Joanna

Congratulations, Katja! Sounds amazing!

"How significant is the fact that Tony Blairs involved in discussions about a post war Gaza?"

Ash Sarkar: "Well I guess it's because Satan was unavailable"

I'm so touched, thank you ever so much, Demi!

Publishers urge government to defer biometric requirements for Gazan writers Comma Press and Out-Spoken Press have spoken out about two Gazan writers who are currently unable to take up full-scholarship awards at the University of Edinburgh and Goldsmiths, University of London...

My PhD student Shaimaa was in @thebookseller.com, talking about our appeal to the UK government to help her get here and take up her place. Thanks to @commapress.bsky.social and @outspokenpress.bsky.social for their support: www.thebookseller.com/news/publish...

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

For all of the educators trying to deal with AI, I did a deep dive in early June and these are the four articles I decided to assign to my students.

1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

Thanks very much, Katja! Nice to find you on here. Your upcoming book sounds great

It's time for some visuals!!! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 has a cover. Out this fall with @cambridgeup.bsky.social

#envhist #skystorians #PeatSky #energysky

I am completely floored by this. What an honour! Thank you everyone involved @asleuki.bsky.social and congrats to Matt and William.

Police arrest 474 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London Number of arrests was highest recorded in relation to single operation in at least past decade, according to Met police

"Officers searched the bags of those arrested. In one backpack handled with blue forensic gloves, they uncovered some bread and a milk carton filled with water." #FreePalestine www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Very honoured that "Saharan Winds" is shortlisted for the ASLE-UK book prize for #ecocriticism and environmental humanities: asle.org.uk/2025-asle-uk... #WesternSahara

#Marruecos quiso legitimar su ocupación del #SaharaOccidental con el rodaje de #TheOdyssey de #ChristopherNolan y, en su lugar, ha hecho más visible su ilegalidad y violación sistemática de derechos humanos contra el pueblo saharaui.
#TheOdysseyOnStolenLand
#FreeWesternSahara

Imagine shooting in occupied Palestine and paying Israel for it? Well, that’s more or less what they are doing in occupied Western Sahara with “the odyssey”, where
@christophernolan.bsky.social have been making richer the occupying country, Morocco 😡

(Also, matt damon zendaya and tom holland)

Christopher Nolan criticised for filming in occupied Western Sahara city Organisers of local film festival warn production of The Odyssey in Dakhla could normalise repression by Morocco

Glad to see @theguardian.com covering this story on Christopher Nolan filming in an illegally occupied territory www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... #WesternSahara

Legitimizing an illegal invasion and human rights violations is hardly the best publicity for #TheOdyssey by #ChristopherNolan. So denounces Mamine Hachimi, a Sahrawi journalist and activist in the occupied Western Sahara, in @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social.
👉 www.middleeasteye.net/news/sahrawi...

Private Eye jokes now 'criminal' as the magazine hits back at dumbass cops Police nonsense over Palestine Action proscription continues as Ian Hislop jokingly bemoans officers never having heard of Private Eye

Private Eye jokes now 'criminal' as the magazine hits back at dumbass cops

Police nonsense over Palestine Action proscription continues as Ian Hislop jokingly bemoans officers never having heard of Private Eye
www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

FiSahara urges director Christopher Nolan and The Odyssey crew to halt film production in Morocco-occupied Western Sahara “Dakhla is not just a beautiful location with cinematic sand dunes. Primarily, it is an occupied, militarised city whose indigenous Sahrawi population is subject to brutal repression by occupying Moro...

Really disappointing that Christopher Nolan is filming 'The Odyssey' in an illegally occupied territory: festivalsahara.org/en/news/fisa... (From @fisaharafilmfest.bsky.social)

A reminder about these fellowships, open to early career scholars (c. 7 years from PhD) based in any ODA-recipient country where the British Council operates. Deadline 28 July.

Cuando nombramos a #Huelva como zona de sacrificio nos referimos a esto...

Invernaderos de frutos rojos🍓 y el Polo Químico💨 con su refinería de crudo humeando al fondo.

📷 Ana P. L.

En Palos de la Frontera, el 22/04/2025🗓️

The Gaza discourse has been Vylanised – but that diversionary strategy just doesn’t work any more | Archie Bland Those appalled by Israel’s actions in Gaza, and the kind of media frenzy prompted by Bob Vylan’s Glastonbury appearance, are finding their voice, says Archie Bland, editor of the Guardian’s First Edit...

"It isn’t just that people are angry that the catastrophe in Gaza isn’t being given due attention: it is that their encounters with observable reality are being flatly denied...

...this is enough to make you feel crazy."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A/HRC/59/23: From economy of occupation to economy of genocide - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 (Advance unedited ... To learn more about Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council and the Question of Palestine, click here to visit the dedicated webpage. Human Rights Council Fifty-ninth session 16 June–11 July...

New OHCHR report accuses several companies, including Lockheed Martin, of profiting from apartheid, ethic cleansing and genocide in #Gaza: www.un.org/unispal/docu....

Role at a great organisation doing really interesting and important work!

In BBC coverage, mentions of Israeli and Palestinians deaths competed for space since 7th October.

That's despite far more Palestinian deaths.

There's one exception - a huge spike in the mentions of Palestinian deaths in early April.

The reason for this should disturb you.

Thank you!

Hi, Pebble!

Thank you ! :)

Israel escalates mass killings in Gaza amid impunity and declining media coverage Acceleration in mass killing operations focused on residential areas and protected civilian infrastructure

euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6...

Short thread on Yvette Cooper's decision to ban Palestine Action. 🧵

Thank you so much! I am beyond excited and am looking forward to checking out the many wonderful books on this list!

Dire Financial Straits at UoE? NO! — UCU Edinburgh Are things really as bad as they say? Find out the truth behind the numbers!

It's our open day today and I'm on strike with @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social. Management plans to cut £140 million are opportunistic, misguided and wrong, and will harm the future of the university. Read our Joint Unions Financial Working Group blog: www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/2eppzf7...

The Ongoing Environmental Destruction and Degradation of Gaza: The Resulting Public Health Crisis | AJPH | Vol. 115 Issue 7 This essay examines the resulting environmental health conditions in Gaza since October 2023. Evidence is drawn from international agency reports and peer-reviewed literature to document destruction a...

we've got a co-authored piece in the latest volume of The American Journal of Public Health: 'The Ongoing Environmental Destruction and Degradation of Gaza: The Resulting Public Health Crisis'

ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10....