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...

“As a medical anthropologist, I’m fascinated by the political, economic, and social networks that have transformed humble bird’s nests into one of the most expensive animal products in the world.” Read more: www.sapiens.org/culture/edib...

🚨 Just one week left to apply for one of the THREE postdoc positions in the #GreenFrontier project hosted at @fnp-wur.bsky.social #conservation #EnvJustice #wilderness #rewilding #rural #underdevelopment #LandAbandonment Deadline 25 November! Full details 👉 www.wur.nl/en/research-...

Get in touch if anyone is interested in submitting a dissertation to be considered for this prize!

CALL FOR PHD APPLICANTS ON CIVET ONE HEALTH. Collaborative PhD with Civet One Health Programme. Interested in applicants wanting to examine civet trade, consumption, farming, value chains, and One Health issues relating to and across these. @pollenetwork.bsky.social @jeshooper.bsky.social 👇SEE AD👇

New in TIBG: 'Crafting the Ocean: The Geographies of Environmental World-Making' by @squirerachael.bsky.social & Kimberley Peters This paper explores more-than-human crafting and marine world-making, drawing on fieldwork conducted across six UK aquariums. doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

We've received some great abstracts for our #POLLEN2026 panel on Animal Waste/Waste Animals! We may be able to run it as a double session if we receive a couple more submissions.

Our special issue, ‘Liquid Worlds: Historical Geographies and Cartographies of the Sea’ is out! sciencedirect.com/special-issue/106NCK35M97 Take a look at the issue’s contents below. (Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’) 1/16

We've added a new post by Nils Johansson to our blog, exploring ‘how the plastic bag became an iconic symbol of environmental degradation'; originally published as a Snapshot in 'Environment and History'. Check it out here: whitehorsepress.blog/2025/11/10/t... @eandhwhp.bsky.social #envhist #plastic

Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

AGWG is pleased to offer an annual prize of £100 for the best postgraduate dissertation. In addition, we will announce a Runner-Up prize! The new deadline for submissions is 30th November 2025. See more info here: www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/ani...

Super excited to be travelling for work again. Happy to visit Algeciras (via Gibraltar) for the first time for the @deepmed.bsky.social ANTHseas, Mednet @easainfo.bsky.social “The Sea Ends Here” workshop. Today kicks off at the European University of the Seas (UofCadiz) campus at Algecrias port 🌊🌊

New article! “Another ocean is possible”: thinking ocean justice beyond mastery by Chris Armstrong and Antje Scharenberg. doi.org/10.1080/0964...

Are you looking for a postdoc on the environmental politics of conservation in Europe? Amazing opportunity to join the fantastic ERC Green Frontier team and work with @georgeiorda.bsky.social

We've posted another new piece ahead of print in 'Environment and History', being Claudia Leal's article 'Tenacious: An Alternative History of Dogs'; online here: doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist #dogs #mongrels #colombia #latinamerica @eandhwhp.bsky.social

Join us for a friendly and informal writing retreat! All the info and sign up details below:

Looking for papers to join our panel on 'Animal Waste/Waste Animals' at #POLLEN2026 @pollenetwork.bsky.social

Re-posting this one ahead of the deadline on Friday - CfP on posthuman IR for BISA 2026!

Some ocean clams live hundreds of years, and their growth rings tell a very detailed climate story. Right now, the ending doesn't look good for humanity, with a looming collapse of key ocean currents ...

Small afternoon rant: we need to stop talking about the ocean in terms of “secrets” & “mystery”. That tends to be an excuse for not actually looking at its wonderful (known) richness properly. It’s not a void… it’s a fascinating physical part of Planet Earth. We know a lot and we will know more! 🌊

New in Area: 'Friendship in academia: A radically ordinary praxis?' by @smhall.bsky.social This piece is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Dialogues in Radical Geography'. doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky

🎯from @petercorkeron.bsky.social conservation efforts have long been a Trojan horse for US strategic/military interests. Now the WH is saying it out loud.

CfP Political Ecology Conference Beyond the Usual Suspects: The Expanding Cast of Conservation Actors Submit a contribution on emergence/enrolment of new, unlikely, overlooked actors in conservation! @brocksaglio.bsky.social @charisenns.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social tinyurl.com/bdehbxsc

OnlineFirst - "Dying to breathe: Caste, law and the urban political ecology of manual scavenging in India" by Ambarish Karamchedu: #caste #sanitation #India #urbanpoliticalecology #law journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Looking forward to chairing this event in just over a week! #envhist #envhum

As Germany demilitarized after World War II, it dumped massive amounts of its leftover munitions into the Baltic Sea. A recent study has found that some of those submerged weapons, which are still releasing toxic compounds, now host more marine organisms than the sediments around them.

Really looking forward to co-hosting this panel at #POLLEN2026 with @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social and Larissa Fleischmann - we'd love to see your abstract submissions!

The call for abstracts for POLLEN 2026 is open 🌟 Leigh-Rutt, Assa Doron & I have a panel on *Political Ecologies of Animal Agriculture* - details are here along with instructions for submitting abstracts. If this is in your zone, consider submitting an abstract! nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...

V excited to see #POLLEN2026 sessions being advertised. Myself, @guillemrubio.bsky.social and Larissa Flesichmann are delighted that our session on 'Political Ecologies of Animal Waste/Waste Animals' has been accepted. And we would like to invite you to submit an abstract (see below!) 🐕‍🦺🐟💩🪶🥚🦴🐚🐌🐖

The #POLLEN2026 prelim program looks amazing! With that in mind, John Casellas Connors and I are going to be looking for paper submissions for our accepted session "Critical engagements in necropolitical ecologies" -check it out! pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/...

Victor Hensen coined the term "Plankton" in 1887. By 1910 it was an industry (still is)! Steuer's book ran 722 pages!

'The gleaming palace to the humanities – the single largest building project ever undertaken by the University of Oxford made possible by the largest philanthropic gift it has ever received – stands in stark contrast to the beleaguered, shrinking state of the rest of the sector.'

Earth has breached a critical boundary for ocean acidification, with potentially grim effects for ocean ecosystems and human livelihoods

Interested in learning more about corporate power and industrial chicken production? We have a new blog out from Amby Karamchedu and Ben Coles: www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/who...

Announcing the new Animal History Group seminar series for the 2025-26 academic year! - All seminars held online at 8pm UK time. 🎉 The details are here: animalhistorygroup.org/seminar-seri... And here is a list for your calendar! 🧵💚

"The High Seas Treaty has reached the threshold of 60 governments signing it into law, clearing the way for it to enter into force. This is the most important global agreement on the environmental crisis since the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement" www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/histori...

Gray wolves are making a comeback in the U.S. state of California after a century-long absence. Conservationists say their return is a success, but it’s putting pressure on ranchers and rural communities as wolf attacks on livestock mount, Mongabay wildlife staff writer Spoorthy Raman reported.

“It’s sobering. And it’s unexpected, not because impacts will be increasing—that is not surprising—but because they will be increasing so much, so fast"

Does it make sense to apologize for anthropogenic species extinction? This article explores the potential of ecological apologies to help us think and work towards care, justice, and moral repair beyond the human.

New article from @stefcraps.com! Ecological apologies: reckoning with grief, guilt, and multispecies justice. doi.org/10.1080/0964...

2/ On birdsong and sounding extinction @aurorafredriksen.bsky.social, on sturgeon and biobanks @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social & on histories of conservation elites @rafdebont.bsky.social

A fantastic few days in Manchester with fellow scholars writing about extinction from various disciplines. Feeling hopeful despite the content! Buoyed by new connections and deepened connections.