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Multispecies smiles!

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The original two series of Talking Heads are due to drop off the iPlayer soon - there's eight days left to watch them. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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‘Service has no borders’

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Co-organising this conference, deadline to submit your proposal 13 May. We will open up registration for non-speakers later in the summer. Anyone with an interest is welcome irrespective of discipline, but students, ECRs and anyone working in extinction/conservation especially welcome.

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I’m honoured to receive this award, and I’m very grateful to the judging panel for taking the time to consider my submission! 💚

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Relevant lesson far beyond legal history and the immediate context of this thread.

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Thrilled to read this news. I saw Olivia give a paper recently, and it was brilliant!

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For feminist reasons, I’m deeply opposed to the winner here being used as a derogatory term and I’m slightly saddened it is used as such an offensive term. I only ever use it in a positive or joyous sense.

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Organising a conference on extinction with Duncan Wilson. We have enough funding to provide free registration, some support towards accommodation and limited bursaries for travel. CFP here, with the form to submit your abstract. We also have incredible speakers for the keynote and plenaries!

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1992. Youngsters listening to Creep full of existential angst: ‘OMG, I do wish I was fucking special, but I AM a weirdo and not at all special.’ 2025. Middle-aged peeps with all the problems that can bring: ‘My God. I was a walking miracle. What the hell am I doing here?’ youtu.be/XFkzRNyygfk

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I've been giving a lot of annotation assignments lately. I was thinking about what I really wanted for my students this quarter, and it was honestly for them to read. Like, read things that will change how they think about the world. Writing is great, obviously, but you need to read first.

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Highly recommend visiting the Tim Burton exhibition at the Design Museum, London. On until late May, it has gorgeous original art, costumes and models including Jack Skellington! An absolute treat if you’re interested in the creative process, visual arts, or Burton. designmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

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Y'all. Just hit 1,000 signups. In less than 24 hours. I'm in shock. And in awe.

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Rare good news from roarsome early career researchers doing incredibly well this week. It really is one of the loveliest aspects of the job seeing them flourish.

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My worst experience at high table doesn’t even come close to this repugnant story of dons drinking from a chalice made from a human skull. Moreover, the unidentified person has still been denied their last rites as they are kept in storage. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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Once again, I appear to have missed an osprey’s spring jaunt northwards past a local waterway. Alas, but knowing the bird is doing well is its own joy.

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Good grief. This makes the Chalke Valley fiasco even more telling.

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‘When I started in my career as a consultant in 2005, one in 10 young people had a diagnosable mental health condition. We’re now [at] one in five.’ I think this is likely an underestimate for many reasons, but it is indicative of a deeply concerning shift. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Tiny bundles of joy.

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(Alt) THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES The Centre for Reparation Research presents a live webinar Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 3 PM GМТ-5 Climate Justice is Reparatory Justice Host: Prof. Sonjah Stanley Niaah Dr. Tao Leigh Goffe Dr. Keston Perry Dr. Olúfémi O. Táiwò Join link: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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ONE WEEK UNTIL HISTFEST 2025!! Have you booked your ticket? Join us for a weekend of history with leading historians, thinkers and performers. Weekend, day and individual tickets available: histfest.org/histfest-2025/

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What do cabbage, kale, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, collard greens & kohlrabi have in common? If you said "they're the same species of plant, selected for different qualities", you're correct! Let's talk about the chameleon of the vegetable world, the Brassica!🧪

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If you’re interested in reading about the complexity of variation underpinning the latest scientific research on sex development, these are useful. TLDR: ‘The truth is, your biological sex isn’t carved in stone, but a living system with the potential for change.’ (Quotation from the final link.)

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Nando's has a 32,000 piece collection of South African art that it displays in its restaurants around the world. It's rare to find such a positive corporate story, but the artists I spoke to who sell work every few months to the chain said it was a big reason they could be full-time artists

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Join @davidolusoga.bsky.social and Philip Leverhulme Prize winner @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social in conversation this June as they explore the themes of Qureshi’s powerful new book, Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction. Buy your tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sadiah-qur...

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Thread on the British Academy summer showcase, a free festival in June featuring many great speakers including Elif Shafak! I’m doing a couple of things on extinction. Perhaps see you there.

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It's heartening to see so much attention and resistance #RFK Jr’s abominable #eugenics -based comments. However, I’m seeing a lot of rebuttals that play into these narratives, no matter how unintended. This thread contains a few thoughts for allies and supporters of #Autistic people #autisticsky 1/

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Verily, this might not be what Ruskin had in mind when he proclaimed the virtues of establishing museums to educate the ‘rude populace’, but it is wonderful to see the good work this museum is doing to benefit everyone irrespective of anatomy.

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PSA. The current issue of Gardeners’ World has 2-for-1 entry card for loads of gardens across the UK, which can also be used with a phone app. Perfect for visiting the spring blossoms over the long weekend and beyond. Enjoy the blossom while you can. www.gardenersworld.com/2-for-1-gard...

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How did I miss The Nanny Diaries? It begins with scenes showing those horrendous dioramas of peoples across the world in the American Museum of Natural History, New York, and then proceeds to create dioramas of New Yorkers, with a main character who reads Margaret Mead. www.imdb.com/title/tt0489...

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So, there’s 28% off my book on Awesome Books, which, as far as I know, is the currently best deal out there. I didn’t know of the site, but they were set up to stop used books going to landfill. Save the books! www.awesomebooks.com/book/9780241...

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again and again and yet again the privileged’s fantasies of oppression take precedence over the marginalised’s real, daily, violent oppression

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