Delectible black-naped monarch making a very welcome appearance on our late-afternoon walk. Manipal, Karnataka. #birds 🪶

Reclusive (i.e. always hiding in the dark scrub!) Indian paradise fly catcher. Manipal, Karnataka. #birds 🪶

White browed bulbul. Manipal, Karnataka, India. #birds 🪶

When in Rome (India)...

I am delighted to see this out and happy to be alongside so many brilliant scholars—it was a difficult paper to articulate (read it and you will see why 😄). Much love to the reviewers and editors who made the paper infinitely better! www.uowoajournals.org/ltc/article/...

Majestic white-throated Kingfisher. Manipal Lake, Karnataka, India. 🪶#birds

Happy to share a new paper from research done during my postdoc. Drawing on interviews and surveys, this paper examines the relationships among experienced losses and damage, risk tolerance, and livelihood thresholds among farmers in East Gippsland, Australia. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The story of a dropped and snatched fish—Ft.Western Reef Heron and Brahminy Kite #birds 🪶

Happy to share a new paper from research done during my postdoc. Drawing on interviews and surveys, this paper examines the relationships among experienced losses and damage, risk tolerance, and livelihood thresholds among farmers in East Gippsland, Australia. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The best election is here (and notorious)—love to watch how friends and family have their own favourites and how many arguments kick off as to what is strategic voting 😆https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/oct/06/australian-bird-of-the-year-2025-vote-now

“We should celebrate when the Bill becomes an Act,” writes Marcia Langton. “It will transform the bitterness of more than 200 years of history into a new and exciting era of becoming more than a postcolonial province with a ‘regrettable’ history.” satpa.pe/3a2C6Hi

Orange minivet. Udupi, Karnataka, India. 🪶

Happy to share a recently published paper I played a small role in writing. Led by wonderful First Nation scholars across Australia, this paper shows the difficult but not impossible ways to build relationships between First Nations and Western scientists for climate action. doi.org/10.1071/es24...

Happy to share a recently published paper I played a small role in writing. Led by wonderful First Nation scholars across Australia, this paper shows the difficult but not impossible ways to build relationships between First Nations and Western scientists for climate action. doi.org/10.1071/es24...

LAUNCHING: Living Labs Institute We’re excited to announce the launch of Living Labs Institute. We invite to you all to reimagine learning through place-based approaches+co-creating alternative pathways for locally rooted actions. Made with care. livinglabs.institute

Great new paper by the excellent Dr Kelly Dorkenoo and Phasy Res, on the historical, social, and political-economic production of climate-related loss in northeastern Cambodia. It further reinforces the complex and political drivers of climate loss. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Osprey hunting at Kielder Water, Northumberland. 🪶

On holiday, but necessary to intervene. Don't make me tap the sign "no such thing as natural disasters (or climate disasters)". There are, however, climate-exacerbated disasters, but the underlying vulnerability of societies is the root cause. Always will be.

This is not new but always important

Wheatear from Orkney, Scotland. 🪶

Our 1st Impact Factor is in. We got an IF of 3.6, putting us in Q1 for social issues! 🥳 We are delighted by this result. Thank you to our brilliant authors, editorial team, reviewers and readers for making this possible ❤️

Shaina Potts, Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire - @dukepress.bsky.social, September 2024 www.dukeupress.edu/judicial-ter... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Second Cold War Observatory. newbooksnetwork.com/judicial-ter...

Damn peer reviewer being right. Who do they think they are! This one feels like an annoying uncle/aunty giving valuable life advice that you don't want to hear, but is needed.

Kielder water, Northumberland.

Great piece of research from the excellent Dr Kelly Dorkenoo. This research is from her PhD research in Cambodia—a great contribution to the political geography of climate-driven loss. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Doing some historical digging for a paper and stumbled across this little gem—kudos to the Foxearth and District Local History Society. Massive emigration from East Anglia to the colonies since the 1700s. www.foxearth.org.uk/Emigration2....

Check it out! Such a great piece of work! www.croakey.org/how-indigeno...

Beautiful day for a walk across Naarm as part of the Yoorrook #WalkForTruth. Massive thank you to all the organisers and the safety marshalls and deadly First Nations road crew and all the speakers who made today so special. #WurundjeriWoiwurrungCountry #BunurongCountry #BoonWurrungCountry

Read 'Reframing socio–environmental relations in coastal Mumbai and Kutch, India' with open access! #CoProduction #participatoryMethods

Of all the issues, this one is the one I struggle with the most to understand. The poor woman just wanted to use the loo. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New essay on Industrial Policy and Imperial Realignment, co-written with comrades @jacktaggart.bsky.social and @tomchodor.bsky.social for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ind... @campolis.bsky.social

The Australian university, as many of us knew it before 1989, is long dead. The hybrid university-corporation as it became after 1989 is now rapidly dying. Replacing it is neither corporation or university, but a playground for systemic conflicts of interest masquerading as a business model.

"Professors are the enemy, professors are the enemy. Write that on the blackboard 100 times and never forget it." A short history of a long-running refrain from the American right. Already seeing echoes of this in the UK from Badenoch and Farage ... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Always great to be reminded of this clip! "Europe is not my centre. Europe is on the outskirts." Ousmane Sembène.

Having just marked a bunch of essays, some of which plainly didn't 'understand' Xala, this tracks.

There's nothing surprising here for those of us who've seen the lengths to which the [Insert any authoritarian leader from the global South that had bipartisan US support at some point] regime has gone.

Western Ghats, amazing place! www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ZB...

Some people seem to skip the 20th century in their analysis of capitalism in the UK. No, the working class is no longer working in cotton mills, and yes, they have benefited immensely from unequal exchange. Marx would likely be focusing on how society as a whole enables the capture of surplus value.

The Politics of Feeling with @benandersongeog.bsky.social comes out the 1st of July! So excited for readers and grateful for the lovely blurbs from Will Davies, @jemgilbert.bsky.social and @carolynpedwell.bsky.social

The secret ingredients are racism, solipsism, and nostalgia. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

An important discussion paper led by my good friend Francis Nona from QUT. A must read for anyone thinking about Indigenous approaches to climate litigation. hubs.li/Q03qPnyD0

A response to some lunatic "greeny" saying floods are bad for Australia's ecology, the other week—also, a very beautiful part of Australia. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

An important discussion paper led by my good friend Francis Nona from QUT. A must read for anyone thinking about Indigenous approaches to climate litigation. hubs.li/Q03qPnyD0

I have used the term 'transformation' before... But I swear, the amount of research that talks of transformation without any engagement with the current context of widespread regression into capitalist barbarism is irritating. Heat pumps, cycling, and community gardens are not transformative.

"Race Traitor" by Ignatiev and Garvey should be required reading for white high school students. www.routledge.com/Race-Traitor...

Aside from the issues with the methodology, it is always useful to see white British people's reaction to such headlines. Brings out their true (anti) colours. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06...

Wait until they discover organised religion.

UNDRR Global Assessment Report 2025 www.undrr.org/gar/gar2025