Have you ever blown out a candle and made wish? Do you cross your fingers for good luck? Jamie Matthews and I are hosting a one-day Symposium at Queen Mary University of London to investigate the needs for rituals in contemporary life.22 April 2026 (Earth Day).Get your free ticket/Join the chat!

This has just been published in “Theory & Society” (formerly) considered THE top #sociology /theory journal, after Springer Nature redid the board, installing Steven Pinker among them. Shame shame shame

#ClimateActionWeek2026 continues at SSE today with the gardening club. Open to beginners & the plant-curious, the Gardening Club is a student- and staff-led initiative that reclaims unused space to grow flowers and herbs, and host plant-related workshops. More info 👇️ www.qmul.ac.uk/about/sustai...

🩷🌱🩷 bring more plants into your life

I'll be talking about the Hope Botanic Gardens in Jamaica on 27th Jan, using records from the colonial archives at Kew Gardens 🌴 Signup here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/empires-pl...

Flexible Grants for Small Groups competition (FG12) Deadline: 5pm GMT (6pm CET), Friday 13th March 2026 Offering flexible support for a period of (up to) one year for the activities of a small research group. isrf.org/competitions...

Apply Now! Our 8th Mid-Career Fellowship competition aims to support independent-minded researchers to explore & present original research ideas which take new approaches, and suggest new solutions, to real world social problems. #SocialScience #Humanities #Arts More Info: isrf.org/competitions...

EcoMythology online winter symposium, Jan 17-18, 2026. From Nordic Summer University. "learn together more what the methods are to create an eco-mythology for your watershed, city, region, neighbourhood or your life." 40/70/100€. Register by Jan 11, 2026. woodwidewebstories.com/2025/12/06/e...

Open access article by @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social - Teaching with Plants as Liberatory Practice: Posthuman Pedagogies and The Sociological Imagination "...making intentional space for plants in our life can cultivate a different sensibility..." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I wrote an article reflecting on how i bring plants to the classroom for @sociologyjnl.bsky.social. “Teaching with Plants as Liberatory Practice: Posthuman Pedagogies and The Sociological Imagination” is now available free access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 🌱

Can’t wait to read this @sarahelton.bsky.social !

Out now! This paper discusses home-making practices with houseplants during the Civid-19 pandemic … when my current project ‘Care for plants’ started! The article is open access and part of fantastic collection of essays on place making with plants 🌱 if you read it, let me know what you think 💭!

“It’s a marathon and things take time. This was important for me in the pandemic where everything felt so urgent.” – Ava, houseplant carer @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social and Dawn Lyon @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social on how plants can alter our relationship to time. #OpenAccess buff.ly/JdCkrU4

Congratulations to Stella Maris, Rector of St Andrews, who has won her appeal against dismissal from the governing body: a vindication of her, and anyone's, right to condemn genocide and apartheid. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...

🇵🇸 PALESTINE: A Sociological Issue 🇵🇸 Join us for the second in our Conversations series as we put a sociological lens on the ongoing genocide in Palestine. 🍉 Thu 8 May 18.30-20.00 UTC+1 online 🍉 Ashjan Ajour, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Cairsti Russell & Rafeef Ziadah 🍉 Register: buff.ly/xE1NHos

"academia talks collaboration but builds systems (promotion, funding, community recognition) that often undervalue diversity, whether that’s diversity of discipline, publication type, or research approach"

How does caring for houseplants reshape the habits and rhythms of everyday life? @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social and Dawn Lyon @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social on human-plant relationships, forms of attentiveness and the COVID-19 pandemic. #OpenAccess buff.ly/JdCkrU4

📢March Issue of Area📢 The latest Issue of Area brings together a 'Thinking with Methods' Special Section - 'Inside the Notebook' - alongside 6 standard papers. 11 of the 15 papers are #OpenAccess and available to read here ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754762... #geosky

What’s in a houseplant craze? Dawn Lyon and I wrote about how human-plant relations nurtured during lockdown unexpectedly reshaped people’s experiences of temporality and rhythm in everyday life.

Our Folklore Reimagined season begins. In this 10-Minute Talk, Professor Ronald Hutton FBA delves into England's witch trials and Matthew Hopkins, the self-proclaimed Witchfinder General. Watch the full video on YouTube: buff.ly/4W0OR4p

As our Folklore Reimagined season continues, Dr Cüneyt Çakırlar explores the postmillennial wave of djinn-themed horror in Turkish cinema –where Anatolian folklore, Turkic shamanism, and Islamic mythology collide in stories of black magic and demonic possession. buff.ly/OOZJk0E

So excited for @stoffelalex.bsky.social 's book launch for Eros and Empire. Sign up below! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eros-and-e... Find the book here: www.sup.org/books/politi...

The call to abolish the family is back, sparking fierce debate on the left. As capitalism reshapes how we live and relate, Alex Stoffel asks if breaking free from the family’s grip can open the door to true liberation. revsoc21.uk/2024/12/22/w...

Find out about our new project, Base Women and Beyond. Inspired by Cynthia Enloe's pathbreaking work, we seek to revive and extend feminist approaches to the everyday politics of military and nuclear installations #AcademySky #PoliSky #IRSky #FeministSky centreforgender.substack.com/p/base-women...

The recording of our “Environmental & Climate Justice Storytelling Thru Zines” event is up! Check it out for some fascinating and inspiring discussion! geoz.one/blog/storyte... #geosky @lbnaylor.bsky.social @jaredmargulies.bsky.social

This is happening tomorrow! Check out the poster with info & Zoom link below!

can’t wait for this !!! ✨

Meet the panelists for our upcoming "Environmental & Climate Justice Storytelling Through Zines" event (12/2 at 4pm Eastern)! Anne Pasek is a zine-maker who works on decarbonizing the uni and the internet! Register for free at bit.ly/4f40aRm @apasek.bsky.social #geosky

IMBRICATE! PRESS is the book imprint of the Society for the Study of Affect. Due Date: 31 December 2024 (abstracts: 10 December 2024). 100-1500 words. Published 20 January 2025. Every submission must use the words ‘capacities to’ (or some minor variation thereof) in its essay title.

Spent this morning reading both issues of the Victorian Vegan. Some fascinating insights into early veggie journals and culture in the first issue, even if it's a bit all over. Second issue is very good, more structured and some fascinating essays on the veggie communes and anarchist interactions.

In "Prosthetic Memories," Hyaesin Yoon examines the entanglements of humans, animals, & technologies across South Korea & the US to outline alternate modes of memory & connection that can enact feminist & decolonial politics. Read the intro for free now: ow.ly/QQGa50U7RYE

Lots going on in the world of #planthumanities this autumn... here are some events in London or online that have crossed my inbox: 21 November 2024 – 19.00. In person, South London Botanical Institute. Dye plants: Vivi Mellegård (Kew) & Zoë Burt (artist). Book ahead: www.slbi.org.uk/events/

Re-posting this ICYMI. 12 articles and creative contributions on feminist methodologies and futures covering computer games, classrooms, disability, Black feminist speculative approaches, baking, websites, workshops, non-linear reading, multi-species flourishing, friction, patchwork ethnography +++

Less than a month to go until our #ChristmasLecture! Book your tickets at the link below 👇👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/christmas-...

We are very pleased to announce a new Bloomsbury Academic series. Spectres, Hauntings and Horrors The series editors are Dawn Keetley, Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social and myself. More information below. Logo & illustrations by the fantastic Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social

Meet the author: Hilal Alkan An interview with editor Laura Moran "With living, photosynthesizing plants to observe closely, these metaphors become even more poignant and precise" www.otherwisemag.com/meet-the-aut...