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David Farrier
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Writer. Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils | Nature's Genius: Evolution's Lessons for a Changing Planet, shortlisted: Wainwright Conservation Writing Prize & Saltire Nonfiction Prize 2025
Professor of Literature & the Environment, Uni of Edinburgh .. more

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David Andrew Farrier is a New Zealand journalist and actor. He has worked in news and on documentaries, including features on New Zealand television and co-directing the internationally distributed documentary film Tickled (2016). He created the 2018 Netflix documentary series Dark Tourist, in which he visits popular dark tourism attractions. He has also appeared in the 2014 Rhys Darby mockumentary series Short Poppies. .. more

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David Farrier @david-farrier.bsky.social · Oct 7
Still can't quite believe it, but Vanity Fair Italy interviewed me about Nature's Genius
www.vanityfair.it/article/davi...

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David Farrier @david-farrier.bsky.social · 17d
Giving this a boost, if you need a little light in the darkest month

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David Farrier @david-farrier.bsky.social · 17d
Reading about Kash Patel prioritising workouts over security meetings and the whole MAGA-bro obsession with strength and body-sculpting

"The men are weeping in the gym
... they don't hear
the thousands of tiny fracturings
needed to build something stronger"

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David Farrier @david-farrier.bsky.social · 17d
Yes, thanks! Hope you enjoy.

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 17d
Bravo @ben-cooke.bsky.social. Brilliant scoop, and hard to imagine a more important one.

“This government is hiding the true danger of climate change from the people”. Spooks don’t mess about when they leak.

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The internal version also warned that collapsing ecosystems could motivate acts of eco-terrorism in Britain, as well as drawing NATO into conflicts over remaining breadbaskets in Russia and Ukraine. Described as a reasonable worst case scenario the report said that many ecosystems around the world were so stressed that they would soon pass a tipping point after which they were an inexorably degrade no matter what humans did to protect them. forests in Canada and Russia might pass a tipping point by 2030 as my glacier in the Himalayas that fed Rivers on which 2 billion people dependent the report suggested. Intelligence chiefs warned that the decline of Himalayan rivers would almost certainly escalate tensions between China India and Pakistan potentially leading to nuclear war. Britton which imports 40% of its food including a fifth of its animal feed from South America, which struggle to feed itself unless it made expensive investments in its supply chains the authors said. These investments could include lab grown meat a new crop varieties. “This government is hiding the true danger of climate change from the people” a source close to the development of the report claimed. “We need to have an honest conversation about the risks we face to our prosperity and how to mitigate them.”

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David Farrier @david-farrier.bsky.social · 18d
Yes, I'd be happy to! Can you DM me the details? Thanks.

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Louisa Casson @louisacasson.bsky.social · 23d
Would you believe me if I told you a new international law dedicated to environmental protection is coming into force today?

And that it covers nearly half the surface of the planet? 🌊

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 25d
Missing from the coverage of redundancies at Edinburgh: this was done in such a haphazard, uncoordinated way, there are now core teams who have gone from 5 people to 1 with no change in workload or pressure and huge loss in knowledge of institutional process. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2576321...
Hundreds of staff leave Edinburgh University amid cuts drive
According to the university, 345 of these departures were the result of a targeted voluntary severance (VS) scheme run by the institution in 2025.
www.heraldscotland.com

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David Farrier @david-farrier.bsky.social · 26d
I had the great pleasure of chatting with @mandascott.bsky.social for the Accidental Gods podcast. Listen here!
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What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier
We live in an ever-changing world, but it is not always obvious what kinds of evolutionary change we are seeing in the broader web of life: in physiology, behaviour, language - and human responses to ...
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mandascott.bsky.social @mandascott.bsky.social · 26d
We live in an ever-changing world, but how thin is the ice on which we are skating? And how can we change the ways we do things so we don’t fall into the void of extinction.

