Spoof paper on the unsuccessful treatment of a case of writer's block: The page is blank and at the bottom is a note from the referee commending it as the most concise yet complete manuscript they had seen
Black and white photograph of a black dog with a tennis ball flying towards him.
Is this a tennis ball which I see before me,
Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A tennis ball of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
CFP for "Disaster and Vulnerability in Asia’s Highest Borderlands: Understanding Geological, Cosmological, Human and Multispecies Agency"
Deadline 1 June, workshop March 2027, Bhutan
www.iias.asia/events/disas...
To save others from that, here's how Exeter City gave themselves a lifeline to avoid the League One drop after goalkeeper Jack Bycroft's 96th minute equaliser against Stockport County
Exeter City's goalkeeper Jack Bycroft has scored a 96th minute equaliser, a header having gone up the other end for a corner, helping their own relgation battle - and also securing promotion for Cardiff City
www.devonlive.com/sport/footba...
3D map of the Chongqing Metro that shows the elevation and decline of each line, with some essentially looking like roller coasters
(Chongqing is the Chinese city that went viral for showing how you could be on the ground floor but then walk a bit and be on the 22nd floor, due to the hilly terrain)
"Everyone has the same 24 hours" — sounds fair.
But it isn't.
After 10 years and interviews w/ 100+ ppl, I found that time anxiety isn't a personal failing.
New episode on 新世相 🎧www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/episode/69dd2627b977fb2c...
🏗️ New Exhibition: Planned Space Lived Place
Bringing together the AmberSide Collection and InSide: Documentary Photography Community to look at how Northern New Towns are shaped through everyday life.
📍 Farrell Centre
🗓️ Open until 28 August 2026
🔗 sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...
📢 @geogdurham.bsky.social, a world-leading department for geographical research and education at @durham.ac.uk, is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Physical Geography with expertise in Earth Observation... 🛰️
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Nearly 1 in 6 UK species are threatened with extinction.
We've lost 97% of our wildflower meadows since the 1930s.
We have 73 million fewer birds than in the 1970s - a decline of almost a third.
And yet some politicians still just see wildlife as a blocker to progress.
FT reporting on the devastation from Israel's attacks on more than 50 locations across Lebanon, "ten minutes of hell"
there is no chance this massive assault on a civilian population meets the standards of the law of armed conflict, no matter how israel justifies its effort to target hizbollah. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
poster: peaker: Dr Carwyn Morris is Senior Lecturer in Digital Society and Geography at SOAS University of London. His work examines how social and digital technologies shape the city and vice versa. He is Principal Investigator of CHINA.EU, an ERC Horizon Starting Grant project exploring the impact of Chinese capital, contemporary culture, and technology on European cities. He has written on digital territory, digital sovereignty, spatial governance, contentious politics, global China, and wanghong.
we look forward to hosting a guest talk by @carwynmorris.bsky.social on wanghong and speculative investment cycles!
🗓️Tuesday 5 May
⏱️2-3:30pm
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Dawn Thompson Bermudan student in geography at durham early 1960s
Birzeit olive tree logo used to represent twinning of DSU with Birzeit students council 1984
Article about anti apartheid protestors outside a durham union debate with the South African envoy speaking.
Survey about Black students at durham early 1960s
At the BSA tomorrow talking about the history of race and colonialism at Durham University through the lens of the student newspaper.
Thinking about what the university is and its role in racialisation and colonialism.
From Mercury to Artemis: The evolution of mission control rooms www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic... @shannonmattern.bsky.social
In Global China Lab's monthly digest, there's a round-up of many brilliant articles on China's ethnic politics published in @madeinchinajournal.com and other venues. If you haven't already check this out
mailchi.mp/thepeoplesma...
That’s one hell of a cover…..
Hilarious how for years serious people have said that you can't rely on renewables because they are prone to disruptions in supply www.ft.com/content/19f1...
Strikes me as an absurd threat, either we need the 4000 new training places or we don’t
We are looking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Human Geography with expertise in the field of Health Geography that will complement and extend current work in our Geographies of Life research cluster. Application deadline May 10th, further details here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
'the overall conclusion is that the scale of deaths in the first wave could have been much lower and the devastating second wave could have been largely avoided'
@chrischirp.bsky.social
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Plate 29
From my book, ‘The Edge of Ruin’
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Nenthead Mine, Cumbria
In the 18th century, the Quaker-founded London Lead Company built England’s first purpose-built industrial village at Nenthead to house the families of mine workers. In one of England’s highest villages, workers were...
A reminder that eels are *the* most smuggled animal on earth, and that the global black market for eels is worth an estimated $4-5 billion.
Interpol has called it “Europe’s ivory trade.”
"They are easy to see, but it’s less easy to perceive the immense environmental harm of the shipping industry..."
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social on Richard Misrach's photographs of international shipping:
aperture.org/editorial/ri...
In honor of Habermas, a meme I made
Jürgen Habermas, a philosopher and public intellectual who was one of the most influential and cited thinkers in postwar Germany, died on Saturday. He was 96.
Could be worse. In order to avoid controversy, all Euro notes feature bridges. In order further to avoid controversy, they're all fictional. Or they were until the folk of the Dutch town of Spijkenisse took it upon themselves to build them. Now all Euro notes feature bridges from just one Dutch town
“The only thing prohibiting transit in the straits right now,” says Pete Hegseth, “is Iran shooting at shipping.”
Other than THAT, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play? www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
As We Fade by Saodat Ismailova is filmed on the sacred mountain of Sulaiman-Too in Kyrgyzstan.
Projected onto 24 silk panels, combining drone film with archival footage of various rituals forming a complex multifaced tapestry of then and now.
#BalticGateshead
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#China’s new “ethnic unity” law, to be passed this week, will accelerate the attempted forced assimilation of the country’s ethnic minorities into the dominant Han culture, according to academics and human rights groups. A piece by me:
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