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Christian Kull

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Geographer - Political Ecology - Fire - Plants and trees - Livelihoods - and skiing and mountains and ME/CFS caregiver

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Severe ME - World ME Alliance

Understanding severe ME by the world ME alliance

“Severe and very severe ME/CFS represents one of the most profound states of disability found in medicine.”
– @batemanhornecenter.bsky.social , USA

worldmealliance.org/what-is-me/s...

#ME/Cfs #pwME #SevereME #SevereMEDay #ICDG93.3 #ICDG93.32

04.08.2025 18:35 👍 27 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 0
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Knowledge gaps and narrative traps in Madagascar’s environmental history Onilahy River, southwest Madagascar Madagascar’s environmental past is more complex and regionally diverse than the tired narrative of a once-forested island devastated by people would have us beli…

New article (link in blog entry below) on how the old story of "people arrived and destroyed the Madagascar environment" misses a chance for much more nuanced investigation. Who? What? When? Where? Why? are crucial questions. christiankull.net/2025/07/01/g...

01.07.2025 14:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Had some fun with photo-editing and wrote about a worst nightmare for the hotter future….

27.06.2025 08:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Wildfires coming to Switzerland Forest fire above Rolle, VD, a terrifying vision of the future? What if, one unusually hot summer, after four weeks without rain, a wildfire progressed across the face of the Jura, the hills of la …

christiankull.net/2025/06/27/w...

27.06.2025 08:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Professor Christian Kull

Professor Christian Kull

Each week we like to share bios of our Editorial Board, here at #environmentalconservation. This week we are very pleased to introduce Professor Christian Kull, who is a Senior Editor at the journal. 🌍 @stiankull.bsky.social

25.04.2025 07:59 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles BY VIOLET AFFLECK I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mother in a hotel room. She was shell-shocked, astonished at the scale of destruction in the neighborhood where she raised…

Pacing: the solution to both ME/CFS and the climate crisis. Trenchant writing finds parallels between wildfires and long covid.

yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a...

21.05.2025 14:49 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Postviral Ethics - RCPS & PCNN | Radboud University Read the workshop report and check out the presentations.

#LongCovid, #MECFS and #PAIS are medical and ethical emergencies. Though many people fail to recognise this as such.

On the ethical issues, our website with the video recordings of the talks held at the #postviralethics conference is now online!! 👇

www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...

17.04.2025 16:22 👍 61 🔁 37 💬 7 📌 3
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I Should Have Seen This Coming When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won...

Where are the smart people like David Brooks? Nicely argued. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

09.04.2025 15:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What gives one man the right to take so much of everyone’s time, attention, and emotion all over the world?

07.04.2025 06:38 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Assistant-e en géographie humaine (6305)

Vous auriez envie de faire une thèse de doctorat en Géographie sous ma direction ou avec un•e de mes collègues, sur le thème de votre choix mais en lien à nos domaines de compétences? Postulez pour ce poste de recherche & d’assistant•e d’enseignement!
#UNIGE

jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...

04.04.2025 17:15 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Les arbres voyageurs Ce baobab de l’espèce Adansonia gregorii pousse non loin d’œuvres d’art rupestre, dans un site archéologique de Kununurra (nord-ouest du pays). Il est possible que des humains, lors de la Préhistoire,...

The university’s glossy magazine did a profile of my work on trees that people have moved around the world 😊

wp.unil.ch/allezsavoir/...

23.03.2025 12:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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In memory of Joseph (Joe) Michael Powell, 1938–2022.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

03.03.2025 19:08 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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La motion pour une Stratégie Nationale Suisse sur ME/CFS et Long Covid a été déposée au Parlement. Acceptez la! Nous connaissons presque tous quelqu'un dans nos cercles qui est atteint de Long COVID ou de ME/CFS.

11.02.2025 07:51 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The USAID thing: world’s richest man, in unelected job, closes agency that helps the world’s poorest and promotes democracy. Huh?

08.02.2025 08:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bravo! Est-ce que tu arrives à lire leur « handwriting » ?

24.01.2025 12:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Opinion | The Best Time to Fireproof Los Angeles Was Yesterday Can a city lose an entire neighborhood now and simply shuffle on, dragging the local memory like a ghost limb?

