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Josephine Browne, PhD, MA

@drejosephine.bsky.social

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Researcher - Critical animal studies - Men & masculinities - Environment. Co-editor, Multispecies Sociology (Routledge 2025) Citizen Scientist & Volunteer 💜 oceans, rabbits, manta rays #pigoneer Unceded Bundjalung Country, AUSTRALIA

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Josephine Browne, PhD, MA @drejosephine.bsky.social · Sep 1

Happy First Birthday to our book!! #Sociology #Research #ClimateCrisis #Pandemic #Vegan #Multispecies #CritcalAnimalStudies #Futures #TASA
www.routledge.com/Human-Animal...

Human-Animal Relationships in Times of Pandemic and Climate Crisis: Multispecies Sociology for the New Normal

This book situates sociological research as a vital tool for understanding, and responding to, the multispecies entanglements that cause, inform and arise from states of crisis involving the environme...

www.routledge.com

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alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social · 5h

At $640 and still have a few days before we run a 5k in Prospect Park for Palestinian refugee children!

Please share here, boost wherever (even on the hell site), send to friends and family, and donate if you can! I'd love to hit our goal before Sunday!
getinvolved.unrwausa.org/fundraiser/6...

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Josephine Browne, PhD, MA @drejosephine.bsky.social · 2h

Hoping relief for you and yours, and doing all we can to help it happen 🙏

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Nurse🍉Hammam @hammanurse1.bsky.social · 5h

@mommunism.bsky.social ❤️🇵🇸
Today, a ceasefire and an end to the genocide were declared in Gaza. We have lived through the worst days of our lives. We were bombed, starved, and lost our relatives and everything we owned. We have nothing left but our lives

Please give hope life🤲⬇️
gofund.me/3cb8c285

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Help Mohammed and Heba @mohammedandheba68.bsky.social · 3h

#Gaza is currently celebrating the announcement of a ceasefire... Thank God for your safety...
gofund.me/b4910667f

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Christian Downie @christiandownie.bsky.social · 1d

Our forthcoming book Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment is profiled in The Guardian this morning

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... @anuregnet.bsky.social @cssn.org

Media and political attacks on Australia’s emissions targets ‘straight out of the climate obstruction playbook’, expert says

Prof Christian Downie points to the Business Council of Australia and News Corp newspapers as examples of deliberate obstruction

www.theguardian.com

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Josephine Browne, PhD, MA @drejosephine.bsky.social · 2h

Yes

But many of also know there are wonderful people in the U.S.

Our friends, family, colleagues

Hang in there

Josephine Browne, PhD, MA @drejosephine.bsky.social · 2h

💯!

Josephine Browne, PhD, MA @drejosephine.bsky.social · 2h

💜

Josephine Browne, PhD, MA @drejosephine.bsky.social · 2h

Thanks so!!

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Pandymonium @pandymonium.bsky.social · 2h

#AusVotes2028 #auspol

Sydney EV @sydneyev.bsky.social · 21h

To all those who comment about subsidies for renewable energy, what are your thoughts on the $500,000,000 we taxpayers will fork over to bail out Glencore, who paid $0 tax in Oz, but posted a record profit? At least with renewable we are buying cheap endless energy security.

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Josephine Browne, PhD, MA @drejosephine.bsky.social · 7h

#GoodNews #Climate #NetZero woohoo! Keep up, Europe!

Pat Simons @patsimons.bsky.social · 7h

Renewables are now outpacing coal globally as China massively ramps up wind and solar, and exports technology to the global south. It's in the US and Europe where progress is slowing theconversation.com/renewables-h...

Renewables have now passed coal globally – and growth is fastest in countries like Bhutan and Nepal

Even as clean energy progress slows in the US and EU, developing nations such as Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldives are surging ahead.

theconversation.com

Josephine Browne, PhD, MA @drejosephine.bsky.social · 7h

😯

Josephine Browne, PhD, MA @drejosephine.bsky.social · 14h

What the love of students means to those with passion to #teach - where every class is about being human together ❤️
#AI #AcademicSky #humanity

Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 1d

wowwww this is incredibly beautiful. tagging some friends who will love this: @ladyofsardines.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com @marcusluther.bsky.social

therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...

Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus

My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...

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Josephine Browne, PhD, MA @drejosephine.bsky.social · 14h

So so relatable, beautifully expressed - the love for students and classrooms

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15h

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.

They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 5d

Said it before, will probably die saying it, we are never going to solve the climate disinfo problem if we don't fix media. As @maxboykoff.bsky.social notes here, the public by and large learns about climate change via the media, so if the media trades in false equivalence, it's damaging!

Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 5d

Today, a look at the role the media has played in climate obstruction, with @maxboykoff.bsky.social and Melissa Aronczyk: drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

S14, Ep4 | The Media As a Tool of Climate Obstruction

Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 2d

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:

"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law

“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

www.teenvogue.com

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Josephine Browne, PhD, MA @drejosephine.bsky.social · 19h

Congratulations!!

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 10d

Global Samud Flotilla — now about 400 nautical miles from the coast of Gaza — receiving protection from NATO warships following Israeli alleged dirty tricks and drone attacks.

NATO Warships Protecting Gaza Convoy Against Israel Attack: Greta Thunberg

Italy and Spain have deployed warships to protect the Global Sumud Flotilla, as Greta Thunberg warns of a deadly attack by Israel.

www.newsweek.com

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Josephine Browne, PhD, MA @drejosephine.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Birthday! And joy to all those whose lives you've saved! 💙

Josephine Browne, PhD, MA @drejosephine.bsky.social · 1d

Want to take my kids there!!
Amazing photo, thankyou 🙏

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GreenWitch Tea @greenwitchtea.bsky.social · 2d

Don't lost hope. Hope is what enables us to keep going in the face of adversity. It is what we desire to happen, but we must be prepared to work hard to make it so! ~ Jane Goodall 💚

#JaneGoodall #peace #love #hope #bethechange

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Josephine Browne, PhD, MA @drejosephine.bsky.social · 2d

Beautiful!

Where is this?

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