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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · 2d

Finally made it along to ‘More-than-human’ at the Design Museum. A really vibrant & engaging exhibition about learning from and designing with other beings — it’s very cool & heartening to see this thinking reaching wider audiences 🦋

Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · 2d

A big week continued with Fran Mahon’s brilliant ‘Flooded Memories’ exhibition, exploring river agency. In a space overlooking the River Ouse, he illuminated the ability of Rivers Ouse and Foss to effect change — reshaping local architectures, histories and memory @hgcresearchcentre.bsky.social

Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · 2d

Loved roaming Yorkshire Arboretum & Bog Hall last week for the LCAB field trip. Mushroom season is in full swing! @anthropocenebio.bsky.social

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Hanna Pettersson @hannalp.bsky.social · 20d

What do we mean when we say that carnivores and other wildlife are "habituating" to people? Who actually habituates to whom? Is this bad or god? Who decides? All of this and more in our new paper, expertly led by @ethanddoney.bsky.social, out now in @peopleandnature.bsky.social.

People and Nature @peopleandnature.bsky.social · 20d

🦊 Reimagining habituation: The case for a reciprocal and contextual understanding ➡️ buff.ly/6rbtYxu

@livwildlab.bsky.social @ethanddoney.bsky.social @vdonfrancesco.bsky.social @hannalp.bsky.social @csandbrook.bsky.social

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Dr Amy-Jane Beer @amyjanebeer.bsky.social · Sep 1

Swimmers and river lovers of Yorkshire! Rave On for the Avon is coming to York THIS THURSDAY 🏊🏻‍♀️💦💙

Please share…

www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...

@righttoroam.bsky.social @yorkswildlife.bsky.social

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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · Aug 6

And Yorkshire Water applies for drought orders, to extract water from Rivers Ouse & Wharfe. Yet 'the sector has been criticised for failing to build reservoirs and to fix leaking pipes, while attention has also focused on the large pay packets awarded to some water company bosses'

Southern Water applies for permission to draw water from rare chalk stream

Environment secretary urged to stop drought order that could damage the ecology of River Test in Hampshire

www.theguardian.com

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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · Jul 18

Lou & I are continuing our nature journaling practices to pay deep attention to local natures and shifting seasons — highly recommend for anyone who likes to scribble

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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · Jun 26

Had a great week in Mons for the Society of Human Ecology conference — lots on relational thinking, rights of nature, emotions & affects. Cherry on top was winning the Richard J Borden award for my poster, ‘Experiences of outdoor swimming’

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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · Jun 17

Grateful for the opportunity to share my ongoing PhD research at the end of May - as part of a panel on biodiversity & wellbeing @anthropocenebio.bsky.social 🌊

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Department of Environment and Geography @uoyenvironment.bsky.social · Jun 2

An important @theguardian.com article on @alistairboxall.bsky.social's research: "A study of #Yorkshire’s rivers is helping scientists understand the impact everyday pollutants are having on waterways – and the results are sobering" 👇🌍

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#York #YorkResearch

Pesticides, antibiotics, animal medicines: the chemical cocktail seeping into our rivers

The list of everyday pollutants is a long one, and they could be as damaging to our water ecosystems as sewage spills

www.theguardian.com

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · May 22

📣 Time to get your panels and abstracts in @pollenetwork.bsky.social conf 2026 is open for submissions. @icta-uab.bsky.social is a great place to host it - and it promises to be a blast (as always!) @danbrockington.bsky.social

pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/

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Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity @anthropocenebio.bsky.social · May 20

Our new seminar series Anthropocene Biopolitics starts on 3 June with a session on microbes.

We’ll think about how microbial imaginaries necessitate a reimagining of how the human relates to the biodiversity that criss-crosses its boundaries.

Learn more & register: www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...

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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · May 29

Looking forward to contributing to the conversation tomorrow, on human-nonhuman relations and links to wellbeing. Please join us if you're free and in York

Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity @anthropocenebio.bsky.social · May 21

Join us for a panel discussion on biodiversity, health & wellbeing on Fri 30 May, 15:00 - 16:30. We'll discuss how biodiversity conservation & nature connectedness can contribute to health & wellbeing.

Open to @york.ac.uk staff & students.

Find out more & register: www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...

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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · May 27

To continue the watery theme, it was a real treat to have
@amyjanebeer.bsky.social visit @anthropocenebio.bsky.social last week to share her wisdom 🔮 on writing well and on engaging with audiences beyond the specialist. Unsurprisingly this was very well received by our research group!

Excerpt from Amy-Jane Beer's chapter in 'By the River' (2024)

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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · May 27

Powerful evening with @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social & @amyjanebeer.bsky.social in Leeds, on the urgent need to remember that life is lived in relation, and to reimagine rivers as life sources rather than resources. 'Our fate flows with that of rivers and always has' 🌊

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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · May 5

Agh you went!!! 🌊 can’t wait to hear what you thought

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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · Apr 30

Great to meet you Barbara! 👋🏼

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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · Apr 30

Also worth repeating another of his key insights, that ‘if it’s not profitable for capitalism to save the world, it won’t do it’, we need economic democracy

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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · Apr 30

Degrowth is not about reducing all production, but reducing the ‘damaging and unnecessary forms that exist to service elite accumulation’ and needs to be accompanied by universal public services - @jasonhickel.bsky.social to a packed lecture hall in Sheffield last night

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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · Apr 29

Huge thanks to @livingmaps.bsky.social for a great conference last week. Particularly inspired by the design-led projects and artworks, including Claire Reddleman’s #GinkgosoftheBritishIsles, and by trying my hand at my first more-than-human map

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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · Apr 24

On my way to London for the More-than-human Mappings conference today & tomorrow. Hugely looking forward to making new connections and soaking in some great ideas 🧽

LIVINGMAPS @livingmaps.bsky.social · Mar 21

📢 We are excited to announce the programme for our 2025 conference, More-Than-Human Mappings" Join us for 2 days of talks, workshops and an exhibition. Link for information & tickets here!!👇👇👇 livingmaps.squarespace.com/forthcoming-...

Forthcoming Events — Livingmaps Network

livingmaps.squarespace.com

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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · Mar 27

Just out: figures for sewage dumping in England for 2024.
* 3.61 million hrs of sewage released.
* That's c. 412 years of sewage.
* First yr all 15,000 CSOs were monitored.
£85bn paid out to shareholders since privatisation = underfunded, collapsing infrastructure.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sewage spilled into England's rivers and seas for record 3.6m hours last year - BBC News

Sewage spilled into England's waterways for a record number of hours last year, the Environmental Agency says.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · Mar 24

Ridiculously pleased to have my fieldwork underway 🌊 will be swimming my way through Yorkshire until the summer

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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · Mar 20

Happy spring equinox! 🌸 launched into the new season with a sunrise dip

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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · Feb 26

"Daylighting" is the practice in urban design of restoring buried rivers to the surface.
The River Sheaf been unburied in Sheffield city centre, after 100 yrs in the dark.
Fabulous.
A small light in the great gloom.
“It is starting to make its own meandering path…”
www.bbc.com/news/article...

River Sheaf opened up next to Sheffield Castle site - BBC News

The River Sheaf has been exposed at Castlegate for the first time in over 100 years

www.bbc.com

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