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Ashoka Mukpo @shokes.bsky.social · 1d

TotalEnergies is facing a criminal complaint in France over its support for a Mozambican army unit that's been accused of massacring civilians on its behalf: news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

TotalEnergies faces criminal complaint in France over alleged massacre in Mozambique

As French oil and gas giant TotalEnergies prepares to resume work on its multibillion-dollar offshore gas project in northern Mozambique, it faces a criminal complaint back home over its role in fundi...

news.mongabay.com

James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 3d

"Warming is going to exceed 1.5°C. We are heading into “overshoot” within the next few years. The world is going to become more turbulent and more dangerous. So, what comes after failure?" Some thoughts from Johan Rockstrom & me 10 years after Paris Agreement.

theconversation.com/the-world-lo...

The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality

The world bet on collective but voluntary action to keep global warming at a safe level.

theconversation.com

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 5d

Dolly looks like she has settled in well too 😀

Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️‍🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 Just one week left to apply for one of the THREE postdoc positions in the #GreenFrontier project hosted at @fnp-wur.bsky.social

#conservation #EnvJustice #wilderness #rewilding #rural #underdevelopment #LandAbandonment

Deadline 25 November!

Full details 👉 www.wur.nl/en/research-...

Joseph Ward @jward232.bsky.social · 8d

On strike again to fight back against the relentless pursuit of damaging cuts and restructures by the appalling management at @sheffielduni.bsky.social We won't stand idly by while they continue to drive this institution into the ground! @sheffielducu.bsky.social

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks @petercorkeron.bsky.social - and def you are one of the few people looking in to this. Interesting this confirms your gut reaction @lonerangifer.bsky.social

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 12d

Will read with interest - thanks 😀

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 13d

Must read thread and paper on the expansion of scientific publishing from @danbrockington.bsky.social & team - like super sleuths they have been following this trail for several years now. the findings are fascinating & alarming ⬇️

Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · 13d

Profits from scientific publishing are eye-watering, costing us billions. In ‘The Drain of Scientific Publishing’ (arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820), (building on ‘The Strain of Scientific Publishing’ doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00327) we show how it is harmful – and unnecessary.

The Drain of Scientific Publishing

The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and ...

arxiv.org

Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social · 13d

🌍Excited about our upcoming & final DEA seminar for 2025: Join us on Thu 20.11. at 14:00 online or in Prague for 'Conservation Frontiers: Re-storying wilderness from the margins of Europe' by @georgeiorda.bsky.social (Wageningen Univ.) ⛰️🐻🌳 More info & registration: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/rfKrvjTnE2

Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · 13d

Profits from scientific publishing are eye-watering, costing us billions. In ‘The Drain of Scientific Publishing’ (arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820), (building on ‘The Strain of Scientific Publishing’ doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00327) we show how it is harmful – and unnecessary.

The Drain of Scientific Publishing

The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and ...

arxiv.org

Green Isles @green-isles.bsky.social · 15d

Environmentalism without class struggle is just gardening! 🌱✊

The application of Green politics and ecosocialism in the UK 🇬🇧

Launching on Wednesday 12th November. A place for radical thinking for an ecosocialist island.
instagram.com/green.isles
greenisles.substack.com

(website coming soon)

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 17d

Fantastic news - congratulations! 🥂

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 18d

Excellent #podcast by my terrific former colleague Dr Laura Gutierrez, discussing #IWT #eels, #WildlifeCrime, mental health and much much more ⬇️ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

Laura Gutiérrez on teaching, mental health, and critical/green criminology

Podcast Episode · culturalstudies · 14/10/2025 · 1h 3m

podcasts.apple.com

Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 18d

SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share

www.change.org/p/save-geogr...

A link to a petition to save Geography, its staff, department and degree programmes at Leicester University, UK

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 18d

📆 Check out this call for applications- with the opportunity to work with @geofrancismasse.bsky.social on some exciting topics #WildlifeTrade #Zoonosis #OneHealth #Conservation ⬇️

Francis Masse @geofrancismasse.bsky.social · 18d

Call PhD Proposals related to Political Ecologies of Conservation, Infectious Animal and Zoonotic Diseases, One Health, and Wildlife Trade
#politicalecology #humanenvironmentgeography

Please share and pass on to potentially interested people.

