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.

📚Thrilled to get my hard copy of the new #PoliticalEcology Handbook, expertly put together by @drjesshope.bsky.social @eliapos.bsky.social & @yolandaariadne.bsky.social A go-to resource to get the latest developments in the field⬇️

This ought to be a huge national news story. But the quiet dismantling of a key sector barely registers outside HE. Maybe someone will care when the local economies that Unis sustain start to go bust too. Important story from @patrickjack.bsky.social & @timeshighered.bsky.social

📣On May 12-15 in Barcelona the conference The Apocalypse is Not Coming (TANC) invites submissions for paper, to transdisciplinary panels exploring apocalyptic imaginaries, crisis, and regenerative futures across fields. 🌍✨https://webs.uab.cat/apocalypse-conf/call-for-papers/

Check out this brilliant piece in the new Handbook on #WildlifeCrime by my lovely colleagues @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social @georgeiorda.bsky.social & Teresa Lappe-Osthege. It highlights the overlooked trade in European wildlife #IWT #WildlifeTrade

Apply now for the first in-person Masterclass on Mitigating Illegal Wildlife Trade! The application deadline is 30th January 2026 at 23.59pm UK time. @danchallender.bsky.social @orchiddelirium.bsky.social #IllegalWildlifeTrade #Ghana #WestAfrica app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/mas...

Want to join our panel @eccb26leiden.bsky.social on "Conservation Histories and Humanities: Understanding the Present, Unearthing the Past"? We are looking for presentations exploring the histories of conservation. Email me ([email protected]) with an abstract by 9th Feb.

Bad but unsurprising news about upcoming US withdrawal from @ipbes.net - but the work addressing biodiversity loss continues.

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

❄️ The #PeakDistrict is at its snowy best today ❄️

New Books Network podcast! In this conversation, our convenor @paulinesophieh.bsky.social talks to @peternewell.bsky.social about his book States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society. Check it out! www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

🦢Listers!!! Did I get all the bird species I needed in one calendar year for the #My200 challenge? No, but I got 198 - decent amount for a first go at a #BigYear. Started with a wren in loughinisland, ended with a sanderling on Tyrella beach.I’ve learned a lot & had some fun experiences, a🧵

🎄Happy holidays everyone 🎄switching off for a bit, so in the meantime enjoy this festive-looking slug by Abi Palmer www.sitegallery.org/exhibition/s...

📍 Online Lecture 📆 Jan 23, 12:30 -1:30 ✨ Join Simon Pooley as he discusses the okapi, a rainforest giraffid which has become a symbol of scientific curiosity, colonial power, and conservation challenges. Grab your free tickets here: buff.ly/CGq6rfy

Urgent letter from educators to the British government on the welfare of hunger strikers, please sign and share @sheffielducu.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

🤢 when private land ownership meets venture capital meets greenwashing. So many layers of what’s wrong with carbon & biodiversity credits being pushed as a solution to planetary crisis ⬇️

🎉 An excellent book by a terrific team. This Handbook is one to add to your essential reading lists for 2026 #WildlifeCrime #IWT #PoliticalEcology #GreenCriminology ⬇️

1/ 📣 Jobs alert! 3x 3 year post docs & 2 PhD studentships on the Global Methane Project with Jan Selby at Leeds Uni cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1...

Unbelievably we are already at end of the first term of the #MultispeciesMutualisms project; to celebrate we combined our final meeting for 2025 with this terrific exhibition Slime Mother by Abi Palmer #slugs #SlugDisco www.sitegallery.org/exhibition/s...

The latest issue of Environmental Values is a special issue called 'Taking care together: Conservation as more-than-human process' edited by Sara Asu Schroer, Paolo Gruppuso and myself. Read our introduction, Tim Ingold's commentary and most of the articles here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/enva/34/6

One of my PhD chapters: 'Designing user-centered technologies to address the illegal wildlife trade' is OUT NOW in the @society4conbio.bsky.social journal Conservation Science and Practice! Please check out the graphical abstract and give it a read: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Going to share this fantastic interview between @pmbigger.bsky.social and @mjhaugen.bsky.social with so many folks- extremely valuable for students thinking about how to best make change and life outside academia

Friends! Big favour to ask. We're trying to save our university but the management, exposed for their recklessness, is being aggressive & will withdraw our salaries indefinitely. Sign & share to ask this 'lockout' tactic be withdrawn @sheffielducu.bsky.social www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...

A very good write up on the current dispute with 4 weeks of strike action already at Sheffield uni over cuts & restructuring. All of this could have been avoided but Uni management is escalating with threat of 💯 pay deductions in the New Year ⬇️ www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/wont-work-ca...

Sign this petition to support staff threatened with lockout at the University of Sheffield! www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...

Can we find a middle ground between those who see the EU's wolf downlisting as a catastrophe and those who celebrate it as good news? With @hannalp.bsky.social, we discuss the frustratingly polarised debate about wolf conservation in the EU. 🌍🦤🧪🦊 🎧➡️ pod.fo/e/362998

Last week we had a wonderful afternoon listening to @cscbellet.bsky.social - such brilliant research, which includes really novel research methods. #MultispeciesMutualisms ⬇️

One more way in which the neoliberal university model is failing us

Tremendous work by my colleague Lorah Steichen showing how the pentagon is stockpiling the raw materials needed for green industrialization and hoarding them for imperial war making in places like Venezuela. The US *should* be stockpiling these materials, but for socially productive ends.

Great to see media coverage of the hostile and punitive approach taken by management at @sheffielduni.bsky.social towards @sheffielducu.bsky.social staff striking to protect jobs. Threats and intimidation won't work. We're out until we win! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I - ICYMI there’s a new paper on #eels & #harms from Ali Hutchinson in the Beastly Business team. #WildlifeTrade Check it out ⬇️

Interested or know someone interested in doing a PhD on environmental histories/materialities of zoonotic or infectious animal disease as part of Transformative Humanities @durham.ac.uk Then please get in touch by Dec 8th! @pollenetwork.bsky.social @emilywebz.bsky.social @rgs-agwg.bsky.social

Get ready for this @w-u-r.bsky.social ! An interesting line up discussing Planetary Development before Robert Fletcher's Professorial Lecture! centreforspaceplacesociety.com/2025/11/19/r... @pollenetwork.bsky.social @brambuscher.bsky.social @suzywbrandon.bsky.social @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social