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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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BirdLife International @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social · 2d

A historic partnership for people and nature. ✨

The World Bank and BirdLife International are scaling up conservation efforts across the African-Eurasian Flyway 🤝, supporting over 2 billion migratory birds and numerous communities. 🌍

Discover more here: www.birdlife.org/news/2025/10...

World Bank and BirdLife launch historic conservation push

The latest Global Flyway Initiative aims to save critical bird habitats and link three continents across the African-Eurasian Flyway…

www.birdlife.org

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Simon Pooley @s-pooley.bsky.social · 4d

I will be giving an Animal History Group seminar on aspects of my forthcoming book Discovering the Okapi: Western Science, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Search for a Rainforest Enigma - online on 12 November at 8pm GMT.

Book for this free event here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ahg-semina...

AHG Seminar - 12 November: Book Talk - Discovering the Okapi

Join us for our monthly seminar series.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 6d

Congratulations- this looks amazing. And definitely let’s talk 😀

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Feargal Cochrane @feargalc.bsky.social · 7d

Authors -it’s worth checking this to see if your work is included, -though seems there’s much less on the eligible works list here than work downloaded from LibGen or PiLiMi -though this might be the beginning of legal action over AI theft of copyrighted work, rather than the end. Good Luck 🤞

Catherine Fletcher @cathfletcher.bsky.social · 8d

The Anthropic settlement list is up. Authors, check here to see if your books are included: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

ANT Homepage | ANT

www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 8d

Good luck with the move 😀

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 8d

really looking forward to it 😀

Environment and Climate Politics Working Group @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social · 9d

It's October, and we have an event coming up!

Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy. A conversation for ECRs about post-PhD research between 3 people who have taken different paths.

17th October, online & free, 1pm-2.30pm BST.

Register here

www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

Aimed at PhD and ECR researchers who are thinking about their future in environmental research, this roundtable brings together three researchers who have taken different pathways with their PhDs. Professor Rosaleen Duffy, Chair of International Politics at the University of Sheffield, will speak to her academic career as a researcher and teacher of global environmental change and governance. Dr Jane Clarke, Principal Analyst at the Office for Environmental Protection, will discuss her experience working on environmental policy across both non-government and government sectors. And Dr Kai Heron, Lecturer in Political Ecology at Lancaster University and co-director of the progressive policy platform Abundance, will share his experience as an activist researcher and using academia to further social movement goals.

The discussion will shed light on different ways to use your environment PhD, what different career pathways can offer, and opportunities for intersections between them. We hope you can join us!

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 9d

Congrats on the publication - look forward to reading it 😀

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Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social · 9d

🦏 New #OpenAccess article in Biological Conservation!

'Community-based #conservation surveillance: an ethnographic analysis of the drivers & obstacles of local reporting on rhino & plains game poaching in Namibia'

www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...

Community-based conservation surveillance: an ethnographic analysis of the drivers and obstacles of local reporting on rhino and plains game poaching in Namibia

Conservation surveillance, or the monitoring of people for conservation purposes, is a core component of coercive conservation governance. Over the la…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 10d

💯 😀

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 10d

Yes he did - the camera angle makes it look higher than it is. He was happily trotting off to the woods afterwards. Over the years I have had to phone various orgs in the area to free deer stuck in fences. It’s so sad.

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 10d

The irony being that I took that path to avoid walking our dog near the stags hanging out in the woods - it’s rutting season 😬

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 11d

This morning in the Peak District: absolutely crushing the Autumn 2025 collection 🔥

Footpath sign post, mist over the valley, Peak District edge coming out if the clouds to a blue sky and sun with halo effect

Make red stag, large antlers, jumping over a wall. Green field, bright blue sky

Red deer stag in a bright green grassy field with a stone wall and trees in the background

Misty valley with trees poking through the must. Blue sky

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Doc Stein @steinbutt.bsky.social · 14d

www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/...

Major blow to billion-euro glass eel trafficking networks – DNA testing in the US and raids in France expose global reach of trafficking networks | Europol

The latest iteration of Operation LAKE, which ran from October 2024 to June 2025, uncovered large-scale trafficking networks and disrupted the flow of live eels destined for illegal farms in Asia.

www.europol.europa.eu

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 14d

On happier note, also pleased to see one of my all time fave bands, Massive Attack, rightly showcased as leading the Bristol sound of the 90s. Thanks to @tomtay10r.bsky.social for the recommendation to go to M Shed 😀

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 14d

Just before leaving Bristol I had a chance to visit the excellent M-Shed, which includes the Colston statue and a reminder of the strong links between trades in #ivory #sugar & #slaves that built cities like Bristol. Ivory was a significant economic underpinning for the British Empire #WildlifeTrade

Display case with ivory tusks, weapons, sugarloaf cone & documents about slavery

Bronze statue of Colston in a glass case; pink graffiti sprayed on the statue

Panel says ‘in memory of 18 million African Ancestors brutally kidnapped & sold into chattel slavery, of which half a million were transported on ships from Bristol. In this space we proudly honour your memory with 18 black poppies’

