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People and Nature @peopleandnature.bsky.social · 22d

🦊 Reimagining habituation: The case for a reciprocal and contextual understanding ➡️ buff.ly/6rbtYxu

@livwildlab.bsky.social @ethanddoney.bsky.social @vdonfrancesco.bsky.social @hannalp.bsky.social @csandbrook.bsky.social

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Jakub Kronenberg @jakubkronenberg.bsky.social · Jun 18

Are you a #birdwatcher?

Take part in a study on #BIRDWATCHING & #BIRDCONSERVATION

Help understand birdwatchers & birdwatching better, use this opportunity for self-reflection about your own birdwatching experience

Link/QR forms.office.com/e/wTCy8ghY9U

pls share

@rspb.bsky.social @bou.org.uk

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Chris Sandbrook @csandbrook.bsky.social · Jun 5

The speeches were amazing - particularly from Dariusz Wójcik and Susan Smith, who both reminded me of why I love geography.

A particular thank you to my parents - Bud and Martin Sandbrook - who were there on the day. It was very special to share the moment with them.

Chris Sandbrook @csandbrook.bsky.social · Jun 5

I had a great afternoon at the @rgsibg.bsky.social collecting the Cuthbert Peek award. The whole event was fantastic - a really inspiring group of prize winners who are advancing geography in so many ways, including student projects, teachers, researchers, civil servants and those doing outreach.

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Planetary Praxis @planetarypraxis.bsky.social · Jun 5

“The gendered forest,” a paper by @trishantsimlai.bsky.social and @csandbrook.bsky.social, critically examines the gendered implications of surveillance technologies, such as camera traps and drones, in forest environments: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The front page of the article “The gendered forest: Digital surveillance technologies for conservation and gender-environment relationships," from the Special Issue on “The Forest Multiple,” by Trishant Simlai and Chris Sandbrook, published in the Environment and Planning F.

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Chris Sandbrook @csandbrook.bsky.social · May 13

9 months waiting for UK gov action on the HE funding crisis and what we get is a tax on international student fees, which are currently keeping the entire sector afloat. Labour are bending the knee to the far right at the expense of all the benefits we get from thriving universities. So frustrating!

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Chris Sandbrook @csandbrook.bsky.social · May 1

I just realised Paul Simon's song The Boy in the Bubble (1986) has a verse about the Nature FinTech sector in 2025:

"And I believe
These are the days of lasers in the jungle
Lasers in the jungle somewhere
Staccato signals of constant information
A loose affiliation of millionaires
And billionaires"

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · Apr 16

#OpenAccess paper in TIBG:

'From biopower to affirmative biopolitics: A (bio)political ecology of becoming with wolves' by @vdonfrancesco.bsky.social & @csandbrook.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geo #geosky

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Valerio Donfrancesco & Chris Sandbrook (2025) entitled 'From biopower to affirmative biopolitics: A (bio)political ecology of becoming with wolves' with a red banner at the top.

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Andrew King @shoalgroup.bsky.social · Mar 19

Lucia Pedrazzi is using drones to study animal behaviour in her PhD. Here's her introduction to the topic. With me, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social, Miguel Lurgi (cosupervisors), and Hemal Naik and @csandbrook.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Advancing animal behaviour research using drone technology

Unmanned aerial vehicles or drones have revolutionized wildlife monitoring, and they are increasingly being used to study animal behaviour. In this re…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Chris Sandbrook @csandbrook.bsky.social · Feb 9

Does your gpt account know your name Nix? If so it may have found your article and joined some dots

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Valerio Donfrancesco @vdonfrancesco.bsky.social · Jan 21

New paper from my PhD, in Transactions (@tibg.bsky.social) coauthored by @csandbrook.bsky.social. On wolves, farmers and interspecies violence.
"From biopower to affirmative biopolitics: A (bio)political ecology of becoming with wolves"
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
A thread below

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library

Exercises of biopower to promote human–wolf coexistence can have limited success. In contrast, affirmative biopolitics grounded in place-based ethics, which recognise wolves as subjects rather than l...

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Chris Sandbrook @csandbrook.bsky.social · Jan 12

Impeccable timing George! But an important and interesting post nonetheless

George Holmes @georgeholmes.bsky.social · Jan 12

I wrote this @naturalengland.bsky.social blogpost at the start of last week, but the recent #lynx releases have brought this issue to the fore. P.S. the deadline for our PhD project on this has just closed, but we hope to advertise more opportunities soon.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/who-le...

Who let the frogs out? On illicit and unregulated species reintroductions.

George Holmes: Professor of Conservation and Society at the University of Leeds, and ESRT member. An odd thing has been happening across Europe in recent years.

www.linkedin.com

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George Holmes @georgeholmes.bsky.social · Jan 12

I wrote this @naturalengland.bsky.social blogpost at the start of last week, but the recent #lynx releases have brought this issue to the fore. P.S. the deadline for our PhD project on this has just closed, but we hope to advertise more opportunities soon.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/who-le...

Who let the frogs out? On illicit and unregulated species reintroductions.

