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🍀 We are extremely glad and deeply honoured for "Ecokritike's" indexing in DOAJ.

Our warm thanks to the editorial and advisory boards, reviewers and indeed authors of all academic levels from across the globe for their support and trust in our journal. 🍀

The Plant Initiative's April 2026 monthly e-newsletter contains many timely events, resources, opportunities and action items related to the human-plant connection. Subscribe free at plantinitiative.org or access this issue at mailchi.mp/plantinitiat...

Call for Abstracts

"Islands as Chronotopes: Geographies of Isolation, Imagination and Interconnection from Antiquity to the Anthropocene" in the scientific journal "Space and Culture" of Sage (Q1).

📌 You are welcome to submit your abstract by June 30, 2026.

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The #MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 call is open!

€399M in EU funding will support around 1,600 researchers: link.europa.eu/t6jYb3

🔵 European fellowships: 12-24 months in Europe

🔵 Global fellowships: 12-24 months abroad + return

Deadline: 9 September (17:00 CEST)

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💦🌸 Happy Songkran 🌸💦

A great celebration in Thailand 🇹🇭

Picture of the century. 😍

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Thinking AI: How Artificial Intelligence Emulates Human Understanding by John MacCormick. Can a computer program think like a human?

In Thinking AI, John MacCormick reveals a new landscape of emergent intelligence—a world in which computer programs can emulate many or all aspects of human thinking but humanity retains its meaning & purpose.

Out April 21 (16 June UK pub)!

Read a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The 'oldest fossil octopus' is probably another animal In 2000, researchers thought they found the oldest fossil octopus, which lived over 300 million years ago. But it may just be a half-rotten nautilus.

The oldest fossil octopus is actually a nautilus.

KC Champions – About Knowledge Commons

What are the perks of becoming a KC user champion, you ask?! 😃

Along with supporting us, user champions receive special perks like merch, custom domains, and priority technical support. It's a pretty cool program, if we do say so ourselves. 😇

Learn more here: about.hcommons.org/kc-champions/

At the bottom left, there is a stylised wheel design in red, partially out of frame, symbolising Roma culture and identity. The background features a vibrant blue with radiating lines emanating from the centre of the wheel, with a small section of green at the bottom left corner. In the top right corner, just below the EU logo, the white text INTERNATIONAL ROMA DAY is displayed.

Diversity is our strength.

Some 10–12 million Roma in Europe, and many face isolation, poverty, and limited access to essentials like housing and education.

On #InternationalRomaDay, we stand together to protect the human rights of Roma.

🟢🔴🔵Let’s end antigypsyism now.

I am delighted for my article's publication, "‘Greening’ Comparative Literature: Human and More-than-Human World in Zacharias Papantoniou The High Mountains and Roderick O’Grady’s Bigfoot Mountain" in Mabini Review Journal 16.1 (2026).

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It is part of the Next Adventures in Posthumanism Seminar Series of the University of Plymouth in UK.

Invitation to attend my lecture "Econarratives of Collective Volcanicities: Magma, Intimacy and Opacity in Modern Canadian and Greek Fiction (20th-21st ce.)"

Wednesday 15th of April at 13.00 (UK time)

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Meeting ID: 329 475 893 164 396
Passcode: YL9Lv3c4

Volume 41 Issue 1 | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities | Oxford Academic An official journal of the European Association for Digital Humanities. Publishes original contributions on all aspects of digital scholarship in the Humanities including, but not limited to, the fiel...

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 41, No.1 (2026) academic.oup.com/dsh/issue/41/1 @adho-org.bsky.social @michaelgavin.bsky.social @michaelwitmore.bsky.social @jiemakel.bsky.social @pnilsson.bsky.social @kaarelsikk.bsky.social

This lavender plant and I are very excited that spring has finally sprung.

The cover of the volume featuring a zoomed in image of a springtail.

📣Volume 40 of Zygote Quarterly is live!

