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Sakshi @sakshi.bsky.social · 3d

The best election is here (and notorious)—love to watch how friends and family have their own favourites and how many arguments kick off as to what is strategic voting 😆https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/oct/06/australian-bird-of-the-year-2025-vote-now

Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll

From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll

www.theguardian.com

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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 3d

“We should celebrate when the Bill becomes an Act,” writes Marcia Langton. “It will transform the bitterness of more than 200 years of history into a new and exciting era of becoming more than a postcolonial province with a ‘regrettable’ history.” satpa.pe/3a2C6Hi

How Victoria’s Treaty could change Australia

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Guy Jackson @guyjackson.bsky.social · 4d

Orange minivet. Udupi, Karnataka, India. 🪶

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Guy Jackson @guyjackson.bsky.social · 22d

Happy to share a recently published paper I played a small role in writing. Led by wonderful First Nation scholars across Australia, this paper shows the difficult but not impossible ways to build relationships between First Nations and Western scientists for climate action.

doi.org/10.1071/es24...

Building relationships between First Nations Peoples and Western scientists to increase capacity to understand, respond and adapt to climate change

Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that this paper contains name(s) of deceased person(s). First Nations and their People have stressed to Western scientists that Co...

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Guy Jackson @guyjackson.bsky.social · 22d

Happy to share a recently published paper I played a small role in writing. Led by wonderful First Nation scholars across Australia, this paper shows the difficult but not impossible ways to build relationships between First Nations and Western scientists for climate action.

doi.org/10.1071/es24...

Building relationships between First Nations Peoples and Western scientists to increase capacity to understand, respond and adapt to climate change

Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that this paper contains name(s) of deceased person(s). First Nations and their People have stressed to Western scientists that Co...

doi.org

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Living Labs Institute @livinglabs.institute · 22d

LAUNCHING: Living Labs Institute
We’re excited to announce the launch of Living Labs Institute. We invite to you all to reimagine learning through place-based approaches+co-creating alternative pathways for locally rooted actions.
Made with care.
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Living Labs Institute

Living Labs Institute is a place-based institute fostering transdisplinary learning-collaborations to imagine, construct and pursue alternative pathways of differential development.

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Guy Jackson @guyjackson.bsky.social · Aug 11

Great new paper by the excellent Dr Kelly Dorkenoo and Phasy Res, on the historical, social, and political-economic production of climate-related loss in northeastern Cambodia.

It further reinforces the complex and political drivers of climate loss.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

On the production of climate-related loss: land dispossession, indebtedness, and climate change in northeastern Cambodia

This article examines the production of climate-related loss, specifically loss of access to land, among Indigenous and ethnic minority farming communities in northeastern Cambodia. We analyse how ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Guy Jackson @guyjackson.bsky.social · Jul 27

Osprey hunting at Kielder Water, Northumberland. 🪶

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Guy Jackson @guyjackson.bsky.social · Jul 6

P.s Orkney is wonderful!

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Guy Jackson @guyjackson.bsky.social · Jul 6

On holiday, but necessary to intervene. Don't make me tap the sign "no such thing as natural disasters (or climate disasters)". There are, however, climate-exacerbated disasters, but the underlying vulnerability of societies is the root cause. Always will be.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · Jul 6

This is not new but always important

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Guy Jackson @guyjackson.bsky.social · Jul 4

Wheatear from Orkney, Scotland. 🪶

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Global Social Challenges Journal @gscjournal.bsky.social · Jun 18

Our 1st Impact Factor is in. We got an IF of 3.6, putting us in Q1 for social issues! 🥳
We are delighted by this result. Thank you to our brilliant authors, editorial team, reviewers and readers for making this possible ❤️

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · Jun 21

Shaina Potts, Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire - @dukepress.bsky.social, September 2024
www.dukeupress.edu/judicial-ter...
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Second Cold War Observatory. newbooksnetwork.com/judicial-ter...

