Lucy Radford
@lmradford.bsky.social
Conservationist, writer, Humanist celebrant. Member of @iccs.bsky.social and @peopleprimate.bsky.social.
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Looking for books to get for #climate curious friends & family this Christmas🎄?
Here are 6 of my favourites reads this year.
First up, Yale University historian Sunil Amrith's relentlessly edifying 'The Burning Earth'. A staggeringly comprehensive account of how we got to where we are! 🧵
Here are 6 of my favourites reads this year.
First up, Yale University historian Sunil Amrith's relentlessly edifying 'The Burning Earth'. A staggeringly comprehensive account of how we got to where we are! 🧵
December 3, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Looking for books to get for #climate curious friends & family this Christmas🎄?
Here are 6 of my favourites reads this year.
First up, Yale University historian Sunil Amrith's relentlessly edifying 'The Burning Earth'. A staggeringly comprehensive account of how we got to where we are! 🧵
Here are 6 of my favourites reads this year.
First up, Yale University historian Sunil Amrith's relentlessly edifying 'The Burning Earth'. A staggeringly comprehensive account of how we got to where we are! 🧵
This was such a good seminar! Huge thanks to the organisers and to Dr Ross Brooks.
We are delighted to announce our upcoming LGBTQ+ seminar given by Dr Ross Brooks who will be talking about his upcoming book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life! 2nd December @ 4pm in the Life and Mind Building, open to all members of Oxford university 🥳🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@rossb-brighton.bsky.social #QueerBiology
@rossb-brighton.bsky.social #QueerBiology
December 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This was such a good seminar! Huge thanks to the organisers and to Dr Ross Brooks.
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Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik
Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik
The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community acts, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik
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Always follow the money and never, ever think that Farage is on your side. He isn't.
92%: the percentage of funding for Nigel Farage's far-right political party Reform UK that comes from fossil fuel interests.
Across the world, anyone blaming immigrants, etc, it's all just a smokescreen to allow the rich to keep on getting richer by killing our planet.
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Across the world, anyone blaming immigrants, etc, it's all just a smokescreen to allow the rich to keep on getting richer by killing our planet.
share.google/W2gwfc0XVpUy...
‘You can’t eat electricity’: how rural solar farms became the latest battlefront in Britain’s culture war
Reform UK is exploiting opposition to solar panels – but most farmers are more worried about climate change.
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November 3, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Always follow the money and never, ever think that Farage is on your side. He isn't.
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Great blog to start the week: reflections from @sonakshis.bsky.social on the 2025 Interdisciplinary Conservation Network.
"The highlight of ICN for me was the people. Their presence reminded me of what interdisciplinarity truly looks like and what it takes to build it."
iccs.org.uk/what-interdi...
"The highlight of ICN for me was the people. Their presence reminded me of what interdisciplinarity truly looks like and what it takes to build it."
iccs.org.uk/what-interdi...
What Interdisciplinarity Feels Like in Practice - ICCS
By Sonakshi Srivastava, a participant in the Interdisciplinary Conservation Network 2025. I am not going to lie: as a social scientist, I am still a little scared of natural scientists. It is hard t...
iccs.org.uk
October 20, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Great blog to start the week: reflections from @sonakshis.bsky.social on the 2025 Interdisciplinary Conservation Network.
"The highlight of ICN for me was the people. Their presence reminded me of what interdisciplinarity truly looks like and what it takes to build it."
iccs.org.uk/what-interdi...
"The highlight of ICN for me was the people. Their presence reminded me of what interdisciplinarity truly looks like and what it takes to build it."
iccs.org.uk/what-interdi...
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Thames Water have racked up £20 billion in debt to pay themselves huge dividends. 🤑
Now they've run out of other people's money and want YOU to pay for their greed. 🤬
Enough! This madness ends now.
Make Thames Water public. Take 1 minute to email your MP today 👇
Now they've run out of other people's money and want YOU to pay for their greed. 🤬
Enough! This madness ends now.
