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🌡️ Members and alumni of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network met to explore the challenges posed by covering extreme heat. Here are 7 takeaways from the event by Greg Cochrane Diego Arguedas Ortiz and Katherine Dunn

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🎙️RADIO PRESENTER JOBS🎙️

I'm recruiting for 2x BFBS Radio Presenter-Producers. Fantastic opportunities to travel the world, host a daily radio show, and tell incredible stories. Both jobs start out in the UK and then move overseas.

More details - about.bfbs.com/opportunities

Nobel Peace Laureate Maria Ressa of Rappler (online news org in Philippines) challenges former Google and Meta execs at #ijf24 on the damage these platforms & their algorithms are doing to people and democracy. journalism festival

The great Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC talking at #ijf24 about the #jimmylai trial. In Hong Kong, journalism, engaging with politicians and interacting with human rights organizations - are being criminalized. ‘The message is always the same - keep silent, or you’re next’

Excellent #ijf24 panel discussing hopes for recovery of #Ukrainian media. Opportunities to build back better & shake off Soviet-era practices. Joanna Krawczyk German Marshall Fund makes the case for treating media communications as critical infrastructure, as vital as energy supplies.

Want to do a fully funded PhD with us Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity under Prof Panayiota Tsatsou ?
RT Marcus Ryder Lenny Henry Angela Chan Mukti Jain Campion Dr. David Dunkley Gyimah Sarita Malik
Read this - apply now:
bcu.ac.uk/student-info/t…

Come and work with us at the Lenny Henry Centre. Research Assistant, fixed term contract - we're particularly keen to get applicants who're under-represented in media and academia. Deadline is 17th April - details below. Share! Share! Share! jobs.bcu.ac.uk/042024-173

We're delighted to share Spotify and City, University of London
have partnered to create a new bursary for a student from a marginalised community to study the MA in Podcasting, starting September 2024. Applications are open now: ow.ly/kVha50QT1aw Brett Spencer sandywarr

Light pollution threatens many nocturnal insects, including important pollinators like moths, by disrupting their ability to feed, breed and carry out their usual behaviour.

Help protect moths by following these simple steps 👉 butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blog/…

#MothsMatter

So very sad to see Lenny Henry stepping down as Chancellor Birmingham City University his impact has been immense - but delighted that he remains very much at the heart of the work we do Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity
Still so much to be done!

🚨 Funding Alert
🔷 £320,000
⬇️ Artificial Intelligence

Black, female & disabled students could receive £10,000 from Birmingham City University as part of a project to address growing UK digital skills crisis.

#BCUFundingAlert #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

Link: bcu.ac.uk/news-events/ne…

'A laughable epitaph for humankind: we wanted to save the planet but the financial returns weren’t high enough. We cannot let that ridiculous scenario unfold.'
Love this from Jeremy Leggett Highlands Rewilding scotsman.com/news/environme…

📢I am conducting oral history interviews as part of my research on British South Asian political activism in the 20th Century.

If you were involved in a political campaign or have recollections about friends/family members, please fill out this form.

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Today I'm speaking at @ukandeu conference ukandeu.ac.uk/events/brexit-… I have 5 minutes (realistically 10) to tell about Rebordering Britain and Britons after Brexit findings. Where to start?

#Symposium

Registrations are open for the Rebordering Britain and Britons after Brexit symposium: #Migration , #Coloniality , and #Belonging in #GlobalBritain

📅: 17 November, 9-5pm, The Exchange, Birmingham

Read more and register: migzen.net/symposium-2023/

Every year in Gordon Sq Shrabani Basu leads a wonderful commemoration of WW2 death of SOE heroine #NoorInayatKhan at Dachau concentration camp aged only 30. A gentle Sufi, writer & poet she made an unlikely but courageous spy, posthumously awarded GeorgeCross. RIP #SpyPrincess

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”~ William Blake

televisual.com/news/report-tv…. “Women are making fewer contributions than they were four years ago, with the decline driven by a reduction in senior roles.  Disabled people and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic minority individuals are still under-represented in all senior roles.”

I will be giving an online talk for the Society of Genealogists on “Researching British India Family History for Free Using Online Sources” on Saturday, 14 October 2023 at 10:30. #genealogy #FamilyHistory members.sog.org.uk/events/645283e…

A day to remind you what happens when U.S. cluster bombs are put to use. 👇