In the new article, ‘Digital fire technologies and community networks’, Jennifer Gabrys, Paula Tiara Torres and Pablo González Rivas analyse how digital technologies influence fire prevention, response, and recovery in La Araucanía, Chile: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Since 2017, the fight to save Poland's wild river has been a gruelling legal marathon. On 19 June the Vistula finally caught a break. 📷The Vistula River by Marek Elas

From V2 rocket-scarred London to Ukraine: how nature thrives in bomb craters—Vincent Mundy, The Guardian "Every crater carries a different story, depending on the soil, location, power of the explosion, intensity of the battle and whether clean water is present" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

From V2 rocket-scarred London to Ukraine: how nature thrives in bomb craters

In the UK capital, Bomb Crater Pond is full of wildlife, while scientists studying land obliterated by recent Russian blasts 1,500 miles away have seen ‘how quickly nature begins to heal itself’

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As the crowdfunder for the first radical bookshop icon Newcastle for 40 years gets closer to the end I’m making the bold move of calling on all the academics I sort of vaguely know and also those I don’t to share the link for our crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

On the horror of our times and what it means to feel like you’re on the darkest timeline: my 2025 Political Geography Plenary, at last out from embargo with three brilliant commentaries and my response: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @squirerachael.bsky.social @politicalgeography.bsky.social

2025 Political Geography Plenary: On the bad timeline: Dissociative geo-politics in the time of Trump

Distortion, unreality, a confusion of perspective: it is hard to shake the feeling of “time out of joint” in the period since Trump's re-election to t…

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I'm honoured to have been named a CIFAR Global Scholar alongside this cohort of fantastic researchers. As part of the Future Flourishing programme, we'll be asking what it means to live (well) without human exceptionalism? cifar.ca/cifarnews/20...

The next generation of research leaders starts here: Meet CIFAR’s newest Global Scholars - CIFAR %

Meet CIFAR’s newest Global Scholars, 2026–2028

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Really glad to see our special feature of People and Nature is starting to trickle through. The issue includes some wonderful contributions from scholars and practitioners working on the digital dimensions of nature recovery!

Digital Ecologies@digicologies.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Our special feature of People and Nature on the Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery is coming into being! The special feature emerges from our 2024 conference at the Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub, Jesus College, Oxford besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... @peopleandnature.bsky.social

Theo Stanley tracks the emergence of a new culture of nature—"technical wildness"—in Scotland in the early 2020s, arguing that it reshapes what rewilding is, how it is practised, and which ecosystems it creates besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Technical wildness: Modernity, romanticism, and the technocratic turn in Scottish rewilding

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Bill Adams argues that ethical frameworks and methodological transparency are essential for ensuring Digital Surveillance Technologies can deliver benefits for nature recovery benefits without causing undue harm besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Digital surveillance of animals and nature recovery

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‘We want to be the hosts of this story’ by Lucy Jenner, Marc J. Metzger, Darren Moseley, and Ed Forrest explores whether improved data access can enhance understanding of land use change for nature recovery, focusing on community-led approaches besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

‘We want to be the hosts of this story’: Learning from community‐led approaches to data governance of land use for nature recovery

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Our special feature of People and Nature on the Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery is coming into being! The special feature emerges from our 2024 conference at the Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub, Jesus College, Oxford besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... @peopleandnature.bsky.social

The Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery: People and Nature

<em>People and Nature</em> is an international journal publishing interdisciplinary research with ecological relevance that explores the relationships between humans and nature.

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🐄 🌍 Our new paper—'Metabolo-politics: Bovine Metabolism and Environmental Biopower'—is out in @theoryculturesociety.org. We use Thomas Lemke's writings on Foucault to theorise an environmental and metabolic mode of biopower. Really glad to see this one out! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Metabolo-politics: Bovine Metabolism and Environmental Biopower - Jonathon Turnbull, George Cusworth, Adam Searle, Else Vogel, François Thoreau, Catherine Oliver, 2026

More-than-human metabolic processes increasingly constitute the locus of contemporary biopower, often responding to industrially-altered biogeochemical cycles. ...

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"Metabolo-politics: Bovine Metabolism and Environmental Biopower," just out in @theoryculturesociety.org journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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New as Online First: Jonathon Turnbull, George Cusworth, Adam Searle, Else Vogel, François Thoreau and Catherine Oliver, 'Metabolo-politics: Bovine Metabolism and Environmental Biopower'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Metabolo-politics: Bovine Metabolism and Environmental Biopower - Jonathon Turnbull, George Cusworth, Adam Searle, Else Vogel, François Thoreau, Catherine Oliver, 2026

More-than-human metabolic processes increasingly constitute the locus of contemporary biopower, often responding to industrially-altered biogeochemical cycles. ...

