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Kate Rigby @kateelizrigby.bsky.social · 8d

Walking the talk - Vatican City to become worlds’s first carbon neutral state www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Listen to the cry of the Earth’: Pope Leo takes aim at climate change sceptics

Pontiff laments that some ‘ridicule those who speak of global warming’, days after Trump’s claims of ‘con job’

www.theguardian.com

Kate Rigby @kateelizrigby.bsky.social · Jul 20

Truth - treaty - and true reconciliation all long overdue in Australia: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Victoria’s Indigenous people experienced ‘genocide’, truth-telling inquiry says

Yoorrook Justice Commission splits on final report but makes 100 recommendations aimed at healing and reconciliation

www.theguardian.com

Kate Rigby @kateelizrigby.bsky.social · Jun 19

Chilling report for a warming world www.ipie.info/research/sr2...

Information Integrity about Climate Science: A Systematic Review

Synthesis Report - Information Integrity about Climate Science: A Systematic Review

www.ipie.info

MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · Jun 2

🌍 "Planetary wellbeing is the bedrock of all flourishing"

At #GSS2025, BRIDGES Cologne's Dr Nsah Mala called for more humanities voices in global policy forums.
Reflections from Berlin now on our blog:
🔗 bridges-hub.cologne/bridges-colo...

#GSS2025 #PlanetaryWellbeing #BRIDGES

BRIDGES Cologne Participates in 2025 Global Solutions Summit in Berlin: Reflections by Dr Nsah Mala - UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Thematic Hub for Planetary Wellbeing

BRIDGES Cologne Participates in 2025 Global Solutions Summit in Berlin: Reflections by Dr Nsah Mala

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Kate Rigby @kateelizrigby.bsky.social · Jun 2

Many thanks to Alex and Lindsay for our recent conversation about my last book, Meditations on Creation in an Era of Extinction, for the ASLE EcoCast series asleecocast.podbean.com

ASLE EcoCast Podcast | asleecocast

EcoCast: Environmental Conversations On Creative Art, Scholarship, and Teaching. The official podcast of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE). Each episode features inter...

asleecocast.podbean.com

MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · May 27

📢 Can animals be authors?
Our latest BRIDGES Policy Insight dives into copyright, creativity & the rights of nonhuman animals. New blog post online! 🐒📸 Read more: bridges-hub.cologne/bridges-colo...

#BRIDGES #MESH #AnimalRights #MultispeciesJustice

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MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · May 20

📣 Registration now open!
Join us July 11–12, in Cologne for the MESH Symposium 2025: Disaster Preparedness in Multispecies Worlds.
Hosted with the Sydney Environmental Institute.
🔗 mesh.uni-koeln.de/events/meshw...
#EnvironmentalHumanities #DisasterPreparedness #MESH

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Kate Rigby @kateelizrigby.bsky.social · Apr 21

Vale Pope Francis, fearless critic of corporate greed, friend of the poor, and defender of the earth, our 'common home' greenchristian.org.uk/on-the-death...

On the Death of Pope Francis – Green ChristianGreen Christian | Ordinary Christians, extraordinary times

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Kate Rigby @kateelizrigby.bsky.social · Apr 5

More amazingly skilled rodent helpmates www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Carolina the giant rat retires as a hero after saving many lives

Last year, African giant pouched rats like Carolina prevented nearly 400,000 new cases of a deadly disease. It's possible because of their extreme sense of smell.

www.nationalgeographic.com

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MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · Apr 4

🔍 BRIDGES Cologne Policy Insights launched! 🚀
Our new blog series connects research & policy making.

Edition #1 explores the hidden co-benefits of infrastructure in renewable energy projects—shaping communities beyond just power.

🔗Read more here: bridges-hub.cologne/bridges-colo...

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MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · Mar 21

📅 Save the Date for our Annual Symposium 'Disaster Preparedness in Multispecies Worlds' on July 11–12, 2025, as we explore how ecological crises reshape #human&nonhuman coexistence & what #resilience can look like across species.

🎤 Speaker lineup now online: uni.koeln/CG39B

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MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · Mar 7

What if we saw early stone tools not as static inventions, but as evolving ecosystems? The new project ECOLITHIC, led by @shumon.bsky.social takes this radical view, bridging #humanities & #lifesciences to explore hidden patterns in #technologicalevolution. Funded by @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social

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Kate Rigby @kateelizrigby.bsky.social · Feb 19

2 doctoral positions in anthropology available @carsoncenter.bsky.social in the ERC-funded project “Changing Environments, Changing Childhoods: A Cross-Environmental Ethnography of Moral Socialization in Three Small-Scale Societies” www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_rcc/jo...

Two Funded Doctoral Positions in Anthropology: Project on Environmental Change and Children’s Development - Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society - LMU Munich

www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de

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Kate Rigby @kateelizrigby.bsky.social · Feb 17

The international and interdisciplinary MA Environment and Society is inviting applications for its 2025 admissions cycle (deadline 10/3)
www.environmentmaster.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_ma/ind...

About the Master of Arts Environment & Society - MA in Environment and Society - LMU Munich

www.environmentmaster.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de

MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · Feb 17

🌍 How can #sharing help us tackle global challenges? Our initiative 'Sharing a Planet in Peril' builds a global, interdisciplinary network to explore #inequality, #environmentaljustice & #sustainablefutures. Now in the running for a #DFGExcellenceCluster! See more: sharing-a-planet-in-peril.com

About SAPP - Sharing a Planet in Peril

Sharing a Planet in Peril advances actionable knowledge concerning the socio-cultural dimensions of Global Environmental Change from an Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences perspective.

sharing-a-planet-in-peril.com

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Kate Rigby @kateelizrigby.bsky.social · Feb 16

Great interview on 'deep time' intergenerational story-telling with the fabulous Aboriginal thinker and educator Tyson Yunkaporta emergencemagazine.org/conversation...

Deep Time Diligence – with Tyson Yunkaporta

Aboriginal scholar and author Tyson Yunkaporta illustrates how deep time thinking, born of an intimate relationship between a place and its community, can radically reshape our relationship to the cos...

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Kate Rigby @kateelizrigby.bsky.social · Feb 7

Happy to have been able to make a modest contribution to this article arising from a lively roundtable discussion on environmental history and environmental humanities liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

Transdisciplinary Histories and the Rise of the Environmental Humanities | Global Environment

This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0.

liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk

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Kate Rigby @kateelizrigby.bsky.social · Feb 4

Hi there, BlueSkiers, nothing better for my first post in this corner of the aether than a repost from the wonderful research hub @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social that I have the honour to direct (with a lot of help from my friends on the team)...

MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · Jan 24

Hello BlueSky! 🦋 We are MESH – the Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities hub at the University of Cologne. Our mission? Tackling the cultural, ethical, and social dimensions of global environmental change. 🌍

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MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · Jan 29

Hi again 🦋
our first spotlight is "Climate Change Literacy", a project exploring how novels can reshape climate communication by fostering empathy, critical thinking, & a deeper understanding. 📖
Check out the recent OA-Cambridge Elements publication for key insights www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Climate Change Literacy

Cambridge Core - Literary Theory - Climate Change Literacy

www.cambridge.org

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MESH @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social · Jan 24

Hello BlueSky! 🦋 We are MESH – the Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities hub at the University of Cologne. Our mission? Tackling the cultural, ethical, and social dimensions of global environmental change. 🌍

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