Academics who lost their jobs at UK institutions last year were largely those in more precarious and teaching-focused roles www.timeshighereducation.com/news/teachin... via @patrickjack.bsky.social

"Every degradation of an ecosystem is the cancellation of an insurance policy". Hans Stegeman on how economic efficiency and resilience are in contrast with one another. Verbose, but interesting. https://hansstegeman.substack.com/p/52-if-resilience-matters-more-than #economics

Bookings have opened for the UK Communities Conference. Now in its fourth year it’s fast becoming the place to meet up and find out about communal living. www.communitiesconference.co.uk/upcoming-eve...

I loved the first series pf this but series 2 sounds just as hilarious 😆 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

Fantastic! ❤️

Recent webinar recap: Held Together Community Land Trust researchers and practitioners from Canada, Brazil, and the UK discussed how community-led housing is securing land and building long-term housing stability. Read + watch: housingcommonsresearch.ca/community-la... #HousingCommons #CLT

Interesting www.sciencefocus.com/science/why-...

NEW BOOK! I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line academic.oup.com/book/62279

At this point, the only people that are “supporting” this war are the ones paid to do so. And I guarantee you that off of social media they’re still bitching up a storm like the rest of us. Greed makes stupid people do stupid things. And MAGA is full of both. #SheShed

Postdoctoral Research Fellow @unisouthampton.bsky.social - Bat Ecosystem Services jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

The Hunt Saboteur Association unveil their new logo, making a bold pledge that it's not just foxes they're determined to save.

The Communal Studies Association has just announced that all their past and future volumes will be open access. How awesome is that 👏🏻 scholarworks.gvsu.edu/communalsoci...

Kind of incredible. I was just sitting down to write about how Starmer should be given credit for keeping us out of this mess when he does this. Unutterably foolish and obsequious. Why in God's name should we have anything to do with this shortsighted madness.

As is only right and proper, Welsh Cakes are #RecipeOfTheDay, with thanks to Heulwen Williams who let me play with her granny’s recipe. Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 www.nigella.com/recipes/wels...

The Library of the Day is Little Free Library #42293 in Hillsboro, OR! That bench 😍 Find a Little Free Library near you by downloading our free mobile app: https://lflib.org/app

I cannot recommend highly enough this free, open access resource for anyone teaching about slavery in the UK uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...

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25% research time in practice means: you'll be lucky to have half a day in weeks that are not during the semester for your own redearch. PhD supervision often counts as research - not teaching (or its own category). Our workloads are also often 150% of what they are (before the next levelling down)

Denmark is a poster child of the energy transition. Yesterday I gave the opening keynote at Green Summit 2026. One message stood out: energy policy is industrial policy and increasingly geopolitics. The next phase isn’t about targets, but competitiveness, resilience and execution at scale.

Dogs with Sticks

Courtyard Housing promises to improve housing options in urban settings. Ross Chapin's #PocketNeighborhood book posits that there are limits to the Scale of Sociability, beyond which communities begin to crack. Read my latest, onHousing: https://loom.ly/7EkwVxM#PocketNeighborhood

I really enjoyed Ben Fogle’s ‘New Lives in the Wild’ series. This one with Mark Boyle (moneyless man) is particularly inspiring. It’s not for everyone, but we do need to start considering different ways of living that are kinder and gentler on this planet 🌍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRm7...

Some great natural building courses - straw bale, cob,green woodworking. schoolofnaturalbuilding.co.uk

Super local - but a lovely way to blow away the winter blues. Folk dance, St. Arvens near Chepstow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I took voluntary severance in '18 as a 54 yr old full professor with long list of publications, editorial roles, head of department etc. It was not intended as a prelude to leaving academia (more to fit changing life circs) but it very, very nearly killed my career. I still feel very lucky it didn't

This feels hopeful www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Writers retreat at Braziers community web.braziers.org.uk/spring-write...

Springhill cohousing was built 20 tears ago. LILAC was built 10 years ago. Why haven't these exemplars been rolled out across the UK? We know how to do it. We need a radical approach to leglislation & cultural understanding. Radical to one person is common sense to another. This is common sense.

Interested in all things intentional community? Take time out to listen to the D&D podcast This episode follows Ian and Claudia from rural England across the US and down to beautiful Peru where they are setting up a @twinoakscommconf.bsky.social inspired community. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prdv...

Neil McKenna's research explores the history of community-led housing in Leeds – from co-operatives to self-built communities – to inform and inspire its future. environment.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...

‘Swim, soak, switch off’: an off-grid cabin stay in the Scottish Borders

Young people need to have a hopeful future. Perhaps Intentional Communities can be a part of that. #IntentionalCommunities #Utopia www.teenvogue.com/story/intent...

The famous Dragons in Love statue, Varna, Bulgaria [by Darin Lazarov, 2010]

Not a new article, but an interesting read. #IntentionalCommunities #Ecovillage ideas.ted.com/is-this-port...

SEMINAR by Dr Iris Kunze: Intentional communities and ecovillages as social innovations #IntentionalCommunities m.youtube.com/watch?v=fbfX...

Kitchen sponges like these release microplastics that end up in the sea – harming marine environments and the animals that live there. And they can't be recycled, so remain in landfill for hundreds of years. For eco-friendly sponges see: littlegreenspace.org.uk/reviews/seep...

Another ‘gem’ discovered in the bottom of a box. #E.TgoHome #1982

Let residents take control. Transfer stalled estates to resident-led co-ops so locals run repairs, raise finance and fill empty homes fast. If councils are frozen, empower communities to act! #Housing #London #Lambeth #SocialHousing www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It must be spring. I’ve finally found the energy to start the great garage tidy up! #declutter #recycle #repair

Insects have suffered the greatest increase in harm from synthetic farm chemicals between 2013 and 2019.

Distribution of wealth. Today's cartoon by Franco Juri. More cartoons: www.cartoonmovement.com #wealth #inequality #money #sharing

Frogspawn 🐸 10 days earlier than last year.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Re-reading this a year on, and its still shocking spot on www.historyworkshop.org.uk/education/a-...

Scylla Road / New James Court gets Cabinet approval 🎉 12 affordable homes + shared green space in Southwark, in long-term community ownership via London CLT. Thanks @helendennis.bsky.social. Local? Join the Steering Group [email protected]. #AffordableHousing #Southwark #CommunityLandTrust

Half of English students have noticed an impact from cost-cutting measures at their university, with most saying it was leading to a worse experience than expected www.timeshighereducation.com/news/nearly-... via @twilliamsthe.bsky.social

Education is a public good. The cost should be met from general, progressive taxation, not dumped on the shoulders of these and future generations www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...