Two weeks left to apply for two 4.5 year postdocs!!
WP2: History of Conservation and Animal Health
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD198/p...
WP3: History of Conservation and Earth Systems’ Health
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD410/p...
Deadline: 7 May
My local woods this morning, just lovely to hear how it has sprung to life in these last weeks. I realise this is dangerously close to ‘nature-cure’ territory, but turn the volume up & enjoy 😀
‘Fraid so. Quite a change from when I joined in 2016.
In case you were wondering how it was going at Sheffield Uni 👀
Register to the POLLEN 2026 in Barcelona!
I have a new OA paper out in Geoforum:
🦐🌎 'What on Earth? Terraqueous Terraforming and Earth-shaping with shrimp-shells' 🌎🦐
doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
Pls encourage good applicants @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social @psaenvironmental.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social @ckweatherill.bsky.social @ebonyyoung.bsky.social @ctmcateer.bsky.social
📣 Fully-funded PhD position on Methane Politics on the ERC funded METHPOL project @ Leeds Uni w/Prof Jan Selby. Open to home (UK) applicants (international studentships have been filled) to start October 2026. Deadline 22 April. #ClimateChange.
Full details ⬇️ phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/427-...
🦏 interested in doing. #PhD? Here is an excellent, and funded, opportunity to work on really exciting and impactful research w/ @drdavidlroberts.bsky.social @dice-kent.bsky.social 🦏
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I think the fact that @sicilyfiennes.bsky.social etc latest paper has the phrase "a more than human political ecology" in its title neatly demonstrates the shift towards interdisciplinary in @conbiology.bsky.social in recent years.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Great to see this in Conbio no less 😀
Excellent arguments from the brilliant Prof Christine Noe about the failures of western models of conservation ⬇️
Beautiful photo - sounds like a great day 😀
New guidance from @rspb.bsky.social, to take down bird feeders for the summer to stop the spread of disease. I stopped using feeders several years ago as I definitely wasn’t cleaning them enough and there are lots of greenfinches in the area www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The public launch of ‘The New Birds of the Sheffield Area' will take place at 1pm, Weds 15th April, Weston Park Museum
Join editors Richard Hill & David Wood for a 45min talk about the history & current status of our local birdlife
Copies available for purchase after presentation
#ukbirding
📣 permanent post in Geography at Durham - lots of exciting research going on there. More details in the 🧵⬇️
In episode 7 of our podcast, 'Edges of Exinction' @jdroberts.bsky.social talks to @sicilyfiennes.bsky.social about the complex and ambiguous 'wicked problem' of bird trade in Indonesia, and how to create just outcomes for humans and birds alike extinctionstudiesleeds.podbean.com/e/edges-of-e...
Job alert 🚨 two excellent opportunities to join a fascinating research project with @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social #health #biodiversity #conservation ⬇️
We were inspired by & have drawn on your important work to develop the paper - v interested to know what you think
😩 utterly predictable and really sad. Thanks for writing about it
It focuses on rewilding in Europe to tease out how understanding the role of individual animals can help to uncover and analyse the much deeper dynamics of human-animal relations that drive and sustain continuing biodiversity losses. And it’s fully #OpenAccess #OA
It sketches out how political ecologists can move beyond #anthropocentrism to take animal lives seriously. The paper also invites animal studies scholars to engage with relations of #capitalism in conservation which lead to social injustices, and ultimately fail to stem rapid biodiversity loss.
The paper integrates political ecology and animal studies to develop a political ecology of reanimation. It highlights the lives of individual animals in reanimated forms of nature, not just as species to ‘save’, but as essential actors in building healthy ecosystems.
📰 I have a new paper out with Peter Sands @anthropocenebio.bsky.social in Society & Animals - setting out the idea of a #PoliticalEcology of reanimating to understand current trends in #rewilding through the lens of individual animal lives brill.com/view/journal...
everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability
📆 are you interested in working with a team on understanding animal-human interactions and health? There is just under one week left to apply for these post doc roles.
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Really great to see you 😀
Thanks ! There are a lot of connections between the 2 groups so we thought it a chance to open a nice supportive space to discuss our work & common themes . I can explain further - drop me an email 😀
This was a *very* good day. The links between the two departments run across our research interests, political commitments and also deep, ever-extending networks of mentorship. Very lovely to be part of.
