A rare thing: *four* three-year hums/soc-sci posts in animal studies, on the Multispecies Mutualisms project at UoSheffield - with @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social, me, Robert McKay and Alasdair Cochrane; see here for a video explainer: digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...
Overview of the events happening at the Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities during March 2026. For more information about the center, visit the website https://www.uis.no/en/greenhouse. For information about the book talk series, see also https://newnatures.org/greenhouse/
Spring has started to sprout and the @greenhouseuis.net is looking forward to full month with events on everything from climate justice in education over the sea urchins on the menu to the architecture of low-voltage cabins.
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#envhum
“Fascism, it’s always about using nationalism, and the nation, as a bludgeon to generate support for death policies, on behalf of death governments. For violence and repression and exploitation, internationalism is the antidote, always.” —Robin D. G. Kelley
Malahide 💙🌊
So much love and so much pride in being a part of the beyond gender collective. And our cyborg feminist Katie Stone translating our ideas, chats and work into this wonderful zine
Beyond fear and conflict: A new framework exploring wildlife, environment, interactions, institutions & justice to make human-predator relations more convivial. 🐻🌿🤝#HumanWildlifeCoexistence pollenpoliticalecology.network/coexistence-...
Well this is interesting news. ‘Women's museum planned to replace International Rugby Experience in Limerick’
#spéirgorm www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...
is his brain so much more comprehensive, combining, and subtle than man’s, that he can at the same moment of time attentively examine two distinct prospects, one on one side of him, and the other in an exactly opposite direction?
In Donegal, Mayo, Galway, and Kerry corporations have applications in to harvest seaweed from the coast with absolutely no oversight.
Corporatisation of seaweed harvest would be a significant negative step for the west
What oral histories can teach us about effective environmental research – @angecass.bsky.social & Paul Merchant for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
@renewbiodiversity.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social
A morning walk in Dublin centre 🌼🌞
Bloomsbury are having a sale at the moment and there's one day left to get my book, Shakespeare's Body Language, at 30-40% off! @ardenpublisher.bsky.social
If you've ever wondered why Romeo and Juliet starts with a thumb bite - and what it means - I got ya.
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/shakespea...
New episode from ASLE EcoCast, "Cows in the Caribbean: Cattle Chat with Chaz and Andrew"--Chaz Yingling and Andrew Kettler chat about their forthcoming book: The Once and the Future Cow. www.asle.org/stay-informe... #booksky #ecocriticism
On 16th March, I will be interviewed for the Greenhouse book talks, about my book The Nonhuman Narratives of Energy. Link below. It will also be recorded as a podcast, so tune in!
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
Ur fuckin jokin
We are HIRING! The Open Library of Humanities is seeking a PhD student to assist with editorial, marketing and technical duties. The position is fully funded and open to funded PhD students at CHASE institutions. 31/03:
Why is US President Donald Trump eyeing Greenland, Ukraine – and now Cornwall? 👀
It’s all part of a global scramble for critical minerals – materials that power data centres, smartphones, advanced weapons systems and clean energy technologies.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature was published this week by @livunipress.bsky.social. This collection brings so many new perspectives to the discussion of death and the body in Irish literature from the eighteenth century to the present. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
in his inclement, howling old age, Ahab’s soul, shut up in the caved trunk of his body, there fed upon the sullen paws of its gloom
📀 Professor Kevin K. Gaines explores how Stevie Wonder's album Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants was inspired by political movements, global musical styles and engagement with nature at the Global Cultures Institute annual lecture.
📆 4 March
⏰ 18:00
🔗 Register for tickets ⬇️
Some colleagues in my old department in Trondheim are recruiting a PhD candidate in Gender Studies and/or STS on the "Imagining Positive Energy Futures" project. 3 years, fully funded. Norway's a good place to do a PhD and Trondheim's a nice place to live!
My reading has suffered over recent years but am building inspiration slowly with poems and short stories. These are the present two
Reading more poetry, as memoir writing includes poetic extracts. A fitting poem as I reflect on working class background struggles and tensions in the present
Ah this morning's run 🏃♀️
Come on Ireland, sign! For these ECIs to work and be considered by the European Commission, 7 EU member states must meet their threshold, for Ireland that's 10,080. We are now at 8,951, 88 8%. No more EU-Israel Agreement for the apartheid state.
#SanctionsNow
eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...
Jump for joy that sun is finally shining in Dublin ⛅
Academics can, but Universities as institutions have been taken over by a craven management class that will align themselves with state interests, as we saw with the policing of anti-genocide protests in the past two years.
My notebook to write my autotheory oil and bipolar memoir says this on the front. Radiating manic energy.
Friday evening's reading
This was so powerful - starting to read poetry, a form I never really engaged with and this was an awe inspiring place to start
