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ICREA Research Professor at ICTA-UAB. Leads ERC-funded 'CONDJUST' Conservation Data Justice. Author of the SAMTI AND series. More at www.danbrockington.com and www.samtiand.com

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Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · 2d

#POLLEN"2026 panels are now live.

What happens now is a vital part of the preparation

Hundreds of potential participants will be sending in their ideas to the hundreds of different convenors. It is a rich moment of exchange and interaction.

Please spread the word.

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Call for presentations & posters - POLLEN

The call for presentations and posters is now open until 23:59 CET on Friday 5th December. Before proposing anything, please read the conference rationale & purpose, the rules below, and then browse t...

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Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · 2d

@pollenetwork.bsky.social
@rosaleenduffy.bsky.social
@brambuscher.bsky.social
@georgeholmes.bsky.social
@amberhuff.bsky.social
@jenslund.bsky.social
@pkotsila.bsky.social
@estevecorbera.bsky.social
@icta-uab.bsky.social

Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · 2d

Many thanks to Alix and NomadIT, the Scientific Committee and hundreds of convenors for getting us thus far.

I hope you enjoy the next few weeks

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Unai Pascual @upascual.bsky.social · 3d

Towards a relational biodiversity economics (following the steps of ecological, feminist and other heterodox/critical economic thinking). Our new paper is out.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · 23d

@pollenetwork.bsky.social @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social @brambuscher.bsky.social @georgeholmes.bsky.social @amberhuff.bsky.social @jenslund.bsky.social @pkotsila.bsky.social @estevecorbera.bsky.social @icta-uab.bsky.social

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Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · 23d

And a huge huge thanks to all the stalwarts on the scientific committee who spent August reading panels, and the broader advisory group for their oversight. POLLEN is a collective exercise and you have all leaned in to support this summer.

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Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · 23d

So, shared commiserations to all whose proposal was not accepted. Please do take part by submitting your papers to the panels which have got through, or join me on the poster sessions (I am being serious). This will start in early October.

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Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · 23d

58 proposed panels agreed to merge too, some where pulled and others became walks or workshops. But we still had to turn down 50+ panels. And one of them was the one my research group submitted - no such thing as organisers' privilege in POLLEN.

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Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · 23d

So 16 people in the scientific committee set about reading and sorting panels (yes, no, maybe) and then, when that was done, another 4 of us suggested on the basis of that sorting what we should keep and what not.

Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · 23d

But we did not want to say yes to everything. POLLEN 2026 has a large collection of nearly 50 wise heads in its advisory group who I asked for advice and the consensus was that going to large would be a mistake. If its too large it risks losing its cohesion.

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Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · 23d

In the first instance, we're going for a bigger meeting. We cannot turn so many away. Now we plan to start on Monday 29th June and finish on Friday 3rd July. We will have the plenaries on 30th June at UAB, the rest of the meeting at UB and other venues in town.

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Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · 23d

That was one of the hardest tasks I've done for any POLLEN meeting.

#POLLEN26 had 227 panels submitted. Normally there is space for about 120 *including* double panels. Whereas our 227 were all single ideas that could become doubles.

And all were amazing. What do you do?

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Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · Aug 14

I agree. There is a large well grounded local organising committee that will be tackling this and issuing guidance. We talked together about whether to host the conference at all - and there was a strong desire to do so. It would be a shame if the tourists kept coming but pollenators did not.

Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · Aug 7

This looks like and interesting endeavour - please give it a try.

Eric Nost @ericnost.bsky.social · Aug 5

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.

Ethemblage by leahgovia

Interactive story about more-than-human ethics

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Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · Aug 5

A #POLLEN26 Update:

We have 227 panels submitted.

227!! That is an incredible response. We will not have space for them all. But we will try our best. Now the 17 members of the scientific committee will set about selecting and sorting.

A huge thanks to all who sent proposals in.

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Eric Nost @ericnost.bsky.social · Aug 5

Ethemblage by leahgovia

Interactive story about more-than-human ethics

leahgovia.itch.io

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Dr. Anne K. Armstrong @anniekarmstrong.bsky.social · Nov 13

New here! Interested in folks who are interested in...
- Conservation
- Biodiversity
- Climate Change
- Water quality
- Social Science
- Community Conservation
- Environmental Justice
- Citizen Science
-Geography
-Digital humanities
-Environmental psychology

Looking forward to never returning to X.

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · Nov 23

The Economist covered our "Strain on scientific publishing" paper.

