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dudleymarianna.bsky.social
Environmental historian & Senior Lecturer in Environmental Humanities. My book ⚡️ ‘Electric Wind’ a history of wind energy is coming soon 💨 Co-VP of ESEH. She/her.
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No, employers need to do their own training. It’s not educators’ job to make sure that school-leavers — or graduates — have the specific skills that each company needs. Employers need to invest in their workforce.

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Great to see Jules’ brilliant environmental history on this shortlist!

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He looks like a cormorant about to be cleaned by RSPB volunteers.

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Went to the UCU Congress fringe meeting on this strategy. One of the most inspiring organising meetings I've attended in years. Highly recommend getting involved and helping shape a national trade dispute.

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They’re Quakers. They’re nice people. This isn’t hard

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Newcastle University staff invited to a ‘Doodling for Wellbeing’ session (‘Let your pen dance across the page' in 'a perfect escape from the everyday hustle and bustle'. Invites sent on same day 153 academics were informed of their location in 'redundancy pools', with 38 redundancies planned. 1/2

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3D-print your own medieval toy! Thanks to my amazing collaborators Beth Kimber and @noreenmasud.bsky.social www.instructables.com/Buzz-Bones-t...

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thinking again about how unwelcome and inappropriate it is to find our jobs now also supposed to comprise counselor and border guard… as well as teacher, manager, researcher, editor, writer, fixer. these things are not compatible! the conflicts of interest are not resolvable!

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I’ve got some holiday ahead and not enough luggage space for big books! Send me recs for small books that pack a big punch and will keep me entertained?!

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It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

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I'm in the process of mapping the pre-modern course of the River Seine, as I need my maps to reflect medieval waterscapes. I thought I'd share, as it's an important reminder of how drastically environments have changed over the last few hundred years (especially since the early 19th c). #MedievalSky

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The intentional death by starvation, of babies. A slow and cruel death.

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Universities do research that may not be commercially viable now but will be transformative down the line. They correct for market failure. If all they do is think like enterprises then they become a part of that market failure.

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A reminder of an upcoming webinar organised by ESEH UK & Ireland region on 'New Directions in Urban Climates of the Atlantic Archipelago' May 20, 2025: 13:00 – 15:00 (GMT +1) Presenters: @erikahanna.bsky.social @rebwright.bsky.social @chrisjpearson.bsky.social Zoom link eseh.org/envhistoday-...

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There's a brand new festival coming to Dartmoor, and it's happening next weekend! Plenty going on over the weekend in Ashburton and beyond - do come say hi at our event on Saturday morning 👇

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Deeply disturbing and demands accountability, not cover ups. “Giving their accounts publicly for the first time, the veterans described seeing members of the SAS murder unarmed people in their sleep and execute handcuffed detainees, including children.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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If you want to write about the current situation in the US in regards to environmental knowledge, check out our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series and get in touch! niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c... #envhist #environment

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And yet ministers think universities cost too much public money 🙈

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We used to complain in academia about nine month 0.75fte cover jobs but I see UEA is now pioneering the 0.55fte cover job.

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@bathspauni.bsky.social was the first university in the UK to run a specialist class in spoken word poetry. 2025 sees its 20th anniversary 🎉 I am hosting a showcase of talent from across the years at @waterstones.bsky.social Bristol Friday 6 June with @lyrafest.com www.lyrafest.com#e126671

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My department is hiring! Come work with us in the Department of History at the University of Sydney!!! So excited that we are hiring in the field of Pacific History.

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