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What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier
We live in an ever-changing world, but it is not always obvious what kinds of evolutionary change we are seeing in the broader web of life: in physiology, behaviour, language - and human responses to ...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28d
The government sits and watches as Heba dies. It's heartbreaking, horrible, almost impossible to compute. Didn't people vote in the hope (however forlorn) of ending the Tories' psychopathic mode of government? Yet on it goes, under Keir Starmer. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Imprisoned hunger striker linked to Palestine Action tells friend: ‘I’m dying’
Francesca Nadin visited Heba Muraisi, 31, in a Wakefield prison at the weekend and says ‘her body is shutting down’
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David Farrier @david-farrier.bsky.social · Jan 8
Blow-by-blow account of an extrajudicial killing. Chilling that the shooter is close enough to look the driver in the eyes as he opens fire.

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · Jan 8
The paper of record is, thank heaven, fulfilling its responsibility this time. That really matters
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Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire.
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David Farrier @david-farrier.bsky.social · Jan 2
You probably know of Kathleen Jamie's essays already, but if not they're superb.

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David Farrier @david-farrier.bsky.social · Jan 2
2026 looking good already @calflyn.bsky.social

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David Farrier @david-farrier.bsky.social · Dec 24
We did Jolabokaflod for the first time this year. Not a bad haul.

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David Farrier @david-farrier.bsky.social · Dec 23
Congratulations!!! Can't wait. Come to Edinburgh!

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David Farrier @david-farrier.bsky.social · Dec 15
🙏

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Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery @naturerecovery.bsky.social · Dec 9
🔊New Podcast out now: a conversation with @david-farrier.bsky.social on how we might learn to live in “The what ought to be.” He talks about adaptation, resilience, and what nature can teach us about recovery in a changing world. 🎧https://naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/podcasts/
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David Farrier @david-farrier.bsky.social · Dec 8
Me too. What's the scam?

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David Farrier @david-farrier.bsky.social · Dec 6
1000 people turned up in Falkirk today to say no to Nigel Farage's message of hate and division

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David Farrier @david-farrier.bsky.social · Dec 3
I was thrilled to take part in the Nature Recovery podcast @naturerecovery.bsky.social
Listen here:

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Living in 'The What Ought to Be' with David Farrier - The Nature Recovery Podcast
Professor David Farrier (University of Edinburgh) discusses his 2025 book Nature’s Genius: Evolution’s Lessons for a Changing Planet and explores how rapid, human-driven evolutionary pressures reveal ...
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David Farrier @david-farrier.bsky.social · Dec 2
@sadiahqureshi.bsky.social One more to add to the list 🍾

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Christian Elliott @christianelliott.me · Dec 2
An annual tradition, @smithsonianmag.bsky.social asked contributors for their favorite science books of 2025. You can check out all our recommendations (including my own, @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social's Is A River Alive?) here:
The Ten Best Science Books of 2025
From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year
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David Farrier @david-farrier.bsky.social · Nov 30
Fair

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David Farrier @david-farrier.bsky.social · Nov 30
I'd feel better if they just asked ChatGPT how to run a university

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David Farrier @david-farrier.bsky.social · Nov 19
Amazing turn out of Edinburgh University staff outside the parliament building right now to defend education against needless cuts
@ucuedinburgh.bsky.social

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Fraser MacDonald @frasermacdonald.bsky.social · Nov 17
If Edinburgh Uni, with no operational deficit, gets to sack 1800 people, imagine what this will signal to more fiscally challenged Scottish universities?

MSPs need to realise that this is more than a local crisis – we need urgent public scrutiny of Edinburgh’s governance.

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David Farrier @david-farrier.bsky.social · Nov 10
I wrote about why we need to grow food in cities for @theguardian.com

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Could urban farming feed the world?
From back gardens to hi-tech hydroponics, the future of food doesn’t have to be rural
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David Farrier @david-farrier.bsky.social · Oct 22
This is such an important point.

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Yadvinder Malhi @ymalhi.bsky.social · Oct 21
What can evolution teaches about how life will adapt to our changing planet? Find out at the seminar on Friday…
biodivoxford.bsky.social The Oxford Nature Network @biodivoxford.bsky.social · Oct 17
Don't miss @david-farrier.bsky.social on Friday 24th when he'll be speaking about Nature’s Genius: Evolution’s Lessons for a Changing Planet. Online or in-person, followed by a drinks reception & book signing in the School of Geography & the Environment. Register bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiv...