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Jamie Lorimer

@jlorimer.bsky.social

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Geographer at the University of Oxford. Nature recovery, agriculture, beavers, microbes amongst other interests.

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · Feb 28

2 year Postdoc opportunity in Environmental Humanities (focus on Multispecies Politics) at William & Mary. "We seek an individual with expertise in Multispecies Politics or Animate Ecologies...the postdoc will have substantial amounts of time to focus on their own research agenda."

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

The Environment & Sustainability Program at William & Mary, a public university of the Commonwealth of Virginia, invites applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Research Associate position tha...

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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · Feb 11

🏙️🦫 How is #rewilding refracted by urban space? 🌲🌆

Our new paper in Transactions of the @rgsibg.bsky.social explores this question in relation to the urban fabric, politics, and aesthetics, with Tom Fry and @jlorimer.bsky.social.

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

Rewilding has become established as a new mode of nature conservation. Until recently, cities and the urban were neglected by rewilding discourse; the idea of urban rewilding seen as oxymoronic. Of l...

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Jamie Lorimer @jlorimer.bsky.social · Jan 20

Dispelling The Myth Of The Wild www.noemamag.com/farming-the-...

Dispelling The Myth Of The Wild | NOEMA

Agriculture and rewilding, culture and nature, are often regarded as stark antitheses. New insights from ecology, however, suggest a path by which these seeming opposites may be reconciled.

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Technological Life - SoGE Oxford @technatures.bsky.social · Jan 16

🗓️ The 2025 Hilary Termcard is here!

👇Check out the fantastic lineup below, wonderfully curated by Beth Greenhough and @jlorimer.bsky.social.

🌍 Get in touch if you're passing through #Oxford and want to attend any of the events at @oxfordgeography.bsky.social.

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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · Jan 16

🌲 🧑‍🌾 🦅 Our new paper is out in Environmental Science & Policy: 'Just nature recovery: A framework for centring multispecies and multi-dimensional justice in land management'

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Just nature recovery: A framework for centring multispecies and multi-dimensional justice in land management

A rising interest in nature recovery has expanded the focus of conservation beyond protected areas to encompass a range of terrestrial and marine area…

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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.
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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.

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James Palmer @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social · Dec 16

2 fully-funded PhD studentships are available here at Bristol as part of Naomi Millner's European Research Council project PEATSENSE: Diverse Knowledges and Sensing Practices in Peatlands for Inclusive Climate Futures

Closing date for applications: 1st April 2025

www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/co...

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