1. Regardless of its easy to use clickable map, I rather doubt this Carbon Brief publication, Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world, will be much read in the Trump White House https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/attribution-studies/index.html

2. The Cambridge University Press ‘Elements’ series is wonderfully eclectic. Here’s some recent publications, all free to download here (scroll down to the bottom of the page) until 12^th December https://www.cambridge.org/core/publications/elements#

Feminism, Corpus-assisted Research and Language Inclusivity by Federica Formato

The Ethical Philosophy of Bernard Williams by Alan Thomas

The Fading Light of Democratic Capitalism – How Pervasive Cronyism and Restricted Suffrage are Destroying Democratic Capitalism as a National Ideal … And What to do About it by Malcolm S. Salter

Peace Leadership – A Story of Peace Dwelling by Stan Amaladas

Ukraine not ‘the’ Ukraine by Marta Dyczok

Aegeomania – Modern Reimaginings of the Aegean Bronze Age by Nicoletta Momigliano

Contemporary Body Horror by Xavier Aldana Reyes

That last one is in their Elements in the Gothic series. Here’s the summary, so you can decide if it’s one for you:

‘Body horror’, a horror subgenre concerned with transformation, loss of control and the human body’s susceptibility to disease, infection and external harm, has moved into the mainstream to become one of the greatest repositories of biopolitical discourse. Put simply, body horror acts out the power flows of modern life, visualising often imperceptible or ignored processes of marginalisation and behavioural policing, and revealing how interrelations between different social spheres (medical, legal, political, educational) produce embodied identity. This book offers the first sustained study of the types of body horror that have been popular in the twenty-first century and centres on the representational and ideological work they carry out. It proposes that, thanks to the progressive vision of feminist, queer and anti-racist practitioners, this important subgenre has expanded its ethical horizons and even found a sense of celebratory liberation in fantastic metamorphoses redolent of contemporary activist movements.

3. Here’s Jessica Mackay’s updated list of CPD Opportunities Autumn 2024 https://eim-ub.blogspot.com/2024/08/cpd-opportunities-autumn-2024.html

There’s an interesting looking one at 16:00 UK time tomorrow from Trinity, Making Listening Work: Do’s, Don’ts and Tech for Engaging Listening Activities with Chiara Bruzzano https://www.trinitycollege.com/qualifications/teaching-english/transformative-teachers/Making-Listening-Work-for-Engaging-Listening-Activities

4. ‘Best book’ lists are always good for an argument. Here’s 100 (fiction) books to read in a lifetime from AbeBooks https://www.abebooks.co.uk/books/100-books-to-read-in-lifetime/ which contains equal numbers of books I’ve read and books I’ve never heard of.

5. And, finally, free to read on Granta till the end of this year, ‘Hunter’ by Shuang Xuetao, translated by Jeremy Tiang https://granta.com/hunter-shuang-xuetao/

Here’s the first paragraph: Lu Dong moves the standing lamp, turns to gauge how far he is from the wall, then goes back to the chair he’d carefully positioned – no, never mind the chair, better to be prone on the floor. Pulling open the glass door, he steps out onto the balcony and extends a clothes-drying pole into the open air. Not heavy enough. That’s the most pressing problem – not the lamp, not the color of the floorboards, not the table in his peripheral vision distracting him from his target, but the pole’s insufficient weight.