Dr Jamie Arathoon
@jamiearathoon.bsky.social
Lecturer in Geography @ York St John University | human-animal relations | disability and assistance animals | #EMCA | #PetTheftReform | they/them | 🏳️🌈
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🌍 NEW in our Special issue "Infrastructural encounters: Disability in urban lives"
Take a look 🧵👇
#UrbanStudies
Take a look 🧵👇
#UrbanStudies
February 6, 2026 at 2:03 PM
🌍 NEW in our Special issue "Infrastructural encounters: Disability in urban lives"
Take a look 🧵👇
#UrbanStudies
Take a look 🧵👇
#UrbanStudies
Daniel Allen and I are organising an @rgsibg.bsky.social conference (hybrid) session on legal animal geographies.
We invite papers that not only highlight current multispecies injustice, but seek to challenge, resist, and contest these systems to create more just multispecies worlds and futures.
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We invite papers that not only highlight current multispecies injustice, but seek to challenge, resist, and contest these systems to create more just multispecies worlds and futures.
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February 4, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Daniel Allen and I are organising an @rgsibg.bsky.social conference (hybrid) session on legal animal geographies.
We invite papers that not only highlight current multispecies injustice, but seek to challenge, resist, and contest these systems to create more just multispecies worlds and futures.
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We invite papers that not only highlight current multispecies injustice, but seek to challenge, resist, and contest these systems to create more just multispecies worlds and futures.
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We would love for @jaytoddgla.bsky.social’s and my critical response to be read widely, given the Sullivan Review’s potential for far-reaching implications across the social and health sciences — and indeed well beyond the academy
New Intervention in TIBG:
'A critical response to the UK's "Sullivan Review" into sex and gender in research and data' by @jaytoddgla.bsky.social & @felicitycallard.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
'A critical response to the UK's "Sullivan Review" into sex and gender in research and data' by @jaytoddgla.bsky.social & @felicitycallard.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
February 3, 2026 at 7:24 PM
We would love for @jaytoddgla.bsky.social’s and my critical response to be read widely, given the Sullivan Review’s potential for far-reaching implications across the social and health sciences — and indeed well beyond the academy
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Animals Are Climate Allies. So Why Are We Leaving Them Out of Climate Policy? https://therevelator.org/animals-climate-allies/
Animals Are Climate Allies. So Why Are We Leaving Them Out of Climate Policy? • The Revelator
Climate change threatens species around the world. At the same time, many animals can help us in the fight against climate change — if we let them.
therevelator.org
January 28, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Animals Are Climate Allies. So Why Are We Leaving Them Out of Climate Policy? https://therevelator.org/animals-climate-allies/
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Myself & many colleagues are facing this at Sheffield Uni - double punishment for strike action. In the midst of this, yesterday many departments got an email announcing imminent structural reviews (ie redundancies). @sheffielducu.bsky.social
The University of Sheffield has stopped paying staff.
Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for.
This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...
Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for.
This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...
Union condemns continued docking of staff pay following strike action at University of Sheffield
The University and College Union (UCU) has today condemned the lockout and withholding of staff pay at the University of Sheffield following lawful industrial action
www.ucu.org.uk
January 23, 2026 at 10:58 AM
Myself & many colleagues are facing this at Sheffield Uni - double punishment for strike action. In the midst of this, yesterday many departments got an email announcing imminent structural reviews (ie redundancies). @sheffielducu.bsky.social
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The University of Sheffield has stopped paying staff.
Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for.
This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...
Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for.
This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...
Union condemns continued docking of staff pay following strike action at University of Sheffield
The University and College Union (UCU) has today condemned the lockout and withholding of staff pay at the University of Sheffield following lawful industrial action
www.ucu.org.uk
January 22, 2026 at 2:34 PM
The University of Sheffield has stopped paying staff.
Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for.
This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...
Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for.
This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...
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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
Please share! @rgsibg.bsky.social @rgs-agwg.bsky.social @marsocsci.bsky.social @marineconservation.bsky.social
January 21, 2026 at 11:23 AM
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
Please share! @rgsibg.bsky.social @rgs-agwg.bsky.social @marsocsci.bsky.social @marineconservation.bsky.social
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Resharing my survey about teaching animal geographies.
This is for anyone who has taught, or is teaching, animal geographies in higher education.
This can be in the UK or world wide and your teaching could be individual lectures to whole modules!
Link here: yorksj.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
This is for anyone who has taught, or is teaching, animal geographies in higher education.
This can be in the UK or world wide and your teaching could be individual lectures to whole modules!
