The manure-to-energy field has a new sales pitch. Critics warn it could mean even more factory farms.

Cow Manure Could Be the Next Data Center Fuel

The manure-to-energy field has a new sales pitch. Critics warn it could mean even more factory farms.

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"Tot i que la PPA no afecta les persones, la Generalitat ha justificat les batudes i el sacrifici massiu de senglars de Collserola, una espècie autòctona, amb el pretext d’erradicar la malaltia i protegir la indústria càrnia." c.org/M6WN676Jhz

Firma la petición

ATURAR L'EXTERMINI DE LA POBLACIÓ DE SENGLARS / PARAR EL EXTERMINIO DE JABALÍES

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"The arts and humanities are fundamental to the flourishing of our society; knowledge gathering, critical thinking and creativity should be defended as sacred things” www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Fury over Exeter University plan to scrap dozens of humanities posts

Rowan Williams and Mark Kermode join campaign against proposed cuts for arts and social sciences

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Quan algú surt d’una depressió o aprèn a gestionar la seva ansietat, no ho fa per ser un millor engranatge del capitalisme, sinó per poder plantar-li cara. L'opinió de Daniel Mejias, psicòleg

L'agència contra l'engranatge: el sentit polític de la teràpia

Els processos terapèutics no busquen que la persona s’adapti a un sistema que l’ofega, sinó que recuperi la capacitat de decidir sobre la seva pròpia història.

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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...

Científicos del ICTA-UAB cuestionan el dogma del capitalismo: es posible un alto grado de bienestar sin crecimiento económico @aljosaslamersak.bsky.social explica a @publico.es que hay que priorizar la redistribución de la riqueza y la producción de recursos básicos www.publico.es/sociedad/m-a...

Científicos cuestionan el dogma del capitalismo: es posible "un alto grado de bienestar" sin crecimiento económico

Un estudio liderado por la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona muestra que el desarrollo perpetuo no es necesario si se prioriza la redistribución de la riqueza y la producción de los recursos esenci...

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‘These connections are overlooked’: how British companies profited from slavery in Brazil long after abolition

‘These connections are overlooked’: how British companies profited from slavery in Brazil long after abolition

Britons learn about the country’s involvement ‘almost as a self-congratulatory narrative’, says historian Joseph Mulhern

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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 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...

UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule

Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws

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Please check out our CfP for the @rgsibg.bsky.social annual conference. We are seeking papers about more-than-human seas which examine oceanic inequalities, blue justice, blue (de)growth, affect and much more! 🌊🦐🐳🐋🪸🏄‍♀️🏊🐠 @marsocsci.bsky.social @rgs-agwg.bsky.social

Hannah D-C 🦐@hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 7mo ago

CfP: Attuning to More-than-human Seas: Negotiating Multispecies Justice in the Anthropocene Ocean 🌊🦐🐳🪸🦈🐠🌊 Please share! @rgsibg.bsky.social @rgs-agwg.bsky.social @marsocsci.bsky.social @marineconservation.bsky.social

'“Embedded precarity” in higher education is diminishing research quality as staff on short-term contracts favour “safer” work to secure future employment, according to the author of a new report.' Royal Geographical Society maps important connections between precarity and research topics. 1/3

Use of fixed-term posts ‘stifling more critical research’

Scholars with short contracts seen as more likely to favour doing ‘safer’ work, with ‘serious ramifications’ for their disciplines

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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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On the 21st and 22nd of January we are streaming the keynote lectures of the workshop that we are organizing on ‘Un/Bordering Animal Health’. More info and the Webex link can be found here: geo.uni-halle.de/humangeo-bei...

Directa 596 | Els mecanismes legals instaurats en la darrera dècada per reduir l’ús d’animals en proves de recerca no han aconseguit que deixi de ser una pràctica central en la investigació científica.

Els experiments amb animals, sense aturador

Els mecanismes legals instaurats en la darrera dècada per reduir l’ús d’animals en l’experimentació no han aconseguit que deixi de ser una pràctica central en la investigació científica. Un de cada tres animals destinats a recerques i proves de seguretat a l’Estat espanyol es concentra a Catalunya, on, en cinc anys, s’ha experimentat amb un milió de vertebrats

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If it's not regime change, and it's certainly not "law enforcement," let's just call it a nuclear-armed oil heist.

I'm hiring 2 postdocs on my Wellcome project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)" Department of Global Health and Social Medicine King's College 3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29 Deadline: 01/02/26 shorturl.at/KZ6Vh

Postdoctoral Research Associate | King's College London

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🔴 Los laboratorios catalanes y las inspecciones visuales han confirmado los positivos. ▪️ La Generalitat pide “responsabilidad” a la ciudadanía, para evitar ir a Collserola y, sobre todo, los accesos de los 6 kilómetros alrededor del foco. www.lavanguardia.com/local/barcel...

