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Rachel Murray

@rachelmurray.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Lit and Environment at @bristoluni.bsky.social‬ | Co-director @uobrisceh.bsky.social Writing: Marine Attachments 🦀🐚🪼🐙 www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Rac…

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 27/08/2026
‘I don’t​ remember when I first learned to make cyanotypes, but I had loved Anna Atkins’s prints for many years when I found myself in the grip of an obsession with her work, and with the possibilities of the process.’ Gaby Wood on Anna Atkins’s pioneering images. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Gaby Wood · Translucency: Cyanotypes
I don’t​ remember when I first learned to make cyanotypes, but I had loved Anna Atkins’s prints for many years...
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
🐳 You’re God damned right @hesterblum.bsky.social & I made a TWENTY-FIVE EPISODE PODCAST just about 𝐌𝐎𝐁𝐘-𝐃𝐈𝐂𝐊. Subscribe now at exploringthegreats.com/moby-dick & enjoy our thrilling trailer:
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This year's broad theme is ‘Humans and Nature: More resilient towards the future'. Worth a look: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/62...
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"By shortening the time between asking a question+getting an answer these tools are actually undermining curiosity — + paradoxically threatening our ability to understand the world. Curiosity requires a gap between what you want to know+what you find out." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/o...
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Opinion | We Are Losing the Ability to Discover What We Didn’t Know to Ask
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
LRB is my subscription that humbles me the most
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Leonardo Costantini @lcostantini89.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
This madness must stop. Please, consider signing this petition: c.org/t68Jb7Z6jm
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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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max power 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
holy shit bsky has a water sealant expert that predicted the reflecting pool failure mode perfectly
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
What's happening at the University of Exeter is a disaster for both the region and the country. The way the sector is set up, it is *inevitable* and *unstoppable* that this will continuously happen everywhere. We need to stop, get out a blank sheet of paper and start again.
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
is this heat stroke or shock ask hundreds of University of Exeter employees this evening
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Ben Phillips @benphillips1989.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.
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Rachel Murray @rachelmurray.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
A wonderful essay by the brilliant @ria4983.bsky.social
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Megan Gallagher @megangallagher.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
RIP David Hockney
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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
'Fish and Chip Shop' (1954) - a very early Hockney lithograph, made when he was 16 or 17 years old. On display at Salt's Mill, Bradford. A prodigious talent.
'Fish and Chip Shop' - a very early Hockney, on display in Salt's Mill
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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 10/06/2026
New on the podcast 🎧 Anouchka Grose discusses her climate anxiety, activism and introspection in her book, THE REVOLUTION WILL BE INTERNALISED: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Please watch! Please sign! Bit.ly/uhhum
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Arts & The Environmental Humanities online event. What does it mean to do environmental humanities with or through the arts? Join online today Wed 13 May, 14:15-16:00 Central European time www.uis.no/en/research/... #envhum
Poster for Arts & the Environmental Humanities with colored dots in a mesh on right side.

13 May 2026 14:15-16:00
Online

Bergit Arends, Royal Holloway University of London & University of Bristol, “Curatorial and performance-based research and the story of The Flying Qajaq”
Jeff Diamanti, University of Amsterdam, “Bring Back Summer Camp: Field Theory and Eco-Literacy in the Environmental Humanities”
Finn Arne Jørgensen, University of Stavanger, “Tuning to Place: Rephotography and the Exchange between Art and Science”
Estela Gonzalez Lopez, VU Amsterdam, “Thinking with Care: Reimagining Caring for Trees at the Intersection Between the Environmental Humanities and Artistic Practices”
Mitch Turnbull, University of Bristol, “Sonic Entanglement and Ecological Citizenship: Lessons from the Listen to Bristol Feasibility Study”

