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Dr Heather McKnight

@nanoutopia.bsky.social
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Researcher with Magnetic Ideals Collective, Berlin. Working on utopian studies, precarity and climate crisis, activist, becoming utopian wherever possible! 💚🌿💚🌿🪄 she/her/✨ www.magneticideals.org

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Brook Farm Institute for Critical Studies @brookfarm.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Are you a classicist? Send us a proposal and join our band of academic renegades: brookfarminstitute.com
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Voices in Exile @voicesinexile.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Our 2025 Impact Report is here!🤩 Over the past year, we supported more than 1,000 people seeking refuge and asylum through immigration advice, homelessness support, ESOL classes, wellbeing groups, employability support, and our food bank.🧡 www.voicesinexile.org/wp-content/u... 🔗
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Rage Against the Miocene @organiccarbon.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
In Whitelye Common, Sphagnum moss is overtaken by fast growing purple moor grass, forming tussocks of built on foundations of decaying moss. A consequence of draining and nitrogen enrichment from the surrounding farmland, with complicated consequences for carbon storage.
Black bog water (due to the degradation of adjacent peat) with interspersed hummocks with new shoots of bright green, springtime grass. Wye Valley
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 22/04/2026
Climate Justice Universities Union has just published a guide to moving away from big tech. Useful for both individuals and organisations. climatejusticeuniversitiesunion.org/action-guide...
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Action Guide: Moving Away from Big Tech
Preamble This document aims to serve as a conversation starter for members of the Climate Justice Universities Union to consider a progressive move to more ecologically and ethically conscious digita...
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Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament @cnduk.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
£1.5 billion a day is being spent by the US on its illegal war on Iran - billions that could instead be spent providing genuine security to millions of people. A lesson for Keir Starmer to prioritise #NursesNotNukes and #WelfareNotWarfare! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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US spending on ‘reckless’ Iran war could have saved 87m lives, says UN
Head of UN’s humanitarian agency frustrated that $2bn weekly cost of conflict comes amid big cuts to aid budgets
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 21/04/2026
Call them concentration camps!
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Dr Heather McKnight @nanoutopia.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The Menopause and Mind end of year report is now up. Sad to be leaving but very proud to be involved in this initiative and excited to see where the fantastic board members take this next! menoandmind.org/2026/04/22/m...
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Menopause and Mind Events Summary and Impact Report (2025–2026)
Overview It has been a wonderful year albeit on a shoestring budget for the Menopause and Mind group. There has been a lot of laughter, joy and shared stories in our sessions.  Menopause and mental…
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Dr Heather McKnight @nanoutopia.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I'm not familiar with any articles but have any #utopianstudies or #dystopianstudies scholars out there been writing/reading on For All Mankind? It looks like our kind of mediascape! #alternativefutures #reimaginedhistories #scifianalysis
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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.com · 15/04/2026
Clever Spring Signs (10 Photos) Spring has a way of announcing itself with clever little signals. Sometimes it arrives as a wall full of flowers, sometimes as a handmade note beside free blooms, sometimes as a bird returning to a branch, and sometimes as a patch of “weeds” that turns out to be a…
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Clever Spring Signs (10 Photos)
Spring has a way of announcing itself with clever little signals. Sometimes it arrives as a wall full of flowers, sometimes as a handmade note beside free blooms, sometimes as a bird returning to a branch, and sometimes as a patch of “weeds” that turns out to be a feast for bees. These 10 photos capture the smartest, sweetest, and most imaginative clues that winter is over and the world is waking up again.
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Dr Heather McKnight @nanoutopia.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
This utopian care cafe space has been lingering on the edges of my mind and work timespace, it seems to have now grown moss... I think I prefer this metasteps.com/viewer/adc09... #microutopia #utopianstudies #playandconnection #collectivecare
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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.com · 13/04/2026
When Trees Become Art (14 Photos) Forget the gallery walls. Mother Nature just opened her own exhibition, and she’s not taking any prisoners. When street artists trade concrete and spray paint for living bark, twisting roots, and massive canopies, something magical happens. This isn’t just art in…
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When Trees Become Art (14 Photos)
Forget the gallery walls. Mother Nature just opened her own exhibition, and she’s not taking any prisoners. When street artists trade concrete and spray paint for living bark, twisting roots, and massive canopies, something magical happens. This isn’t just art in the park; it’s a full-on collaboration with the wild. From towering wooden giants hiding in the Mexican jungle to ancient trunks carved with impossible detail in Ghana, we’re taking you on a global tour.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 08/04/2026
When Liv Nervo’s story about being abused by her billionaire ex-boyfriend went viral, Meta took down the videos. Coincidence? 👀 Stop women being silenced👇 goodlaw.social/ouzo
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
🎓 New article by Lucy Finchett-Maddock which uses ice as an in-between state of land/solid and water/fluid to look at "percolating sovereignty". www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Petrified Legality, Percolating Sovereignty
This piece begins with the author’s epiphanic experience with a glacier, Perito Moreno, Southern Patagonia, and follows a journey of fascination for the edifying power and majesty of ice, as not ju...
