Zotero … open source … fairly intuitive … works with browsers for searching and word processors for writing … there may be fancier tools but it’s very workable individually or in shared groups 📚

Social Science Adviser Government Office for Science Apply before 11:55 pm on Monday 13th April 2026 Government Office for Science

The Government Chief Scientific Adviser will have a year focusing on the theme of ‘Trustworthy Information’. Great role in her office for a social scientist to provide support on this crucial topic and on other projects (£33k - £40k)
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

Lecturer in Philosophy or Sociology of Data and Artificial Intelligence at University of Exeter Apply for the Lecturer in Philosophy or Sociology of Data and Artificial Intelligence role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

Exeter’s got a two-year teaching stint for someone into philosophy of data and related - the job’s pretty plush as far as non-permanent ones go - and Exeter is an amazing place to do this kind of philosophy - please pass around! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQZ094/l... #philsci

Multispecies Mutualisms - Join Our Research Team! We’re hiring 4 Postdoctoral Research Associates (PDRAs) In this video, members of the team share insights into four exciting PDRA opportunities currently available. If you are ready to take the next s...

A rare thing: *four* three-year hums/soc-sci posts in animal studies, on the Multispecies Mutualisms project at UoSheffield - with @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social, me, Robert McKay and Alasdair Cochrane; see here for a video explainer: digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...

Novartis settles with Henrietta Lacks' estate over use of her 'stolen' cells to advance medicine Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and...

Justice sure took a long while…

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The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings From climate change to geopolitics, the knowledge, skills and insights of geographers have never been more relevant, say five professors

Our new piece out today in Times Higher Education about the threats to Geography in the UK - particularly fieldwork - please do share. It links to a recent snapshot survey on the challenges being faced in UK HE, which highlights the inequities of the challenges, but also fears of what is yet to come

Functional Neurological Disorder, Reframed

Bumping this story again cuz it’s good

magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/fun...

‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university? When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...

Incandescent. One of the best pieces I've read about what university means to people and their communities - and what will happen to a city and people after one closes. The *Labour* government and Jaqui Smith in particular should be ashamed of themselves and shamed into doing something. Deplorable.

Lost Frogs report: comment from Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust This note summarises ARC’s views on “Investigating the Status of Britain’s Lost Frogs: Prospects for Rewilding” (Tweats, 2026), hereafter referred to as the “Lost Frogs report”. ARC was pleased to be ...

This is the latest salvo in what I'm calling The Great British Herpetological Hoo-Hah - disagreements on what amphibians and reptiles should be 're'-introduced to Britain, where, and how. Lots of fascinating details. Worthy of a PhD study or a 4-part BBC1 drama
www.arc-trust.org/lost-frogs-r...

While these scholarships won't cover full costs of MA study, they will make things a fair bit easier, in turn creating critical access routes into PGR and academia, on an absolutely cracking course.
Please share widely! #HEaccess #sustainability #envpol #foodstudies

Quick science policy thread 1

Changes in the governance of UK science since the mid 1980s make it extremely hard to be strategic (that was the point), in terms of both process (dropped) and capability (hollowed out).

Hearing the Neuro-Voice in the International Narrative Neurology Network (INNN) Claire Jeantils, Rong Huang, and Benjamin Dalton unravel the stories behind the International Narrative Neurology Network (INNN), a cross-sectoral network that investigates Narrative Neurology from…

Claire Jeantils, Rong Huang, and Benjamin Dalton unravel the stories behind the International Narrative Neurology Network (INNN), a cross-sectoral network that investigates Narrative Neurology from a practical and theoretical perspective.

thepolyphony.org/2026/01/29/i...

Train tracks running next to the sea wall at Dawlish. The sea looks choppy, and a large part of the wall has fallen down onto the tracks. About 10 men, head to toe in orange high vis gear are standing around looking at the wall.

Huge waves crash into the sea wall at Dawlish, south Devon coast.

A car attempts to drive through sand that has blown across the road at Exmouth.

Pics from local Devon news today in the aftermath of the wind. Heavy rain still coming down and the weather warning now extends into Wednesday.

