Fraser MacDonald
Geographer, historian.
- I’m really not a big Indy campaigner but wow Britain is so irredeemably cooked. Scotland get yer coat.
- Not sure if anyone has noticed that ‘Dunvegan’, Nan Shepherd’s lifelong residence in Cults, Aberdeen, has just come on the market... www.aspc.co.uk/search/prope...
- Evangelicals made this.
- Staggering that 18% of staff at UoE have confidence in senior leadership… like who on earth are these 18%? can someone check that they’re okay?
- This is exactly how I feel about the affordances of the essay vis-à-vis journal articles. There’s also an overlooked political economy behind matters of literary form – journal articles arise out of scaled for-profit academic publishing.
- Fascinating book about brambles 👇 56 species in Scotland but their relative scarcity in the north is ‘a result of the Highland Clearances and subsequent intensive grazing’.
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- The Scottish Government could easily make their SFC money conditional on university salaries being public (like in Canada). Promotes fairness, reduces gender pay gap.
- Things I learned recently: * Edinburgh’s seaweed is collected and dumped in landfill because it is too contaminated with wet wipes to be composted. * Most packaging labelled ‘compostable’ is not usually compostable.
- It’s cool that even in today’s America, the billionaire spacecraft RSS Kàrmàn Line is named after Theodore von Kàrmàn, a former member of the Communist Party, and nobody seems to have noticed? (11 mins to launch👇) www.blueorigin.com/missions/ns-31
- Epic week taking nearly 100 Geography MA students & staff to the Highlands, working with the inspiring @mmcfadyen.bsky.social & the Abriachan Forest Trust. 👏👏
- I salute cold Dalek compost … much underrated
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- I got to write a short piece – On Compost – for the LRB. (If you know me irl, you’ll understand that this is a happy thing)
- I know AI is terrible etc but …. has anyone developed an app for identifying unearthed fragments of tableware?
