Top pub near uni is Dagda, as everyone's said. Salt Horse is good and not too far away (does burgers, if you're in that mood). Best food is Soul Vegan (Malaysian), if you can get a table. Kebab Mahal is a classic that I see has been mentioned! I'm also partial to Kim's Mini Meals (Korean, nr Dagda)
So lovely! I hope you find homes for them soon!
It's a real shame, great writer. Did you see Star of August is finally coming out in English this year?
I always end up cooking on the day though, even if I see in the recipe that it doesn't need to happen! This also works well the next day and is really tasty, stir in crispy onions before eating begoodtodayegypt.com/blogs/recipe...
Probably a variation on what I always make! Hummus, muhammara (roast red pepper dip), rummaniyeh (lentil, pomegranate & aubergine stew), toasted pitta chips, then other things on the day like batata harra and fresh chopped salad. Or a baked thing like lasagna, moussaka if I still ate dairy.
Anyone waiting for a cat...? Especially Yorkshire and nearby 🐱
The first set of postdocs for our ERC project on popular government have just been advertised. These 3 postdocs will be based at UC Louvain with my co-PI Pierre-Etienne Vandamme and focus on contemporary democratic theory. Apply! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...
Thanks for your work! Cuts to professional services roles are already creating big problems for me and my colleagues in being able to do our research, with more admin being passed onto us - at a rich institution with a healthy surplus.
Great to see Ana Paula Maia - published by Edinburgh's @charcopress.com - on the International Booker longlist. Always a prize making some of the most interesting choices.
We would love to give you the James Tait Black Prizes data, just trying to piece it all together...!
A number of the @iashedinburgh.bsky.social fellowships for mid-career and senior academics close this Friday.
Like water access before it, #Israel is weaponising #solar energy in the #WestBank. While settlers destroy Palestinian panels, the state promotes its green credentials while using access and land to power the movement of settlers into occupied areas. www.972mag.com/israel-solar...
The preview shows the latest episode, but a number of these may be of interest: open.spotify.com/show/4j6IrN7...
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can't believe no-one else has liked this yet! the best
Our new piece out today in Times Higher Education about the threats to Geography in the UK - particularly fieldwork - please do share. It links to a recent snapshot survey on the challenges being faced in UK HE, which highlights the inequities of the challenges, but also fears of what is yet to come
Today: @pbresnihan.bsky.social will be in Edinburgh to discuss his new book, From the Bog to the Cloud: Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...
I'm back in Nairobi this week for the inquest's continuation - any journalists interested in covering feel free to DM or email me at pdkmitchell at gmail dot com
On my way to strike and picket this morning at (checks notes) Edinburgh Napier University, over (checks notes) redundancies in the institution barely a year after Prof Nolan's departure...
saw three seals today :')
wake me up when the headlines says something like "another jellyfish trait discovered in humans: they have radial symmetry"
@yorkshiregabby.bsky.social yayyyyy
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There is also some really good stuff in the issue by the Warwick/WrEC crowd and fellow travellers, including Mike Niblett, Chris Campbell, Esthie Hugo, Christine Okoth, Rebecca Duncan and Caitlin Vandertop, so I recommend checking it out if you're interested in literature and environmental politics.
The article argues that a) water is a key preoccupation of Canadian ecopoets and b) the long poem is a particularly valuable form for writing about water. It does so through readings of work by Rita Wong and Fred Wah, Cecily Nicholson, and Sarah de Leeuw.
I wrote this in 2021 and it's taken forever to come out, because of the perennial difficulties of special issues and internal aspects of the journal - which is to say, apologies to everyone who's published on this topic in the past five years who's not cited here!
My article 'Ghost nets and rusting machines: rivers in the contemporary Canadian long poem' is now published in Interventions, as part of a special issue on World Literature and Commodity Frontiers: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The point about distinguishing between morally 'live' cases where pardons might do something in the present is an interesting one, not least because it suggests we shouldn't be pardoning people convicted of witchcraft precisely because it gives more fuel to transphobes who see themselves as heirs.
Another carrot, harissa, lemon option, really nice and pretty straightforward, and you can vary the veg to put in more of what you have in the fridge: ottolenghi.co.uk/pages/recipe...
