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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 1d

Today I learned there’s a penguin called Jane Goodall and she’s travelled 5000km since April.

A map of the east coast of South America, with several tracking lines, each representing a penguin. Jane Goodall’s line is highlighted in pale pink. There is also an inset with her facts and figures: body weight 4600g, tagged 25th April 2025, distance travelled 4769.3 km, average speed 2 kmh.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 2d

Graduates are facing a tough entry level market, but they are doing better than others who recently entered the labour market for the first time shows @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
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Graphs: Unemployment has risen faster among new labour market entrants without a degree on both sides of the Atlantic Unemployment rate among new entrants to labour market

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote an opinion column for the Observer! I never do opinion columns but I was just really annoyed by cultural vandalism and Kemi Badenoch.

observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

In praise of “rip-off” degrees | The Observer

Kemi Badenoch’s attack on the arts and humanities isn’t just culturally short-sighted, it’s economically illiterate

observer.co.uk

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EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · 3d

We are delighted to announce the first seminar in our 25/26 series: the wonderful @drreznicek.bsky.social will be presenting on ‘Too Bodily: Disability, Care, & Belonging in Romantic Novels’ on Wednesday 29th October at 6pm.

Free! Online! All welcome!

Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

This is a sneak preview of our poster image as we finalise details - it’s a coloured etching by Thomas Rowlandson after G M Woodward from 1801 called ‘The Quack Doctor’s Prayer’ with a kneeling doctor praying over a box with a duck drawn on it. In the background there’s a candelabra and pink hangings.

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Heather Craddock @hcraddock.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to chairing this event in just over a week!

#envhist #envhum

Heather Craddock @hcraddock.bsky.social · Sep 9

I'll be hosting an online event on encountering extinction in the archives with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social as part of The National Archives' Research Routes series.

Come along to hear about researching animal histories in the archive!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/extinction...

Extinction and hope: Navigating animal encounters in the archive

What hope can be found in encounters with animals in archival documents?

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social · 4d

👀 ESEH 2027 will be held in...

Salzburg! Read more here: eseh.org/eseh-confere...

#envhist

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 4d

McFadden has previously spoken at length about wanting everything to be like a start up - the whole 'move fast and break things' mentality.

He's ignoring evidence of what works in community/health settings and where previous approaches that stigmatise or alienate sick and disabled people cause harm

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Joschka Meier @josserme.bsky.social · 4d

Interesting study which recreated a 100+ year old Swiss plant survey.

The bad: Average plant diversity -26% (~-40% in the Mittelland)

The good: Loss can be halted & even reversed! Biodiversity areas work, as well as farmers adjusting their methods

#envhist

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Century-old papers saved from the bin reveal changes in Europe’s plant life

Plant inventories dating back to 1884 and nearly thrown away enable unique time-lapse study of biodiversity in Swiss meadows

www.theguardian.com

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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 5d

2. The current rhetoric of those who mobilise racism for political gain proposes that those who investigate colonial history and modern racism are the problem. Not racism itself.

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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 5d

3. Meanwhile Jenrick says he's concerned that "people are living parallel lives". Yet his home county identifies as 96.9% white and his constituency identifies as 98% white. The parallel universes in his own back yards speak volumes. Meanwhile, Handsworth is one of Britain's most diverse areas.

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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 5d

1. On political gaslighting. Yesterday Jenrick defended his comments on Handsworth by lashing out at 2 pieces of work I was centrally involved with to imply it's people like me who are divisive, not him...

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Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social · 4d

Inspired by @draflint.bsky.social's poem, 'To all Walkers' (currently on display at the Farrell Centre in Newcastle) the Farrell are running a series of masterclasses, led by poet Anna Woodford. Info and booking here: www.farrellcentre.org.uk/whats-on/cit...

Explore language and landscape in this poetry masterclass series led by poet Anna Woodford.

Join us for a poetry masterclass series inspired by the Farrell Centre’s Ideal City project. Focusing on one of the project’s exhibitions, Keep on the Grass, we will work from the urban landscape finding poetic inspiration in unsung places – from road signs to public footpaths and much more.

Over the course of four sessions, facilitator and poet Anna Woodford will guide you through a series of writing exercises, prompts and walks to expand your writing practice. Open to all levels, this four-part series will help you develop your poetic voice, try new techniques, and look at your surroundings with fresh eyes.

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Alex Hibberts @hibbertsalex.bsky.social · 4d

Sign-up for the Northern Environmental History Network's first talk of 2025/26 is now available!

