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@technatures.bsky.social

🌍 We research how different forms of collective life are shaped by increasingly complex entanglements of geological, biological, & technological processes 🌍 Website: https://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/research/technological-life/index.html

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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library This paper begins by looking at a biodiversity conservation project on the River Severn (UK) and argues that dominant technocratic framings of it ignore the colonial legacies that shape the river. It...

my new paper is now published open access in @rgsibg.bsky.social Transactions journal: doi.org/10.1111/tran...

21.07.2025 08:55 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Last week members of TechLife visited the β€˜More-than-human’ exhibition at the Design Museum @designmuseum.bsky.social in London... A big thanks to the team of curators at the Museum for hosting us and partaking in a fascinating discussion!

21.07.2025 09:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Learning from the mess in social media elicitation interviews – new paperΒ alert! Really happy to have been a small part of this new paper in Qualitative Inquiry, called 'Learning from the mess in social media elicitation interviews.' It's available open access here: and this is the abstract: The article examines what happened during 50 semi-structured interviews that were designed to focus on the visual content of interviewees’ social media feeds. During these encounters, interviewees were invited to talk about content that appeared on their social media apps while showing their phone screens to the interviewer.

I shared two publications discussing research methods for understanding app use on smartphones in a blogpost - both part of the TRAVIS research project led by the estimable @kattiid.bsky.social‬.

14.07.2025 11:41 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

πŸ¦‰ Glitch Environmentalism πŸ¦‰

In our new paper, Naomi Parker, @admsrl.bsky.social & I explore glitches in the birding community that arose in the Self-Isolating Bird Club

We theorise glitch environmentalism to understand how transitory glitches can gain duration

journals.sagepub.com/eprint/CESTC...

18.07.2025 06:44 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

New paper out -- Lea gives an excellent summary of the contents and why we are ambiguous about community transport in rural Oxfordshire despite the wonderful work of its volunteers and the essential services it provides to those without a car and access to public buses @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

06.06.2025 11:10 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dr Timothy Hodgetts, Dr Avidesh Seenath, Dr Jonathon Turnbull and Dr Raffaele Ippolito win Divisional Teaching Excellence Awards 2025 Dr Timothy Hodgetts, Dr Avidesh Seenath, Dr Jonathon Turnbull and Dr Raffaele Ippolito win Divisional Teaching Excellence Awards 2025

Congratulations to Dr Timothy Hodgetts, Dr @avideshseenath.bsky.social, Dr Jonathon Turnbull and Dr Raffaele Ippolito who won Divisional Teaching Excellence Awards this year! πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

Read more about it: www.geog.ox.ac.uk/news/dr-timo...

24.06.2025 10:09 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Nuclear-Water Nexus Splitting atoms is a water-intensive business. To operate efficiently and safely, a standard nuclear reactor needs around 50 cubic meters (13,000 gallons) of...

Delighted to have a chapter in 'The Nuclear-Water Nexus' edited by @perhogselius.bsky.social & @siegfriedevens.bsky.social

Kate Brown and I trace the legacies of #Chornobyl through the proposed E40 waterway, exploring historical/contemporary attempts to engineer the #Prypiat River

01.07.2025 12:30 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Current Issue VOLUME 4 ISSUE 3 2025 ISSN 2634-4815 Pages: 131-227 Editorial Essays This workΒ is licensed underΒ CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

🌍 We're delighted to announce the publication of the next issue of #ROUTES 🌍

✍️ The new issue showcases original #research from talented high school and undergraduate #geographers

πŸ‘‡ See below for details: routesjournal.org/current-issue/ @rgsibg.bsky.social @geographicalassoc.bsky.social

13.06.2025 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library Rewilding has become established as a new mode of nature conservation. Until recently, cities and the urban were neglected by rewilding discourse; the idea of urban rewilding seen as oxymoronic. Of l...

#OpenAccess in Transactions:

'(Re)wilding London: Fabric, politics, and aesthetics' by @jonnyjjt.bsky.social et al.

This paper sets out an agenda for future geographical research into urban rewilding.

doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky #geo

22.05.2025 13:11 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨 Call for submissions! 🚨

The Progress in Environmental Geography editorial collective is seeking Original Research Articles and Themed Interventions on important topics and issues in environmental geography

See below for details of our current and previous themed issues πŸ‘‡

21.03.2025 09:34 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Looking back on the Nature Buffering exhibition curated with my Digital Ecologies MSc students at @oxfordgeography.bsky.social a couple of weeks ago.

Loved seeing their creative reflections on the digital mediation of more-than-human worlds!

21.03.2025 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

The Digital Ecologies MSc collective recently held an exhibition - #NatureBuffering - at Oxford. Students showcased key concepts from the #DigitalEcologies framework through a series of wonderful creative interventions πŸ’«

21.03.2025 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Join us for the Nature Buffering exhibition!

