📣 Call for thematic working groups: submit proposals by 6 February 2026 👥 Are you interested in building a new community of practice around a particular theme or topic in order to bridge different approaches and perspectives? ℹ️ Learn more and apply here: socses.org/call-for-wor...

📣 Upcoming online workshop to map concepts related to seeds 🌱 Explore concepts similar to seeds through conceptual mapping of, e.g., bright spots, lighthouses, grassroots innovations. 🗓️ 14 January 2026 🕑 07:00 MST / 09:00 EST / 15:00 CET / 16:00 CAT 📍 Online 🔗 Learn more: tinyurl.com/map-seeds

📣 Upcoming webinar on innovations keeping an agricultural system resilient 🌾 The Collaborative Governance thematic working group invites you to a webinar with Denise Simmons. 🗓️ 16 December 2025 🕑 09:00 MST / 11:00 EST / 17:00 CET / 18:00 CAT 📍 Online (Zoom) 🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/yu38fst2

A unique study of biodiversity in sub-Saharan Africa, in Nature, shows that the region has lost 24% of its biodiversity, and that over 80% of the remaining wild plants and animals live outside protected areas, meaning we have to re-think conservation in Africa. Fig: Nature buff.ly/l8g5vs2

📢 Join us for Stakeholder Day prior to #IPBES12 in Manchester, UK! 🗓️ 2 February 2026 🖼️ Showcase your IPBES-related projects with a poster! 🌍 Learn more and register for online and in-person participation by 2 January: https://www.ipbes.net/ipbes12/stakeholder-day

A new report reveals how the Anthropocene is shaping our brains and minds, and how our cognition and social systems are, in turn, driving global change. Find the report here: buff.ly/Xay5oYg

🌱 Join our community and be recognised as a founding member 🏅 SES research has long lacked an institutional home. That changed this year with the launch of SocSES. Sign up before the end of 2025 to be recognised for co-creating our community. 🔗 Become a founding member: socses.org/join-socses/

A new report led by the @britishecologicalsociety.org & @nationaltrust.org.uk highlights that an ecosystem approach is the best way to make sure that ecosystems continue to function for people & nature, & a more effective way of boosting biodiversity. Find out more: www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...

📣 Upcoming live recording of the Nature Connectedness for President podcast with guest Christopher Ives from the University of Nottingham 🌱 🗓️ Friday, 28 November 2025 🕑 18:00 UTC / 19:00 CET / 20:00 CAT 📍 Online 🔗 Get your free Need for Nature Week Festival Pass to attend: tinyurl.com/bdhtjac6

📣 Upcoming webinar on human-nature connectedness frameworks 🌱 Join this Research Roundtable webinar on Nature Connectedness frameworks with Matteo Giusti, Melissa Hatty, and Ryan Lumber. 🗓️ 27 November 2025 🕑 09:00 UTC / 10:00 CET / 11:00 CAT 📍 Online 🔗 Register to attend: tinyurl.com/5bufxmnw

📣 Upcoming gathering for early-career SES researchers and professionals in Asia and Oceania time zones to connect, share ideas, and just hang out 🌏 🗓️ 2 December 2025 🕑 10:30 Indian Standard Time 🕑 14:00 Japan Standard Time 🕑 16:00 Australian EDT 📍 Online 🔗 Register to attend: tinyurl.com/5b2udazv

📣 Upcoming webinar on how local “seeds” and participatory foresight can help guide pathways toward more sustainable and just futures 🌱 🎤 @amandajimenezac.bsky.social from @sthlmresilience.bsky.social 🗓️ 25 November 2025 🕑 7 am Mountain / 15:00 CET / 16:00 CAT 🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/4pb3ybfz

🎙️Call for sessions! Towards a just and habitable world: exploring the role of technology Submit your session proposal to help shape the discussions around how we might transform technological systems towards sufficiency, equity, and resilience. 📅 Lausanne, 2-5 June 2026 🔗 bit.ly/3JgQZT6

📣 Upcoming training session on collective futures visioning using collage 🌱 The Transformative Arts-Based Methods thematic stream working group invites you their first training session. 🗓️ 26 November 2025 🕑 08:00 Mountain / 16:00 CET / 17:00 CAT 📍 Online 🔗 Register to attend: tinyurl.com/ycxx4ycy

📣 Reminder: Inaugural Dialogue SESsion 🌱 We are honoured to have Carl Folke, Steve Carpenter and Kate Brown reflect on how the SES field emerged and what they see as some new frontiers. 🗓️ 17 November 2025 🕑 10 am Eastern / 16:00 CET / 17:00 CAT 🎟️ Register via email invitation or Community Platform

📣 Upcoming inaugural Dialogue SESsion 🌱 We are honoured to have Carl Folke, Steve Carpenter and Kate Brown reflect on how the SES field emerged and what they see as some new frontiers. 🗓️ 17 November 2025 🕑 10 am Eastern / 16:00 CET / 17:00 CAT 📍 Online 📥 Invitation via email to SocSES members