Left: Matt Gilley, centre: Richard Heiron.

Please circulate. Our deadline for our ECR Prize at @histhum.bsky.social is approaching (30 January 2026)

I’ll definitely drop you a note next time I’m planning a London trip ♥️

An ARIA-grade agenda for social science The missing R&D pipeline for building and scaling social science solutions

Very interesting piece from @anastasiabekt.bsky.social responding to @geoffmulgan.bsky.social's challenge that we need an Aria for social science
anastasiabekt.substack.com/p/an-aria-gr...

Good luck … and stay safe

FUNDING CALL Apply to be part of the Sociological Review Foundation’s UNDISCIPLINING SEMINAR SERIES of in-person, online or hybrid events Theme for 2026: Who and what is sociology for? Deadline: 31 January

FUNDING CALL: Undisciplining Seminar Series 2026

The Sociological Review Foundation is inviting proposals for in-person, hybrid or online seminars that explore the transformative potential of sociological thinking.

Theme: Who & what is sociology for?
Deadline to apply: 31 January

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Technology alternatives to animals in life sciences research How is the UK replacing animal testing with technology alternatives? What are the opportunities, risks and barriers?

2026 is continuing where 2025 left off with a focus on alternatives to animal use in research and testing. Today the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology published a POSTnote on this topic highlighting the opportunities and challenges: post.parliament.uk/research-bri...

Thank you Felicity 🙏 It is a slightly odd feeling promoting what was an important paper for me to write, even as it was one I’d rather not have had to write. My hope is it can contribute to better understanding and care in the future

This is such an important paper by @gailfdavies.bsky.social on how functional neurological symptoms are produced. I hope it is very widely read by clinicians, clinical researchers, and medical humanities researchers — as well as geographers

Photo of a moorland landscape with track in the foreground and trees on the horizon. The shadows and frost on the track form stripes of white, green and grey

Happy New Year’s Eve from a frost Dartmoor

All are doing an amazing job in their own way. But collectively, we can do better for patients with functional symptoms and for the health service as a whole ... I'm honoured if I can add to the conversation on how to get there

1 pain management consultant, 1 endocrinologist (?!), 1 occupational health practitioner, 1 osteopath, 1 movement coach, 1 somatics and pilates teacher, 2 yoga teachers, an acupuncturist, chiropractor, counsellor, clinical psychologist, plus many more nurses, receptionists and health secretaries.

Thank you Tim 🙏

This is one of most collaborative papers I have written, so my thanks as well to 6 different GPs, 4 physios, 4 neurologists, 4 emergency medicine doctors & consultants, 3 sets of MRI technologists, 2 neurophysiologists, 2 -likely more- phlebotomists, 1 sonographer, 1 radiographer

Such a superb, insightful & brave paper from @gailfdavies.bsky.social who so eloquently captures and describes what many of us have noticed about the evolution of symptoms as a result of patients’ interactions with the medical system👏👏💪🏻💪🏻

Straight into my top 10 of best papers ever on FND👌👌

Screenshot of the front page of an article published in the journal Social and Cultural Geography called Remapping the body: an autoethnography of pain, paraesthesia, and the co-production of functional neurological symptoms

New paper outlining a spatial account of #FND and proposing an approach to the co-production of functional symptoms. It draws on my longstanding work on geographies of health knowledges, my recent health experiences, and emerging interdisciplinary conversations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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📣Join the States of Precarity team for the launch of the States of Precarity in UK Higher Education Geography report.

📅 Wednesday 14 January
🎦 Online
👉 Sign up to attend: https://bit.ly/4rvQgP2

Check out the report before the launch: https://bit.ly/44HTUvg

Our Chief Executive Vicky Robinson appears in @resprofnews.bsky.social today, in an opinion piece focusing on the UK government's ambitious strategy to replace the use of animals in research and testing: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v....

Upcoming Event: Social and Cultural Geography beyond the Academy – Opportunities in Policy and Practice
Friday 28 November, 11.00-12.30, ONLINE (UK)

This event joins academic and non-academic geographers to discuss their transition from the academy into the world beyond

Further info: scgrg.co.uk