Now my article is published in Thoughts journal. The article is called "The Failure of Animal Symbolisation in the Plantationocene of “The Adventure of the Crooked Man” (1893) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle", in Thoughts (1.2026). You can read it here. so06.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/th...

Rarely has there been such a contrast between a PM’s performance and public perception of it. It tells you all you need to know about the polarising & pernicious influence of our media ecosystem, including even the BBC’s own TV News. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sir Keir Starmer's premiership in six charts

BBC Verify looks at the record of Sir Keir's time in government in six key areas since he took office in July 2024.

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Tune in to Thinking Allowed tomorrow from 3:30pm to hear debut author @tajali1.bsky.social chat to Laurie Taylor & Aleena Din about British Asian resistance to racism and labour struggles: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Taj's book, 'Come what may, we're here to stay' is out in September! #booksky

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Strikes, Solidarity and South Asian Britain

Strikes, anti-racism and the fight for rights among South Asian Britons.

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If you're in a creative slump, try thinking like a painter.

Feeling Creatively Stuck? Try Following the Routines of Other Types of Artists

Before the sun rose, while her children slept, Toni Morrison hauled herself from her bed to her desk and began to write. Stephen King wrote at a child’s tiny desk in a trailer. In the basement of P…

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Whyalla wipeout fears: cuttlefish usually gather in their thousands, but few have appeared since a massive algal bloom

Whyalla wipeout fears: cuttlefish usually gather in their thousands, but few have appeared since a massive algal bloom

Divers have observed just a ‘couple of dozen’ of the cephalopods along the heritage-listed Cuttlefish Coast in South Australia, causing locals and marine scientists to worry * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Mid-June is usually the peak time for giant Australian cuttlefish to gather near Whyalla, in South Australia’s Spencer gulf. Nearly every year, they come in their thousands – and sometimes hundreds of thousands – to assemble in the shallows to breed. It’s a globally unique natural phenomenon, celebrated locally as “Cuttlefest”. Continue reading...

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Urban crises are everywhere, but so are experiments in collective action. This chapter sketches how “people power” takes shape across cities and why combinations of strategies matter. oxford.ly/4vQ8k7N

A pretentious fact about me: I didn't want to read #Ulysses by James Joyce because I was so afraid of it. Then, I started my research on the colonisation of Ireland and returned to it. At that moment, I read it as a postcolonial fiction and started to enjoy it. #Irishliterature

Immigrants & asylum seekers are not our enemies. They are not responsible for the austerity, privatisation, erosion of civic life, thinning of democracy and concentration of power we suffer. But they're being punished for these things. Punished at the behest of the very people who *are* responsible.

This is the second time in a week that the family of the victim denounced the opportunists using their kid to fuel hate, and it has made no difference to Nigel Farage and his ilk www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Do not use our tragedy to fuel violence, family of Belfast attack victim say

Relatives of Stephen Ogilvie say unrest is unwelcome and that many migrants make valuable contribution to UK

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How “The Seneca Bear Hunter” killed the last Eastern Elk in America.

The Man Who Killed the Last Eastern Elk in America—And Was Proud of It

It’s difficult to say with certainty when the last eastern elk was killed, but most accounts agree that Jim Jacobs pulled the trigger. Known as “The Seneca Bear Hunter,” Jacobs had killed hundreds …

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'Members of the University and College Union (UCU) voted by 79% to back more walkouts, from a turnout of 58%. Industrial action short of a strike was supported by 89% of voting members.'

Dundee University staff vote in support of more strike action

The University and College Union (UCU) staged the latest ballot as part of a long-running dispute over cuts and job losses.

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🧵The Venerable Bede died OTD 26 May 735 at the monastery of Jarrow. According to his disciple Cuthbert, he spent his final hours translating St John’s Gospel into Old English, continuing to dictate to his students despite severe illness. He reportedly finished the work shortly before dying in prayer

กำลังออกแบบคอร์สไพ่ทาโรต์อยู่จ้า แต่ก็ต้องขอเวลาเตรียมด้วย เตรียมไปเตรียมมา ไม่รู้เสร็จกี่โมง จะได้เปิดไหม หนังสือจะได้ออกไหม 5555

I haven't said this to anyone, even if they are my Sheffield friends (and most of them are not here. Lol). I just need to type this down. OK, taking a deep breath, I'm going to say this. I felt very nervous every day when I had to meet my English friend. Up until this day, I still feel it.

