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Erica von Essen

@ericavonessen.bsky.social

Human-wildlife researcher based at Stockholm Resilience Center and in a virtual bubble of animal memes

70 Followers  |  109 Following  |  17 Posts  |  Joined: 11.02.2025
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I know? Every time i do an em dash i feel dirty. And also those sentences which express a negative and set up for a positive, e.g. "He wasn't just a community champion, he was a hero".

27.02.2026 11:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Farmer Health: Assessing Risks and Mitigation Strategies for Rodent-borne Zoonoses in Food Production under Climate Change - University of Inland Norway RoBoZoo is an interdisciplinary project that investigates the interactions between small rodents and humans to understand how they are influenced by climate change and agricultural practices, how this...

Colleagues are in their rat era: would you be interested in a PhD on the social sciences of the human-rodent-disease interface? www.inn.no/english/rese... @aivelo.bsky.social

27.02.2026 11:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

it's so funny how academic fields start their papers in such distinct styles. my people are always dramatic w it 'in the sixth mass extinction/in the global sustainability crisis'. my anthropology colleagues always at the micro level of vignettes 'the snow crunched underneath my boots...'

21.01.2026 11:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

this film kept giving me first-year-film-school-students-who'd-just-watched-Terrence-Malick vibes. and the cheesy dead wife flashbacks of rolling in sheets/meadow lol. Edgerton did great, but movie was crap

15.01.2026 12:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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There has been approximately 4 minutes of clear skies coinciding with daytime in sthlm in the past three weeks and I was like:

12.12.2025 11:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Preach!

09.12.2025 12:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

spitting straight truths for 1hr 10min. both of you were great here.

09.12.2025 12:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Soliciting reviewers lately is intense. I don't blame any of y'all for declining but this level of daily rejection gotta be doing something to my psyche

26.11.2025 12:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Getting Black Friday emails from businesses you don’t remember ever having subscribed to

25.11.2025 08:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

POLLEN is two weeks AFTER Pathways so it would have to be the other way round. Load up on.. exciting population statistics and meaningful statements that 'wildlife mgmt is really more about people mgmt' and take to the social scientists? no? sigh

21.11.2025 09:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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For us wildlife folk, June 2026 is stackedt with conferences: POLLEN, Pathways, World Biodiversity Forum, European Congress of Conservation Biology. Any missing? I am paralyzed by indecision.

20.11.2025 12:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Postdoktor i social-ekologiska system och naturkapital Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) Γ€r ett forskningscenter fΓΆr resiliens och hΓ₯llbar utveckling vid Stockholms universitet. Centret frΓ€mjar den vetenskapliga fΓΆrstΓ₯elsen fΓΆr komplexa, dynamiska

2 new jobs working with our FinBio.org project
@sthlmresilience.bsky.social

Social-ecological systems and Natural capital

Postdoctoral fellow
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RA, full-time 12 months:
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04.11.2025 01:32 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

oh horrible. can one donate to subsidize its closure?

10.11.2025 11:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Interested in doing a PhD on #zoonotic diseases & #wildlife trade within a #politicalecology approach? Look no further, @geofrancismasse.bsky.social seeks a potential candidate to be based at @durham.ac.uk πŸ‘‡

07.11.2025 09:01 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

because confusion is traumatic and discriminatory of course. yes let me have my few pleasures!

05.11.2025 11:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Me with research funding like

04.11.2025 11:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i did not know @jonnyjjt.bsky.social had made it there now - sounds like a cool team!

04.11.2025 11:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i'm definitely with you there! you just gotta shoehorn your content to fit titles, is how i like to start

04.11.2025 11:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Given the long history of species releases and the diverse range of actors involved in them it almost seems like a human impulse. a bit like feeding animals. but this article does a good job unpacking the political dimensions of it.

31.10.2025 11:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0