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Catherine Trundle @catherinetrundle.bsky.social · Aug 28

Austerity cuts in the UK have persistently hollowed out the everyday infrastructures that can protect people from heat stress, including cuts to the maintenance budgets of parks and the closures of libraries and swimming pools.

15 Years of Austerity Eroded Public Infrastructure—Now Extreme Heat Is Exposing the Cost - Global Development Institute Blog

By Dr Gemma Sou and Ms Clare Steele. We’re told ever-hotter summers are inevitable. What’s less discussed is that Britain’s ability to cope has been systematically dismantled — not by the climate itse...

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Aug 27

Reflexive Reflexivity

“We advocate for *robust reflexivity,* a practice that critically reflects on reflexivity itself.”

‪By @catherinetrundle.bsky.social and colleagues

Open Access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Qualitative researchers are increasingly utilising reflexive practices to ensure transparency and assure quality. Current researcher reflexivity, we show, often hinges upon a set of assumptions about reflexivity itself. Through a critical literature review combined with reflexive vignettes, we offer an epistemological critique of reflexivity. We advocate for robust reflexivity, a practice that critically reflects on reflexivity itself. We thus encourage qualitative researchers to critique their reflexive practices in four ways: (1) we challenge the idea that reflexivity leads to revelation, and show the ways this idea reintroduces positivist notions of Truth under a constructionist guise; (2) we challenge simple binaries within many positionality statements, nuancing ideas of insider and outsider status, affinity and difference, and the dynamism of identity over time; (3) we show how reflexivity is a socially and culturally embedded practice, rather than a neutral and universal cognitive practice; and (4) we foreground the power dynamics of reflexivity, cautioning against the co-option of reflexivity in ways that perpetuate social inequities and mask hierarchies within research. To support robust reflexive practices, we offer a toolkit of questions that can act as prompts for critical engagements with reflexivity, and argue for the creation of more robustly reflexive methodological resources.

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Catherine Trundle @catherinetrundle.bsky.social · Aug 28

Thabks for posting @markrubin.bsky.social

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Catherine Trundle @catherinetrundle.bsky.social · Aug 14

Maja Vahlberg:“I watched a reindeer stay in the same patch of shade for three days straight without grazing, a quiet sign of the strain the heat was causing,”

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 14

‘No country is safe’: deadly Nordic heatwave supercharged by climate crisis, scientists say

Historically cool nations saw hospitals overheating and surge in drownings, wildfires and toxic algal blooms The prolonged Nordic heatwave in July was supercharged by the climate crisis and shows “no country is safe from climate change”, scientists say. Norway, Sweden and Finland have historically cool climates but were hit by soaring temperatures, including a record run of 22 days above 30C (86C) in Finland. Sweden endured 10 straight days of “tropical nights”, when temperatures did not fall below 20C (68F). Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · Aug 13

NEW RESEARCH: Parked cars can account for 10 percent of the surface areas of some cities. It turns out that their albedo (reflectivity) can significantly contribute to the urban heat island effect.

Dark-coloured cars are the worst, making the air around them 3.8°C hotter vs nearby asphalt road.

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Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈 @annieingarden.bsky.social · Aug 10

Brutality of climate harm and dangerous heat. Especially harmful to the poorest & most vulnerable. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Overheated homes: why UK housing is dangerously unprepared for impact of climate crisis

Building rules have been focused on keeping warm in winter and saving on energy bills, not cooling down

www.theguardian.com

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Catherine Trundle @catherinetrundle.bsky.social · Aug 5

Over the last couple of years we've created a guide to ethnographic Interviewing
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and explored the differences between diverse types of ethnography
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A deeply rewarding project! We're enjoying the conversations it's generating.

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Catherine Trundle @catherinetrundle.bsky.social · Aug 5

This article adds to my ongoing work with Tarryn Phillips on making ethnography accessible and welcoming to newcomers, and supporting ethnographers to articulate their unique approach and epistemic orientation when working in interdisciplinary settings.

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Catherine Trundle @catherinetrundle.bsky.social · Aug 5

New Article: a methodological guide to ethnographic document analysis. A non prescriptive but practical resource for dwelling with documents #ethnography #qualitativemethods

Ethnographic document analysis: A guide to dwelling with documents - Catherine Trundle, Tarryn Phillips, 2025

In this article, we propose a method for ethnographic document analysis (EDA) and outline the key sensibilities and processes involved. Despite the ubiquity of ...

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Catherine Trundle @catherinetrundle.bsky.social · Jun 19

Brilliant research on depersonalisation, the way our economy can reduce capacity for existentially recognising others, and the empathic failure built into the profit motives of tech.

Allison Pugh @allisonpugh.bsky.social · Jun 19

Who profits from loneliness? Why are we being sold a "crisis of loneliness" and what else is actually going on? See my essay for Aeon based on #TheLastHumanJob

Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible | Aeon Essays aeon.co/essays/our-c...

Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible | Aeon Essays

Our crisis of work and technology is one in which too many people feel that nobody sees them as a fellow human being

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Hannah Brown @mamatommy.bsky.social · May 8

Our latest plug for the value of anthropological theory in applied contexts. Writing led by my colleague Andrea Kaiser Grolimund @swisstph.ch with collaboration from the Alive Africa project team. Funding: @erc.europa.eu Does One Health need an ontological turn? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Does One Health need an ontological turn?

One Health has gained global prominence in recent years. Alongside its emergence, there have been extensive social science critiques. In this contribution, we make the case for the value of recent ...