Organized by The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities
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Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
We have a postdoc medical humanities position available at Exeter on the Wellcome-funded After the End project. Are you interested in endings and aftermaths? If so, please do apply and join our research team. careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/79...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Exeter | University of Exeter
View details and apply for this Postdoctoral Research Associate vacancy in Exeter. Postdoctoral Research Associate Salary Details The starting salary will be from £34,610 on Gra...
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Katherine Hallemeier @undonealready.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
A "beautifully lucid and deeply searching" book www.bloomsbury.com/au/henry-jam...
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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Why would we want to learn from our pasts, or ponder the power of the written and spoken word, or explore the deep questions of humanity? According to the University of Hertfordshire, we wouldn't. They've just cut all of our undergrad Humanities programmes
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Just published! What an honor to be included alongside so many superb critics in this volume, which was so expertly conceived & edited by @denisoff.bsky.social. One funny thing abt collections is that sometimes you don’t get to read the other essays til it’s out—I can’t wait to learn from these. 🌿
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The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Literature and the Environment
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1830-1900 - The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Literature and the Environment
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The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Monograph Prize Winner 2025: The BSLS is delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025 monograph prize is Shannon Lambert’s Science and Affect in Contemporary Literature: Bodies of Knowledge (Bloomsbury). Many congratulations to Shannon and to all the shortlisted scholars.
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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
So in the EarthArt gallery at University of Bristol currently we have an exhibition based on Māori cultural practices and reparations principles for extractive sample-taking by researchers, called Migrating Rocks. It's very cool and if you're around the uni you should have a look in.
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Migrating Rocks – Developing ethical approaches to collecting and returning of rocks.
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Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Fully-funded AHRC PhD scholarship at Swansea University in conjunction with Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales, examining the imperial and colonial associations of their natural sciences collections. Please share widely, and get in touch if you want to know more. Closing date 22 May.
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History and Heritage Studies: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Studentship (Fully Funded) in History with Museum Wales (RS951) - Swansea University
We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 19/04/2026
‘In James Schuyler’s hands, simile is revealing and outlandish. “A wedding of disjunctions”, he calls it elsewhere, one that acts as a guarantor for a world in which each thing is very much its own thing – not sequestered, but not wholly conjoined.’ Matthew Bevis: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Matthew Bevis · Wigging In: On James Schuyler
Schuyler once told an interviewer that he didn’t write the kind of poetry that attracted critics. ‘It’s too easy...
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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
GIANT CRAB OF JAPAN
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Kaneda Kazuo- Cat on Peach Tree
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
My new (and first) book, The Drunkard in Victorian Fiction and Culture is out in May with @edinburghup.bsky.social. You can now pre-order which is pretty cool. Even cooler is that you can get 30% off with this flyer/code. Recommend to your university library if you think it will be of interest. 🍷
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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Cover drop! Extremely excited to have this incredible sculpture, Marisol’s Love (1962), on the cover of Relatability, out later this year press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Relatability
An engaging account of how the New York School poets used art to imagine their queerness as something that might be shared with other people.How did Frank O’Hara and other New York School poets—a smal...
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Alex Zivkovic @alexzivkovic.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I've just published my first videographic essay!! while my written work focuses on questions of infrastructural mediation, this video essay encourages us to look closely at the fish on screen, asking how they distract, enchant, and otherwise entertain 🐟 intransition.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
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Aquarium Reveries: Early Cinema’s Fish Tank Films
This video essay encourages us to look closely at early cinema’s aquariums. First, seeing the fish and aquatic effects as a “distraction” in the age of the cinema of attractions (Georges Méliès), then...
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Siân Harris @sianlouh.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
On what could have been Frank O'Hara's 100th birthday: a favourite poem, and the admission that for the longest time, I was certain I'd seen photos of him as a very dapper elderly man, and I still kind of resent learning I was mistaken. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
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Meditations in an Emergency
Why don’t you get rid of someone else for a change? All I want is boundless love. My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are…