🔍 Day 5 of our Resilience Science and Climate Change short course 🔍 @aquinlan.bsky.social (@resiliencealliance.bsky.social 🇨🇦) facilitated a session on co-creating indicators as part of a resilience assessment 🔍 Participants presented their group assignments and reflected on the past five days

👐🏽 Day 4 of our Resilience Science and Climate Change short course Participants discussed: 👐🏽 transformative change and climate resilience, with Oonsie Biggs (CST 🇿🇦) 👐🏽 co-creating experiments that foster community resilience, with @sarahlynnburch.bsky.social, @uwaterlooclimate.bsky.social 🇨🇦

🌇 Day 3 of our Resilience Science and Climate Change short course The cohort explored: 🌇 SES, SETS and IAD frameworks and theories, and how to use them effectively, with Micheal Schoon (ASU 🇺🇸) 🌇 the role of power in issues of climate justice with @mberbes.bsky.social (University of Waterloo 🇨🇦)

🌾 Day 2 of our Resilience Science and Climate Change short course Participants took part in two sessions: 🌾 getting to know each other through discussions and breakout groups 🌾 climate change conflicts in production landscapes, presented by Natalia Aristizábal Uribe @nserc-resnet.bsky.social

📣SAVE THE DATE📣 The external review of the IPBES #MonitoringAssessment is coming soon! 🏡🌍 📆Opens 3 November 🧪🗣️Who? Governments, scientists, experts, businesses, decision-makers, knowledge-holders, etc. Stay updated⬇️ www.ipbes.net/notification...

🌿 Day 1 of our Resilience Science and Climate Change short course Yesterday, the cohort had two sessions, focussing on: 🌿 key concepts of social-ecological resilience, presented by @stevelade.bsky.social 🌿 using futures approaches to support resilience, presented by @resiliencesci.bsky.social

🎉 Our “Resilience Science and Climate Change” online short course is taking place this week! 🥳 A cohort of 25 graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, representing more than 20 countries, are exploring key resilience concepts in the context of climate change with the help of 8 scholars.

📣 Upcoming webinar on ways research and practice can help nurture and mobilise diverse values of nature 🌱 Webinar: Mobilising diverse values of nature in research and practice 🗓️ Tuesday, 4 November 2025 🕑 09:00 Eastern / 15:00 CET / 16:00 CAT 📍 Online (Zoom) 🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/bdfkbzu5

📣 Upcoming launch of the Collaborative Governance working group 🎉 Don't miss this chance to learn more, engage with the working group, and provide your input. 🗓️ Thursday, 30 October 2025 🌐 Two opportunities for different time zones 🔗 Learn more and register to attend here: tinyurl.com/2dj69b6b

📣 Upcoming webinar on fostering food system transformations in Africa 🌱 Learn more about the insights from the IDRC-funded “Fostering food-system transformation in Africa” Seeds of Good Anthropocenes project. 🗓️ 29 October 2025 🕑 13:00 CET / 14:00 CAT 📍 Online 🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/2b99m9us

📣 Upcoming webinar on collective decision-making and local public goods 🌱 The Collaborative Governance thematic stream working group invites you to a webinar with Tara Grillos. 🗓️ Monday, 27 October 2025 🕑 09:00 Arizona / 17:00 CET / 18:00 CAT 📍 Online (Zoom) 🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/mw3hx2r6

Transformative change for a just & sustainable world is urgent and necessary to address the global interconnected crises related to biodiversity loss. 🌎🧪 But, how do we achieve it? 📽️Watch this new IPBES video available with subtitles in English, French and Spanish: https://youtu.be/3DVeY9TU97g

🎯 5 key strategies for transformative change: From conserving vital places to shifting values. Together these create pathways to just and sustainable futures. IPBES #TransformativeChange Assessment: https://www.ipbes.net/transformative-change-assessment

📣 Upcoming launch of the Northern American Regional Hub 🎉 Interested in building a community of SES researchers and practitioners in Canada and the USA? Don't miss the launch of this regional hub! 🗓️ 17 October 2025 🕑 12pm Eastern / 9am Pacific 📍 Online 🔗 Register to attend: tinyurl.com/yjastkys

📣 Upcoming launch of the Southern African Regional Hub 🎉 Are you interested in helping to build a community of SES researchers and practitioners in Southern Africa? Make sure you do not miss the launch of this hub! 🗓️ 16 October 2025 🕑 14:00 CAT 📍 Online 🔗 Register to attend: tinyurl.com/4fwahhm6

Here's your chance to join the SCB Europe board and impact conservation science and practice. This is a great opportunity also for the early career conservationists so don't hesitate to nominate yourself!

