Dr Jes Hooper

Alt text: a white and tabby cat sits on the corner of a desk next to the monitor screen, keyboard and computer mouse.

Just found #CatsofAcademia and now must, naturally, introduce Poe- my office manager. She is particularly concerned with staff wellbeing. She will stop my screen use by walking in front of my screen every hour and onto my keyboard if I haven't stood up and walked around in a while. 10/10 recommend.

Kings Manor, York. A listed building courtesy yard featuring cobbled ground, benches, a statue and a tree.

It's official! I am over the moon to start my postdoc at @york.ac.uk as part of the Anthropocene Encounters project. My focus: multispecies heritage with civets as the species entry point (of course). Who else should I be connecting with here? #heritage #multispecies www.york.ac.uk/archaeology/...

Trees lining a path flanked by ferns

A bee on a thistle flower

Trees and ferns inside a woodland

Three green tomatoes on the vine

A little sample from my camera reel this week. Lovely!! #woodlands #pine #bees #tomatoes

A book open with pencilled annotations

Book next to pencil on the forest floor. The book is Theory of Water by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Really enjoying my latest read- Theory of Water by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. Her writing is thoughtful and poignant and is helping me better consider the capital roots of my cultural upbringing and why I've always felt out of place within it. Highly recommend. #reading #AcademicSky #Decolonise

Cat in front of laptop

Cat sleeps on a cushion

Writing, reading, and accompanied by Po my cat colleague. Now this is a work-life balance I can get behind! #multispecies #academicsky #ethnography #writing

Thank you so much for the opportunity to share the Owstons story John!

A piece I wrote for @therevelator.org about how the world's most expensive coffee is pushing the endangered Owston's civet even further to the edge of extinction. #kopiluwak #conservation #consumerism #civetcoffee #journalism

My daily ritual is making cups of coffee and/or tea throughout the day, letting each cup go cold, microwaving each, letting that go cold too, and repeat. 🤦

Book cover "The Cow with Eartag #1389"

Revisiting some of my favourite multisited #multispecies ethnographies, this time for inspiration in narrative non-fiction. What a joy to return to this one by Kathryn Gillespie! #reading

Laptop on a patio in an English garden with roses in the background

Finally the perfect weather for an outside office! Writing my book and draining the swelling from my injured leg (multitasking warrior over here 💪). #AcademicSky

For multispecies and archaeology 🏺 folks, here's paper I wrote last year with Kathyrn De Luna, about human-insect 🐜🦟 entanglements in South Central Africa.

www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/8016fd...

Staff all pose for the camera surrounding tables filled with board paper, pens and note pads.

An example board paper with notes on. The notes depict a speculative future where civet coffee continues to grow in demand. The group have written a narrative of species extinction, ecosystem collapse and the next pandemic.

The last event of the civet season was a lovely CPD delivery with the team at 'Population Matters'. I led a one day program all about Distant Nature Encounters in the Anthropocene. And, of course, civets were the species entry point. #multispecies #workshop #MTHjustice #academicsky

I had such a blast delivering Civet Ambassador Training at Newquay Zoo and University this week. Traveling around educating about civets is always fun! #charity #conservation #civets

Viverridologist over here 👋 studying an ancient yet under researched family of small carnivores: Civets, Binturong, Linsang and Genets. I chair the IUCN SSC Small Carnivore Specialist Group's Civet Working Group and I'm the founder of The Civet Project Foundation.

I waited a week to read the last three pages because I couldn't bear it to end. It was perfect. What an ending. An absolute blessing to read.

Book "summertime" by Danielle Celermajer resting on legs as the reader sits outstretched on grass

The Bodlien library in Oxford on a sunny day

Cup of coffee

Inside the Pitts Rivers museum in Oxford, high beamed ceilings in a church like formation

I recently gave a seminar for Oxford Brookes PhD and MSc students (conservation, biosciences and anthropology courses) about my research into human-civet relations. It was brilliant and I loved revisiting my old haunts from my decade-ago (!) MSc days. #Oxford #Seminar #Lecturer

Book cover for Saidiya Hartman's 'Lose Your Mother'

Wow. You're not wrong Carmen, you're not wrong. #Book #LoseYourMother #literature

It's official! This August I'll be heading to Taipei to present at the AfA 2025 conference on all things high impact research for animals in tourism. #conference #civetcoffee #animals

I'm looking for a postdoc or similar position. Ideally on Multispecies Ethnography, MTH and pluriversal futures beyond the Anthropocene. I'm an experienced HE lecturer and transdisciplinary scholar. Please let me know if you know of anything! 🙏 #AcademicSky #humanities #socialscience #morethanhuman

Wow! What a team and what an amazing project! Congratulations on the funding 👏

How will our future interactions with climate change induced species on the move change depending on the values we prioritise? - reads a slide on the board

National Oceanography Centre sign

A great time was had by all at the Socio-Oceanography Conference 2025. I was there to bring the more-than-human (MTH) perspective to a transdisciplinary exploration of coastal speculative futures. #morethanhuman #multispecies #transdisciplinary

Apparently it was valentine's day recently. We don't do valentine's. We do, however, go on little family outings to the town where we met. It's pretty great 🥰 #family

Reviewer comments in and I'm pleased and relieved that they're positive! Still amendments to make but I can already see how these will improve our paper. Yippee! 👏 #research #peerreview #WhatHappenedToR2? #DontJinxIt

The conservation costs of commercial breeding of civet pets in Indonesia - Discover Animals Indonesia’s Civet Lover clubs are urban and suburban social groups comprised of civet (sp. Viverridae) pet keeping enthusiasts. Civet Lover clubs operate regionally and nationally, with trends in cive...

It's out in the world! The first paper to document the conservation (and welfare) costs of the commercial breeding of civets. Social media is driving the bourgeoning civet pet trend in Indonesia. #wildlife #trade #anthropology #conservation #animalwelfare

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

And people don't see the value of art-science practice. Pfft. We showed them. 🤣💪

Technologies, Bodies and Faecal Matters: Embodied Empathy with Coffee Producing Civets | Transpositiones Abstract This research applies a transdisciplinary and transnational approach between visual artists, anthrozoologists, and biological scientists to problematize the acclaimed status of civet coffee, ...

It's for this btw: doi.org/10.14220/trn... (yes it is human-poop coffee, the most expensive coffee in the world). #coffee #poop #BeatThatKopiLuwak

Guys, I've been nominated for an IG Nobel prize. That's it, I can retire now. I don't even need to win. #research #goals #academicsky #satire #award #ignobel

A tabby cat with a heart shaped nose

The best thing about bad weather is the number of #cat photos that appear on social media as everyone's fur masters refuse to go outside. Here is Princess Po, for good measure:

Please keep sharing. We are open to non-traditional presentations such as artworks, artifact or reading based discussions and round tables. #AcademicSky #posthuman #pluriversal #politics #morethanhuman #multispecies