gabriel burrow
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gabriel burrow
@GabrielBurrow
Account not in use for obvious reasons. Research Lead at @teamlewisglobal; PhD at @birkbeck_ETC; Editor of @Museum_SciFi's Journal of Science Fiction
London, England Katılım Kasım 2012
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"Wars fuelled by expansionist politics are fine, actually" - War Profiteer
BBC Newsnight@BBCNewsnight
“I think having a frontier is very healthy, I think Britain was a healthier society when it had a frontier and was growing.” Joe Lonsdale, Palantir co-founder and billionaire Trump backer, responds to suggestions the President-elect wants to take over Greenland. #Newsnight
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It's part of a course called "Climate Change in Science Fiction: Film, Literature and Gaming".
Find out more:
conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/climat…
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Sneak preview of a lecture on how SF games and graphic narratives represent climate change, which I'll be giving at @UniofOxford in the new year:
gabrielburrow.com/2024/12/20/cli…
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Pleased to share that I'll be in sunny Lancaster in April for @TheBSLS 2025, presenting a paper on science fiction and modelling.
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The final moments of Palestinian Doctor Adnan Al-Bursh's life have been revealed through claims made in new testimony by an inmate at the Israeli prison where he died.
Sky’s John Sparks has been speaking to those who saw him in his final days.
➡️ trib.al/AssGt4O
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The tuition fee increase will not stop the crisis in higher education.
Labour must provide a sustainable, long-term public funding solution.
Financial Times@FT
England’s universities regulator warns of worsening financial outlook on.ft.com/3ZbbIf1
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Honoured to be the token literary scholar on @histmat's panel tackling State Repression, Mass Incarceration, and Radical Alternatives with a group of fantastic researchers / activists / lawyers.
A lively, wide-ranging discussion - especially for 10am on a Sunday (and day FOUR).

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@DrAnnahita @hanachronism @ThePhilosoCave @TheProfRog P.S. the associated collection at the Peltz Gallery - Otherworldly - is great. It's free and running until December: bbk.ac.uk/research/centr…

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@DrAnnahita @hanachronism @ThePhilosoCave @TheProfRog • Eastern religions would generally take it in their stride
• If we discover alien life exists, astrobiology becomes another subset of biology
• More needs to be done to prevent extractivist and/or colonial ways of thinking from dominating human space exploration
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Fascinating panel tonight with experts in psychology (@DrAnnahita), linguistics (@hanachronism), philosophy and religion (@ThePhilosoCave), and astrobiology (Prof. Ian Crawford) addressing the prospect of alien life. Chaired artfully by @TheProfRog.

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