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.
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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!
@yhys.bsky.social
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.
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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
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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"
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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
so proud of you Mary!!!!
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...
oooh isn't it just the best... It completely revolutionised my idea of what sf can be, and what it means to write feminist scifi
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
: it takes a community to witness and valorise such actions. Env approaches focused on individual sacrifice lead to despair, while those done in common enliven. Check out "Science and Religion: Approaches from STS" edited by Zara Thokozani Kamwendo.
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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...
Theoretically, I analyse the intersection of self-governance, calculability, and expertise in the making and unmaking of (micro)biopolitics. So, hopefully fun on both fronts.
I warmly invite discussion and feedback - find my email online or msg me here!
Empirically, the case study brings out the knowledge and experience of #regenag farmers in relation to #soil #microbiome, and calls for more human-microbial studies with communities/places which are not already 'probiotic' (these farmers sit within the dominant agri-food system).
What the paper argues, simply, is that calculability and quantification are not going to 'go away', and we need to deal with them as political powers which operate 'externally' (on people's realities) and internally (through their self-governance).
but self-governing. As a result, they experience the need to quantify both because of the demands from the powers which shape their realities (capital, state), and they use quantification to navigate these powers for their own benefit.
I propose that even #regenag farmers operate within an agrarian biopolitics of 'farming by numbers' in which farming realities/landscapes and farmers themselves are made legible and governable through quantification (of money and material/ecological processes). Farmers are not passive in this,
The paper grew out of my interest in the centrality of calculability, the desire to express knowledge numerically, amongst UK #regenag farmers. The soc sc and humanities #microbes lit, and m-t-h lit more widely, is all about embodied knowledge and affect. So, why this disconnect?