Rachel Murray

Briefly here to post some job opportunities.

2 Postdocs in Animals Studies. FT, £38k, closing 12 Mar 26.
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/4-x-Rese...

PhD. Clara Dawson lead supervisor with, Duncan Wilson and me on species loss. Deadline, 18 Mar 26. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Pls circulate.

Adam Crothers - Home to My Cats | Broken Sleep Books Home to My Cats by Adam Crothers is a fizzing, formally playful pamphlet that turns feline devotion into a poetics of art, music and mischief. These poems move between lyric address and ekphrasis, rif...

*yawns*

*stretches*

I have a new book on the way! Home to My Cats, a chonky pamphlet of poems about (as the title might suggest) kittens and Taylor Swift, will be published by @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social in April 2026, and is available to preorder.

www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

amazing cover for a fascinating moment in time. the advent of containerisation famously ended the London Docklands as actual docks (because container ships are incredibly big and wouldn't be able to travel up the Thames)

Two great looking PhD positions with @clia.bsky.social

I think it's probably time to announce that me and @colinhoag.bsky.social are the incoming Editors of Environmental Humanities journal, published by @dukepress.bsky.social . Huge thanks to Franklin Ginn & @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social for all their work as Eds, & for patiently showing us the ropes!

NEXT WED!
Please join us for Thinking thru More-than-Human Materials, 3rd in our More-than-Human/ities seminar series w/ York University, Toronto
Come explore interdisciplinary practices of creative, more-than-human materiality! 🐦🥚🍄
Wed 4 March
17:45–19:15
Register here yorku.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

Thinking with the Sea We are happy to announce the symposium Thinking with the Sea – Interactions and new perspectives inspired by the Blue Humanities that takes place in Turku in autumn 2026. Within the theme Blue…

The Call for Papers is open for the symposium "Thinking with the Sea: Interactions and New Perspectives Inspired by the Blue Humanities". 

📅 30 Sept - 1 Oct 2026
📍 Turku, Finland
⏰ #CfP deadline: 15 April 2026

Check out this brilliant new book by @loubree.bsky.social on medicine and women’s fiction, which you can order at a discounted rate using this flyer 🤩✨

#EnglishCreates Blog: The Sea, The Sea – 2: Close Reading on the Beach

#EnglishCreates: Futures continues with a blog on 'Close Reading on the Beach' by Dr Rachel Murray (University of Bristol):

'Looking closely in this way helps us to slow down and tune into what is in front of us...'

universityenglish.ac.uk/the-sea-the-...

#EnglishStudies #Ecocriticism

what do we talk about when we talk about energy? my answer features (among many others) adorno, bogdanov, and the austrian communist wilhelm frank, who experimented with national exergy balances in the 1950s. out april 2026.

A screenshot of WhatsApp: Ash: Sebastián, I have one very pressing question. Sebastián Di Martino: Let me know Ash: Are jaguar soft? Sebastián Di Martino: They are very soft (two hearts on the answer)

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

Really disgusted by how staff are being treated at Sheffield after participating in legal industrial action, for which they are already lost pay! A new low has been reached. @sheffielducu.bsky.social

"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution

CfP: Attuning to More-than-human Seas: Negotiating Multispecies Justice in the Anthropocene Ocean 🌊🦐🐳🪸🦈🐠🌊
Please share! @rgsibg.bsky.social @rgs-agwg.bsky.social @marsocsci.bsky.social @marineconservation.bsky.social

There's still just over two weeks left to apply to our workshop exploring historical approaches to non-human life.

It will take place on 9-10th April 2026, and aims to bring together scholars across disciplinary divides.

PGR and ECR support available thanks to the generosity of our sponsors!

Northumbria Pay and Pension Petition: Stop the Steal! If Northumbria does this, other universities will too.  These cuts will harm thousands of people, their students, families, and their local communities now and into the future.

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...

Bubble reading: 'Suggest 10 compelling titles for Gp 2 attendance 2025.xlsx'

things Copilot has tried desperately to help me with this morning: a thread

1) suggesting '10 compelling titles' for a spreadsheet I use to log student attendance

£12 for 12 issues is indeed a steal.

Subscribe now: mylrb.co.uk/TWQU0725

At the BREAK–DOWN we're doing a limited time offer! Take out a year's subscription before December 12th and get our first two issues FREE!

All subs help us to pay writers. It'll also helps keep us on the road and publishing the best new climate writing

😔💔😢Please read and share these harrowing testimonials from people terrified about plans from @northumbriauni.bsky.social senior management to freeze pay to force through pension changes: ucu-unn.org.uk/news/315-tes... @ucu.org.uk

Our fabulous Environmental Humanities Summer School is open for applications for 2026! Together, we examine human relationships with nature on a Global scale, and with the city of Bristol. According to 2025 cohort student Choon Woi “Bristol itself became part of the classroom…

The Modernist Exoskeleton The Modernist Exoskeleton

The Modernist Exoskeleton has been reduced to £11 this weekend: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-mod...

The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.

I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University

www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

The Bristol Short Story Prize will officially re-open next week!

Writers, get ready - you can submit your short stories from the 19th November. All info on our website (link in bio).

Excited to visit Vienna next week as an invited speaker for this event at @univie.ac.at. Any city recommendations greatly appreciated!

Our absolute pleasure to host this wonderful two-day British Academy-funded workshop on extraction and extractivism last week. Thank you @melinabuns.bsky.social 🙏💫

This is going to be great. And you can register for free and join online. Link and details below.

The organ donation ‘opt-out’ has been a fatal failure | The Observer

What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?

Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8