Lee MacDonald’s The Royal Observatory, Greenwich is available online uclpress.co.uk/book/the-roy...
I have some hot compost news
Epic!
Thank you so much for reviewing my book, I really appreciate your thoughts @xinyueli.bsky.social @pkhardy.bsky.social
New on H-Sci-Med-Tech:
Check out @xinyueli.bsky.social (@manchester.ac.uk)’s review of @simonnaylor.bsky.social (@glasgow.ac.uk)’s book _The Observatory Experiment: Meteorology in Britain and Its Empire _, pub 2024 @universitypress.cambridge.org
#hstm
Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
I did an op-ed for The Engineer on how and why energy history can help power cleaner energy futures
www.theengineer.co.uk/content/opin...
Delighted to see that my friend and colleague's book is out. Well done Cheryl! Well done also to Paul. Order a copy for your library!
slow day in the office so figured we'd start some beef with museums
Exhaled out of you surely? Assuming you're in a choir or play a wind instrument??!
I can't speak about the quality of the beer but the glass it's in came from a town close to where I grew up (in Cornwall).
In "Occupied Refuge," @hannobrankamp.bsky.social challenges the view of refugee camps as indispensable safe havens, showing that humanitarian missions often function as militarized occupations that treat camp inhabitants as colonized subjects. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/IwyWW8p
Call for papers!
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
Cafe visit and writing time sounds terrific to me! I've had to make do with homemade coffee (and sourdough)
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JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
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I know Glaswegians keep some unusual pets, but I've never come across an aerial quadropus before! If you see Nipsy on your travels around the city, please let their owners know. 😀
#glasgow #glasgowhumour #streetart #scottishhumour #keepglasgowweird #findnipsy
Excited for our oral history event on ‘Living and Working Along the Leen’ on Thursday 13 November at UoN Lakeside Arts. Made possible by @royalhistsoc.org Scouloudi Public History funding.
Come along to share your memories of Nottingham’s River!
www.lakesidearts.org.uk/event/living...
Another great geography-themed gaming session in our Creative Impact Lab. This time we played Pandemic: Rising Tide. Apologies Dutch friends, we failed to stop the sea!
In the past week I've taught 200+ first-year students in the "forgotten", "lost" map library at @uclgeography.bsky.social with the help of some great PGTAs.
Imagine what we could do with this collection if we could only find it! 🤔
Looks amazing! What are you going to be playing??
Exciting list of speakers presenting in our Environmental History Research Seminar this term. If you happen to be in Dublin, come along. We'll meet on Mondays at 1 PM in the Trinity Long Room Hub #envhist
Thanks to @tlrhub.bsky.social for hosting us!
@historytcd.bsky.social
👇
It's been very wet here in Scotland over the weekend but beautifully sunny for my morning run into work today.
This is a great little collection in Transactions on 'worlding geography' and area studies... rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social
Not my game, I just like playing it and other @stonemaiergames.com! I am a Geography academic at Glasgow University and we're using games to encourage staff and students to think and talk about environmental issues.
Following @greenhouseuis.net @finnarne.me excellent example and played Finspan board game in our new Creative Impact Lab today @uofglasgow.bsky.social @stonemaiergames.com
On strike again.
We’ve had to do this for so long that our primary school kids who joined us on snow day picket lines are now students themselves.
Utterly ridiculous way to run a university.
Super proud of this research group! HGRG at the International Conference of Historical Geographers in China!
Next stop of the ICHG will be Rio de Janeiro in 2028, save the date 🗓️🌎
No RGS action then Innes?
Here we go: the first session of our „energy transition & energyscapes” organised by @melinabuns.bsky.social & @dudleymarianna.bsky.social .
#ESEH2025 #EnergyHistory #EnvHist
Really excited about this.