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Check out our Looking Back to Look Forward features and learn all about #BioInspiredDesign

#Biomimetics #Biomimicry

I am glad for the publication of this eco-piece

"Szepczące Liście. Literatura starożytnej Grecji, literatura porównawcza i narodziny eko-mediów" in UITM’s series, Poland 🇵🇱

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Blue Trauma:
Environmental Justice, Extraction Economy, and Blue Humanities

Sidney I. Dobrin
University of Florida, U.S.A.

Registration is open until 30/04/2026
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Date: 16 May 2026
Time: 17:00 p.m. EEST (Eastern Europe Summer Time zone)
Venue: Zoom

🌋March Compilation of Bulletin of Volcanology! 🌋

We’re excited to share the latest research articles published in March 2026 on the Bulletin of Volcanology! 🔥

🖇 All IAVCEI members enjoy free access to the journal!

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🍀Ecokritike 🍀has already been indexed in many platforms: journals.h-net.org/ecokritike/c...

You are welcome to submit your work (articles, commentaries, book reviews, special issue proposals) on a rolling basis.

Screenshot of title and abstract: Biology Graduate School Pathways for Inuit Students and Lessons Learned by Southern Academics Bryan Vandenbrink 1 *, Thomas McIlwraith 2 , Shoshanah Jacobs 3 1 Polar Knowledge Canada 2 Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph 3 Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph Abstract The minimum requirement for admission to a master's program is normally the successful completion of an undergraduate or baccalaureate degree in an honours program or the equivalent from a recognized university. Inuk student Bryan Vandenbrink is an exception to these expectations. Here, in a loosely autobiographical format, Bryan tells his education story from early high school in Iqaluktuuttiaq through to completing an MSc at the University of Guelph. Co-authors Thomas McIlwraith and Shoshanah Jacobs add short reflections on the journey and identify barriers to postsecondary education for Indigenous students and how those barriers can be reduced. Keywords: Indigenous students, graduate school, barriers to education, alternative entry, colonialism, Inuit

📣NEW PAPER: Biology Graduate School Pathways for Inuit Students and Lessons Learned by Southern Academics

Read Bryan's story about his education and MSc at #Guelph

journals.library.brocku.ca/brocked

We are so grateful to the @brocku.ca journal team for editorial support

#HigherEd #InclusiveEd

Today is the national day of Greece! Χρόνια Πολλά Ελλάδα!

💡Did you know that more than 1085 Greek organisations have taken part in Horizon Europe so far?

Explore more insights on the Horizon Dashboard: europa.eu/!DF83FM
@GreeceInEU

Special Issue

"Technology-Driven Sustainability Education" in the scientific journal "Sustainability MDPI" [Impact Factor: 3.3]

www.mdpi.com/journal/sust...

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2027

thank you 🙏🏻😊🍀

I have defended my postdoctoral research entitled "Digital Ecologies of Flora: the use of the digital tool Juncture in the poetry of Greek Romanticism (19th century)" at the Department of Philology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. 🍀

Brown graphic featuring a desk in front of a window, with several stack of books on it, reading: "Fredric Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory. April 10-12, 2026, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. Keynotes by Michael Denning, Jane Gaines, Achille Mbembe, Toril Moi, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak"

Join us at Duke University next month for "Fredric Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory," a 3-day symposium featuring keynotes by Michael Denning, Jane Gaines, Achille Mbembe, Toril Moi, & Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Register by 3/31.
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🌋 February Compilation of Bulletin of Volcanology! 🌋

We’re excited to share the latest research articles published in February 2026 on the Bulletin of Volcanology! 🔥

🖇 All IAVCEI members enjoy free access to the journal.

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What would the future look like if technology replaced the services ecosystems provide?

The climate crisis makes this question less hypothetical

MSc student Hannah Hiemstra from @integrativebiology.bsky.social explored this scenario through her art

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Figure 7 of the article referenced in the post. Those PhD graduates with Master's degrees had more scholarship money, took less time to complete, but were older at the time of graduation.

The pathway to a #PhDLife might include a Master's degree.
But, it might not.

Whichever you follow, there are costs and benefits.
And your context really matters.

Learn more about our study: www.sciedupress.com/journal/inde...

#HigherEd #PhD #AcademicLife #AcademicChatter