Rachel Murray
@rachelmurray.bsky.social
Lecturer in Lit and Environment at @bristoluni.bsky.social | Co-director @uobrisceh.bsky.social
Writing: Marine Attachments 🦀🐚🪼🐙
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Rachel-Murray-fc3d0780-8a1b-4a92-9676-5c862ea56faa/
Writing: Marine Attachments 🦀🐚🪼🐙
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Rachel-Murray-fc3d0780-8a1b-4a92-9676-5c862ea56faa/
Check out this brilliant new book by @loubree.bsky.social on medicine and women’s fiction, which you can order at a discounted rate using this flyer 🤩✨
February 11, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Check out this brilliant new book by @loubree.bsky.social on medicine and women’s fiction, which you can order at a discounted rate using this flyer 🤩✨
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#EnglishCreates: Futures continues with a blog on 'Close Reading on the Beach' by Dr Rachel Murray (University of Bristol):
'Looking closely in this way helps us to slow down and tune into what is in front of us...'
universityenglish.ac.uk/the-sea-the-...
#EnglishStudies #Ecocriticism
'Looking closely in this way helps us to slow down and tune into what is in front of us...'
universityenglish.ac.uk/the-sea-the-...
#EnglishStudies #Ecocriticism
#EnglishCreates Blog: The Sea, The Sea – 2: Close Reading on the Beach
universityenglish.ac.uk
January 27, 2026 at 1:05 PM
#EnglishCreates: Futures continues with a blog on 'Close Reading on the Beach' by Dr Rachel Murray (University of Bristol):
'Looking closely in this way helps us to slow down and tune into what is in front of us...'
universityenglish.ac.uk/the-sea-the-...
#EnglishStudies #Ecocriticism
'Looking closely in this way helps us to slow down and tune into what is in front of us...'
universityenglish.ac.uk/the-sea-the-...
#EnglishStudies #Ecocriticism
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what do we talk about when we talk about energy? my answer features (among many others) adorno, bogdanov, and the austrian communist wilhelm frank, who experimented with national exergy balances in the 1950s. out april 2026.
January 28, 2026 at 7:38 AM
what do we talk about when we talk about energy? my answer features (among many others) adorno, bogdanov, and the austrian communist wilhelm frank, who experimented with national exergy balances in the 1950s. out april 2026.
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Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.
January 25, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.
Really disgusted by how staff are being treated at Sheffield after participating in legal industrial action, for which they are already lost pay! A new low has been reached. @sheffielducu.bsky.social
@sheffielducu.bsky.social accuses managers of "bullying tactics" after staff told they will face further pay deductions for not rescheduling teaching missed during industrial action www.timeshighereducation.com/news/sheffie... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social
Sheffield strikers lose more pay for not rearranging teaching
University accuses staff of ‘breach of contract’ for failing to reorganise lectures lost during recent industrial action
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 25, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Really disgusted by how staff are being treated at Sheffield after participating in legal industrial action, for which they are already lost pay! A new low has been reached. @sheffielducu.bsky.social
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"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
January 25, 2026 at 2:03 AM
"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution
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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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There's still just over two weeks left to apply to our workshop exploring historical approaches to non-human life.
It will take place on 9-10th April 2026, and aims to bring together scholars across disciplinary divides.
PGR and ECR support available thanks to the generosity of our sponsors!
It will take place on 9-10th April 2026, and aims to bring together scholars across disciplinary divides.
PGR and ECR support available thanks to the generosity of our sponsors!
January 12, 2026 at 4:50 PM
There's still just over two weeks left to apply to our workshop exploring historical approaches to non-human life.
It will take place on 9-10th April 2026, and aims to bring together scholars across disciplinary divides.
PGR and ECR support available thanks to the generosity of our sponsors!
It will take place on 9-10th April 2026, and aims to bring together scholars across disciplinary divides.
PGR and ECR support available thanks to the generosity of our sponsors!
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Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪
January 13, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
Northumbria Pay and Pension Petition: Stop the Steal!
If Northumbria does this, other universities will too.
These cuts will harm thousands of people, their students, families, and their local communities now and into the future.
www.megaphone.org.uk
January 8, 2026 at 9:56 AM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
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things Copilot has tried desperately to help me with this morning: a thread
1) suggesting '10 compelling titles' for a spreadsheet I use to log student attendance
1) suggesting '10 compelling titles' for a spreadsheet I use to log student attendance
December 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
things Copilot has tried desperately to help me with this morning: a thread
1) suggesting '10 compelling titles' for a spreadsheet I use to log student attendance
1) suggesting '10 compelling titles' for a spreadsheet I use to log student attendance
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Is it like widely acknowledged that LRB is on one of the most absurd run of high quality publications of recent times? Just every issue is front to back interesting / essential / insightful reading. Get a sub for sure, prices are now criminally low
‘Many things about “The Waste Land” seem to have annoyed Frost, some of which stemmed from his old disagreements with Pound. He disliked free verse, which he considered a lot of hot air and revealing of ignorance.’
Clare Bucknell on Robert Frost.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Clare Bucknell on Robert Frost.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
December 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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At the BREAK–DOWN we're doing a limited time offer! Take out a year's subscription before December 12th and get our first two issues FREE!
