New book from me & @littletollerbooks.bsky.social! Marking the centenary of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England, a pacy (I hope) history of one of UK’s most important environmental pressure groups. An avatar of the Great Acceleration… www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...

This petition needs as many signatories as the Exeter one. Please sign and share — don’t let Hertfordshire managers get away with this just because a Russell Group one took the spotlight. #UKHE

Both the Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social and @archive.org have been so important to me as an #envhist scholar. Thanks to both for all the work you do to make environmental knowledge findable & accessible!

Flamingo Revolution in Albania now theflamingorevolution.com “A grassroots, Gen Z–led uprising against a multi-billion-dollar Kushner-linked luxury resort on Albania's protected Vjosa–Narta wetlands. This site is the open, community-run hub: protest dates, posters, photos, alerts.”

"Burnham will need to recognise the deliberate, systematic character of Israel’s destruction of the whole Palestinian society in Gaza – in short, he will need to acknowledge the genocide." ✍️ @martinshaw.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/07/03/w...

Work on water? This call is for you👇

Work on water? This call is for you👇

#CommunityEnergy initiatives will play a vital role in our future energy system, but access to funding can be a challenge. We're sharing our top tips and resources on how to fund your projects: 💰 Grants 📢 Crowdfunding 💸 Raising shares 🏦 Institutional investment Find out more 👇 #UpTheEnergy

The Oxford Intersection on Environmental Change and Human Experience is seeking submissions across its different sections. I am editing 'Water' and would love to see more articles on -Rivers/freshwater More-than-human perspectives Militaries & water Trade & transport academic.oup.com/oxford-inter...

Water privatisation really was the rort of the century, wasn't it?

This is absolutely disgusting. Asylum seekers are banned from working or renting because of racist Labour policy, and now Mahmood is going to force them to pay for the accommodation they had no choice but to live in because she won't let them work or rent. Abolish Labour, abolish the Home Office.

Struggling to parse this. Exeter is celebrating its overall global ranking to 136th, comprised (it reports) of 151st (Natural Sciences), 131st (Life Sciences & Medicine) and 76th (Arts & Humanities) while announcing plans to make 25% of Arts & Humanities staff redundant. Does this compute?

This is one of the dumbest and saddest things I've ever seen. We should not think of universities in this way, and if we do that'll destroy everything that is both useful and good about them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Every staff update in every university right now: 1. We are excited to announce a strategic investment of eleventeen squillion pounds in ACRONYM, a new AI-powered centre for the development of strategic acronyms. 2. Staff have until Friday to apply for enhanced Voluntary Death.

thanks Adam. yes, absolutely - as has repeatedly been shown else where it doesn't matter how many league tables you climb, how much grant you capture or how good your work is, if the government won't fund HE, HE will die

Has any Dan David Prize recipient rejected their award? Looking through these names of our colleagues and once again grappling with the utter failure of academia at our current moment

Finally, a piece on Bad Bunny + botany / environment / empire! This whole @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social Botanical Imaginations series is fantastic, and this is no exception. edgeeffects.net/bad-bunny/

Meanwhile, pensioners who sat on pavements holding Palestine Action placards are being prosecuted under the Terrorism Act.

Oh, so you can resign from cabinet if they absolutely shaft the sector you're in charge of? Interesting to know! @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social

On 17 June I'm presenting a people's history of Scottish energy for the Scottish Energy Forum in Edinburgh. My lecture tells the story through experiences of coal, oil, nuclear and renewables workers and their communities to asks why Scotland is resource rich but economically precarious?

This, in case it needs to be said, is the teaching grant for *STEM* subjects, which we have been told are the only subjects worth supporting. Humanities haven't had a block grant in aeons. This decision makes Labour MORE damaging to HE than the Tories.

A new TOP FIVE has just dropped. The @ukri.org TOP FIVE shortest timescales from call opening to closing. And you won't believe the winner 👀

Every page in BHL represents libraries, museums, archives, scientists, volunteers & communities working together to preserve biodiversity knowledge 🧪 🌱 This #BiodiversityDay, help support the people & infrastructure behind open biodiversity knowledge. Donate: ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLat20

📣 Job Alert (permanent) 📣 Lecturer in English Literature (Romanticism), The Open University www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRQ222/l...

A long shot but if anyone knows of funding avenues for Nigerian students to study in the UK please get in touch. We have an exceptional student for the MA environmental humanities who needs funding support to get here.

It says an awful lot about the university sector right now that I - a 48-year-old history professor with a child and a mortgage, who loves what she does (mostly) - am having a serious conversation with a colleague about whether I ought to consider a career change.

