We're super excited about the project, and really keen to be as supportive and collaborative as possible with the ECRs who we work with. Please share!

Recruiting researchers in Animal Studies (humanities and social sciences) Last year, ‘Multispecies Mutualisms’ was successfully awarded a Wellcome Trust grant of £1.6 million. We are now recruiting four new Post Doctoral Research Associates to join the team.

Please see our microsite & FAQs here: sheffield.ac.uk/spir/news/re... and the application/full info here: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/4-x-Rese...

Multispecies Mutualisms - Join Our Research Team! We’re hiring 4 Postdoctoral Research Associates (PDRAs) In this video, members of the team share insights into four exciting PDRA opportunities currently available. If you are ready to take the next s...

A rare thing: *four* three-year hums/soc-sci posts in animal studies, on the Multispecies Mutualisms project at UoSheffield - with @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social, me, Robert McKay and Alasdair Cochrane; see here for a video explainer: digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...

This looks like a super important collection - I'm really looking forward to reading it!

Just reposting this CFP! Deadline 9th March :)

The podcast accompanies their Digital Eating Special Issue www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjce20/1... also feat @joedeville.bsky.social @evahaifa.bsky.social @christianfuentes.bsky.social among many untaggable others

Ben's work is super good - would really recommend reading this!

New Wellcome-funded project to examine humans' relationships with animals 'Multispecies Mutualisms’ has been awarded a Wellcome Trust grant of £1.6 million.

For more on the project see here (temporarily): sheffield.ac.uk/spir/news/ne... (proper website to be launched soon!)

And would be very happy for our own assumptions to be overturned, as well as engaging in collective discussions about whether theories that many of us are invested in (but potentially also ambivalent about) are doing the politico-ethical work that they need to!

'In offering this focus, our aim is to provoke dialogue about how multispecies mutualisms are enacted in the present and what they could be in the future.' In other words - we are super keen to have discussions about what mutualism might really mean in the context of more-than-human relations.

'How might this orientation change the conclusions that are drawn, or the theoretical frameworks that are utilised in STS for conceiving of more-than-human ethics and politics?'

We're especially interested in papers that intervene in discussions about how 'healthy' human-animal relationships are conceptualised; as we say in the CFP: 'What happens if questions of risk, harm, or exclusion are treated as the starting- point of analysis, rather than a closing acknowledgement?'

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...

Was absolutely amazing to host Camille last week - super thought-provoking talk; and it's been amazing to see how this research has evolved and developed!

Last four days to send in your abstracts 👇

so... is the argument here that they want to stop funding unfunded research?!

what an amazing selection of speakers - this looks so good!

I have a horrible feeling I forgot to post that registration for this conference about extinction, conservation and the future of our planet is now open. We have an amazing range of speakers, who are listed here, alongside the link to register.

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Are you curious about expanding your social research practice to include nonhuman species, but don’t know where to start? Come and join this immersive three-day workshop at the University of Manchester, with a mix of indoor seminars and outdoor fieldwork: store.southampton.ac.uk/short-course...

The Tragi-Comedy of the Wrestlers’ World: An Interview with Gregory Hollin Following Gregory Hollin's article, our interview further explores the wrestler’s world and its synecdochical, if not allegorical, connections to...

Nice interview with Greg Hollin about his recent Cultural Anthropology article on pro wrestling, post-truth, and precarious labour: culanth.org/fieldsights/...

I'm honestly struggling to articulate how excited I am to be working on this project with these people - really does feel like a dream come true!

Aww, thanks Angela :) - we're all super, super excited!

What are the dangers in relying on automated hate speech detection to tackle discrimination online?

Eva Haifa Giraud, Elizabeth Poole, Ed de Quincey and @discodiscourse.bsky.social look at digital racism, Twitter/X and counter-narratives against Islamophobia.

Out now #OpenAccess buff.ly/4a90uwi

Would you like to spend a few months in Edinburgh in 2025-26 working with our brilliant Environmental Humanities community and, ahem, enjoying the Scottish weather? The application portal for EEHN Visiting Research Fellowships is now open.

Animal Cultures at the Edge of Extinction - Thom van Dooren, Matthew Chrulew, Myles Oakey, Sam Widin, Drew Rooke, 2024 Over the course of the latter part of the 20th century the notion that some animals might partake in a cultural form of life has gained growing support in the n...

A very interesting article (open access) in @theoryculturesociety.org on non-human animal cultures and extinctions, written by wonderful colleagues, led by @thomvandooren.bsky.social including our PhD Sam Widin. But didn't Darwin and later animal ecologists write on animal cultures?
#envhum #STS

As part of "Weather Reports", we've just published the first part of a Stream (Special Issue) on wind as media, model, and experience with Media+Environment.

In our introduction, we ask what shape the Wind Humanities might take: mediaenviron.org/article/1274...

Retweeting this very late, so obviously way after Christmas now, but just seen that the open access version is now up :) www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

that's incredibly kind of you to say - thank you :)

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Critical extinction studies starter pack - go.bsky.app/SR3gMpS with accompanying list if you don't want to lose track of people bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Cultural Anthropology's latest issue is out! Check out 7 amazing essays on wrestling, revolutionary bureucracy, visual disinformation, riverine geostorytelling, post-flood trauma, the ethics of divine-driven bureaucracy, and cartooning

journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca