Pictures showing the cultural significance of swifts

Photos showing swift towers and swift nest boxes

Photos showing swift bricks

1/2 Presenting at #BOU2026 our paper on the debate on mandating #swiftbricks in the UK as a case of #Multispecies #Justice & #Sustainability #conservationscience #BirdEcon project

Paper published in npj Urban Sustainability: doi.org/10.1038/s429...

Context: martinew.canalblog.com/archives/202...

Our new publication! #multispecies #urban #relationality

Andersson, E., Enqvist, J., Tengö, M. & Aaltonen, V. A., (2026). Transforming the nature of cities - stewardship and more-than-human agency. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 80:101628. doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

In Dialogue with More-Than-Human Wor(l)ds: Collaborative Kinship and Relationality in Digital Publishing Animated Wor(l)ds is a multimedia born-digital project with roots in relational practices that honor biocultural diversity and multispecies flourishing. Our community is composed of scholars, artists,...

journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/...

SO SO excited to be finalising our #oceans 🐬 piece with @cbayes.bsky.social for Animated Wor(l)ds, due out June 1! Here, the delightful Editors discuss the project's birth & significance #AnimalStudies #Multispecies #Kin #Empathy 🐊 🪼 🐋 🐠

Human-Animal Relationships in Times of Pandemic and Climate Crisis: Multispecies Sociology for the New Normal This book situates sociological research as a vital tool for understanding, and responding to, the multispecies entanglements that cause, inform and arise from states of crisis involving the environme...

So chuffed to see our book taking flight! Wonderful researchers linking human-animal relations to intensifying climate and pandemic crises, vital info for #justice
#Sociology #research #CriticalAnimalStudies #Multispecies #violence #flourishing #FirstBook ❤️
www.routledge.com/Human-Animal...

In todays 60 Seconds of Research MESH Junior Research Group Leader Shumon Hussain presents his work 📚

#MESH #interdisciplinarity #multispecies #convivality #decolonial #cultural #disasterpreparedness #environmentalstudies #environmentalhumanities #humanities #climatechange #planethealth #uniköln

Making the ideal multispecies fishing boat - Ontario OUT of DOORS Magazine Ontario fishing means variety. A well-rigged multispecies boat is essential to handle whatever the waters can throw at you.

Ontario fishing means variety. A well-rigged multispecies boat is essential to handle whatever the waters can throw at you.
www.ofah.org/oodonline/fi...
#Hunting #Fishing #Outdoors #Ontario #Multispecies #FishingBoats #YourRig

Conference | IPRL

One-day multidisciplinary conference: “Pastoralism in India: Changes and Continuity”📍 Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad 📅 8 May 2026. Submit your abstract: www.indianpastoralism.org/conference #Pastoralism #ClimateChange #Multispecies #CallForPapers

The quote comes from Haraway's book pictured here, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. The cover image shows a being entangled of and constituted by different species.

Donna Haraway: "What if the doleful doings of the Anthropocene and the unworldings of the Capitalocene are the last gasps of the sky gods, not guarantors of the finished future, game over?" #capitalism #multispecies #Anthropology #futurestudies #Booksky

100% agree, and I'd just add that profound grief isn't only a human experience. I'm about 14 years now into documenting and discussing grief expressed by a variety of #animals. #grief #multispecies #Anthropology

Frontiers | Human-Insect Worlds in Archaeology For human societies, insects are part of a shared ecology involving the gamut of symbiotic relations. Insects (and arthropods more widely) have been receivin...

📣 call for papers for a special issue for Frontiers for Environmental Archaeology 🏺🦟 🐜 💀 🌍.

Topic summaries/abstracts due May 20th.

The topic is nice and broad so if you have an idea, please reach out.

#archaeology #insects #entomology #multispecies

www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

São Paulo names new law after dog that stayed by owner’s grave for 10 years The Bob Coveiro (the Gravedigger) Law ‘recognises the emotional bond between guardians and their pets’

Beautiful recognition of human-animal bonds #grief #multispecies #family #animals #burial #funeral
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Effects of experimental drought and plant diversity on multifunctionality of a model system for crop rotation - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Effects of experimental drought and plant diversity on multifunctionality of a model system for crop rotation

🚨 Plant diversity in 6-species #multispecies mixtures generally increased multifunctionality (MF) (measured as 6 ecosystem functions related to agronomy). We also looked at effect of drought on MF.
short🧵

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

‘Her name was Mothball and she changed my life’: the true story behind Diary of a Wombat Jackie French was used to the quirks of wild animal behaviour – and then she met a carrot-mad wombat with an appetite for destruction. A bestseller was born

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
Precious story of sharing life with a wombat and writing the book, Diary of a wombat #animals #wombat #Multispecies #Australia #care #kin

The cover is in a bluish tone showing an older woman from the back, with front door open, standing alone looking out at a yellowish sky and other houses. There's a quote from Ann Patchett: "I loved it."

Simon Van Booy's novel Sipsworth is a wonderful tale of a lonely older woman and a mouse who befriend each other- with some surprises along the way regarding how women in their 80s may be stereotyped--and of course, mice too. #books #Booksky #mouse #rodents #animalhuman #animalstudies #multispecies

#mining #mininghistory #mineralextraction #climatecrisis #history #multispecies #flora #fauna #southernafrica #africanstudies #ASCL

The Eight Freedoms of Farm Animal Wellbeing Originally published in Earth Tongues by Eileen Crist.

Eileen Crist, in this thought-provoking piece originally published in Earth Tongues, asks us to ponder what freedom means for a farm animal.

#animals #ethics #wellbeing #compassion #conservation #publicpolicy #empathy #multispecies #justice #communities #intrinsicvalue #freedom

Beyond dress, protection, and disguise: Re-inserting animals into the deep history of human clothing | Propylaeum Dieses Werk steht unter der Lizenz Creative Commons Namensnennung - Nicht-kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International.

Hej #multispecies #archaeology people, here a few of my recent thoughts on why the study of past #clothing practices in many cases actually brings up all sorts of thorny questions about #human-animal relationships 🏺

books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeum/c...

OnlineFirst - "Microbial shepherding: The creation of culture(s) at the more-than-artisan scale" by Aidan Demsky and Erika Szymanski:

@oxfordgeography.bsky.social

#Microbes #Multispecies #Labor #Work #Value #Cheese #Fermentation #Shepherding #Vermont

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...