Gareth Enticott 🏴
@garethenticott.bsky.social
Professor of Human Geography at Cardiff University. Author,'Making Sense of Sheepdogs' https://www.routledge.com/Making-Sense-of-Sheepdogs-Breeds-of-Empire-and-the-Sound-of-the-Global-Countryside/Enticott/p/book/9781032872759
Reading a paper on when/how farmers decide to cull their cows, and the main author is called Burgers www.journalofdairyscience.org/article/S002...
Extending cow life span in Dutch dairy farming: Farm characteristics, management practices, and behavioral determinants
This study aimed to identify herd management styles and measures adopted by dairy farmers to extend cow life span and to explore the behavioral and farm-specific factors influencing these practices. A...
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The real question is why did ASO stop publishing hotel details in its Roadbook? Was it because they didnt want someone looking at the evidence and showing that some teams had consistently better hotels than others...? @caleyfretz.bsky.social ouestleventoux.blogspot.com/2015/06/
Escape Collective@escapecollective.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe Tour's worst-kept secret: Some hotels are terrible escapecollective.com/the-tours-wo...
NEW! Combining my two obsessions of cycling and political economy data into a new Substack: Tour de Data. Daily posts for every stage of the Tour de France, digging into what the race tells us about money, place, and power. Not just who's in yellow;) 🚴📊 tourdedata.substack.com
Tour de data | Lauren Leek | Substack
Everyone watches the racing. I'm watching the data on riders, money, towns, and what the Tour is really about. Click to read Tour de data, by Lauren Leek, a Substack publication. Launched 18 hours ago...
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Front cover of my forthcoming book 'Making Sense of Sheepdogs'. Thanks to Rachel Williams for allowing me to use her photo of Toast, Ralph, Puke and Pete.
Newyddion gwych! @calvjones.bsky.social www.s4c.cymru/en/press/pos...
S4C secures Tour de France broadcast rights for 2026 | Press | S4C
S4C has secured the rights to broadcast the Tour de France in 2026, giving viewers the chance to follow the biggest cycling race in the world through a combination of live stages and highlights.
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Cant wait to start learning Irish @calvjones.bsky.social
Waiting for news about bovine TB is like waiting for a bus: you wait for ages and then two come along at once. Only going in different directions. Defra's new 'recommended' strategy for England reversing away from badger culling, but a different story is brewing in Wales...
A song all cyclists can get behind, particularly @calvjones.bsky.social escapecollective.com/paul-seixas-...
'Paul Seixas, please don't sign for UAE': The story behind the song
It started as a 30-second joke on Instagram. Now it’s the unofficial anthem of the Paul Seixas hype train – and a surprisingly heartfelt plea to keep cycling’s next great rivalry alive.
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Looking forward to giving a talk at the Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, drawing on @alanlester.bsky.social's ideas of imperial careers, to trace the evolving lives of shepherds and sheepdogs in the UK and New Zealand. Thanks to Karen Sayer for the invitation Picture from the Otago Witness
Q: Can a shepherd live without sheepdogs? A: Maybe, maybe not. Im giving a talk this week at Essex University on how virtual fencing changes hefted sheep, hefted lives, and shepherds rootedness in place (cynefin).
If you're into sheepdogs, then Im giving a talk in Germany about New Zealand Huntaways, canine distemper and Empire later this month. Details in the poster.
Amazing how @metoffice.gov.uk gets this wrong. It continues to get darker in the morning until January, and its been getting lighter in the evenings since last week.
Met Office - weather and climate@metoffice.gov.uk · 10mo agoGreat news for those who aren't fond of the shorter, darker days. We've officially passed the Winter Solstice, meaning longer days are ahead 🕕 From this point on, you can look forward to earlier sunrises and later sunsets ☀️
New Zealand's first (?) cycling magazine - The New Zealand Wheelman - launched in 1892. Its opening lines, complaining about the treatment of cyclists by drivers of horse & carts, asking them to 'concede a foot to the cycler', remain familiar today.
Top work from Sion Morgan winning the English National Sheepdog Trial in Cumbria over the weekend. This means the English Team at the forthcoming International in Wales will be captained by a Welshman!
Somewhat ironic after years of searching NZ academic books on farming for anything about sheepdogs to finally come across this picture in Rollo Arnold's 'Farthest Promised Land', not least because its a picture an English sheepdog held by the @themerl.bsky.social
How to engage students: use a badger www.wgtn.ac.nz/news/2025/04...
They see me rollin’, they learnin’ | News | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
The School of Psychology’s innovative mobile help desk, fondly known as the Badger Cart, is bringing support directly to students.
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Championship - completed it 🤝 League 1 next…
Lili Chin’s new book “Dogs of the World” has some great pictures of the best dogs
@inrng.com I think a while back you were looking for some research on the link between big cycling events and cycling commuting. This might be of interest: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Can large cycling events promote active mobility? Expectations versus reality on the example of the 2018 UCI Cycling World Championship
The Austrian province of Tyrol positions itself as a leading sport region in the Alps, which is reflected in the number of large sport events it holds…
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Celebrating the 10th anniversary of our field study visit to Copenhagen, sadly killed off by covid 5 years ago. What an awesome trip that was for everyone. Happier times!
Went to Copenhagen on the weekend. Here are 4 cool things I saw & did: 1. FCK ultras bouncing
Great to be in Prague this week talking about Border Collies and Huntaways, but going to have to get this into my next presentation 🤣 www.instagram.com/reel/DGv7q9V...
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Just 10500+ cyclists over Queens Louise’s Bridge in Copenhagen today
Off to Prague next week to give some talks on sheepdogs, as well as biosecurity and animal disease. Details on my talk on sheepdogs below.
Maike Melles@maikemelles.bsky.social · 2y ago🐕🔉 🇬🇧🌍 Join us for the upcoming seminar "Echoes of Silence: Breeds of Empire and the Global Geography of Sheepdogs" by @garethenticott.bsky.social on Tuesday 4 March at 14:00 (CET) in Prague and online! Organised by the Department of Ecological Anthropology CAS. Register here: bit.ly/3QtNisV 👈
If Cardiff want to attract better students, they might want to attract better managers too who according to ChatGPT are 2:2 & not first class
Chat GPT's analysis of a recent Q&A between academics under threat of redundancy, and their university's executive board...