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Bharat Jayram Venkat @bharatvenkat.bsky.social · Mar 19

The first peer-reviewed article coming out of the @uclaheatlab.bsky.social, co-authored with four of the students in my lab. Incarcerated folks are at the frontline of climate change. Incarceration makes people more likely to experience heat-related illness and death (1/5)

Carceral heat exposure as harmful design: An integrative model for understanding the health impacts of heat on incarcerated people in the United States

In an era of climate change-driven weather events, extreme heat has become the most lethal form of “natural disaster” in the United States. However, i…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Susan Wardell @susanwardell.bsky.social · Feb 17

It was great to be part of compiling this teaching tool, following a workshop at @soasuni.bsky.social last year.

The writing exercise I propose (entitled the 'Speculative Dictionary of Climate Emotion') is in the section on 'Grappling with Distress'.

culanth.org/fieldsights/...

#climatecrisis

Teaching Ecological Distress

This collection is compiled by the Ecological Distress Collective, hosted at SOAS Anthropology. Introduction In recent years, the medical and psy...

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Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart.bsky.social · Feb 17

"We have to try to protect time & space to be inefficient with each other in as many places as we want to have healthy relationships. All the places that we have contact with each other, every single one of our relationships holds political power, responsibility & ideally some degree of reciprocity"

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · Feb 8

Trump is making workplaces more dangerous for workers.

He's frozen all rulemaking at OSHA, including a rule that would make sure that people who work in extreme heat are able to take breaks and drink water.

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Grist @grist.org · Feb 12

‘How did we miss this for so long?’: The link between extreme heat and preterm birth.

Heat waves are making pregnancy more dangerous and exacerbating existing maternal health disparities.

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#Birth #PrematureBirth #Climate #Fertility

‘How did we miss this for so long?’: The link between extreme heat and preterm birth

“How did we miss this for so long? Women are often the last to get studied. But the most vulnerable people are those who are pregnant.”

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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · Feb 12

“On the streets of Paris, thousands of trees are being planted…”

Replacing concrete with greenery has a key role to play in reducing the impact of extreme heat, saving lives and making cities healthier places to get around.

Global cities grapple with how to cool ‘urban heat islands’

Climate change has made tackling damaging temperature disparities increasingly urgent

www.ft.com

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Nicholas Procter @nicholasprocter.bsky.social · Feb 12

As many parts of South Australia exceed 43 degrees Celsius today, it’s timely to consider potential heat impacts on physical and mental health. Priority populations include lower SES groups, rough sleepers, older persons, and people with a mental health condition. www.uclahealth.org/news/article...

4 effects of heat on mental health (and how to protect yourself)

Rising temperatures can affect your mental health, causing depression, anger and trouble concentrating. Learn the signs of heat-related mental health issues.

www.uclahealth.org

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Feb 9

This is one hell of a fantastic long-read by @roycerk2.bsky.social - just, please take in the entire thing

Nuclear advocacy out of Canada and the US has become an active part of the Australian conservative push to extend coal/gas power and kill wind and solar plans...

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South Marysburgh resident Jennifer Ackerman surveys a turbine base base rem her property last week. Crows are remaining on currently dismantling the remain ing infrastructure from wpd Canarts's cancelled White Pines Wind Project. Ackerman says she does not want the base removed, rather to personal shrine to Turbine No. 9. BRUCE BALL remain as hen
TURBINE NO. 9

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Meredith Welch-Devine @mwdevine.bsky.social · Nov 22

Hey #AAA2024 -- many, many of you belong on this Climate Social Science starter park. If you aren't there and want to be, please let me know! And if you are there and don't want to be, of course, let me know that as well. #anthrosky go.bsky.app/S6w6yNz

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Ladd Keith @laddkeith.com · Jan 18

📢 Join my team! The new @uarizona.bsky.social Heat Resilience Initiative is seeking a Program Coordinator to help address the global challenge of extreme heat by advancing heat research, education, and outreach. arizona.csod.com/ux/...
#universityofarizona #heatresilience #extremeheat

Program Coordinator, Heat Resilience Initiative

Duties & responsibilities: · Work with the director, staff, and researchers to coordinate research...

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Catherine Trundle @catherinetrundle.bsky.social · Jan 14

Done!

Catherine Trundle @catherinetrundle.bsky.social · Jan 13

"as deadly, hundred-degree heatwaves become commonplace, we have to learn to see shade as a civic resource shared by all. In shade, overheated bodies return to equilibrium. Blood circulation improves. People think clearly. They see better. In a physiological sense, they are themselves again."

Shade

It’s a civic resource, an index of inequality, and a requirement for public health. Shade should be a mandate for urban designers.

placesjournal.org

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Catherine Trundle @catherinetrundle.bsky.social · Jan 12

🍄⚡Fungal batteries! "You can store the fungal batteries in a dried state and activate them on location by simply adding water and nutrients.

Once it's served its purpose, the biodegradable battery digests itself from the inside." 🍄⚡

Scientists create fungal battery that needs feeding - then eats itself

Yeast and white rot fungus could have a small but ingenious role to play in the energy transition.

www.euronews.com

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Catherine Trundle @catherinetrundle.bsky.social · Jan 12

Simple way to explain to others how climate change = increased fire risk.

Increased rainfall variability + warmer temperatures = increased fuel aridity.

Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · Jan 11

There should be no question that climate change made the LA fires worse. This is simply a consequence of increased rainfall variability combined with warmer temperatures increasing fuel aridity.

See this paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The plot shows how the area burned by forest fires increases exponentially with the dryness of the vegetation.

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