online symposium on the pasts & futures of India's flagship conservation programme, Project Tiger. We'll be hearing new research from Revati Pandya and Sonakshi Srivastava, with responses from Sudha Vasan and Ambika Aiyadurai. Register here: project-tiger.co.uk

Last month I was moved to try & make sense of the UK government's XL Bully dog ban. The essay I produced was imperfect & limited, but even so: it's telling –and proves my point– that noone I approached was interested in publishing it. Here's the essay: tinyletter.com/attentivenes...

I'm extremely excited to be taking part as a desiccant in this set of conversations about Project Tiger in December as it reaches 50. "Fifty Years of Project Tiger" An online symposium organised by Dominic O’Key, Anu Pande and Susan Haris. Some brilliant talks lined up! project-tiger.co.uk#schedule

I am very pleased to share the website for our conference "Fifty Years of Project Tiger: Conservation, Conflict, Critique", featuring an incredible line-up of speakers. Register here! project-tiger.co.uk