I have had a 40 oz jar of Duke's Mayonnaise in a shopping cart online for months now and I get so close to buying it so many times but then remember it is the equivalent of 23 USD for what at home would be a 5 dollar jar... VERY DIFFICULT! Kewpie has its place but sometimes you just need Dukes!

I got a snickery talking to by someone on the tube today because I gave a woman politely asking for money a pound. After I did, mean lady proceeded to yell at the woman asking for money for 'taking advantage of us poor tube riders' and then she told me off and said I was part of the problem. BOOO.

What’s up with 4 Czech men getting arrested in Brazil for allegedly smuggling hundreds of endemic cacti? And what can it teach us about responses to illegal wildlife trade more broadly?- a little explainer for @theconversation.com here: theconversation.com/the-strange-...

The strange history of Czech cactus hunters – and why some see themselves as Robin Hood figures

Some collectors believe breaking the law can help save endangered plants.

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Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite

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my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

🐕‍🦺🐴🐦‍⬛🐄 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

Another great paper just out from Utkarsh Roy Choudhury, published in environment planning e: “Maintained disrepair: Accumulation by rejuvenation, financialization, and the politics of restoration in India's Namami Gange program” journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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I am incredibly sad to hear this news. What a shock. I only knew Raul from our conversations on Twitter and his amazing resources on his blog. What a generous and collegiate scholar he was. He’ll be much missed 😢❤️

Jo VanEvery@jovanevery.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I was saddened to learn of the death of Raul Pacheco-Vega earlier this week. I’ve known Raul for a very long time. I’ve written something for my website. Read here: jovanevery.co.uk/in-memoriam-...

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... Really important read on the sad, visionless forced march of UK higher ed into a death spiral by an intellectually bankrupt managerial class for no good reason.

Stefan Collini · Squadrons of Pigs: Bonfire of the Universities

The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...

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This is like trying to drill for oil through the ruins of Pompeii. Chaco canyon is one of the most significant native archeological sites in the United States. Absolutely disgusting to even propose it

Arlyssa D. Becenti ✍️🗞️@abecenti.bsky.social · 3mo ago

From me: Chaco Canyon listed as 'endangered' as tribes, feds spar over drilling

Absolutely amazing post doc opportunity with @drjesshope.bsky.social on an #ERC project #Multispecies #PoliticalEcology

POLLEN - Political Ecology Network@pollenetwork.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢 Hiring: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Political Ecology of Multispecies Justice 🌿🐾 Join the ERC-funded “Roads to Sustainability” project at the, exploring infrastructures, conservation, and multispecies justice in the Western Amazon". 📍 St Andrews, UK 🗓️ Deadline: 13 July 2026

I have undergrad and MSc dissertations I’m now supervising related to people and pigeons, hunting tourism, cultural politics of wildlife killing, politics of representation of forests in Indian cinema, and more. And I didn’t push any of these ideas! Makes me feel I came to the right place to teach.

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Ben Garlick and Dubravka Sekulic eds. Geography with John Berger: Questions of Space and Practice - Bloomsbury, June 2026 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/geography... @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social

Geography with John Berger

Exploring John Berger's political and creative praxis for scholarship on space, place, landscape and spatial experience, Ben Garlick and Dubravka Sekulic critic…

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"For the first time in more than 100 years, evidence of cougars reproducing in Minnesota was documented in video captured by the University of MN's Voyageurs Wolf Project (youtu.be/7EL1FRB11DU). The videos, shared with the MN DNR by the project researchers, show a female cougar with 3 large kittens"

First footage ever of a cougar with kittens in Minnesota

YouTube video by Voyageurs Wolf Project

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Posting this again because it is just absurd!

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3mo ago

“Not only did ASU allegedly not communicate to its academic community that their lectures would be spliced up and cannibalized by an AI platform, but the resulting modules are just bad.”

Very good piece on state of UK #Universities from @samfr.bsky.social In general ‘University leaders’ have totally failed to articulate the value of #HE. Sheffield is making brutal cuts as the chickens come home to roost following 2 decades of no long term strategy from government & HE leadership ⬇️

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm in @theobserveruk.bsky.social today looking at why so many unis are in financial trouble and what the government needs to do to save HE. observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Who else is just finding themselves trying to get work done but instead just unable to get past thinking a whole lot about the increasingly likely disintegration of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation these days?

Good morning! I got an alert that my new book is 50% off right now at this site… All Geographers Should Be Feminist Geographers: Creating Care-Full Academic Spaces (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation) a.co/d/0bFsKbjj

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📣 Fully-funded PhD position on Methane Politics on the ERC funded METHPOL project @ Leeds Uni w/Prof Jan Selby. Open to home (UK) applicants (international studentships have been filled) to start October 2026. Deadline 22 April. #ClimateChange. Full details ⬇️ phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/427-...

🚨FUNDED PHD🚨'Economic carrying capacity & the future of rhinos in privately governed OECMs' @dice-kent.bsky.social, UK & International applications welcome - closing date 14th May🦏 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

I think the fact that @sicilyfiennes.bsky.social etc latest paper has the phrase "a more than human political ecology" in its title neatly demonstrates the shift towards interdisciplinary in @conbiology.bsky.social in recent years. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A more‐than‐human political ecology of Indonesian songbird trade

Since its inception, conservation science has considered wildlife trade a problem. In focusing on conservation outcomes, conservationists almost completely ignore the welfare of traded animals and pl...

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Lists of Jews never goes anywhere good!

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

personally I think "Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Obtain List of Jews From Penn" is a bad thing to read in the newspaper www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

Do you have an ethnobotany student in your life who wants to hear a little too much about Lacan? Send them along for this online seminar tomorrow!

Society for Ethnobotany (Students)@sebotanystudents.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We have yet another excellent student cafe coming up THIS Thursday, April 2nd at 9am EST / 3pm BST. Come and learn about @jaredmargulies.bsky.social research and think with us about what makes an ethnobotanist, an ethnobotanist. Open and free to the public, SEB membership is not required!

🚨Editor-in-Chief position🚨 The @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social is looking for anew Editor-in-Chief. For more information please follow the link below. #AcademicSky think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

Editor-in-Chief needed for Geopolitics

Editor-in-Chief needed for Geopolitics

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I found a lot to love in @v-mance.bsky.social's Wild and wonderful: An ethnography of English naturalists, now available in English. Open access link to my review in American Ethnologist. Highly recommended! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

I have nothing to add today to the discourse other than the London attack on the Jewish ambulance service is just despicable and so hateful.

Jo Wolff@jowolff.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Sinking heart feeling, reading this. I normally dislike the phrase ‘cowardly attack’ but this seems a prime example. Despicable antisemitic attack on soft target that will harm people who are old, sick and vulnerable (and will add to fuel for those who want to sow division in our city).

I am so proud to share DR. Utkarsh Choudhury's first paper from his recently defended PhD dissertation has just been published! "The politics of invisibilization: environmental performativity and the erasure of nonhuman life in India’s Namami Gange Program" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The politics of invisibilization: environmental performativity and the erasure of nonhuman life in India’s Namami Gange Program

In an era of escalating ecological crises, dominant approaches to river conservation in India continue to exclude the very nonhuman life they claim to…

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