4 years of discussion and joint writing with 5 fabulous colleagues are behind this *open access* paper on methodological and ethical challenges in studying extreme and cascading forms of nature-society disruption (We even reflect on a failed ARC bid ❤️‍🩹) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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...

Rally against racism #naarm

Tail end of a long year since the ANU churn started - there’s a long way to go yet but this week is significant as a moment of people standing up to ‘information hygiene’, faux participation and the corporate University www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

This quote says it all - and raises questions beyond the Australian berry industry: ‘Policing pesticides is complicated and patchwork’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign - the petition is open to ANU staff, students, alumni and supporters : www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/pe...

The people of Gaza face starvation under the joint U.S.-Israeli food distribution system run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

Shocked to learn from other members at our @nteuact.bsky.social union meeting today about apparent errors in org charts and position roles in ANU’s current change proposals to cut and redefine positions - are positions being cut and changed without knowing who does what and where?

"We are in a terrible situation where the Australian National University needs to be protected from its own leadership... The vice-chancellor apparently knows the cost of staff, but not the value of staff." @nteunion.bsky.social's @lachlanclohesy.bsky.social on latest #ANU job cuts.

Sadly this farce is not a play, but a real-world university restructuring process As ANU alumna, I say #ShameANU Solidarity with ANU staff✊✊✊

Really tough week in the ANU college of arts & social sciences. Committed, respected & highly impactful staff have been told their jobs are no longer & about 30 ppl are facing forced redundancy. It’s come as a complete shock to identified individuals. No consultation, no warning.

The world is drowning in plastic. Experts say we need to stop making so much. But the plastics industry is peddling a "solution" that works like magic. Don't be fooled. (Published June 2024)

Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Conference in Barcelona, June 2026. Help us disseminate the event and submit your articles, please! @icta-uab.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/

Global average temperature is expected to rise to almost 2C above preindustrial in the next five years, according to the WMO, with falls in crop yields and more than a third of the world’s population being exposed to extreme heat. People, I'm sorry but we have to deal with this. Later is too late.

Open letter: The ANU executive is planning a new round of unnecessary and damaging cuts and forced redundancies. We are asking staff to sign this open letter calling on the executive to cancel planned CMPs and to be transparent about ANU’s finances. ANU colleagues please sign and share widely.

Back into editorial mode and remembering the most used phrase in journal resubmissions ‘we thank the referees for their detailed/helpful/thoughtful comments…’

“The work that our colleagues in the humanities and social sciences do is incredibly important. We can do all the work in developing clean technologies we want, but if we don’t understand the barriers to people purchasing that tech? It becomes useless." bit.ly/3ZDS6kU

Morning light touches the trees on Djiringanj/Yuin country

Earth has tilted 31.5 inches since the '90s due to the pumping of groundwater. This has also contributed to sea-level rise. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Working from home…

88% of staff have rejected #ANU's attempt to take away the next pay rise. "This vote is a clear vote of no confidence in their management style." - #NTEU ANU Branch President Millan Pintos-Lopez

Thank you to all those people putting out starter packs - so helpful 🙏🏽

A message for ANU colleagues who have found their way here - please consider voting no next week. Many of us want to help maintain jobs, but this vote to give away a hard-won wage rise will hit casuals and ECRs hard - and there are no management guarantees that jobs will actually be saved

Made my first starter pack! These are the climate journalists I know and love and highly recommend following on BlueSky so far. Please tell me who I'm missing (and apologies in advance if I've missed you, I swear it's not intentional!) go.bsky.app/1ivUnG

Come and work with us in this 2-year post-doc role on the responsible governance of satellite data and it's role in water policy - would suit a critical GIS scholar jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/researc...

Forested countries want to start trading their UN REDD+ results under the new article 6 emissions trading scheme. Some see it as an ideal place to generate well-needed finance for tropical forests. Others are more skeptical. I delve into the debate here for @mongabay.bsky.social —>

Hello everyone, I thought about giving up social media altogether but will give this a go 😀. I am a political ecologist & esp focus on the international politics of biodiversity conservation - most recently on illegal wildlife trade. Project is beastlybusiness.org

Powerful address by Francesca Albanese at the National Press Club today www.youtube.com/live/LmbH68c...

CfP for POLLEN 2024: Arve Hansen and I are organising a panel on 'Meaty Futures: political ecologies of meat and meat alternatives' for POLLEN 2024 in June. Details are in this flyer and abstracts are due with us on 25 November 👇

Climate Change “Climate justice and social justice topics need to be part of the discussion for both climate mitigation and climate adaptation." “We need to change our economy to a system that supports meeting basic needs for all people instead of excessive consumption by the wealthy."

CfP for POLLEN 2024: Arve Hansen and I are organising a panel on 'Meaty Futures: political ecologies of meat and meat alternatives' for POLLEN 2024 in June. Details are in this flyer and abstracts are due with us on 25 November 👇

In an otherwise difficult week, great to hear my colleague @AssaDoron on the poultry-chemicals-health-sustainability nexus 🤞🏾 for our DP application on this crucial topic ‘China, chickens and fire’ (at 28 mins) www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

www.theguardian.com/news/datablo... How did your electorate vote? An interactive map.

Still absorbing the #Referendum2023 ‘no’ result and thinking of First Nations communities, friends and colleagues - this captures the significance theconversation.com/the-politica...

Don't wake up the day after voting on the Voice to Parliament to find you've helped put a stop to Indigenous reconciliation for a generation because someone fooled you into thinking a non-binding advisory panel was risky. Get the facts, and #VoteYes: www.thevoicefacts.com

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Editorial

People who have turned to X for breaking news about the Israel-Hamas conflict are being hit with old videos, fake photos, and video game footage at a level researchers have never seen. www.wired.com/story/x-isra...

We have a new job opening at Sheffield Geography - Lectureship in Human Geography, open-ended, deadline 24th October 2023

📣 We have a COVER! I am so grateful that my book is coming out this spring with @UChicagoPress. It’s the product of relationships going back at least 12 years, when I landed in South Baltimore to teach. Longer if you count my family’s ties to this place over generations. 🧵