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Anna Krzywoszynska @annakspeaking.bsky.social · May 12

JOB ALERT 1 wk left to apply for this fantastic Tenure Track at Oulu Uni (at Assistant or Associate Prof). 5 years of (mainly) research, generous starting package, and a growing team of wonderful environmental social scientists and humanists.

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Tenure Track Assistant or Associate Professor in Social Science or Humanities approaches to Ecosystem Restoration

We are now looking for a Tenure Track Assistant or Associate Professor in Social Science or Humanities approaches to Ecosystem Restoration to join us in the research program SAFIRE: Safeguarding Biod

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Anna Krzywoszynska @annakspeaking.bsky.social · Apr 22

How can soil research participate in fixing the world, not just commenting on what is broken? In this podcast lnkd.in/d8XcjsWN, I argue that to improve soil health, we need to partner with farmers' movements, such as #regenag. Tune in for a discussion on #soilhealth and farming, happy listening!

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Anna Krzywoszynska @annakspeaking.bsky.social · Apr 15

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Anna Krzywoszynska @annakspeaking.bsky.social · Apr 15

How to engage the more-than-human world in social science research? Delve into our special issue of @suomenantropologi.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy to read on contact zones, more than human negotiation, care, and attentiveness.
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Vol. 49 No. 2 (2025): Special Issue: Making Good Relations in More Than Human Worlds

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Anna Krzywoszynska @annakspeaking.bsky.social · Apr 8

JOB ALERT! Deadline 19.05 Tenure Track Assistant/Associate Prof position, environmental social scientist or humanities scholar, Oulu University, in our superb project SAFIRE. Great joining package, relocation support, fantastic team. Contact me with questions oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/what:job/job...

Tenure Track Assistant or Associate Professor in Social Science or Humanities approaches to Ecosystem Restoration

We are now looking for a Tenure Track Assistant or Associate Professor in Social Science or Humanities approaches to Ecosystem Restoration to join us in the research program SAFIRE: Safeguarding Biod

oulunyliopisto.varbi.com

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Kärg Kama @kargkama.bsky.social · Feb 17

Final CfP RGS-IBG 2025: deadline on Friday!
🌍 Carbon Creations and Creative Carbons 🌎

We seek papers on carbon farming, afforestation, peatland restoration & related work in #STS #geography
📩 @annakspeaking.bsky.social @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social @kargkama.bsky.social
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CfP Carbon Creations RGS-IBG 2025 FINAL

Call for papers RGS-IBG 2025, Birmingham, UK, 26–29th August Carbon creations and creative carbons: the politics of carbon in land management and restoration Conveners: Kärg Kama (University of Birmin...

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Anna Krzywoszynska @annakspeaking.bsky.social · Feb 14

We seemed to be using an incredible amount of energy and other natural resources to race headlong into something we probably shouldn’t be creating in the first place, and which already is misaligned with the kinds of societies that we actually want to live in. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I met the ‘godfathers of AI’ in Paris – here’s what they told me to really worry about | Alexander Hurst

Experts are split between concerns about future threats and present dangers. Both camps issued dire warnings, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst

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Anna Krzywoszynska @annakspeaking.bsky.social · Feb 14

Environmental change is social change, so social sciences, humanities and the arts (SSHA) should be equal in #soil research. How to achieve that? What are SSHA anyway? See my report written on behalf of the Advisory Board of Horizon Mission Soil mission-soil-platform.ec.europa.eu/resource-lib...

Social sciences, humanities, and the arts in the EU Mission “A Soil Deal for Europe” | Mission Soil Platform

With this document, the main aim of the Mission Soil Board is to enhance understanding of the relevance of social sciences, humanities, and the arts (SSHA) in soil research. It seeks to review the int...

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Anna Krzywoszynska @annakspeaking.bsky.social · Jan 24

I just used Sky Follower Bridge and my feed is back to what I used to enjoy before the Other Place became you know what; I recommend it warmly www.sky-follower-bridge.dev

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James Palmer @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social · Jan 22

Calling environmental geographers, political ecologists and STS scholars working on carbon farming, afforestation, peat restoration & related topics!

Please consider our 2025 RGS-IBG session:
"Carbon Creations and Creative Carbons: The Politics of Carbon in Land Management and Restoration"

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CfP Carbon Creations RGS-IBG 2025 FINAL

Call for papers RGS-IBG 2025, Birmingham, UK, 26–29th August Carbon creations and creative carbons: the politics of carbon in land management and restoration Conveners: Kärg Kama (University of Birmin...

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Anna Krzywoszynska @annakspeaking.bsky.social · Jan 21

JOB ALERT Please spread the word! 4-year post-doc with me @ SAFIRE on transforming ecosystem restoration research. The job unites stakeholder management and and research on theoretical/conceptual and methodological approaches to transdisciplinary research on ecosystem restoration. lnkd.in/dj-Zd3Q6

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Anna Krzywoszynska @annakspeaking.bsky.social · Jan 21

so proud of you Mary!!!!

