From overly lenient sanctions to insufficient follow-up on high-risk farms, and a worrying trend of farmers avoiding re-inspection by shifting the premises through which they claim EU subsidies, today’s report by #Rigsrevisionen raises serious concerns about #PigWelfare inspection in #Denmark.

A reminder that you can join our online book talk with John Scanlan on The Idea of Waste: On the Limits of Human Life (Reaktion Books, 2025) tomorrow (Monday 27 Apr 2026), 4pm Central European time / 3pm in the UK / 10 am Eastern Info to join: newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

In the spirit of syllabus season, here’s a link to an extinction studies course of the #envhist #envhum variety. From the dodo to dire wolves...Please borrow, adapt, share! drive.google.com/file/d/1SzKp... cc: @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social!

I am excited to finally share my first publication with Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute #JRAI based on my ongoing research on #AnimalWelfare inspection in the #EU. #OpenAccess Funded by EURCAW-Pigs rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Change the world farm by farm: The moral care of audit and the paradox of animal welfare inspection in Europe

In European animal welfare inspection on farms and at slaughter, inspectors encounter moral challenges that reveal the paradox at the heart of animal welfare. Against the harsh realities of industria....

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I've been in a whirlwind myself, so decided to extend this deadline out another 9 days, in case anyone else has been caught up in other things, but still wants time to organise a submission. I would love to receive your words. #ethnography #anthropology #poetry sha.americananthro.org/awards/ethno...

Et par billeder fra vores spændende seminar "Human-Animal Studies - Now and in the Future", som fandt sted på AU i går. Tusinde tak til Karen Thodberg, @dreimear.bsky.social, @laerkerecht.bsky.social og @suneborkfelt.bsky.social for spændende, tankevækkende og alsidige præsentationer. #dyreforskning

Just a little over a week to go until the @mindinganimals.dk event on the 14th! If you are interested and/or working in #AnimalStudies, you won’t want to miss it! 👏 Come and join in the conversation… and meet fellow animal studies folk within and beyond your field 🎉

Minding Animals Danmark@handle.invalid · last yr.

Kom og vær med den 14. juni, hvor vi skal snakke på tværs af discipliner om forskning i forholdet mellem mennesker og andre #dyr. Det er på Aarhus Universitet og det er kl. 13-16. Se detaljerne på vores LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/events/human...

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Abandoned lynx, roaming wild boar, ‘beaver bombing’ – has rewilding got out of hand?

From unauthorised species releases to small groups buying up land, ‘guerrilla rewilding’ is going mainstream. But experts worry that these rogue efforts could do more harm than good

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Thanks to @jlorimer.bsky.social for the kind invitation! Looking forward to meeting the #More-Than-Human scholars at @ox.ac.uk and presenting my research on the #affective terrain of industrial pig farming in #Denmark and what this tells us about #pigs and the politics of pork. See you tomorrow!✨

Technological Life - SoGE Oxford@technatures.bsky.social · 2y ago

🗓️ The 2025 Hilary Termcard is here! 👇Check out the fantastic lineup below, wonderfully curated by Beth Greenhough and @jlorimer.bsky.social. 🌍 Get in touch if you're passing through #Oxford and want to attend any of the events at @oxfordgeography.bsky.social.

I am delighted to be in @oxfordgeography.bsky.social to present my work with Danish pigs at @technatures.bsky.social! If you are interested in #affective labour, atmospheric #attunement, or just curious to learn about the lives of industrial pigs, do join! Oxford folk, reach out if you want to meet!

Technological Life - SoGE Oxford@technatures.bsky.social · 2y ago

This week we're delighted to be joined by Eimear McLoughlin (@dreimear.bsky.social) who will be presenting: 'Multispecies multimodalities: sensory #ethnography, industrial sentience, and porcine plurality' 🗓️ Thursday 6th March ⏰ 4pm 📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social All welcome!

Looking forward to this 2-day event on "symbiotic viruses" (4-5 March) convened by Benjamin Hegarty & @fredkeck.bsky.social www.paris-iea.fr/fr/evenement...

Amazing! It’s going to be so much fun!