Anyway, to learn more FUN HOBO FACTS, check out my book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Today staff in the School of Creative Arts, including the Humanities department, were called to a redundancy consultation meeting. We were informed that 23 posts were to go by August this year, with further redundancies as the Humanities programmes are taught out over 2 years.

Thinking of all my friends at Hertfordshire who’ve already been through this shit before, as have my colleagues at Goldsmiths now. You cannot have an entire higher education sector where virtually everyone is fearful they could be made redundant. It is not sustainable.

I'm really over people claiming to have learnt something from plants. In almost all cases it's basically a category error, amounting to 'I projected something onto a plant'. Anthropomorphism at best, and - if I was playing that game - an even stronger version of the anthropocentrism it disavows.

Librarians here found out about this via social media on Monday. Those I've spoken to are devastated and furious. No consultation, no attempt to respond to concerns. Just a constant stream of violence against the Humanities in any form it takes by people who do not value it. #skystorians

This treatment of staff - at a time when cost of living is higher than ever - speaks volumes. Not just shameful, but inhumane.

Still thinking about this (from @ferrisjabr.bsky.social 's Becoming Earth): "a single gallon of gasoline represents 100 tonnes of ancient life, roughly equivalent to 20 adult elephants". I knew it was big, but never worked it out. A tank of petrol is a LOT of ancient life. +1 reason to electrify!

The UK government boldly called time on drilling the North Sea, Europe’s largest declining hydrocarbon basin. I wrote @phenomenalworld.bsky.social with @freddiedaley.bsky.social on the North Sea's future and why its past shows we need more state intervention🔽 www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...

I enjoyed giving it! Field trip tomorrow 🥳

Applications are now invited for the Society's Teaching Fellowships, 2026-27. Funds support innovative practice in history teaching in higher education bit.ly/4wbwoDb. Open to UK and international Fellows and Members of the Society. Closing date Friday 10 July 2026 #Skystorians 1/2

I basically had no idea about this 'flocking' behaviour in AI computation, and that's not an accident. After three bloody decades of sweaty hand wringing about wind and solar "inteemittency", this just gets treated like nothing bsky.app/profile/keta...

2014 REF: 2026: closing UG History

This is a devastating loss.

University of Hertfordshire closes a swathe of Humanities courses, accelerating the sweeping tide against Human-centred disciples in the UK. Because understanding humans is so yesterday today. With such happy consequences, as we see when we look around us.

TOMORROW Please join us for Global/Local Plant Worlds, our final More-than-Human/ities seminar w/ York University! Come explore human-plant relationality, the role of plants in history, their affects & communication!🌱 17:45–19:15 yorku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KnwSS2dZRdaebPC73lZ4BA#/registration

Le printemps de l'histoire environnementale, c'est parti ! Avec cette semaine un cycle de conférence à Pau sur le thème "Questions environnementales et classes sociales". Retrouvez l'intégralité du programme ici : leruche.hypotheses.org/9540

'There is an ancient tradition that when the Devil had smuggled himself into Noah’s Ark, he tried to sink it by boring a hole; but this scheme was defeated, and the human race saved, by the hedgehog stuffing himself into the hole.' - Moncure Conway, Demonology and devil-lore (1879), p. 123

Wow. This is damning. Government really needs to look at office for students, a regulator that seemed to be created as a culture war play and certainly was acting like one in this case

So wonderful to celebrate Rebecca’s achievement today! Who would have thought me and @benpohl.bsky.social would supervise a PhD together (our respective interests span a millennia)? And yet it made perfect sense in the end. Congratulations Dr Tyson!

I’m so very proud of my and @dudleymarianna.bsky.social’s brilliant student @tyguson.bsky.social, who successfully passed her PhD viva today with no more than very minor corrections! The fields of Anglo-Norman Studies and Environmental History have gained a major new voice! 🥳🥂🍻

Important - and we also need to read these data in tandem with the catastrophic collapse in PhD funding. We need to advocate collectively for colleagues, students and our discipline, but may also need to consider what it looks like to keep teaching & research alive outside of academic institutions.

Call me Cassandra, but if you make thousands of HEI staff either compulsorily or 'voluntarily' redundant and create conditions in which senior staff take early retirement in an attempt to save more junior colleagues' careers without significant new hiring, a critical loss is exactly what happens.

The Irish Government already spends 4.8 billion euro per year supporting fossil fuels & they just agreed to increase that by another 750 million. 'our vulnerability is the fossil fuel system itself. We are watching this system hold the country hostage, and the government pay the ransom'

Child poverty isn't just bad, it results in an enduring earnings gap. The pay gap between graduates who grew up in poverty and those who didn't persists even between when they go to the same university, get the same degree and work for the same firm ⤵️ buff.ly/5VfX2Fi