Simon Naylor
@simonnaylor.bsky.social
Professor of Historical Geography, University of Glasgow, Scotland. My book, The Observatory Experiment: Meteorology in Britain and its Empire, is out now with Cambridge University Press.
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In "Occupied Refuge," @hannobrankamp.bsky.social challenges the view of refugee camps as indispensable safe havens, showing that humanitarian missions often function as militarized occupations that treat camp inhabitants as colonized subjects. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/IwyWW8p
November 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
In "Occupied Refuge," @hannobrankamp.bsky.social challenges the view of refugee camps as indispensable safe havens, showing that humanitarian missions often function as militarized occupations that treat camp inhabitants as colonized subjects. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/IwyWW8p
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Call for papers!
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
November 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Call for papers!
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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I know Glaswegians keep some unusual pets, but I've never come across an aerial quadropus before! If you see Nipsy on your travels around the city, please let their owners know. 😀
#glasgow #glasgowhumour #streetart #scottishhumour #keepglasgowweird #findnipsy
#glasgow #glasgowhumour #streetart #scottishhumour #keepglasgowweird #findnipsy
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I know Glaswegians keep some unusual pets, but I've never come across an aerial quadropus before! If you see Nipsy on your travels around the city, please let their owners know. 😀
#glasgow #glasgowhumour #streetart #scottishhumour #keepglasgowweird #findnipsy
#glasgow #glasgowhumour #streetart #scottishhumour #keepglasgowweird #findnipsy
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Excited for our oral history event on ‘Living and Working Along the Leen’ on Thursday 13 November at UoN Lakeside Arts. Made possible by @royalhistsoc.org Scouloudi Public History funding.
Come along to share your memories of Nottingham’s River!
www.lakesidearts.org.uk/event/living...
Come along to share your memories of Nottingham’s River!
www.lakesidearts.org.uk/event/living...
Living and Working Along the Leen
Explore historical archival photos and share your own memories, to examine how Nottingham River Leen's meaning for local residents has shifted over time.
www.lakesidearts.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Excited for our oral history event on ‘Living and Working Along the Leen’ on Thursday 13 November at UoN Lakeside Arts. Made possible by @royalhistsoc.org Scouloudi Public History funding.
Come along to share your memories of Nottingham’s River!
www.lakesidearts.org.uk/event/living...
Come along to share your memories of Nottingham’s River!
www.lakesidearts.org.uk/event/living...
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Another great geography-themed gaming session in our Creative Impact Lab. This time we played Pandemic: Rising Tide. Apologies Dutch friends, we failed to stop the sea!
October 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Another great geography-themed gaming session in our Creative Impact Lab. This time we played Pandemic: Rising Tide. Apologies Dutch friends, we failed to stop the sea!
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In the past week I've taught 200+ first-year students in the "forgotten", "lost" map library at @uclgeography.bsky.social with the help of some great PGTAs.
Imagine what we could do with this collection if we could only find it! 🤔
Imagine what we could do with this collection if we could only find it! 🤔
October 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
In the past week I've taught 200+ first-year students in the "forgotten", "lost" map library at @uclgeography.bsky.social with the help of some great PGTAs.
Imagine what we could do with this collection if we could only find it! 🤔
Imagine what we could do with this collection if we could only find it! 🤔
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Exciting list of speakers presenting in our Environmental History Research Seminar this term. If you happen to be in Dublin, come along. We'll meet on Mondays at 1 PM in the Trinity Long Room Hub #envhist
Thanks to @tlrhub.bsky.social for hosting us!
@historytcd.bsky.social
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Thanks to @tlrhub.bsky.social for hosting us!
@historytcd.bsky.social
👇
September 17, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Exciting list of speakers presenting in our Environmental History Research Seminar this term. If you happen to be in Dublin, come along. We'll meet on Mondays at 1 PM in the Trinity Long Room Hub #envhist
Thanks to @tlrhub.bsky.social for hosting us!
