This was a *very* good day. The links between the two departments run across our research interests, political commitments and also deep, ever-extending networks of mentorship. Very lovely to be part of.

Last Friday we had a really engaging joint workshop between the environmental politics research groups at Sheffield University & Manchester University. The purpose was to present work in progress - lots of overlapping themes on climate, energy, environmental regulation, biodiversity & water

The great ring necked parakeet mystery is solved 🤣 Nice one @btobirds.bsky.social I’m setting my stopwatch to see how long it takes for this to appear as ‘fact’ in AI summaries of parakeet distribution in the UK ….

⏰just under 2 weeks to go until the closing date, 12 April ⏰ we have added more info to the FAQs to help applicants prepare ⬇️

Seriously: fuck Karp and all the other Tech Dicks who are using 'neurodivergence' to wash their violent global data-grabbing project - let alone Palantir's literal complicity in genocide timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/t...

Our new State of the World’s Migratory Species: Interim Report 2026 has found that a number of species that previously had stable populations are decreasing. 26 CMS-listed species have moved to higher extinction risk categories. Dive into our #SWMS26 report: www.cms.int/publication/...

As a member of the BISA executive committee, I’d highly recommend this as a good use of your time. Good people doing a lot of work to promote and support the discipline.

Excellent thread from @toriherridge.bsky.social; it really bugs me that the Colossal grift gets so much uncritical publicity. Wake up sheeple, this isn’t about conservation. It never was.

Another dimension of the ecological disaster for #LoughNeagh - the expansion of #AMR is a threat to people and animals globally. All the more devastating because it’s spread is heavily assisted by animal agriculture- and therefore avoidable ⬇️

Amazing post-doc jobs here with world class researchers. Scholarship at its finest with an academic team that will nurture careers. If you meet the job spec you’d be crazy not to apply.

🗞️ 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

🐦‍⬛ 🐕‍🦺🐄🐴 Our Multispecies Mutualisms post doc roles are now also on jobs.ac.uk 🐦‍⬛ 🐕‍🦺🐄🐴 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS438/4...

👀 highly recommend reading @jaredmargulies.bsky.social book to understand this & how it demonstrates the complex ties btwn history and desire for particular plants

This instance hasn't been discussed much in the European sphere, but it is pretty wild - a group of scientists write a unassuming exploration of some issues around rewilding in Argentina, and get sued by a very large and influential NGO. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Terrific opportunity at @univie.ac.at - great city, great uni, great team. check it out ⬇️

A must read from Jan Selby on the problems and risks associated with the new DEFRA report that argues biodiversity collapse is a threat to UK national security politicsecology.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Reposting these 4 #postdoc positions in the Multispecies Mutualism project! When I say this is the dream team to work with, it's not an overstatement. For me working with Rosaleen was life changing in so many ways! Please share with anyone interested!

📽️ check out this excellent new 10 minute talk by @dangoodley.bsky.social A very timely and much needed intervention ⬇️

In yet another instalment of the #militarization of #biodiversity: #rewilding as military strategy www.theguardian.com/environment/... [Alt text: two people in navy blue uniforms with weapons on their belts stride into a field surrounded by trees]

Happy International Women’s Day! futurenatures.org/comic-little...

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...

Based on some questions from prospective applicants we have now added a bit more information in the FAQs section #jobs #postdocs #AnimalStudies

Excited to be co-organising this again, and this time at University of Sheffield. Please send in your abstracts and spread the word!

Incredible opportunity for *4* #postdocs, *3 years each* to work with @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social, @evahaifa.bsky.social, Alasdair Cochrane and Bob McKay on their wonderful new "#multispecies #mutualisms" project at the University of of Sheffield #EnvHumanities sheffield.ac.uk/spir/news/re...

1/ Calling all ECRs - we have 4x3 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...

Very good report @euronews.com on #IWT in #EuropeanEel - demonstrating how trade continues despite the #CITES listing & Europe-wide bans on export outside the EU #GreenCollarCrime #trafficking #WildlifeTrade www.euronews.com/2026/03/03/g...

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...

Keep an eye out for three amazing job opportunities to be published next week

Do you work for a conservation organisation? Take part in this global survey of conservation labour - on who does what in conservation, where, and how: www.cmi.no/projects/292...