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Dr Heather McKnight @nanoutopia.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Very honoured to be included in this exhibition, please stop by and see our nanoutopian moment during a break in lockdown if you happen to be in London! #selfcare101 #utopianstudies #fuandurasides
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Dr Heather McKnight @nanoutopia.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Stop men abusing the law to gaslight goodlawproject.org/s/88eac0
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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Our general submissions for Issue 2 are NOW OPEN until April 21st! If you are a 2SLGBTQIA+ writer, send us your work! You can submit one story and up to three poems. Wondering what we like? Issue 1 is free to read on our site! But please don't self-reject—we can't wait to read your work 🗡️🪐🌈
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Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE
Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.
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Dr Heather McKnight @nanoutopia.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
“Hollow space with sparks, this will probably remain our condition for a long time, but a hollow space which allows us to walk undisguised, and with sparks which increasingly model a figure of direction. The paths in the midst of collapse are layable, right through the middle” – Ernst Bloch
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Dr Heather McKnight @nanoutopia.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
A bit of hope in the darkness... www.opendemocracy.net/en/surveilla... #microutopia #nanoutopia
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Revolution begins with care: Confronting the polycrisis
We’re living through a series of interlinked disasters, confounded by the rise of surveillance. How do we fight back?
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Dr Heather McKnight @nanoutopia.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
An invite to the third Menopause and Mind AGM in Brighton! It's a lovely group, have made so many memories over the last few years, so going to miss it. 💜https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/menopause-mind-agm-brighton-29-april-1830-menopause-and-mind-2hkye
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Menopause and Mind AGM, Brighton 29 April, 18:30
We would like to extend a warm welcome to attend the Menopause and Mind AGM on 29 April, places are limited so please register your interest via the Google Form and we will send over full details shor...
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 05/04/2026
When Elon Musk bought Twitter, he said he wouldn’t make it a “free-for-all hellscape” – but that’s exactly what has happened 👀 Take action and hold Musk and X to account goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/x-is…
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X is not above the law
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Dr Heather McKnight @nanoutopia.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Want to explore Utopia and Failure Creative Network content in 3D? We now have our Metasteps world up and running, you can view videos and photos from the Academic Care Cafe and the projects that inspired it. Learn more about the project here! www.magneticideals.org/home/utopia-... #utopianstudies
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Utopia and Failure – The Metaverse Care Cafe Project
This project was funded by AHRC Networking Grant (2023-2026) Grant Ref: AH/X009122/1 Created by Dr Heather McKnight, Kirsty Lumm and Dr Jimmy Turner The aim of the Fail Again, Fail Better? network …
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ACORN the union @acornunion.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
NEW CAMPAIGN 🚨 Right now, people are pushed into poverty when councils send in bailiffs for council tax debt. But there’s another way. Together, we can stop this. Together, we can have dignity not debt. Together, we can make Britain Bailiff Free👇 🔗 acorntheunion.org.uk/bailiffs/
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RE-PEAT @re-peat.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
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Sign the Petition
Replace Winston Churchill on a five pound note, with a Bog-moss.
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Dr Heather McKnight @nanoutopia.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Reality is hitting, Chris and I are actually moving to Berlin from Brighton in just over a month, many of you probably know already. The cats are coming too! #berlin #newhorizons
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Magnetic Ideals @magneticideals.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The Wastelands ad Wonderlands collection explores a wide range of utopias and dystopias in film and literature and their important relationship to our present moment. #utopia #dystopia #fiction #hope #futures
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Dr Heather McKnight @nanoutopia.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Very honoured to be part of this publication in dark time so multiple crises. Programmes like Utopia Falls offer some hope in dark times. Huge thanks to @matthewleggatt.bsky.social to pulling this together and all of the other authors that I will soon add to this account!
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Terry Hughes @profterryhughes.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Terrible news today: This year, one-third of coral cover has been destroyed in two northern sections of the Great Barrier reef due to anthropogenic heating. Results for the southern sections (which were even hotter) have not been officially released. www.aims.gov.au/information-...
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Dr Heather McKnight @nanoutopia.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Thanks @matthewleggatt.bsky.social and Dr Liam Knight for the chance for some blue sky thinking on this podcast! Great to be involved with the project, encourage you to listen to the other episodes and follow too, really thought-provoking.
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Manuel Sousa Oliveira @msousaoliveira.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Slowly but steadily growing our network of utopians on bsky Recently added: @danhf.bsky.social @hlmurray.bsky.social @utopiennerach.bsky.social @tedilta.bsky.social @alirizataskale.bsky.social @ccakir.bsky.social @saramartin.bsky.social @cphiliphaines.bsky.social @markusschwarz.bsky.social …
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