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CRIMINAL SIMPSONS @criminalsimpsons.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Fully funded PhD studentship: ‘Recording nature and writing the self: time, entomology and the archive in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’. Closes 3 May. With Ruth Abbott, Staffan Müller-Wille, Ed Turner & me. @theul.bsky.social @zoologymuseum.bsky.social www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...
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Cambridge University Library, University Museum of Zoology and the University of Cambridge - Collections Connections Communities
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Josephine Taylor @josietaylor.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Very excited to be discussing my book Monday 16th March for Greenhouse Book Talks!
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Briefly here to post some job opportunities. 2 Postdocs in Animals Studies. FT, £38k, closing 12 Mar 26. jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/4-x-Rese... PhD. Clara Dawson lead supervisor with, Duncan Wilson and me on species loss. Deadline, 18 Mar 26. www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Pls circulate.
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Adam Crothers @severaldeer.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
*yawns* *stretches* I have a new book on the way! Home to My Cats, a chonky pamphlet of poems about (as the title might suggest) kittens and Taylor Swift, will be published by @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social in April 2026, and is available to preorder. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
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Adam Crothers - Home to My Cats | Broken Sleep Books
Home to My Cats by Adam Crothers is a fizzing, formally playful pamphlet that turns feline devotion into a poetics of art, music and mischief. These poems move between lyric address and ekphrasis, rif...
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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
amazing cover for a fascinating moment in time. the advent of containerisation famously ended the London Docklands as actual docks (because container ships are incredibly big and wouldn't be able to travel up the Thames)
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Eline D. Tabak @elinetabak.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Two great looking PhD positions with @clia.bsky.social
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Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I think it's probably time to announce that me and @colinhoag.bsky.social are the incoming Editors of Environmental Humanities journal, published by @dukepress.bsky.social . Huge thanks to Franklin Ginn & @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social for all their work as Eds, & for patiently showing us the ropes!
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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
NEXT WED! Please join us for Thinking thru More-than-Human Materials, 3rd in our More-than-Human/ities seminar series w/ York University, Toronto Come explore interdisciplinary practices of creative, more-than-human materiality! 🐦🥚🍄 Wed 4 March 17:45–19:15 Register here yorku.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.
Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.
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Ocean Decade Heritage Network @decadeheritage.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The Call for Papers is open for the symposium "Thinking with the Sea: Interactions and New Perspectives Inspired by the Blue Humanities".  📅 30 Sept - 1 Oct 2026 📍 Turku, Finland ⏰ #CfP deadline: 15 April 2026
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Thinking with the Sea
We are happy to announce the symposium Thinking with the Sea – Interactions and new perspectives inspired by the Blue Humanities that takes place in Turku in autumn 2026. Within the theme Blue…
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Rachel Murray @rachelmurray.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Check out this brilliant new book by @loubree.bsky.social on medicine and women’s fiction, which you can order at a discounted rate using this flyer 🤩✨
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University English @univeng.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
#EnglishCreates: Futures continues with a blog on 'Close Reading on the Beach' by Dr Rachel Murray (University of Bristol): 'Looking closely in this way helps us to slow down and tune into what is in front of us...' universityenglish.ac.uk/the-sea-the-... #EnglishStudies #Ecocriticism
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#EnglishCreates Blog: The Sea, The Sea – 2: Close Reading on the Beach
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daniela russ @ueberdruss.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
what do we talk about when we talk about energy? my answer features (among many others) adorno, bogdanov, and the austrian communist wilhelm frank, who experimented with national exergy balances in the 1950s. out april 2026.
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Ash Ponders is looking for quick photo gigs @ashponders.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.
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Ash: Sebastián, I have one very pressing question.
Sebastián Di Martino: Let me know
Ash: Are jaguar soft?
Sebastián Di Martino: They are very soft (two hearts on the answer)
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Rachel Murray @rachelmurray.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Really disgusted by how staff are being treated at Sheffield after participating in legal industrial action, for which they are already lost pay! A new low has been reached. @sheffielducu.bsky.social
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 25/01/2026
"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution
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Hannah D-C 🦐 @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
CfP: Attuning to More-than-human Seas: Negotiating Multispecies Justice in the Anthropocene Ocean 🌊🦐🐳🪸🦈🐠🌊 Please share! @rgsibg.bsky.social @rgs-agwg.bsky.social @marsocsci.bsky.social @marineconservation.bsky.social
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Emily Whittingham @emily-whittingham.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
There's still just over two weeks left to apply to our workshop exploring historical approaches to non-human life. It will take place on 9-10th April 2026, and aims to bring together scholars across disciplinary divides. PGR and ECR support available thanks to the generosity of our sponsors!
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