For the first time in 60 years, Palestinians are being barred from praying at Al Aqsa mosque, one of the holiest sites in Islam. This morning, Palestinians tried to pray Eid right outside and were brutally attacked by the Israeli Occupation Forces.
Biologist Paul Ehrlich speaking at the University of San Diego circa 1972
1/ Paul Ehrlich died this week at 93.
The takes split into hagiography and dismissal. But the interesting question isn't whether he got it right, he didn't, it's why he got it wrong, and who was asking the right questions instead 🧵
The Fourth Israeli War: how the ongoing attacks on Iran, Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine fit within a continuity of aggression in West Asia
read it and spread it!
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To be honest, talking about saving nature and carbon offsets to mitigate climate change (as though that was ever really gonna work) seems a bit like a joke given all the bombings going on.
Amazing post-doc jobs here with world class researchers. Scholarship at its finest with an academic team that will nurture careers. If you meet the job spec you’d be crazy not to apply.
Israeli forces carry out daily attacks on besieged Gaza, as humanitarian conditions amid Iran war worsen.
Based on some questions from prospective applicants we have now added a bit more information in the FAQs section #jobs #postdocs #AnimalStudies
Antonio Guterres highlights 'blatant violations of human rights, human dignity and international law' in Palestine.
Last June, ahead of the International Congress for Conservation Biology held in Meanjin/Brisbane, I attended an engaging workshop organised by @paulthung.bsky.social on Advancing Customary Tenure Rights in Area-based Conservation. Check out the interim report www.planetindonesia.org/news/2026/1/...
The IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment Report has been approved!👏 (8 February 2026)
Congratulations to all the experts and IPBES members on this momentous science-policy milestone for people and nature!🌍🧪
Read the media release: https://bit.ly/IPBES12Media
#BizBiodiversity #IPBES12
🌍📢 Announcing the 1st African Conference on Environmental Justice. Bringing together researchers, activists, artists & citizens to center African knowledge, experiences & action on environmental justice.📍 Dakar, Senegal 🗓️ Nov 24–26, 2026.
🔎 CHECK 👉 dakar2026.sciencesconf.org #envjustice #africa
🥸 The fifth edition of the online “introduction to degrowth” course will run from March to April 📆 Save the date! Applications open from February 10th to February 23rd. 🫡To check the program and apply, click here: degrowth.org/projects/deg... #degrowth @degrowth.bsky.social @r-degrowth.bsky.social
@icta-uab.bsky.social is usually more associated with critical social science work on political ecology & env justice but there's also an amazing oceans group studying calcifying planktons in warming oceans, mesopelagic fish (apparently untasty) etc
At @icta-uab.bsky.social Winter Symposium today, we hear from Beatriu de Pinos postdoc fellow Ksenija Hanaček about some of her super interesting research on climate change, extractivism, & env conflicts in the Arctic
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Open Call: Ikerbasque Fellows (5-year senior postdoc):
• any discipline
• applicants must have their PhD completed between 01/01/2015 and 31/12/2023
calls.ikerbasque.net
Not 'hot off the press' but long past the time to share this paper by Laura Sauls and I on the use of big geospatial data in conservation.
We consider how digital tech are aiding production & use of global maps but also risk sidelining local contexts
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🚀Are you ready to shape the future of environmental and social research? ICTA-UAB is opening six fully funded PhD positions, covering topics from climate justice and urban mobility to human nutrition and sustainability data.
#EnvironmentalResearch #PhDPositions
www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...
🌍 We're excited to announce that Prof. Dorothea Kleine (University of Sheffield) will visit ICTA-UAB to give a seminar on digitalisation, AI, and sustainability.
📅 Nov 18, 4 PM | 📍 Sala Montseny (ICTA-UAB)
www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...
"That many religious Jews had historically believed that they came from Palestine is tantamount to Indian, Chinese, Indonesian, Nigerian, or Malaysian Muslims claiming that they came from Arabia simply because Arabia was the birthplace of their faith." www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-...
“Abroad, it depicts Israelis as carefree and liberal — a fantasy Western audiences can enjoy guilt-free. Israelis are introduced as ‘one of us’; Palestinians as those who spoil the party”.
— #AJOpinion by Benjamin Ashraf ⤵️
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
HEY friends: recently seen heaps of "disclosures" from AI companies of the energy cost per question you type into chatbots (most recently from Google)?
Presenting per-query 'efficiency' is part of big tech's efforts to hide its extremely real and happening-right-now climate impacts!
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Unbelievable that there is not an external military intervention to stop this genocide. And unbelievable that not all countries and organisations have condemned this horror already.
Ethemblage is an online game developed by @leahgovia.bsky.social leahgovia.itch.io/ethemblage It's a story in which players interact with different scenarios where technologies such as acoustic monitors, drones, and GPS collars are applied by conservationists to monitor non-human species.
With increasing momentum around monitoring & evaluation for GBF reporting, this recent report is a timely reminder that more effort & financial resources should be going into supporting IP&LC led monitoring esp. of the social impacts of conservation www.forestpeoples.org/publications...
Israel’s killing of five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza prompts global outrage and calls for accountability.
I have not been on here much because words fail to describe how desperate, angry and hopeless I am at the accelerating genocide in Gaza. Obviously, this state is not helpful to anyone, so I am going to try to crawl out of it. Anyway. Listen to this.
thefirethesetimes.com/2025/07/30/t...
This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.
By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
