I have a new OA paper out in Geoforum: 🦐🌎 'What on Earth? Terraqueous Terraforming and Earth-shaping with shrimp-shells' 🌎🦐 doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

paper three of our 'Terraforming Terra' Geoforum special issue is now out.. thank you Hannah for such a wonderful article!!

Our colleague @jonnyjjt.bsky.social is quoted in this piece published yesterday by the BBC on the 40th anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster. The article looks at what the disaster has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant: www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Watch ‘Chornobyl’s legacy and European environmental security’, featuring Serhii Plokhy, Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, Jonathon Turnbull, and Sasha Dovzhyk on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/live/vrrza_z... 2/3

Today marks the fortieth anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster. Earlier this month, @ukrinstitute.bsky.social and the Royal Society of Arts co-hosted a major discussion on its legacy for European security. #Chornobyl40 #Ukraine #EuropeanSecurity 1/3

A boy climbs a tree to get a better view of bats being released into Leontovych Central Park in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Incredible work by the Ukrainian Bat Rehabilitation Centre. Wonderful to see so much public curiosity for our nocturnal urban neighbours. #NightlifeInTheMoreThanHumanCity

The new book “Techno-Negative” reminds us that resistance to new inventions has existed in some form across millennia. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

UKRAINIAN CARTOGRAPHIES 🌍 🌐 🇺🇦 How & why has Ukraine been mapped in the past & present, & what is (counter-)cartography’s role in shaping Ukraine’s future? Workshop: in person & online! 🗓️: 8 May 2026, 9-5 📍: Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College, Oxford Registration: tinyurl.com/OxUkrHub

Check out the new issue of Routes on young people and rewilding 👇 Really pleased to bring this one to fruition with the amazing crew at Youngwilders!

We open the special issue with an editorial introduction exploring the urgent ned to engage young people in nature recovery & rewilding, written by Youngwilders co-founder, Oscar Hartman Davies, & Routes Editor-in-Chief, Jonathon Turnbull routesjournal.org/2026/04/10/h... @geogdurham.bsky.social

Check out the new issue of Routes on young people and rewilding 👇 Really pleased to bring this one to fruition with the amazing crew at Youngwilders!

🐺 The new issue of #ROUTES is OUT NOW! 🐺 In this Special Issue, we have teamed up with youth-led nature recovery NGO, Youngwilders, to explore the relationship between young people and #rewilding Read the full issue here: routesjournal.org/youngwilders... @rgs.org @geographicalassoc.bsky.social

What is the role of the University in a world of “AI everywhere”? New in the Journal, @katyhayward.bsky.social argues why universities matter more than ever in a world shaped by AI, as spaces for cultivating critical thinking and intellectual independence. Read more: https://bit.ly/3O5VsKq

Last week, I was honoured to discuss Chornobyl's environmental and political legacies with fantastic colleagues as we approach the 40th anniversary of the nuclear catastrophe A recording is available, featuring Serhii Plokhy, Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, and Sasha Dovzhyk www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrrz...

And if you’re looking for a weekend read, look no further. Our new issue of the London Ukrainian Review, dedicated to the Chornobyl anniversary, is now live: www.londonukrainianreview.org

Many thanks to everyone who attended last night’s event, '40 Years On: Chornobyl’s Legacy and European Environmental Security', co-organised by the @Ukr_Institute and @theRSAorg. If you missed it, you can watch the recording here: www.youtube.com/live/vrrza_z... 1/2

Another example of geopolitical wilding, this time the wilding of borders... www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/i...

Officially released today!💥Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine💥 Tracing the refusal that haunts the history of tech, my book offers a source of inspiration for those looking for a new tech politics beyond reform/acceleration. www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773... Buy w/ discount👇

Another form of "war-wilding"? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🌱Happy #WorldRewildingDay! Today, we celebrate the incredible work being done to encourage wildlife back into our cities 🦫#ChooseOurFuture @jlorimer.bsky.social @jonnyjjt.bsky.social @ecioxford.bsky.social

It's my birthday today! If you’re feeling generous, please donate to my fundraiser to buy power generators for the 142nd mechanised brigade in memory of my friend Alisa's father who proudly served in the battalion 🇺🇦 🔱 🇬🇧 Link: www.paypal.com/pools/c/9n6n... 🇺🇦 Link: send.monobank.ua/jar/9CBuj5qP7J

It's my birthday today! If you’re feeling generous, please donate to my fundraiser to buy power generators for the 142nd mechanised brigade in memory of my friend Alisa's father who proudly served in the battalion 🇺🇦 🔱 🇬🇧 Link: www.paypal.com/pools/c/9n6n... 🇺🇦 Link: send.monobank.ua/jar/9CBuj5qP7J

🌍 For STEM & geography teachers in state schools in England & Scotland 🌍 Routes co-founder @rushtondr.bsky.social is recruiting participants for her project: “Decolonising STEM & geography education in secondary schools: exploring educators’ agency & curriculum-making across England and Scotland”

‘The normal should be darkness’: why one Belgian national park is turning off ‘pointless’ streetlights www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Our Geography for All Coordinator, Jasmine Roberts, reflects on the Geography for All initiative and what supporting underrepresented students means to her in this new @routesjournal.bsky.social editorial 👇 Read her thoughts on community-building, curated support, and ways to get involved.

This issue of @routesjournal.bsky.social features an editorial from my colleague Jasmine Roberts, introducing the fantastic work she is doing building networks for underrepresented geography students in the 'Geography for All' programme at @rgs.org - well worth a read ⬇️

Really glad to publish the latest issue of Routes, with some excellent and timely contributions that show how important and relevant geographical knowledge is to the contemporary world!

🌍 The new issue of #ROUTES is OUT NOW! 🌍 ✍️ It's packed with original, cutting-edge #research from high school and undergraduate #geographers 👇 Read the full issue here: routesjournal.org/current-issue/ @rgs.org @geographicalassoc.bsky.social

«Болота проти танків. Як водно-болотні угіддя допомагають під час війни» Олега Листопада 'Swamps vs tanks: How wetlands help during wartime' by Oleh Listopad uwecworkgroup.info/uk/%d0%b1%d0...

Interested in animals, health & STS? Our Multispecies Mutualisms (or perhaps Multispecies Mutualisms?) project is underway and we should be advertising postdoctoral positions over the coming months so keep an eye out! In the meantime, we have a proposed panel at EASST: easst.net/conference/e...

'Samplers of the marine environment: Knowing the oceans with seabirds, 1958–Present' A fantastic new article from Oscar Hartman Davies exploring the shifting roles of seabirds in marine science and monitoring over the second half of the twentieth century www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

First piece published in our special issue of Geoforum, 'Terraforming Terra'! @admsrl.bsky.social @wrigleyca.bsky.social

🐄 NEW OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE We sitatue livestock agriculture as a terraforming practice making Earth alien. We develop SF author Becky Chambers' concept of 'somaforming' to examine the shaping of nonhuman bodies to suit alien Earth and how this preempts futures: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The @leverhulmecal.bsky.social PhD studentships are now live here leverhulmecal.webspace.durham.ac.uk/leverhulme-c... Are you looking for a PhD programme that supports interdisciplinary approaches to algorithmic life? Closing date 26 February

Ray Chan and I are convening a panel at the upcoming RGS-IBG 2026 conference titled "Digital Disease Ecologies of More-than-Human Health". Please see the abstract below, and if you are interested in attending send [email protected] a 250 word abstract with a short bio by the 23rd Feb

Congratulations to the winners!

We are delighted to announce our main and runner up winners for the AGWG Undergraduate Dissertation Prize! Anna Meller (Durham University) has won the best undergraduate dissertation prize and Adam Newton (University of Nottingham) has received the runner-up prize. Our congratulations to both!

My essay is finally out! There, I trace how embroidery, often dismissed as naïve and feminine, served as a form of knowledge-production and played a crucial role in Ukrainian and Palestinian resistance.

New article for @tibg.bsky.social. Through the case of digital snake rescue, I merge @digicologies.bsky.social and disease ecology work to develop the lens of 'digital disease ecologies' - a way to analyse how digital encounter and datafication configure disease emergence and multispecies health.

Very excited to be chairing a panel at the upcoming conference on The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies! Amazing line up below:

Tickets have now sold out. We're looking forward to welcoming everyone to Oxford in just over a week! The schedule can be viewed at our website: digicologies.com/schedule

Check out the schedule for 'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies' at our website 👇 digicologies.com/schedule A few tickets are left!

learn more about the visual politics of lots of ecologies by registering for the Digital Ecologies conference, 2-3 Feb in Oxford - tickets going fast! 🧐 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-visual... @digicologies.bsky.social

There's a few tickets left for our 2026 conference!

🌐 Registration NOW OPEN for 'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies' 🌐 Join us to explore how emerging visual regimes are shaping environmental governance and knowledge politics With wonderful keynotes: @joannazylinska.bsky.social & Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-visual...

Very excited for this! Tickets available at the link below 👇

register now for the Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies conference, 2-3 Feb 2026 in Oxford! with keynotes @joannazylinska.bsky.social and Daisy Ginsberg www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-visual... 🌳 📹 🦫 🛰️

DIGITAL ECOLOGIES is available for just £15 in paperback until the end of January; discount applied automatically unless you're in North America, where you need to type "JAN40" at payment this also applies to ALL @manchesterup.bsky.social books!!! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188601/