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Freya Sierhuis 🟥

@freyas.bsky.social

Lecturer in early modern literature; interested in literature & intellectual history; environmental humanities. Climate change and global justice. Working on a book on Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679). Views my own.

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Freya Sierhuis 🟥@freyas.bsky.social · last mo.

At last, the truth is beginning to come out. As far as I am aware only the Byline Times has reported on Orr and the creation of a far-right pipeline at Cambridge. Why did NOT ONE SINGLE OUTLET perform due diligence to check which people were behind the accusations against Arday?

Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · last mo.

I don't think people understand the extent to which this has been a decade plus long billionaire funded campaign (obviously Thiel is involved). We've tried to ring the alarm about these eugenicists but it is too easy for them to get parroted by the mainstream media. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...

Freya Sierhuis 🟥@freyas.bsky.social · last mo.

The landscapes and art forms of prehistory have a real hold over me at the moment, materializing when I am not looking for them: at the exhibition of trailblazing feminist land- and body artist Anna Mendieta, currently at the Tate Modern. And look at these miniliths, from the seaside in Ullapool!

Pebbles that look like megaliths.
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · 2mo ago

Some of London's most attractive spaces are blue. Over the next decade, we'll restore habitats, tackle pollution and revive waterways across the capital. Here are the 10 locations being revitalised ​⬇️ www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

Revealed: London's 10 new wild swimming and revitalised beauty spots

Sir Sadiq Khan announces his 10-year plan to clean up the capital’s rivers, which he said had suffered from ‘decades of neglect and pollution’

standard.co.uk

Portland Bird Observatory@portlandbirdobs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This morning's been all about Willow Warblers with a whopping post-dawn rush of them: for half an hour they streamed through the treetops at the Obs and left rapidly north into the brisk headwind - got quite a shock to walk up to one of our little mist-nets in the CEF and find 33 in it. Fantastic!

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Hannah Murphy@hsmurphy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️

AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College London

The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies

kcl.ac.uk

Terri Windling@terriwindling.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm going to be giving a talk on Selkies for this online course on The Folklore of the Ocean from the always-excellent Carterhaugh School. There's still time to join....

The Carterhaugh School | Folklore, Fairy Tales, Everyday Magic@carterhaughschool.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Wine-Dark Sea: Folklore of the Ocean is open for enrollment! Selkies and mermaids, ghost ships, underwater cities, sea monsters, lady pirates, and Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey to close it all out! courses.carterhaughschool.com/p/ocean-folk... #TheCarterhaughSchool #OceanFolklore

Reuters@reuters.com · 2mo ago

Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm

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Freya Sierhuis 🟥@freyas.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Hebrides are a paradise for birdwatchers: sea, mudflats, machair, heather, lakes, crags and hills. We saw Puffins, Great Northern Divers, Razorbills, White-Tailed Eagles, Arctic Turns and Skua's, but only this cheeky Rook that was after my chips was willing to pose.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2mo ago

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.