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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 1h

As Germany demilitarized after World War II, it dumped massive amounts of its leftover munitions into the Baltic Sea.

A recent study has found that some of those submerged weapons, which are still releasing toxic compounds, now host more marine organisms than the sediments around them.

Marine life are thriving on Nazi missile debris in the Baltic Sea: Study

As Germany demilitarized after World War II, it dumped massive amounts of its leftover munitions into the Baltic Sea. A recent study has found that some of those submerged weapons, which are still…

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Guillem Rubio-Ramon @guillemrubio.bsky.social · 3h

Really looking forward to co-hosting this panel at #POLLEN2026 with @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social and Larissa Fleischmann - we'd love to see your abstract submissions!

Hannah D-C @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 20h

V excited to see #POLLEN2026 sessions being advertised. Myself, @guillemrubio.bsky.social and Larissa Flesichmann are delighted that our session on 'Political Ecologies of Animal Waste/Waste Animals' has been accepted. And we would like to invite you to submit an abstract (see below!) 🐕‍🦺🐟💩🪶🥚🦴🐚🐌🐖

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Sango Mahanty @sangomahanty.bsky.social · 8h

The call for abstracts for POLLEN 2026 is open 🌟 Leigh-Rutt, Assa Doron & I have a panel on *Political Ecologies of Animal Agriculture* - details are here along with instructions for submitting abstracts. If this is in your zone, consider submitting an abstract!
nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...

P025: Political ecologies of animal agriculture: methods, storytelling, and convergences

We expect 3-5 presentations of apprx 12 mins each plus time for discussion.

nomadit.co.uk

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Hannah D-C @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 20h

Correction - *Larissa Fleischmann. In my excitement I spelt Larissa's name incorrectly!

Hannah D-C @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 20h

V excited to see #POLLEN2026 sessions being advertised. Myself, @guillemrubio.bsky.social and Larissa Flesichmann are delighted that our session on 'Political Ecologies of Animal Waste/Waste Animals' has been accepted. And we would like to invite you to submit an abstract (see below!) 🐕‍🦺🐟💩🪶🥚🦴🐚🐌🐖

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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 21h

The #POLLEN2026 prelim program looks amazing! With that in mind, John Casellas Connors and I are going to be looking for paper submissions for our accepted session "Critical engagements in necropolitical ecologies" -check it out!

pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/...

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In this proposed session, we welcome papers related to present currents and critiques of political ecology's engagements with Achille Mbembe's theory of necropolitics. Necropolitics, the “…contemporary forms of subjugation of life to the power of death” (Mbembe, 2005: 39), powerfully shows how politics becomes "the work of death" (Ibid., pg. 16). Necropolitics is a welcome antidote to Foucault's theory of biopolitics and its relatively anemic approach to race, the postcolony, and active geographies of death-making practices ranging from overt-geographies of violent confinement and killing such as in Palestine, to the spatial logics of the plantation and its ghostly afterlives (Mbembe, 2003). Necropolitics has quickly emerged as a powerful analytical theory embraced by political ecologists examining subjects ranging from spaces of killing in postcolonial landscapes (Cavanaugh and Himmelfarb, 2015), to climate change (deBoom, 2015), to state practices reconfiguring human relations with ecologies and nonhuman life (Adolfi and Fleishmann, 2024; Bluwstein and De Rosa, 2024; Margulies, 2019).

More recently, several critiques have questioned and raised concerns about the theoretical reading of Mbembe's necropolitics within political ecology (Gibson, 2024; Peters et al., 2024), as well as the political and theoretical consequences of a necropolitical turn away from historically more popular engagements with Foucauldian biopolitics and what might be pursued otherwise as a kind of 'anti-necropolitics' (Strange, 2024). With an openness to critique, generous dialogue, and debate in mind, our session proposes to develop a timely discussion around the (mis)uses of necropolitics in political ecology, welcoming both empirically-driven papers that productively engage with necropolitics as framework and mode of analysis, as well as more theoretically-oriented works that critique or demonstrated the place of necropolitical theory in political ecology today.

