Francis Masse

#spoonhalflife

really interesting. and wonder how this intersects with conversations around trophy hunting where it is often older, larger individuals that are targeted, and often done so based on conservation/ecological/biological reasoning, not only trophy size.

Call PhD Proposals related to Political Ecologies of Conservation, Infectious Animal and Zoonotic Diseases, One Health, and Wildlife Trade
#politicalecology #humanenvironmentgeography

Please share and pass on to potentially interested people.

@pollenetwork.bsky.social
@findaphd.bsky.social

Hi, the applying to NINE DTP links are going to a spam website.

This brilliant graphic from @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca captures really clearly the challenge of the drain, and the hope of alternatives that can free us from it.

CALL FOR PHD APPLICANTS ON CIVET ONE HEALTH.
Collaborative PhD with Civet One Health Programme.
Interested in applicants wanting to examine civet trade, consumption, farming, value chains, and One Health issues relating to and across these. @pollenetwork.bsky.social @jeshooper.bsky.social
👇SEE AD👇

Hi Jes, if you can send me a quick email at francis.d.masse@durham.ac.uk so I have your email I'll get back to you today as there are opportunities for PhD funding for projects that are collaborative with non-university partners.

I'll write you an email!

Call PhD Proposals related to Political Ecologies of Conservation, Infectious Animal and Zoonotic Diseases, One Health, and Wildlife Trade
#politicalecology #humanenvironmentgeography

Please share and pass on to potentially interested people.

@pollenetwork.bsky.social
@findaphd.bsky.social

you know where to come for red kites!

CfP Political Ecology Conference
Beyond the Usual Suspects: The Expanding Cast of Conservation Actors

Submit a contribution on emergence/enrolment of new, unlikely, overlooked actors in conservation!
@brocksaglio.bsky.social @charisenns.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social

tinyurl.com/bdehbxsc

another example of Geopolitical Ecology of Conservation, now in the Arctic. To understand how national security interests shape conservation assistance, just like this, take a peak at this article w @jaredmargulies.bsky.social that seeks to understand that very relationship
tinyurl.com/bd9utx7y

CfP Political Ecology Conference
Beyond the Usual Suspects: The Expanding Cast of Conservation Actors

Submit a contribution on emergence/enrolment of new, unlikely, overlooked actors in conservation!
@brocksaglio.bsky.social @charisenns.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social

tinyurl.com/bdehbxsc

CfP Political Ecology Conference
Beyond the Usual Suspects: The Expanding Cast of Conservation Actors

Submit a contribution on emergence/enrolment of new, unlikely, overlooked actors in conservation! @brocksaglio.bsky.social @charisenns.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social

tinyurl.com/bdehbxsc

Rethinking disaster risk reduction

Today is the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction has recently published the Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2025, which estimates that the true cost of disasters is nearly $2.3 trillion.…

#POLLEN"2026 panels are now live.

What happens now is a vital part of the preparation

Hundreds of potential participants will be sending in their ideas to the hundreds of different convenors. It is a rich moment of exchange and interaction.

Please spread the word.

shorturl.at/fCGhB

🌅 How are digital technologies refashioning ecological aesthetics? 🌅

Join us for the next Digital Ecologies conference in February 2026 - CFP now open!

We're delighted to welcome Joanna Zylinska and Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg as our keynotes!

Any questions, get in touch.

Awesome! But just an fyi, the link isn't working :)

International students can apply for a UK Chevening Fellowship to study on one of our 1-year Taught Postgraduate courses:

MA Climate, Risk and Society

MSc Climate, Risk and Society

MSc Environmental Hazards and Risk

MA Risk, Security and Politics

Deadline for applications to Chevening is Oct 7.

I can echo how difficult a task this was and how seriously it was taken! A privilege (even when difficult) to be part of the process and get an insight into the amazing breadth and depth or work and thinking being done under the banner of Political Ecology.

come north and we can go!

Friends of Red Kites In the North East

come to Durham, good Red Kite country, even a Red Kite Trail! friendsofredkites.org.uk/red-kite-trail

In Zambia continuing research to support understanding of animal/zoonotic diseases in community conservation landscapes & how to mitigate disease risks for sustainable wildlife-livestock futures @charisenns.bsky.social @brocksaglio.bsky.social

Demilitarizing Conservation Many national parks and other protected areas (PAs) are experiencing an intensification of military actors, logics, and partnerships across the globe. This amounts to one of the most consequential ...

New article🚨 Demilitarizing Conservation
A labour of love w L Lunstrum @ashavin.bsky.social A Dutta @esthermarijnen.bsky.social T Mushonga F Matose

For a more robustly care-full conservation
Demilitarization based on ethics/politics of care/nonviolence @pollenetwork.bsky.social

shorturl.at/Wsl9m

Ethemblage by leahgovia Interactive story about more-than-human ethics

Ethemblage is an online game developed by @leahgovia.bsky.social leahgovia.itch.io/ethemblage It's a story in which players interact with different scenarios where technologies such as acoustic monitors, drones, and GPS collars are applied by conservationists to monitor non-human species.

A #POLLEN26 Update:

We have 227 panels submitted.

227!! That is an incredible response. We will not have space for them all. But we will try our best. Now the 17 members of the scientific committee will set about selecting and sorting.

A huge thanks to all who sent proposals in.

Very excited to be starting at @geogdurham.bsky.social today! Looking forwards to new colleagues, friends, & collaborations and already feeling a very warm welcome.

And a sincere thank you to friends & colleagues at Northumbria GES & @nuglobaldev.bsky.social for some wonderful years!

🚨Job Alert 🚨 🐕‍🦺 🐄🐎🐦‍⬛
Do you have project management skills & an interest in human-animal relations? We are recruiting a project manager role (5 years) for our new project (info in the 🧵) @sheffielduni.bsky.social
📆 deadline 30 June www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNO134/p...

The QR code on the poster or the link in the reply will take you to a page with full information.

Please forward and share among your networks.
link again: www.cmi.no/projects/292...

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