My term as Secretary for the AGWG is up! Really proud to see how this group has grown and flourished in the 3 years since Katie Oliver, Jamie Arathoon and I co-founded the group. Time for some fresh ideas and voices to join :) We are looking for a new Chair, secretary and ECR rep (UK based)

RGS Animal Geographies @rgs-agwg.bsky.social · 2w ago

We have some exciting committee positions opening up - come and join us! We're looking for a new Chair, Secretary and an ECR Rep. More info and how to apply here: www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/joi...

I'm super happy to see this SI on Transnational Plant Studies out; I can't speak highly enough of Sushmita and Banu as editors and their introduction is such a valuable provocation - a must-read for anyone interested in the plant turn, plant studies, and/or the environmental humanities more broadly!

Duke University Press@dukepress.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Transnational Plant Studies," a special issue of Cultural Politics edited by Sushmita Chatterjee and Banu Subramaniam, is now available. View the TOC and read the editor's introduction, made freely available: buff.ly/EhEbaJG

🐕‍🦺🐴🐦‍⬛🐄 Our new Multispecies Mutualisms project website is now live. The amazing design work is by Sheffield artist Lisa O’Hara. Some exciting announcements to come about our new post docs - keep a 👀 out 👇 multispeciesmutualisms.org

A rare thing: *four* three-year hums/soc-sci posts in animal studies, on the Multispecies Mutualisms project at UoSheffield - with @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social, me, Robert McKay and Alasdair Cochrane; see here for a video explainer: digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...

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...

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This looks like a super important collection - I'm really looking forward to reading it!

Gregg Mitman@greggmitman.bsky.social · 6mo ago

On the history of the primate trade and colonial/postcolonial ecologies of extraction, conservation and care. Thanks to my co-editor Tara Suri and all who contributed to this Focus section in Isis. FREE ACCESS! #envhist #sts #conservation #primates www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Just reposting this CFP! Deadline 9th March :)

Eva Haifa Giraud@evahaifa.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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...

The podcast accompanies their Digital Eating Special Issue www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjce20/1... also feat @joedeville.bsky.social @evahaifa.bsky.social @christianfuentes.bsky.social among many untaggable others

Journal of Cultural Economy@jcultecon.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Latest episode is OUT. Feat. 🥁 @taschn.bsky.social and @jeremybrice.bsky.social talking about how apps, platforms and data are reshaping what eating means with our hosts @addiemcgowan.bsky.social and @philiproscoe.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw8A...

Ben's work is super good - would really recommend reading this!

Ben Bowsher@benbowsher.bsky.social · 6mo ago

in case anyone missed it, my first article is out now in Progress in Human Geography: The poetics of knowledge in the Anthropocene: Rancière and the politics of posthuman knowledge journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... FFO: posthumanism, postfoundational politics, Anthropocene Please share!

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...

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Was absolutely amazing to host Camille last week - super thought-provoking talk; and it's been amazing to see how this research has evolved and developed!

CSCBellet@cscbellet.bsky.social · 8mo ago

💥 Last week @sheffielduni.bsky.social, I had the pleasure of presenting my ongoing work on “Sensing with cows in digitised farms” — in a truly exceptional #AnimalStudies environment 🔥

Last four days to send in your abstracts 👇

Digital Ecologies@digicologies.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐 'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies' 🗓️ 2-3 February 2026 📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating) Deadline: 14th November Full info: digicologies.com/cfp

I have a horrible feeling I forgot to post that registration for this conference about extinction, conservation and the future of our planet is now open. We have an amazing range of speakers, who are listed here, alongside the link to register. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Are you curious about expanding your social research practice to include nonhuman species, but don’t know where to start? Come and join this immersive three-day workshop at the University of Manchester, with a mix of indoor seminars and outdoor fieldwork: store.southampton.ac.uk/short-course...

Nice interview with Greg Hollin about his recent Cultural Anthropology article on pro wrestling, post-truth, and precarious labour: culanth.org/fieldsights/...

The Tragi-Comedy of the Wrestlers’ World: An Interview with Gregory Hollin

Following Gregory Hollin's article, our interview further explores the wrestler’s world and its synecdochical, if not allegorical, connections to...

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I'm honestly struggling to articulate how excited I am to be working on this project with these people - really does feel like a dream come true!

Rosaleen Duffy@rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · last yr.

1/ 📣 Big news! For the next 5 years I’ll be working with this amazing team @evahaifa.bsky.social Alasdair Cochrane & Bob McKay on the @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded Multispecies Mutualisms project wellcome.org/grant-fundin...