⏱️the countdown begins…we are 1 year in to the Multispecies Mutualisms project & next week we will advertise four 3-year post doc positions. The posts will start in Sept 2026. Keep a look out for the adverts & get in touch if you have fully completed your PhD & are interested in working with us ⬇️

Planning to attend #EASST this year? The brilliant @evahaifa.bsky.social is convening a panel on Multispecies mutualisms 📅 deadline to submit a paper proposal is 9 March- more details on this & registering are in the 🧵

📣 Call for proposals! Join an interdisciplinary symposium on other-than-human & more-than-human struggles — from unruly animals and resistant landscapes to multispecies coalitions. 🗓 Deadline: 15 May 2026 #MoreThanHuman #PoliticalEcology #Anthropology #CFP #EnvironmentalHumanitie

This is a really excellent piece - detailing the situation for geography (&other subjects) across UK #HE. The cuts & more general lack of support are having a devastating effects that will reverberate for decades @jennypickerill.bsky.social @peterhopkins.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social

Final push on this CfP...4 days left to submit your abstracts to our 'More-than-human Seas' conference session at @rgs.org annual conference. We've already received some fantastic abstracts and would love to include more :)

If you needed one more reason to ditch #Amazon ⬇️ #bats

Next episode is up of our podcast ‘Edges of Extinction’! Aptly titled ‘Killer Language’… @katatrepsis.bsky.social and @sicilyfiennes.bsky.social speak to Diane Nelson about language extinction, what it means for a language to die, and how this happens. bit.ly/4roa1XL

In what ways does the framing of climate change’s origins influence understandings of its causes and proposed solutions? 🌍 Charlotte Weatherill (The University of Manchester) discusses this in a new Geography Directions blog post. Check it out here 👇 https://ow.ly/CGRi50Y4KUL

My first book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, will be published by Yale University Press on 11 August (UK) and 8 September (US). Please help spread the word! 🙏 UK: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... @yalebooks.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈📚🐵 US: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗃️🦋

Really pleased to be in Hamburg for this workshop @fos-uhh.bsky.social on #Ecocide; it will be 2 days of intense & fascinating discussions. Thanks to @ecojustice.bsky.social for the invite www.zukuenfte-nachhaltigkeit.uni-hamburg.de/kolleg/newsr...

Once dubbed the Kruger National Park's 'crown prince’, former regional ranger Rodney Landela, is back in the dock as his rhino poaching trial reaches crucial phase www.news24.com/southafrica/...

Please check out our CfP for the @rgsibg.bsky.social annual conference. We are seeking papers about more-than-human seas which examine oceanic inequalities, blue justice, blue (de)growth, affect and much more! 🌊🦐🐳🐋🪸🏄‍♀️🏊🐠 @marsocsci.bsky.social @rgs-agwg.bsky.social

I constantly worry about the implications of ecological collapse- but I caution against using tired Malthusian arguments about environment & conflict. Let’s draw attention to the drivers of ecological collapse instead - tackle extreme wealth, fossil fuel companies, industrialised agriculture etc

@sheffielducu.bsky.social accuses managers of "bullying tactics" after staff told they will face further pay deductions for not rescheduling teaching missed during industrial action www.timeshighereducation.com/news/sheffie... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social

Sheffield have been doing these reviews since at least 2018. They're always awful, done without any notion that there are human beings behind job titles. For senior management to announce more, now, when the current dispute is ongoing smacks of punishment. Solidarity @sheffielducu.bsky.social

Not content with burning to the ground what they have already destroyed, management yesterday announced plans to decimate several more departments. No empathy, no understanding of the institution they purport to lead, and absolutely no vision of what they want it to be. Just destruction.

Solidarity with colleagues @sheffielducu.bsky.social at the latest example of institutional cruelty within HE. Not an isolated case of course, but indicative of the current mismanagement within the sector and further evidence that converting mediocre academics into managers isn’t the solution.

Myself & many colleagues are facing this at Sheffield Uni - double punishment for strike action. In the midst of this, yesterday many departments got an email announcing imminent structural reviews (ie redundancies). @sheffielducu.bsky.social

I have very mixed feeling about this report & the coverage it is getting. It’s good to see biodiversity loss getting attention. BUT experience in tackling #IWT shows linking biodiversity & security issues carries significant risks, often for the most vulnerable www.theguardian.com/environment/...

CfP: Attuning to More-than-human Seas: Negotiating Multispecies Justice in the Anthropocene Ocean 🌊🦐🐳🪸🦈🐠🌊 Please share! @rgsibg.bsky.social @rgs-agwg.bsky.social @marsocsci.bsky.social @marineconservation.bsky.social

Nothing quite like a blanket email from HR to chase away the January blues. @sheffielducu.bsky.social members took lawful strike action in Nov/Dec. we were docked pay. Now the Uni says refusal to reschedule cancelled classes results in breach of contract and 💯 pay deductions. 😡 Punished twice.