Did you know Scotland has temperate rainforests? In this Smart Forest Radio episode, Gordon Gray Stephens of Saving Scotland’s Rainforest and Native Woods Co-op talks about how digital technologies, such as drones, are helping to restore this unique habitat: atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/gor...

How might forest regeneration be done with and for communities? On Smart Forests Radio, Rachel French, former biodiversity officer at the Mull and Iona Community Trust (MICT), discusses the regeneration of the Ardura Community Forest: atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/rac...

“Rather than saying rhododendron is the devil … link it to local culture, the stories of the Mabinogion.” On Smart Forests Radio, Gethin Davies at Celtic Rainforest Wales discusses technology, people, and culture in rainforest restoration: atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/get...

Join Eduardo Romero Dianderas as he examines the evolving media infrastructures that have shaped tropical timber supply chains over the past decades. Organised by @planetarypraxis.bsky.social group. 📅 20 May 🕓 2:30-4:00pm 🏢 Seminar Room, Dept. of Sociology 🔗 www.sociology.cam.ac.uk/events/plane...

Junto con la colección *Ecologies of Fire / Ecologías del Fuego*, explora el estudio de caso de Chile y mira nuestro vídeo sobre los conocimientos, las redes y las tecnologías relacionadas con el fuego en el Smart Forests Atlas: atlas.smartforests.net/es/bitacoras...

Alongside the *Ecologies of Fire / Ecologías del Fuego* collection, explore the Chile case study and watch our film segment on fire-related knowledges, networks, and technologies on Smart Forests Atlas: atlas.smartforests.net/en/logbooks/...

*Ecologies of Fire / Ecologías del Fuego* surgió de conversaciones colectivas y de la experimentación con artistas, investigadores, actores claves y comunidades de todo Chile. En Smart Forests Atlas, puedes explorar cuatro relatos sobre residencias en el Bosque Pehuén y tres escuelas de campo🧵

*Ecologies of Fire / Ecologías del Fuego* emerged from collective conversations and experimentation with artists, researchers, policymakers, and communities across Chile. On the Smart Forests Atlas, you can explore four stories on residencies in Bosque Pehuén and three Field Schools🧵

Nuestra nueva colección *Ecologies of Fire / Ecologías del Fuego* incluye una lista de reproducción de Smart Forests Radio: escúchala para descubrir enfoques científicos, artísticos y comunitarios sobre la intensificación de los incendios forestales en Chile: atlas.smartforests.net/es/listas-de...

Our new collection *Ecologies of Fire / Ecologías del Fuego* comes with a Smart Forests Radio playlist. Tune in to explore scientific, artistic, and community-led approaches to forest fires in Chile: atlas.smartforests.net/en/playlists...

Con la aceleración del cambio climático y los usos insostenibles del suelo, los incendios son más frecuentes y destructivos. Nuestra colección *Ecologies of Fire / Ecologías del Fuego*, se pregunta cómo replantearnos nuestra relación con el fuego: publications.smartforests.net/es/ecologies...

With accelerating climate change and unsustainable land uses, fires are becoming more frequent and destructive. Our new Smart Forests collection, *Ecologies of Fire / Ecologías del Fuego*, asks how to collectively rethink relationships with fire: publications.smartforests.net/en/ecologies...

¿Cómo surgen los procesos de liderazgo local en un territorio? En Smart Forests Radio, Simón Crisóstomo Loncopán, un lonko mapuche («jefe» en mapudungun), reflexiona sobre la gobernanza indígena y la conservación del Wallmapu: atlas.smartforests.net/es/radio/sim...

How do local leadership processes emerge from a territory? On Smart Forests Radio, Simón Crisóstomo Loncopán, a Mapuche lonko (“chief” in Mapudungun) reflects on Indigenous governance and conservation of Wallmapu: atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/sim...

“The integration of biodiversity … could safeguard carbon projects.” On Smart Forests Radio, Dr Max Bodmer of Renew Earth, formerly Head of Nature-Based Consultancy at rePLANET, explores methodologies and technologies for biodiversity and carbon quantification: atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/max...

¿Cómo se mantiene el equilibrio en un espacio protegido? En Smart Forests Radio, Felipe Ortega, biólogo y guardaparques en Chile, habla de cómo la conservación en el Parque Nacional Villarrica concilia las prioridades biológicas y culturales: atlas.smartforests.net/es/radio/fel...

How do you keep a protected area in balance? On Smart Forests Radio, Felipe Ortega, a biologist and park ranger in Chile, discusses how conservation at Villarrica National Park combines biological and cultural priorities (in Spanish): atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/fel...

Biodiversity is no longer just the concern of NGOs and academics but increasingly intersects with the private sector. On Smart Forests Radio, Sylvain Vaquer, founder of Mozaic Earth, discusses monitoring tools developed for this evolving landscape: atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/syl...

Curious about how forests recover after fires? Join Andrés Fuentes Ramírez and Paola Arroyo Vargas from Universidad de la Frontera in Chile on Smart Forests Radio as they share their insights (in Spanish): atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/fir...

¿Te interesa saber cómo se recuperan los bosques tras un incendio? Únete a Andrés Fuentes Ramírez y Paola Arroyo Vargas en Smart Forests Radio, donde compartirán sus conocimientos: atlas.smartforests.net/es/radio/rec...

“The role of the technology should be to assist those who want to protect the forest.” On Smart Forests Radio, Murtaza Taj, Associate Professor at Lahore University of Management Sciences, details the development of forest-fire prevention systems in Pakistan: atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/mur...

Heading into the final stretch of the Smart Forests project, over the next few months we’ll be sharing a new wave of materials: podcasts on fire tech and UK rainforest regeneration, two short films, a collection on *Ecologies of Fire*, and our final report on Community-led Forest Technologies.

