Scenes from morning runs along Swansea bay

I finished my book amid a culture of genuine support and friendship at Exeter. Now management at @exeter.ac.uk have made a wrongheaded decision to cut 25% of jobs in the faculty by Christmas. Please sign the petition: c.org/kF9WQMfzY4

🐕‍🦺🐴🐦‍⬛🐄 Our new Multispecies Mutualisms project website is now live. The amazing design work is by Sheffield artist Lisa O’Hara. Some exciting announcements to come about our new post docs - keep a 👀 out 👇 multispeciesmutualisms.org

okay but what if a 10-year-old thinks moby dick is better than middlemarch, what then. where are they supposed to go

TENURE-TRACK DRAMA POST AT TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRR746/a... Come and work with us! Please share far and wide.

'The decision to close it was taken despite the faculty continuing to plan high-profile campus events, including the booking this month of US civil rights advocate Kimberlé Crenshaw.' 1/2

they can pay me a few million to tell them it can’t

May at the @greenhouseuis.net with our regular Monday book talks, Wednesday research talks and many special events featuring @mmendoza.bsky.social, Hauke Ohls, @erikahanna.bsky.social and others. #envhum 🌷

The next memoir on my list to inspire my own writing

You folks did change my world. Your bundle of free ebooks that you offered at the start of covid fundamentally reshaped my thinking, and you're the main reason I became a leftist.

In celebration of May Day and the radical history of the working class, we've put together this Class War Reading List. See you in the streets tomorrow!

A wonderful initiative & tribute

A joy to discuss my book for Greenhouse book talks. Here is the recording if you didn't get the chance to join live: newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

Tomorrow is the deadline to apply for subgrants through our partner organisation, @eurodadnews.bsky.social Groups working to promote economic, gender and climate justice initiatives may be eligible for grants ranging from €5,000- €60,000. Full details: www.financialjustice.ie/news/call-fo...

Huge thanks to the Light House Cinema for having us at their screenings of "All that's left of you". It's the only cinema in Ireland showing it, your last chance to see it on the big screen, Wednesday 25th 14.45 and Tuesday 31st 14.45. #FreePalestine www.lighthousecinema.ie/film/all-tha...

📢 Don’t miss our next Adapt for the Future seminar! 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞: 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 🗓️ Tues 24 March ⏰ 12pm-2pm 📍 MoLI, 86 St Stephen's Green, Dublin, D02XY43 Details & tickets 👉 tinyurl.com/5n6cksma #Communities #Culture #Heritage #Policymakers #UNESCO

'Exploring the Future of Community-led Open Access Books: A Copim Conference' In this post, @alittleroad.bsky.social summarises the recent #CopimConference and shares recordings and slides from all panels. Catch up here! 👉 copim.pub/exploring-th... #OAbooks #OpenAccess

When food, land, and water – our basic human rights – are treated as profit-making ‘assets’, what happens to people and the planet, and how can we win these essentials back for everyone? On #WorldWaterDay, read our news and analysis article: https://bit.ly/3Pavq9a

🥳The Routledge Handbook of Health and Environmental Humanities is published today! Ed. by the fab Amber Abrams, @victoriabates.bsky.social & @rothiotome.bsky.social. It also includes a chapter 'Research on the Move' by @draflint.bsky.social and me. (Probably one to ask your library to order tho' £)

Staff Reads from our Executive Director: " @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social has deep wisdom to share. 'Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war. Too many people still expect it to look like war.'"

I would say I’m fairly knowledgeable about the corruption, violence, coercive authority, and brutal imperial power that pervades extractive sectors and yet I am still in shock at this Trump admin move to secure Zambian minerals

Reminder today that I am discussing my book the nonhuman narratives of energy: newnatures.org/greenhouse/e... Captured here: myself and the book and my nonhuman companion

Very excited to be discussing my book Monday 16th March for Greenhouse Book Talks!