A thoughtful meditation and reminder of the scale of the reforms needed.It's not just that people are moving into fire-prone lands; in Mediterranean Europe the problem is people moving out of fire-prone lands.It's not where you live but how you live on the land. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/o...

11.01.2025 12:23 👍 31 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 2
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Ok, an anecdotal image - but this is what structure protection looked like in the 1935 Malibu fires. What a change in scale and character - of fire, of the built environment, of firefighting capacity (CCC boys then). Only the inevitability of fire in some form is constant.

11.01.2025 02:41 👍 44 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 1
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Les incendies qui s'étendent jusqu’en ville sont terrifiants. Ils sont récurrents dans des endroits comme la Californie avec climat et végétation de type méditerranéen. Et ils s'aggravent avec l'augmentation du nombre de maisons construites dans les zones exposées et avec le changement climatique.

10.01.2025 14:27 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Why forest transitions aren’t always sustainable « Earth & Environmental Science# « Cambridge Core Blog Stopping and reversing deforestation is a top priority across the tropics. Numerous policies and programs try to stem forest clearance, encourage tree planting, and restore forest landscapes. The hope...

It is often assumed that « more forests » is simply better and more sustainable, without careful consideration of how and where it happens, who wins and who loses, and what kinds of forests. How about a political ecology of forest transitions?
www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

09.01.2025 20:13 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Global carbon markets or local residents: forest restoration for whom? Seems like everybody is planting trees or restoring forestlands these days. The emphasis is often on carbon capture to attenuate climate change. But this emphasis on carbon offsets (and the money b…

How to reconcile global and local benefits of forest restoration - or how to ensure local voices, justice, and leadership in the face of strong forces of global agencies and intermediaries? New blog and article.
christiankull.net/2025/01/06/v...

06.01.2025 16:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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[Sarcasm alert]
All is good! Bring ChatGPT on!

Exhibit #101 on why "highlights" should not substitute an abstract. #ChatGPT

22.12.2024 01:16 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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This sums it up, yes.

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University of Lausanne’s seasonal greetings video highlights a colleague’s fun project to re-measure the high points of the Jura mountain chain - which found a new summit, only known to squirrels, named J1…

18.12.2024 16:58 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Conserving Biodiversity without Preserving Settler Ecologies - Edge Effects Charis Enns & Brock Bersaglio trace connections between colonialism, settler ecologies, and conservation in Laikipia County, Kenya.

The road to conservation in semi-arid lands still goes straight through the thicket of colonialism: protecting the rights of Indigenous pastoralists and their rare livestock. This is both a practical question and a deeply ethical one. edgeeffects.net/conservation...

18.12.2024 14:45 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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NEW! Social Science Section Collection — Association for Fire Ecology The new Fire Social Science section of Fire Ecology welcomes contributions from any social science discipline and related interdisciplinary research.

Good political ecology of fire research welcome here, and all other good social science work fireecology.org/journal-news....

18.12.2024 16:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The new political ecology starter pack is here go.bsky.app/Kr7iPwr

08.12.2024 12:19 👍 51 🔁 23 💬 3 📌 5
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Recent article in @natureandspace.bsky.social: I examine long-proposed ‘amorphous’ dams & diversions in the Salween River Basin & show how speculation & rumour are deployed strategically by differently placed actors working towards project development or demise. Open access!

18.12.2024 01:09 👍 18 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

An important petition for scientific accountability in reviewing research on ME/CFS and the advice given to doctors. Listen to the patients and the quality research, not to received ‘wisdoms’. This is important my elder son and millions of sufferers like him around the world

18.12.2024 07:22 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The wonderful Dr Sarobidy Rakotonarivo (formerly of @bangorcosepgr.bsky.social) has been awarded a L'Oreal-UNESCO women in science prize. If you don't know about her work on conservation and development, check out her website mitsilo.org

13.12.2024 09:37 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 3
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Radio Télévision Suisse RTS.ch | Le site de la Radio Télévision Suisse francophone RTS 1, RTS 2, RTS Première, RTS Espace 2, RTS Couleur 3 et RTS Option Musique | Accédez à toutes vos émissions radio et TV, informez-vous grâ...

Des années de délai pour obtenir une rente AI après un Covid long - rts.ch
The challenge of disability payments for long COVID and similar diseases in Switzerland - very frustrating

11.12.2024 14:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0