Remember, the point of the Sealey Challenge isn't perfection—the point is to spend time with poetry! Whether you read 31 poems or 31 books this August, all time spent with poetry is meaningful 💖 There’s no wrong way to #SealeyChallenge
Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh 🚲 🌳🗻🎨✍️
@aroeschmarsh.bsky.social
#socialworker and #socialwork academic- joy, hope, arts engaged methods, nature, creativity - based at the University of Edinburgh. Co-Director The Binks Hub. #PoetryHelps #NatureIsNurture (she/her)
Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. —June Jordan. Art by Sophie McTear.
I have decided to have a go at the #SealeyChallenge for the 1st time I will share the full list at the end of the month, but will share a teasing poem or two as we go along This is from Helen Mort’s new collection ‘Stepmother’. The love the pace & rhythm & rhyme in this poem #poetry #poemoftheday
Important read 👇 (h/t @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social)
Rebecca Sear@rebeccasear.bsky.social · 17h ago“The tragic implication of Plümper and Neumayer’s analysis is not that individual scientists are unusually dishonest, but that a system designed to incentivise truth-seeking has been incrementally transformed into one that often rewards its distortion” blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...
Richard Deacon, For Those Who Have Ears #2, 1983 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1126107
Curse of Private Equity Our nurseries were bought by private equity firms – fees are up, food is frozen. Usual PE practices. Build local monopolies, high debt and prices, profiteering, worst services, high exec pay, shareholder returns. Parents/Children abused. Govts do nothing. archive.ph/Yk4Eh
Our nurseries were bought by private equity firms - fees are up and food is frozen
Nurseries are spending millions on their investors – at parents' expense, analysis shows
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More job ops 👇 (via @aaronwinter.bsky.social) hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Lecturer in Sociology
Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Lancaster University (Full-time, indefinite post) The School of Social Sciences seeks to appoint a full-time Lecturer in Sociology.You will join the Sociology tea...
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Just got this today - excited to read
Worst we’ve known’: UK turns to imports as drought and heat hit vegetable crops. Food insecurity and higher prices would follow. Poor hit the hardest. Despite warnings, no plan for water shortages. Need reservoirs, water storage, better water management. Companies can't do national planning.
‘Worst we’ve known’: UK turns to imports as drought and heat hit vegetable crops
Growers in dismay after scorching weather and lack of rain affect yields, sending wholesale prices rocketing
theguardian.com
Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency
David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”
The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.
vox.com
Your moment of zen today from Jupiter Artland - this work is called 'Animitas' and is by Christian Boltanski’s - it is comprised of more than 200 small Japanese bells
To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. -Mary Oliver from In Blackwater Woods wordsfortheyear.com/2014/03/28/i...
“In Blackwater Woods” by Mary Oliver
Look, the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars of light, are giving off the rich fragrance of cinnamon and fulfillment, the long tapers of cattails are bursting and floating away over th…
wordsfortheyear.com
You are free, Tenar. You were taught to be a slave, but you have broken free.
‘The heart is not like a songbird singing only one note at a time’ - Rosemary Wahtola Trommer #PoetryHelps
This may be the sexist song ever
Papillon Doré@papillondore20.bsky.social · last wk.#MusicChallenge #IsmuasMonthOfMusic Day 30 A Song That Feels Like A Warm Hug From The Universe The Cure- Just Like Heaven The swirling, joyful guitar hook and Robert Smith's sweet vocal delivery evoke warmth and comfort. For me, it feels like a reassuring embrace. youtu.be/n3nPiBai66M?...
Gorgeous misty, rainy day here in Edinburgh. I love the beach in any weather and so do my kids. #NatureIsNurture
The way she looks direct at the camera - rage is there and her challenge is direct - so powerful and courageous
✨🌞✨Katira✨🌞✨@poetkatiratejeda.bsky.social · last wk.I felt how she felt every word she sang of this song. What a voice, what a profound and beautiful soul. RIP Billie Holiday 🤲🏼 youtube.com/watch?v=-DGY...
WOMENSART blog: Käthe Kollwitz, A Vision of Humanity womensartblog.wordpress.com/2019/11/28/k...
Käthe Kollwitz, A Vision of Humanity
Käthe Kollwitz was born in 1867 into a large Prussian family, whose religious concerns and passion for socialist politics would hugely influence her future work as an artist. As a child Kollwitz be…
womensartblog.wordpress.com
Someone I love very much is dying just now and I keep thinking of this poem by @janeclarke.bsky.social - the work that poets do is vital - thank you www.elementumjournal.com/elementum-on...
Cypress – a poem by Jane Clarke. 'When the Tree Falls', Bloodaxe Books | Elementum Journal
Cypress – A poem by Irish poet Jane Clarke from her new collection, 'When the Tree Falls', published by Bloodaxe Books (2019)
elementumjournal.com
The people who harvest our food should be celebrated and protected
United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social · last wk.It will reach 103° in Mendota, CA this day. Tomato harvesters start at 5am and hydrate often to beat the worst of the heat. It will reach the 90s by the end of the work day & the heavily irrigated plants trap humidity at ground level, creating an oven-like effect. #WeFeedYou
With my girls at the beach today. A good place for power stances #MotherOcean #NatureIsNurture #Scotland
We have a fully funded 4-year PhD studentship available working on Enhancing the Role of Scotland's Urban Forest for Landscape-scale Nature Recovery, as part of our Plants with Purpose programme. Application deadline 6 August. More info: www.rbge.org.uk/about-us/job...
Vacancies | Working Here | What We Do
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“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.” - Picasso
Give this wonderful work a follow
Trees for Life@treesforlife.bsky.social · 2y agoTrees for Life stands at the forefront of #rewilding in the Scottish Highlands. #Hopeful and bold, we are committed to creating nature-rich landscapes that include and support people. We are working to bring more life back to our #landscapes. Watch our video 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBC7...
Have you signed up for the 2026 #BigButterflyCount yet? I did my first count yesterday... and it was SUCH fun. Gatekeepers, Meadow Browns and Silver Y moths so abundant I could barely keep up! Here's the link so you can get started: bigbutterflycount.butterfly-conservation.org
Butterfly Conservation@savebutterflies.bsky.social · 2w agoWith the #BigButterflyCount well underway, keep your eyes open when spotting differences between species 👀 Tiny white dots on the underside of the hindwing mean you've spotted a Gatekeeper - there are none on Meadow Brown!
