@angecass
Undisciplined scholar. Researching science, society+policy; humans-animals-environments; #OneHealth #microbes #STS #HistSTM #scicomm. Author, 'Vermin, Victims and Disease: British Debates over Badgers and Bovine TB'
Key to success is how the assembly will inform government decision making. One reason Ireland is effective is there is a clear process for how the government will respond to the assembly and use its findings.
The Jersey assisted dying CA was part of a wider consultation...it can work really well.
You know the best way to kill AI? Don't use it. Don't buy it. Don't share it. Don't give the people who use it your labour or your money.
And so we write to brilliant postgraduate students from Sudan, withdrawing the offers and scholarships they won in open competition with the best in the world. A sad day for the University of Oxford.
Beyond The Frame: Network, Infrastructure and Vernacular in the Making of Environmental Visuals. Very excited to give @unipotsdam.bsky.social Code & Culture lecture next Mon 16/3
Arguing that online visuals cannot be understood in isolation from platform effects www.uni-potsdam.de/de/digital-h...
With some really cool panels accepted, we open our call for papers. This does not include just traditional papers to open panels. We also invite flash talks (shorter presentations to initiate conversation) and writeshops (an opportunity to dive in and develop own work during the conference).
The Ig Nobel awards (for science that makes you laugh and think at the same time) have traditionally been given in the US but this year they are moving because of concerns about safety of winners and journalists from Trumps regime
This could be a looong list, but I'll go for 'The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th Dimension'. Best described as, um, the unhinged cousin of Repo Man & Muppets From Space? Saw it last weekend and it's glorious.
I know it's petty in context of wider Everything, but HATE plastic plants SO MUCH!
Picture of women on a beach John Leech, ‘The mermaids' haunt’. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1854 - 1869. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. Picture Collection, The New York Public Library.
Call for Papers: Women’s Fieldwork and the Making of Nineteenth Century Natural History Collections
We seek articles to complete a special issue on women’s field collecting, and contributions to nineteenth century natural history for Nuncius.
#Histsci #NaturalHistory #WomensHistory #Fieldwork
Last call for this awesome online seminar on danger in Dartmoor tomorrow! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/embodied-e... #envhist #environmentalhistory
Thrilled to be involved in this fantastic project!
#WomensScreenWork #Digital #Humanities #DigitalHumanities #DHLab #IWD #InternationalWomensDay #Film #TV #WomenFilmmakers #Archives #FilmArchives
Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..
Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.
This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.
44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.
This is an important thread for anyone who cares, not only about archive research, but BBC accountability.
It is absurd to say that I feel I am not yet grown up. I am not laying claim to perpetual youth (though 89 is something of a surprise), and youth I was never much aware of when I had it. What I mean is, there has never come a time when I could be thought to have acquired dignity, common sense, still less worldly wisdom, qualities that supposedly come with age and get lost with age, too. One doesn't look for common sense from someone over 90.
counts. When I enter a room full of people (these days a rarity) I am 16. Except in the even more rare occasion of entering a room of 16-year-olds, when I am 90. I have the credentials but I don't seem to have the baggage. Once upon a time, I think I imagined age itself as an eminence, years were a plinth, it had prospects even if the end was clouded in mist. A virtue of age is that it emancipates one from class. The old are in a class of their own. It also bestows a privilege of plain speaking.
Alan Bennett on feeling 16 when you are 90
This was the US/UK sponsored coup against PM Mohammad Mosaddegh. The shadow of the coup has hung over Iran ever since. Many of Mosaddegh's followers who'd fled Iran returned in 1979, only to discover the Ayatollahs were no more interested in democracy than the Shah.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamma...
Important thread 👇
The flowing edge of a Hart’s tongue fern leaf - Kew Gardens, London
#fern #hartsTongueFern #leaf #BlueSkyArtShow #flowing #classicMono
This remake of Ladyhawke is rubbish and no one asked for it to be made. In particular, the casting is awful.
Many thanks to @andrewmale.bsky.social for his immensely generous @sightsoundmag.bsky.social review of Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of British Television; forgive me if I quote some phrases, but first here's the link to the Bloomsbury page for the book:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/magic-ray...
"In their book Social Murder? Austerity and Life Expectancy in the UK, the public health experts David Walsh and Gerry McCartney point out how Tory and Lib Dem policies effectively killed ordinary Britons."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Crises can be forgetten quickly – especially health ones, where the stories about the invisible enemy soon get blurred.
After Covid by @jasongale.bsky.social is an important account of how things actually played out, full of details that were crucial then, and will be crucial for next time.
Congratulations to all of our members who got elected, as well as those endorsed by us. More from us in the coming days. #ucu
Sounding a major #envhums #envpol #STS #histSTM #animals job klaxon. FOUR postdocs working with the Multispecies dream team!
“Modern, intensive farming practices have caused substantial biodiversity losses across the globe. Yet, our Black Death findings, in combination with numerous other examples, show us that humans and nature do not always have to be kept separate to conserve and promote biodiversity.”
Sounding a major #envhums #envpol #STS #histSTM #animals job klaxon. FOUR postdocs working with the Multispecies dream team!
CFA: These are wonderful 3-years postdoc projects, check them out and apply: 🐦🐮
#envhum
#envhist
@esehnextgate.bsky.social
Honoured to be elected to #UCU NEC. Thanks for all your votes!
Disappointing turnout of 8.5%. I was elected by around 1% of total members.
I won in the first round (of STV system), which is a pretty emphatic endorsement of my ‘manifesto’, but sorry to report that our Union is in a parlous state.
Oh great news, congratulations!
Thread. (TLDR: the House of Lords DCC report on AI came down hard on the correct side of the debate, rather than siding with industry lobbyists.)
