JOB ALERT 1 wk left to apply for this fantastic Tenure Track at Oulu Uni (at Assistant or Associate Prof). 5 years of (mainly) research, generous starting package, and a growing team of wonderful environmental social scientists and humanists. oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/what:job/job...

How can soil research participate in fixing the world, not just commenting on what is broken? In this podcast lnkd.in/d8XcjsWN, I argue that to improve soil health, we need to partner with farmers' movements, such as #regenag. Tune in for a discussion on #soilhealth and farming, happy listening!

How to engage the more-than-human world in social science research? Delve into our special issue of @suomenantropologi.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy to read on contact zones, more than human negotiation, care, and attentiveness. journal.fi/suomenantrop...

JOB ALERT! Deadline 19.05 Tenure Track Assistant/Associate Prof position, environmental social scientist or humanities scholar, Oulu University, in our superb project SAFIRE. Great joining package, relocation support, fantastic team. Contact me with questions oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/what:job/job...

Final CfP RGS-IBG 2025: deadline on Friday! 🌍 Carbon Creations and Creative Carbons 🌎 We seek papers on carbon farming, afforestation, peatland restoration & related work in #STS #geography 📩 @annakspeaking.bsky.social @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social @kargkama.bsky.social docs.google.com/document/d/1...

We seemed to be using an incredible amount of energy and other natural resources to race headlong into something we probably shouldn’t be creating in the first place, and which already is misaligned with the kinds of societies that we actually want to live in. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Environmental change is social change, so social sciences, humanities and the arts (SSHA) should be equal in #soil research. How to achieve that? What are SSHA anyway? See my report written on behalf of the Advisory Board of Horizon Mission Soil mission-soil-platform.ec.europa.eu/resource-lib...

I just used Sky Follower Bridge and my feed is back to what I used to enjoy before the Other Place became you know what; I recommend it warmly www.sky-follower-bridge.dev

Calling environmental geographers, political ecologists and STS scholars working on carbon farming, afforestation, peat restoration & related topics! Please consider our 2025 RGS-IBG session: "Carbon Creations and Creative Carbons: The Politics of Carbon in Land Management and Restoration" 🌿🌳🚜🪵🌍⬇️

JOB ALERT Please spread the word! 4-year post-doc with me @ SAFIRE on transforming ecosystem restoration research. The job unites stakeholder management and and research on theoretical/conceptual and methodological approaches to transdisciplinary research on ecosystem restoration. lnkd.in/dj-Zd3Q6

CFP Nordic #STS meeting in Stockholm this June. Please join us in our panel "The data, the science, and the politics of representing the food system". Conference info www.nordicsts.se, deadline 1st March. Full panel abstract attached. Hope to see you there!

We're embarking on a new adventure @unioulu.bsky.social SAFIRE: Safeguarding Biodiversity through Interdisciplinary Research on Habitat Restoration (I'm vice-lead🌱). We'll build a new interdisciplinary research culture on habitat restoration. V excited for the next 6 yrs! www.oulu.fi/en/news/univ...

𝗖𝗙𝗣 “𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗲” 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗢𝘂𝗹𝘂, 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱, 𝟰-𝟲 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. Uplift your understanding of how to ‘think’ and ‘do’ inter- and trans-disciplinarity with us! Info on the conference and sessions app.eventos.fi/ais-conferen...

#Funghi and #soil reconnect with the living world: this was a treat, celebrating World Soil Day @durhamuniversity.bsky.social with Merlin Sheldrake, @cosmosheldrake.bsky.social , Giuliana Furci, Karen Johnston, and artists Stephen Livingstone and Jo Pearl. Full house, and loved Cosmo's Soil song...

For the next few weeks I'm a Visiting Fellow @durham-university.bsky.social Institute of Advanced Studies, talking all things #soil. Come to my talk on 9th December lnkd.in/dJpUcZue and to World Soils Day celebration with Merlin Sheldrake, Giuliana Furci and others www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Vital essay by Augustín Fuentes: "Given the current political reality and the expansion of attacks on science, it is time for scientists to be more effective, forceful, and vociferous as their own political advocates." 🧪 1/2

What will you give up for the climate today? The idea of environmental sacrifice is a cliche of environmentalism. Why does it not work? With Caroline McCalman we argue that what makes an act of 'giving up' a sacrifice is 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆

Last week I spoke about #transdisciplinarity at #MissionSoilWeek (lnkd.in/diahuCau). I'm worried by the low social science/humanities literacy in the coming #soil projects. We need to move from tinkering with human-soils relations to TRANSFORMATION; that needs social sciences, humanities & the arts.

Watched the EU Mission Soil Week last week, and it is clear there is a need to connect soil information to actionable knowledge. Katrin Prager and I wrote about this in Soil Use and Management. Highlighted by @annakspeaking.bsky.social

#soil literacy is often used by soil sciences & is explicit in Horizon funding under #missionsoil - we look at how to operationalise the concept while addressing the limitations of its typical 'knowledge deficit' framing doi.org/10.3897/soil...

“You can’t manage what you can’t measure”: Regenerative agriculture, farming by numbers, and calculability in soil microbiopolitics', my paper is just out in EPE: Nature and Space in opeb access. A few notes on main points and potential audiences:

Join me for a PhD school on 'Anthropogenic soils' in beautiful Finnmark in mid-August; organised by the Anthropogenic Soils Collaboratory from Univ of Oslo, with contributions from top humanities and soc sc #soil thinkers. Applications close 16th June. www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english...

Job alert! 2 positions with me at University of Oulu: Post-doc, and PhD student (both 3y) in our Kone Foundation-funded project "In the shadow of carbon", on #regenag regenerative farming & #carbonfarming knowledge politics and practice. Deadline 4th April, see rb.gy/92hywm , please re-post!

Soil Care Network is an online community of soil researchers, farmers and land workers, and soil lovers & activists of all kinds - our newsletter is full of goodies. Latest: www.soilcarenetwork.com/2024-march . Follow the link on www.soilcarenetwork.com if you want to join SCN and subscribe

New paper 🌱🥧 Question: can alternative food networks drive #food system #resilience? Answer: depends whom you ask! Our discourse analysis found that UK #policy sphere & #AFN sphere disagree. This is blocking the incorporation of ANF ambitions and plans into policy emerald.com/insight/cont...

Very honoured to be an invited speaker at the EU Food 2030 conference, you can follow it live rb.gy/wcwlrc Tomorrow I'll be talking about soil health and food, hopefully getting some farming community voice in

The Biodiverse Anthropocenes team at #yhys2023 #yhys conference in Joensuu, Olli talked about the TechnoGarden visions of Finnish nature restoration, and I wondered about the consequences of eDNA becoming the dominant governance instrument for #soil biodiversity. Great conference.

Shout-out to all social science and Humanities academics who work and try to change things in spaces/debates dominated by natural sciences. Reflecting on this a lot lately through personal experiences of trying to shift things from within power structures. Let's connect.

Soil health requires a social transformation. What does that mean for Mission Soil & soil research more broadly? In my keynote this morning Mission Soil Week I argued for a place based and value based approach, you can see the talk soon on here europeanmissionsoilweek2023.com/en

JOB ALERT Postdoc (for 2 1/2 years) on our project about the practices and imaginaries of archives, looking at seeds, plants and agriculture. Open to any humanities and social sciences field, #envhum experience is a plus. Deadline Friday 24 Nov oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

At the European Soil Week in Madrid this week as a member of the Board for the Mission Soil. It does feel momentous to have such a huge, high level policy event for soil! Follow it online, I'm giving a talk tomorrow

Really impressed by the "Social Systems and Justice" chapter of the 5th National Climate Assessment by the US Global Change Research Program. Finally, social sciences as part of climate science; a focuses on inequality, knowledge co-production, and JUSTICE nca2023.globalchange.gov/chapter/20/

What is up in the world of soil? Our November Newsletter of the Soil Care Network is now up, lots on #soil #policy and soil #art ! www.soilcarenetwork.com/2023-november

First in Liberia, now in Zimbabwe there is talk of selling land to a private company in a carbon offset deal. Unregulated climate mitigation in a highly capitalist world results in practises blatantly perpetuating colonialism.

Job alert: full-time Doctoral Researcher (three years) with a background in #anthropology, #geography, #environmentalhumanities or similar studies, to work in ICEBERG: a project with indigenous communities, working on Arctic Ocean pollution governance oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

I had a pleasure of talking on the need for social science and humanities led research on #soils at the SOILCON conference; the recording is now available. #missionsoil www.tacr.cz/en www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY3K...

Technooptimist manifesto, redacted, by Ben Grosser more more more growth no limits growth we believe markets upward spiral agression our enemies are degrowth decceleration depopulation limits trust safety more more more more capitalism bengrosser.com/files/Techno...

You are never going to successfully live in an interconnected biocheochemical whole system of which you are a dependent & inseparable part unless you govern yourselves as though you live in an interconnected biogeochemical system of which you are a dependent & inseparable part -- ancient proverb.

Reading Dostoyevsky and thinking that, much as I enjoy the Western canon, I'd love to read more great fiction which is not rooted in the Christian ontology. Please give me your best suggestions!

job alert, quant methods so may be open to non-Finnish speakers: 3-year postdoc in social-ecological resilience of forests. "This position will assess how forest stakeholder’ preferences and values can help to achieve sustainable forest management." www.jyu.fi/science/en/b...

Sharing because it's a great paper, and it has a smashing title: "The appallingly bad neoclassical economics of climate change" : on the absurd basis of the optimistic forecasts about #climatechange impacts on #economy (e.g. GDP is produced mainly indoors, so we're fine 😆) doi.org/10.1080/1474...

Job alert, lecturer in #geography human geography in Loughbourgh, geography and #environment For details on www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDD737/l...

😱 Almost all public or charitable funding goes to just six commodity crops: cotton, wheat, rice, corn, sugar, and soy; crops amenable to processing, for the global system of processed and refined foods doi.org/10.1080/0306... #food #diversification

We are hiring at Oulu Uni! We are looking to hire a postdoc (30 months) for our exciting project on seeds, storage and agriculture in the North. Apply and become part of Oulu's lively community of transdisciplinary, international environmental scholars! oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Just started reading Liz Carlisle's 'Healing Grounds' and I feel like I have come home. A true decolonial, de-modernising rethinking of #agriculture through an uncovering of the indigenous roots of #regenag

I would like to support a Ukrainian doctoral student in the fields of environmental social science or environmental humanities to stay at Oulu - Finland provides full funding for up to 1yr. Please spread the word & contact me directly on email www.oph.fi/en/developme...

Congrats to UK colleagues- a hard earned win to restore their pensions! Collective action works!