‘The sea took everything away’: how Nigeria’s ‘Happy City’ is disappearing beneath the waves: More than half of Ayetoro – a Christian utopia founded in the 1940s – has been lost to the ocean, and its remaining people are running out of options In the early hours of 15 February 2019, the A...

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Paper alert: wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Our researcher, Pablo Fernandez Velasco, together with Virginia De Biasio, connects the experience of ecological grief to place attachment and incommensurable losses.

#BookReview Contested Territory: A Theory of Land and Democracy beyond Sovereign Bounds. A. Jurkevics, 2025. Oxford, Oxford University Press. x +284 pp, £99 (hb) | Virginia De Biasio Read full text here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/WVJPJU... #philsky #philosophy

If you are interested in people’s relationships with places, the effects of climate change, and ecological grief @pfvelasco.bsky.social and I have just published this piece: wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🧵 This International Women's Day we're celebrating recently published articles by female authors in the journal's "Most Read" and "Most Cited" lists. Check these out, and the works of many more female authors, at the journal's webpage. @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #WomenInPolitics #IWD2026 1/4👇🧵

Global sea levels have been underestimated due to poor modelling, research suggests

South Wales council to buy and demolish homes prone to flooding: Residents of 16 houses on Clydach Terrace in Ynysybwl express relief after repeated floods caused by climate crisis A row of homes in a village in south Wales is to be bought by a local authority and demolished as they can n...

excited to have a research note for DERISK, co-authored with my two amazing post-docs Virginia De Biasio and Robert Reamer. In the note, we outline some of the threats posed by systemic risks to democracy and discuss a potential pathway forward. Check it out here: www.derisk.org.uk/working-papers

@virginiadebiasio.bsky.social presenting some of her work as part of DERISK at the Hamburg systemic risk conference, showing that theorists can indeed do excellent poster presentations

‘If the reef had a voice, it would sing’: could legal personhood help the Great Barrier Reef?: As the natural wonder faces mounting ecological threats, traditional owners and environmental lawyers are calling for a radical new approach While patrolling the Great Barrier Reef, Gary Single...

Our article is out! We argue that formal citizenship isn’t enough when citizens with a perceived immigration background are still treated as guests in their own home. Read it here: doi.org/10.1515/mopp...

More than 100,000 homes in England could be built in highest-risk flood zones: Exclusive: Analysis suggests development in flood regions result of Labour push for 1.5m new homes in five years More than 100,000 new homes will be built on the highest-risk flood zones in England in the next ...

Not Just "Sinking Islands"! Virginia De Biasio discusses the importance of climate adaptation for the population of #Kiribati & defends a community-based approach to adaptation in #SIDS - https://buff.ly/4gstxxa @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social #climatechange

Very pleased that the 2nd academic publication by my recent PhD student Virginia De Biasio has now seen the light of day: "Not Just ‘Sinking Islands’: Climate Change and Adaptation in Small Island Developing States", 'online early' from @polstudies.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Massive congratulations and very excited to be working with Virginia in my ERC project

Delighted that my brilliant PhD student Virginia De Biasio has today published her first academic article! Virginia De Biasio, "When Does Attachment to Natural Resources Count?", @crispp.bsky.social, online early: doi.org/10.1080/1369...

Congratulations, Virginia!