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Thread on the beauty of wildlife 🧵 1. When it’s cold enough to see the melody

8. Bear cub catching snowflakes

19. Crows understand water displacement at the level of a 5 to 7 year-old child x.com/ExtremeNature_…

Can't wait for this talk by the brilliant Niall Oddy on the contested history of 'Europe'. The Lit and Phil this Thursday! litandphil.org.uk/event/europe-t…

If you want to understand just how manufactured the transgender culture war is, less than 2 years ago Kemi Badenoch was celebrating the fact that it was becoming easier to apply for a Gender Recognition Certificate

The Green Party have as many seats as Reform so let's hope they get the same coverage as Farage going forward.

Looking forward to the Greens receiving the same level of media attention as Farage now …

I’d pay good money to have this guy introduce Trump at ALL of his campaign events. 😂😂

MLAC's Tina Kover will be discussing her translation of the Postcard by Anne Berest with our former Translator in Residence, Ruth Clarke, at our wonderful local bookstore, Collected Books Durham 14 August, 6.30pm, free but sign-up at the link below. collectedbooks.co.uk/collections/ev…

Six 4.5-year postdoc research fellowships in our new Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory, University of Stirling, central Scotland! Please circulate this ad for outstanding researchers to work with me in an interdisciplinary team stir.ac.uk/about/work-at-… (closing 6 Oct).

💥BOOM💥 My question was rejected, but paraphrased. Leading to this! B. Hallett "I think the answer is, the more of them [air filters] you have about, even in normal times, the better ventilation you have, the better chances for patient and healthcare worker safety." Beggs "Yes"

We are hiring! The School is looking to appoint a Teaching Fellow in Visual Studies and French Language on a twelve-month post. For more information, see this link: durham.taleo.net/careersection/…

The opacity of academic prose arises from the epistemological imperative to operationalize disciplinary jargon, facilitating intra-specialized discourse while obfuscating heterogenous interpretive accessibility and perpetuating a recursive dialectic of erudition and exclusion.

Congratulations to our colleague Kerstin Oloff on the publication of her new book Ecology of the Zombie, an important intervention in world literature, film studies, ecocriticism, and Gothic Studies. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.38…

Check out this new interview with our colleague Luca Malici. Luca is particularly interested in how aspects of equality, diversity, and inclusion relate to language teaching and learning. He discusses Italian teaching at Durham and the year abroad. youtube.com/watch?v=FgKa75…

Apparently at WH Smith station bookshop at Milton Keynes Central ... Fine work, people. Fine work.

I’m looking to connect with other PhD students who are engaging in narrative inquiry. Shares welcome! #52weeksofphd #phdvoice #phdchat #phdlife

“Unlike the US, Canada and Australia, the UK is only giving free boosters to some. But the cost of restricting them could be huge.” I think the general public don’t realise how different the vaccine situation is here compared to other countries. buff.ly/3UulYgu

Here's a 🎶 twist on Coldplay's thumping #VivaLaVida we're calling "Puppets on a Kremlin String?" It reflects on the grotesque disrespectful media spectacle hosted by #Trump & #Vance yesterday at the White House. In solidarity with Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraini #Dontabandonthem

The Society is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2024 R. Gapper Book Prize is Edward Welch for his book, Making Space in Post-War France: The Dreams, Realities and Aftermath of State Planning (Legenda).