📆28/10 15:00

@eseh.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @ihr.bsky.social @imems.bsky.social @durhamhistory.bsky.social @cemsexeter.bsky.social @esehnextgate.bsky.social @asle-us.bsky.social

Northern Environmental History Network @northernenvhistory.bsky.social · 4d

For those looking forward to Thomas' talk on historical environmental medicine in a a couple of weeks, you can now sign up using the eventbrite link below. Looking forward to seeing you online at 1500 GMT on the 28th of October.
eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 10d

REALLY appreciating Lucy Noakes's clear connecting of the dots between the announcement of maintenance grants for 'priority courses' and the Cold Spots mapping by the @britishacademy.bsky.social.

You can't ensure access in a system that ties disciplinary coverage to competition.

On the ground, this fall in total enrolments is sharply exacerbated by changing recruitment practices, as previous high-tariff institutions revise their offers to secure larger undergraduate intakes. Those bearing the brunt are, of course, the institutions which currently serve the most disadvantaged and least mobile students. The risk is now of a worsening spiral of decline—driven by a failed policy of institutional competition and marketisation—which results in options for the most in-need aspirant history students being, quite literally, closed down. Without this core provision, any lingering question over which subjects might qualify for maintenance grants becomes obsolete.

If, as the Education Secretary claimed this week, the government is serious about choice, social mobility and access to education it needs to appreciate that the provision of local universities and courses is now at considerable risk given the financial turmoil affecting UK higher education. What’s clear is that our current situation and trajectory is not a route to greater choice and accessibility. Rather, it is a potential channelling of resources and students into an ever narrowing range of options deemed by policy makers as being in the country’s best interests for the future.

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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 6d

A landscape with a toxic past gives wildlife a chance to thrive in today's @theguardian.com country diary.

#countrydiary #naturewriting

Country diary: The unlikely success of wildlife in lead country | Mark Cocker

Bonsall, Derbyshire: It was, in fact, the poison in the ground that prevented this patch from becoming cattle country – then nature took care of itself

www.theguardian.com

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 6d

Follow the money

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

www.bbc.co.uk

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 6d

Politician struggling with Britain's intractable problems? This one neat trick will enable you to see easy solutions for everything: simply lose the election! My SKETCH of Tory conference.
thecritic.co.uk/supe...

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Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social · 6d

Looks absolutely fabulous 🤩

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 6d

It’s real!!
I just got my first copy of Ghosts Behind Glass and it is beautiful. You all really need to order your copies. You will not regret it. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Double page spread with a photo of diorama

Chapter 3 Cursed treasures on left, lion on right

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 7d

RIP JILLY COOPER! A queen who wrote THE most readable books in existence. People saw my thread of epic Jilly quotes and decided I was saying the books are shite. You COULDN'T be more wrong. Go and watch Rivals today.

Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · Oct 18

🧵Some real Jilly Cooper quotes from her Rutshire Chronicles, the series of books that Rivals is from.

1) "Her breasts swayed like party balloons when the front door opens"

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Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social · 7d

Lucky me!! ☺️

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Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social · 7d

Exciting post just arrived! 🤩 Can’t wait to read this @dudleymarianna.bsky.social

Cover of Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain by Marianna Dudley

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Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social · 7d

Great lecture topic! Sadly I’ll be teaching tho 😭

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 7d

Reminder to the #histSTM #skystorian crowd that there's an online, free seminar this pm UK time which feels like it might speak to a lot of contemporary interests (including #EnvHist - see you there!

The Wynter in Black 🎃🐈‍⬛ @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 7d

Planning your week? How you fixed tomorrow, 6 Oct, 4-5:30pm BST?

Come along to @sshmedicine.bsky.social's AGM, followed by The SSHM Lecture 2025: Prof. Jeremy Greene, 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history'

Free registration 👇

#histmed #histSTM #matcult

SSHM AGM & The SSHM Lecture 2025

Monday 6 October [Online] 4:00 – 5:30pm (UK time) As required, the Society gives notice to members that the Annual General Meeting to formally accept the accounts for 2024 and for…

sshm.org

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 8d

Gibson's Facade Commision was inspired by Jacques Derrida’s book "The Animal That Therefore I Am", which examines the violence inherent in human domination of animals. #ArtSky

"The Animal That Therefore I Am"
Jeffrey Gibson (member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent)

Four photos of giant sculptures outside a museum. They are each wearing unique clothing and accessories.
Each 10-foot bronze sculpture takes the form of a regional animal: a hawk, a squirrel, a coyote, and a deer. Using cast elements such as wood, beads, and cloth to build texture, Gibson embraces a new process that expands his sculptural vocabulary. From these reproduced wood supports emerge referential animal forms, with each sculpture formally fusing the animate and the inanimate.

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