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Guy Jackson @guyjackson.bsky.social · Jun 23

Damn peer reviewer being right. Who do they think they are! This one feels like an annoying uncle/aunty giving valuable life advice that you don't want to hear, but is needed.

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Guy Jackson @guyjackson.bsky.social · Jun 20

Kielder water, Northumberland.

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Guy Jackson @guyjackson.bsky.social · Jun 18

Great piece of research from the excellent Dr Kelly Dorkenoo. This research is from her PhD research in Cambodia—a great contribution to the political geography of climate-driven loss.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Salt and Power: Making Sense of Loss in a Changing Climate through Scalar Politics

The question of what gets to be sustained or what disappears on the land under conditions of climate change is a process of “future-making” that is deeply social and political. As changes in monsoon ...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Guy Jackson @guyjackson.bsky.social · Jun 18

Doing some historical digging for a paper and stumbled across this little gem—kudos to the Foxearth and District Local History Society.

Massive emigration from East Anglia to the colonies since the 1700s.

www.foxearth.org.uk/Emigration2....

The Song of the Emigrant ship

www.foxearth.org.uk

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Guy Jackson @guyjackson.bsky.social · Jun 17

Check it out! Such a great piece of work!

www.croakey.org/how-indigeno...

How Indigenous peoples are leading the way in climate litigation: new paper

Introduction: Indigenous peoples are taking a leading role, globally and in Australia, in climate litigation as a strategic platform for

www.croakey.org

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Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸 @ezzyod.bsky.social · Jun 17

Beautiful day for a walk across Naarm as part of the Yoorrook #WalkForTruth.

Massive thank you to all the organisers and the safety marshalls and deadly First Nations road crew and all the speakers who made today so special.

#WurundjeriWoiwurrungCountry #BunurongCountry #BoonWurrungCountry

Four non-Indigenous people smile at the camera. The sun is shining on the Maribyrnong River in the background

Little pied cormorant resting above Moonee Ponds Creek

Moonee Ponds Creek reflecting a sunny sky with white puffy clouds

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Global Social Challenges Journal @gscjournal.bsky.social · Jun 16

Read 'Reframing socio–environmental relations in coastal Mumbai and Kutch, India' with open access!
#CoProduction #participatoryMethods

Lyla Mehta @lylamehta.bsky.social · Jun 8

On #WorldOceanDay, new co-authored paper that calls for rethinking development in coastal spaces, away from extractive models toward approaches that respect local knowledge, ecological interdependence, & justice.

bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/gsc/view/jou...

bristoluniversitypressdigital.com

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Guy Jackson @guyjackson.bsky.social · Jun 15

Of all the issues, this one is the one I struggle with the most to understand. The poor woman just wanted to use the loo.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As a trans Australian, I was kicked out of a UK toilet. This is not the open-hearted Britain I remember | Jack Nicholls

I used to be proud of my birthplace for its cosmopolitan tolerance. Visiting now, it feels like stepping back decades

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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · Jun 14

New essay on Industrial Policy and Imperial Realignment, co-written with comrades @jacktaggart.bsky.social and @tomchodor.bsky.social for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ind...
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Industrial Policy and Imperial Realignment | Phenomenal World

Asymmetries in global development

www.phenomenalworld.org

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Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · Jun 14

The Australian university, as many of us knew it before 1989, is long dead.
The hybrid university-corporation as it became after 1989 is now rapidly dying.
Replacing it is neither corporation or university, but a playground for systemic conflicts of interest masquerading as a business model.

Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · Jun 14

Universities are in trouble. But is Nous Group the answer? The business model of the consultant is sharp and sophisticated. They bought the sector 'benchmarking' data and use it to sell services. Griffith Uni even hired 4 exec staff from them. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...

‘Mind-boggling stupidity’: The consultancy that captured universities

Nous Group has slowly taken over the university sector, filling VCs’ offices with ex-staff and buying ‘incredibly sensitive’ data that is sold back for benchmarking.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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Guy Jackson @guyjackson.bsky.social · Jun 13

Quick, book a doctor's appointment. This is very serious, could be fatal!

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