Make Thames Water public. Take 1 minute to email your MP today 👇
August 15, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Thames Water have racked up £20 billion in debt to pay themselves huge dividends. 🤑
Now they've run out of other people's money and want YOU to pay for their greed. 🤬
Enough! This madness ends now.
Make Thames Water public. Take 1 minute to email your MP today 👇
Now they've run out of other people's money and want YOU to pay for their greed. 🤬
Enough! This madness ends now.
Make Thames Water public. Take 1 minute to email your MP today 👇
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Come now to see our 'twinkling stars' of Grass of Parnassus, in Lye Valley alkaline spring-fen now within Oxford (how does the fen survive do I hear you ask?).
Our Grass-of-Parnassus is now carpeting large areas of the west side of the Valley. Henry Taunt (1842–1922), an Oxford based photographer once described them as “like twinkling stars in the shadowy grass”. Seeing them now it's easy to understand what he meant!
#WildFlowerHour @judywebb.bsky.social
#WildFlowerHour @judywebb.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Come now to see our 'twinkling stars' of Grass of Parnassus, in Lye Valley alkaline spring-fen now within Oxford (how does the fen survive do I hear you ask?).
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By choosing to transform how we grow food and what we eat – rather than letting climate change dictate the pace of change – we have so much to gain.
By changing our diets now, we can avoid the food chaos that climate change is bringing
By choosing to transform how we grow food and what we eat – rather than letting climate change dictate the pace of change – we have so much to gain.
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August 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
By choosing to transform how we grow food and what we eat – rather than letting climate change dictate the pace of change – we have so much to gain.
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Reports on how the UK is dangerously ill-prepared for extreme heat and people are dying as a result are increasingly just part of the normal summer media cycle. www.businessgreen.com/news/4517501...
'Danger zones': Study raises alarm over care home heatwave risk
Friends of the Earth report warns nearly 10,000 care homes are in areas of the UK most at risk from increasingly intense heatwaves
www.businessgreen.com
August 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Reports on how the UK is dangerously ill-prepared for extreme heat and people are dying as a result are increasingly just part of the normal summer media cycle. www.businessgreen.com/news/4517501...
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mRNA vaccines can be modified and produced cheaply and quickly. This doesn't only help us respond to pandemics better, it enables researchers to rapidly test different treatment strategies for many diseases such as cancer. Cutting mRNA funding slows all of health research and makes us all sicker.
August 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
mRNA vaccines can be modified and produced cheaply and quickly. This doesn't only help us respond to pandemics better, it enables researchers to rapidly test different treatment strategies for many diseases such as cancer. Cutting mRNA funding slows all of health research and makes us all sicker.
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The far right terrorising asylum seekers in hotels love to spread the lie they’re worried about the risk of sexual assault. But here’s the truth: Two in five men arrested for last summer’s riots had been reported for domestic abuse. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
2 in 5 arrested over last summer’s riots had been reported for domestic abuse
Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse
www.theguardian.com
July 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The far right terrorising asylum seekers in hotels love to spread the lie they’re worried about the risk of sexual assault. But here’s the truth: Two in five men arrested for last summer’s riots had been reported for domestic abuse. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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"The value of qualitative approaches to impact evaluation in biodiversity conservation" is a fantastic new output from the 2023 Interdisciplinary Conservation Network (ICN).
Read it here: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Find out more about ICN here: iccs.org.uk/catalysing-c...
Read it here: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Find out more about ICN here: iccs.org.uk/catalysing-c...
July 28, 2025 at 8:38 AM
"The value of qualitative approaches to impact evaluation in biodiversity conservation" is a fantastic new output from the 2023 Interdisciplinary Conservation Network (ICN).
Read it here: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Find out more about ICN here: iccs.org.uk/catalysing-c...
Read it here: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Find out more about ICN here: iccs.org.uk/catalysing-c...
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❗ ANNOUNCEMENT ❗
It's not currently possibly to safely or easily walk the full length of the Lye Valley after some mindless vandal(s) set fire to part of the boardwalk last night. The City Council are aware of the situation, and are visiting today.
@headingtonnews.bsky.social
It's not currently possibly to safely or easily walk the full length of the Lye Valley after some mindless vandal(s) set fire to part of the boardwalk last night. The City Council are aware of the situation, and are visiting today.
