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david-farrier.bsky.social
Writer. Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils (2020). Nature's Genius: Evolution's Lessons for a Changing Planet out May 2025. https://buythebook.online/natures-genius Professor of Literature and the Environment, University of Edinburgh
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One week until Nature's Genius is out! Huge thanks to @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social, @calflyn.bsky.social & Isabella Tree for their kind words. I'll be doing events in Glasgow, Brighton, London, Edinburgh, Bristol, Leeds & St Andrews - come and say hello! Tix here: buythebook.online/natures-genius

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"University funding in Scotland is fundamentally no longer fit for purpose and Scotland’s world-class universities are being put at risk and young Scots are being failed as a result" theferret.scot/edinb...

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Thanks @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social for some amazing book post - by the formidable Claire-Louise Bennett, and @joannapocock.bsky.social whose Surrender was a book I loved in lockdown. Can't wait to take Greyhound's tour of American edgelands.

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I have my first event for Nature's Genius tomorrow! It's a pre-launch as pub date is 8 May, but I'd love to see you there -- 6pm at Edinburgh Futures Institute. I'll be chatting to the amazing Hermione Cockburn. efi.ed.ac.uk/event/david-...

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Seeing a lot of "Trump ❤️ degrowth, who knew," comments, but--and sorry to be a killjoy--funny as this is, proper degrowth is the opposite of his chaotic, fumbling destruction. It's about fostering abundance and making conditions for all life to thrive, not a nihilistic drive pull things down.

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Nature's Genius is out three weeks from today! (8 May) It's about the incredible lessons evolution can teach us about our greatest challenges and I can't wait to share it! I'll be doing events through May - preorder and book tickets here buythebook.online/natures-genius

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@frasermacdonald.bsky.social did you find a magic lamp among the seaweed?

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Can someone please make a Simon Jenkins pitchbot account?

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Can only assume books are exempt from Trump Tariffs because he's never heard of them

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Why doesn't he paint his ears the same colour as his face?

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We cannot let this drop off the news agenda www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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BOOK TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT! I'll be taking my new book, Nature's Genius, on the road next month. I can't wait to share these animal stories of wonder, change, and possibility. If you're in Glasgow, Brighton, London, Bristol, Leeds, or Edinburgh (or St Andrews--details tbc), please come along!

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Please can someone add a sky-blue bar to the flag behind Elmo.

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Has he read Beowulf?

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Mobilisation against the cuts at Edinburgh University is picking up the pace. Jobs are at stake and therefore strikes are very likely. The reasons given for these cuts are problematic on many levels. Time for external democratic scrutiny 👇🏼 www.scotsman.com/education/un...

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It’s hard to face but this is the US now. Secret police can just disappear graduate students. As with any police state, fear is the point.

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It's here! Nature's Genius is out on 8 May - available to pre-order now. Thanks to @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social, @wanderinggaia.bsky.social, @calflyn.bsky.social, @casparhenderson.bsky.social, Charles Forster and Isabella Tree for some wonderful quotes!

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15 things I've written, including three books - stolen. Motherfuckers.

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Just finished this factory-floor fantasia, sort of like if Severence were set in the world of Willy Wonka.

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“The entire apparatus is executed with maximum emphasis on punishment and a superficial mention of rehabilitation”

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Still can't believe my team won. Still can't believe that my club's owners disappear people. #nufc

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The principal of @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social accepted a second job *AND* a pay rise just months before announcing massive cuts that will do untold damage to students and staff. 'Greedy' and 'self-serving' don't come close.

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Fascist is as fascist does.

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The Ian Hamilton Finlay exhibition at Modern Two is fantastic - so much fun and feeling in the simplest words and shapes.

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Threatened cuts risk sending Edinburgh University "into a death spiral" www.scotsman.com/education/st...

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Day one of recording the audiobook of Nature's Genius! Glad not to find myself rewriting it in my head as much as I expected. Out on 8 May.

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This guy, @albertburneko.bsky.social, is a genius. Please read his brilliant article on Elon Musk's deranged and morally repugnant Mars colonisation schtick. defector.com/neither-elon...

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Confused by stories of Edinburgh Uni’s apparent financial peril? This sheds light on senior management’s truth deficit.

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Sickening and terrifying. Their only interest is in humiliating Zelenskyy.

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A new Lancet study based on official Gaza Health Ministry numbers for fatalities between October 2023 and September 2024, shows that the life expectancy in Gaza has fallen by approximately half, a loss of 38 years (-51.6%) for men and 30 years (-38.6%) for women.

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In Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils I explore what our presence in the geological record will be: from plastic to nuclear waste, and clouds of orbiting space junk to fossilized megacities. www.waterstones.com/book/footpri...

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