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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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Hansjörg Dilger @hdilger.bsky.social · May 29

At a time when there is a shift to right-wing and authoritarian forces and an increasing hostility towards the social sciences and humanities, social and cultural anthropology is more important than ever:
www.linkedin.com/pulse/instit...

Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology at FU Berlin receives overwhelming support from students and colleagues in the face of massive budget cuts

At the beginning of last week, I received some devastating news: the President’s Office at Freie Universität Berlin has proposed eliminating the third professorship at the Institute of Social and Cult...

www.linkedin.com

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · Apr 15

📣 USF International Fellowships 2025 - apply now!

This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South.

Read more & apply here: urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/inte...

Deadline 16th July 2025

USF International Fellowships 2025 - deadline 16th July 2025

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Maan Barua @maanbarua.bsky.social · Apr 4

How do we engage with a world of material transformation hidden in plain sight? #MetabolicFutures at @akademiesolitude.bsky.social starts today!

With Hannah Landecker, Andrew Barry, Matthew Gandy,
@ulibeisel.bsky.social Víctor Muñoz Sanz and many others!

Full programme: bit.ly/4hLTmbB

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FAU Erlangen-Nbg @fau.de · Mar 20

Bis zu 10.000€ Förderung für Projekte im Bereich der Genderforschung.🚀 Bezuschusst werden etwaige Veranstaltungsformate wie Tagungen, Symposien oder Summer Schools.

❗ Die Bewerbungsfrist ist der 15. April. Antragsteller/-innen müssen der #uniFAU angehören.

👉 Mehr Infos: go.fau.de/1bgei

Studierende in einer Bibliothek sitzen gemeinsam an einem Tisch.

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Jan-Martin Wiarda @jmwiarda.bsky.social · Mar 13

"Nicht mehr internationale Spitze"

Jedes Jahr wird weltweit überprüft, wie frei Wissenschaftler arbeiten können. Jetzt ist Deutschland beim "Academic Freedom Index" aus der Spitzengruppe gefallen. Was steckt dahinter? Ein Interview.

Im Tagesspiegel & im #WiardaBlog: www.jmwiarda.de/2025/03/13/n...

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Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · Mar 12

Very excited today to diffract 'urban greening' at #STSHub2025

@ellug.bsky.social and I managed to convene a wonderful set of speakers, with @sandrajasper.bsky.social as our discussant :) Do come!!

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · Mar 7

Last chance to apply to our MA Environment and Society!

The deadline is Monday.

You can find all the relevent information here: www.environmentmaster.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/application/...

#rccma #masterofarts #envhum #environmentandsociety #interdisciplinary #innovative #international

The image is a flyer for our MA program Master of Arts Environment and Society. In the upper right corner is a note saying "Deadline closes soon" with a few exclamation marks. The center is a photograph of a red chair in the middle of high grass and a forest. Below are the key words to characterize the MA: interdisciplinary, innovative, international. Deadline is 10 March 2025.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · Mar 6

A niche but nonetheless very cool (and permanent!) soil sociology job going at Durham: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Assistant Professor in Sociology (Environmental Health)

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

durham.taleo.net

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · Mar 5

Spotted on campus this morning. Thanks to the person who posted this.

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Sandra Jasper @sandrajasper.bsky.social · Mar 4

📣 JOB ALERT
PostDoc (3+3 years) and PhD (3 years) in Cultural Geography/Society-Environment Research in the new Society-Environment Research Group at @fau.de
Deadline: 28 March 2025.

More info here:
www.geographie.nat.fau.de/job-offer-po...
Do get in touch with any questions!

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Jan-Martin Wiarda @jmwiarda.bsky.social · Feb 26

Sparflucht nach vorn

DAAD und DFG verkünden Kürzungen in ihren Programmen und senden so eine Warnung an die nächste Bundesregierung. Vorboten eines noch größeren Spardrucks unter Schwarz-Rot? Derweil droht jetzt auch den NRW-Hochschulen der Rotstift.

Im #WiardaBlog:
www.jmwiarda.de/2025/02/26/s...

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Technological Life - SoGE Oxford @technatures.bsky.social · Feb 24

This week, we're hosting the book launch of Digital Ecologies: Mediating More-than-human Worlds w/ @jonnyjjt.bsky.social & @admsrl.bsky.social

🗓️ 27th February
⏰ 4pm
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188601/ @digicologies.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social P

Manchester University Press - Digital ecologies

Digital ecologies - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Digital ecologies by Jonathon Turnbull

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

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Andy Williams @llantwit.bsky.social · Feb 21

Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic.
This is truly shocking read.
The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame.
voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University -

Reading Time: 4 minutesBy an anonymous academic. Cover image by Adwitiya Pal On the second day of classes…

voice.cymru

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Georg Glasze @gglasze.bsky.social · Jan 29

Ich freue mich auf die Diskussion morgen, Do. Abend in #Nürnberg mit unserer neuen @fau.de Kollegin @sandrajasper.bsky.social
und den KollegInnen vom FAU Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg #CHREN: Laura Clerico, Patricia Wiater und Heiner Bielefeldt.

