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Priyanshu Thapliyal
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I’m you with a hint of myself. PhDing at University of Edinburgh. Animal geographies, space and place, nature-society relations, Himalayan futures
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“The transition to clean energy isn’t just about cutting emissions … It’s about refusing to let your economy, your security, your people’s wellbeing be held hostage by events you cannot control, in places you cannot reach, by leaders you did not choose.”
When oil dictates war: Why Venezuela exposes the true cost of energy dependence
The early hours of January 3, 2026, marked not just another military intervention, but a stark reminder of a uncomfortable truth: as long as the world runs on oil, military might will shadow energy se...
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January 4, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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Spoiler: They used the money just as wisely as anyone else would, and it's so frustrating that this still isn't a common sense assumption to make.
One man used some of the money to pay off debts and the remainder to furnish a new home, as he moved out of temporary accommodation. A parent bought a car to be able to drop their children off at school and one participant has used the money to fund driving lessons and hopes to buy a car. Another young man also paid off debts and began researching courses to enable him to find work as a plumber. One woman said that the money came just at the right time, as she was struggling with childcare costs. For a young person who wasn’t able to study at university because they couldn’t afford the fees, the money has given them hope to continue pursuing education. Several participants gave money or bought gifts for relatives or friends. Three months after receiving the windfall, some people had not spent all of the money and put left-over cash in a bank account as savings. So far, there have been no adverse outcomes for participants taking part in this trial. Michael Sanders, professor of public policy at King’s College London, which is evaluating the trial, said: “Evidence from Canada suggests that when people experiencing homelessness get a cash sum they invest in themselves and in their future.
December 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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🐾 Sometimes, saving just one injured animal in the wild isn’t only about mercy—it can reshape what we believe is possible.

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Africa’s rarest carnivore: the story of the first Ethiopian wolf ever captured, nursed and returned to the wild
An Ethiopian wolf, Africa’s most endangered carnivore, was found shot in the leg. What happened next was astonishing.
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December 24, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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rgsibg.bsky.social
Are you completing a #geography masters? 🌎

Don't miss our 10 top tips for writing your masters dissertation ⬇️✍️
https://www.rgs.org/research/higher-education-resources/top-ten-tips-for-masters-dissertation-writing
Top ten tips for masters dissertation writing | RGS
This guide contains 10 tips for writing your masters dissertation. It was originally written by Phil Emmerson for the Society's Postgraduate Forum. 
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December 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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natureandspace.bsky.social
OnlineFirst - "Casual killing in the home: Ecological citizenship and the micro-geopolitics of mosquito cohabitation" by Orlando Woods and Junxi Qian:

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December 17, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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noisybits.bsky.social
Wild hot take, but what if misogynistic cultural production was a symptom of the culture that produces it rather than its cause? What if misogyny was structural? What if porn was the telling map of a culture rather than its lone black sheep? What if politicians and commentators could think for once?
December 18, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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pkashwan.bsky.social
As India claims to be an emerging global power, it'd do well to invest some of its wealth to address climate change & climate inequalities at home. Climate change is not just an env/diplomatic issue: it's about human security. @ashoswai.bsky.social @thediplomat.com thediplomat.com/2025/12/indi...
Screenshot of the header of an article by Prakash Kashwan and Ashok Swain published in The Diplomat magazine. The title and the blurb reads as follows: India’s Climate Diplomacy Must Account for Domestic Inequalities Economic liberalization in India has shifted the emissions burden from more equal and developed states to less equal ones. This needs to change.
December 19, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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pollenetwork.bsky.social
New paper 📖: Staddon, S. 2025. The Politics of Care in Coping Well with Change: Conceptualising and Questioning Care to Move beyond ‘Resilience’ in Rural Nepal. Journal of Forest and Livelihood, 25(1): 1-21 nepjol.info/index.php/JF...
The Politics of Care in Coping Well with Change: Conceptualising and Questioning Care to Move beyond ‘Resilience’ in Rural Nepal. | Journal of Forest and Livelihood
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December 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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helenkopnina.bsky.social
Might be of interest: Beyond multispecies ethnography: Engaging with violence and animal rights in anthropology journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Beyond multispecies ethnography: Engaging with violence and animal rights in anthropology - Helen Kopnina, 2017
Anthropologists have mediated between discriminated communities and outsiders, helping to influence public opinion through advocacy work. But can anthropologica...
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February 7, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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natureandspace.bsky.social
"Social-ecological conflicts: An emancipatory conceptual approach by bringing other-than-humans into environmental conflict analysis" by Markus Rauchecker, David Kuhn, Diana Hummel, Thomas Fickel, Thomas Friedrich, Katja Brinkmann, Stefanie Burkhart, Fanny Frick-Trzebitzky, and Luca Nitschke:
November 12, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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himalmag.bsky.social
“Alpa Shah’s ‘The Incarcerations’ asks a pressing question: What does the fate of the BK-16 tell us about the country’s uneasy relationship with dissent and the fate of Indian democracy itself?”

