Unusual choice shooting with NatGeo, but I'll watch it because 1) elephants 2) Herzog lwlies.com/venice-film-...

Looking forward to opening up the new academic year with a talk by Fenna Smits Register (in person or online) here: forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...

So Juan Martin Dabezies has pretty much been pumping out research related to wild pigs and hunting in Ururguay. And its pretty good stuff. And i'm a bit jealous. But mostly happy to read his prolific work www.researchgate.net/profile/Juan...

roborabbit lures in Florida everglades for Burmese pythons abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

Looking forward to opening up the new academic year with a talk by Fenna Smits Register (in person or online) here: forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...

2 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow Multispecies Justice, under the supervision of Professor Danielle Celermajer, at University of Sydney usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...

Was pretty happy a few weeks back, to come across the first review of my book - 'a moving and unsettling depiction of marginalised ways of life' - by Katherine Fletcher in the Australian Journal Of Anthropology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"Fungi can see and react to a wide range of colors." journals.asm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Did a great urban foraging workshop with Diego many moons ago, which left a lasting impression www.sbs.com.au/food/article...

Resonated with this take on aesthetics www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

I had a paper published in Humanimalia last week, called the "Feral at Home". I'm chuffed about the timing because it joins a great selection of other papers I'll add a few more details about the paper below, but shoutout to all the great & hard work of the journal editors. And for keeping it OA

1/ Happy to share that my article “Beyond Homecoming: The Reintroduction of Seven Przewalski’s Mares in the Gobi Desert” has been published in Environmental Humanities. It is the story of seven mares flown from Australian zoos to Mongolia’s Gobi Desert in the 1990s doi.org/10.1215/2201... #envhist

I don't agree with everything in this article, but I do agree with this: "The act of writing the thing is the same thing as the thinking of it. If you can’t write it, you haven’t actually thought it." And AI allows us to 'not' think. engelsbergideas.com/essays/a-war... #academicsky #ai #teaching

Out Now: Humanimalia 15.2! Featuring timely essays on human–animal entanglements, including 🐴 a taxidermied horse in London, 🐗 a feral pig in Australia, 🐐 “happy” goats in Italy, 🐾 robot dogs in Gaza, 🐦 pheasants in NL, and 🐑 sheepdogs in the UK. 🔓 OA here: humanimalia.org/issue/view/1...

A great ethnographic study of the "Unexpected Relations of a 'Feral Pig'" by @paulgkeil.bsky.social in the new issue of @humanimalia.bsky.social humanimalia.org/article/view...

The internal exhibits for tigers at Prague zoo were empty as the four big cats roamed and slept outside in the middle of the day. The only creature in the sparse steel and concrete cage was a large cockroach.

I've taken to annotating parts of a paper I like with love hearts

Rootling zine on the fantastic GEOZ.ONE geoz.one/zines/rootli...

Useful post Anyone have any other recommendations on methods (systematic approaches, ethics, reflections) for doing research in social media (particularly insta) m daily.jstor.org/digital-ethn...

Some masterful Mughal pieces amongst this essay www.metmuseum.org/perspectives...

I get excited & humbled finding a decades old book that mirrors my own research interest yet has been inexplicably been overlooked by colleagues. I also feel the impetus to jealousy guard it like a hidden treasure but then realise it's just better to share it. www.pennpress.org/978151280180...

when I was very into cultural conceptions/constructions of risk, uncertainty, indeterminacy and reading Mary Douglas and all the anthropology that followed it in the 80s and 90s (and early 00s, really), there was a growing thread of literature on risk-taking, gambling, speculation, and gender

Coming soon! 'Fences and Biosecurity' brings together #ethnographic case studies that provide unique insights into the social and political dynamics of #biosecurity fencing in Europe and North America. The volume is edited by Annika Pohl Harrisson and @eilenberg.bsky.social. #anthropology #OAbooks

I'll be chatting with Susan Harris and Anu Pande about my book for their Indian Animal Studies Collective Table Talk series, tomorrow at 15:00 CET. Looking forward to it! Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

There is a surprsingly large amount of documentary evidence from across the world of macaques riding on the backs of wild pigs

after a fantastic talk this week, we have another scheduled in 2 weeks as part of our regular seminar series Tania Murray Li - Thursday March 20 register here - forms.office.com/e/rfKrvjTnE2

Hiroshi Yoshida 1931

Had a chat with Rituparna Patgiri, sociologist from Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, about my book. I have avoided and dread listening to myself, but my colleague assures me I'm not as incoherent as I imagine myself to be open.spotify.com/episode/3kMQ...

1/ 📣 Big news! For the next 5 years I’ll be working with this amazing team @evahaifa.bsky.social Alasdair Cochrane & Bob McKay on the @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded Multispecies Mutualisms project wellcome.org/grant-fundin...

2/ We bring together political ecology, sociology, literary studies & political theory to examine mutualistic relationships btwn humans & non human animals-and how these relations shape health. The case studies are bird conservation, equine therapy, cow with calf dairy and hypoallergenic dogs. 🐕 🐦‍⬛🐴🐄

Doing a lot of rootling this week Expansive and nuanced long-form piece on pigs in Hawaii hakaimagazine.com/features/isl...

Next week on Tuesday Looking forward to this one with @garethenticott.bsky.social Register here: forms.office.com/e/yFU40JQ9Hz

Next week on Tuesday Looking forward to this one with @garethenticott.bsky.social Register here: forms.office.com/e/yFU40JQ9Hz

Excellent piece on Kaiputra - marginalized swine herding community of Bangladesh. Still guiding pigs over significant distances across the country and over long periods of time through the floodplains during the monsoon www.tbsnews.net/features/pan...

just gonna chuck this slide in, any time someone asks me to talk about my research on human-elephant relations

My most common answer to questions in a seminar is ramble incoherently on tangental issues for several minutes and then finish with 'honestly I don't know'

Today, 12:30 (CET) I'll be doing a presentation and having a chat with some far better coexistence minds than mine, reflecting on vulnerability and how it can inform methods of studying and ways of conceptualising shared human-elephant worlds.

We need two people to lead Environmental Humanities into a future that needs #envhum work more than ever. Please apply 👇

I start my book The Medieval Pig by pointing out that the pig you picture in your head (like these pink porkers) is not the medieval pig. boydellandbrewer.com/978183765168...

His facebook feed was an endless stream with illustrations of William Blake style demons, esoteric diagrams and apocalyptic imagery. He described for me how the object represented the globe and the world's end. I put on my headphones because I was tired.

Some of us pirate books to learn, others to build AI for profit www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

🐘 "Mediating a Caring Environment - Escorting elephants through a fragmented world"🌍 - the first lecture of the Ecological Anthropology Seminar Series 2025 by @paulgkeil.bsky.social on Thu 30 Jan at 14:00 (CET) in Prague and online. Register here: forms.office.com/e/rfKrvjTnE2

I am delighted to be welcoming Catie Gressier to Aarhus University where she will present her work on the cycles of life and death on heritage breed farms. It is this Thursday 2-4pm! You can join both online and in person! For more information, click here: aias.au.dk/events/show/...

Excerpt Turning rabbits into a valuable local industry saved the town during the Great Depression. Local trappers became wealthy, women could contribute to the household finances, and children outearned their teachers. www.robertonfray.com/2023/06/09/a...

Finally recovered a couple of purchased but unread/toberead books from Australia

READING- Artful Multispecies Ethnography Reflections from Ongoing Practices Andrea Petitt and Véronique Servais journals.openedition.org/anthrovision...