FAU Erlangen-Nbg @fau.de · Jan 24

Wie beeinflussen Umweltkrisen Menschenrechte? Welche Herausforderungen gibt es und wie können wir diesen begegnen? 🌍

Darüber sprechen FAU Forschende in einer öffentlichen Podiumsdiskussion kommenden Donnerstag im Germanischen Nationalmuseum in Nürnberg. 👇

go.fau.de/1beeh

Eine Person sitzt in dreckigen Gewändern im Schlamm. Neben der Person und im Hintergrund liegt Müll. Im Vordergrund ein blauer Kasten mit weißer Schrift: "Podiumsdiskussion 'Menschenrechte im Kontext planetarer Umweltkrisen'"

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Georg Glasze @gglasze.bsky.social · Jan 26

Wir freuen uns auf Prof. Almut Schilling Vacaflor im Kulturgeographie-Kolloq @fau.de

Unternehmerische Rechenschaftspflicht in globalen Lieferketten: Wie effektiv sind neue Sorgfaltspflichtengesetze?

Mi., 29.01. 12.30
ER-Tennenlohe: Wetterkreuz 15

www.geographie.nat.fau.de/unternehmeri...

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Markus Krajewski @krajewskimarkus.bsky.social · Jan 24

Mit dabei sind @gglasze.bsky.social @sandrajasper.bsky.social sowie Laura Clerico, Patricia Wiater und Heiner Bielefeldt vom FAU Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg #CHREN.
www.humanrights.fau.de

FAU Erlangen-Nbg @fau.de · Jan 24

Wie beeinflussen Umweltkrisen Menschenrechte? Welche Herausforderungen gibt es und wie können wir diesen begegnen? 🌍

Darüber sprechen FAU Forschende in einer öffentlichen Podiumsdiskussion kommenden Donnerstag im Germanischen Nationalmuseum in Nürnberg. 👇

go.fau.de/1beeh

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FAU Erlangen-Nbg @fau.de · Jan 24

Wie beeinflussen Umweltkrisen Menschenrechte? Welche Herausforderungen gibt es und wie können wir diesen begegnen? 🌍

Darüber sprechen FAU Forschende in einer öffentlichen Podiumsdiskussion kommenden Donnerstag im Germanischen Nationalmuseum in Nürnberg. 👇

go.fau.de/1beeh

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humboldtuni.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social · Jan 23

Wir gratulieren! 🙌 Krystin Unverzagt, Gastwissenschaftlerin am IRI THESys der #HumboldtUni, erhält den Lieselotte Pongratz-Promotionspreis 2025 der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes für ihre Doktorarbeit zum Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Demokratie.
Mehr Infos 👉 www.hu-berlin.de/de/pr/nachri...

Preisträgerin Krystin Unverzagt, Foto: Philipp Verpoort

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Sandra Jasper @sandrajasper.bsky.social · Jan 11

#geography #geosky #environmental #humanities #soundstudies

Sandra Jasper @sandrajasper.bsky.social · Jan 11

📣 JOB ALERT
PhD opportunity, few days left to apply! Together with @jprior.bsky.social, we are recruiting a PhD student to work on our AHRC-DFG funded project, 'Networked through #Sound: Listening to 20th Century #Wildlife Sound #Archives'

More info here: www.jobs.fau.de/jobs/doctora...
🎵 🦇 🎶 🦜 🎵 🦊

Picture of a tape with wildlife sound recordings from Antarctica.

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · Nov 21

Looking for more human geographers? Here's a good start!

Sam Kinsley @samkinsley.uk · Nov 19

Hello to the many people who joined this week! 👋 Here’s two starter packs of geographers 👇 & check out #geosky too

go.bsky.app/SAK9wfm

go.bsky.app/KkXvsnP

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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!

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526170347/ #DigitalEcologies

Manchester University Press - Digital ecologies

Digital ecologies - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Digital ecologies by Jonathon Turnbull

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

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Sandra Jasper @sandrajasper.bsky.social · Dec 9

PhD Position in #geography

Digital Ecologies @digicologies.bsky.social · Dec 9

🔊 @sandrajasper.bsky.social & @jprior.bsky.social are recruiting a PhD student to work on their AHRC-DFG Research Grant, 'Networked through #Sound: Listening to 20th Century #Wildlife Sound #Archives'.

💫 An exciting opportunity not to be missed!

www.jobs.fau.de/jobs/doctora... #DigitalEcologies

Doctoral Researcher in Geography (1.04.2025) TV-L E 13, 75% (Prof. Dr. Sandra Jasper) - AHRC-DFG funded project

www.jobs.fau.de

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