1/ Calling all ECRS - we have 4x 3 year post docs on Multispecies Mutualisms working with us at Sheffield. Don't want to read through all the stuff to work out if its right for you? Here is a short video explainer 🎥 digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...

If you are around Cambridge, UK, next 20 May, don’t miss this talk. We at @planetarypraxis.bsky.social are hosting @sunqasapa.bsky.social , who will present on the fraught infrastructures of timber supply chains' traceability and the epistemic possibilities and contestations they elicit.

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

How can we restore landscapes with people, not just for them? Jennifer Gabrys' & David Brown's research explores how communities lead & shape regeneration & what makes people-centred approaches fairer, democratic, & effective. Read more on CLRs blog: www.clr.conservation.cam.ac.uk/news/putting...

In this new paper, David Brown @browndee17.bsky.social and Jennifer Gabrys explore the role of communities in landscape regeneration initiatives worldwide through a systematic review: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In her new paper, “This Machine Kills CO2,” Jennifer Gabrys considers the narrative of trees as machines, which reflects the role of technological thinking in addressing planetary crises: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Smart Forests uses tech + grey literature to rethink forest governance 🌲 With help from Policy Commons, they surfaced 60+ practice-based insights on equity and civic design. policycommons.net/orgs/smart-f... @planetarypraxis.bsky.social #SmartForests #PlanetaryPraxis #ForestTech #OpenAccess

In this new article, 'Designing Biodiversity Systems via Digital Kinships’, Michelle Westerlaken examines how digital biodiversity data is used in local restoration based on her fieldwork in a Dutch living lab: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Our department is hiring for this prestigious professorship! Applications are welcome from scholars working in any area of the discipline. The position offers a competitive salary. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI980/t... @camsociology.bsky.social

*समुदाय-नेतृत्व वाली वन प्रौद्योगिकी* अंतरिम रिपोर्ट अब हिंदी में भी उपलब्ध है - ऑनलाइन और पीडीएफ के रूप में: publications.smartforests.net/hi/community...

Laporan sementara *Teknologi Hutan yang Dipimpin Masyarakat* kini telah tersedia dalam bahasa Indonesia - daring dan dalam format PDF: publications.smartforests.net/in/community...

Nuestro informe provisional *Tecnologías Forestales Lideradas por la Comunidad* ya está disponible en español, en línea y en formato PDF: publications.smartforests.net/es/community...

Our *Community-led Forest Technologies* interim report is now available in three additional languages: Spanish, Indonesian, and Hindi, alongside English.

Check out this new publication, *Common Sensing*, edited by Riccardo Badano, Tomas Percival, and Susan Schuppli at the Centre for Research Architecture. Find the book here: spectorbooks.com/book/common-...

In “Actually existing smart forests,” Jennifer Gabrys, Michelle Westerlaken, and @yutiariani.bsky.social revisit the analytic of “actually existing” to consider how speculation is a critical component of how smart environments are composed and realised: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In “Putting the digit back in digital,” Lydia Gibson & Tone Walford foreground zero as a “digit” central to digitalisation, exploring how its numerical and conceptual forms transform and reproduce forest relations in ways that are calculative and deeply colonial: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In their contribution, Priscila Santos da Costa and Steffen Dalsgaard at the Center for Climate IT at IT University of Copenhagen examine how tech-driven bioeconomy initiatives interconnect conservation and extraction, focusing on the Amazon Rainforest: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

“The gendered forest,” a paper by @trishantsimlai.bsky.social and @csandbrook.bsky.social, critically examines the gendered implications of surveillance technologies, such as camera traps and drones, in forest environments: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In “Between the god-trick and pluriversal potential,” @naomimillner.bsky.social and Mónica Amador-Jimenez explore 4 different ways that drones contribute to “making forests” and discuss their potential as pluriversal technologies for social & ecological justice: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In “Raising the Carbonized Forest,” @estherturnhout.bsky.social and Casey R Lynch discuss how science works as a “technology of singularization” by foregrounding forests as carbon storage mechanisms: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Do “Forests high on CO2” store more carbon?” In her article, Véra Ehrenstein @ehess.fr explores the collective efforts of scientists who address this question through forest ecosystem experiments and model simulations: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

What is a forest? Rather than singular objects, forests are made up of many ecosystems and relations. “The Forest Multiple,” our new special issue in Environment and Planning F, explores the varied & conflicting ways that forests take shape amid planetary change: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A new Louisiana law makes it illegal to use air pollution data to push for stricter controls or enforcement unless it's collected with expensive monitors that meet strict EPA standards. Community groups are suing, saying it violates their right to free speech.

Our Smart Forests project is featured in the research stories by @cambridgeuni.bsky.social. The story highlights our recent report, including key findings and proposals to ensure digital technologies enable social and environmental justice. 🔗Read the full story: www.cshss.cam.ac.uk/research/res...

Our Smart Forests project is featured in the research stories by @cambridgeuni.bsky.social. The story highlights our recent report, including key findings and proposals to ensure digital technologies enable social and environmental justice. 🔗Read the full story: www.cshss.cam.ac.uk/research/res...

📚 Join us at King’s College London on 21 May for the launch of Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal, a book by @disconetwork.bsky.social exploring the possibilities that technoskepticism can create. 📍 Strand Campus and online, 17:30 🔗 Sign up: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/techn...

Do you have a research interest in how AI can harm or benefit non-human animals? I'm recruiting a Research Officer to drive forward the "Animals and AI" priority area of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE. Please apply by 6 May! 🐖🐔🐟 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

EXCITING OPPORTUNITY to come and spend up to three weeks in our natural history collections at @camunivmuseums.bsky.social to undertake humanities research on a visiting fellowship! #museums