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I’m glad Labour is supporting these workers, who are at risk of losing 400 jobs. Would be nice if they were also supporting university workers, where 10,000 jobs are at risk. In the first week of February alone 1,000 job cuts were announced. Nothing from Labour at all in response.

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Seems rather important at a time when there is foolish talk of a third runway at Heathrow ... petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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Are you an #envhum scholar looking to make a difference for the field? Become a co-editor of the journal Environmental Humanities! We need a new set of 2 co-editors to replace Franklin & I from Jan 2026. See the call here: environmentalhumanities.org Contact us if you have any questions.

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This is very good. Focus is on Zuckerberg, but also offers a brief recent history of how social media got to where it is today + some thoughts on where it goes from here podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

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Climate policy & immigration policy are increasingly intimately linked, not least because when you legitimise bad actors like Farage you give them the power to popularise this dangerous nonsense

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📣 Job opportunity with our small but mighty team! 📣 Come and work for Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group as an administrator and frontline worker. 🌟 We’d love to hear from you 🌟 www.gdwg.org.uk/s/GDWG-Job-D...

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Engrossed by this book of interviews atm. Love this from 1974: “If you ask me for a visual picture of the future, I think it’ll be increasingly lunar [where] individual actions & individual pieces of behaviour & individual thoughts sit in isolation, like pieces of sculpture embedded in a dune”.

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A really powerful opening story on this week’s @overunderpod.bsky.social about Ibrahima Bah & the shameful criminalisation of people seeking asylum in the UK Plus a great analysis of the Starmer “reset” podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...

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Climate Breakdown , now playing across the globe to abysmal reviews . Fossil fuel companies are trashing our planet– it’s why I’m calling on the Government to ban fossil fuel ads and sponsorships– no more greenwashing their dirty reputations with unlimited £££ ! Sign at lovera.ge/ban-ffa

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I've been helping to launch POLTERGEIST, a new peer-reviewed journal from Queen Mary University of London's School of the Arts, and I'm excited to announce that it's now online and available to read and download! Find it here: sedpoltergeist.com?page_id=95

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A short piece I wrote in response to the UK’s Far Right riots this summer has just come out along with this collage I made. It takes aim at “multiculturalism has failed” rhetoric. Read for free here: sedpoltergeist.com?page_id=304

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For anyone interested in postcolonial & Indigenous studies, I made this starter pack - it’s by no means definitive but hopefully a good way to find your feet on here

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It’s Dec 1st and you can open the first window of our online secular calendar of refugee tales at 28for28.org and the first window is Jeremy Irons reading The Prologue. Don’t miss! www.28for28.org/videos/prolo...

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I just updated the starter pack on folks working on #ClimateMigration and environmental (im)mobilities. Let me know if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/Dan29j

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Christmas gift ideas for those who want to support refugees, a list (please do add and circulate) - The Other Side of Hope literary magazine, written by migrants. You can subscribe or contribute to their fundraiser. othersideofhope.com/index.html 1/5

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Environmental humanities is a priority theme at IASH and we would love to host more scholars working on #envhum in Edinburgh!

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Against Settler-Colonialism: A Reading List

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👋 hi to new followers - it’s a very welcome change from all the bots Over There! Currently thinking thru how novels intervene in debates about climate-induced migration. Getting well-versed in different views on migration projections & the ‘national security’ issue

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Welcome Refugee Tales! @refugeetales.bsky.social Recommended follow for anyone who wants a future without asylum detention

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The brilliant @overunderpod.bsky.social has joined - big welcome! Give em a follow & a listen

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Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. Tell Everyone www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

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Among a range of others, I spoke at length with the Times Higher journalist about student number controls for this piece, and I'd say it gives a balanced account. It comes on the same day news breaks that we anticipate as many as 10,000 jobs going in HE this year alone.

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#Migration & #ecocriticism people, check out this great network - free to join and get involved in the different workstreams www.climatemobilities.network

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Updated! Was being a bit glitchy before

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Seeing some familiar faces on here (and finding out about new people) so made this Postcolonial / Indigenous Studies #starterpack go.bsky.app/AiSoFL4

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The Routledge sale is over but you can still get a 20% discount on mine & Jade’s new book with the code LITENV. Makes the paperback £27.99 shorturl.at/RMjuA

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Here is a very short list(Starter pack) of people/researchers/ organisations to follow on @bsky.app But if you can think of someone to add, let us know or comment under this list. Looking for anyone/organisation who posts about Immigration detention in the UK. go.bsky.app/EkMTvkS

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Please do follow this starter pack again to get the newest adds. If you are concerned about looming deportations, want to know if birthright will be overturned, or about global rightward trends in migration, this list has your people. I’ll keep adding too! go.bsky.app/4X5Rfnh

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12 funded PhD positions available at the Augsburg-Munich International Doctoral Program "Rethinking Environment: The Environmental Humanities and the Ecological Transformation of Society" -> Deadline: January 31, 2025 #envhum #ecocriticism www.uni-augsburg.de/en/forschung...

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CFP Hostile Environments and Hospitable Praxes: Literary and Cultural Responses to Racial and Migratory Politics University of Kent, organised by Rachel Gregory-Fox Full details here... blogs.kent.ac.uk/hostileenvir...

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Come & join the editing team at the Journal of Postcolonial Writing - a great way to contribute to postcolonial scholarship & get experience on an editorial board think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

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👋Fellowship announcement! Applications are now open for the 2025 Charles Wallace India Trust Writer's Fellowship @ University of Kent. Enables creative writers from India to live on campus and work on their own project for 12 weeks during the Spring Term. research.kent.ac.uk/colonialandp...

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Yinka Shonibare’s show at the Serpentine is excellent (& free!). Looks at the legacies of Empire & the history of offering sanctuary to refugees

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Gary Younge & Carys Afoko’s podcast is fast becoming a favourite podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...

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