Lecturer @ExeterGeography. Passionate about #envhist, #amlit, Thoreau, Walden. 1st book: https://xitter.cf/t.co/KDjclBk66U she/her
Exeter, UK
Joined March 2014
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Glass Garden is live on Kickstarter! A solo game of growing succulents and minding critters. Designed by Roshni Patel with art by @kwanchaimoriya . Only $12! kickstarter.com/projects/239…
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Emmy Rossum and Zoë Winters star in 'Walden,' a new Off Broadway play that’s a climate disaster drama cohabiting with a domestic soap opera. nyti.ms/4eogM4W
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Joni Mitchell review – a triumphant star-studded Hollywood show theguardian.com/music/2024/o…
My PhD viva was 10 years ago today. It marked the end of almost eight years studying @CUGeogPlan, from BSc to MSc and PhD. #Thoreau and #Walden both have a lot to answer for in the decade since... 😂🌱📚 #ecologicalrestoration
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J.D. Souther, the singer and songwriter who co-wrote twangy yet debonair hits for artists like the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt that helped define the Southern California country-rock sound of the mid-1970s has died. He was 78. latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
ALT JD Souther behind a microphone wearing a suit smiling. Text reads L.A. Times Obituary J.D. Souther 1945-2024
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📢 Join us for our "Teaching with Zines" online workshop, Friday 9/13 at 9am Pacific! 📢 We'll be joined by 4 geographers who will share how they use zines in their classrooms & share some resources. Curious about zines & GEOZONe? Register here: bit.ly/4e3mk5q. 📓
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We are excited to announce our 2024 Children's Writing on Nature and Conservation Shortlist for The Wainwright Prize.✏️🌿
Congratulations to all our talented shortlisted authors and illustrators!
#WainwrightPrize #ChildrensWriting #WainwrightPrize24
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We are thrilled to announce our 2024 Conservation Writing Shortlist for The Wainwright Prize. ✏️🌱
Congratulations to @helenczerski, @JohnVaillant, @CSLyons, @toritsui, @some_yeo and @olifranklin.
#WainwrightPrize #ConservationWriting #WainwrightPrize24
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We are delighted to announce our 2024 Nature Writing Shortlist for The Wainwright Prize.✏️🍃
Congratulations to @Katricianh, @jessicajlee, @Al_Humphreys, @beckorio, Michael Malay, Olivia Laing and @afroliage!
#WainwrightPrize #NatureWriting #WainwrightPrize24
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Utah’s famed ‘Double Arch’ geographical feature collapses theguardian.com/us-news/arti…
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@waldengeogs, et al. include everyone in the climate emergency conversation by advocating for zines, self-published magazines. Zines provide activists, artists, and other creatives with an outlet for environmental storytelling and discourse.
Learn more: bit.ly/3y7VDNB
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Oh. 💘 Feels incredibly precious to be accepted and rated by this lot. My forthcoming @VersoBooks title is anarchist-approved! ✔️
A decade ago games were seen as having zero to do with organising. So glad that view is changing now. Thank you @Reddebrek for the thorough review.
"... there’s lot of blood, sweat and tears that go into making plumbers jump up and down and hedgehogs collect shiny rings, and sadly that is often literal."
@Reddebrek reviews @marijamdid's new book "Everything to Play For"
organisemagazine.org.uk/2024…
ALT A pixel illustration of clouds, the text reads "Everything to play for" How Videogames are changing the world" Marijam Did
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South of the Hoover Dam, the Colorado River supports 400 bird species, 40 million people, sacred Tribal lands, and a $1.4 trillion economy. Explore this critical environment to better understand its value for birds & people with this interactive StoryMap. bit.ly/3W9nSn2
ALT A photo of a Vermilion Flycatcher perched in tall reeds against a blurred brown background. Credit: Sandrine Biziaux-Scherson/Audubon Photography Awards
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🥾 Have you seen the news! 🥾
Our newest, diciest game in the Parks family is right around the corner!
Meet Parks: Roll & Hike - the Parks experience you can throw in your backpack and head out on the trails with - will be available at Gen Con & hitting trails in September!
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Beautiful photos of the largest restoration project in Yosemite's history, at a meadow near Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. It was previously private rangeland; now it's "a vibrant hub of wildflowers, songbirds and water-loving grasses," @kurtisalexander writes: sfchronicle.com/california/a…
Our last day in Concord featured visits to Old North Bridge, the Robbins House, and Concord Museum, and a stroll around downtown.
Today’s highlights include a browse through @ConcordLibrary’s annual book sale, walking the Emerson-Thoreau Amble trail to Brister’s Hill (via Fairyland Pond), and a great few hours back at the Succession and Reflection Circle segments of Thoreau’s Path on Brister’s Hill…