Uttaran Das Gupta writes:
Bhima Koregaon, the BK-16 and cracks in Indian democracy
ON 6 JUNE 2018, Indian police raided the homes of numerous human-rights activists and lawyers, arresting five individuals. Among them were the activist and jour
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November 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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sangomahanty.bsky.social
4 years of discussion and joint writing with 5 fabulous colleagues are behind this *open access* paper on methodological and ethical challenges in studying extreme and cascading forms of nature-society disruption (We even reflect on a failed ARC bid ❤️‍🩹) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Researching Rupture: Engaged and Ethical Research on Extreme Nature–Society Disruption
Global escalation in social and environmental disruption raises crucial methodological and ethical questions for researchers working in impacted communities. Interpretive social science and humanitie...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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whitehorsepress.bsky.social
We've posted another new piece ahead of print in 'Environment and History', being Claudia Leal's article 'Tenacious: An Alternative History of Dogs'; online here: doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist #dogs #mongrels #colombia #latinamerica @eandhwhp.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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slipshodspeller.bsky.social
During the making of Winter Well, we gathered more material than we could manage to fit in five episodes. Happily, it has a perfect home here on BBC Scotland’s Outdoor Podcast.

@alecfinlay.bsky.social describes the power of the view and a vision for staying put.

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Scotland Outdoors - The Power of the View with Alec Finlay - BBC Sounds
Poet and Artist Alec Finlay shares his experience of chronic illness with Hayden Lorimer
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October 18, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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colinmcfarlane.bsky.social
Some thoughts on what what crisis is doing to the urban imagination - short piece as part of a collection in Dialogues in Urban Research: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Crisis and the urban imagination - Colin McFarlane, 2025
What are ideas like ‘polycrisis’ doing to how we think and research the urban? How might we ensure that discourses and conditions of polycrises do not erode our...
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October 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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natureandspace.bsky.social
OnlineFirst - "Dying to breathe: Caste, law and the urban political ecology of manual scavenging in India" by Ambarish Karamchedu:

#caste #sanitation #India #urbanpoliticalecology #law

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October 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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sangomahanty.bsky.social
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
October 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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hannahdcknsn.bsky.social
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!) 🐕‍🦺🐟💩🪶🥚🦴🐚🐌🐖
October 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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jonpughislands.bsky.social
Now published

Critique beyond relation: The stakes of working with the negative, the void and the abyss

David Chandler and Jonathan Pugh

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

v50, Issue 3 e12724

#openaccess

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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper seeks to outline an alternative mode of critique, one that places both relational and negative approaches under the scrutiny of an ‘abyssal’ approach. Here, after Fanon, the world violentl....
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September 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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rgs-agwg.bsky.social
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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October 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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natureandspace.bsky.social
OnlineFirst - "The wood storks of Lake Somerset: Multispecies landscapes of the Holocene/Anthropocene boundary event" by Zachary Caple:

#planetarytransition #colonialcapitalistinvasions #nicheconstruction #multispeciesethnography #landscapehistory #Florida

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September 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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hannalp.bsky.social
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.
September 18, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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jamiearathoon.bsky.social
Happy to see my new article co-authored with Daniel Allen and John Walliss published Open Access in Geography Compass.

◾ The article is titled: An Exploration of Dog‐Related Policy Through a Legal Animal Geographies Lens 🐶

doi.org/10.1111/gec3...
An Exploration of Dog‐Related Policy Through a Legal Animal Geographies Lens
This article employs a legal animal geographies lens to redefine dogs as more-than-property, focusing on the UK’s legislative shift from the Theft Act 1968 to the Pet Abduction Act 2024, recognising ...
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September 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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christinahoicka.bsky.social
I am so pleased I had the opportunity to provide this commentary in @dialogueshg.bsky.social about why I think that #energygeographies are so important to understanding the drivers and dynamics of #energytransitions and #energyjustice
doi.org/10.1177/2043... @aag-energy.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 12:06 AM