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Guillem Rubio-Ramon @guillemrubio.bsky.social · 3d

Really looking forward to co-hosting this panel at #POLLEN2026 with @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social and Larissa Fleischmann - we'd love to see your abstract submissions!

Hannah D-C @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 4d

V excited to see #POLLEN2026 sessions being advertised. Myself, @guillemrubio.bsky.social and Larissa Flesichmann are delighted that our session on 'Political Ecologies of Animal Waste/Waste Animals' has been accepted. And we would like to invite you to submit an abstract (see below!) 🐕‍🦺🐟💩🪶🥚🦴🐚🐌🐖

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Hannah D-C @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 4d

V excited to see #POLLEN2026 sessions being advertised. Myself, @guillemrubio.bsky.social and Larissa Flesichmann are delighted that our session on 'Political Ecologies of Animal Waste/Waste Animals' has been accepted. And we would like to invite you to submit an abstract (see below!) 🐕‍🦺🐟💩🪶🥚🦴🐚🐌🐖

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RGS Animal Geographies @rgs-agwg.bsky.social · 10d

Interested in learning more about corporate power and industrial chicken production? We have a new blog out from Amby Karamchedu and Ben Coles:

www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/who...

Who Owns Chickens? Corporate Power and Industrial Chicken Production in the Global South — RGS Animal Geographies

Ambarish Karamchedu and Ben Coles Why Chickens? In 2023, 76 billion chickens were slaughtered for meat [i] . This equates to 2,417 birds killed every second (compared to 10 cows and 47 pigs) [ii...

www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 18d

Meat vs EAT-Lancet Planetary Health Diet: The dynamics of an industry-orchestrated online backlash

Report by the Changing Markets Foundation

changingmarkets.org/report/meat-...

Meat vs EAT-Lancet: The dynamics of an industry-orchestrated online backlash • Changing Markets

The EAT-Lancet Commission publish EAT-Lancet 2.0: an update to the planetary health diet 2019. One of the most influential academic studies ever released, it also faced significant online backlash – o...

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Guillem Rubio-Ramon @guillemrubio.bsky.social · Aug 14

Thanks so much for sharing it!!

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Monica Pons Hernandez @monicapons.bsky.social · Aug 13

"The Paradox of Saving Fish by Eating Them: Food Crime at the Intersection of Green Criminology and Political Ecology" is out!

I’m thrilled I got to work with the lovely @guillemrubio.bsky.social—I genuinely enjoyed and had fun working on the manuscript together 🧡
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Paradox of Saving Fish by Eating them: Food Crime at the Intersection of Green Criminology and Political Ecology - European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research

Aquaculture is framed as a key contributor to global food security and sustainable food production. Yet, in its industrial form, it involves several harmful practices that negatively impact food secur...

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Heather Ferguson @drheatherferg.bsky.social · Jul 29

>40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study

Petition for UK academics asking govt to facilitate a biometric visa deferral and open a route of safe passage

Sign & share ⏬️

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities

More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Jul 28

BREAKING: The number of Palestinians who have died from Israeli-induced starvation in Gaza has risen to 147 people, including 88 children, says Gaza's health ministry.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ym2wr7

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · Jul 24

1/ 📄New paper! Alison Hutchinson @georgeiorda.bsky.social Teresa Lappe-Osthege & myself have developed a new harms-based #PoliticalEcology as a way of understanding the #WildlifeTrade published in @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social ⬇️
beastlybusiness.org/2025/07/23/n...

New paper on harms-based political ecology - Beastly Business

Our team members Alison Hutchinson, Rosaleen Duffy, George Iordachescu and Teresa Lappe-Osthege developed an idea of bringing together debates on harms from green criminology with political ecology co...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Jul 16

Cutting "red tape" (aka public protections), as Reeves is doing, does not save money. Instead, it transfers costs from the rich to the poor. Other people pay for financial recklessness, filthy rivers, air pollution, lax building standards and consumer rip-offs.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reeves says rules and red tape are ‘boot on the neck’ of business

At the Mansion House dinner she calls for regulators to allow more risk to clear the way for economic growth

www.theguardian.com

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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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Low-Carbon Birding @birdingclimate.bsky.social · Jun 22

Birdfair: a reputational risk
#globalbirdfair
lowcarbonbirding.net/2025/02/05/b...

Birdfair: a reputational risk

By JAVIER CALETRIO Mark Avery (Birdwatch, September 2024) argues that, with its overwhelming emphasis on ‘carbon guzzling trips abroad’, Birdfair looks more like a trade fair than a birding festiva…

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Raig Verd Editorial @raigverd.bsky.social · Jun 19

📣 COMUNICAT DE RAIG VERD!

