My comment on a student's draft of a PhD thesis chapter, and their reply. Some books are a classic for a reason. I judge a book on how often PhD students borrow/steal it from my bookshelf.
08.08.2025 19:30 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Academic and Scientific Freedoms in Biodiversity and Conservation Research
Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...
Academic and scientific freedom and censorship are critical issues in biodiversity and conservation research, in all disciplines, but it is rarely discussed. Please your experiences of academic and scientific freedom, and constraints on it in our survey
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/leeds/acad...
30.07.2025 08:52 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Academic and Scientific Freedoms in Biodiversity and Conservation Research
Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...
Academic and scientific freedom and censorship are critical issues in biodiversity and conservation research, in all disciplines, but it is rarely discussed. Please your experiences of academic and scientific freedom, and constraints on it in our survey
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/leeds/acad...
30.07.2025 08:52 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Cary, Emma, et al. "Five critical questions we should ask of rewilding projects—And that social science can help us answer." People and Nature (2025).
22.07.2025 12:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
There are a lot of general review type papers on social science and rewilding out there, but this is one of the best ones as a primer on the most important questions to ask: ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...
22.07.2025 12:50 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
So, so, so proud to have worked with Hanna on her PhD, which was a brilliant study of human-wolf coexistence in Spain. She now works on coexistence with carnivores in northern Sweden/Sápmi, including on payments for coexistence.
26.06.2025 09:36 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We received exceptional applications for the 2025 SCB Europe Early Career Conservation Award and decided to award two candidates.
Congratulations to the winners Dr Hanna Pettersson (University of York UK) and Dr Volen Arkumarev (Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds / BirdLife Bulgaria) 👏🥳
26.06.2025 08:55 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Conservation Labor: A New Frontier in Labor Theory and Conservation Science (CONLAB)
There is a rapidly developing literature on the 'human dimensions' of conservation, including critical scholarship and appli...
Do you work in conservation/for a conservation organisation? Please take our survey!
We need respondents who work in conservation (broadly defined) in any capacity
Survey takes 15/20 minutes, doesn’t ask for name & is available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French
www.cmi.no/projects/292...
20.06.2025 10:23 — 👍 4 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
I think that self-censorship, 'cancelling', etc are worth discussing, but there is a huge gap between that, and the much more serious issues e.g. threats to life, which are almost never discussed. E.g. the Free Speech Union has literally no mentions of Giulio Regeni on their website!
24.06.2025 14:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
As we start our research project on academic freedom and censorship in biodiversity conservation research, it is apparent that there is a massive gap between actual experiences of serious censorship, and public and political discussions, e.g. around 'cancelling'.
24.06.2025 14:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
🚨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...
20.06.2025 11:57 — 👍 28 🔁 34 💬 0 📌 5
Great to see work by Sarah Oakes, our of our fantastic Extinction Studies PhD students, highlighted by @leverhulme.ac.uk. Sarah's amazing interdisciplinary project is unique and important in linking social, cultural, and biological facets of #extinction in a #food security context.
17.06.2025 22:53 — 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
It's rather depressing that this response piece was necessary. It perhaps reflects a culture where academics and editors feel compelled to publish attention-grabbing articles which amount to little more than pseudo-intellectual trolling, rather than slow, careful scholarship.
09.06.2025 12:52 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
(c) Leiden & Partners
📣SAVE THE DATE📣
The European Congress of Conservation Biology (ECCB) 2026 will be held in Leiden, 6–10 July! The theme of the conference is “Effective Conservation Science”.
Join global experts to explore effective conservation science through keynotes, workshops, field trips, and more.
05.06.2025 07:11 — 👍 20 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 3
The local traditional dress is a waterproof. Says it all, really.
22.05.2025 17:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
(Gendered ‘man’ is deliberate btw). The book was “the rider on the white horse”, by Theodor Storm
22.05.2025 16:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
You know it is good when the pre-meeting reading is a 19th century gothic novella about struggles between man, nature, tradition and belief, set around land reclamation, polders, dykes, and flooding.
22.05.2025 12:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
At the Wadden Sea in Germany for the European Conservation Humanities Network meeting, talking about time, change and processes in conservation. It looks like we will get lots of high winds and rain, so we might get empirical evidence of erosion and deposition
22.05.2025 08:23 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
p.s. worth pointing out that the person holding that plaque, and who led Natural England's work in getting these declared, is Dr. Rachel Palfrey, alumnus of our MSc and PhD programmes @envleeds.bsky.social
14.05.2025 08:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This was a fun, sunny day, launching the newest NNR. Really interesting that it referenced evolving histories of human-nature connectedness in the site, from Neolithic carvings through Brontë novels to the modern social challenges of Bradford and future changes.
