Rachel Murray
@rachelmurray.bsky.social
Lecturer in Lit and Environment at @bristoluni.bsky.social | Co-director @uobrisceh.bsky.social
Writing: Marine Attachments 🦀🐚🪼🐙
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Rachel-Murray-fc3d0780-8a1b-4a92-9676-5c862ea56faa/
Writing: Marine Attachments 🦀🐚🪼🐙
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Rachel-Murray-fc3d0780-8a1b-4a92-9676-5c862ea56faa/
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Is it like widely acknowledged that LRB is on one of the most absurd run of high quality publications of recent times? Just every issue is front to back interesting / essential / insightful reading. Get a sub for sure, prices are now criminally low
‘Many things about “The Waste Land” seem to have annoyed Frost, some of which stemmed from his old disagreements with Pound. He disliked free verse, which he considered a lot of hot air and revealing of ignorance.’
Clare Bucknell on Robert Frost.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Clare Bucknell on Robert Frost.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
December 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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At the BREAK–DOWN we're doing a limited time offer! Take out a year's subscription before December 12th and get our first two issues FREE!
All subs help us to pay writers. It'll also helps keep us on the road and publishing the best new climate writing
All subs help us to pay writers. It'll also helps keep us on the road and publishing the best new climate writing
GET 4 PRINT ISSUES FOR THE PRICE OF 2! 💥
Subscribe before 12th Dec to receive our next two print issues (Spring ’26 + Autumn ’26) PLUS our past two issues for free 👇
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Subscribe before 12th Dec to receive our next two print issues (Spring ’26 + Autumn ’26) PLUS our past two issues for free 👇
www.break-down.org/offer/
December 2, 2025 at 9:22 AM
At the BREAK–DOWN we're doing a limited time offer! Take out a year's subscription before December 12th and get our first two issues FREE!
All subs help us to pay writers. It'll also helps keep us on the road and publishing the best new climate writing
All subs help us to pay writers. It'll also helps keep us on the road and publishing the best new climate writing
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😔💔😢Please read and share these harrowing testimonials from people terrified about plans from @northumbriauni.bsky.social senior management to freeze pay to force through pension changes: ucu-unn.org.uk/news/315-tes... @ucu.org.uk
Testimonials: Pay and Pensions at Northumbria University
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December 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
😔💔😢Please read and share these harrowing testimonials from people terrified about plans from @northumbriauni.bsky.social senior management to freeze pay to force through pension changes: ucu-unn.org.uk/news/315-tes... @ucu.org.uk
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Our fabulous Environmental Humanities Summer School is open for applications for 2026! Together, we examine human relationships with nature on a Global scale, and with the city of Bristol. According to 2025 cohort student Choon Woi “Bristol itself became part of the classroom…
November 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Our fabulous Environmental Humanities Summer School is open for applications for 2026! Together, we examine human relationships with nature on a Global scale, and with the city of Bristol. According to 2025 cohort student Choon Woi “Bristol itself became part of the classroom…
The Modernist Exoskeleton has been reduced to £11 this weekend: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-mod...
The Modernist Exoskeleton
The Modernist Exoskeleton
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November 29, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The Modernist Exoskeleton has been reduced to £11 this weekend: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-mod...
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I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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The Bristol Short Story Prize will officially re-open next week!
Writers, get ready - you can submit your short stories from the 19th November. All info on our website (link in bio).
Writers, get ready - you can submit your short stories from the 19th November. All info on our website (link in bio).
November 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The Bristol Short Story Prize will officially re-open next week!
Writers, get ready - you can submit your short stories from the 19th November. All info on our website (link in bio).
Writers, get ready - you can submit your short stories from the 19th November. All info on our website (link in bio).
Excited to visit Vienna next week as an invited speaker for this event at @univie.ac.at. Any city recommendations greatly appreciated!
November 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Excited to visit Vienna next week as an invited speaker for this event at @univie.ac.at. Any city recommendations greatly appreciated!
