There it goes... 🦇🦇

A boy climbs a tree to get a better view of bats being released into Leontovych Central Park in Vinnytsia, Ukraine.

Incredible work by the Ukrainian Bat Rehabilitation Centre. Wonderful to see so much public curiosity for our nocturnal urban neighbours.

#NightlifeInTheMoreThanHumanCity

The Age-Old Urge to Destroy Technology Our hatred of social media or of artificial intelligence is not some novel phenomenon, the new book “Techno-Negative” reminds us; it’s a feeling that has existed in some form across millennia.

The new book “Techno-Negative” reminds us that resistance to new inventions has existed in some form across millennia. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

UKRAINIAN CARTOGRAPHIES 🌍 🌐 🇺🇦

How & why has Ukraine been mapped in the past & present, & what is (counter-)cartography’s role in shaping Ukraine’s future?

Workshop: in person & online!

🗓️: 8 May 2026, 9-5
📍: Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College, Oxford

Registration: tinyurl.com/OxUkrHub

Check out the new issue of Routes on young people and rewilding 👇

Really pleased to bring this one to fruition with the amazing crew at Youngwilders!

Editorial Introduction: Young People and Rewilding By Oscar Hartman Davies (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) and Jonathon Turnbull (Durham University)

We open the special issue with an editorial introduction exploring the urgent ned to engage young people in nature recovery & rewilding, written by Youngwilders co-founder, Oscar Hartman Davies, & Routes Editor-in-Chief, Jonathon Turnbull

routesjournal.org/2026/04/10/h...

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Check out the new issue of Routes on young people and rewilding 👇

Really pleased to bring this one to fruition with the amazing crew at Youngwilders!

Youngwilders Special Issue VOLUME 5 ISSUE 2 2026 ISSN 2634-4815 Pages: Editorial Essays This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

🐺 The new issue of #ROUTES is OUT NOW! 🐺

In this Special Issue, we have teamed up with youth-led nature recovery NGO, Youngwilders, to explore the relationship between young people and #rewilding

Read the full issue here: routesjournal.org/youngwilders...

@rgs.org @geographicalassoc.bsky.social

A promotional image for the Journal of the British Academy featuring a blurred cityscape with colorful lights. A red rectangle contains white text that reads: "What's the role of the University in a world shaped by AI? Katy Hayward argues the public and democratic purpose of the University in an era of 'AI everywhere'."

What is the role of the University in a world of “AI everywhere”?

New in the Journal, @katyhayward.bsky.social argues why universities matter more than ever in a world shaped by AI, as spaces for cultivating critical thinking and intellectual independence.

Read more: https://bit.ly/3O5VsKq

@dovzhyk.bsky.social @ukrinstitute.bsky.social @okhromeychuk.bsky.social @ukrenvhum.bsky.social

40 years on: Chornobyl’s legacy and European environmental security YouTube video by Ukrainian Institute London

Last week, I was honoured to discuss Chornobyl's environmental and political legacies with fantastic colleagues as we approach the 40th anniversary of the nuclear catastrophe

A recording is available, featuring Serhii Plokhy, Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, and Sasha Dovzhyk

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrrz...

London Ukrainian Review The London Ukrainian Review is an open-access journal that tackles global challenges through the prism of Ukraine while adopting a distinctly internationalist perspective on the Ukrainian past and pre...

And if you’re looking for a weekend read, look no further. Our new issue of the London Ukrainian Review, dedicated to the Chornobyl anniversary, is now live: www.londonukrainianreview.org

Many thanks to everyone who attended last night’s event, '40 Years On: Chornobyl’s Legacy and European Environmental Security', co-organised by the @Ukr_Institute and @theRSAorg. If you missed it, you can watch the recording here: www.youtube.com/live/vrrza_z... 1/2

Another example of geopolitical wilding, this time the wilding of borders...

www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/i...

Officially released today!💥Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine💥

Tracing the refusal that haunts the history of tech, my book offers a source of inspiration for those looking for a new tech politics beyond reform/acceleration.
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773...
Buy w/ discount👇

Countries can rewild borders to deter invasions, says EU environment chief Jessika Roswall cites Poland and Finland, which have made border areas near Russia or its allies ‘more hostile’ to cross

Another form of "war-wilding"?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rewilding The City Investigating urban rewilding initiatives, from top-down governance schemes to local community-based practices.

