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Hanna Pettersson

@hannalp.bsky.social

Conservation social scientist, human/political ecologist. Researching at the intersections of human-wildlife coexistence, pastoralism, (re)wilding, knowledge and governance.

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Hanna Pettersson @hannalp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What if we pay for the presence of large carnivores, rather than for the damage they cause? This is what Sweden has been doing in the reindeer herding area since 1996, a scheme lauded as a gold standard for coexistence. But is it still delivering? We found worrying trends👇 www.slu.se/en/news/2026...

Crisis for Sweden’s celebrated model for coexistence between carnivores and reindeer herders | slu.se

Sweden’s internationally acclaimed compensation scheme for coexistence between reindeer herders and wolverines helped the species recover. A new study now shows that the success has not lasted. Trust ...

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People and Nature @peopleandnature.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🌟 Read our new 'behind the paper' blog from author Douglas Sheil! "Get the human relationships right, and the wildlife wins too. Get them wrong, and no fence in the world will hold. If you fund, design, or run human-wildlife conflict projects please read our article" 📖 buff.ly/9zov0mA

Hanna Pettersson @hannalp.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Come and work with me and a bunch of other stellar nerds, including two positions on holistic metrics of biodiversity, i.e., weaving plural knowledge systems to understand, measure and monitor the natural world 🦇🦫🐺🐝🌳🌼

Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity@anthropocenebio.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We are excited to be recruiting a number of new postdoctoral researchers working across a range of topics from biodiversity modelling and creative future visioning to cultural understandings of biodiversity and game design. Find out more and apply by 28 April: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...

Colin Beale @cmbeale.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Are you looking for a Post-doc related to biodiversity? We might have just the role for you! @anthropocenebio.bsky.social are curently advertising 10 (yes!) post-docs covering natural & social science of biodivesity. Come work with us & share with anyone appropriate! sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...

LCAB Postdoctoral recruitment

The Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity (LCAB) is a major research centre funded by the Leverhulme Trust to increase knowledge of how the relationship between humanity and the natural worl...

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Hanna Pettersson @hannalp.bsky.social · 5mo ago

In these Anthropocene times, the concept of "resilience", i.e. the ability of systems/landscapes to bounce back from shocks, has become all the rage. Yet those who try to implement the concept on the ground will promptly run into questions, such as: Resilience of what, and according whom? 🧵

Jack Hatfield@jackhhatfield.bsky.social · 5mo ago

What is resilience for a landscape? Check out our (with Charles Cunningham, @hannalp.bsky.social, Lauren Barnes, Chris Thomas and @janehillyork.bsky.social ) new paper now out in @peopleandnature.bsky.social Early View @anthropocenebio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/pan3...

Hanna Pettersson @hannalp.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I cannot recommend this summer school highly enough. Gorgeous mountain village-setting, wine, food, cheese, more wine, silly games, great field excursions and dancing until the small hours. Oh, and some great learning too, as a bonus :) 🧀🍷⛰️

Allan Watt@allanwatt.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"Biodiversity and society: transforming science and policy" - applications open for the 20th Alternet Summer School in Peyresq open until April 20th: alterneteurope.eu/summerschool...

A group of students sitting by a lake, listening to presentations from people working in the area, mountains just visible behind the trees along the lake.

Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Great questions! 🌍🌐🦊🙏 The Wild Imperative: Rewilding in the Anthropocene journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Tommy's Outdoors @tommysoutdoors.com · 8mo ago

Can we find a middle ground between those who see the EU's wolf downlisting as a catastrophe and those who celebrate it as good news? With @hannalp.bsky.social, we discuss the frustratingly polarised debate about wolf conservation in the EU. 🌍🦤🧪🦊 🎧➡️ pod.fo/e/362998

Podcast episode cover art for Tommy's Outdoors Conservation and Science featuring a woman with glasses and dark hair pulled back, wearing a black blazer over a white top, smiling while looking downward in an indoor setting. The episode title 'EU Wolf Downlisting: Time to Stop Crying Wolf' appears in white and gold text on a dark olive green overlay in the lower left corner. The design uses an olive green background with gold border framing, and includes 'PODCAST' text at the bottom.

Hanna Pettersson @hannalp.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Interesting paper by Chapron et al, illustrating "an apparent contradiction: while many respondents support maintaining stable wolf populations, they simultaneously oppose legally killing them—an action that (...) may be necessary to cap population size". www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting - Nature Ecology & Evolution

A survey of 10,000 members of the public across European Union countries in which there are large carnivores finds strong support for carnivore recovery but simultaneous, and somewhat paradoxical, opp...

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below.

1. The four-fold drain
1.1 Money
Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for
whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who
created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis,
which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024
alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit
margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher
(Elsevier) always over 37%.
Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most
consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial
difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor &
Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American
researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The
Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3
billion in that year.

A figure detailing the drain on researcher time.

1. The four-fold drain

1.2 Time
The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce,
with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure
1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material
has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs,
grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for
profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time.
The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million
unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of
peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting
widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the
authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many
review demands.
Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of
scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in
‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow
progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to
volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier,
local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with
limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging
with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks
intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision.

