Last four days to send in your abstracts 👇

I have a horrible feeling I forgot to post that registration for this conference about extinction, conservation and the future of our planet is now open. We have an amazing range of speakers, who are listed here, alongside the link to register. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Are you curious about expanding your social research practice to include nonhuman species, but don’t know where to start? Come and join this immersive three-day workshop at the University of Manchester, with a mix of indoor seminars and outdoor fieldwork: store.southampton.ac.uk/short-course...

Nice interview with Greg Hollin about his recent Cultural Anthropology article on pro wrestling, post-truth, and precarious labour: culanth.org/fieldsights/...

I'm honestly struggling to articulate how excited I am to be working on this project with these people - really does feel like a dream come true!

What are the dangers in relying on automated hate speech detection to tackle discrimination online? Eva Haifa Giraud, Elizabeth Poole, Ed de Quincey and @discodiscourse.bsky.social look at digital racism, Twitter/X and counter-narratives against Islamophobia. Out now #OpenAccess buff.ly/4a90uwi

Would you like to spend a few months in Edinburgh in 2025-26 working with our brilliant Environmental Humanities community and, ahem, enjoying the Scottish weather? The application portal for EEHN Visiting Research Fellowships is now open.

A very interesting article (open access) in @theoryculturesociety.org on non-human animal cultures and extinctions, written by wonderful colleagues, led by @thomvandooren.bsky.social including our PhD Sam Widin. But didn't Darwin and later animal ecologists write on animal cultures? #envhum #STS

As part of "Weather Reports", we've just published the first part of a Stream (Special Issue) on wind as media, model, and experience with Media+Environment. In our introduction, we ask what shape the Wind Humanities might take: mediaenviron.org/article/1274...

Retweeting this very late, so obviously way after Christmas now, but just seen that the open access version is now up :) www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

Critical extinction studies starter pack - go.bsky.app/SR3gMpS with accompanying list if you don't want to lose track of people bsky.app/profile/did:... Please send me a message (here or as a DM) to let me know you want to be on the list

Cultural Anthropology's latest issue is out! Check out 7 amazing essays on wrestling, revolutionary bureucracy, visual disinformation, riverine geostorytelling, post-flood trauma, the ethics of divine-driven bureaucracy, and cartooning journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca

Who doesn't love Cultural Anthropology? The journal is now looking for its next editor/s. Check out the details of the call here: culanth.org/about/about-...

Great to see Greg Hollin's article out in Cultural Anthropology! A (depressingly) timely piece on what happens when labour organising is interpreted through a post-truth lens, which weaves together ethnography, contemporary critiques of neoliberalism & the 'zany' journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...

This is such a good (and TIMELY) article by Greg Hollin on attempts to unionize pro wrestlers, and what organisation and activism look like in a space when narratives are always openly constructed, contingent an "zany." journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...

De-mining rats. Stray dogs. Lal Kandhari cows. Marxist cats. And fishy resistance. My review of Animal Studies in 2023 is available here. DM me for the PDF. doi.org/10.1093/ywcc...

🌍 Our book - 'Digital ecologies: Mediating more-than-human worlds' - will be published in December with @manchesterup.bsky.social! 🍃 Editors: @jonnyjjt.bsky.social, @admsrl.bsky.social, Henry Anderson-Elliott & @evahaifa.bsky.social 🫂 Pre-order now: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188601/

Excited to see cover & paperback listing of Digital Ecologies now up on the MUP site: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188601/ - it'll be open access too (huge thanks to the University of Sheffield OA fund and University of Liège for supporting it!). Was an amazing privilege to work on!

The first special section to mark 20 years of Cultural Politics - 'Unfamiliar Archives' - has just come out; it was a huge pleasure to work on with some of my favourite academic colleagues: read.dukeupress.edu/cultural-pol... @dukepress.bsky.social

Tom's doing really great work, so please do consider dropping him a line if this is relevant to you and you want a chat about it!

Lovely to see the editorial work at a lot of @dukepress.bsky.social journals being recognised at this year's CELJ awards - and, from a personal perspective, chuffed that Cultural Politics 19.1, Multispecies Justice, was a runner up for best special issue! dukeupress.wordpress.com/2024/01/08/c...

Four new grade 8 posts in sociology and social policy at Leeds Uni. Links below! Disability and social policy eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Sorry for not really using this then posting something spammy, but just seen my article on lifestyle movement media, digital veganism, and ethical tensions is now out in the Journal of Cultural Economy: doi.org/10.1080/1753... I've worked on it for ages, so hopefully it's at least a bit useful!

As I spent an overly long time drawing a very basic shark, I wanted to share this poster for animal studies / STS seminar series at Sheffield this year! Further info here: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac... Am super chuffed that some *amazing* people are coming to share their work!

The journal Environmental Humanities (which I co-edit) is looking for some new Associate Editors, including new editors for our Living Lexicon series. Applications due by Nov 3. See environmentalhumanities.org for more details. #envhum

I haven't posted much so far, because:

I wondered briefly if I should have taken this opportunity for a social media revamp, but have decided to stick with a scan I made of my ear in 2006 for my profile pic. If any friendly animal studies, STS, environmental humanities, or soc. movement studies people are here, hopefully I'll find you :)