@historytcd.bsky.social
👇
Thanks to @tlrhub.bsky.social for hosting us!
@historytcd.bsky.social
👇
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This is a great little collection in Transactions on 'worlding geography' and area studies... rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
Click on the title to browse this issue
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 12, 2025 at 8:37 AM
This is a great little collection in Transactions on 'worlding geography' and area studies... rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social
Following @greenhouseuis.net @finnarne.me excellent example and played Finspan board game in our new Creative Impact Lab today @uofglasgow.bsky.social @stonemaiergames.com
September 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Following @greenhouseuis.net @finnarne.me excellent example and played Finspan board game in our new Creative Impact Lab today @uofglasgow.bsky.social @stonemaiergames.com
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On strike again.
We’ve had to do this for so long that our primary school kids who joined us on snow day picket lines are now students themselves.
Utterly ridiculous way to run a university.
We’ve had to do this for so long that our primary school kids who joined us on snow day picket lines are now students themselves.
Utterly ridiculous way to run a university.
September 8, 2025 at 7:28 AM
On strike again.
We’ve had to do this for so long that our primary school kids who joined us on snow day picket lines are now students themselves.
Utterly ridiculous way to run a university.
We’ve had to do this for so long that our primary school kids who joined us on snow day picket lines are now students themselves.
Utterly ridiculous way to run a university.
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Super proud of this research group! HGRG at the International Conference of Historical Geographers in China!
Next stop of the ICHG will be Rio de Janeiro in 2028, save the date 🗓️🌎
Next stop of the ICHG will be Rio de Janeiro in 2028, save the date 🗓️🌎
August 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Super proud of this research group! HGRG at the International Conference of Historical Geographers in China!
Next stop of the ICHG will be Rio de Janeiro in 2028, save the date 🗓️🌎
Next stop of the ICHG will be Rio de Janeiro in 2028, save the date 🗓️🌎
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On the archaeology of Scottish skateboarding.
Scotland's first skatepark to be dug up by archaeologists
A University of Glasgow team will undertake excavation and survey work at the former Kelvin Wheelies park.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 20, 2025 at 6:22 AM
On the archaeology of Scottish skateboarding.
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Here we go: the first session of our „energy transition & energyscapes” organised by @melinabuns.bsky.social & @dudleymarianna.bsky.social .
#ESEH2025 #EnergyHistory #EnvHist
Really excited about this.
#ESEH2025 #EnergyHistory #EnvHist
Really excited about this.
August 19, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Here we go: the first session of our „energy transition & energyscapes” organised by @melinabuns.bsky.social & @dudleymarianna.bsky.social .
#ESEH2025 #EnergyHistory #EnvHist
Really excited about this.
#ESEH2025 #EnergyHistory #EnvHist
Really excited about this.
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I just noticed that Metropolitan Science will be out in paperback - exciting news! Not available until next year, but can be pre-ordered for a relatively affordable £26.09 @jasminekt.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli... #earlymodern #histSTM 🗃️
Metropolitan Science
Exploring distinctive practices in the artisanal, mercantile, and governmental sites of London, Metropolitan Science offers a new perspective on the development…
www.bloomsbury.com
August 4, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I just noticed that Metropolitan Science will be out in paperback - exciting news! Not available until next year, but can be pre-ordered for a relatively affordable £26.09 @jasminekt.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli... #earlymodern #histSTM 🗃️
Beautiful plan of the proposed Forth & Clyde Canal in John Smeaton's 1767 Report to the Trustees for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland.
June 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Beautiful plan of the proposed Forth & Clyde Canal in John Smeaton's 1767 Report to the Trustees for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland.
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Vol. 88 is out!