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 1d

Victor Hensen coined the term "Plankton" in 1887. By 1910 it was an industry (still is)! Steuer's book ran 722 pages!

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'The gleaming palace to the humanities – the single largest building project ever undertaken by the University of Oxford made possible by the largest philanthropic gift it has ever received – stands in stark contrast to the beleaguered, shrinking state of the rest of the sector.'

Oxford’s largest-ever project ‘shows what the humanities can do’

New building which brings together disciplines for the first time will also open its doors to the public to engage with big questions facing the world

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Hannah D-C @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 3d

Earth has breached a critical boundary for ocean acidification, with potentially grim effects for ocean ecosystems and human livelihoods

Humans Just Pushed Earth across Another 'Planetary Boundary'

Earth has breached a critical boundary for ocean acidification, with potentially grim effects for ocean ecosystems and human livelihoods

www.scientificamerican.com

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RGS Animal Geographies @rgs-agwg.bsky.social · 6d

Interested in learning more about corporate power and industrial chicken production? We have a new blog out from Amby Karamchedu and Ben Coles:

www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/who...

Who Owns Chickens? Corporate Power and Industrial Chicken Production in the Global South — RGS Animal Geographies

Ambarish Karamchedu and Ben Coles Why Chickens? In 2023, 76 billion chickens were slaughtered for meat [i] . This equates to 2,417 birds killed every second (compared to 10 cows and 47 pigs) [ii...

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Animal History Group @animalhistories.bsky.social · 14d

Announcing the new Animal History Group seminar series for the 2025-26 academic year! - All seminars held online at 8pm UK time. 🎉 The details are here: animalhistorygroup.org/seminar-seri...
And here is a list for your calendar! 🧵💚

Seminar Series

Term One Our Seminar Series is back for 2025/2026. Seminars will be held at 8pm (GMT). Please sign up using the links below. Joining information will be sent shortly before the event. 15 October 20…

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Caspar Henderson @casparhenderson.bsky.social · 14d

"The High Seas Treaty has reached the threshold of 60 governments signing it into law, clearing the way for it to enter into force. This is the most important global agreement on the environmental crisis since the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement" www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/histori...

Historic Ocean Treaty set to enter into force, opening path for marine biodiversity recovery - Greenpeace UK

In a landmark moment for ocean protection, the High Seas Treaty has reached the threshold of 60 governments signing it into law, clearing the way for the historic agreement to enter into force. This i...

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 14d

Gray wolves are making a comeback in the U.S. state of California after a century-long absence. Conservationists say their return is a success, but it’s putting pressure on ranchers and rural communities as wolf attacks on livestock mount, Mongabay wildlife staff writer Spoorthy Raman reported.

Gray wolves’ return to California tests human tolerance for coexistence

Gray wolves are making a comeback in the western U.S. state of California after a century-long absence. Conservationists say their return is a success, but it’s putting pressure on ranchers and rural…

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Kelly Rigg @kellyrigg.bsky.social · 14d

“It’s sobering. And it’s unexpected, not because impacts will be increasing—that is not surprising—but because they will be increasing so much, so fast"

The World’s Oceans Are Hurtling Toward Breaking Point

Climate change, pollution, and fishing are pushing oceans closer to their limits at an unprecedented rate. The pressure of that human impact is expected to double by 2050, according to a new study.

www.wired.com

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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 15d

Does it make sense to apologize for anthropogenic species extinction? This article explores the potential of ecological apologies to help us think and work towards care, justice, and moral repair beyond the human.

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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 15d

New article from @stefcraps.com!

Ecological apologies: reckoning with grief, guilt, and multispecies justice.

doi.org/10.1080/0964...

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Focusing on British artist Marcus Coates’s Apology to the Great Auk, a short film documenting an official apology to an extinct bird, this article explores the possibility and desirability of political apologies for anthropogenic species extinction. While the apology presented in the film fails to meet key criteria, it nonetheless offers something of political value. Coates’s work constitutes an audacious and innovative attempt to leverage ecological grief and guilt to counteract dominant discourses that devalue more-than-human life; to redraw the boundaries of the moral, legal, and political community; and to imagine a future of multispecies flourishing. By interpreting Apology to the Great Auk through the lenses of environmental transitional justice, bad environmentalism, and ecological prefiguration, the article demonstrates its potential as an artistic project, and the potential of ecological apologies more generally, to help us think and work towards care, justice, and moral repair beyond the human.

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

2/ On birdsong and sounding extinction @aurorafredriksen.bsky.social, on sturgeon and biobanks @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social & on histories of conservation elites @rafdebont.bsky.social

Aurora Fredriksen's presentation at the Planetary Futures conference at Manchester Museum

Hannah Dickinson's presentation at the Planetary Futures conference at Manchester Museum

Raf de Bont's first presnetation slide at the Planetary Futures conference at Manchester Museum

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Hannah D-C @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 16d

A fantastic few days in Manchester with fellow scholars writing about extinction from various disciplines. Feeling hopeful despite the content! Buoyed by new connections and deepened connections.

Anita Lateano @anitalateano.bsky.social · 17d

Grateful for the opportunity to present my research at the Planetary Futures conference, wonderfully organised by @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social @duncanwilson78.bsky.social.

Inspiring research of the more-than-human worlds that shape how we see extinction, conservation and life in the anthropocene. 🦤

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EASLCE @easlce.bsky.social · 28d

#CFP: "Mainsheet: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Maritime Studies"

Deadline for articles: October 1st 2025

Info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

#envhum #envhist #bluehumanities #ecocriticism

CFP for Mainsheet: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Maritime Studies | H-Net

Do you have a research article you've been working on this summer? Please consider submitting it to Mainsheet: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Maritime Studies. We are accepting original research on al...

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Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️‍🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social · Sep 9

3 weeks left until the deadline!
#ecojustice #envJustice #greyzone #greenTransition

Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️‍🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social · Jul 22

Working on #EnvironmentalJustice topics in Central and Eastern Europe? Then you might want to send an abstract for the conference 'The Greyzone of the Green Transition' that I'm co-organizing with my colleagues from Sibiu next year in Romania (18-19 May 2026).
Participation is free of charge!

International Conference: The Greyzone of the Green Transition – ecoJust home

grants.ulbsibiu.ro

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · Sep 4

We're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Hannah D-C @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · Sep 1

The AGWG has its AGM this Wednesday 3rd Sep at midday. Please register to attend. Help shape the direction of this research group over the next year :) 🐟🐟🐛🦧🐕‍🦺🐥🐾 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Digital Futures @digitaluom.bsky.social · Aug 22

Excited by biological data storage? Ready to share your work or be part of the conversation?

📅 October 2, 2025
🕛 12:00 – 16:00 BST
📍 @manchester.ac.uk
🎟️ shorturl.at/znMSY

📧Contact at [email protected] to share your research.

The Future Is Biological! Future Data Storage Solutions Workshop

Join the conversation on DNA data storage: where tech meets biology to rethink the future.

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · Aug 22

This is a fantastic blogpost by @patthomson.bsky.social about the mixed emotions when you do finally get an article published. I was esp drawn to this para and this is why I'm honest & vulnerable abt my challenges via my blog (and also in the imposter syndrome episode of @ecrpodcasters.bsky.social!)

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Hannah D-C @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · Aug 21

Deadline to register for this conference is tomorrow :)

MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · Aug 15

Conference: Planetary Futures - Rethinking Extinction and Conservation in the Anthropocene. Manchester, 18-19 Sept 2025.

Registration is free - please register your interest in attending by Friday 22 August.

blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...

Planetary Futures: Rethinking Extinction and Conservation in the Anthropocene

Conference, 18-19 September 2025, at the University of Manchester. Call for Papers

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