In yet more devastating news, the VC has confirmed her plans to cut 80% of academic staff from Essex Pathways, our foundation year department. This would effectively close down all our existing foundation year programmes through the back door.

But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.

We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.

Hello! This is an important one, so it won’t be the last time I post it. The Land Defenders on Hunters Mountain are gearing up for winter. They are resolute. But they need supplies, they are winterizing the cabins they built, there is food and firewood and gas for generators needed.

All welcome on Sat 15 Nov at 10.30am in Dunblane Cathedral Hall, to free 2025 Geraldine Goddard Memorial Lecture, “Enlightenment & Conspiracy at the Leighton Library, 1780-1832’ presented by Dr Josh Smith

www.leightonlibrary.org.uk/calendar/202...

Excited to be speaking in Dunblane on 15 Nov for the Leighton Library. I'll be sharing findings from my PhD and the @books-borrowing.bsky.social project.

Do come along to hear more about Enlightenment and conspiracy in the reading habits of Leighton members!

The things I find on the free shelf of the local Tesco.

I just finished Son of Rosemary (1997) and this is going to be me for the remainder of the day, I think

One reason or another I ended up dissecting a locust leg yesterday and learned that the thing locust knees do before jumping is called the ~ semi-lunar process ~ and that sounds either like a Philip K Dick novum or a progrock album, not sure which.

Leave it to Janice Galloway to hit the reader with an absolute curveball on the topic of toes

I guess I should send off some signals that I'm here too. Here's cat and her new pal (he has drugs, if you can't tell by the smile).