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Human Geographer at Cardiff University. Environmental aesthetics | sonic geography | ecological restoration & rewilding. Currently working on a cross-cultural analysis of wildlife & environmental sound archives. https://12gatestothecity.com/

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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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Jonathan Prior @jprior.bsky.social · Aug 26

Second, we will be in conversation with Anton Spice at Microscope, an arts space in Dalston, London, on the 14th September.
Info and tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/echolocati...

A poster for an event at Microscope, Dalston, London.
The background image is of a person holding a magnetic tape in the Wildlife and Environmental Sounds collection at the British Library. The foreground text reads as follows: "Animal archives, listening session, sonic conversation, 14.09, 5pm, Sandra Jasper and Jonathan Prior, part of the 2025 echolocation series, microscope, ticket link in bio, microscope@periscope.uk, 2-4 Tottenham Road, N1 4BZ, @micro__scope"

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Jonathan Prior @jprior.bsky.social · Aug 26

@sandrajasper.bsky.social and I will be presenting our ongoing wildlife sound archives research at two events in September.
First, we will give a keynote at the Experimental Archives conference at Kingston University (11th-12th September).
Info and tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/experiment...

A poster for the experimental archives conference 2025. Above a line drawing of an open suitcase that lies empty, text reads: "Experimental Archives conference 2025, Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, Courtyard Theatre, The Town House, 11th-12th September 2025, exploring archives as spaces of transformation, fragmentation, imagination, and experimentation across disciplines".

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Jonathan Prior @jprior.bsky.social · Aug 21

This is great! Congratulations on the book - looking forward to reading it.

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Jonathan Prior @jprior.bsky.social · Jul 20

A good start to this year's Butterfly Conservation count, with ten species spotted in my local urban patch, including Common Blue, Small Copper, Brown Argus, Comma, Small Skipper, and Meadow Brown.

A Brown Argus (Aricia agestis) butterfly perched on a seed head, with the upperwings showing. The wings are a variety of brown tones, with orange spots on the forewing.

A Small Skipper (Thymelicus sylvestris) butterfly perched on a seed head, with the upperwings showing. The wings are a variety of orange and brown tones.

Jonathan Prior @jprior.bsky.social · Jun 19

Thanks, Fraser. It truly has been, and continues to be, a shit-show. I understand that Edinburgh are moving in a similar direction. Solidarity!

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Jonathan Prior @jprior.bsky.social · Jun 19

Cardiff University Council have rubber-stamped significant cuts across the University. Shameful, but not at all surprising.

Cardiff UCU @cardiffucu.bsky.social · Jun 19

We will continue to fight on behalf of our members’ jobs, conditions, and the academic disciplines being decimated with every tool at our disposal including consulting our members about future industrial action.

Cardiff University announces final cuts package as union expresses grave concern

Martin Shipton Cardiff University has announced that the business case for its controversial “Academic Futures” cuts proposals has been approved by the university’s top decision making body. But the U...

nation.cymru

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Jonathan Prior @jprior.bsky.social · Jun 12

Thanks, Hannah. I'm appalled to hear what is happening at Edinburgh as well - my full solidarity!

Jonathan Prior @jprior.bsky.social · Jun 12

I can't tell you how many academic buzzwords this restructuring plan has killed for me, having now heard them ad nauseam. Try as I might, I can never take the term 'co-creation' seriously again...

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Jonathan Prior @jprior.bsky.social · Jun 12

For those that don't know, there are at least 350 members of academic staff across the University, including everyone in my own School of Geography and Planning, who are threatened with compulsory redundancy. We've had this hanging over us since the end of January.

Jonathan Prior @jprior.bsky.social · Jun 12

While I still suspect that Council will approve the proposed cuts to Cardiff University, I am thankful that the Senate voted this way.

Cardiff UCU @cardiffucu.bsky.social · Jun 12

❗Yesterday Cardiff University Senate, the body responsible for upholding academic standards, voted to NOT recommend management’s toxic 'Academic Futures' cuts plan to Cardiff University Council.❗

The ball is now in Council’s court at its meeting next Tuesday, 17th.

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Jonathan Prior @jprior.bsky.social · May 26

Common blues in Cathays Cemetery, Cardiff.

