Sarah Johnson

Hi all, I am seeking a research assistant for my project 'Pastoral Knowledge Systems, Labour Shifts, and Conservation Challenges in Rangelands'. If you have a masters in Environment and Development or allied subject and research experience, see iith.ac.in/careers/

PhD on offer at Kew: Plants and their Products: Biocultural collections at Kew Gardens & the South Kensington Museum during the long nineteenth century If only I could apply! Fascinating mutual interests of Kew and the V&A in plants. Closes 16 May royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-here/…

Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Within an hour of starting interviews, I had the names of a 10-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl who had died because of decisions by wealthy men in Washington. The visit that moved me the most was to a remote area that used to have no health care, where women routinely died in childbirth. Then a US-funded maternity clinic opened through @UNFPA in December, and not one woman has died since. I showed up, and people mistakenly thought I was responsible for the clinic. One new mom wanted to name her baby for me, and the village elders thanked me and hailed America's generosity. What they didn't know was that Trump/Musk had cut all funding for UNFPA and that as a result the maternity clinic will close this month, and women will once again be bleeding to death in the dust. Here's a giftlink to my report from ground level about what the shutdown of USAID means: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Stornoway, Island of Lewis, birthplace of the late Mrs Mary Anne Trump. As they say in the Western Isles, when you’ve lost Stornoway, you’ve lost the country. (Thanks DJ MacSween)

Join us for the free webinar, 'Tea Cultures of the North:', with Åsa Andersson Martti, Martyna Vengrytė and Katja Misikangas on 19 March 2025, from 3-5pm Helsinki time. Register by email: sentientforestproject@gmail.com. More information: sentientforestproject.com/teacultures

The Journal of Population and Sustainability (JP&S) is the only interdisciplinary journal exploring all aspects of the relationship between human populations and environmental sustainability. A @whitehorsepress publication on #ScienceOpen: scienceopen.com/collection/211…

@ZelenskyyUa This is a photo of Sir Winston Churchill visiting the White House during the Second World War. He'd have been proud of you today Volodymyr.

@mogibarra Ooh I'm hungry now. Aggie Maclennan Horgabost used to stuff us with scones and syrup 🥰

Sgona bhlàth le siorap... dh'ith mi na ceudan dhiubh nuair a bha mi beag!😋

Trump and his American oligarchs are now openly aligning themselves with Putin and his Russian oligarchs. This Putin-Trump alliance means abandoning our allies, supporting authoritarianism and undermining our democratic traditions.

I'm too British to make political posts but lest there's any doubt: Trump is disgusting, and horrific; Musk is disgusting, and horrific; Zelensky is a decentish man doing a decentish job in a horrendous situation, which probably qualifies him as a hero; Putin is bad, and mad.

Read our latest Notes from the ICEHOUSE - "In a Northern Sandbox: A World Congress in Finland" by @HKHClaire, @misanthropolog, and Graeme Wynn - liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/wh… @whitehorsepress #envhist

@SoVeryBritish I have an upstairs and a downstairs Henry… but still leaves the problem of which Henry does the stairs

The most ungainly activity: Taking the hoover upstairs.

All are welcome to join this seminar, Tea Cultures of the North: Connecting to the Plant Wisdom of the Arctic, Wednesday, 19th March 2025, 3-5pm Helsinki time. sentientforestproject.com/teacultures

Pondering with Örö Pines: Talking with Trees as an Undisciplinary Method is a recent article by Annette Arlander in the open-access Plant Perspectives Journal @plantpjournal, free download whp-journals.co.uk/PP/article/vie…

#GARDENS & #EMPIRES: conference organised by @KewScience @EnglishHeritage & @britishlibrary 27-28 June 2025. Call for papers: gardensandempires.tiiny.site @Kew_LAA @RHULHistory @RHGeoHumanities @musgalhistgroup @IHR_HistofGDLS @thegardenstrust @bgci @nationaltrust @EnvAndEmpire

@fugitiveink My Oscar too

Update: little Spoon has now decided that the tree is not to be trusted and is watching it from a distance, ideally from a high vantage point

@Barrister7 Junior?! The cheek of you!

“My Lord, I am joined on the link by my junior, The Cat”

@Number10cat So glad you’re still here @Number10cat (unlike him, oh and her, and him - did I miss any?)

Five years ago the results of the general election were starting to come through...

@Number10cat I will not touch bread if it is moist ??? 😆😆

In a few short sentences Badenoch manages to: - Quote movie villain Gordon Gekko - Tell us she's too important to buy her own lunch - Sound mad by suggesting most people eat a sandwich for breakfast - Tell the vast majority of normal people who eat sandwiches that they're inferior - Throw literal red meat to her supporters Impressive.

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