@headingtonnews.bsky.social
July 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
❗ ANNOUNCEMENT ❗
It's not currently possibly to safely or easily walk the full length of the Lye Valley after some mindless vandal(s) set fire to part of the boardwalk last night. The City Council are aware of the situation, and are visiting today.
@headingtonnews.bsky.social
It's not currently possibly to safely or easily walk the full length of the Lye Valley after some mindless vandal(s) set fire to part of the boardwalk last night. The City Council are aware of the situation, and are visiting today.
@headingtonnews.bsky.social
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"This fellowship...has reinforced my belief that conservation must be inclusive, community-driven, and evidence-based. As I continue my work back in Cameroon, I carry with me the insights, networks, and renewed energy inspired by my time in Oxford"
iccs.org.uk/fanny-djomka...
iccs.org.uk/fanny-djomka...
Fanny Djomkam's experience as a Leventis Fellow - ICCS
Over the past three months, I had the remarkable opportunity to join the Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science (ICCS) at the University of Oxford as a Leventis African Biodiversity Fellow ...
iccs.org.uk
July 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
"This fellowship...has reinforced my belief that conservation must be inclusive, community-driven, and evidence-based. As I continue my work back in Cameroon, I carry with me the insights, networks, and renewed energy inspired by my time in Oxford"
iccs.org.uk/fanny-djomka...
iccs.org.uk/fanny-djomka...
Our privatised water system is broken - and water lobbyists have worked hard to shut down alternatives.In July the People’s Commission is launching a people-first vision for our water in Parliament.Your MP needs to hear about it: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
Ask your MP to show their support for a people-first future for our water!
We can make our water work for people - not shareholders - but water lobbyists are working hard to shut this solution down. Will you make sure your MP hears about it?
actionnetwork.org
July 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Our privatised water system is broken - and water lobbyists have worked hard to shut down alternatives.In July the People’s Commission is launching a people-first vision for our water in Parliament.Your MP needs to hear about it: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
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New publication: "Enabling conditions for conservation on Indigenous and community lands"
@stephaniebrittain.bsky.social
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@stephaniebrittain.bsky.social
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Enabling conditions for conservation on Indigenous and community lands
Despite increasing evidence and general acceptance in global environmental policy of the significant role of Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IP&LC) in biodiversity conservation and climate ...
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 3, 2025 at 10:19 AM
New publication: "Enabling conditions for conservation on Indigenous and community lands"
@stephaniebrittain.bsky.social
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@stephaniebrittain.bsky.social
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Sign the petition to Keir Starmer: Oppose Trump's war on Iran
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stoptrump.org.uk/petition-tru...
Petition: Keir Starmer – Oppose Trump’s war on Iran
Stop Trump Coalition
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June 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Sign the petition to Keir Starmer: Oppose Trump's war on Iran
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Are you an early career researcher (ECR) passionate about #Conservation? See below for an amazing opportunity to work with fellow motivated ECRs to explore and develop important themes around Biodiversity conservation! Deadline is 12 June 2025. www.linkedin.com/posts/celest...
#conservation | Celesté Maré
Are you an early career researcher (ECR) passionate about #Conservation? See below for an amazing opportunity to work with fellow motivated ECRs to explore and develop important themes around Conserva...
www.linkedin.com
May 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Are you an early career researcher (ECR) passionate about #Conservation? See below for an amazing opportunity to work with fellow motivated ECRs to explore and develop important themes around Biodiversity conservation! Deadline is 12 June 2025. www.linkedin.com/posts/celest...
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🚨Investigation confirms human rights abuses by African Parks rangers against the Baka 🚨
A long-awaited investigation has confirmed multiple human rights violations by eco-guards in Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Republic of Congo.
A long-awaited investigation has confirmed multiple human rights violations by eco-guards in Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Republic of Congo.
June 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
🚨Investigation confirms human rights abuses by African Parks rangers against the Baka 🚨
A long-awaited investigation has confirmed multiple human rights violations by eco-guards in Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Republic of Congo.
