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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · 1d

Very excited to be co-organising this with the Digital Ecologies crew, @profgillian.bsky.social, @benaplatt.bsky.social, and Janina Schupp at the Digital Hub at @jesusoxford.bsky.social.

More info here: digicologies.com/cfp

CFP — Digital Ecologies

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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · 1d

🌅 How are digital technologies refashioning ecological aesthetics? 🌅

Join us for the next Digital Ecologies conference in February 2026 - CFP now open!

We're delighted to welcome Joanna Zylinska and Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg as our keynotes!

Any questions, get in touch.

Digital Ecologies @digicologies.bsky.social · 2d

🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐

'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'

🗓️ 2-3 February 2026
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating)

Deadline: 14th November

Full info: digicologies.com/cfp

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Digital Ecologies @digicologies.bsky.social · 2d

🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐

'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'

🗓️ 2-3 February 2026
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating)

Deadline: 14th November

Full info: digicologies.com/cfp

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 7d

📢New issue of TIBG📢

Transactions' September Issue features two interventions on environmental crisis & geographies of creativity, 21 papers, and two commentaries on the war in Ukraine.

22/25 pieces are #OpenAccess and available to read here⬇️

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661...

A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are eight tiles with 2 interventions and 6 standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue.

1) 'On limit and love in times of environmental crises' by Ihnji Jon
2) 'Geographies of creativity/creative geographies' by Pat Noxolo
3) '‘My body was no longer a problem’: Electric mountain biking, disability, and the cultural politics of green exercise' by Jim Cherrington & James Brighton
4) '‘A wonderful day and a wonderful crossing!’: Internment (im)mobilities, ambivalence, and the residual tourist gaze in Second World War Britain' by Michael Holden & Peter Adey
5) '‘Smartness’ narratives: A critical discourse analysis of smart eldercare in urban China' by Yi Yu
6) 'Critique beyond relation: The stakes of working with the negative, the void and the abyss' by David Chandler & Jonathan Pugh
7) 'Poetics in the work of three urban photographers: Love for the chaotic city from the site of urban rooftops' by Paulina Nordstrom
8) 'Places as refrains: A non-constructive alternative to assemblage thinking' by Peter Merriman

A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue.

1) Climate change, bodies and diplomacy: Performing watery futures in Tuvalu
Liam Saddington
2) Digital animal deathscapes: The online circulation of animals killed for conservation
Alexandra Palmer
3) The medium is the message: The geographies of cryptocurrency remittances to Venezuela
Daniel Robins
4) ‘One school, two systems’: Navigating the geographies of alternative education in an elite primary school in China
Zhenjie Yuan, Huiyu Xie, Hong Zhu
5) Translating India to India: Travelling translations, Patanjali Ayurveda, and the visual language of spiritual consumerism
Raksha Pande, Alastair Bonnett
6) Urban political ecologies of sewage surveillance: Creating vital and valuable public health data from wastewater
7) Constructive (in)visibility and the trafficking industrial complex: Leveraging borders for exploitation
Audrey Lumley-Sapanski, Katarina Schwarz
8) Translations, translocations, and pluralism: A transnational and multilingual analysis of the circulation of radical geographical knowledge
Federico Ferretti
9) From biopower to affirmative biopolitics: A (bio)political ecology of becoming with wolves
Valerio Donfrancesco, Chris Sandbrook

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Oxford Social Sciences Division @socsci.ox.ac.uk · 8d

✍️handwritten assignments
🖼️a student-led public exhibition

🌟Congratulations to Dr Jonathon Turnball @jonnyjjt.bsky.social on his #TeachingExcellence Award recognising his innovative teaching methods on 'Digital Ecologies: Mediating More-than-human Worlds' course.

www.socsci.ox.ac.uk/article/winn...

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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · 22d

"The fact that hedgehogs are a part of the culture of Ukraine is a wonderful thing... they punch well above their weight & are stronger & better defended that you might expect"

Part 2 of @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social's report on hedgehog rescuers in Ukraine 🦔 🇺🇦

hughwarwick.substack.com/p/a-hedgehog...

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Hugh Warwick @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social · 22d

thanks to @jonnyjjt.bsky.social and Karolina for giving me this story - the amazing work of #hedgehog rescuers in #Ukraine open.substack.com/pub/hughwarw...

A Hedgehog on the front line (part 2)

don’t be greedy with love and caring!

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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · 23d

"Until that moment the only Ukrainian hedgehogs in my mind were the ones placed on roads to act as tank defences!"

Read my friend, @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social's, new post on hedgehog rescue in #Ukraine, part 1 of 2.

hughwarwick.substack.com/p/a-hedgehog...

A Hedgehog on the front line (part 1)

While the world swirls into ever increasing spirals of chaos and doom it is lovely to find a cause for hope.

hughwarwick.substack.com

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Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social · 26d

Crawford's new essay in e-flux offers the best summary of the monstrous absurdity of contemporary AI that I've read in a long time.

(via @jonnyjjt.bsky.social)

www.e-flux.com/architecture...

The expansion of computational capital reproduces the core-periphery dynamics of earlier empires—extracting from the Global South to enrich the North—while excavating billions of years in geological time to increase the speed of algorithmic convenience by milliseconds. After feeding at this planetary scale, the industrial beast now releases a tide of slop.

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Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social · Aug 7

Announcing my book, Techno-Negative!

It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.

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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · 28d

Really pleased to share my new paper—"Making sense of nuclear natures"—which is available open access in Progress in Environmental Geography!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @progenvgeog.bsky.social @technatures.bsky.social #NuclearNatures

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George Kirkham @kirkham.bsky.social · Aug 19

Pleased to share this paper for BioSocieties on snakebite in Kerala. I explore how social scientific theories of toxicity aid in conceiving of the structural vulnerabilities, diagnostic uncertainty, and multispecies health impacts that characterise snakebite's public health response.

Making sense of snakebite: the place of biological toxins in social scientific analyses of toxicity - BioSocieties

Through an ethnographic study of snakebite governance in Kerala, India, this article argues that social scientific theories of toxicity elucidate the biosocial dimensions of snakebite envenomation (SB...

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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · 28d

Really pleased to share my new paper—"Making sense of nuclear natures"—which is available open access in Progress in Environmental Geography!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @progenvgeog.bsky.social @technatures.bsky.social #NuclearNatures

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Progress in Environmental Geography @progenvgeog.bsky.social · 29d

☢️ New paper published in Progress in Environmental Geography ☢️

'Making sense of nuclear natures: Ecologies, expertise, aesthetics' by Jonathon Turnbull

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @jonnyjjt.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @technatures.bsky.social

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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · Sep 1

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Mathew Frith obituary

Other lives: Conservationist who championed wildlife in cities and improved access to green space for all

www.theguardian.com

Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · Aug 14

Thanks for sharing, Anna - looks great!

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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · Aug 13

New in Area:

'Multispecies placemaking: Tibetan pastoralist perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic' by Tsering Bum & Shuling Cheng

This paper explores the impacts of Tibetan pastoralist
interpretations of the COVID crisis as karmic retribution.

doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Tsering Bum & Shuling Cheng (2025) entitled 'Multispecies placemaking: Tibetan pastoralist perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic' with a black banner at the top.

This ethnographic study examines Tibetan pastoralists' perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic in Pema Rito, Golok Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, China, during the initial outbreak in 2020. Framed through the lens of multispecies placemaking, an approach that highlights the dynamic, co-creative processes by which humans and non-human beings (animals, plants, microorganisms, and viruses) collectively shape place, the study challenges traditional anthropocentric theories of space. Drawing on remote and in-person interviews, the research reveals that pastoralists understood the pandemic not merely as a public health crisis but as an ecological and moral reconfiguration of place. For Pema Rito communities, COVID-19 represented an anthropause that compelled them to renegotiate their relationships with the pastoral landscape, viruses, wildlife, and livestock. They interpreted the pandemic as karmic retribution for human exploitation of nature, reinforcing their commitment to wildlife conservation while advocating for physical distancing from wild species. Amid the crisis, pastoralists positioned their traditional lifeways as an optimal response to zoonotic and ecological disruptions. By analysing the pandemic through multispecies placemaking, this study demonstrates how crises reconfigure human–nonhuman entanglements, offering critical insights into resilience, ecological ethics, and post-pandemic placemaking.

