'Universities across the UK have reported more than 1,000 job losses in the first four months of this year, with the actual number likely to be far higher as institutions continue to roll out cost-saving initiatives.' 1/4

The worrying disappearance of honeybee colonies in today's @theguardian.com country diary by @tomallanwriter.bsky.social. #countrydiary #naturewriting

We’re hiring a full-time Historic Environment Advisor for our West England District. Work across Exmoor, Dartmoor, Cornwall WHS and the Forest of Dean, supporting biodiversity and sustainable forestry. A rare chance to shape landscapes at scale. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

"Buses aren’t a statutory entitlement" - oof, as a non-driver, living in a rural area, this hit hard. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

More on the state of British academia. Such cruelty and brutalisation effected through these processes that are dismantling disciplines and universities in the face of governmental indifference

As part of the upcoming Pint of Science festival, I'll be talking smells and cities on 18 May, yeah! We'll explore factory air and labour, political history and smoke, and smelly waterways at the Taproom, near Piccadilly station in Manchester. Info: pintofscience.co.uk/event/smart-...

🌿 Learning botany at home 🔓️ In our latest BJHS issue, Brad Scott explores how the Talbot family studied mosses—by collecting, drawing, and naming—showing how botanical knowledge was shaped in domestic settings and through networks, even without formal structures. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Something extraordinary – yet predictable – has happened over recent days on Facebook. Fake accounts that usually post anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim content generated using AI to fuel division and hate in UK are now pushing out AI-gen content asking: "Should the UK produce its own fuel again?"

Just a few more days to apply to this year’s Take Your Research Public course - an introduction to public writing, social media, podcasting and more for academics new to this work. Guests include @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social and @estelleprnq.bsky.social. Free, online, over four Tuesdays in June.

This second edition is essential reading - for everyone. If there’s one book I’d recommend in environmental history, it might be this. With an introduction by @brdemuth.bsky.social! #EnvHist

The team behind my favorite graph - @ourworldindata.org - is hiring a writer. If you can explain complicated things in ways that change how people think AND you want that skill pointed at the world's largest problems, consider applying: ourworldindata.org/hiring-writ...

Let's be clear: the destruction of universities is a political choice. It doesn't have to be like this. Sure, there are issues, some serious, but Ireland's universities aren't totally screwed, nor The Netherlands'. The UK government has made a choice - it is demolishing and incinerating education.

⏰The deadline to apply for the 2026 @beinghumanfest.bsky.social is this Thursday 16 April at 5pm. Funding grants are available to connect your research with local audiences through inspiring public engagement events. Don't miss your chance to take part:: https://bit.ly/4kuToHO

But the government should be abolishing grammar schools and resourcing all schools to offer the same opportunities for children across the board. What else is a Labour government for? Finish what Crosland started!

How has your scholarship been impacted by a decision not to travel to the United States? Want to write about it for our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series? niche-canada.org/2026/02/26/p... #envhist #envhum #cdnhist

Nearly 1 in 6 UK species are threatened with extinction. We've lost 97% of our wildflower meadows since the 1930s. We have 73 million fewer birds than in the 1970s - a decline of almost a third. And yet some politicians still just see wildlife as a blocker to progress.

Call for Papers – Forecasting the Weather between Divination & Science (Antiquity to the Present) Submission Deadline: 31 May 2026 Workshop, organised at the University of Oxford, UK, 9 Oct 2026, by @simondolet.bsky.social & Michelle Pfeffer niche-canada.org/2026/04/06/c... #envhist #histsci

CFP: Belonging to the Victorians? Community, Collections, and Care - 4 September 2026 - Keynote Address @janehamlett.bsky.social 🌟This conference examines how the 19th century shaped ideas of belonging through its landscapes, laws and collections, and how its legacies still shape heritage today 1/7

Reposting for attention of #envhist #envhums #STS #HistSTM folks, can anyone help? Amazing story and a vital longitudinal datastream that needs continuity and care

🔔⏰Just over 1 month to go! ⏰🔔 Call for papers: Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn' A two-day workshop organised by @andrewseaton.bsky.social and myself at Lincoln College, Oxford, 16-17 September. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May. Details in poster below!

JOB ALERT: Two 4.5 year postdoctoral positions to work on my Wellcome-funded project 'Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health'. Please share widely! CLOSING DATE: 23 April (the date on Jobs.ac.uk is apparently incorrect)

emperor's tailor pulls out of landmark twelvety-nine bajillion pound deal to establish a "world-leading" clothes emporium

I remember predicting this on Twitter ages ago, where someone promptly accused me of being some kind of eco-doomster predicting the demise of all technology within the decade.

Just under two weeks left to apply for this programme! Please share.