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Anna Krzywoszynska @annakspeaking.bsky.social · Jan 17

CFP Nordic #STS meeting in Stockholm this June. Please join us in our panel "The data, the science, and the politics of representing the food system". Conference info www.nordicsts.se, deadline 1st March. Full panel abstract attached. Hope to see you there!

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Anna Krzywoszynska @annakspeaking.bsky.social · Jan 14

We're embarking on a new adventure @unioulu.bsky.social SAFIRE: Safeguarding Biodiversity through Interdisciplinary Research on Habitat Restoration (I'm vice-lead🌱). We'll build a new interdisciplinary research culture on habitat restoration. V excited for the next 6 yrs!
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University of Oulu receives 13.3 million euros for research profiling – topics include security, health, and biodiversity

The Research Council of Finland supports universities in strengthening their research profiles and has now granted PROFI funding for the years 2025–2030.

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Anna Krzywoszynska @annakspeaking.bsky.social · Dec 16

𝗖𝗙𝗣 “𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗲” 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗢𝘂𝗹𝘂, 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱, 𝟰-𝟲 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. Uplift your understanding of how to ‘think’ and ‘do’ inter- and trans-disciplinarity with us! Info on the conference and sessions app.eventos.fi/ais-conferen...

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Anna Krzywoszynska @annakspeaking.bsky.social · Dec 6

#Funghi and #soil reconnect with the living world: this was a treat, celebrating World Soil Day @durhamuniversity.bsky.social with Merlin Sheldrake, @cosmosheldrake.bsky.social , Giuliana Furci, Karen Johnston, and artists Stephen Livingstone and Jo Pearl. Full house, and loved Cosmo's Soil song...

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Anna Krzywoszynska @annakspeaking.bsky.social · Dec 3

oooh isn't it just the best... It completely revolutionised my idea of what sf can be, and what it means to write feminist scifi

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Anna Krzywoszynska @annakspeaking.bsky.social · Nov 28

For the next few weeks I'm a Visiting Fellow @durham-university.bsky.social Institute of Advanced Studies, talking all things #soil. Come to my talk on 9th December lnkd.in/dJpUcZue and to World Soils Day celebration with Merlin Sheldrake, Giuliana Furci and others www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · Nov 22

Vital essay by Augustín Fuentes: "Given the current political reality and the expansion of attacks on science, it is time for scientists to be more effective, forceful, and vociferous as their own political advocates." 🧪 1/2

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · Nov 21

"Scientists as political advocates" | Must-read commentary in Science Magazine mentions my #ScienceUnderSiege co-author Dr. Peter Hotez and me in the context of the dual assault by the right on both climate and public health science: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Scientists as political advocates

Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...

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Anna Krzywoszynska @annakspeaking.bsky.social · Nov 22

: it takes a community to witness and valorise such actions. Env approaches focused on individual sacrifice lead to despair, while those done in common enliven. Check out "Science and Religion: Approaches from STS" edited by Zara Thokozani Kamwendo.
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Anna Krzywoszynska @annakspeaking.bsky.social · Nov 22

What will you give up for the climate today? The idea of environmental sacrifice is a cliche of environmentalism. Why does it not work? With Caroline McCalman we argue that what makes an act of 'giving up' a sacrifice is 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆

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Anna Krzywoszynska @annakspeaking.bsky.social · Nov 18

Last week I spoke about #transdisciplinarity at #MissionSoilWeek (lnkd.in/diahuCau). I'm worried by the low social science/humanities literacy in the coming #soil projects. We need to move from tinkering with human-soils relations to TRANSFORMATION; that needs social sciences, humanities & the arts.

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Dr Lisa Lobry de Bruyn @lisalobry.bsky.social · Nov 18

Watched the EU Mission Soil Week last week, and it is clear there is a need to connect soil information to actionable knowledge. Katrin Prager and I wrote about this in Soil Use and Management. Highlighted by @annakspeaking.bsky.social

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Anna Krzywoszynska @annakspeaking.bsky.social · Jun 6

#soil literacy is often used by soil sciences & is explicit in Horizon funding under #missionsoil - we look at how to operationalise the concept while addressing the limitations of its typical 'knowledge deficit' framing doi.org/10.3897/soil...

Preliminary assessment of the knowledge gaps realted to soil literacy

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Anna Krzywoszynska @annakspeaking.bsky.social · Apr 10

Theoretically, I analyse the intersection of self-governance, calculability, and expertise in the making and unmaking of (micro)biopolitics. So, hopefully fun on both fronts.

I warmly invite discussion and feedback - find my email online or msg me here!

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