Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️🌈 🟥
@georgeiorda.bsky.social
PI of #ERCStG #GreenFrontier 🔎#politics of #conservation in #EU #Rewilding conflicts @FNPWUR 🌳 #EnvJustice #Commons & #IllegalLogging @ULBSibiu 🐻 #WildlifeCrime @BeastlyProject @ShefUniPolitics #StopGenocide
So happy to see my new book "How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic" published today with @hopkinspress.bsky.social! #histmed #histsci #plague #rats #pandemic www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... The book is also available Open Access via Project MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/oa_mon...
super paper in @peopleandnature.bsky.social by Theo Stanley on recent turns in Scottish #rewilding to integrate markets, technology but also some romanticism. A superbly rich analysis. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Technical wildness: Modernity, romanticism, and the technocratic turn in Scottish rewilding
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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two fantastic PhD opportunities on human-eel interactions. Don't let this opportunity slip away, etc etc etc. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/435262
Call for Two PhD Researcher Positions, Institute of Anthropological and Spatial Studies (IASS), ZRC SAZU within the ERC Synergy Project PLANETARY EEL
The Department of Anthropology at the Institute of Anthropological and Spatial Studies (IASS), Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU), Ljubljana, Slovenia, invites ap...
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For the next two days we are organising The Greyzone of the Green Transition conference in Sibiu, Romania. It brings together about 50 researcher from across Eastern Europe working on environmental justice issues. Full program grants.ulbsibiu.ro/ecojust/conf...
Conference program - ecoJust home
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📢 Dream job alert for degrowth & climate justice folks 🌱✨ Research & Degrowth International is hiring a Communications Officer in Barcelona 🇪🇸. If you’re into activist comms, media strategy, social movements & ecology— this might be for you 💥 🗓 Apply by May 15 degrowth.org/blog/2026/04...
Open call communications officer – degrowth.org
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Call 4 papers 📢 How are increasingly severe mountain droughts reshaping people & ecosystems? 🌄💧Mountain Research and Development seeks studies, meta-analyses, and action research on drought impacts and its solutions in mountain regions. 🗓️ Submission: 15 June 2026 www.mrd-journal.org/issue/drough...
Drought Dynamics and Futures in Mountain Regions - Mountain Research and Development Journal
We seek contributions that offer insights into the complex, cascading effects of drought, bridge disciplinary boundaries, and present innovative responses to drought and water scarcity in mountains.
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With thanks to @shokes.bsky.social for this thoughtful and generous reflection on our new film OVERBURDEN and the paradoxes posed by the convergences of #mining and #conservation for people and animals living in some of West Africa's most biodiverse and iron-rich regions. #envhist #envhum
Ashoka Mukpo@shokes.bsky.social · 3mo agoI wrote about a new film produced by @greggmitman.bsky.social, author of "Empire of Rubber," on the uneasy relationship between iron mining and conservation in Liberia's Nimba mountains news.mongabay.com/2026/05/in-t...
*Globalizing Wildlife* is OUT THIS MONTH (!) with @uncpress.bsky.social “An essential and timely intervention… exciting, cutting-edge vantages on crucial global histories” -Daniel Vandersommers Edited by @rafdebont.bsky.social myself, & Tom Quick #animalhist #globalhist #HistSci #envhist
"Our old world, the one that we have inhabited for the last 12,000 years, has ended, even if no newspaper has yet printed its scientific obituary." For Earth Day, read Mike Davis's classic essay, Who Will Build the Ark?
Who Will Build the Ark?
What follows is rather like the famous courtroom scene in Orson Welles’s The Lady from Shanghai (1947). In that noir allegory of proletarian virtue in the embrace of ruling-class decadence, Welles pla...
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📣 We're #Hiring! #ERC Consolidator Project BOTLEG at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is recruiting: - 1 PostDoc ➡️ jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/9... - 2 PhDs ➡️ jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/c... 📅 Deadline: 25 May 2026 #PhDSky #HistSci #PhilSci #HPBio #EnvHist #DigitalHumanities #AcademicSky
New position at the University of Santiago de Compostela 🇪🇸! 5 PhD students, 2 postdocs & 1 research assistant for the ERC Advanced Grant project CATCH (Catholic Church & the Environment). Join & help build the Radical Environmental Humanities Hub. Deadline: April 25. reh2.cispac.gal/the-catholic...
