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Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 7h

If I quit my job in the university and went to work on a rig in Australia tomorrow I would double my money overnight. As a general rule, the more questionable the politics of the country the rig is in, the lower the tax for people prepared to fly in and work.

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Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 8h

The thing about writing a book that focuses to a large extent on life in offshore oil rigs is that you start to get ads for jobs on rigs around the world. Some of them are wild, including the boast that you never need see your wife and can play console games and pay next to no tax.

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Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 4d

Delighted that this year I’ll be appearing as part of Faclan: The Hebridean Book Festival alongside Graeme Macrae Burnet and a host of others focusing on the work from and about Harris, Lewis, Uist and Barra. lanntair.com/events/event...

FACLAN 2025 Programme: Innis-Mhuir: Guthan Eilieanach ARCHIPELAGO: ISLAND VOICES - An Lanntair

FACLAN: Fèis Litreachas Innse Gall The Hebridean Book Festival. Faclan this year dwells on the long archipelago of the Outer Hebrides. It’s weather and environment, language and divergent voices, its ...

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Lexie Kirkconnell-Kawana @lexiekk.bsky.social · 17h

Either, the Government will do nothing and the cycle of scandal and cosmetic reform will repeat. Press disinformation, intrusion and other abuses will go on, day to day, destroying peoples’ lives, distorting elections and misleading the public, but making little impact on the national policy agenda

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Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 18h

I fear we may be past the rice stage sadly

Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 18h

Anyone know a good place in Glasgow to rescue a rain damaged Mac? Got hit in the storms and I’ve two papers on there that I don’t fancy writing again.

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Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 1d

Will pass on!

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Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 1d

Is this open to British students?

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Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a great exhibition on now in the ARC at Glasgow Uni with photographs around the theme of climate and mental health assembled by our PhD students in sociology and climate and my esteemed colleague the anthropologist Dr Alicia Davis.

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Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 3d

The Looe valley is good. Secluded but has a little train and accessible from Plymouth without a car. Same goes for Falmouth.

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Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 3d

It’s a great place to be out of tourist season. My sister is just over the border on the edge of the moors and I can see why people want to work at Exeter university.

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Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 3d

My grandpa was Cornish so I spent a lot of time down there in my early years. Got a vague memory of being trapped in a creek by the mud and having to walk home with no shoes.

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Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 3d

The English pastoral dream! Were you there to see the clay?

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Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 3d

I’ll not denigrate the tongue by trying to do any more Gaelic than what is in the book, but hopefully a chance to speak about anglophone monolingualism and what that does to limit a view of the world too.

Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 4d

Delighted that this year I’ll be appearing as part of Faclan: The Hebridean Book Festival alongside Graeme Macrae Burnet and a host of others focusing on the work from and about Harris, Lewis, Uist and Barra. lanntair.com/events/event...

FACLAN 2025 Programme: Innis-Mhuir: Guthan Eilieanach ARCHIPELAGO: ISLAND VOICES - An Lanntair

FACLAN: Fèis Litreachas Innse Gall The Hebridean Book Festival. Faclan this year dwells on the long archipelago of the Outer Hebrides. It’s weather and environment, language and divergent voices, its ...

lanntair.com

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Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 3d

It’s a lovely cosy affair if you fancy a reason to get away to Lewis a weekend in the murk.

Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 4d

Delighted that this year I’ll be appearing as part of Faclan: The Hebridean Book Festival alongside Graeme Macrae Burnet and a host of others focusing on the work from and about Harris, Lewis, Uist and Barra. lanntair.com/events/event...

FACLAN 2025 Programme: Innis-Mhuir: Guthan Eilieanach ARCHIPELAGO: ISLAND VOICES - An Lanntair

FACLAN: Fèis Litreachas Innse Gall The Hebridean Book Festival. Faclan this year dwells on the long archipelago of the Outer Hebrides. It’s weather and environment, language and divergent voices, its ...

lanntair.com

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Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 4d

Delighted that this year I’ll be appearing as part of Faclan: The Hebridean Book Festival alongside Graeme Macrae Burnet and a host of others focusing on the work from and about Harris, Lewis, Uist and Barra. lanntair.com/events/event...

FACLAN 2025 Programme: Innis-Mhuir: Guthan Eilieanach ARCHIPELAGO: ISLAND VOICES - An Lanntair

FACLAN: Fèis Litreachas Innse Gall The Hebridean Book Festival. Faclan this year dwells on the long archipelago of the Outer Hebrides. It’s weather and environment, language and divergent voices, its ...

lanntair.com

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Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 5d

I’m excited to get back to Brizzle!

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Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 5d

I'll also be chatting to Marianna in Bristol at the end of the month at @bookhaus.bsky.social

Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 5d

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!

Promotional image for Electric wind. Book sits in centre of image. The book cover is a digital drawing of rolling blue and green hills with a purple cloudy sky in the background. Wind turbines and trees can be seen dotted along the hills. Text along bottom of image reveals the book's publication date: October 14th 2025.

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Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks to Wigtown book festival again for having us. Next up is Dundee later this month. More info here www.waterstones.com/events/domin...

Dominic Hinde in Conversation with Gabriella Bennett | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Dominic Hinde in Conversation with Gabriella Bennett today.

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Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 5d

One of the things I have loved about working with @manchesterup.bsky.social on commercial non fiction is the understanding of the balance between public storytelling and integrity of research and expertise.

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Dr. Crystal A. Kolden @pyrogeog.bsky.social · 6d

Published today: our new paper showing a 44-year trend of increasing global wildfire disasters (fatalities and economic losses) due to climate change-induced extreme weather. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires

Climate change and land mismanagement are creating increasingly fire-prone built and natural environments. However, despite worsening fire seasons, evidence is lacking globally for trends in socially ...

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Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks to @wigtownbooktown.bsky.social for hosting us, and great to share a bill with my colleague and friend Alice Mah whose memoir Red Pockets has deservedly attracted a lot of attention over the past year.

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Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 8d

And so it begins! 3pm in the McNeillie tent today.

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Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 9d

So the bad news is the London launch event we were hosting at Waterstones Trafalgar square has had to be cancelled due to booking conflicts - details of replacement forthcoming with the novelist Ali Millar in early December, but we have added a new event at Faclan literature fest in Lewis.

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Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 10d

I’m intrigued mostly by the way in which transition narratives of this type manifest as realistic vs the larger calls for some kind of more fundamental change. Danielle Gabor’s work on derisking the future for investors is very useful here.