A long-awaited investigation has confirmed multiple human rights violations by eco-guards in Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Republic of Congo.
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Still can't believe we got onto the cover of Science! Across 11 reserves and 7 years, we found that dehorning achieved large reductions in poaching, but it's not a magic bullet
Full article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Popular version: www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Full article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Popular version: www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
June 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Still can't believe we got onto the cover of Science! Across 11 reserves and 7 years, we found that dehorning achieved large reductions in poaching, but it's not a magic bullet
Full article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Popular version: www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Full article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Popular version: www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
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On this #worldenvironmentday we reflect on the role of #academia in addressing the #biodiversity crisis.
www.biodiversity.ox.ac.uk?p=11042
www.biodiversity.ox.ac.uk?p=11042
June 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
On this #worldenvironmentday we reflect on the role of #academia in addressing the #biodiversity crisis.
www.biodiversity.ox.ac.uk?p=11042
www.biodiversity.ox.ac.uk?p=11042
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NEW: 3 in 5 Brits would support sanctions on Israel, to exert pressure on it to stop its attacks on Gaza
65% would support a COMPLETE arms sales ban to Israel. And 60% would support an end to the trade deal between the UK and Israel.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
65% would support a COMPLETE arms sales ban to Israel. And 60% would support an end to the trade deal between the UK and Israel.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Two thirds of Brits want Keir Starmer to end arms sales to Israel, poll shows
Polling by campaign group Global Justice Now found 65% if voters support an arm sales ban until attacks on Gaza end, with just 11% opposing the move
www.mirror.co.uk
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM
NEW: 3 in 5 Brits would support sanctions on Israel, to exert pressure on it to stop its attacks on Gaza
65% would support a COMPLETE arms sales ban to Israel. And 60% would support an end to the trade deal between the UK and Israel.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
65% would support a COMPLETE arms sales ban to Israel. And 60% would support an end to the trade deal between the UK and Israel.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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We're now accepting applications for The Interdisciplinary Conservation Network (ICN) 2025! ICN provides an opportunity for ECRs to hone key skills, build networks + work collaboratively to develop cutting-edge research in conservation.
Apply here: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/app...
Apply here: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/app...
May 29, 2025 at 11:21 AM
We're now accepting applications for The Interdisciplinary Conservation Network (ICN) 2025! ICN provides an opportunity for ECRs to hone key skills, build networks + work collaboratively to develop cutting-edge research in conservation.
Apply here: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/app...
Apply here: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/app...
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Apply now to be part of an interdisciplinary workshop on shaping the future of AI for conservation!
Full details and application form here: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/sha...
#AI #AIForConservation #Interdisciplinary
Full details and application form here: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/sha...
#AI #AIForConservation #Interdisciplinary
May 20, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Apply now to be part of an interdisciplinary workshop on shaping the future of AI for conservation!
Full details and application form here: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/sha...
#AI #AIForConservation #Interdisciplinary
Full details and application form here: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/sha...
#AI #AIForConservation #Interdisciplinary
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Huge congratulations to @bashyalreshu.bsky.social on winning a #WhitleyAward!
Reshu is leading efforts to protect Nepal’s medicinal plants, focusing on the rare Maire’s yew and wild orchids, through her organisation Greenhood Nepal. She also collaborates with ICCS via @orchiddelirium.bsky.social
Reshu is leading efforts to protect Nepal’s medicinal plants, focusing on the rare Maire’s yew and wild orchids, through her organisation Greenhood Nepal. She also collaborates with ICCS via @orchiddelirium.bsky.social
May 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Huge congratulations to @bashyalreshu.bsky.social on winning a #WhitleyAward!
Reshu is leading efforts to protect Nepal’s medicinal plants, focusing on the rare Maire’s yew and wild orchids, through her organisation Greenhood Nepal. She also collaborates with ICCS via @orchiddelirium.bsky.social
Reshu is leading efforts to protect Nepal’s medicinal plants, focusing on the rare Maire’s yew and wild orchids, through her organisation Greenhood Nepal. She also collaborates with ICCS via @orchiddelirium.bsky.social