Mette Lovschal@lovschal.bsky.social · 2y ago

Yesterday was packed with studies of human #heathland entanglements, keynote speakers Doyle McKey & Kari Hjelle. Today's the last day of the conf with yet an impressive line of speakers on #landscape conservation & the panel 'Future of the heathlands?', led by wonderful @dreimear.bsky.social

Wonderful article that asks should “rewilding” be seen as a state that a project can either attain or fall short of, a goal with clear criteria … or is [it] a process, an ongoing move toward a wilder, more self-willed state, that can… be implemented even under agrarian or “domestic” conditions?

Jamie Lorimer@jlorimer.bsky.social · 2y ago

Dispelling The Myth Of The Wild www.noemamag.com/farming-the-...

All papers in mine and @visualplague.bsky.social 's new special issue on "Invasive Species, Global Health, and Colonial Legacies" are now out on advance access with the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. A big thanks to everyone who has helped to make this a reality!

A soft landing into the Place for the #Heathlands conference by the wonderful @lovschal.bsky.social who presented the emerging insights of the #ERC_Anthea project.

Looks amazing! Very much looking forward to participating in this fascinating conference that gathers a host of vibrant perspectives on the deep time #multispecies histories and unfolding realities of #heathlands events.au.dk/heathland

Mette Lovschal@lovschal.bsky.social · 2y ago

Preparing the exhibition for our heathland conference tomorrow (5 Feb 25) "A Place for the Heathlands?" with artists Helle Bovbjerg, Lise Frost, Martine Heuser & Birgitte Munk. events.au.dk/heathland/ar...

In 2014, the fate of an 18-month old giraffe garnered international attention. Marius’ death & #dissection continues to spark debate about captive animal management in #zoos Read my article on the sticky ethics of zoo animal euthanasia here: #Multispecies rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Killing the impulse to save Marius: Disney nature and the ethics of fascination in multispecies relations

The euthanasia of Marius, an 18-month-old giraffe at Copenhagen Zoo in 2014, triggered intense global debate about zoo management practices. This article examines how the zoo's explicit display of cl...

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Happening tomorrow 2-4pm CET! #HumanAnimalRelations #Agroecology #Multispecies #Anthropology Join online or in person!

Eimear Mc Loughlin@dreimear.bsky.social · 2y ago

I am delighted to be welcoming Catie Gressier to Aarhus University where she will present her work on the cycles of life and death on heritage breed farms. It is this Thursday 2-4pm! You can join both online and in person! For more information, click here: aias.au.dk/events/show/...

I am delighted to be welcoming Catie Gressier to Aarhus University where she will present her work on the cycles of life and death on heritage breed farms. It is this Thursday 2-4pm! You can join both online and in person! For more information, click here: aias.au.dk/events/show/...

Talk by Catie Gressier: Blood Ties: Loving, Kinning and Killing on Australian Heritage Breed Farms

In this hybrid seminar, Dr Catie Gressier examines the complexities of the cycles of life and death on heritage breed farms, and the role of kinning and killing in endangered breed conservation.

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✨Excited about sharing my research on Animal Welfare Inspection across the EU at @ehess-fr.bsky.social - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales this week! ❤️Especially grateful to Frédéric Keck for the invitation! Wouldn’t be possible without the support of EURCAW-Pigs 🐷

Excited to be advertising this collaborative PhD project idea with @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social

Thomas Dekeyser@thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are inviting applications for a PhD project on the theme of 'AI geographies of human-animal relations', supervised by @emmajroe.bsky.social & I in Geography at Uni of Southampton. Full details re the project, funding options & how to express interest here: www.thomasdekeyser.com/s/AI-geograp...

Did you know that you can visit an industrial pig slaughterhouse in Denmark? … and what does this have to do with Danish national identity? Proud to have this work published with American Anthropologist! Meet the “citizen-consumers” and “happy pigs” of porcine nationalism: doi.org/10.1111/aman...

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This article examines how tours of an industrial pig slaughterhouse reinforce the continued enfoldment of Danish pigs into the fabrication of Danish national identity, an enfoldment that underpins th...

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