Issue 3.1 of ‘Plant Perspectives’ is now live online. This journal is #openaccess again in 2026 through #subscribetoopen – with warm thanks to all of our subscriber-supporters! Read it here: www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/index #plantstudies #envhum @plantperspectives.bsky.social

🗞️ Great News: 4 × 3-year postdoc positions in the Multispecies Mutualisms project at the University of Sheffield. 🗓 Deadline: 12 April. Please share & encourage great applicants! 🌱 jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/4-x-Rese.... @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social

Some stuff from my art therapy sessions

Last week Audrey Plan (UCD Research Culture) and myself on behalf of the #PostdocsSpotlight project had a chance to discuss our experience with running the project during the UCD-University of Strathclyde Joint Seed Funding Workshop & Everyday Cultures Collaboration Conference in Glasgow🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 [1/2]

A sunny 5k in Dublin - a break from article writing

A rare thing: *four* three-year hums/soc-sci posts in animal studies, on the Multispecies Mutualisms project at UoSheffield - with @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social, me, Robert McKay and Alasdair Cochrane; see here for a video explainer: digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...

Spring has started to sprout and the @greenhouseuis.net is looking forward to full month with events on everything from climate justice in education over the sea urchins on the menu to the architecture of low-voltage cabins. 🌿 #envhum

“Fascism, it’s always about using nationalism, and the nation, as a bludgeon to generate support for death policies, on behalf of death governments. For violence and repression and exploitation, internationalism is the antidote, always.” —Robin D. G. Kelley

Malahide 💙🌊

So much love and so much pride in being a part of the beyond gender collective. And our cyborg feminist Katie Stone translating our ideas, chats and work into this wonderful zine

Beyond fear and conflict: A new framework exploring wildlife, environment, interactions, institutions & justice to make human-predator relations more convivial. 🐻🌿🤝#HumanWildlifeCoexistence pollenpoliticalecology.network/coexistence-...

Well this is interesting news. ‘Women's museum planned to replace International Rugby Experience in Limerick’ #spéirgorm www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

is his brain so much more comprehensive, combining, and subtle than man’s, that he can at the same moment of time attentively examine two distinct prospects, one on one side of him, and the other in an exactly opposite direction?

In Donegal, Mayo, Galway, and Kerry corporations have applications in to harvest seaweed from the coast with absolutely no oversight. Corporatisation of seaweed harvest would be a significant negative step for the west

What oral histories can teach us about effective environmental research – @angecass.bsky.social & Paul Merchant for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social

A morning walk in Dublin centre 🌼🌞

Bloomsbury are having a sale at the moment and there's one day left to get my book, Shakespeare's Body Language, at 30-40% off! @ardenpublisher.bsky.social If you've ever wondered why Romeo and Juliet starts with a thumb bite - and what it means - I got ya. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/shakespea...

New episode from ASLE EcoCast, "Cows in the Caribbean: Cattle Chat with Chaz and Andrew"--Chaz Yingling and Andrew Kettler chat about their forthcoming book: The Once and the Future Cow. www.asle.org/stay-informe... #booksky #ecocriticism

On 16th March, I will be interviewed for the Greenhouse book talks, about my book The Nonhuman Narratives of Energy. Link below. It will also be recorded as a podcast, so tune in! newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

Ur fuckin jokin

We are HIRING! The Open Library of Humanities is seeking a PhD student to assist with editorial, marketing and technical duties. The position is fully funded and open to funded PhD students at CHASE institutions. 31/03:

Why is US President Donald Trump eyeing Greenland, Ukraine – and now Cornwall? 👀 It’s all part of a global scramble for critical minerals – materials that power data centres, smartphones, advanced weapons systems and clean energy technologies. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature was published this week by @livunipress.bsky.social. This collection brings so many new perspectives to the discussion of death and the body in Irish literature from the eighteenth century to the present. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

in his inclement, howling old age, Ahab’s soul, shut up in the caved trunk of his body, there fed upon the sullen paws of its gloom

📀 Professor Kevin K. Gaines explores how Stevie Wonder's album Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants was inspired by political movements, global musical styles and engagement with nature at the Global Cultures Institute annual lecture. 📆 4 March ⏰ 18:00 🔗 Register for tickets ⬇️

Some colleagues in my old department in Trondheim are recruiting a PhD candidate in Gender Studies and/or STS on the "Imagining Positive Energy Futures" project. 3 years, fully funded. Norway's a good place to do a PhD and Trondheim's a nice place to live!

My reading has suffered over recent years but am building inspiration slowly with poems and short stories. These are the present two