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Our researchers have been working on a special feature in @peopleandnature.bsky.social, exploring how digital technologies are increasingly shaping nature recovery, conservation, governance, & environmental decision-making. @caitlinhafferty.bsky.social @jonnyjjt.bsky.social @theostanley.bsky.social

Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery

The first three papers arising from our Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery conference have just been published

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🦫🦫 Our new paper on urban #rewilding with #beavers is out now in EPE! We characterise the Ealing Beaver Project in London as a form of prefigurative urban ecological politics. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @jlorimer.bsky.social @geogdurham.bsky.social @naturerecovery.bsky.social

Beavers in paradise: Prefiguring London's urban wilds - Jonathon Turnbull, Thomas Fry, Jamie Lorimer, 2026

Beavers have emerged as the flagship species for rewilding in Britain. Absent from the landscape since the sixteenth century, legal and illegal releases across ...

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OnlineFirst - "Beavers in paradise: Prefiguring London's urban wilds" by @jonnyjjt.bsky.social, Thomas Fry, and @jlorimer.bsky.social: @geogdurham.bsky.social @naturerecovery.bsky.social #urbanrewilding #beavers journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🦫🦫 Our new paper on urban #rewilding with #beavers is out now in EPE! We characterise the Ealing Beaver Project in London as a form of prefigurative urban ecological politics. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @jlorimer.bsky.social @geogdurham.bsky.social @naturerecovery.bsky.social

Beavers in paradise: Prefiguring London's urban wilds - Jonathon Turnbull, Thomas Fry, Jamie Lorimer, 2026

Beavers have emerged as the flagship species for rewilding in Britain. Absent from the landscape since the sixteenth century, legal and illegal releases across ...

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UKRAINIAN CARTOGRAPHIES 🌍 🌐 🇺🇦 How & why has Ukraine been mapped in the past & present, & what is (counter-)cartography’s role in shaping Ukraine’s future? Workshop: in person & online! 🗓️: 8 May 2026, 9-5 📍: Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College, Oxford Registration: tinyurl.com/OxUkrHub

We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.

I have a new OA paper out in Geoforum: 🦐🌎 'What on Earth? Terraqueous Terraforming and Earth-shaping with shrimp-shells' 🌎🦐 doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

paper three of our 'Terraforming Terra' Geoforum special issue is now out.. thank you Hannah for such a wonderful article!!

Hannah D-C 🦐@hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I have a new OA paper out in Geoforum: 🦐🌎 'What on Earth? Terraqueous Terraforming and Earth-shaping with shrimp-shells' 🌎🦐 doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

Our colleague @jonnyjjt.bsky.social is quoted in this piece published yesterday by the BBC on the 40th anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster. The article looks at what the disaster has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant: www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Surviving in a poisoned land: Chernobyl's wildlife is different, but not in the ways you might think

It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant.

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Watch ‘Chornobyl’s legacy and European environmental security’, featuring Serhii Plokhy, Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, Jonathon Turnbull, and Sasha Dovzhyk on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/live/vrrza_z... 2/3

40 years on: Chornobyl’s legacy and European environmental security

YouTube video by Ukrainian Institute London

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Today marks the fortieth anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster. Earlier this month, @ukrinstitute.bsky.social and the Royal Society of Arts co-hosted a major discussion on its legacy for European security. #Chornobyl40 #Ukraine #EuropeanSecurity 1/3

A boy climbs a tree to get a better view of bats being released into Leontovych Central Park in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Incredible work by the Ukrainian Bat Rehabilitation Centre. Wonderful to see so much public curiosity for our nocturnal urban neighbours. #NightlifeInTheMoreThanHumanCity

The new book “Techno-Negative” reminds us that resistance to new inventions has existed in some form across millennia. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

The Age-Old Urge to Destroy Technology

Our hatred of social media or of artificial intelligence is not some novel phenomenon, the new book “Techno-Negative” reminds us; it’s a feeling that has existed in some form across millennia.

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Check out the new issue of Routes on young people and rewilding 👇 Really pleased to bring this one to fruition with the amazing crew at Youngwilders!

Routes: The Journal For Student Geographers@routesjournal.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🐺 The new issue of #ROUTES is OUT NOW! 🐺 In this Special Issue, we have teamed up with youth-led nature recovery NGO, Youngwilders, to explore the relationship between young people and #rewilding Read the full issue here: routesjournal.org/youngwilders... @rgs.org @geographicalassoc.bsky.social

We open the special issue with an editorial introduction exploring the urgent ned to engage young people in nature recovery & rewilding, written by Youngwilders co-founder, Oscar Hartman Davies, & Routes Editor-in-Chief, Jonathon Turnbull routesjournal.org/2026/04/10/h... @geogdurham.bsky.social

Editorial Introduction: Young People and Rewilding

By Oscar Hartman Davies (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) and Jonathon Turnbull (Durham University)

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Check out the new issue of Routes on young people and rewilding 👇 Really pleased to bring this one to fruition with the amazing crew at Youngwilders!

Routes: The Journal For Student Geographers@routesjournal.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🐺 The new issue of #ROUTES is OUT NOW! 🐺 In this Special Issue, we have teamed up with youth-led nature recovery NGO, Youngwilders, to explore the relationship between young people and #rewilding Read the full issue here: routesjournal.org/youngwilders... @rgs.org @geographicalassoc.bsky.social