Regular author: he was wearing silk socks and leather shoes. Henry James: the good appearance of an extremely slender foot in its neat integument of fine-spun black silk and patent leather

Join us for the launch of our updated Empowering Collections report ✅ In 2019 we published Empowering Collections, which called for the sector to work together to ensure that museum collections are empowering, relevant and dynamic. Much has happened since the publication of this report.

I wonder if H.R. Giger ever came across Georg Liljevall's fleshy, somewhat unnerving retouched photo illustrations of graptolites? These ones (Monograptus priodon and Isograptus gibberulus) are from the c.1890s, published by Oliver Bulman in the early 1930s #FossilFriday

I heard a story on the radio this morning about a museum in Pennsylvania that depicts the US Civil War with all the soldiers as cats, and I immediately thought of you. civilwartails.com

Civil War Tails at the Homestead Diorama Museum - Gettysburg miniatures

Visit the post for more.

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they're calling this tractor the ratmobile

We're thrilled to share a piece reckoning with/making meaning from extinction by Olivia Davis & Risa Aria Schnebly, written for a special conference on “Making Amidst Extinction,” the results of which will be published in an upcoming special issue in Cultural Geographies #envhist #envhum

Of Ferrets and Phantoms

A lyrical nonfiction essay about searching for endangered Black-footed ferrets in Arizona’s Aubrey Valley, extinction, conservation, ecological loss, and the haunting presence of absence in the Anthro...

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New in Arcadia: new research on old data reveals how Gloucester, Massachusetts, emerged as one of the most significant fishing ports of the United States in the late 1800s. Read the article by Rafael Sousa Santos to learn more! #EnvHist #envhum

Territories of the Sea: Outlining a Spatial History of Gloucester’s Fisheries

At the turn of the twentieth century, Gloucester, Massachusetts, emerged as one of the most significant US fishing ports.

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Researching the Caribbean in the 1920s more, I’m convinced we need a new history of Development. Its origins lie in descendants of the enslaved striking, rioting & demanding that Britain live up to its professed ‘civilising mission’. It was a concession, too little too late, to hold onto Empire.

Launch of the latest in the MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Do join us if interested in imperial Britain’s response to Indian disasters?

2 obvious elephants in the room need attention: 1) In what ways (and in what subjects) does AI marking obviate 'academic judgement' and with what legal implications; 2) In current circumstances, who seriously believes this is about 'a reduction in workload while preserving academic standards? 1/2

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

รีวิวจากความทรงจำ: เราเบื่อเล่มนี้ประมาณนึง หลายจุดก็เวอร์เกิน น้ำเน่า ใดๆ แต่เราว่ามันมีพอยท์นึงที่น่าสนใจมากของเขา คือใน People of the Whale จะมีตัวละครในชุมชนเนทีฟฝั่งมหาสมุทรแปซิฟิกของอเมริกาเรียกร้องให้ชาวเผ่ากลับมาล่าวาฬอีกครั้ง เพราะเป็นธรรมเนียมโบราณดั้งเดิมของชาวบ้านที่สูญหาย แต่ในขณะเดียวกัน นางเอกของเรื่องก็รู้ว่า ชาวบ้านคนนี้อยากล่าวาฬส่งญี่ปุ่น

'Home Office data released on 21 May show that 35,625 sponsored study-related visas were issued in the first three months of the year – the lowest for the quarter since 2020.' 1/3

UK student visa refusal rates rise amid falling applicant numbers

Enrolments from Nigeria, Pakistan and Sri Lanka hit hardest as Home Office gets strict ahead of new compliance rules

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After all of my book reviews, mostly in Thai, have become almost irretrievable in my facebook account, I think I'll post again here, sometimes in Thai, and sometimes in English. As far as I know, the algorithm has changed there as well. So, I'd better post them here.

Henri Rousseau was born #OnThisDay in 1844 🐅 Explore his work in our primary art and design resource 'Surprised by a tiger' 👉 https://artuk.org/learn/learning-resources/the-superpower-of-looking-surprised-by-a-tiger 'Surprised!' by Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) 📸 National Gallery

'An Irish Atlantic Rainforest' in excellent company beside Robert Macfarlane's wonderful 'Is a River Alive?' in my local bookshop, Polly's in Castletownbere. I'll be speaking and signing copies of my forthcoming book, 'Setting the Land Free - Visions of a Rewilded Ireland', there in September.