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November 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Gareth Millington's Archiving the Inner City project, funded by Leverhulme Trust is hosting a symposium at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia on Friday 14 November.
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#UniversityYork #Sociology #Race #Politics #UrbanHistory #BlackHistory
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November 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Gareth Millington's Archiving the Inner City project, funded by Leverhulme Trust is hosting a symposium at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia on Friday 14 November.
@leverhulme.ac.uk
More info below 👇
#UniversityYork #Sociology #Race #Politics #UrbanHistory #BlackHistory
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#UniversityYork #Sociology #Race #Politics #UrbanHistory #BlackHistory
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Everyone on the planet has a right to a healthy environment. But what is this right about? A radical act of moral political imagination!
Watch Robert Macfarlane’s passionate pledge for The rights of nature.
www.joinexpeditions.com/exps/1328-th...
Watch Robert Macfarlane’s passionate pledge for The rights of nature.
www.joinexpeditions.com/exps/1328-th...
The rights of nature
I have been interested in rivers, in the idea of life — what is alive and what is dead — and how the boundary between life and death is policed and patrolled. I have been particularly fascinated by on...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Everyone on the planet has a right to a healthy environment. But what is this right about? A radical act of moral political imagination!
Watch Robert Macfarlane’s passionate pledge for The rights of nature.
www.joinexpeditions.com/exps/1328-th...
Watch Robert Macfarlane’s passionate pledge for The rights of nature.
www.joinexpeditions.com/exps/1328-th...
A writer of books, films, music and operas about nature, climate, landscape, people and place, and Professor of Literature and the Environmental Humanities @cam.ac.uk, @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social reflects on writing for music. www.joinexpeditions.com/experts/4665
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
A writer of books, films, music and operas about nature, climate, landscape, people and place, and Professor of Literature and the Environmental Humanities @cam.ac.uk, @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social reflects on writing for music. www.joinexpeditions.com/experts/4665
"There’s nothing special about language production in the generic sense, but we value the human.”
In ep 6 of The We Society, Will Hutton is joined by @timgrant123.bsky.social @aifl.bsky.social to discuss how language analysis can help deliver justice for all.
🎙️ media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/grant
In ep 6 of The We Society, Will Hutton is joined by @timgrant123.bsky.social @aifl.bsky.social to discuss how language analysis can help deliver justice for all.
🎙️ media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/grant
November 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"There’s nothing special about language production in the generic sense, but we value the human.”
In ep 6 of The We Society, Will Hutton is joined by @timgrant123.bsky.social @aifl.bsky.social to discuss how language analysis can help deliver justice for all.
🎙️ media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/grant
In ep 6 of The We Society, Will Hutton is joined by @timgrant123.bsky.social @aifl.bsky.social to discuss how language analysis can help deliver justice for all.
🎙️ media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/grant
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Huge congratulations to @rob-marchant.bsky.social & team, including LCAB Director Lindsey Gillson & Fellow @christophlyon.bsky.social, on their new ERC-funded project examining how East African mountain ecosystems & the communities who rely on them interact & evolve.
www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...
www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...
erc.europa.eu/news-events/.... Lots of interesting insights to happen over the coming 6 years in our new ERC-funded project working across mountain systems
Synergy Grants 2025: Examples of projects
How do you solve science’s toughest puzzles? By joining forces. Sixty-six research teams, bringing together 239 scientists, will receive a total of €684 million in European Research Council Synergy Gr...
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November 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Huge congratulations to @rob-marchant.bsky.social & team, including LCAB Director Lindsey Gillson & Fellow @christophlyon.bsky.social, on their new ERC-funded project examining how East African mountain ecosystems & the communities who rely on them interact & evolve.
www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...
www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...
Featuring leading scholars including Philip Leverhulme Prize winners @fgenovese.bsky.social and Simon Reid-Henry, this video by @expeditions.bsky.social looks at why reducing global inequalities is crucial, who drives CO2 emissions, who pays the price and what a fair transition requires. 🎬 👇 #COP30
As COP 30 we will have to hold tight to facts and evidence.
Watch this short documentary, featuring leading scholars, that serves as an introduction to climate inequality
youtu.be/4Ul1vNXuwow
Watch this short documentary, featuring leading scholars, that serves as an introduction to climate inequality
youtu.be/4Ul1vNXuwow
Climate Inequality - Thinking Matters
YouTube video by EXPeditions - The living library of knowledge
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November 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Featuring leading scholars including Philip Leverhulme Prize winners @fgenovese.bsky.social and Simon Reid-Henry, this video by @expeditions.bsky.social looks at why reducing global inequalities is crucial, who drives CO2 emissions, who pays the price and what a fair transition requires. 🎬 👇 #COP30
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On Friday @julespretty.bsky.social gave us a fascinating talk exploring how narrative, storytelling, and culture can transform climate action, nature recovery, and biodiversity conservation.
@ymalhi.bsky.social has written a reflection on the talk which you can read here
@ymalhi.bsky.social has written a reflection on the talk which you can read here
Stories for Nature Recovery: Finding Hope in the Dark Times
Yadvinder Malhi reflects on Jules Pretty's Nature Seminar lecture
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November 10, 2025 at 11:09 AM
On Friday @julespretty.bsky.social gave us a fascinating talk exploring how narrative, storytelling, and culture can transform climate action, nature recovery, and biodiversity conservation.
@ymalhi.bsky.social has written a reflection on the talk which you can read here
@ymalhi.bsky.social has written a reflection on the talk which you can read here
On Earth, life started more than 4 billion years ago. Can we compare it with other sites in the Solar System?
Didier Queloz on bringing the exoplanet perspective & insight into the potential of life’s prevalence in the Universe @lclu.bsky.social.
www.nature.com/articles/s42... @natphys.nature.com
Didier Queloz on bringing the exoplanet perspective & insight into the potential of life’s prevalence in the Universe @lclu.bsky.social.
www.nature.com/articles/s42... @natphys.nature.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
On Earth, life started more than 4 billion years ago. Can we compare it with other sites in the Solar System?
Didier Queloz on bringing the exoplanet perspective & insight into the potential of life’s prevalence in the Universe @lclu.bsky.social.
www.nature.com/articles/s42... @natphys.nature.com
Didier Queloz on bringing the exoplanet perspective & insight into the potential of life’s prevalence in the Universe @lclu.bsky.social.
www.nature.com/articles/s42... @natphys.nature.com
Why is there such a pressure to publish early, and is it always the right thing to do?
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @fredpaxton.bsky.social and @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social discuss their different experiences with the publishing process as ECRs.
👉 Ep 5 #ConfessionsOfAnECR: tinyurl.com/yjkamh2a
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @fredpaxton.bsky.social and @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social discuss their different experiences with the publishing process as ECRs.
👉 Ep 5 #ConfessionsOfAnECR: tinyurl.com/yjkamh2a
Episode 5 - Publishing as an ECR: Rejection, patience and conversation
‘Publish or perish’ is something ECRs will hear consistently throughout their academic careers. But why is there such a pressure to publish early, and is it always the right thing to do? In this episo...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Why is there such a pressure to publish early, and is it always the right thing to do?
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @fredpaxton.bsky.social and @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social discuss their different experiences with the publishing process as ECRs.
👉 Ep 5 #ConfessionsOfAnECR: tinyurl.com/yjkamh2a
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @fredpaxton.bsky.social and @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social discuss their different experiences with the publishing process as ECRs.
👉 Ep 5 #ConfessionsOfAnECR: tinyurl.com/yjkamh2a
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based on our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded research into www.syntheticpasts.com
Synthetic Pasts | digital memory
The Synthetic Pasts project is a critical-creative inquiry exploring how media fragments from the past - photos or audio recordings for example - are remediated/reanimated through algorithmic intermed...
www.syntheticpasts.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM
based on our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded research into www.syntheticpasts.com
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Very happy to share @jenkidd.bsky.social and my contribution to @theconversation.com on AI Afterlives and memory @kingsdh.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @cujournmedcul.bsky.social
Chatbots and voice avatars are being used to preserve the voices of the deceased.
Can you really talk to the dead using AI? We tried out ‘deathbots’ so you don’t have to
Chatbots and voice avatars are being used to preserve the voices of the deceased.
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November 8, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Very happy to share @jenkidd.bsky.social and my contribution to @theconversation.com on AI Afterlives and memory @kingsdh.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @cujournmedcul.bsky.social
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I'm delighted that my #Leverhulme research project exploring the long-term impacts of student debt is live!
If you started an undergraduate degree between 2012-2015 and want to share your experiences, contact farhana.ghaffar@nottingham.ac.uk.
Please share & repost!
@uniofnottingham.bsky.social
If you started an undergraduate degree between 2012-2015 and want to share your experiences, contact farhana.ghaffar@nottingham.ac.uk.
Please share & repost!
@uniofnottingham.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I'm delighted that my #Leverhulme research project exploring the long-term impacts of student debt is live!
If you started an undergraduate degree between 2012-2015 and want to share your experiences, contact farhana.ghaffar@nottingham.ac.uk.
Please share & repost!
@uniofnottingham.bsky.social
If you started an undergraduate degree between 2012-2015 and want to share your experiences, contact farhana.ghaffar@nottingham.ac.uk.
Please share & repost!
@uniofnottingham.bsky.social
Writing Wrongs from @aifl.bsky.social explores historic and contemporary forensic linguistic cases. Join @timgrant123.bsky.social and @drniccimacleod.bsky.social as they discuss Derek Bentley's story: 🎙️ media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/dere...
Derek Bentley: Death by Ambiguity
In this first episode of a two-part case, Dr Nicci MacLeod and Professor Tim Grant discuss Derek Bentley’s story and the miscarriages of justice that occurred when he was found guilty of murder and re...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Writing Wrongs from @aifl.bsky.social explores historic and contemporary forensic linguistic cases. Join @timgrant123.bsky.social and @drniccimacleod.bsky.social as they discuss Derek Bentley's story: 🎙️ media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/dere...
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🔊New paper in Geoforum! We examine how #Ghana’s Hotspot Intervention Areas (HIAs) reshape land & forest governance. Are they decentralising power—or quietly recentralising it? 🌍
#LandGovernance #CarbonFinance #Ghana #Conservation #Geoforum
@ecioxford.bsky.social
#LandGovernance #CarbonFinance #Ghana #Conservation #Geoforum
@ecioxford.bsky.social
Ghana's Landscape Approach to REDD+: Is it decentralizing or recentralizing power?
Since 1889, local communities in Ghana have been struggling to achieve equitable control over their land and forest resources
naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 10:48 AM
🔊New paper in Geoforum! We examine how #Ghana’s Hotspot Intervention Areas (HIAs) reshape land & forest governance. Are they decentralising power—or quietly recentralising it? 🌍
#LandGovernance #CarbonFinance #Ghana #Conservation #Geoforum
@ecioxford.bsky.social
#LandGovernance #CarbonFinance #Ghana #Conservation #Geoforum
@ecioxford.bsky.social
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On Tuesday, we hosted Jane Greve (VIVE – Danish Centre for Social Science Research) for a fascinating seminar on “Family Spillovers of Dementia.” Using 20 years of Danish register data, she explored how parental dementia affects adult children’s lives.
November 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
On Tuesday, we hosted Jane Greve (VIVE – Danish Centre for Social Science Research) for a fascinating seminar on “Family Spillovers of Dementia.” Using 20 years of Danish register data, she explored how parental dementia affects adult children’s lives.
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💡The information session on the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship will take place on 12 Nov.
The session is intended for early career researchers considering an application.
⚠️Not open to students, except final-year DPhil's who meet eligibility criteria.
Registration: shorturl.at/3vdo5
The session is intended for early career researchers considering an application.
⚠️Not open to students, except final-year DPhil's who meet eligibility criteria.
Registration: shorturl.at/3vdo5
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships: Briefing and General Information Session
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November 6, 2025 at 9:18 AM
💡The information session on the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship will take place on 12 Nov.
The session is intended for early career researchers considering an application.
⚠️Not open to students, except final-year DPhil's who meet eligibility criteria.
Registration: shorturl.at/3vdo5
The session is intended for early career researchers considering an application.
⚠️Not open to students, except final-year DPhil's who meet eligibility criteria.
Registration: shorturl.at/3vdo5
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Happening in an hour! Come join us!!
Join us this coming Thursday @livunihss.bsky.social and Friday @WorldMuseum for a documentary screening and a workshop on #Circum-Caribbean art & communities in Liverpool!
Scan the QR code & book your free tickets!
#Archaeology #AcademicSky #NationalMuseumsLiverpool #ArchaeoSky #museums #Liverpool
Scan the QR code & book your free tickets!
#Archaeology #AcademicSky #NationalMuseumsLiverpool #ArchaeoSky #museums #Liverpool
November 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Happening in an hour! Come join us!!
Using systematic linguistic analysis, @drniccimacleod.bsky.social and team @aifl.bsky.social through a Leverhulme-funded project develop clearer definitions of escalation and radicalisation to increase our understanding within online contexts. media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/ADOBE
Analysing and Describing Online Behaviour around Escalation (ADOBE)
Using systematic linguistic analysis, Nicci MacLeod, Emily Chiang and Ralph Morton develop clearer definitions of escalation and radicalisation to increase our understanding within online contexts
media.leverhulme.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Using systematic linguistic analysis, @drniccimacleod.bsky.social and team @aifl.bsky.social through a Leverhulme-funded project develop clearer definitions of escalation and radicalisation to increase our understanding within online contexts. media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/ADOBE
Volcanologist Tamsin Mather, reflects on her career studying volcanic plumes and their impact on the environment. www.joinexpeditions.com/experts/4635 @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Volcanologist Tamsin Mather, reflects on her career studying volcanic plumes and their impact on the environment. www.joinexpeditions.com/experts/4635 @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social
Victims often ask “Why?”: why the crime happened or why they were targeted. Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Diana Batchelor @sheffielduni.bsky.social shares victim-survivor views and experiences in this paper. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Asking the offender ‘why’? Victim-survivor views and experiences
This study investigated victim-survivors’ motivation to ask offenders ‘why?’ and the perceived effects of doing so, through interviews with 40 people affected by a range of crimes. Participants rep...
www.tandfonline.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Victims often ask “Why?”: why the crime happened or why they were targeted. Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Diana Batchelor @sheffielduni.bsky.social shares victim-survivor views and experiences in this paper. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Join us TOMORROW when @julespretty.bsky.social will be leading an important discussion on 'How Story Creates Agency for the Nature and Climate Crises'. Register to attend online or in-person, followed by a drinks reception. bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiv...
@ecioxford.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk
@ecioxford.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Join us TOMORROW when @julespretty.bsky.social will be leading an important discussion on 'How Story Creates Agency for the Nature and Climate Crises'. Register to attend online or in-person, followed by a drinks reception. bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiv...
@ecioxford.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk
@ecioxford.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk
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MEET THE CENTRE TEAM
Last (for now) but not least is our wonderful operations staff Kelsey Carthew and Oliver Thompson!
Last (for now) but not least is our wonderful operations staff Kelsey Carthew and Oliver Thompson!
November 6, 2025 at 9:21 AM
MEET THE CENTRE TEAM
Last (for now) but not least is our wonderful operations staff Kelsey Carthew and Oliver Thompson!
Last (for now) but not least is our wonderful operations staff Kelsey Carthew and Oliver Thompson!
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📢Come work with us: We’re looking for a research assistant to contribute to an ongoing two-year project focused on developing a benchmark for measuring the ability of Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents on real-world data science tasks. Apply by 16 November.
www.lcfi.ac.uk/get-involved...
www.lcfi.ac.uk/get-involved...
Research Assistant (Fixed Term) - LCFI
The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI), within the Institute for Technology and Humanity (ITH), is seeking a full-time Research Assistant to contribute to an ongoing two-year proje...
www.lcfi.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
📢Come work with us: We’re looking for a research assistant to contribute to an ongoing two-year project focused on developing a benchmark for measuring the ability of Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents on real-world data science tasks. Apply by 16 November.
www.lcfi.ac.uk/get-involved...
www.lcfi.ac.uk/get-involved...
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Our #ForceTalk series returns with Professor Michael Murrell of Yale University discussing "Energetic optimization during cell division".
📅 12 November 2025
🕒 15:00 - 16:00 GMT
Online and open to all, link to join 👉 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/force...
#mechanobiology @kingsnmes.bsky.social
📅 12 November 2025
🕒 15:00 - 16:00 GMT
Online and open to all, link to join 👉 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/force...
#mechanobiology @kingsnmes.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Our #ForceTalk series returns with Professor Michael Murrell of Yale University discussing "Energetic optimization during cell division".
📅 12 November 2025
🕒 15:00 - 16:00 GMT
Online and open to all, link to join 👉 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/force...
#mechanobiology @kingsnmes.bsky.social
📅 12 November 2025
🕒 15:00 - 16:00 GMT
Online and open to all, link to join 👉 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/force...
#mechanobiology @kingsnmes.bsky.social