Ex-ministers warn UK universities will go bust without higher fees or funding | Higher education | The Guardian theguardian.com/education/arti…

Polar politics: UK urged to lead ‘Antarctic coalition’ at India meeting amid Russia’s controversial oil ‘prospecting’ claims dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-0…

Our Head of Department James Philip McEvoy has just returned from a trip to India as part of Royal Holloway delegation where he met Naresh Loudya and Priyanka Mishra, alumni of Lopez-Juez Lab RHUL Biology who are both now based IISc Bangalore. Naresh gave James the tour of his new labs

Bee orchids are beginning to flower Royal Holloway campus, just in time for the start of RHUL Biology practical field ecology course on Monday! #wildflowerhour

'Russia’s reported discovery of 510 billion barrels of oil in Antarctica has led to warnings of a new ‘Cold War’ of sorts' #geographer Klaus Dodds RHULGeography
writing in The Spectator
#geographyteachers good for #geopolitics & Arctic

#geographer inthenews
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What's that? A new map viewer bringing together all the data of the Antarctic Digital Database? Freely available?!

Go enjoy yourself zooming into bits of Antarctica, map lovers ⬇️
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The BAS ✨MAGIC✨ team looks after this project for Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR).

Are we heading for a new Cold War in Antarctica? spectator.co.uk/article/are-we…

No. 28 | Ukraine Conflict Likely to Intrude on Antarctic Diplomacy | Wilson Center wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/no-2…

But this obsession with the Russell Group and the brightest and the best needs a bit of challenge.

Over the last few evenings, this fantastic art installation has lit up the roof of Royal Holloway Library and Archives as part of the ‘Cave Hunters and the Truth Machine’ exhibition. The audience was captivated by the display & the schoolchildren’s lanterns added an eerie glow as the beasts emerged!

New article in the Patron-Client Relations in Secessionist Conflict Special Issue: 'From Nagorno-Karabakh to Taiwan: measuring patron-client relations of de facto states' by Kristel Vits.
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Universities are often pillars of their local communities, and support 127,000 jobs in the distribution, hotels, restaurant and transport industries alone🌟

Higher education is hugely important to the economy and local communities🌟

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New article 'Easier signed than done: natural resource sharing in the shadow of conflict on the Korean peninsula' by Annie Young Song & Justin V. Hastings
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Just a note to say the references in the document to the permanent prohibition on mining are not as clear cut as one might have expected; “prohibiting mining for non-scientific purposes”.

Are we heading for a new “Cold War” in Antarctica? spectator.co.uk/article/are-we… A few reflections from me via the The Spectator about #Russia and #Antarctica .

National Security Memorandum on United States Policy on the Antarctic Region | The White House whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

Is Russia’s geological reseach in the Weddell Sea legitimate scientific activity, or a pretense for oil and gas prospecting in Antarctic waters? And what does this mean in the context of the Antarctic Treaty? Analysis by Klaus Dodds on new podcast episode: podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/pol…

Lighting up campus like never before.

Visual artist Sean Harris' projection on the roof of EWD last night, beautifully captured our research into Ice Age animal fossils and what they can tell us about the world we live in today.

Find out more: ow.ly/Kqih50RHYZH

A new #openaccess paper by Céline Mavrot & Fritz Sager 'The local tackling of global issues: a governance paradox in federal states' addresses a blind spot in
addressing the governance paradox of the local
tackling of large-scale issues.
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The analysis in 'Volumetric, embodied and geologic geopolitics of the seabed: offshore tin mining in Indonesia' flips public scrutiny from focusing on the effectiveness of the classic geopolitical interventions. By Merdeka agus saputra & Katherine G. Sammler. doi.org/10.1080/216226…