13.05.2025 18:35 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
p.s. thanks to @phoca-sapiens.bsky.social and Francis Masse for examining.
01.05.2025 10:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sicily was supervised by academics across three faculties - @katatrepsis.bsky.social in Biology, me in Environment, and Chris Birchall and Tom Jackson in Arts @ahcunileeds.bsky.social . Sponsored by @extinctionleeds.bsky.social and @leverhulme.ac.uk. Paper here: www.cambridge.org/core/service...
01.05.2025 10:18 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Celebratory cake decorated with caged songbird
Sicily celebrating by opening a bottle of fizz
30.04.2025 19:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Join us for the second CASCADE webinar on Friday 4th April! We will be joined by @slpbenbow.bsky.social (Fauna & Flora International) and Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood (@uniofstandrews.bsky.social) to discuss big questions in ocean governance 🌊
Register here 👉 forms.office.com/e/fxLXph2feK
26.03.2025 12:44 — 👍 10 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
Associate Professor in Criminal Justice & Criminology | Centre for Criminal Justice Studies | University of Leeds | Views My Own | PI Safer Parks Project | Co-I @greenaware.bsky.social
PhD candidate @envleeds.bsky.social | ESRC White Rose | Researching human–wildlife relations, political ontology & multispecies justice | Toward more just and plural forms of coexistence
Lecturer in Conservation Science
@dice-kent.bsky.social
Wildlife monitoring | Indigenous knowledge | rights
http://transformativepathways.net | E3 sharing space for nature
President SCB SSWG l Happiest outside ☀️🌎🍃
Study the Earth from its core to the atmosphere with one of the largest groups of Earth, Environmental & Social Scientists in the UK & Internationally.
Political Ecologist. Geographer. Conservation, wildlife trade/economies, (in)security, human-wildlife-livestock relations, infectious disease.
Society for Conservation Biology - Europe Region
Part of @society4conbio.bsky.social
#biodiversity #climatechange #nature
Conferences, webinars, policy and scientific journals!
Website: https://conbio.org/groups/sections/europe
🏛Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield 🎓PhD Evolutionary Biology🏝Islands 🐘Elephants🦣Mammoths🦷Teeth ⚒️1/4 of TrowelBlazers 📰EiC Open Quaternary 🎥🎙Presenter. Expcet typos.
Political Ecologist. Lecturer @St Andrews. ERC project - Roads2Sustainability. Editor Geoforum. She/her.
Environmetal historian working on wildlife conservation, extinction & political ecology of forests. University of Oulu @unioulu.bsky.social, Finland, since June 2025.
Former @MaastrichtUni & former RCC fellow
Conservation social scientist, human ecologist. Researching human-wildlife coexistence, pastoralism, (re)wilding, knowledge and governance.
PhD student @envleeds.bsky.social researching dark extinction of trees and their epibionts: could engaging with shadow diversity make a difference? #eDNA #commmunityscience #interdisciplinary #EnvironmentalPsychology #envhum 🌳🌲🍄🟫🪱🦠
she/her | views my own
Professor of Historical Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. Co-convenor of the London Group of Historical Geographers. Writing a book on the global lives of William Macintosh (1737–1813). www.inneskeighren.com
Professor, Human Geography, Agrarian Change and Political Ecology #savepalawan
The Extinction Studies Doctoral Training Programme provides an interdisciplinary training programme for PhD students to work extinction and its meanings. Funded by @leverhulme.bsky.social and based at @universityofleeds.bsky.social.
PhD student (conservation performance payments for large carnivores) @ Uni of Leeds
Geographer, thinking & writing about: oceans, marine biotech, illegal wildlife trade, caviar
Simon Research Fellow, Geography, UoManchester
Secretary of @rgs-agwg.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary researcher working on parasite conservation @ University of Leeds
Passionate supporter of creatures that suck! & advocate of the need for a wormier world
Research interest in political ecology, environmental geography, human-wildlife relations, large carnivores.
Conservation scientist | Political ecologist
Interested in human-wildlife coexistence, rewilding, conservation, sustainability, and environmental governance.
Irish living in Norway 🇮🇪 🇳🇴
Scholar, editor, translator in Germany. #ScandinavianStudies, #LitWiss & #EnvHum. Researcher of North Sea coastal & petro-cultures. Likes to be beside the seaside.