Exciting to see this comment piece written by myself and @victoriabates.bsky.social out in the British Journal of Healthcare Management! Unfortunately it is paywalled but hopefully there will be more on this subject coming from us in the future... #MultispeciesHospital

What will happen to the 82 USFS experimental forests around the country? Many sites have decades-long experiments that are tracking how forests are changed by timber harvesting practices and climate change. As I say here, “you can't just pick up an experimental forest site and move it to SLC.”

What a joy to celebrate the county #flower of #Hertfordshire in my @theguardian.com country diary today. #naturewriting #countrydiary

The Librarians are not the enemy. Great piece on this nightmarish conduct @katiedd.bsky.social. I stocked these books in my school library, issuing them with care/ age restrictions too. The librarian was threatened with disciplinary action, labeled a safeguarding risk & resigned. Follow up below.

Review of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England by Jane Whittle, Mark Hailwood, Hannah Robb and Taylor Aucoin. Cambridge University Press, 2025, 362 pp. 978 1 316 51994 3. SUCH an important book. #Skystorians

In her new article Tracey Loughran uses MO to see how five women narrate their experiences fertility problems prior to development of IVF. It's a fascinating read! Find it here: academic.oup.com/shm/advance-...

Need to escape from the news? Here are a few things we’ve got coming up at the @britishacademy.bsky.social which might help. This panel in London/online will look at how art, performance and creativity can deepen our understanding of disability www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/the-a...

Great article by @donnalferguson.bsky.social in today's @theguardian.com about Darwin & Henslow's plant specimens & illustrations and the fab new @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social Certificate in Botany: www.theguardian.com/environment/... Links for this course & many others here: bsbi.org/learn/traini...

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Hundreds of thousands of disabled people will have their benefit almost halved if the government assesses their condition might one day improve. Charities warn the move could cause large-scale hardship, including “destitution.” My report in tomorrow’s Guardian: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is the situation we find ourselves in

This is madness!

Only just got round to reading this. What a mensch, though. Refused all gifts and blandishments, uninterested in money, refused to take his PM's pension. Compare and contrast every politician since. Liz Truss still raking it in while trashing the UK abroad etc. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

“The Labours of the Months” Stained glass. 1500-20 Probably made in the workshop of John Wattok, one of several glass makers from the Low Countries working in Norwich From the Rosemary Lane house of Thomas Pykerell (former Norwich mayor). Now Castle Museum, Norwich, Norfolk #StainedGlassSunday

I’ve spent the last couple of weeks talking to people about environmentally sustainable approaches to AI development, and the absolute raging cognitive dissonance of the huge under-investment in sustainable approaches compared to this kind of all-in hyperscaler data centre bonanza is wild

Really excited to have a chapter with @drhick.bsky.social on 'Moving research: walking & other mobile methods' in the new Routledge Handbook of Health & Environmental Humanities, edited by Amber Abrams @victoriabates.bsky.social & @historyrocio.bsky.social #envhum www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

📣Registration is now open 📣 for #SSHM2026 The Society's biennial conference In/Out will be held at University of Leeds 30 June -3 July 2026 #histmed

imagine taking even one moment to consider why women from Afghanistan might want to come to the UK to pursue education and concluding that it’s definitely for scam reasons

New podcast! We talk to Harriet & Rob Fraser, environmental artist working collectively as SOMEWHERE NOWHERE about their place-based walking practices in #Cumbria #LakeDistrict shorturl.at/NHHjI #Poetry #Photography #Walking #Art #Placemaking #EnvHums @nichecanada.bsky.social

Excited that our team at @dice-kent.bsky.social have helped the BTO prepare this project launching on April 1st! 🐦 Check out the below for more info, and our website for a bit more on how the wellbeing tool works: research.kent.ac.uk/bio-well/

Today is an exciting day: I have relaunched Inkcap! New website, new branding, lots of in-depth reporting on nature in Britain coming your way. Please share & help me get this thing off the ground. www.inkcap.co.uk/inkcap-is-ba...

The Coast to Coast Path is now officially a National Trail 🥳 53 years after Alfred Wainwright devised a 190 mile, Coast to Coast Walk, between St Bees on the Irish Sea and Robin Hood’s Bay on the North Sea in 1973. Learn more about the history of the Coast to Coast Path 👇 https://ow.ly/IPMi50Yz2Tw

There’s no such thing as the history of science (and this is a blog post about it) (inspired by a great 2017 article by Lorraine Daston) williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/t... 🗃️

📣New Event 📢 'Teaching Mental Health Humanities', feat. @harbottlestores.bsky.social & Grace Lucas. Come, think, & share methodologies with us & leave with new ideas! Online, Wed 29 April, 3-4.30pm UK time For the link, email/DM me, @stinaface.bsky.social or Cheryl McGeachan #MedHums

Walking with the weavers 200 years after the Lancashire uprising