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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 2h

It was a pleasant surprise when I moved here!

hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 2h

Well, now you say it, they did introduce those one sheet at a time dispensers last year, and mostly get rid of paper hand towels. That'll sort out the £140 million

hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 3h

so if anyone wants to commission me to write a follow-up, or consult the expertise of a noted frog scholar 👀

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 3h

I wrote an article about frogs as a political symbol a few years ago, in quite a different context read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...

Theorizing the Gay Frog | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press

read.dukeupress.edu

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 3h

obsessed with the antifascist frogs in Portland, I hope they continue to multiply 🙏

Person in frog costume with poster saying 'frogs together strong'

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 3h

This cut has pushed me over the edge, indefinite strike now

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 3h

The get-out here is posters (which don't seem universal) saying period products can be found at student services. I don't feel this makes them 'easily obtained, in a way that respects people’s dignity', as per the law - particularly not for low-paid staff - so I am going to look into it.

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 3h

For people outside Scotland: public bodies have been mandated by law since 2021 to provide free period products to anyone who needs them. In practice, that's created a wider culture where pubs and cafes tend to have them too www.gov.scot/policies/pov...

Free period products

How the Scottish Government are making free period products available.

www.gov.scot

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 4h

Latest sign of our financial crisis: no more free period products in university toilets. This one feels especially mean.

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David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social · 1d

CFP: 'Poetry's Environments', University of Leeds, June 2026.

About poetry and the natural environment in relation to the environments in which it is written, experienced, performed, preserved, and studied.

Please submit a proposal! Deadline 5 December.

conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...

Call for Proposals | Poetry's Environments

conferences.leeds.ac.uk

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 4d

fully converted to the wisdom of the daytime club night, which is probably how I know I've entered my late 30s

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 4d

still really enjoying Marika Hackman's Big Sigh, though I hope she's feeling a bit happier now

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 10d

University of Edinburgh staff: please sign this letter to management in support of MSc Environment, Culture and Society student Miriam Moreno (Mina), who is on the Sumud Flotilla to Gaza. It asks the university to call for her safe passage and protection: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Mina letter

Open Letter: Demand Protection and Solidarity for Miriam Moreno (Mina) and an End to University Complicity Dear University Leadership, We, students, staff, alumni, and members of the Edinburgh communi...

docs.google.com

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 10d

Call for applications: Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies Creative Practitioner in Residence 2025-26. Based at School of Advanced Study, University of London. Deadline 31 Oct: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/fellowships/...

ILCS Creative Practitioner in Residence 2025-26

ILCS has an opportunity for a creative practitioner interested in working collaboratively with the Institute’s Environmental Humanities research community.

ilcs.sas.ac.uk

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 10d

University of Edinburgh staff: please sign this letter to management in support of MSc Environment, Culture and Society student Miriam Moreno (Mina), who is on the Sumud Flotilla to Gaza. It asks the university to call for her safe passage and protection: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Mina letter

Open Letter: Demand Protection and Solidarity for Miriam Moreno (Mina) and an End to University Complicity Dear University Leadership, We, students, staff, alumni, and members of the Edinburgh communi...

docs.google.com

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 10d

That's wonderful, congratulations Bruno!

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 10d

Indeed...!

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 10d

From a different perspective, my dad - usually a reflection of the views of middle England and whatever the Times wants its readers to think - presented Blair's involvement in Gaza to me recently as a comforting sign. Obv this is nuclear levels of wrong, but unfortunately I assume he's not alone.

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 10d

In July, naturalist Soumyadip Santra was on a trip to the Indian Sundarbans when he witnessed an unusual scene: a fishing cat jumped on an adult monitor lizard and dragged it away toward some bushes.

Santra’s photographs of the fishing cat in action captured a rare bit of natural history.

Rare photos capture fishing cat preying on monitor lizard in the Sundarbans

In July, naturalist Soumyadip Santra was on a trip to the Indian Sundarbans, part of the world’s largest mangrove forest, when he witnessed an unusual scene: a fishing cat jumped on an adult monitor…

news.mongabay.com

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 10d

That is to say: I agree with all your points in the above post & this is to add to them, restrictions of word count make it look like I'm disagreeing - apologies!

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 10d

A good few friends who want vocational training in traditional crafts have found they can't do it in the UK! Far be it from me to suggest that Glasman & co are only interested in vocational routes as a stick to beat universities with, rather than out of genuine concern for this form of education...

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 11d

fwiw, our crisis is largely management opportunism. We have some of the biggest reserves in the sector and don't have a deficit; in fact, we have a healthy surplus. We have, however, been plugging the gaps in tuition fee income in the usual dubious ways. www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/ju-finance-w...

Dire Financial Straits at UoE? NO! — UCU Edinburgh

Are things really as bad as they say? Find out the truth behind the numbers!

www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 11d

For Universities to not be ready for or responsive to this kind of predictable, documented, targeted harassment of faculty is a choice www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Early last semester, Droubi said, students began approaching Cheyfitz with complaints that a graduate student in the “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance” class appeared to be recording them, possibly to “gather their names and comments” and intimidate them. “We believe that a student came to the course for the sole reason of surveilling and potentially harming students in the class,” Droubi said. “That ended up proving itself to be true because multiple students came forward and shared their concerns with Professor Cheyfitz.” Cheyfitz said one Palestinian student quit the class after telling him she felt upset and frightened.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 12d

RHS First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026.

We invite submissions for the Society's book and article prizes: for eligible titles published in 2025. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v

Submissions are by self-nomination by an author. Closing date: 15 December #Skystorians

Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2026: submissions now invited - RHS

The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2026 and Early Career Article Prize, 2026. The call for submissions opens on Monday 29 September 2025 and runs to Monday 15 ...

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 11d

This new article by the excellent Sara Farris looks like it will also be relevant to Environmental Humanities, where there is an increasing turn to theoretically shallow invocations of 'care' as one of the answers to our environmental predicament.

anastasia c. wilson @abolisheconomics.bsky.social · 12d

"Using Marx’s theory of commodity fetishism, it thus contends that care ethics risks treating care as a fetish, obscuring the systemic inequalities and inherent contradictions embedded in caregiving." doi.org/10.1177/1464...

Towards a critique of care fetishism: Social reproduction feminism and the ethics of care - Sara R Farris, 2025

Recently, there has been a notable rise in scholarly publications, research projects and public discussions engaging with care ethics and social reproduction fe...

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