🌱Happy #WorldRewildingDay! Today, we celebrate the incredible work being done to encourage wildlife back into our cities 🦫#ChooseOurFuture @jlorimer.bsky.social @jonnyjjt.bsky.social @ecioxford.bsky.social

It's my birthday today!

If you’re feeling generous, please donate to my fundraiser to buy power generators for the 142nd mechanised brigade in memory of my friend Alisa's father who proudly served in the battalion 🇺🇦 🔱

🇬🇧 Link: www.paypal.com/pools/c/9n6n...

🇺🇦 Link: send.monobank.ua/jar/9CBuj5qP7J

It's my birthday today!

If you’re feeling generous, please donate to my fundraiser to buy power generators for the 142nd mechanised brigade in memory of my friend Alisa's father who proudly served in the battalion 🇺🇦 🔱

🇬🇧 Link: www.paypal.com/pools/c/9n6n...

🇺🇦 Link: send.monobank.ua/jar/9CBuj5qP7J

🌍 For STEM & geography teachers in state schools in England & Scotland 🌍

Routes co-founder @rushtondr.bsky.social is recruiting participants for her project: “Decolonising STEM & geography education in secondary schools: exploring educators’ agency & curriculum-making across England and Scotland”

‘The normal should be darkness’: why one Belgian national park is turning off ‘pointless’ streetlights The radical project is an attempt to preserve wildlife in one of Europe’s most light-polluted countries, but can they persuade local people they will still feel safe?

‘The normal should be darkness’: why one Belgian national park is turning off ‘pointless’ streetlights

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Our Geography for All Coordinator, Jasmine Roberts, reflects on the Geography for All initiative and what supporting underrepresented students means to her in this new @routesjournal.bsky.social editorial 👇

Read her thoughts on community-building, curated support, and ways to get involved.

This issue of @routesjournal.bsky.social features an editorial from my colleague Jasmine Roberts, introducing the fantastic work she is doing building networks for underrepresented geography students in the 'Geography for All' programme at @rgs.org - well worth a read ⬇️

Really glad to publish the latest issue of Routes, with some excellent and timely contributions that show how important and relevant geographical knowledge is to the contemporary world!

Current Issue VOLUME 5 ISSUE 1 2026 ISSN 2634-4815 Pages: Editorial Essays This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

🌍 The new issue of #ROUTES is OUT NOW! 🌍

✍️ It's packed with original, cutting-edge #research from high school and undergraduate #geographers

👇 Read the full issue here: routesjournal.org/current-issue/

@rgs.org @geographicalassoc.bsky.social

Болота проти танків. Як водно-болотні угіддя допомагають під час війни – Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group This article has been published in Ukrainian and will be coming out in English and Russian in the very near future.

«Болота проти танків. Як водно-болотні угіддя допомагають під час війни» Олега Листопада

'Swamps vs tanks: How wetlands help during wartime' by Oleh Listopad

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Programme Programme

Interested in animals, health & STS? Our Multispecies Mutualisms (or perhaps Multispecies Mutualisms?) project is underway and we should be advertising postdoctoral positions over the coming months so keep an eye out! In the meantime, we have a proposed panel at EASST: easst.net/conference/e...

Samplers of the marine environment: Knowing the oceans with seabirds, 1958–Present This article focuses on monitoring and tracking seabirds from the mid-twentieth century to the present. It illustrates how seabirds have been reconfig…

'Samplers of the marine environment: Knowing the oceans with seabirds, 1958–Present'

A fantastic new article from Oscar Hartman Davies exploring the shifting roles of seabirds in marine science and monitoring over the second half of the twentieth century

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

First piece published in our special issue of Geoforum, 'Terraforming Terra'!

@admsrl.bsky.social @wrigleyca.bsky.social

🐄 NEW OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

We sitatue livestock agriculture as a terraforming practice making Earth alien. We develop SF author Becky Chambers' concept of 'somaforming' to examine the shaping of nonhuman bodies to suit alien Earth and how this preempts futures:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...