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Multispecies Mutualisms - Join Our Research Team! We’re hiring 4 Postdoctoral Research Associates (PDRAs) In this video, members of the team share insights into four exciting PDRA opportunities currently available. If you are ready to take the next s...

1/ Calling all ECRS - we have 4x 3 year post docs on Multispecies Mutualisms working with us at Sheffield. Don't want to read through all the stuff to work out if its right for you? Here is a short video explainer 🎥
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We sitatue livestock agriculture as a terraforming practice making Earth alien. We develop SF author Becky Chambers' concept of 'somaforming' to examine the shaping of nonhuman bodies to suit alien Earth and how this preempts futures:

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Chronic ocean heating fuels ‘staggering’ loss of marine life, study finds Fish levels fall by 7.2% with as little as 0.1C of warming per decade, northern hemisphere research shows

“A 7.2% decline for every tenth of a degree per decade might sound small. But compounded over time, across entire ocean basins, it represents a staggering and deeply concerning loss of marine life.”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planning to attend #EASST this year? The brilliant @evahaifa.bsky.social is convening a panel on Multispecies mutualisms
📅 deadline to submit a paper proposal is 9 March- more details on this & registering are in the 🧵

Programme Programme

Interested in animals, health & STS? Our Multispecies Mutualisms (or perhaps Multispecies Mutualisms?) project is underway and we should be advertising postdoctoral positions over the coming months so keep an eye out! In the meantime, we have a proposed panel at EASST: easst.net/conference/e...

@rosaleenduffy.bsky.social one for you!

The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings From climate change to geopolitics, the knowledge, skills and insights of geographers have never been more relevant, say five professors

Really importance piece in the Times Higher on cuts to Geography at a time when it matters most www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uk-u...

Final push on this CfP...4 days left to submit your abstracts to our 'More-than-human Seas' conference session at @rgs.org annual conference. We've already received some fantastic abstracts and would love to include more :)

Still accepting abstract submissions for our @rgsibg.bsky.social
annual conference session on more-than-human seas. We are seeking papers which examine oceanic inequalities, blue justice, blue (de)growth, affect and speculative ocean futures from multispecies perspectives 🌊🦐🐳🐋🪸🏄‍♀️🏊🐠

Daniel Allen and I are organising an @rgsibg.bsky.social conference (hybrid) session on legal animal geographies.

We invite papers that not only highlight current multispecies injustice, but seek to challenge, resist, and contest these systems to create more just multispecies worlds and futures.

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Still lots of time left to submit an abstract for mine and Leah's session #RGSIBG session! If you've got some ideas for a contribution but would like an informal chat, please feel free to get in touch with me. #GeographySky

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Vast seagrass meadows will shield Humber coastline Trials to restore the saltwater plant to the Humber Estuary are hugely encouraging, experts say.

'Seagrass is one of the most powerful natural tools for tackling climate change and can protect coastlines from storms and erosion, according to Wilder Humber – a partnership of the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire wildlife trusts.'

stunning!!!

The proliferation of digital tools in public health has spurred the emergence of ‘digital health’, a term encompassing the varied technologies that utilise digital media to manage illness and support wellbeing (Lupton, 2022). Meanwhile, the rise of One Health as an influential public health paradigm – and with it the idea that animals, humans, and the environment form an interdependent system that should be governed in a coordinated, interdisciplinary manner to secure positive health for all – has contributed to new technologies that seek to monitor and manage disease emergence across species lines (Braverman, 2022). Despite this ambition, much geographical analysis has argued that digital health interventions are anthropocentric, attending to non-humans through modes of surveillance and datafication in so much as they represent a risk to human health, furthering an unequal public health paradigm that leaves little space for local contingency and the wants and needs of non-human actors (Hinchliffe, 2015; Lupton, 2022). Nevertheless, recent geographical work channeling more affirmative ‘digital ecologies’ approaches to the digitisation of more-than-human relations has considered how digital technologies also cultivate understanding of and responsiveness to how pathogens, disease vectors, reservoirs, and environments in specific contexts are implicated in and impacted by disease emergence, throwing light on how digitisation may reconfigure disease ecologies to enable life in less-pathological configurations (Turnbull, 2022; Kirkham, 2026).

Expanding on understandings of digitisation as a process that materially configures disease ecologies to produce programmes of biopolitical intervention, intersubjective experiences of illness and wellbeing, and uneven health outcomes across species lines, this panel interrogates how digital technologies are shaping whose, and what, health is made to matter across diverse contexts. How can we merge digital geographies and health geography scholarship to apprehend the digital mediation of illness and wellbeing? What happens when digital health technologies are inserted into unequal health geographies? How do these technologies reconfigure the topologies of more-than-human relations that drive disease emergence? And how may digital health technology sediment or open taken-for-granted understandings of public health? We are interested in papers answering: • The role of digital technology in practices of biosecurity and disease surveillance at the human-animal-environment nexus, including the ways in which processes of digital datafication, visualisation, and mapping alter how disease situations are apprehended and acted within; • how digital health technologies mediate the experiential dimensions of human-non-human encounter in the context of disease governance; • the political economies of digital disease governance and the role of digital technologies in challenging or supporting pathological industries; • the role of digital technologies as they operate within agro-industrial and veterinary sectors, and the consequences this has for labour, care practices, and more-than-human health; • how material infrastructures of the digital, such as data centres, chip production, and e-waste, are implicated in disease emergence and environmental health; • how digital technologies may or may not transform conventional public health approaches to facilitate the assembly of ‘healthy publics’ or a ‘more-than-One Health’ agenda (Hinchliffe, 2015; Hinchliffe et al., 2018).