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Austin Read @austinread.bsky.social · Jul 21

my new paper is now published open access in @rgsibg.bsky.social Transactions journal: doi.org/10.1111/tran...

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library

This paper begins by looking at a biodiversity conservation project on the River Severn (UK) and argues that dominant technocratic framings of it ignore the colonial legacies that shape the river. It...

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Save Polesia @savepolesia.bsky.social · Jul 30

140K+ said no — but the fight isn’t over. Despite public opposition, Polish Waters refuses to back down. The Siarzewo dam appeal could greenlight irreversible harm to the Vistula’s salmon, terns & floodplains.

‼️Read our new post: savepolesia.org/siarzewo-bat...
#stop_E40

Siarzewo dam: the battle isn’t over - Save Polesia

In January 2025, after seven years of legal battles, Poland’s General Directorate for Environmental Protection (GDOŚ) definitively revoked the environmental permit for the Siarzewo dam on the Vistula…

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adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social · Jul 25

GLITCH ENVIRONMENTALISM is freely accessible for two weeks... make sure to download it soon!!

we think with Legacy Russell's Glitch Feminism (2020) to examine digitally-mediated activism challenging birding's hegemonic, exclusionary histories and cultures

w/ Naomi Parker and @jonnyjjt.bsky.social

Glitch environmentalism - Naomi Parker, Adam Searle, Jonathon Turnbull, 2025

Birding is a form of wildlife recreation that often involves exclusive communities and spaces, where both access and practice are policed along hegemonic lines....

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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · Jul 22

www.theguardian.com/sport/galler...

Fog, a satellite dish and sandwiches: A Portrait of Cricket – in pictures

Award-winning photographer Tom Shaw, who spent 15 years as the photographer with the England men’s team, has turned his lens towards the lower leagues of the recreational game and produced the photobo...

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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · Jul 18

🦉 Glitch Environmentalism 🦉

In our new paper, Naomi Parker, @admsrl.bsky.social & I explore glitches in the birding community that arose in the Self-Isolating Bird Club

We theorise glitch environmentalism to understand how transitory glitches can gain duration

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Ukrainian Environmental Humanities Network @ukrenvhum.bsky.social · Jul 22

In Ukraine’s bombed out reservoir a huge forest has grown – is it a return to life or a toxic timebomb?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In Ukraine’s bombed out reservoir a huge forest has grown – is it a return to life or a toxic timebomb?

Two years after the Nova Kakhovka dam was destroyed in Ukraine, nature has returned in abundance to the drained land in a ‘big natural experiment’ – but it could be lost as quickly as it appeared

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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · Jul 18

🦉 Glitch Environmentalism 🦉

In our new paper, Naomi Parker, @admsrl.bsky.social & I explore glitches in the birding community that arose in the Self-Isolating Bird Club

We theorise glitch environmentalism to understand how transitory glitches can gain duration

journals.sagepub.com/eprint/CESTC...

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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · Jul 14

I enjoyed writing about "animals' cultures" with @levanpatter.bsky.social & Tom Fry for this wonderful collection.

Also love the publishing form/at @benandersongeog.bsky.social & @vickiezhang.bsky.social have created. Looking forward to more of these (Un)limited Editions!

Ben Anderson @benandersongeog.bsky.social · Jul 14

It’s now been out for a while, but this was such a fun project with Vickie! The Promise of Cultural Geography. 86 entries, all between 1-1000 words, focusing on what, for them, is the promise of cultural geography. It’s open access, so please share!

research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publicati...

The promise of cultural geography

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