How aware is/are your MP(s) of what your local universities deliver beyond taught programmes? Little in political debate or media suggests that their understanding is high. Perhaps it's time to add tutorials with worked examples to the mix, before it's too late. ICSs offer easy starting points. 8/8

Such a strange alienated film about detection, discontinuous narratives, and endless broken trusts.

Hadn’t realized @tristanperich.bsky.social was here!

There's the enormous The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus
by Jean-Denis Bredin; more recently, Alfred Dreyfus
The Man at the Center of the Affair by Maurice Samuels.

If it's insects you're esp. into atm, my excellent colleague Thom Rath is also working on atomic insects.

We were reading McNeill's Mosquito Empires. Sam Dolbee is excellent on locusts too.

Jealous!

I was on with students last week about thinking like a mountain/mosquito/polar bear etc. @brdemuth.bsky.social is so brilliant at entering those worlds, but I think you'll be getting more of that shortly!

And Iorek Byrnison at that.

The story writes itself - why won’t anyone actually write it?

Goodness me, that's unexpected—more uncertainty, confusion & disorganization is certainly not what the library, its staff or its readers need right now, as basic functions at Britain's national library remain out of action (checks) TWO YEARS after the cyber-attack.

Florence Welch of course the daughter of the historian Evelyn Welch!