What is this all about?

We collectively churn out more & more papers *per scientist*, an increasing pace, in a rapidly changing publication landscape.

Why? How? Want to make sense of this? 🧵

www.economist.com/science-and-...

Scientific publishers are producing more papers than ever

Concerns about some of their business models are building

www.economist.com

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Wisse van Engelen @wissevanengelen.bsky.social · May 10

In case you missed these: some great papers appeared in the last few days that address the relation between monetary wealth and environmental degradation/protection 🧵👇

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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · May 28

Our doctoral researcher Marie Pratzer is currently visiting @icta-uab.bsky.social sky.social in #Barcelona - an inspiring and critical space for environmental research.

#environmentalresearch #biogeography #datajustice

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Julia PG Jones @juliajones.bsky.social · May 6

The weather was fab for this week's field course for the conservation masters students @bangoruniversity.bsky.social. What a place to live and study north wales is! This is all on the doorstep.

Bangor Uni Sciences @bangoruniscience.bsky.social · May 6

Our postgraduate #Conservation students have completed a grand trip out, not bad eh? Join us! @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @studyinwales.bsky.social
bangor.ac.uk/study/postgr... @paulcross.bsky.social @juliajones.bsky.social (thanks Dr Freya St John for vid)

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James Wilsdon @jameswilsdon.bsky.social · Jul 1

The past, present & future of UK metascience: new paper by me, @ludowaltman.bsky.social @andre-brasil.bsky.social & Ben Steyn

Published yesterday by DSIT as part of the govt’s ‘A Year in Metascience’ report

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/685bcd...

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ICTA-UAB @icta-uab.bsky.social · Jul 8

🏆ICTA-UAB Secures Third María De Maeztu Excellence

This distinction is the highest awarded at the national level to research centres in Spain, and is awarded in recognition for their scientific leadership, research quality, and international impact.

www.miragenews.com/icta-uab-sec...

ICTA-UAB Secures Third María De Maeztu Excellence Nod

ICTA-UAB has been accredited, for the third time, as a "María de Maeztu" Unit of Excellence by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness

www.miragenews.com

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Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · Jul 13

The news that Irish authorities are now exhuming nearly 800 children and babies buried in an unmarked grave is grim. It is not an isolated problem but one of the more salient instances of systematic abuse. Mark Waddington (@hopeandhomes.bsky.social‬) explains it:

www.linkedin.com/pulse/exhuma...

The exhumation of dead babies from a mass grave on the site of an orphanage in Ireland is not the consequence of an isolated tragedy.

The evidence is conclusive. Orphanages have proven to be associated with high levels of child mortality around the world for a long time.

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Dead Neanderthals @deadneanderthals.bsky.social · Jul 13

The 'Bioengineered' story was mentioned in @theguardian.com today!

Read here
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

More background on Bioengineered here: www.science.org/content/arti...

CC: @elisabethbik.bsky.social @mortenoxe.bsky.social @smutclyde.bsky.social @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social

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Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · Jul 8

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Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · Jul 8

When you work with a comms team as brilliant as Ana and Isabel you just have to do good things so that they can tell the world all about it.

www.instagram.com/reel/DL2Kpe9...

@icta-uab.bsky.social

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Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · Jul 8

I am really proud to be involved with this. It is a tremendous honour just to receive one MdM award. Kudos to @icta-uab.bsky.social

ICTA-UAB @icta-uab.bsky.social · Jul 8

ICTA-UAB Secures Third María De Maeztu Excellence Nod

ICTA-UAB has been accredited, for the third time, as a "María de Maeztu" Unit of Excellence by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness

www.miragenews.com

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Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · Jul 3

Meet the new 'POLLENators' on the new Featured Pollenator section.

Find out more about Eleonora and Laila here:

pollenpoliticalecology.network/updates/feat...

And get in touch to add yourself to this collection of wonderful people

#POLLEN #PoliticalEcology
@pollenetwork.bsky.social

Featured POLLENators - POLLEN

To encourage these connections, our website highlights a "Featured POLLENator" each month. We showcase here the work of POLLEN people in whatever domain they are active in academia, arts, policy-makin...

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Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · Jul 3

This is a fascinating exuberant overview of one of the most exciting fields I've worked in in years. Kudos to the authors for putting it together.

@paolocrosetto.bsky.social @MarkHanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy @pagomba.bsky.social

James Wilsdon @jameswilsdon.bsky.social · Jul 1

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