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vbivar.bsky.social
Historian of capitalism, pollution, farming, land use, plastics, climate, and economic growth; misanthrope; hockey player; expert baker; amateur gardener; St Anne's College at Oxford 🇨🇦
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If you're in the UK you'd like a pause from banging your head on the table in agonised despair & belief, there's this petition. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

Please consider signing this petition to the Secretary of State for Education asking for (more) coverage in the school curriculum on climate and environment. And a link to a story about the campaign in the TES: www.tes.com/magazine/new... www.globalactionplan.org.uk/news/open-le...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Super irritated by how long the form is for the consultation on data mining - can't help but think they made it unnecessarily complicated and lengthy in order to deter people from filling it out. BUT DON'T BE DETERRED! And here is a handy guide from ALCS. www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Still a few hours left to take a stand against AI's theft of creative works - help with answering the survey available here: againstthebox.substack.com/p/time-to-ha... survey link here: www.gov.uk/government/c...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Very much looking forward to this conversation next week about how Humanities training is being used in environment-related jobs. Tuesday, March 4, 4:30-6:00pm, TORCH building, with Alex Lawrence of the Forestry Service, and Khem Rogaly of @cmmonwealth.bsky.social.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Less DOGE; more dog.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I think it might be high time to revive the Situationnists. I feel like @rpanchasi.bsky.social might be with me? Maybe @picharbonnier.bsky.social ?

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

No!!!!! How did I miss this?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?! Gutted :(

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Congratulations @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social !

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Just saw the new NEH guidelines. How literal is ‘activities’ or ‘initiatives’? Will a history book about trans people or environmental justice be out of contention moving forward? If these guidelines are tight then what on earth is going to get funded?????

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

First trip to the garden store of the season. I am celebrating this warm sunny day with a bang!

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

I have been trying to give blood SINCE JULY. The NHS is desperate for donations, but at the same time doesn't have the resources to receive them. It's maddening.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Just learned that in British English 'that' and 'which' are interchangeable and I'm going to need to take a few days off to process this horror.

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

Did Mitchell's term 'economentality' take off? Any good articles/books out there that put it to use? Paging @aaronjakes.bsky.social, @quinnslobodian.com, @epopppp.bsky.social, @asociologist.bsky.social . Thanks!

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Never underestimate the power of a baking project to calm the nerves. This was delicious.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Perfect lazy morning over here.

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

Learned in class this week that my first-year students hadn't previously heard the term 'Anthropocene', and we academics are spilling heaps of ink on its utility, its start date, etc. Powerful reminder about the gap between the ivory tower and the rest of the world.

submitted 14 days ago • 8 comments

Please forgive the self-promotion but, in case of interest to anyone, I'm bringing hip-hop history to the @ihr.bsky.social @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social next Thursday. All welcome in-person or online, details / registration info here: www.history.ac.uk/events/strai...

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

I'm very glad I read to the end.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Diogenes with sound advice for dealing with billionaires. From Herakleitos and Diogenes, translated by Guy Davenport

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

It's been a while since I posted a dad joke. Why can't you breed an eel with an eagle? It's eeleagle.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

🚨History job in the Department of History at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social Research Fellowship ‘Traumatised Minds, Neurosis and Hysteria in Soviet Medicine and Culture, 1917-1953’ 🗃️ 👇👇👇 warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Glaçant. On est au niveau de la censure de l'Encyclopedie soviétique en 1953, lorsque la notice "Béria" fut supprimée et remplacée par "Bering, mer de". Il faut lire la belle biographie de Vera Rubin par les Mitton. Ce qu'elle a enduré en plus du simple fait d'être une femme, et une mère.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments