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EXPeditions @expeditions.bsky.social · 7h

🌍 Federica Genovese (@fgenovese.bsky.social) explores how tackling climate change demands international cooperation. She examines the politics of COP meetings, shifting global power, and the challenges of climate finance.

🔗 www.joinexpeditions.com/exps/1229

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Climate change and international politics

The only way to deal with climate change effectively and credibly requires some type of international agreement, some level of international cooperation. There is no way in which only one country can ...

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Social Biobehavioural Research Group @ucl-sbb.bsky.social · 4h

Hear from Prof Daisy Fancourt and other groundbreaking researchers at a special event in London next month 👇

Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 1d

What do literary historian Santanu Das, psychobiologist Daisy Fancourt, archaeologist Naoíse Mac Sweeney, geographer Simon Reid-Henry, and cultural historian @tiffwattsmith.bsky.social all have in common?

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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 9h

There's still time to grab your ticket for a FREE 'WILLS PROJECT' EVENT

Join @lsangha.bsky.social & musician Chris Hoban this Saturday for a FREE performance of history & music inspired by #EarlyModern wills 📜🎵

📍Exeter Phoenix
📅Sat 11 Oct
🕐13.30

Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stories-an...

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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 6h

What happens when stars die? Vik Dhillon @sheffielduni.bsky.social @iacastrofisica.bsky.social will enhance HiPERCAM, a high-speed camera mounted on the world’s largest optical telescope, to study stars and measure the density of dark matter.
media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/vdhi...
#WorldSpaceWeek🚀

A view looking up at the instrument platform inside a large telescope dome, showing scientific equipment and structural supports.

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 8h

Join us online at 16:00 BST for Professor Rob Wilson’s talk, “Norming Human Individuality,” part of the Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory Autumn 2025 seminar series.
Details and link: placememory.net/events-2/#Wi...

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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 7h

The We Society podcast is brought to you by the @acadsocsciences.bsky.social in association with the @leverhulme.ac.uk and @nuffieldfoundation.org.

🔗 Listen, subscribe & find out more: podfollow.com/the-we-socie...

The We Society

Beyond the politics, beyond our geography are the intangible connections that hold us together – The We Society. The We Society podcast is here to tell you about the thousands of ways the Social ...

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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 7h

“This isn’t just about ageing, it’s about who our cities are built for.”

In this week’s episode of The We Society, Will Hutton is joined by @tinebuffel.bsky.social @muarg.bsky.social and Julia King to discuss building cities that benefit people of all ages.

🎙️ media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/cities

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Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War @slaveryinwar.bsky.social · 8h

MEET THE CENTRE TEAM
Pleased to introduce Dr. Andrea Ballatore and Professor Doreen Boyd!

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Hanna Pettersson @hannalp.bsky.social · 20d

Hot from the @consletters.bsky.social press: "Now What? The Conundrum of Successful Recovery of Wolves and Other Species for European Conservation", where Erica Von Essen and I discuss future trajectories of species recovery and management in Europe. Here summarised by @sthlmresilience.bsky.social.

Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 20d

🐺 Wolves and other large carnivore species are making a comeback in Europe.
Yet current conservation policies are still geared toward protecting species on the brink of extinction. This no longer reflects reality, argue researchers in a new commentary. www.stockholmresilience.org/5.1a496cd119...

Headline on top of image of howling wolf

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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · 2d

Loved roaming Yorkshire Arboretum & Bog Hall last week for the LCAB field trip. Mushroom season is in full swing! @anthropocenebio.bsky.social

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Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · 21d

REVIEW
The Greatest Extinction Event in 66 Million Years? Contextualising Anthropogenic Extinctions

🔗 buff.ly/qPG3mEa
@jackhhatfield.bsky.social @anthropocenebio.bsky.social

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Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge @hugheshall.bsky.social · 1d

In her groundbreaking project on Afrodiasporic divadom, Dr @emmanuelawroth.bsky.social, Hughes Hall and @leverhulme.ac.uk Fellow, traces the conception of the cult of the diva back to eighteenth-century Europe.

Learn more⬇️
www.hughes.cam.ac.uk/about/news/b...

BHM25: Diasporic divas - Hughes Hall

Exploring racialised and gendered celebrity in Western Europe, 1715-1925. In her groundbreaking project on Afrodiasporic divadom, Dr Emmanuela Wroth, Hughes Hall and Leverhulme Trust Fellow, traces…

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Paul Griffin @paulgriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

My Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship on credit union histories started last week. The SLCU 2025 conference was the perfect place to start at the weekend! Some great workshops and lots of conversations to follow up on. Do get in touch if interested in the work!

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History at Queen's University Belfast @qubhistory.bsky.social · 2d

QUB History will be participating in the 2026 Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship competition. Eligible applicants (post-PhD) with strong proposals should contact a suitable mentor (www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ...) to discuss application (EOI closes 5 Nov.)
www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career...

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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 1d

All are leading scholars in their fields, past winners of the Philip Leverhulme Prize and will be speaking at our event in November!

Reserve your place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/5x15-lever...
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5x15, Leverhulme Trust & EXPeditions present: The Value of Knowledge

Join us for a special event on the value of knowledge in an age of disinformation. In partnership with the Leverhulme Trust and EXPeditions.

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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 1d

What do literary historian Santanu Das, psychobiologist Daisy Fancourt, archaeologist Naoíse Mac Sweeney, geographer Simon Reid-Henry, and cultural historian @tiffwattsmith.bsky.social all have in common?

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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 1d

The Philip Leverhulme Prize Collection, created in partnership with @expeditions.bsky.social www.joinexpeditions.com/partners/lev...
Bringing our collection live to a stage: www.5x15.com/events/5x15-... Join us!

5x15, Leverhulme Trust & EXPeditions present: The Value of Knowledge

Join 5x15 for a special event on the value of knowledge in an age of disinformation.

www.5x15.com

Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 1d

Hannah Skoda, Professor of Medieval History @stjohnsox.bsky.social reflects on practical steps to improve women’s place in higher education. www.joinexpeditions.com/experts/4619

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Weaponised Pasts @weaponisedpasts.bsky.social · 6d

Welcome to Weaponised Pasts! The website for our investigation into heritage-based hostility is now live at weaponisedpasts.org. Find out more about the project there.

Weaponised Pasts

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Shakespeare Institute @shakesinstitute.bsky.social · 2d

Coming Soon! Indigenizing Shakespeare Speaker Series hosted by Xin Ying Lim, our Visiting Fellow and @leverhulme.ac.uk-funded doctoral researcher at the @universityofhull.bsky.social
🔹Tuesdays, Oct–Dec 2025, 4–5pm UK Time
🔹Online
👉 For speaker lineup and registration: forms.gle/iVctbVJ2MCoE...

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Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery @naturerecovery.bsky.social · 2d

Our fabulous intern reflects on a recent Reimagining Nature Finance event. Immersed in the forest, without the distractions of conventional venues, participants explored the deeper question of how our relationships with place, community, time, finance, & Nature itself- shape the systems we design.

Reflections on the Reimagining Nature Finance workshop

A blog on the importance of relationships in redesigning economic and financial systems that are in service of life

naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk

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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 1d

Stars are interesting in many ways and seeing them is more complex than one may imagine. They also change on timescales from seconds to years. Read about Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow, Prof Gerry Gilmore's project @cambridgeastro.bsky.social media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/ggil...

#WorldSpaceWeek 🚀

Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · Sep 4

Having led strategic coordination in optical astronomy for twenty-five years, Professor Gerry Gilmore is now building a sustainable alliance for the European-wide network of observatories initially built to support the Gaia mission. media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/ggil... @cambridgeastro.bsky.social

Figure showing Phylogenetic tree constructed from 78 solar twins using 55 evolutionarily significant traits.

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Jenni Barclay @volcanojenni.bsky.social · 1d

We’re advertising a PhD studentship for folks with good knowledge of Caribbean culture and society, with background in geography, human geography, humanities or interdisciplinary geosciences as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded ‘volcanic histories’ project

Summary of what the PhD student will do. QR code in bottom LHS. Project part of our Leverhulme Trust funded project volcanic histories and the student will examine the cultural markers and response to to volcanic activity across the Eastern Caribbean. Understand local ways of knowing and remembering volcanic activity. Integrate scientific. And community knowledge for DRR - joining an interdisciplinary team from several universities.

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EXPeditions @expeditions.bsky.social · 5d

🌏 Historian Aaron William Moore from the University of Edinburgh reflects on why he studies China, Japan, and Russia : not out of romantic fascination, but because they help answer big questions about culture, education, and modernity.

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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 2d

Reconstruction efforts following the war in Syria so far have been ad-hoc and unsustainable. Dima Albadra @uniofbath.bsky.social will study the potential of reviving Syria’s earthen architecture heritage for post-war reconstruction. media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/dalb... #WorldHabitatDay

Looking up inside an earthen brick dome with a hole in the middle.

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