Hallados cuatro nuevos casos sospechosos de peste porcina africana en Collserola

Los laboratorios catalanes y las inspecciones visuales han confirmado los positivos, a la espera de la validación definitiva de Madrid

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We've received some great abstracts for our #POLLEN2026 panel on Animal Waste/Waste Animals! We may be able to run it as a double session if we receive a couple more submissions.

Hannah D-C 🦐@hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 11mo ago

V excited to see #POLLEN2026 sessions being advertised. Myself, @guillemrubio.bsky.social and Larissa Flesichmann are delighted that our session on 'Political Ecologies of Animal Waste/Waste Animals' has been accepted. And we would like to invite you to submit an abstract (see below!) 🐕‍🦺🐟💩🪶🥚🦴🐚🐌🐖

🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers! Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025 Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills! Please share widely!

Māori scholar Matt Wynyard examines how Aotearoa NZ’s dairy industry—deeply rooted in settler colonialism—has intensified, corporatized & financialized since the 1980s, driving major social & ecological tensions. 🔗 institutionallandscapes.org/contribution...

Looking for a PhD candidate to work on access to and use of green spaces by racialized groups in Catalonia, Spain. Spanish, English, and ideally French and Catalan, are a must. Project description and how to apply here, pp. 49 of pdf: tauler.seu-e.cat/detall?idEns... With @ianguelovski.bsky.social

Winter Well is on air BBC Radio 4 this week. An audio guide to thriving in winter, with advice from medics, artists, poets and future-gazers on simple but effective ways to bring light into your life during the darkest part of the year. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... @hesterparr.bsky.social

Really looking forward to co-hosting this panel at #POLLEN2026 with @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social and Larissa Fleischmann - we'd love to see your abstract submissions!

Hannah D-C 🦐@hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 11mo ago

V excited to see #POLLEN2026 sessions being advertised. Myself, @guillemrubio.bsky.social and Larissa Flesichmann are delighted that our session on 'Political Ecologies of Animal Waste/Waste Animals' has been accepted. And we would like to invite you to submit an abstract (see below!) 🐕‍🦺🐟💩🪶🥚🦴🐚🐌🐖

V excited to see #POLLEN2026 sessions being advertised. Myself, @guillemrubio.bsky.social and Larissa Flesichmann are delighted that our session on 'Political Ecologies of Animal Waste/Waste Animals' has been accepted. And we would like to invite you to submit an abstract (see below!) 🐕‍🦺🐟💩🪶🥚🦴🐚🐌🐖

Interested in learning more about corporate power and industrial chicken production? We have a new blog out from Amby Karamchedu and Ben Coles: www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/who...

Who Owns Chickens? Corporate Power and Industrial Chicken Production in the Global South — RGS Animal Geographies

Ambarish Karamchedu and Ben Coles Why Chickens? In 2023, 76 billion chickens were slaughtered for meat [i] . This equates to 2,417 birds killed every second (compared to 10 cows and 47 pigs) [ii...

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Meat vs EAT-Lancet Planetary Health Diet: The dynamics of an industry-orchestrated online backlash Report by the Changing Markets Foundation changingmarkets.org/report/meat-...

Meat vs EAT-Lancet: The dynamics of an industry-orchestrated online backlash • Changing Markets

The EAT-Lancet Commission publish EAT-Lancet 2.0: an update to the planetary health diet 2019. One of the most influential academic studies ever released, it also faced significant online backlash – o...

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"The Paradox of Saving Fish by Eating Them: Food Crime at the Intersection of Green Criminology and Political Ecology" is out! I’m thrilled I got to work with the lovely @guillemrubio.bsky.social—I genuinely enjoyed and had fun working on the manuscript together 🧡 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Paradox of Saving Fish by Eating them: Food Crime at the Intersection of Green Criminology and Political Ecology - European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research

Aquaculture is framed as a key contributor to global food security and sustainable food production. Yet, in its industrial form, it involves several harmful practices that negatively impact food secur...

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>40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study Petition for UK academics asking govt to facilitate a biometric visa deferral and open a route of safe passage Sign & share ⏬️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities

More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...

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BREAKING: The number of Palestinians who have died from Israeli-induced starvation in Gaza has risen to 147 people, including 88 children, says Gaza's health ministry. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ym2wr7

1/ 📄New paper! Alison Hutchinson @georgeiorda.bsky.social Teresa Lappe-Osthege & myself have developed a new harms-based #PoliticalEcology as a way of understanding the #WildlifeTrade published in @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social ⬇️ beastlybusiness.org/2025/07/23/n...

New paper on harms-based political ecology - Beastly Business

Our team members Alison Hutchinson, Rosaleen Duffy, George Iordachescu and Teresa Lappe-Osthege developed an idea of bringing together debates on harms from green criminology with political ecology co...

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