Iona Macduff
@ionamacduff.bsky.social
Place Writer
Creative Nonfiction PhD at University of East Anglia, Norwich
Scotland and Nepal
www.ionamacduff.com
Creative Nonfiction PhD at University of East Anglia, Norwich
Scotland and Nepal
www.ionamacduff.com
Every time I tried to write about Eigg, I wrote about John the Bird. This piece gets at why: what one person can do if they truly know and love a place. You can read it in Paperboats Zine Issue 5, paperboats.org/2025/04/09/t... along with some other beautiful pieces 🌍💚 @paperboatswriters.bsky.social
May 6, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Every time I tried to write about Eigg, I wrote about John the Bird. This piece gets at why: what one person can do if they truly know and love a place. You can read it in Paperboats Zine Issue 5, paperboats.org/2025/04/09/t... along with some other beautiful pieces 🌍💚 @paperboatswriters.bsky.social
Interesting overview from Sabin Ninglekhu of big money vs. a movement to protect a sacred mountain in Nepal.
A Sacred Mountain, a Cable Car and Nepal's Indigenous Resistance to State Violence
An indigenous movement is resisting state violence and corporate greed to protect Mukkumlung, a sacred mountain under threat from a controversial cable car project in Nepal's Taplejung district.
thewire.in
March 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Interesting overview from Sabin Ninglekhu of big money vs. a movement to protect a sacred mountain in Nepal.
Reposted by Iona Macduff
Hamdan Ballal, one of the directors of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, has been assaulted & injured by settlers at his home in the West Bank & arrested by the IDF.
No trace of him since.
The vengeance is clear.
Do not let Hamdan disappear.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
No trace of him since.
The vengeance is clear.
Do not let Hamdan disappear.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested
No Other Land’s Hamdan Ballal attacked by armed settlers in West Bank and handed to Israeli military, witnesses say
www.theguardian.com
March 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Hamdan Ballal, one of the directors of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, has been assaulted & injured by settlers at his home in the West Bank & arrested by the IDF.
No trace of him since.
The vengeance is clear.
Do not let Hamdan disappear.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
No trace of him since.
The vengeance is clear.
Do not let Hamdan disappear.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
A wonderful mag to write for - open for submissions till end of March 🙌
With our latest issue out, we are open for non-fiction submissions once again, both full-length (up to 5000 words) and flash (1250 words), on any subject. Both submission calls close at the end of the month. You can read our guidelines and submit here: hinterlandnonfiction.submittable.com/submit
March 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
A wonderful mag to write for - open for submissions till end of March 🙌
Given that whales have been around far longer than humans it might be more accurate to say that human languages have patterns that resemble humpback whale songs.
www.newscientist.com/article/2467...
www.newscientist.com/article/2467...
Humpback whale songs have patterns that resemble human language
The sounds that make up humpback whale songs follow some of the same statistical rules seen in human languages, which may be because of how they are learned
www.newscientist.com
February 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
@weatherwest.bsky.social got the final words on CNN’s 1-hour Anderson Cooper show tonight: “There will be more fire on the landscape in a warming world. What will the extreme risk days in 20/30/40 years look like? It’s pretty clear that they will be even more extreme than what we’re seeing today. “
January 13, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Always worth watching the NASA spiral. Beautiful and terrifying.
It was another stunning year for global climate and weather extremes.
As data is processed and released in the first two weeks of January, you are going to be hearing all about these new historical records. Apologies for my many graphs in advance! 😬
Spiral below produced by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5190
As data is processed and released in the first two weeks of January, you are going to be hearing all about these new historical records. Apologies for my many graphs in advance! 😬
Spiral below produced by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5190
January 4, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I'm just getting started on here (hello!) and this list looks like a great place to meet some fellow world-writers. Thanks @robertmoor.bsky.social !
For anyone just getting started here, I created a list to help you find some smart, hopeful, angry, beautiful writing about this watery plant-strewn rock floating in the middle of the cosmos we all happen to live on.
Feel free to suggest additions!
go.bsky.app/5Z65eat
Feel free to suggest additions!
go.bsky.app/5Z65eat
December 2, 2024 at 8:18 AM
I'm just getting started on here (hello!) and this list looks like a great place to meet some fellow world-writers. Thanks @robertmoor.bsky.social !