All subs help us to pay writers. It'll also helps keep us on the road and publishing the best new climate writing
All subs help us to pay writers. It'll also helps keep us on the road and publishing the best new climate writing
GET 4 PRINT ISSUES FOR THE PRICE OF 2! 💥
Subscribe before 12th Dec to receive our next two print issues (Spring ’26 + Autumn ’26) PLUS our past two issues for free 👇
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Subscribe before 12th Dec to receive our next two print issues (Spring ’26 + Autumn ’26) PLUS our past two issues for free 👇
www.break-down.org/offer/
December 2, 2025 at 9:22 AM
At the BREAK–DOWN we're doing a limited time offer! Take out a year's subscription before December 12th and get our first two issues FREE!
All subs help us to pay writers. It'll also helps keep us on the road and publishing the best new climate writing
All subs help us to pay writers. It'll also helps keep us on the road and publishing the best new climate writing
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😔💔😢Please read and share these harrowing testimonials from people terrified about plans from @northumbriauni.bsky.social senior management to freeze pay to force through pension changes: ucu-unn.org.uk/news/315-tes... @ucu.org.uk
Testimonials: Pay and Pensions at Northumbria University
ucu-unn.org.uk
December 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
😔💔😢Please read and share these harrowing testimonials from people terrified about plans from @northumbriauni.bsky.social senior management to freeze pay to force through pension changes: ucu-unn.org.uk/news/315-tes... @ucu.org.uk
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Our fabulous Environmental Humanities Summer School is open for applications for 2026! Together, we examine human relationships with nature on a Global scale, and with the city of Bristol. According to 2025 cohort student Choon Woi “Bristol itself became part of the classroom…
November 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Our fabulous Environmental Humanities Summer School is open for applications for 2026! Together, we examine human relationships with nature on a Global scale, and with the city of Bristol. According to 2025 cohort student Choon Woi “Bristol itself became part of the classroom…
The Modernist Exoskeleton has been reduced to £11 this weekend: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-mod...
The Modernist Exoskeleton
The Modernist Exoskeleton
edinburghuniversitypress.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The Modernist Exoskeleton has been reduced to £11 this weekend: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-mod...
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I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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The Bristol Short Story Prize will officially re-open next week!
Writers, get ready - you can submit your short stories from the 19th November. All info on our website (link in bio).
Writers, get ready - you can submit your short stories from the 19th November. All info on our website (link in bio).
November 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The Bristol Short Story Prize will officially re-open next week!
Writers, get ready - you can submit your short stories from the 19th November. All info on our website (link in bio).
Writers, get ready - you can submit your short stories from the 19th November. All info on our website (link in bio).
Excited to visit Vienna next week as an invited speaker for this event at @univie.ac.at. Any city recommendations greatly appreciated!
November 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Excited to visit Vienna next week as an invited speaker for this event at @univie.ac.at. Any city recommendations greatly appreciated!
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Our absolute pleasure to host this wonderful two-day British Academy-funded workshop on extraction and extractivism last week. Thank you @melinabuns.bsky.social 🙏💫
such wonderful two days with fantastic scholars! thank you to everyone who engaged in discussions about extraction, extractivism, and beyond!
thank you to the @britishacademy.bsky.social for making this workshop possible and to @uobrisceh.bsky.social for hosting it.
#envhum
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thank you to the @britishacademy.bsky.social for making this workshop possible and to @uobrisceh.bsky.social for hosting it.
#envhum
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Day one of the Extractive Natures/Natures of Extraction workshop, organised by @melinabuns.bsky.social as part of her @britishacademy.bsky.social fellowship here at Bristol @uobrisceh.bsky.social . Great papers that spanned resource extraction from medieval Europe to modern day Australia
November 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Our absolute pleasure to host this wonderful two-day British Academy-funded workshop on extraction and extractivism last week. Thank you @melinabuns.bsky.social 🙏💫
This is going to be great. And you can register for free and join online. Link and details below.
Join us for More-than-Human Sensory Worlds, the first in our hybrid 'More-than-Human/ities' seminar series, a new collaboration between UoB's CEH & EUC at York University, Toronto.
Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃
Wed 19th Nov
17:45–19:00
Online & in-person
Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃
Wed 19th Nov
17:45–19:00
Online & in-person
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This is going to be great. And you can register for free and join online. Link and details below.
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What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
The organ donation ‘opt-out’ has been a fatal failure | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
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First the employer took staff desks from them. Now they’re taking their pensions.
Join your trade union, people.
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/northum...
Join your trade union, people.
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/northum...
Northumbria to freeze pay if staff refuse TPS-USS pension switch
University says moving employees from more expensive scheme will save it up to £11 million a year
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
First the employer took staff desks from them. Now they’re taking their pensions.
Join your trade union, people.
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/northum...
Join your trade union, people.
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/northum...
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Day one of the Extractive Natures/Natures of Extraction workshop, organised by @melinabuns.bsky.social as part of her @britishacademy.bsky.social fellowship here at Bristol @uobrisceh.bsky.social . Great papers that spanned resource extraction from medieval Europe to modern day Australia
November 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Day one of the Extractive Natures/Natures of Extraction workshop, organised by @melinabuns.bsky.social as part of her @britishacademy.bsky.social fellowship here at Bristol @uobrisceh.bsky.social . Great papers that spanned resource extraction from medieval Europe to modern day Australia