🔍 Research suggests restoring ancestral lands & traditional food systems could tackle malnutrition among Indigenous families in Attappadi, Kerala 🌱 This work highlights the critical role of food sovereignty & ecological restoration in supporting resilient, healthy communities. 🔗 buff.ly/2euMsuD

🌱 Join our community and be recognised as a founding member 🏅 Join SocSES before the end of 2025 to be recognised for your role in building an inclusive, global society that advances and supports a connected, resilient, and transformative SES community. 🔗 Become a member: socses.org/join-socses/

📢 Spring internships | 6 openings at SEI HQ 🇸🇪 Join us to work on sustainability, climate, clean energy and more. 🌍 Climate risk + adaptation 📊 Organizational learning 🌱 Finance for sustainable dev 🎤 Event coordination ⚡ Small hydropower 🚍 Resilient e-bus depots 🔗 Apply by 26 Oct: buff.ly/Na3CVzL

🎥 #TCESG25 in 3 Minutes In August, we gathered in Johannesburg to reimagine how transformation happens. Imagination. Inquiry. Expression. Community. Nothing captures the energy like this film 👇 ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA8I... More from the gathering: 🌍 transformationscommunity.org/tc-esg-2025-...

🌊 The #EuroGOOS Office is delighted to join the #NOOS Annual Meeting 2025, hosted by #MetÉireann in Dublin (6–8 Oct)! NOOS, one of our Regional Operational Oceanography Systems, unites partners across NW Europe to advance ocean observing, forecasting & data sharing 🌍🤝

DOUGHNUT 3.0 IS HERE! 🎉 Today, DEAL is launching the latest update of the global Doughnut, now monitoring trends in social shortfall and ecological overshoot across the 21st century. #DoughnutEconomics Check out the link below to see all the resources and dive in:

Indigenous Peoples and local communities play a critical role in mapping and monitoring the state of biodiversity in their lands and territories. 🌎🔍🌿 Hear stories of the work by the Ogeik people in Kenya👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmsq... #IndigenousPeoples #mapping #localcommunities

🌿 Are you passionate about creating sustainable food systems in urban environments? Then join the official side event from the Swiss Youth Delegation at the @worldfoodforum.bsky.social, Rome: 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 More information 👉 t.ly/bU2xc Register now 👉 t.ly/lBmkW

📣 Upcoming webinar on arts-based methods in SES research 🌱 The "Transformative Arts-Based Methods" working group in the "Advancing SES Methods" thematic stream invites you to their launch event. 🗓️ 26 September 2025 🕑 07:00 EDT / 13:00 CAT/CEST 📍 Online 🔗 Register to attend: tinyurl.com/mphb3d75

📣 Upcoming webinar on interventions to reduce poverty while conserving the environment 🌱 The "Collaborative Governance" thematic stream working group invites you to a webinar with Adriana Molina-Garzón. 🗓️ 24 September 2025 🕑 09:00 Arizona (UTC-7) 📍 Online 🔗 Register to attend: tinyurl.com/629xw8ur

📣 Upcoming panel discussion on measuring resilience across research fields and scales 🌱 This panel brings together experts to examine how resilience can be measured across research fields and scales. 🗓️ 22 September 2025 🕑 09:00 UTC+2 / 17:00 AEST 📍 Online 🔗 Register to attend: tinyurl.com/y5t3x32m

40 years ago, nations came together to take the first step in protecting the ozone layer – guided by science, united in action. Today, the ozone layer is healing. —António Guterres, UN Secretary General On #WorldOzoneDay, let's recommit to preserving the ozone layer for future generations. 🌎

📣 Upcoming webinar on human-nature connectedness 🌱 Join this webinar on Nature Connectedness methods and measures with Emily Flies and Kate Sollis from the University of Tasmania, Australia. 🗓️ Tuesday, 16 September 2025 🕑 08:30 (UTC+2) 📍 Online 🔗 Register to attend: tinyurl.com/5bufxmnw

📣 Upcoming webinar on the Seeds of Good Anthropocenes initiative 🌱 This introduction to the SoGA initiative is organised by the "Seeds and Plural Pathways to Transformative Change" working group. 📅 19 September 2025 ⏰ 14:00 CAT/CEST (UTC+2) 📍 Online 🔗 Register to attend: tinyurl.com/3pt58hvs

🌍 The #ERL Focus Issue on Human–Earth System Interactions under Climate Change is now complete! Explore research on how human activities interact with Earth system processes, plus a closing editorial from the Guest Editors: 🔗 iopscience.iop.org/collections/... #ClimateChange #OpenAccess

🌍💡Contribute to the scholarly community as a peer reviewer. Whether an #EarlyCareerResearcher or seasoned expert, your insights matter. ✨Start your journey today publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/questions/vo... #PeerReview #ScienceCommunity

🌍🎭 Explore how arts & sustainability research connect! 📅 9/9 – Panel at our offices on how the arts can transform conflicts, democratise research, and spark imagination and care. 📅 10/9 – Full screening of the play Unruly at Zita cinema (fully booked, waitlist open). su.bmc.nu/Modules/Even...

⛈️ Researchers from @unibe.ch & @ethz.ch have found #ClimateChange is intensifying supercell thunderstorms in Europe. With a global temperature increase of 3°C, these powerful #storms are also expected to occur more frequently, especially in the Alpine region. 🔗 bit.ly/3URKbgH #OurChangingMountains