Radical environmental humanities hub
REH₂ is an international, interdisciplinary hub where research, the arts, and social commitment converge to face the ecological crisis.
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Great PhD position at @universityofleeds.bsky.social in the ERC funded METHPOL project, please share!
Rosaleen Duffy@rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 4mo ago📣 Fully-funded PhD position on Methane Politics on the ERC funded METHPOL project @ Leeds Uni w/Prof Jan Selby. Open to home (UK) applicants (international studentships have been filled) to start October 2026. Deadline 22 April. #ClimateChange. Full details ⬇️ phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/427-...
I am so proud to share DR. Utkarsh Choudhury's first paper from his recently defended PhD dissertation has just been published! "The politics of invisibilization: environmental performativity and the erasure of nonhuman life in India’s Namami Gange Program" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The politics of invisibilization: environmental performativity and the erasure of nonhuman life in India’s Namami Gange Program
In an era of escalating ecological crises, dominant approaches to river conservation in India continue to exclude the very nonhuman life they claim to…
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Very excited to announce that our Leverhulme grant on insular gigantism was successful! 3 year project with @toriherridge.bsky.social @nannonstevens.bsky.social and Jesse Hennekam. Postdoc advert coming soon, but feel free to contact me via email for more details.
🐦⬛ 🐕🦺🐄🐴 Our Multispecies Mutualisms post doc roles are now also on jobs.ac.uk 🐦⬛ 🐕🦺🐄🐴 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS438/4...
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Rosaleen Duffy@rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 5mo ago1/ Calling all ECRs - we have 4x3 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 🎥 digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...
Reposting these 4 #postdoc positions in the Multispecies Mutualism project! When I say this is the dream team to work with, it's not an overstatement. For me working with Rosaleen was life changing in so many ways! Please share with anyone interested!
Rosaleen Duffy@rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 5mo ago1/ Calling all ECRs - we have 4x3 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 🎥 digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...
Keep an eye out for three amazing job opportunities to be published next week
Rosaleen Duffy@rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 5mo ago⏱️the countdown begins…we are 1 year in to the Multispecies Mutualisms project & next week we will advertise four 3-year post doc positions. The posts will start in Sept 2026. Keep a look out for the adverts & get in touch if you have fully completed your PhD & are interested in working with us ⬇️
Researchers, practitioners, and resource users in the marine human-wildlife coexistence/conflict space we are hoping to run a symposium and focus group at the International Marine Conservation Congress (IMCC) in Edinburgh from 13-17 November 2026.
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 🧵
Eva Haifa Giraud@evahaifa.bsky.social · 7mo agoInterested 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...
📣 Call for proposals! Join an interdisciplinary symposium on other-than-human & more-than-human struggles — from unruly animals and resistant landscapes to multispecies coalitions. 🗓 Deadline: 15 May 2026 #MoreThanHuman #PoliticalEcology #Anthropology #CFP #EnvironmentalHumanitie
Materials - ResisTerra
Beyond its own research, ResisTerra collects, comments on and recommends a variety of materials on the subject, from films and books to studies and courses.
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Krauss, J. E.,Mabele, M. B.& Kiwango,W. A. 2026 Loved (lions/red squirrels) and unloved others (spotted hyenas/grey squirrels):Spectacles and more-than-human gazes as part of a political ecology of responsibility J of Political Ecology 33(1): 6442. doi.org/10.2458/jpe.... @pollenetwork.bsky.social
Loved (lions/red squirrels) and unloved others (spotted hyenas/grey squirrels): Spectacles and more-than-human gazes as part of a political ecology of responsibility
Conservation generally benefits from spectacles of protecting 'loved others', i.e., those inspiring a human desire for their continued existence, rather than 'unloved others', i.e., those disregarded,...
