Scientists have found one of the world’s largest cold-water coral reefs deep off Argentina. Home to dozens of species new to science, the reef already shows signs damage. Researchers are now testing "artificial corals" to help restore this fragile ecosystem. @elizabethalberts.bsky.social reports.

Important article documenting the persistence of sturgeon poaching in the Caspian Sea. Findings show the unintended consequences of state containment efforts - they can actually exacerbate and intensify IUU. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

[email protected] has put out a call for new content and review editors (volunteer positions). More info for interested women, trans, and/or non-binary early career scholars here! #envhist envhistnow.com/2026/04/23/c...

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...

So happy to see this paper by @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social out in the world! Highly recommended reading!

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

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...

Maddie is a superstar and this is so richly deserved!

📣 Fully-funded PhD position on Methane Politics on the ERC funded METHPOL project @ Leeds Uni w/Prof Jan Selby. Open to home (UK) applicants (international studentships have been filled) to start October 2026. Deadline 22 April. #ClimateChange. Full details ⬇️ phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/427-...

New course from Research & Degrowth International: Blue Degrowth It offer an intensive exploration of the ocean as both a vital ecological system and a key frontier of contemporary capitalism, with perspectives from political ecology, ocean governance, environmental justice, and post-growth debates

Really important intervention from the brilliant @oliviamason.bsky.social

JOB ALERT: Two 4.5 year postdoctoral positions to work on my Wellcome-funded project 'Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health'. Please share widely! CLOSING DATE: 23 April (the date on Jobs.ac.uk is apparently incorrect)

📆 are you interested in working with a team on understanding animal-human interactions and health? There is just under one week left to apply for these post doc roles. 🐦‍⬛🐄🐴🐕‍🦺

Back out doing fieldwork. This week I’m at NOC in Southampton working in their Discovery Collections. A scientific collection of deep-sea animals collected from benthic and pelagic zones. Over 70,000 samples stored here (and specimens in the order of millions!) some friends I met yesterday 😍

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...

🐄 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...

“A 7.2% decline for every tenth of a degree per decade might sound small. But compounded over time, across entire ocean basins, it represents a staggering and deeply concerning loss of marine life.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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 🧵

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...

Really importance piece in the Times Higher on cuts to Geography at a time when it matters most www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uk-u...

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 :)

Still accepting abstract submissions for our @rgsibg.bsky.social annual conference session on more-than-human seas. We are seeking papers which examine oceanic inequalities, blue justice, blue (de)growth, affect and speculative ocean futures from multispecies perspectives 🌊🦐🐳🐋🪸🏄‍♀️🏊🐠

Daniel Allen and I are organising an @rgsibg.bsky.social conference (hybrid) session on legal animal geographies. We invite papers that not only highlight current multispecies injustice, but seek to challenge, resist, and contest these systems to create more just multispecies worlds and futures. 1

Still lots of time left to submit an abstract for mine and Leah's session #RGSIBG session! If you've got some ideas for a contribution but would like an informal chat, please feel free to get in touch with me. #GeographySky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

'Seagrass is one of the most powerful natural tools for tackling climate change and can protect coastlines from storms and erosion, according to Wilder Humber – a partnership of the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire wildlife trusts.'

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

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!

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 know the system is broken and it isn't any individual's fault, but seemingly interminable waits for peer review are incredibly not fun when you're early career and precarious

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

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/...

#dugong #Thailand "In 2022, at least 273 dugongs lived in Thai waters..." They're now losing about 42/year 😨 Looking for Miracle: why have so many dugongs gone missing from Thailand’s shores? | Global development | The Guardian share.google/qIUzUfAX3faR...

'To speak of the “demise” of the UK university is not to suggest its disappearance, but its transformation into something increasingly unrecognisable.' Wise words, these. 1/3

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

A new treaty comes into force to govern life on the high seas

'“Embedded precarity” in higher education is diminishing research quality as staff on short-term contracts favour “safer” work to secure future employment, according to the author of a new report.' Royal Geographical Society maps important connections between precarity and research topics. 1/3

Saha, S., (2026) “Endangered cobras and conservation politics: Exploring multispecies encounters in agrarian landscapes of West Bengal”, Journal of Political Ecology 33(1): 6439. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe....

Check out newly published Handbook of Wildlife Crime with starting premise of taking a critical approach to researching/understanding wildlife crime. With most wonderful coeditors @ahubschle.bsky.social R. Wong L. Gutierrez T. Wyatt & contributors @geogdurham.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social

The Call for evidence to shape the European Ocean Act is now open! The aim is effective use of maritime space & ocean resources, structure ocean observation, and simplified reporting. Deadline: 9/2/2026: link.europa.eu/fbRF83

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

Over 20 female Atlantic sturgeons, Acipenser sturio (sollo in Spanish), await alive for caviar extraction in the Villa Pepita facilities in Coria del Río (Sevilla) The factory was established in 1932 and closed in 1970, due to (or driving) the extinction of the species in the Guadalquivir River

I have a new chapter out in the Routledge Handbook of Wildlife Crime, co-authored with @georgeiorda.bsky.social and Teresa Lappe-Osthege: 'Interfaces of il/legality in European wildlife trade' If you would like a copy please get in touch! www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Over half of colleagues on fixed-term contracts cannot plan for their future. A further 37.6% say FTCs limit their ability to plan. #StatesOfPrecarity

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

Happening tomorrow! Details below for anyone based in London who might like to come along.

Important new report out on precarious working conditions in Geography in UK HE. Sadly the nature and scale of the findings are grim but unsurprising. www.rgs.org/research/hig...

📣 London folks! 📣 I am giving a talk next week (tues 25th @2pm) to the Human Ecology Research Group (HERG) at UCL: "Promising Blue Futures: Marine Biobanks and the enclosure of ocean life in Europe" Open to all so please come along :) 🐋🌱🦠🧜🪸🌊🦐 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Weekly reshare of our call for papers until the deadline on 5th Dec! So excited by the abstracts submitted already :)

Call for papers! We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka. Abstract deadline 15 Jan Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies

📣 London folks! 📣 I am giving a talk next week (tues 25th @2pm) to the Human Ecology Research Group (HERG) at UCL: "Promising Blue Futures: Marine Biobanks and the enclosure of ocean life in Europe" Open to all so please come along :) 🐋🌱🦠🧜🪸🌊🦐 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...