Ray Chan and I are convening a panel at the upcoming RGS-IBG 2026 conference titled "Digital Disease Ecologies of More-than-Human Health". Please see the abstract below, and if you are interested in attending send george.kirkham@sjc.ox.ac.uk a 250 word abstract with a short bio by the 23rd Feb

Winners - Animal Geography Working Group Undergraduate Dissertation Prize — RGS Animal Geographies We are delighted to announce our main and a runner up winners! Anna Meller (Durham University) has won the prize for the best undergraduate dissertation with work titled ‘ A GIS-Based Study of Empe...

We are delighted to announce our main and runner up winners for the AGWG Undergraduate Dissertation Prize! Anna Meller (Durham University) has won the best undergraduate dissertation prize and Adam Newton (University of Nottingham) has received the runner-up prize. Our congratulations to both!

Please check out our CfP for the @rgsibg.bsky.social annual conference. We are seeking papers about more-than-human seas which examine oceanic inequalities, blue justice, blue (de)growth, affect and much more! 🌊🦐🐳🐋🪸🏄‍♀️🏊🐠
@marsocsci.bsky.social @rgs-agwg.bsky.social

I know the system is broken and it isn't any individual's fault, but seemingly interminable waits for peer review are incredibly not fun when you're early career and precarious

I waited 11.5 months for my latest set of reviews. It's a horrendous reviewing situation out there atm!

looking forward to it!

CfP: Attuning to More-than-human Seas: Negotiating Multispecies Justice in the Anthropocene Ocean 🌊🦐🐳🪸🦈🐠🌊
Please share! @rgsibg.bsky.social @rgs-agwg.bsky.social @marsocsci.bsky.social @marineconservation.bsky.social

Biodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chiefs warn Ecosystem destruction will increase food shortages, disorder and mass migration, with effects already being felt

I have very mixed feeling about this report & the coverage it is getting. It’s good to see biodiversity loss getting attention. BUT experience in tackling #IWT shows linking biodiversity & security issues carries significant risks, often for the most vulnerable www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Looking for Miracle: why have so many dugongs gone missing from Thailand’s shores? The Andaman coast was one of very few places in the world with a viable population but then dead dugongs began washing up. Now half have gone

#dugong #Thailand

"In 2022, at least 273 dugongs lived in Thai waters..."

They're now losing about 42/year

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Looking for Miracle: why have so many dugongs gone missing from Thailand’s shores? | Global development | The Guardian share.google/qIUzUfAX3faR...

Why are UK universities failing? - LSE Impact The HE sector in the UK faces the prospect of a university going into administration. How have universities fallen so low and is change possible?

'To speak of the “demise” of the UK university is not to suggest its disappearance, but its transformation into something increasingly unrecognisable.'

Wise words, these. 1/3

The call for papers can also be found here - alongside other calls for sessions at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

CfP: Attuning to More-than-human Seas: Negotiating Multispecies Justice in the Anthropocene Ocean 🌊🦐🐳🪸🦈🐠🌊
Please share! @rgsibg.bsky.social @rgs-agwg.bsky.social @marsocsci.bsky.social @marineconservation.bsky.social

A new treaty comes into force to govern life on the high seas For most of modern history, the open ocean has been treated as a place apart. Beyond the 200-nautical-mile limits of national jurisdiction, it was governed by custom, fragmented rules, and the…

A new treaty comes into force to govern life on the high seas

Use of fixed-term posts ‘stifling more critical research’ Scholars with short contracts seen as more likely to favour doing ‘safer’ work, with ‘serious ramifications’ for their disciplines

'“Embedded precarity” in higher education is diminishing research quality as staff on short-term contracts favour “safer” work to secure future employment, according to the author of a new report.'

Royal Geographical Society maps important connections between precarity and research topics. 1/3

Saha, S., (2026) “Endangered cobras and conservation politics: Exploring multispecies encounters in agrarian landscapes of West Bengal”, Journal of Political Ecology 33(1): 6439. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe....

Routledge Handbook of Wildlife Crime The Routledge Handbook of Wildlife Crime provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of wildlife crime in its various forms. The effects of wildlife crime and overexploitation are contribu...

Check out newly published Handbook of Wildlife Crime with starting premise of taking a critical approach to researching/understanding wildlife crime. With most wonderful coeditors @ahubschle.bsky.social R. Wong L. Gutierrez T. Wyatt & contributors
@geogdurham.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social

Photograph of an ocean wave seen from above. European Commission logo in the top right corner. Text: „Have your say on the EU ocean policy

The Call for evidence to shape the European Ocean Act is now open!

The aim is effective use of maritime space & ocean resources, structure ocean observation, and simplified reporting.

Deadline: 9/2/2026: link.europa.eu/fbRF83