@pollenetwork.bsky.social
@findaphd.bsky.social

Francis Masse @geofrancismasse.bsky.social · 18d

Call PhD Proposals related to Political Ecologies of Conservation, Infectious Animal and Zoonotic Diseases, One Health, and Wildlife Trade
#politicalecology #humanenvironmentgeography

Please share and pass on to potentially interested people.

@pollenetwork.bsky.social
@findaphd.bsky.social

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 21d

This morning’s dog walk, another autumn stunner in the #PeakDistrict despite the grey clouds and drizzle

Yellow, green & red Autumn leaves reflected in the river

Yello beech leaves over a small waterfall

Orange, lime & yellow beech leaves & trees beside a path covered in orange beech leaves

Conifers in a hill, grey sky, the trees are bands of different colours green, brown, orange, red

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 21d

There is this letter of support docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/...

Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana

As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...

docs.google.com

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 22d

📣 3 post doc roles on GreenFrontier @erc.europa.eu project - fantastic opportunities to work on an exciting project on socio-ecological relations in Italy, Spain & Poland. And best of all, a chance to work with @georgeiorda.bsky.social as team lead #PoliticalEcology #Conservation ⬇️

Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️‍🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social · 22d

🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers!

Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025

Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!

Please share widely!

Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️‍🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social · 22d

🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers!

Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025

Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!

Please share widely!

Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @tekgw.bsky.social · 23d

In a new publication via @theconversation.com, Birhan &I argue,

“When famine goes unrecorded, the suffering of entire populations is erased from the world’s moral and political map. It also weakens the mechanisms designed to prevent such atrocities elsewhere.”

theconversation.com/starvation-a...

Starvation as a weapon of war: how Ethiopia created a famine in Tigray

Famine was weaponised as part of a broader campaign of destruction in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.

theconversation.com

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 25d

And much to my other half’s annoyance, the tasty turnip is now called a ‘swede’ 😉

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 25d

🎃 carving is for light weights. I tell my kid this every year when he is happily scooping out a pumpkin. I have strong (and painful!) childhood memories of the literal hours it took to get anything like a face on a turnip. But it was worth it 👻 #HappyHalloween

Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 25d

A reminder that the original Hallowe'en jack o' lanterns date back to 18th century Ireland if not earlier, were based on a shady boozy blacksmith called Stingy Jack who cheated the devil & was trapped between 2 worlds, were carved from turnips and looked like this:

A preserved carved turnip jack o'lantern from the 19th century

Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 25d

A reminder that the original Hallowe'en jack o' lanterns date back to 18th century Ireland if not earlier, were based on a shady boozy blacksmith called Stingy Jack who cheated the devil & was trapped between 2 worlds, were carved from turnips and looked like this:

POLLEN - Political Ecology Network @pollenetwork.bsky.social · 25d

Māori scholar Matt Wynyard examines how Aotearoa NZ’s dairy industry—deeply rooted in settler colonialism—has intensified, corporatized & financialized since the 1980s, driving major social & ecological tensions.
🔗 institutionallandscapes.org/contribution...

#28 A Raw Deal? The True Cost of Dairy in Aotearoa | Institutional Landscapes

institutionallandscapes.org

George Holmes @georgeholmes.bsky.social · 26d

Short piece in @consletters.bsky.social exploring social, cultural, political and ecological apsects of illicit and unregulated species translocations - what others (not me, due to homophone errors) might call guerilla rewilding. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Who Let the Frogs out? Illicit and Unregulated Species Translocations

Click on the article title to read more.

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 27d

ICYMI last week, my reaction to the govt's Skills White Paper is that it's bitterly disappointing for universities. It will make a very bad situation worse. This is a Last Word really, because IMHO large parts of the sector have crossed a red line and can't be pulled back in their present form. 👇

Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Oct 24

So I've been reading the Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper. There's some good things in there. But when it comes to universities there's very little to cheer. The situation is very tough and will get worse. The last chance to preserve what we've got has passed. Let me explain why. (1/?)

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 29d

Always happy to be tagged by you 😀 that’s for keeping up this important work

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · Oct 24

Perfect - that’s great intel 😀 I will keep an eye out.

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · Oct 24

Great tips for the rails & bitterns. Thank you! Fingers crossed for the waxwings - there were loads very near my home a couple of winters ago. Will let you know if I make the 200 😀

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