I wrote about India‘s continued viewing of animals as beasts for The Indian Express indianexpress.com/article/opin...

When animals become instruments of power

The BSF has raised important questions of where it is supposed to get these animals and what their ecological impact will be

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The new @strangehorizons.bsky.social special issue on Fungi in SFF is out! A mycelial network of stories, poetry, essays and reviews. Read the special issue here: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/is... And my introduction to it here: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

30 March 2026

Welcome to our subterranean growth special issue, Strange HoRhizomes.

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Finishing a report on displacement from Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve, will start working on Melghat and Bor soon. Compelled to make basic arguments again… indianexpress.com/article/opin...

Why tiger conservation in India needs democratic participation, not displacement

If hegemony depends on the consent of the governed, then India’s conservation future depends on restoring that consent — not through coercion or spectacle, but through equity, participation, and trust

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Defector nabbed an EXCLUSIVE, no-holds-barred interview with the two-headed worm of the moment. defector.com/exclusive-a-...

Exclusive! A Revealing And Not Made-Up Interview With A Two-Headed Worm | Defector

The freshwater flatworm Stenostomum brevipharyngium is, by all accounts, a simple fellow. The worm is small and entirely soft. It has no eyes, only sensory pits that control balance and orientation. T...

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I haven’t been here in a while, so this is a bit delayed but my short story based on my MSc dissertation is out in Anthropology and Humanism, as one of the winners of the Society for Humanistic Anthropology’s Creative Ethnographic Prose Competition!

George Kirkham@kirkham.bsky.social · last yr.

'We did not see anything' - fantastic short story exploring the complexities of ecotourism, fortress conservation, and the emotional connections that displaced peoples retain towards their land

Thank you! So excited to be working together!

Celesté Maré@celestemare.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Amazing blog by @sonakshis.bsky.social about what Interdisciplinary Conservation looks like. Her words eloquently captures what the 2025 ICN workshop felt like. I am thrilled to be working with Sonakshi as we develop our outputs from this collaboration!

Great blog to start the week: reflections from @sonakshis.bsky.social on the 2025 Interdisciplinary Conservation Network. "The highlight of ICN for me was the people. Their presence reminded me of what interdisciplinarity truly looks like and what it takes to build it." iccs.org.uk/what-interdi...

What Interdisciplinarity Feels Like in Practice - ICCS

By Sonakshi Srivastava, a participant in the Interdisciplinary Conservation Network 2025.   I am not going to lie: as a social scientist, I am still a little scared of natural scientists. It is hard t...

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