Paul Keil
@paulgkeil.bsky.social
Undisciplined ethnographer | Sorry academic
Interested in human beings who are interested in nonhuman beings
BOOK: The Presence of Elephants http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003402985
Research https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paul-Keil
Interested in human beings who are interested in nonhuman beings
BOOK: The Presence of Elephants http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003402985
Research https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paul-Keil
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🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers!
Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025
Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!
Please share widely!
Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025
Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!
Please share widely!
November 3, 2025 at 7:32 AM
🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers!
Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025
Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!
Please share widely!
Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025
Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!
Please share widely!
Our ongoing dialogue with pigs has cultivated a research approach that values non-linearity, passion, & uncertainty. We foreground diverse & overlooked resources, and are open to spontaneous, exploratory, even if frivolous paths
#rootling
rootling.place/articles/roo...
#rootling
rootling.place/articles/roo...
Rootling as Research | ROOTLING
An introduction
rootling.place
October 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Our ongoing dialogue with pigs has cultivated a research approach that values non-linearity, passion, & uncertainty. We foreground diverse & overlooked resources, and are open to spontaneous, exploratory, even if frivolous paths
#rootling
rootling.place/articles/roo...
#rootling
rootling.place/articles/roo...
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"Rootling is how pigs eat, play, and know. Rootling.place is a website to wander and wonder about pigs in their many capacities and relations with humans. It is also an experiment that conceptualised rootling as a method of learning and doing research."
ROOTLING
Pigs rootle to eat, play, and know. As omnivorous animals, they use their snouts to disturb the soil, uncover foods and understand their environment and other pigs.
Rootling.place
October 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"Rootling is how pigs eat, play, and know. Rootling.place is a website to wander and wonder about pigs in their many capacities and relations with humans. It is also an experiment that conceptualised rootling as a method of learning and doing research."
"Rootling is how pigs eat, play, and know. Rootling.place is a website to wander and wonder about pigs in their many capacities and relations with humans. It is also an experiment that conceptualised rootling as a method of learning and doing research."
ROOTLING
Pigs rootle to eat, play, and know. As omnivorous animals, they use their snouts to disturb the soil, uncover foods and understand their environment and other pigs.
Rootling.place
October 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"Rootling is how pigs eat, play, and know. Rootling.place is a website to wander and wonder about pigs in their many capacities and relations with humans. It is also an experiment that conceptualised rootling as a method of learning and doing research."
Its been about 2 years since we published our multidisciplinary edited volume on human-elephant relations. I'm still impressed with its rich, diverse set of chapters, and the choice to publish OA with IRD
Link to book here -- horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/plei...
Link to book here -- horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/plei...
October 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Its been about 2 years since we published our multidisciplinary edited volume on human-elephant relations. I'm still impressed with its rich, diverse set of chapters, and the choice to publish OA with IRD
Link to book here -- horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/plei...
Link to book here -- horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/plei...
Unusual choice shooting with NatGeo, but I'll watch it because
1) elephants
2) Herzog
lwlies.com/venice-film-...
1) elephants
2) Herzog
lwlies.com/venice-film-...
Ghost Elephants – first-look review
Werner Herzog peers into the Angolan highlands in search of colossal elephants, and ends up gently reflecting on the ghosts of human longing.
lwlies.com
August 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Unusual choice shooting with NatGeo, but I'll watch it because
1) elephants
2) Herzog
lwlies.com/venice-film-...
1) elephants
2) Herzog
lwlies.com/venice-film-...
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Looking forward to opening up the new academic year with a talk by Fenna Smits
Register (in person or online) here:
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Register (in person or online) here:
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August 19, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Looking forward to opening up the new academic year with a talk by Fenna Smits
Register (in person or online) here:
forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...
Register (in person or online) here:
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So Juan Martin Dabezies has pretty much been pumping out research related to wild pigs and hunting in Ururguay. And its pretty good stuff. And i'm a bit jealous. But mostly happy to read his prolific work
www.researchgate.net/profile/Juan...
www.researchgate.net/profile/Juan...
Juan DABEZIES | Professor (Full) | Doctor of Philosophy | Universidad de la República de Uruguay, Montevideo | UdelaR | Centro Universitario de la Región Este - CURE | Research profile
I work on issues of multispecies ethnography, more-than-human relations, conservation and biosecurity, local ecological knowledge, heritagization, and archaeology. I am Phd. in anthropology and a prof...
www.researchgate.net
August 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
So Juan Martin Dabezies has pretty much been pumping out research related to wild pigs and hunting in Ururguay. And its pretty good stuff. And i'm a bit jealous. But mostly happy to read his prolific work
www.researchgate.net/profile/Juan...
www.researchgate.net/profile/Juan...
Looking forward to opening up the new academic year with a talk by Fenna Smits
Register (in person or online) here:
forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...
Register (in person or online) here:
forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...
August 19, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Looking forward to opening up the new academic year with a talk by Fenna Smits
Register (in person or online) here:
forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...
Register (in person or online) here:
forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...
2 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow Multispecies Justice, under the supervision of Professor Danielle Celermajer, at University of Sydney
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow Multispecies Justice
Full time, fixed term for 2 years Opportunity to conduct research on Multispecies justice Academic Level B Base Salary from $127,436 + 17% superannuation About the opportunity The School of Social and...
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August 12, 2025 at 6:09 AM
2 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow Multispecies Justice, under the supervision of Professor Danielle Celermajer, at University of Sydney
usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...
usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...
Was pretty happy a few weeks back, to come across the first review of my book - 'a moving and unsettling depiction of marginalised ways of life' - by Katherine Fletcher in the Australian Journal Of Anthropology
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The presence of elephants: Sharing lives and landscapes in Assam By Paul G. Keil, London: Routledge. 2024. pp. viii + 173. ISBN: 978‐1‐003‐40298‐5
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Was pretty happy a few weeks back, to come across the first review of my book - 'a moving and unsettling depiction of marginalised ways of life' - by Katherine Fletcher in the Australian Journal Of Anthropology
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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"Fungi can see and react to a wide range of colors." journals.asm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
How fungi see the world: fungal photoreceptors and their role in the regulation of fungal biology | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
SUMMARYFungi use light as a signal for the regulation of development, to guide the growth
of reproductive structures, and to protect the fungal cell from DNA damage produced
by light and UV radiation....
journals.asm.org
August 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"Fungi can see and react to a wide range of colors." journals.asm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Did a great urban foraging workshop with Diego many moons ago, which left a lasting impression
www.sbs.com.au/food/article...
www.sbs.com.au/food/article...
What is the experience of foraging really like?
Wondering what it means to forage? Foraging isn't just about food – it’s a chance to understand the ecosystems that we live in, and appreciate the true value of ingredients.
www.sbs.com.au
August 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Did a great urban foraging workshop with Diego many moons ago, which left a lasting impression
www.sbs.com.au/food/article...
www.sbs.com.au/food/article...
I had a paper published in Humanimalia last week, called the "Feral at Home". I'm chuffed about the timing because it joins a great selection of other papers
I'll add a few more details about the paper below, but shoutout to all the great & hard work of the journal editors. And for keeping it OA
I'll add a few more details about the paper below, but shoutout to all the great & hard work of the journal editors. And for keeping it OA
Out Now: Humanimalia 15.2!
Featuring timely essays on human–animal entanglements, including 🐴 a taxidermied horse in London, 🐗 a feral pig in Australia, 🐐 “happy” goats in Italy, 🐾 robot dogs in Gaza, 🐦 pheasants in NL, and 🐑 sheepdogs in the UK.
🔓 OA here: humanimalia.org/issue/view/1...
Featuring timely essays on human–animal entanglements, including 🐴 a taxidermied horse in London, 🐗 a feral pig in Australia, 🐐 “happy” goats in Italy, 🐾 robot dogs in Gaza, 🐦 pheasants in NL, and 🐑 sheepdogs in the UK.
🔓 OA here: humanimalia.org/issue/view/1...
August 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
I had a paper published in Humanimalia last week, called the "Feral at Home". I'm chuffed about the timing because it joins a great selection of other papers
I'll add a few more details about the paper below, but shoutout to all the great & hard work of the journal editors. And for keeping it OA
I'll add a few more details about the paper below, but shoutout to all the great & hard work of the journal editors. And for keeping it OA
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1/ Happy to share that my article “Beyond Homecoming: The Reintroduction of Seven Przewalski’s Mares in the Gobi Desert” has been published in Environmental Humanities.