A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below:

1. The four-fold drain
1.1 Money
Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for
whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who
created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis,
which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024
alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit
margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher
(Elsevier) always over 37%.
Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most
consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial
difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor &
Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American
researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The
Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3
billion in that year.

The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised
scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers
first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour
resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.

Hanna Pettersson @hannalp.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Ping those interested in just transitions of Europe's fantastically beautiful and bio-culturally diverse rural areas of Spain, Italy and Poland. If I didn't already have a job I'd be trying to swipe the Spain one (drool)

Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️‍🌈 🟥@georgeiorda.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🚨 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!

George Holmes @georgeholmes.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Short piece in @consletters.bsky.social exploring social, cultural, political and ecological apsects of illicit and unregulated species translocations - what others (not me, due to homophone errors) might call guerilla rewilding. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Who Let the Frogs out? Illicit and Unregulated Species Translocations

Click on the article title to read more.

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George Holmes @georgeholmes.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Happy Fat Bear Week, for all of those who celebrate: explore.org/fat-bear-week

Fat Bear Week 2025

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Hanna Pettersson @hannalp.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Hot from the @consletters.bsky.social press: "Now What? The Conundrum of Successful Recovery of Wolves and Other Species for European Conservation", where Erica Von Essen and I discuss future trajectories of species recovery and management in Europe. Here summarised by @sthlmresilience.bsky.social.

Stockholm Resilience Centre@sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🐺 Wolves and other large carnivore species are making a comeback in Europe. Yet current conservation policies are still geared toward protecting species on the brink of extinction. This no longer reflects reality, argue researchers in a new commentary. www.stockholmresilience.org/5.1a496cd119...

Headline on top of image of howling wolf

Hanna Pettersson @hannalp.bsky.social · 11mo ago

What do we mean when we say that carnivores and other wildlife are "habituating" to people? Who actually habituates to whom? Is this bad or god? Who decides? All of this and more in our new paper, expertly led by @ethanddoney.bsky.social, out now in @peopleandnature.bsky.social.

People and Nature@peopleandnature.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🦊 Reimagining habituation: The case for a reciprocal and contextual understanding ➡️ buff.ly/6rbtYxu @livwildlab.bsky.social @ethanddoney.bsky.social @vdonfrancesco.bsky.social @hannalp.bsky.social @csandbrook.bsky.social

Hanna Pettersson @hannalp.bsky.social · last yr.

Today at #COP16, discussions on how to realise the #KunmingMontrealGBF are resumed. The framework recognises the stewardship of "Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities". But, "Who is local, and what do they know?" 👉https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pan3.10797 @ipbes.net #CBD

Hanna Pettersson @hannalp.bsky.social · last yr.

Today another paper www.researchgate.net/publication/... was published claiming wolves can solve "the deer issue" in Scotland. So, sharing this excellent 🧵 by @adamfsmith.bsky.social on wolves and deer in Ireland 👉https://bsky.app/profile/adamfsmith.bsky.social/post/3liavws4oyk23

(PDF) Wolf reintroduction to Scotland could support substantial native woodland expansion and associated carbon sequestration

PDF | Large carnivores, including the grey wolf (Canis lupus), play an important role in the carbon cycle through modifying the behaviour and population... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...

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Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪@adamfsmith.bsky.social · last yr.

Sorry, but while I believe it is spread in good faith, I think this is a good time to call out this common mistruth in the Irish ecological community. Indulge me for a minute, I just finished 5 years in Europe working with wolves, lynx, and deer. "Lack of wolves" is not the problem. Short🧵

WildCRU, Oxford @wildcru.bsky.social · 2y ago

The recent release of 4 lynx in the Cairngorm mountains highlights the nuances of managing the needs of stakeholders, including the big cats. Darragh Hare, @georgeholmes.bsky.social & @hannalp.bsky.social explore the challenges surrounding illegal wildlife releases. 👉 bit.ly/4hmzSKV

George Holmes @georgeholmes.bsky.social · 2y ago

I wrote this @naturalengland.bsky.social blogpost at the start of last week, but the recent #lynx releases have brought this issue to the fore. P.S. the deadline for our PhD project on this has just closed, but we hope to advertise more opportunities soon. www.linkedin.com/pulse/who-le...

Who let the frogs out? On illicit and unregulated species reintroductions.

George Holmes: Professor of Conservation and Society at the University of Leeds, and ESRT member. An odd thing has been happening across Europe in recent years.

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Hanna Pettersson @hannalp.bsky.social · 2y ago

So-called guerrilla or rouge rewilding is becoming increasingly common, including "beaver bombings", releasing butterflies and, this past week, lynx to Scotland. What might this mean for conservation? @georgeholmes.bsky.social, Darragh Hare and I explore in theconversation.com/lynx-in-scot...

Lynx in Scotland: why illegal attempts to reintroduce lost species are surprisingly common

Guerrilla rewilders want to atone for past extinctions and create more vibrant ecosystems.

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