George Holmes: Professor of Conservation and Society at the University of Leeds, and ESRT member. An odd thing has been happening across Europe in recent years.

www.linkedin.com

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Simon Hedges @simonhedges.bsky.social · Dec 29

This paper by @csandbrook.bsky.social also provides a thoughtful review of the uses and abuses of #AI in #conservation: "arguing that to date there has been too much techno-optimism and a lack of attention to risks and broader implications".

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Beyond the Hype: Navigating the Conservation Implications of Artificial Intelligence

Conservation AI—the deliberate application of artificial intelligence technology to achieve conservation goals—has great potential to boost productivity, make existing conservation actions more effic...

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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SCCS Conference 2026 @sccscambridge.bsky.social · Dec 16

📢 SCCS 2025 will be re-opening for applications (attend only) on 20th December 2024. 📢

➡️ Please go to our website www.sccs-cam.org to find out more. SCCS is for early career researchers/conservationists.

✨ ⏰ The window will close on 10th January 2025 at 17:00hrs UK time

Student Conference on Conservation Science - Welcome

SCCS helps young conservation scientists gain experience, learn new ideas and make contacts that will be valuable for their future careers.

www.sccs-cam.org

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Chris Sandbrook @csandbrook.bsky.social · Dec 10

I'm not sure what you mean? I've never worked at Kahuzi-Biega, or had anything to do with Paul Kagame.

Chris Sandbrook @csandbrook.bsky.social · Dec 10

I'm delighted to have a co-authored chapter (with Bill Adams & Emma Tait) in this fantastic new book. Congrats to the whole @digicologies.bsky.social team for taking the lead on theorising digitally-mediated human–nonhuman entanglements. This field is going to be a wild ride over the coming years...

Digital Ecologies @digicologies.bsky.social · Dec 10

🌐 Digital ecologies: Mediating more-than-human worlds is OUT NOW with @manchesterup.bsky.social!

🍃 Eds: @jonnyjjt.bsky.social, @admsrl.bsky.social, Henry Anderson-Elliott & @evahaifa.bsky.social.

🎁 Get yours in time for Christmas!

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526170347/ #DigitalEcologies

Manchester University Press - Digital ecologies

Digital ecologies - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Digital ecologies by Jonathon Turnbull

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

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Digital Ecologies @digicologies.bsky.social · Dec 10

🌐 Digital ecologies: Mediating more-than-human worlds is OUT NOW with @manchesterup.bsky.social!

🍃 Eds: @jonnyjjt.bsky.social, @admsrl.bsky.social, Henry Anderson-Elliott & @evahaifa.bsky.social.

🎁 Get yours in time for Christmas!

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526170347/ #DigitalEcologies

Manchester University Press - Digital ecologies

Digital ecologies - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Digital ecologies by Jonathon Turnbull

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

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Chris Sandbrook @csandbrook.bsky.social · Nov 28

I could say the same to you - congrats on the SCB papers!

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Chris Sandbrook @csandbrook.bsky.social · Nov 27

Lastly, I want to congratulate Trishant for his outstanding research. Supervising his PhD was an absolute pleasure, and I am so delighted that his work is now getting the wider recognition it deserves. 🥳

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Chris Sandbrook @csandbrook.bsky.social · Nov 27

This paper has attracted a lot of media attention in India, with some sensationalist headlines. I hope that it will trigger sensible debate about when and how to use conservation monitoring technology. It is intended to be critical yet constructive, and I hope the coverage will reflect that.

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Chris Sandbrook @csandbrook.bsky.social · Nov 27

I hope that the conservation sector will take this seriously and adopt our principles for the socially responsible use of conservation monitoring technology and data. This is becoming ever more urgent as AI drives a massive increase in monitoring. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Chris Sandbrook @csandbrook.bsky.social · Nov 27

This work demonstrates that surveillance technologies like camera traps really can create various forms of harm for particular groups of people – in this case women – even where in theory they were only supposed to be monitoring wildlife.

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Chris Sandbrook @csandbrook.bsky.social · Nov 27

The cameras extended the male gaze into the forest, stopping women singing and changing the way they dressed and spoke. In one case there was sexual harassment when an image of a woman was circulated by men on their phones. An example is shown in the illustration above, by Adwait Pawar.

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Chris Sandbrook @csandbrook.bsky.social · Nov 27

It is therefore a big moment that the first paper from @trishantsimlai.bsky.social's PhD is now published, in Environment and Planning F. It shows how camera traps used for wildlife monitoring in a forest changed the way women used the space. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Chris Sandbrook @csandbrook.bsky.social · Nov 27

For more than a decade various authors, including me, have been raising this problem. It has been explored extensively in theory, but there have been hardly any published studies that look at these issues using real world empirical case studies.

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Chris Sandbrook @csandbrook.bsky.social · Nov 27

Digital technologies such as camera traps, drones and acoustic monitors have incredible conservation value as tools to collect data for improved decision making. However, they come with risks for people - particularly if human data are collected, either accidentally (human bycatch) or deliberately.

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