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Phil Dodds @phildodds.bsky.social · May 7

With interdisciplinary colleagues (biology, architecture, history, digital cultures, etc), I'm co-organising the SOUND+PURPOSE conference in Lund, 20-21 Nov. Please come and join our discussions of the *why* of sound and the *purpose* of sound research. CFP deadline 9 June: www.lmc.lu.se/en/node/591

SOUND+PURPOSE: Inaugural conference of the SOUND+ Network for Transdisciplinary Research in Sound

Lund University.

www.lmc.lu.se

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Jonathan Prior @jprior.bsky.social · Apr 15

Research trip via train. Cardiff-London-Cologne-Berlin.

A photograph taken from the window of an early morning Eurostar train. The sun breaks through mist over a tree canopy.

Inside Cologne Central Station. Two train conductors walk alongside a red Deutsche Bahn train that stretches into the distance.

A view from a train near Wolfsburg. A series of wind turbines on the horizon against a blue sky with light clouds. In the foreground is a ploughed agricultural field.

Inside Berlin Central Station. Light pours through the arched glass roof, hitting the train tacks and the side of a Deutsche Bahn train.

Jonathan Prior @jprior.bsky.social · Mar 27

Two people walk past the Angel Hotel, Cardiff, in the sunshine.

A row of yellow daffodils adjacent to Alexandra Gardens, Cardiff

An edible plant with clusters of yellow flowers is visible through a semi-transparent plastic polytunnel.

A branch of dusty pink cherry tree flowers outside a row of terraced houses in Cardiff.

Jonathan Prior @jprior.bsky.social · Mar 27

Gwanwyn cynnar yng Nghaerdydd

A concrete planter with daffodils and hyacinths sits in front of Cardiff Central police station.

Pink saucer magnolia flowers with a bright blue sky background in Bute Park, Cardiff.

Two white geese with orange beaks sit on the bank of Roath Park Lake.

A tree coming into leaf in the foreground, with light streaming onto the wall of a building in central Cardiff.

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Jonathan Prior @jprior.bsky.social · Mar 3

Thanks for listening, Michal!

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Eva Kapeller-Hallama @evahallama.bsky.social · Feb 24

CfP: Join our conference in October 2025 about fleeting voices and their materialities in the archives and the arts!
#voiceletters #audioletters #heritagescience #CulturalHeritage #soundstudies #materialsciences
www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

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George Burdon @georgeburdon.bsky.social · Feb 24

New paper from me - a Geography Compass piece on sound art geographies:

compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Sound Art Geographies: Listening at the Limits of Audibility

This paper explores the generative yet underexamined relation between human geography and sound art. Sound art has long been concerned with issues of spatiality, place and environment and yet interes....

compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Jonathan Prior @jprior.bsky.social · Feb 1

Thanks Eric. A human geographer, no less, is leading on these proposals.

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Jonathan Prior @jprior.bsky.social · Jan 28

I appreciate that, Hannah.

Jonathan Prior @jprior.bsky.social · Jan 28

Brutal cuts on the horizon here at Cardiff University, with proposals for 400 redundancies. Whole departments to close, and poorly thought through mergers. Zero transparency. Heartbreaking.

Rob Thomas @robthomasbirds.bsky.social · Jan 28

[reposted] The storm has broken at Cardiff University. Solidarity to everyone who is going to be affected by leaving the university, or by remaining as part of a substantially weakened workforce. Please join a union.

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Sandra Jasper @sandrajasper.bsky.social · Dec 10

📣 OUT NOW - Digital ecologies: Mediating more-than-human worlds!Very happy to have contributed a chapter on digital sonic ecologies with @hannahfhunter.bsky.social and @jprior.bsky.social

Digital Ecologies @digicologies.bsky.social · Dec 10

🌐 Digital ecologies: Mediating more-than-human worlds is OUT NOW with @manchesterup.bsky.social!

🍃 Eds: @jonnyjjt.bsky.social, @admsrl.bsky.social, Henry Anderson-Elliott & @evahaifa.bsky.social.

🎁 Get yours in time for Christmas!

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Manchester University Press - Digital ecologies

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Jonathan Prior @jprior.bsky.social · Dec 5

Diolch!

Jonathan Prior @jprior.bsky.social · Dec 5

Thank you, Hannah. If you know of anyone through the EEHN who might be interested, please encourage them to have a look!

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