What are the dangers in relying on automated hate speech detection to tackle discrimination online? Eva Haifa Giraud, Elizabeth Poole, Ed de Quincey and @discodiscourse.bsky.social look at digital racism, Twitter/X and counter-narratives against Islamophobia. Out now #OpenAccess buff.ly/4a90uwi

Would you like to spend a few months in Edinburgh in 2025-26 working with our brilliant Environmental Humanities community and, ahem, enjoying the Scottish weather? The application portal for EEHN Visiting Research Fellowships is now open.

Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network@eehnetwork.bsky.social · 2y ago

We host visiting researchers for fellowships of 2-4 months each year at @iashedinburgh.bsky.social. Details here, deadline 28 Feb: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/environmenta...

A very interesting article (open access) in @theoryculturesociety.org on non-human animal cultures and extinctions, written by wonderful colleagues, led by @thomvandooren.bsky.social including our PhD Sam Widin. But didn't Darwin and later animal ecologists write on animal cultures? #envhum #STS

Animal Cultures at the Edge of Extinction - Thom van Dooren, Matthew Chrulew, Myles Oakey, Sam Widin, Drew Rooke, 2024

Over the course of the latter part of the 20th century the notion that some animals might partake in a cultural form of life has gained growing support in the n...

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As part of "Weather Reports", we've just published the first part of a Stream (Special Issue) on wind as media, model, and experience with Media+Environment. In our introduction, we ask what shape the Wind Humanities might take: mediaenviron.org/article/1274...

Retweeting this very late, so obviously way after Christmas now, but just seen that the open access version is now up :) www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

Digital Ecologies@digicologies.bsky.social · 2y ago

🌐 Digital ecologies: Mediating more-than-human worlds is OUT NOW with @manchesterup.bsky.social! 🍃 Eds: @jonnyjjt.bsky.social, @admsrl.bsky.social, Henry Anderson-Elliott & @evahaifa.bsky.social. 🎁 Get yours in time for Christmas! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526170347/ #DigitalEcologies

Critical extinction studies starter pack - go.bsky.app/SR3gMpS with accompanying list if you don't want to lose track of people bsky.app/profile/did:... Please send me a message (here or as a DM) to let me know you want to be on the list

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Cultural Anthropology's latest issue is out! Check out 7 amazing essays on wrestling, revolutionary bureucracy, visual disinformation, riverine geostorytelling, post-flood trauma, the ethics of divine-driven bureaucracy, and cartooning journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca

Who doesn't love Cultural Anthropology? The journal is now looking for its next editor/s. Check out the details of the call here: culanth.org/about/about-...

Great to see Greg Hollin's article out in Cultural Anthropology! A (depressingly) timely piece on what happens when labour organising is interpreted through a post-truth lens, which weaves together ethnography, contemporary critiques of neoliberalism & the 'zany' journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...

This is such a good (and TIMELY) article by Greg Hollin on attempts to unionize pro wrestlers, and what organisation and activism look like in a space when narratives are always openly constructed, contingent an "zany." journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...

🌍 Our book - 'Digital ecologies: Mediating more-than-human worlds' - will be published in December with @manchesterup.bsky.social! 🍃 Editors: @jonnyjjt.bsky.social, @admsrl.bsky.social, Henry Anderson-Elliott & @evahaifa.bsky.social 🫂 Pre-order now: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188601/

Manchester University Press - Digital ecologies

Digital ecologies - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Digital ecologies by Jonathon Turnbull

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Excited to see cover & paperback listing of Digital Ecologies now up on the MUP site: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188601/ - it'll be open access too (huge thanks to the University of Sheffield OA fund and University of Liège for supporting it!). Was an amazing privilege to work on!

The first special section to mark 20 years of Cultural Politics - 'Unfamiliar Archives' - has just come out; it was a huge pleasure to work on with some of my favourite academic colleagues: read.dukeupress.edu/cultural-pol... @dukepress.bsky.social

Volume 20 Issue 2 | Cultural Politics | Duke University Press

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Tom's doing really great work, so please do consider dropping him a line if this is relevant to you and you want a chat about it!

Tom Wright (he/him)@wrighttom.bsky.social · 2y ago

CALL FOR RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS Hey everyone! I'm currently recruiting participants for my PhD research project - please repost and share far and wide! Scan the QR code below or drop me a line for more info. Thanks in advance!