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Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · 1d

#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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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · 2d

🌅 How are digital technologies refashioning ecological aesthetics? 🌅

Join us for the next Digital Ecologies conference in February 2026 - CFP now open!

We're delighted to welcome Joanna Zylinska and Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg as our keynotes!

Any questions, get in touch.

Digital Ecologies @digicologies.bsky.social · 3d

🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐

'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'

🗓️ 2-3 February 2026
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating)

Deadline: 14th November

Full info: digicologies.com/cfp

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Francis Masse @geofrancismasse.bsky.social · 8d

Awesome! But just an fyi, the link isn't working :)

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 14d

International students can apply for a UK Chevening Fellowship to study on one of our 1-year Taught Postgraduate courses:

MA Climate, Risk and Society

MSc Climate, Risk and Society

MSc Environmental Hazards and Risk

MA Risk, Security and Politics

Deadline for applications to Chevening is Oct 7.

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Francis Masse @geofrancismasse.bsky.social · 21d

I can echo how difficult a task this was and how seriously it was taken! A privilege (even when difficult) to be part of the process and get an insight into the amazing breadth and depth or work and thinking being done under the banner of Political Ecology.

Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · 22d

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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Francis Masse @geofrancismasse.bsky.social · Sep 3

come north and we can go!

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Francis Masse @geofrancismasse.bsky.social · Sep 1

come to Durham, good Red Kite country, even a Red Kite Trail! friendsofredkites.org.uk/red-kite-trail

Friends of Red Kites

In the North East

friendsofredkites.org.uk

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Francis Masse @geofrancismasse.bsky.social · Aug 29

In Zambia continuing research to support understanding of animal/zoonotic diseases in community conservation landscapes & how to mitigate disease risks for sustainable wildlife-livestock futures @charisenns.bsky.social @brocksaglio.bsky.social

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David Cavlovic🇨🇦🍁 @davidcavlovic.bsky.social · Aug 12

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Francis Masse @geofrancismasse.bsky.social · Aug 7

New article🚨 Demilitarizing Conservation
A labour of love w L Lunstrum @ashavin.bsky.social A Dutta @esthermarijnen.bsky.social T Mushonga F Matose

For a more robustly care-full conservation
Demilitarization based on ethics/politics of care/nonviolence @pollenetwork.bsky.social

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Demilitarizing Conservation

Many national parks and other protected areas (PAs) are experiencing an intensification of military actors, logics, and partnerships across the globe. This amounts to one of the most consequential ...

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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

leahgovia.itch.io

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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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Francis Masse @geofrancismasse.bsky.social · Aug 1

Very excited to be starting at @geogdurham.bsky.social today! Looking forwards to new colleagues, friends, & collaborations and already feeling a very warm welcome.

And a sincere thank you to friends & colleagues at Northumbria GES & @nuglobaldev.bsky.social for some wonderful years!

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · Jun 20

🚨Job Alert 🚨 🐕‍🦺 🐄🐎🐦‍⬛
Do you have project management skills & an interest in human-animal relations? We are recruiting a project manager role (5 years) for our new project (info in the 🧵) @sheffielduni.bsky.social
📆 deadline 30 June www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNO134/p...

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Francis Masse @geofrancismasse.bsky.social · Jun 20

The QR code on the poster or the link in the reply will take you to a page with full information.

Please forward and share among your networks.
link again: www.cmi.no/projects/292...

@pollenetwork.bsky.social @society4conbio.bsky.social @iccs.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org

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Francis Masse @geofrancismasse.bsky.social · Jun 20

Do you work in conservation/for a conservation organisation? Please take our survey!

We need respondents who work in conservation (broadly defined) in any capacity

Survey takes 15/20 minutes, doesn’t ask for name & is available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French

www.cmi.no/projects/292...

Conservation Labor: A New Frontier in Labor Theory and Conservation Science (CONLAB)

There is a rapidly developing literature on the 'human dimensions' of conservation, including critical scholarship and appli...

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Francis Masse @geofrancismasse.bsky.social · Jun 20

Absolutely glorious day in the NE of England! Just needed to be said.

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Francis Masse @geofrancismasse.bsky.social · Jun 20

yup. In full agreement here.

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Francis Masse @geofrancismasse.bsky.social · Jun 20

exactly. What happens when the 'security' imperative wanes?

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · Jun 13

This is an excellent- and alarming - read on the growth of journals, including killer line ‘if you think about it, it’s a steal’. Also has advice on what any of us can do about it ⬇️

Pablo Gómez Barreiro @pagomba.bsky.social · Jun 10

📰 The Daily Strain is back!

#SpringerNature may be copying #MDPI journal names with its "Discover" series.

Blog 👉 the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
Mini-Game 👉 Can you tell Discover from MDPI? pagoba.shinyapps.io/publi_guess/

@discoverjrnls.bsky.social #DiscoverOrMDPI

Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing

Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io

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Francis Masse @geofrancismasse.bsky.social · Jun 13

what a mess. People and Universities making decisions on what is out there but with a whole lot of uncertainty around it.

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Francis Masse @geofrancismasse.bsky.social · Jun 13

Do we know if the exception for up to Jan 1 2026 still holds, updated June 13th? @williamcarruthers.bsky.social and @willtullett.bsky.social .
Seems strange to not even be able to say definitively if this is the case or not.

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Peter Howson @peterjhowson.bsky.social · Jun 6

Latest from me looking at #SpaceX, #STEMwashing and the #NewSpace industry's jazz hands 'immersion' tactics used to pinch stuff from poor people.

All free today!

authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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Francis Masse @geofrancismasse.bsky.social · May 30

Look's like I'm on Bluesky now. Hello.

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Esteve Corbera @estevecorbera.bsky.social · May 19

Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Conference in Barcelona, June 2026. Help us disseminate the event and submit your articles, please! @icta-uab.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social

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POLLEN Conference 2026 - POLLEN

To learn more about our rational and purposes, then please look at this page , or download this document. If would like to participate then the first step is to propose a panel, or some other contribu...

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