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This is a really excellent piece - detailing the situation for geography (&other subjects) across UK #HE. The cuts & more general lack of support are having a devastating effects that will reverberate for decades @jennypickerill.bsky.social @peterhopkins.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social
Jenny Pickerill@jennypickerill.bsky.social · 6mo agoOur new piece out today in Times Higher Education about the threats to Geography in the UK - particularly fieldwork - please do share. It links to a recent snapshot survey on the challenges being faced in UK HE, which highlights the inequities of the challenges, but also fears of what is yet to come
🌍 2 Fully-funded PhDs in Global Methane Politics at UniofLeeds! Study coal or wastewater methane, join an ERC-funded team, do international fieldwork & shape climate policy research. Start Oct 2026. Apply now! 🔬💨 #ClimateJobs #PhD #Methane phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2341...
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Project opportunity - Global Methane Politics at the University of Leeds
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CFP 📢 Join us for a panel on conservation histories for the European Congress of Conservation Biology in Leiden @eccb26leiden.bsky.social If you're interested, email @georgeholmes.bsky.social or me with an abstract by Feb 9. #envhist #histsci #animalhist #conservationhumanities
George Holmes@georgeholmes.bsky.social · 7mo agoWant to join our panel @eccb26leiden.bsky.social on "Conservation Histories and Humanities: Understanding the Present, Unearthing the Past"? We are looking for presentations exploring the histories of conservation. Email me (g.holmes@leeds.ac.uk) with an abstract by 9th Feb.
Update on the 2026 PE Spring school: I am extremely pleased that Prof Emma Mawdsley (University of Cambridge) and Prof. Iva Peša (University of Groningen) have agreed to join the spring school as instructors Together with Annah Zhu, Sumit Vij and Erik Swyngedouw, this makes for a stellar line-up!
Bram Büscher@brambuscher.bsky.social · 8mo agoPlease consider joining our 2026 Political Ecology spring school! Planetary Political Ecologies: Environmental disasters, conflicts and possibilities in & beyond capitalism ▶️ 13-17 April 2026 ▶️ Wageningen With Annah Zhu, Erik Swyngedouw, Sumit Vij & others! wass.crs.wur.nl/courses/deta...
I have a new chapter out in the Routledge Handbook of Wildlife Crime, co-authored with @georgeiorda.bsky.social and Teresa Lappe-Osthege: 'Interfaces of il/legality in European wildlife trade' If you would like a copy please get in touch! www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
Interfaces of il/legality in European wildlife trade | 3 | Routledge H
Europe is overlooked as a hub for illegal wildlife trade. This chapter shines a spotlight on illicit trade in European species, including European eels,
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Check out this brilliant piece in the new Handbook on #WildlifeCrime by my lovely colleagues @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social @georgeiorda.bsky.social & Teresa Lappe-Osthege. It highlights the overlooked trade in European wildlife #IWT #WildlifeTrade
Hannah D-C 🦐@hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 7mo agoI have a new chapter out in the Routledge Handbook of Wildlife Crime, co-authored with @georgeiorda.bsky.social and Teresa Lappe-Osthege: 'Interfaces of il/legality in European wildlife trade' If you would like a copy please get in touch! www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
our letter in @theguardian.com on the rise of 'beaver bombing' and other illicit and unregulated species reintroductions in Britain and elsewhere. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The rise of ‘beaver bombing’ across Europe | Letter
Letter: Prof George Holmes and Gabriel Rowland say illicit releases need to be included in our conversations about which species belong in the UK, and who gets to decide this
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Proud to have my photo essay out in the publication Current Conservation. I got really into photography during my PhD including using a film camera. I hope it conveys some of the visual experience of being in a bird market and the sense of place. Enjoy 🐦 www.currentconservation.org/visual-stori...
Visual stories from a bird marketplace | Current Conservation
Current Conservation Visual stories from a bird marketplace
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Check out this! Not one, not two, but three dream postdocs in a fantastic new ERC project!
Rosaleen Duffy@rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 8mo ago1/ 📣 Jobs alert! 3x 3 year post docs & 2 PhD studentships on the Global Methane Project with Jan Selby at Leeds Uni cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1...