Link here: yorksj.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
January 7, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Resharing my survey about teaching animal geographies.
This is for anyone who has taught, or is teaching, animal geographies in higher education.
This can be in the UK or world wide and your teaching could be individual lectures to whole modules!
Link here: yorksj.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
This is for anyone who has taught, or is teaching, animal geographies in higher education.
This can be in the UK or world wide and your teaching could be individual lectures to whole modules!
Link here: yorksj.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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DIGITAL ECOLOGIES is available for just £15 in paperback until the end of January; discount applied automatically unless you're in North America, where you need to type "JAN40" at payment
this also applies to ALL @manchesterup.bsky.social books!!!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188601/
this also applies to ALL @manchesterup.bsky.social books!!!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188601/
Manchester University Press - Digital ecologies
Digital ecologies - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Digital ecologies by Jonathon Turnbull
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
January 8, 2026 at 4:15 PM
DIGITAL ECOLOGIES is available for just £15 in paperback until the end of January; discount applied automatically unless you're in North America, where you need to type "JAN40" at payment
this also applies to ALL @manchesterup.bsky.social books!!!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188601/
this also applies to ALL @manchesterup.bsky.social books!!!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188601/
Resharing my survey about teaching animal geographies.
This is for anyone who has taught, or is teaching, animal geographies in higher education.
This can be in the UK or world wide and your teaching could be individual lectures to whole modules!
Link here: yorksj.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
This is for anyone who has taught, or is teaching, animal geographies in higher education.
This can be in the UK or world wide and your teaching could be individual lectures to whole modules!
Link here: yorksj.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
January 7, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Resharing my survey about teaching animal geographies.
This is for anyone who has taught, or is teaching, animal geographies in higher education.
This can be in the UK or world wide and your teaching could be individual lectures to whole modules!
Link here: yorksj.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
This is for anyone who has taught, or is teaching, animal geographies in higher education.
This can be in the UK or world wide and your teaching could be individual lectures to whole modules!
Link here: yorksj.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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The British honours system is corrupt and disgusting and any educated person who accepts one goes down in my estimation - especially if it's a VC who is closing a geography department, and who was born in a country subjugated by the British empire. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/new-yea...
New Year Honours 2026: knighthood for Leicester vice-chancellor
Professors from UCL and Plymouth Marjon University receive damehoods, while four vice-chancellors commended
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The British honours system is corrupt and disgusting and any educated person who accepts one goes down in my estimation - especially if it's a VC who is closing a geography department, and who was born in a country subjugated by the British empire. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/new-yea...
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I have designed a 20min questionnaire looking to explore how you all teach animal geographies.
The survey aims to understand your pedagogical practices, course design, and how you translate all that animal geographies research out there to your students.
yorksj.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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The survey aims to understand your pedagogical practices, course design, and how you translate all that animal geographies research out there to your students.
yorksj.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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November 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I have designed a 20min questionnaire looking to explore how you all teach animal geographies.
The survey aims to understand your pedagogical practices, course design, and how you translate all that animal geographies research out there to your students.
yorksj.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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The survey aims to understand your pedagogical practices, course design, and how you translate all that animal geographies research out there to your students.
yorksj.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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🚨 Job opportunity🚨
We are looking for an editorial assistant to work with me on the RGS journals (TIBG, The GJ, Area & Geo) as we move online systems.
🗓6 months fixed term
🕑0.4 FTE
📍Remote working option
❗️Closing date 11th Dec
Please share & apply! Happy to answer Qs.
www.rgs.org/about-us/wor...
We are looking for an editorial assistant to work with me on the RGS journals (TIBG, The GJ, Area & Geo) as we move online systems.
🗓6 months fixed term
🕑0.4 FTE
📍Remote working option
❗️Closing date 11th Dec
Please share & apply! Happy to answer Qs.
www.rgs.org/about-us/wor...
Editorial Assistant for RGS-IBG Journals | Job vacancy
An exciting opportunity to develop a greater understanding of the academic peer review and publishing process. Part time, six-month fixed term contract.
www.rgs.org
December 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
🚨 Job opportunity🚨
We are looking for an editorial assistant to work with me on the RGS journals (TIBG, The GJ, Area & Geo) as we move online systems.
🗓6 months fixed term
🕑0.4 FTE
📍Remote working option
❗️Closing date 11th Dec
Please share & apply! Happy to answer Qs.
www.rgs.org/about-us/wor...
We are looking for an editorial assistant to work with me on the RGS journals (TIBG, The GJ, Area & Geo) as we move online systems.
🗓6 months fixed term
🕑0.4 FTE
📍Remote working option
❗️Closing date 11th Dec
Please share & apply! Happy to answer Qs.
www.rgs.org/about-us/wor...
Looking for responses to my teaching animal geographies survey!
If you teach any form of animal geographies in Higher education whether single lectures to full modules I'll be grateful for your response!
If you teach any form of animal geographies in Higher education whether single lectures to full modules I'll be grateful for your response!
I have designed a 20min questionnaire looking to explore how you all teach animal geographies.
The survey aims to understand your pedagogical practices, course design, and how you translate all that animal geographies research out there to your students.
yorksj.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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The survey aims to understand your pedagogical practices, course design, and how you translate all that animal geographies research out there to your students.
yorksj.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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December 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Looking for responses to my teaching animal geographies survey!
If you teach any form of animal geographies in Higher education whether single lectures to full modules I'll be grateful for your response!
If you teach any form of animal geographies in Higher education whether single lectures to full modules I'll be grateful for your response!
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This was a brutal read. An incisive rendering of the life of ECRs and (false) promise of an academic career:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This was a brutal read. An incisive rendering of the life of ECRs and (false) promise of an academic career:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
I have designed a 20min questionnaire looking to explore how you all teach animal geographies.
The survey aims to understand your pedagogical practices, course design, and how you translate all that animal geographies research out there to your students.
yorksj.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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The survey aims to understand your pedagogical practices, course design, and how you translate all that animal geographies research out there to your students.
yorksj.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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November 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I have designed a 20min questionnaire looking to explore how you all teach animal geographies.
The survey aims to understand your pedagogical practices, course design, and how you translate all that animal geographies research out there to your students.
yorksj.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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The survey aims to understand your pedagogical practices, course design, and how you translate all that animal geographies research out there to your students.
yorksj.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Save Geography at the University of Leicester.
The University of Leicester is proposing to dissolve Geography into a School of Chemical, Earth & Environmental Science. All research-active human geographers are at threat of redundancy. Add your voice to keep #Geography whole!
c.org/sbYBqcwrhC
The University of Leicester is proposing to dissolve Geography into a School of Chemical, Earth & Environmental Science. All research-active human geographers are at threat of redundancy. Add your voice to keep #Geography whole!
c.org/sbYBqcwrhC
Sign the Petition
Save Geography at the University of Leicester
c.org
November 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Save Geography at the University of Leicester.
The University of Leicester is proposing to dissolve Geography into a School of Chemical, Earth & Environmental Science. All research-active human geographers are at threat of redundancy. Add your voice to keep #Geography whole!
c.org/sbYBqcwrhC
The University of Leicester is proposing to dissolve Geography into a School of Chemical, Earth & Environmental Science. All research-active human geographers are at threat of redundancy. Add your voice to keep #Geography whole!
c.org/sbYBqcwrhC
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AGWG is pleased to offer an annual prize of £100 for the best postgraduate dissertation. In addition, we will announce a Runner-Up prize!
The new deadline for submissions is 30th November 2025.
See more info here: www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/ani...
The new deadline for submissions is 30th November 2025.
See more info here: www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/ani...
Animal Geography Working Group Postgraduate Dissertation Prize — RGS Animal Geographies
The RGS-IBG Animal Geography Working Group (AGWG) is pleased to offer an annual prize of £100 for the best postgraduate dissertation. In addition, we will announce a Runner-Up prize. The new deadlin...
www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk
November 5, 2025 at 11:31 AM
AGWG is pleased to offer an annual prize of £100 for the best postgraduate dissertation. In addition, we will announce a Runner-Up prize!
The new deadline for submissions is 30th November 2025.
See more info here: www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/ani...
The new deadline for submissions is 30th November 2025.
See more info here: www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/ani...
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Interested in learning more about corporate power and industrial chicken production? We have a new blog out from Amby Karamchedu and Ben Coles:
www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/who...
www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/who...
Who Owns Chickens? Corporate Power and Industrial Chicken Production in the Global South — RGS Animal Geographies
Ambarish Karamchedu and Ben Coles Why Chickens? In 2023, 76 billion chickens were slaughtered for meat [i] . This equates to 2,417 birds killed every second (compared to 10 cows and 47 pigs) [ii...
www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk
October 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Interested in learning more about corporate power and industrial chicken production? We have a new blog out from Amby Karamchedu and Ben Coles:
www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/who...
www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/who...
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New in The GJ:
'Multispecies home (un)making: Dogs and lifestyle migrants in Lijiang Ancient Town, China' by Duo Yin & Quan Gao
This paper explores how dogs co-construct and contest the making of home alongside lifestyle migrants in China.
doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky
'Multispecies home (un)making: Dogs and lifestyle migrants in Lijiang Ancient Town, China' by Duo Yin & Quan Gao
This paper explores how dogs co-construct and contest the making of home alongside lifestyle migrants in China.
doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky
September 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
New in The GJ:
'Multispecies home (un)making: Dogs and lifestyle migrants in Lijiang Ancient Town, China' by Duo Yin & Quan Gao
This paper explores how dogs co-construct and contest the making of home alongside lifestyle migrants in China.
doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky
'Multispecies home (un)making: Dogs and lifestyle migrants in Lijiang Ancient Town, China' by Duo Yin & Quan Gao
This paper explores how dogs co-construct and contest the making of home alongside lifestyle migrants in China.
doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky
Happy to see my new article co-authored with Daniel Allen and John Walliss published Open Access in Geography Compass.
◾ The article is titled: An Exploration of Dog‐Related Policy Through a Legal Animal Geographies Lens 🐶
doi.org/10.1111/gec3...
◾ The article is titled: An Exploration of Dog‐Related Policy Through a Legal Animal Geographies Lens 🐶
doi.org/10.1111/gec3...
An Exploration of Dog‐Related Policy Through a Legal Animal Geographies Lens
This article employs a legal animal geographies lens to redefine dogs as more-than-property, focusing on the UK’s legislative shift from the Theft Act 1968 to the Pet Abduction Act 2024, recognising ...
doi.org
September 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Happy to see my new article co-authored with Daniel Allen and John Walliss published Open Access in Geography Compass.
◾ The article is titled: An Exploration of Dog‐Related Policy Through a Legal Animal Geographies Lens 🐶
doi.org/10.1111/gec3...
◾ The article is titled: An Exploration of Dog‐Related Policy Through a Legal Animal Geographies Lens 🐶
doi.org/10.1111/gec3...
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📣 I'M HIRING! Please spread the word 📣
🔎 Looking for a 1-year postdoctoral research associate to support @sensory-lives-prj.bsky.social & UK-wide tour of a playhouse tent communicating neurodivergent children’s experiences of Temporary Accommodation.
🛜 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL488/p...
🔎 Looking for a 1-year postdoctoral research associate to support @sensory-lives-prj.bsky.social & UK-wide tour of a playhouse tent communicating neurodivergent children’s experiences of Temporary Accommodation.
🛜 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL488/p...
September 1, 2025 at 10:55 AM
📣 I'M HIRING! Please spread the word 📣
🔎 Looking for a 1-year postdoctoral research associate to support @sensory-lives-prj.bsky.social & UK-wide tour of a playhouse tent communicating neurodivergent children’s experiences of Temporary Accommodation.
🛜 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL488/p...
🔎 Looking for a 1-year postdoctoral research associate to support @sensory-lives-prj.bsky.social & UK-wide tour of a playhouse tent communicating neurodivergent children’s experiences of Temporary Accommodation.
🛜 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL488/p...
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I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/
John Boyne says LGBTQ+ fiction prize backlash brought him ‘close to the edge’
John Boyne says LGBTQ+ fiction prize backlash brought him ‘close to the edge’
Gender critical novelist urges writers to reenter prize they boycotted and may ask judges not to shortlist his novella
The gender critical Irish novelist John Boyne has said he has been brought “very close to the edge” by the backlash to his inclusion on the longlist for a literary prize for LGBTQ+ authors.
Ten authors and two judges withdrew from the Polari prize and more than 800 writers and publishing industry workers signed a petition calling on Polari to remove Boyne’s novella Earth from its longlist. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/
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OnlineFirst - "Planting Palestine: Food, environment, and the arts of solidarity" by @hannahkateboast.bsky.social:
@uoe-llc.bsky.social #conservation #ecocinema #environmentalism #foraging #solidarity
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
@uoe-llc.bsky.social #conservation #ecocinema #environmentalism #foraging #solidarity
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
August 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
OnlineFirst - "Planting Palestine: Food, environment, and the arts of solidarity" by @hannahkateboast.bsky.social:
@uoe-llc.bsky.social #conservation #ecocinema #environmentalism #foraging #solidarity
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
@uoe-llc.bsky.social #conservation #ecocinema #environmentalism #foraging #solidarity
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....