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Our absolute pleasure to host this wonderful two-day British Academy-funded workshop on extraction and extractivism last week. Thank you @melinabuns.bsky.social 🙏💫
such wonderful two days with fantastic scholars! thank you to everyone who engaged in discussions about extraction, extractivism, and beyond!
thank you to the @britishacademy.bsky.social for making this workshop possible and to @uobrisceh.bsky.social for hosting it.
#envhum
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thank you to the @britishacademy.bsky.social for making this workshop possible and to @uobrisceh.bsky.social for hosting it.
#envhum
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Day one of the Extractive Natures/Natures of Extraction workshop, organised by @melinabuns.bsky.social as part of her @britishacademy.bsky.social fellowship here at Bristol @uobrisceh.bsky.social . Great papers that spanned resource extraction from medieval Europe to modern day Australia
November 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Our absolute pleasure to host this wonderful two-day British Academy-funded workshop on extraction and extractivism last week. Thank you @melinabuns.bsky.social 🙏💫
This is going to be great. And you can register for free and join online. Link and details below.
Join us for More-than-Human Sensory Worlds, the first in our hybrid 'More-than-Human/ities' seminar series, a new collaboration between UoB's CEH & EUC at York University, Toronto.
Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃
Wed 19th Nov
17:45–19:00
Online & in-person
Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃
Wed 19th Nov
17:45–19:00
Online & in-person
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This is going to be great. And you can register for free and join online. Link and details below.
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What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
The organ donation ‘opt-out’ has been a fatal failure | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
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First the employer took staff desks from them. Now they’re taking their pensions.
Join your trade union, people.
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/northum...
Join your trade union, people.
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/northum...
Northumbria to freeze pay if staff refuse TPS-USS pension switch
University says moving employees from more expensive scheme will save it up to £11 million a year
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
First the employer took staff desks from them. Now they’re taking their pensions.
Join your trade union, people.
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/northum...
Join your trade union, people.
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/northum...
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Day one of the Extractive Natures/Natures of Extraction workshop, organised by @melinabuns.bsky.social as part of her @britishacademy.bsky.social fellowship here at Bristol @uobrisceh.bsky.social . Great papers that spanned resource extraction from medieval Europe to modern day Australia
November 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Day one of the Extractive Natures/Natures of Extraction workshop, organised by @melinabuns.bsky.social as part of her @britishacademy.bsky.social fellowship here at Bristol @uobrisceh.bsky.social . Great papers that spanned resource extraction from medieval Europe to modern day Australia
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A really wonderful event last night that lit up a dark October evening ✨
📸 Pictured: a wonderful event at @bookhaus.bsky.social last night, where our authors @dominicmhinde.bsky.social and @dudleymarianna.bsky.social chatted all things climate, energy and sustainability🍃
Huge thanks to all who attended!
Drifting North and Electric Wind are out now📚
Huge thanks to all who attended!
Drifting North and Electric Wind are out now📚
October 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
A really wonderful event last night that lit up a dark October evening ✨
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 29, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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I loved working at Loughborough with its critical mass of modernists, and if Sarah Parker is involved in the organisation it is definitely going to be great!
We summon you to wilds of Loughborough, modernists!
Believe it or not, it's already time to think about MSA 2026 in Loughborough, UK. The conference will meet July 1-4, and proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, workshops, and seminars is December 1. Please note this MUCH earlier deadline. The CFP is here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
October 14, 2025 at 8:31 AM
I loved working at Loughborough with its critical mass of modernists, and if Sarah Parker is involved in the organisation it is definitely going to be great!
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Believe it or not, it's already time to think about MSA 2026 in Loughborough, UK. The conference will meet July 1-4, and proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, workshops, and seminars is December 1. Please note this MUCH earlier deadline. The CFP is here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
October 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Believe it or not, it's already time to think about MSA 2026 in Loughborough, UK. The conference will meet July 1-4, and proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, workshops, and seminars is December 1. Please note this MUCH earlier deadline. The CFP is here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
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Excited to share my contribution to YWCCT (Oxford University Press) for 2024's work in Animal Studies 🐄
Featuring writing from @writedavidwrite.bsky.social, @rachelmurray.bsky.social, @verafibisan.bsky.social, @katiecmoliver.bsky.social and more 🐔
Read here: doi.org/10.1093/ywcc...
Featuring writing from @writedavidwrite.bsky.social, @rachelmurray.bsky.social, @verafibisan.bsky.social, @katiecmoliver.bsky.social and more 🐔
Read here: doi.org/10.1093/ywcc...
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October 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Excited to share my contribution to YWCCT (Oxford University Press) for 2024's work in Animal Studies 🐄
Featuring writing from @writedavidwrite.bsky.social, @rachelmurray.bsky.social, @verafibisan.bsky.social, @katiecmoliver.bsky.social and more 🐔
Read here: doi.org/10.1093/ywcc...
Featuring writing from @writedavidwrite.bsky.social, @rachelmurray.bsky.social, @verafibisan.bsky.social, @katiecmoliver.bsky.social and more 🐔
Read here: doi.org/10.1093/ywcc...
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Coming soon💨
How has energy shaped a nation?
Electric Wind by @DudleyMarianna.bsky.social is a cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain, from the industrial revolution to the aftermath of war, through energy crises and the changing politics of the late twentieth century💡
Pre-order now!
How has energy shaped a nation?
Electric Wind by @DudleyMarianna.bsky.social is a cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain, from the industrial revolution to the aftermath of war, through energy crises and the changing politics of the late twentieth century💡
Pre-order now!
October 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Coming soon💨
How has energy shaped a nation?
Electric Wind by @DudleyMarianna.bsky.social is a cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain, from the industrial revolution to the aftermath of war, through energy crises and the changing politics of the late twentieth century💡
Pre-order now!
How has energy shaped a nation?
Electric Wind by @DudleyMarianna.bsky.social is a cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain, from the industrial revolution to the aftermath of war, through energy crises and the changing politics of the late twentieth century💡
Pre-order now!
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We're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
September 4, 2025 at 11:18 AM
We're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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On the subject of Melvyn Bragg, I think of this Private Eye cartoon more frequently than I care to admit, when I’m struggling to raise the energy for a lecture or graduate supervision
September 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
On the subject of Melvyn Bragg, I think of this Private Eye cartoon more frequently than I care to admit, when I’m struggling to raise the energy for a lecture or graduate supervision
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Happening this Friday evening at @bookhaus.bsky.social , featuring one of our talented CEH members, the poet Suzannah V Evans. This will be a very special event 💙
💥 COMING UP: Join Suzannah V Evans (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) for the launch of her debut poetry collection, Under the Blue
Told through a series of prose poems & postcards, Under the Blue is a meditation on humanity & empathy
📅 Fri 5 September, 7-9pm
📍 @bookhaus.bsky.social
🎟️ bit.ly/3V9L7Nv
Told through a series of prose poems & postcards, Under the Blue is a meditation on humanity & empathy
📅 Fri 5 September, 7-9pm
📍 @bookhaus.bsky.social
🎟️ bit.ly/3V9L7Nv
September 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Happening this Friday evening at @bookhaus.bsky.social , featuring one of our talented CEH members, the poet Suzannah V Evans. This will be a very special event 💙
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The UK government will evacuate nine of the 40+ students in Gaza with scholarship at UK universities. My PhD student Shaimaa isn't included. We must now make sure they help the other students - email your MP today. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
UK to evacuate nine Gaza students with university scholarships
Move follows months of pressure from MPs, academics and campaigners, with dozens of other students still stranded
www.theguardian.com
August 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM
The UK government will evacuate nine of the 40+ students in Gaza with scholarship at UK universities. My PhD student Shaimaa isn't included. We must now make sure they help the other students - email your MP today. www.theguardian.com/education/20...