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adam searle

@admsrl.bsky.social

cultural and historical geographer interested in ecology, technology, and health Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham Member and co-founder, @digicologies.bsky.social

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George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18h ago

My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot

As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

theguardian.com

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Working in partnership with the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, the Food Museum, the Glasgow Life Museum, the Hastings Museum & Art Gallery and the Museum of Free Derry, the Migration Museum (London) is seeking 10 Community Curators. Might this be you?

Migration Museum partners with museums and galleries to launch new UK-wide Community Curators programme

The Migration Museum is partnering with five museums and galleries across the UK to launch a new programme bringing diverse voices, lived experiences, and perspectives into the creation of a series of...

migrationmuseum.org

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2w ago

I strongly believe in giving the man a chance. But keeping Shabana Mahmood as Home Secretary suggests the vicious attacks on immigrants and refugees, and self-defeating attempts to outrun the far right, are likely to continue. Which is pretty damn depressing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself | George Monbiot

Shabana Mahmood’s new rights clampdown looks outlandish until we remember that this kind of hardline action is part of our country’s fabric, says George Monbiot

theguardian.com

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 4w ago

'Students’ positivity about all aspects of UK higher education courses has increased despite the problems facing the sector, according to the latest National Student Survey (NSS) results.' 80.9% positivity, up from 78.4% last year. So go on, sack us. 1/3

NSS 2026: positivity scores up across the board despite pressures

Students more positive about teaching and free speech but some institutions still perform poorly on course management

timeshighereducation.com

Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · last mo.

Redundancies at a post-92 are just as catastrophic--if not more--as redundancies at the institutions that are members of a group specifically set up to structurally advantage themselves at the expense of post-92s. Solidarity with everyone at risk. We are all very much needed.

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · last mo.

only baltimore's largest employer higher ed is the largest employer in 10 states, 60 cities, dozens and dozens of counties; destroying universities is economic sabotage

Ellie Wolfe@elliew0lfe.bsky.social · last mo.

Scoop with @mercohn.bsky.social: Johns Hopkins University is laying off more than 100 employees in the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Carey Business School and central administration. Hopkins is suffering "debilitating" decreases in federal research funding www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

Emily Mullin@emilymullin.bsky.social · last mo.

As the Trump administration moves to weaken endangered species protections, it's backing an effort to build a national biobank for endangered and threatened species. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/coloss...

Colossal and the US Government Are Creating an Endangered Species ‘BioVault’

The move comes as the Trump administration is trying to weaken the act that’s meant to protect endangered species from going extinct in the first place.

wired.com

Onni Gust@onnigust.bsky.social · last mo.

Second day of 'The Fetal Archive' workshop today in London with curators, biologists, philosophers, geographers, geneticists, historians & sociologists from 7 different countries. We're looking at how we understand, interpret, display & analyse, historic fetal & embryological remains.

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Phil Burton-Cartledge@philbc3.bsky.social · last mo.

I don't feel sorry for Starmer. I feel for the Palestinians whose slaughter he enabled, for the trans people and refugees he's victimised, and my colleagues who've had their careers wrecked by Labour's assault on universities. A record to be ashamed of.

adam searle@admsrl.bsky.social · 2mo ago

having heard @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social present this work a few weeks ago, I am really excited to read this critical work which seems at its heart a discussion of how technology and infrastructure affect what counts as a “good life,” and I suppose how this might be resisted at the micro scale

James Palmer@jamesrpalmer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Incredibly exciting to receive some physical copies of Power Plants, out with @manchesterup.bsky.social next week! Massive thanks to all at MUP for helping to bring the book out of my imagination and into reality, and to Jenn Baka, Gavin Bridge and Cara Daggett for their very generous endorsements.

Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Decisions arrive without clear rationale. Restructures are announced before the evidence that triggered them has been shared. Policies are reversed before they have been embedded. Courses are closed or launched with speed."

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

'Strategic plans have become so expansive and aspirational that they cease to guide choices. When almost every goal, value and aspiration is declared a priority, the plan cannot resolve the inevitable conflicts that real resource allocation involves. This is not a trivial failure.'