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 15d

It was very engaging discussion in SPAIS in Bristol Uni today. My thanks to Ashley Dodsworth for the invite. I’ve also enjoyed the massive range of public art in Bristol ⬇️

Rosaleen stood in front of a red PowerPoint screen ready to give a seminar talk

Sculpture of a rhino beetle on a stone plinth

Positing if a Jaws film - style shark riding through the water towards a discarded plastic water bottle

Famous banksy- naked man hanging out of a window

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 15d

Very much looking forward to this - I’ll be talking about the job search in academia, with key insights from some very generous ECRs about their own journeys in to academia. Sign up is in the link ⬇️

Environment and Climate Politics Working Group @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social · 16d

Our next event! 17th October, 1pm-2.30pm. Online, and free to attend.

'Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy' with speakers Professor Rosaleen Duffy, Dr Kai Heron and Dr Jane Clarke.

@kaiheron.bsky.social @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social

www.bisa.ac.uk/events/pathw...

Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy- Environment and Climate Politics | BISA

- Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

www.bisa.ac.uk

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Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️‍🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social · 16d

Will be spending the next few months at the @eui-eu.bsky.social as a visiting fellow working on the history of #conservation #frontiers in Europe. Hit me up if you are around! #GreenFrontier #conservationjustice

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Environment and Climate Politics Working Group @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social · 16d

Our next event! 17th October, 1pm-2.30pm. Online, and free to attend.

'Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy' with speakers Professor Rosaleen Duffy, Dr Kai Heron and Dr Jane Clarke.

@kaiheron.bsky.social @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social

www.bisa.ac.uk/events/pathw...

Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy- Environment and Climate Politics | BISA

- Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

www.bisa.ac.uk

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 16d

Just spent a terrific day @wwtworldwide.bsky.social Slimbridge, meeting some of the team in the morning and taking a look around the reserve in the afternoon. Saw common cranes for the first time ❤️ I am very grateful for the hospitality.

Sign in from of trees says wetlands are amazing, set behind a pond

HQ / visitor centre; wooden building with large windows; sandy path and green lawn in front; clear blue sky behind

Green reedbeds & grasslands, next to estuary; blue sky with fluffy could

Information sign on the WWT crane project

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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 16d

Fossil fuel companies try to tie environmental campaigners and protesters up in lengthy legal battles to waste their time and money – and scare them away from criticising the rich and powerful

Wonderful from @seanburkeshow.bsky.social

#TimeToResist

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 16d

On the train. For the 80s kids out there: Repo Man vibes 😀

White coloured takeaway coffee cup on a great train tray table. Black printed writing says ‘coffee (noun) the roasted beans called coffee beans if a tropical bush; powder made from them. A hot drink made from coffee powder and boiling water.’

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 17d

You can read more about the work our Beastly Business team did around understanding harms in the wildlife trade 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...

beastlybusiness.org

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 17d

Lately I’ve been doing some advisory work around this very topic - the link between #IWT and demand for exotic pets is clear. The #EU is about to make a decision about this overlooked but complex issue #harms #WildlufeTrade ⬇️

The Revelator @therevelator.org · 18d

The Exotic Pet Trade Harms Animals and Humans. European Union legislators are considering a form of regulation that could protect many species from unsafe exploitation — if it’s done right. https://therevelator.org/exotic-pet-trade-european-union/

The Exotic Pet Trade Harms Animals and Humans. The European Union Is Studying a Potential Solution • The Revelator

EU legislators are considering a form of regulation that could protect many species from unsafe exploitation — if it’s done right.

therevelator.org

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The Revelator @therevelator.org · 18d

The Exotic Pet Trade Harms Animals and Humans. European Union legislators are considering a form of regulation that could protect many species from unsafe exploitation — if it’s done right. https://therevelator.org/exotic-pet-trade-european-union/

The Exotic Pet Trade Harms Animals and Humans. The European Union Is Studying a Potential Solution • The Revelator

EU legislators are considering a form of regulation that could protect many species from unsafe exploitation — if it’s done right.

therevelator.org

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 18d

Sorry that the wind was so cold on the tops 🥶 😜

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 18d

We completed our exchange visit btwn UCT & Sheffield with, what else, but a trip around the Peak District National Park 😀 A perfect landscape to discuss land ownership patterns & models of National Parks - thanks so much to @ahubschle.bsky.social & Maano Ramutsindela for great conversations

Three people and a dog stood on grey rocks looking out cactus’s moorland.

Two people shaking hands in front of the boundary marker for the National park (circular millstone)

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Monica Vasile 🐾 @monicavasile.bsky.social · 18d

Had a really good time at the Planetary Futures conference in Manchester. Big thanks to wonderful organizers @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social, @duncanwilson78.bsky.social and presenters!

Snapshots from talks🧵
@mattholmes.bsky.social
@angecass.bsky.social
#envhist
#envhum
#histsci

Matt Holmes's presentation at the Planetary Futures conference at Manchester Museum

Angela Cassidy's presentation at the Planetary Futures conference at Manchester Museum on pests and coypu (aka nutria)

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