It is our 50th anniversary issue, and includes a special issue on ‘Archives as Worldmaking’ edited by @jakehodder.bsky.social and @snehakrishnan.bsky.social
sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-historical-geography/vol/88/suppl/C
Take a look at the contents below 🧵
1/31
It is our 50th anniversary issue, and includes a special issue on ‘Archives as Worldmaking’ edited by @jakehodder.bsky.social and @snehakrishnan.bsky.social
sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-historical-geography/vol/88/suppl/C
Take a look at the contents below 🧵
1/31
June 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Vol. 88 is out!
It is our 50th anniversary issue, and includes a special issue on ‘Archives as Worldmaking’ edited by @jakehodder.bsky.social and @snehakrishnan.bsky.social
sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-historical-geography/vol/88/suppl/C
Take a look at the contents below 🧵
1/31
It is our 50th anniversary issue, and includes a special issue on ‘Archives as Worldmaking’ edited by @jakehodder.bsky.social and @snehakrishnan.bsky.social
sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-historical-geography/vol/88/suppl/C
Take a look at the contents below 🧵
1/31
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PhD Studentship at Legacies of British Slavery Centre: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
June 15, 2025 at 9:34 AM
PhD Studentship at Legacies of British Slavery Centre: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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Crofters and cottars and lairds, oh my!
Co-organising this conference in July. Sign up to the mailing list for updates here ➡️ eepurl.com/i-Zqf2
Co-organising this conference in July. Sign up to the mailing list for updates here ➡️ eepurl.com/i-Zqf2
June 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Crofters and cottars and lairds, oh my!
Co-organising this conference in July. Sign up to the mailing list for updates here ➡️ eepurl.com/i-Zqf2
Co-organising this conference in July. Sign up to the mailing list for updates here ➡️ eepurl.com/i-Zqf2
Lovely map of canals and their catchment basins from the 1907 Royal Commission on canals and navigable rivers
May 31, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Lovely map of canals and their catchment basins from the 1907 Royal Commission on canals and navigable rivers
We are running a 1-day workshop on historical geographies / environmental histories of water knowledge on Thursday 15 May. If you would like to attend online and haven't already signed up please contact me using the Contact link on the webpage: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
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May 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We are running a 1-day workshop on historical geographies / environmental histories of water knowledge on Thursday 15 May. If you would like to attend online and haven't already signed up please contact me using the Contact link on the webpage: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
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If you're in or around London on Thursday 29 May, join @jasminekt.bsky.social and me to celebrate the publication of Metropolitan Science. Big thanks to the Institute of Advanced Studies & @stsucl.bsky.social for supporting the event. Book a free ticket here: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of... #histsci 🗃️
IAS Book Launch: Metropolitan Science
Join authors Rebekah Higgitt and Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin for the launch of their book 'Metropolitan Science. London Sites and Cultures of Knowledge and Practice, c. 1600-1800'
www.ucl.ac.uk
May 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
If you're in or around London on Thursday 29 May, join @jasminekt.bsky.social and me to celebrate the publication of Metropolitan Science. Big thanks to the Institute of Advanced Studies & @stsucl.bsky.social for supporting the event. Book a free ticket here: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of... #histsci 🗃️
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today’s Guardian www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Oxford academics drank from cup made from human skull until 2015, book reveals
Decades-long use of chalice at Worcester College highlights violent colonial history of looted human remains, says Prof Dan Hicks
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 7:09 AM
today’s Guardian www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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‘I sometimes wonder whether my love of compost is a response to the dispiriting cleanness of modern life – the spray’n’wipe, the no-touch flush, the sanitisers and disinfectants.’
@frasermacdonald.bsky.social makes compost: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@frasermacdonald.bsky.social makes compost: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Fraser MacDonald · On Compost
I sometimes wonder whether my love of compost is a response to the dispiriting cleanness of modern life – the spray’...
www.lrb.co.uk
April 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
‘I sometimes wonder whether my love of compost is a response to the dispiriting cleanness of modern life – the spray’n’wipe, the no-touch flush, the sanitisers and disinfectants.’
@frasermacdonald.bsky.social makes compost: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@frasermacdonald.bsky.social makes compost: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...