It is the story of seven mares flown from Australian zoos to Mongolia’s Gobi Desert in the 1990s
doi.org/10.1215/2201... #envhist
It is the story of seven mares flown from Australian zoos to Mongolia’s Gobi Desert in the 1990s
doi.org/10.1215/2201... #envhist
August 2, 2025 at 7:26 AM
1/ Happy to share that my article “Beyond Homecoming: The Reintroduction of Seven Przewalski’s Mares in the Gobi Desert” has been published in Environmental Humanities.
It is the story of seven mares flown from Australian zoos to Mongolia’s Gobi Desert in the 1990s
doi.org/10.1215/2201... #envhist
It is the story of seven mares flown from Australian zoos to Mongolia’s Gobi Desert in the 1990s
doi.org/10.1215/2201... #envhist
Reposted by Paul Keil
I don't agree with everything in this article, but I do agree with this:
"The act of writing the thing is the same thing as the thinking of it. If you can’t write it, you haven’t actually thought it." And AI allows us to 'not' think.
engelsbergideas.com/essays/a-war...
#academicsky #ai #teaching
"The act of writing the thing is the same thing as the thinking of it. If you can’t write it, you haven’t actually thought it." And AI allows us to 'not' think.
engelsbergideas.com/essays/a-war...
#academicsky #ai #teaching
A warning to the young: just say no to AI
The substitution of Large Language Models for genuine thinking is a generational threat. At stake is no less than the life of the mind.
engelsbergideas.com
July 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I don't agree with everything in this article, but I do agree with this:
"The act of writing the thing is the same thing as the thinking of it. If you can’t write it, you haven’t actually thought it." And AI allows us to 'not' think.
engelsbergideas.com/essays/a-war...
#academicsky #ai #teaching
"The act of writing the thing is the same thing as the thinking of it. If you can’t write it, you haven’t actually thought it." And AI allows us to 'not' think.
engelsbergideas.com/essays/a-war...
#academicsky #ai #teaching
Reposted by Paul Keil
Out Now: Humanimalia 15.2!
Featuring timely essays on human–animal entanglements, including 🐴 a taxidermied horse in London, 🐗 a feral pig in Australia, 🐐 “happy” goats in Italy, 🐾 robot dogs in Gaza, 🐦 pheasants in NL, and 🐑 sheepdogs in the UK.
🔓 OA here: humanimalia.org/issue/view/1...
Featuring timely essays on human–animal entanglements, including 🐴 a taxidermied horse in London, 🐗 a feral pig in Australia, 🐐 “happy” goats in Italy, 🐾 robot dogs in Gaza, 🐦 pheasants in NL, and 🐑 sheepdogs in the UK.
🔓 OA here: humanimalia.org/issue/view/1...
July 30, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Out Now: Humanimalia 15.2!
Featuring timely essays on human–animal entanglements, including 🐴 a taxidermied horse in London, 🐗 a feral pig in Australia, 🐐 “happy” goats in Italy, 🐾 robot dogs in Gaza, 🐦 pheasants in NL, and 🐑 sheepdogs in the UK.
🔓 OA here: humanimalia.org/issue/view/1...
Featuring timely essays on human–animal entanglements, including 🐴 a taxidermied horse in London, 🐗 a feral pig in Australia, 🐐 “happy” goats in Italy, 🐾 robot dogs in Gaza, 🐦 pheasants in NL, and 🐑 sheepdogs in the UK.
🔓 OA here: humanimalia.org/issue/view/1...
Reposted by Paul Keil
A great ethnographic study of the "Unexpected Relations of a 'Feral Pig'" by @paulgkeil.bsky.social in the new issue of @humanimalia.bsky.social humanimalia.org/article/view...
The Feral at Home: The Rogue Trajectory and Unexpected Relations of a “Feral Pig”
| Humanimalia
Humanimalia
humanimalia.org
July 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM
A great ethnographic study of the "Unexpected Relations of a 'Feral Pig'" by @paulgkeil.bsky.social in the new issue of @humanimalia.bsky.social humanimalia.org/article/view...
The internal exhibits for tigers at Prague zoo were empty as the four big cats roamed and slept outside in the middle of the day.
The only creature in the sparse steel and concrete cage was a large cockroach.
The only creature in the sparse steel and concrete cage was a large cockroach.
July 28, 2025 at 7:05 AM
The internal exhibits for tigers at Prague zoo were empty as the four big cats roamed and slept outside in the middle of the day.
The only creature in the sparse steel and concrete cage was a large cockroach.
The only creature in the sparse steel and concrete cage was a large cockroach.