Today we also open the call for applications to our 2026-27 Master's Scholarships programme: bit.ly/4dTHmXe
Scholarships of £5000 are for students from groups currently underrepresented in academic history to study for an MA in history or a related subject. Closing date: Friday 5 June #Skystorians
Is this what really happened in the Mandelson affair? 🤔
📺 "The Rhodesia Solution" from "Yes Minister" 😅😂🤣
#MandyGate
Buenos Dias from Colombia! 🌺
Around 50 nations will meet here to discuss fossil-fuel transition.
They have already been circulated a draft report recommending that they “halt all new expansion”, according to an exclusive by me for @carbonbrief.org
www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-sci...
Large yellow sign reading BRITISH LIBRARY, nicely highlighted against the BL's angular red brick walls, a glorious blue sky and a lamppost
On my way home following our experimental @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social Listening Seminar, "Working across 'Local' and 'Global' in Biodiversity Renewal" held @britishlibrary.bsky.social, in partnership with BL Oral History Section/National Life Stories. #STS #EnvHums #HistSTM #EnvPol #conservation
Begging folks with open ended academic jobs not to forget there’s a whole underclass of permanently casualised academics who’ve been facing redundancy as standard for years. 12+ in my case.
I get it’s awful facing redundancy ofc! Just…this isn’t unprecedented for us. It’s the norm.
This is why I haven't been on social media much!
I've been horrified by what we found about Natural England pausing designation to SSSIs - and the consequent loss of nationally important sites for nature to development:
wildjustice.org.uk/unprotected-...
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
Prometheus - should have been amazing, utterly godawful instead. Did inspire my favourite piece of nerdy invective on the Internet, "It seems that at least one part of the crew selection procedure took the form of a raffle at an arsehole convention." www.digitaldigging.net/prometheus-a...
You'd only know it if you consulted the public record, so here it is: lordslibrary.parliament.uk/office-for-s...
I now want a t-shirt with a picture of a surprised looking otter and CHALLENGING BEAST across the front
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
TBF, millions of people did learn that very lesson.
Then commercial landlords started screaming in agony...
BBC: There’s a lovely film on Youtube called How Wolves Change Rivers. It describes how wolf reintroduction to Yellowstone precipitated a series of ecological benefits…It’s a beautiful and uplifting notion but, according to some scientists, total nonsense.🧪
www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...
As my maternity leave comes to an end, a reminder that I’m now offering an archive photography service primarily for museums/archives in the south east England (IWM, TNA, BL etc etc) to help make ends meet. Details below:
lucybetteridgedyson.com/archive-rese...
I now want a t-shirt with a picture of a surprised looking otter and CHALLENGING BEAST across the front
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Some snaps from the @forteanlondon.bsky.social event this afternoon including @tetzoo.bsky.social up on stage talking about sea creatures and Andy and me on Bigfooting @forteantimes.bsky.social
This Monks Wood #rewilding (natural colonisation) plot is 30 years old this year. It's taken that long for this single Bluebell to migrate 20m from adjacent ancient woodland to colonise the plot. But now it's here, joining the growing trees & shrubs: future ancient woodland in the making.
SEGWAY robot lawnmower on grass in the sunshine, plus my feet in trainers
They are oddly engaging. Here's the robot lawnmower that lives around our research buildings at Exeter, investigating my toes.
YOU BROUGHT A HOME NEXT TO TRAFALGAR SQUARE. THAT IS NOT A RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBOURHOOD. HEAVEN HAS BEEN THERE SINCE 1979
astonishing levels of Nimby
A bright coral red graphic with black and white Yugoslavian stamps accross the bottom. Text in the centre reads Cold War Socialism, Non-Alignment and Anti-Colonialism in the Yugoslav Press, 1961 - 1979. With University of Exeter. Uncover fresh insights into Cold War socialism and anti-colonialism from a Yugoslav perspective, centering on the largely unexamined Joint Translation Service (JTS) bulletins. Deadline Tuesday 5 May.
Applications now open for a fully-funded PhD studentship exploring Yugoslavia’s multifaceted role during the Cold War, co-supervised with @exeter.ac.uk .
This is one of a number of studentships available as part of AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme.
Find out more: link.bl.uk/q95
Looks like there were some STS adjacent folks in the programme (Andy Stirling, Felicity Mellor) but agree more needed + no historians.. Such an important topic, eg in my current work on interdisciplinary research practices discussion of failure in lit is rare ('barriers' a common euphemism)
Hey gang! Exeter’s looking for a 4-year postdoc in philsci & AI. Sweet gig at a great place - share around :D #philsci #philjobs www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD641/p...
It is very appalling and sometimes quite frightening to see how trans-exclusionary feminists have allied with rightwing attacks on gender. The anti-gender ideology movement is not opposing a specific account of gender, but seeking to eradicate "gender" as a concept or discourse, a field of study, an approach to social power. Sometimes they claim that "sex" alone has scientific standing, but other times they appeal to divine mandates for masculine domination and difference. They don't seem to mind contradicting themselves. The Terfs (trans exclusionary radical feminists) and the so-called gender critical writers have also rejected the important work in feminist philosophy of science showing how culture and nature interact (such as Karen Barad, Donna Haraway, EM Hammonds or Anne Fausto-Sterling) in favor of a regressive and spurious form of biological essentialism. So they will not be part of the coalition that seeks to fight the anti-gender movement. The anti-gender ideology is one of the dominant strains of fascism in our times. So the Terfs will not be part of the contemporary struggle against fascism, one that requires a coalition guided by struggles against racism, nationalism, xenophobia and carceral violence, one that is mindful of the high rates of femicide throughout the world, which include high rates of attacks on trans and genderqueer people. The anti-gender movement circulates a spectre of "gender" as a force of destruction, but they never actually read any works in gender studies. Quick and fearful conclusions take the place of considered judgments. Yes, some work on gender is difficult and not everyone can read it, so we have to do better in reaching a broader public. As important as it is, however, to make complex concepts available to a popular audience, it is equally important to encourage intellectual inquiry as part of public life. Unfortunately, we are living in anti-intellectual times, and neo-fascism is becoming more normalized.
The section that the Guardian censored…
By Prof Judith Butler
Well...
In 2016 I started this big paper collage (6x6 ft, all torn/cut by hand) that quickly devolved into a chaotic/grotesque portrait of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States
I stopped working on it in 2021, nearly a year after J6
This🧵is about the ideas, sources, & references that inform it
I believe that in order to take some small step forward, the word “bird” should be replaced with “saur” in all common names. Mockingsaur. Secretarysaur. Red-winged blacksaur.
HUMMINGSAUR
Fantastic PhD studentship opportunity - Spitting Image: political satire in Britain in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Working across @exeter.ac.uk and @theul.bsky.social in partnership with the @camglamresearch.bsky.social and drawing on the Roger Law archive.
#PhDsky
Please help share what must be one of the best jobs ever. We are looking for a writer to join @ourworldindata.org to work with our fantastic team including @maxroser.bsky.social and @hannahritchie.bsky.social. £80k - £120k / ideally full time / location flexible
ourworldindata.org/hiring-write...