🗣️ FEU-NE DIFUSIÓ SISPLAU ❤️!

🫶 ENS SOSTENIM GRÀCIES A LA NOSTRA COMUNITAT, VOSALTRES FEU POSSIBLE EL PROJECTE DE RAIG VERD

Tens el mateix comunicat al web:
www.capsesdellibres.com/campanya-de-suport

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Jonny Darling @jonnydarling.bsky.social · Jun 21

Good to see Durham Geography's Helen F Wilson on urban kittiwakes and coexistence in today's Guardian! @geogdurham.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The seagulls have landed: why gulls are encroaching on Britain’s towns

Avian invaders have coastal communities in Britain and beyond in a flap – but people are learning how to live with them

www.theguardian.com

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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · Jun 13

Whether it’s to feed our appetite for meat, eradicate bird flu or simply maximize profits, poultry producers have become extremely efficient at killing chickens in very large numbers.

Is Chicken Culling Really Helping Prevent Bird Flu's Spread?

The avian flu outbreak has resulted in even more dead poultry than usual.

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Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social · Jun 10

"The garden was designed to accommodate bees, bats, birds and butterflies." Can't be having Animals with Too Much Agency in our lovely green cities..

Dave Lee @davelee.me · Jun 9

Google London has a fox problem www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Google battling ‘fox infestation’ on roof of £1bn London office

Foxes have ‘begun to dig burrows’ in soil of rooftop garden at the as yet unopened King’s Cross headquarters

www.theguardian.com

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Guillem Rubio-Ramon @guillemrubio.bsky.social · Jun 1

El curs, que comença a mitjans de juny, tractarà temes similars. No us el perdeu! www.instituthumanitats.org/ca/cursos/ec...

Ecologies urbanes imprevistes (Presencial)

La promesa de la ciutat multiespècie

www.instituthumanitats.org

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Guillem Rubio-Ramon @guillemrubio.bsky.social · Jun 1

Fa uns dies el CCCB Lab va publicar aquest article. Hi escric sobre com repensar què vol dir viure bé a la ciutat multiespècie, més enllà de la (re)producció de natures fàcils de controlar. Tampoc us perdeu el curs a l’ @instituthumanitats.bsky.social aquest juny! lab.cccb.org/ca/ciutats-m...

Ciutats més que verdes | CCCB LAB

Hem de repensar la natura a la ciutat tenint en compte formes de vida no humanes i una distribució més justa.

lab.cccb.org

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ICTA-UAB @icta-uab.bsky.social · May 19

Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Conference in Barcelona, June 2026.

Our ICTA-UAB researchers are actively involved—help them spread the word and submit your articles!

@pollenetwork.bsky.social

More info: ➡️pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/

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Kári Driscoll @kdriscoll.bsky.social · May 15

The 11th Biennial EASLCE (@easlce.bsky.social) conference, entitled “‘Join the #OrcaUprising!’: Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice”, will be held at Utrecht University (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) in April 2026.
Visit easlce2026.sites.uu.nl for further details.

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spencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · May 9

I will forever be haunted by this footage.

Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.

What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪

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Alba Lafarga @albalafarga.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Apr 27

Nuevo vídeo hablando sobre la importancia del suelo y las posibilidades que nos abre repensar nuestra relación con el entorno a través de los videojuegos

https://youtu.be/a7LIG5-DkEU?si=RoNcuFSqj98DdETt

miniatura de youtube. Estoy yo en el medio con unas flores, con el pokemon flabebe y roselia al lado sobre un paisaje del animal crossing new horizons

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Guillem Rubio-Ramon @guillemrubio.bsky.social · Apr 25

My first paper from my PhD is out! In it, I argue that viewing pigs as both resources (that feed) and as more-than-resources (to be fed) is crucial for understanding how nonhuman animals make nations and how, in turn, nations make nonhuman animals.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Animals that feed nations and nations that feed animals: industrially farmed pigs as nation-building resources in Catalonia

This paper examines industrially farmed pigs in Catalonia, a stateless nation within Spain and a major pig meat producer, to expand existing understan…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social · Mar 28

"Coyotes, on the other hand do not require our permission to exist. They stand as a permanent reminder that our power is not infinite, that there are things beyond our control. For this, they will never be forgiven."

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · Mar 28

Coyotes do not require our permission to exist. For this, they will never be forgiven

An article about a species that's survived 200 years of poison, traps, and arial machine gunning -- among other things

The Defiance of Coyotes

How To Survive When Everyone Hates You

www.bannedinyourstate.com

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