The @digicologies.bsky.social MSc Collective will exhibit creative work reflecting on the digitisation of more-than-human worlds, w/ @jonnyjjt.bsky.social, @karolinausk.bsky.social & @admsrl.bsky.social

πŸ—“οΈ 11 March
⏰ 4-6pm
πŸ“ @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

10.03.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Join us for the Nature Buffering exhibition!

The @digicologies.bsky.social MSc Collective will exhibit creative work reflecting on the digitisation of more-than-human worlds, w/ @jonnyjjt.bsky.social, @karolinausk.bsky.social & @admsrl.bsky.social

πŸ—“οΈ 11 March
⏰ 4-6pm
πŸ“ @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

10.03.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This week we're delighted to be joined by Eimear McLoughlin (@dreimear.bsky.social) who will be presenting:

'Multispecies multimodalities: sensory #ethnography, industrial sentience, and porcine plurality'

πŸ—“οΈ Thursday 6th March
⏰ 4pm
πŸ“ @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

All welcome!

05.03.2025 11:13 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Registration for our next event is now open! πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

'Consolidating the state: challenges and opportunities in postwar #reconstruction of #Ukraine'

πŸ—“οΈ Friday 14th March at St Antony's College, Oxford.

πŸ•°οΈ Full schedule here: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/dd1...

πŸ“ Registration: forms.office.com/e/YvyXhRce1t

03.03.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Manchester University Press - Digital ecologies Digital ecologies - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Digital ecologies by Jonathon Turnbull

This week, we're hosting the book launch of Digital Ecologies: Mediating More-than-human Worlds w/ @jonnyjjt.bsky.social & @admsrl.bsky.social

πŸ—“οΈ 27th February
⏰ 4pm
πŸ“ @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188601/ @digicologies.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social P

24.02.2025 09:32 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My new paper in East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies asks what it means to treat the #Chornobyl Zone as a laboratory, exploring a strange experiment conducted with the Chornobyl dogs.

Thanks @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social and @tlrichardson.bsky.social for support!

drive.google.com/file/d/1pDUo...

24.02.2025 09:12 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This week we're delighted to be joined by Karolina Uskakovych who will screen her film 'Boots on the Ground, Hands in the Soil' and discuss her work on #agriculture and #gardening in the UK and #Ukraine.

πŸ—“οΈ Thursday 20th Feb
⏰ 4pm
πŸ“ @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

All welcome!

17.02.2025 08:38 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This week we're delighted to be joined by Karolina Uskakovych who will screen her film 'Boots on the Ground, Hands in the Soil' and discuss her work on #agriculture and #gardening in the UK and #Ukraine.

πŸ—“οΈ Thursday 20th Feb
⏰ 4pm
πŸ“ @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

All welcome!

17.02.2025 08:38 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Beyond β€˜technical fixes’: Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery conference provokes debate at the interface between theory and application Noemi Duroux, Caitlin Hafferty, and Jonathon Turnbull reflect on the 2024 Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery conference, which created a vibrant, interdisciplinary space for knowledge sharing, posi...

🌐 Check out this new blog by @caitlinhafferty.bsky.social, @jonnyjjt.bsky.social & Noemi Duroux where they reflect on the Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery conference held at the Digital Hub at Jesus College, Oxford in November last year

naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/news/beyond-... #DigitalEcologies

11.02.2025 13:43 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery conference explores the potential, pitfalls, and diverse futures of technological innovation Noemi Duroux, Caitlin Hafferty, and Jonathon Turnbull reflect on the 2024 Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery conference, which created a vibrant, interdisciplinary space for knowledge sharing and d...

πŸ€–πŸŒ³πŸš€ New blog post on our transdisciplinary Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery conference, which brought together diverse voices to question the tensions between utopian innovation & complex power dynamics at the interface between policy and practice.

naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/news/digital...

11.02.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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This week we're delighted to be joined by Dr Ann Kelly who will be presenting 'The humble brick: mosquito vectors, ectothermicities and designing with air'.

πŸ—“οΈ Thursday 13th Feb
⏰ 4pm
πŸ“ @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

All welcome!

11.02.2025 13:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library Rewilding has become established as a new mode of nature conservation. Until recently, cities and the urban were neglected by rewilding discourse; the idea of urban rewilding seen as oxymoronic. Of l...

πŸ™οΈπŸ¦« How is #rewilding refracted by urban space? πŸŒ²πŸŒ†

Our new paper in Transactions of the @rgsibg.bsky.social explores this question in relation to the urban fabric, politics, and aesthetics, with Tom Fry and @jlorimer.bsky.social.

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #UrbanRewilding

11.02.2025 11:04 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Happening today! All welcome!

06.02.2025 10:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This week we're joined by Dr KΓ€rg Kama & Dr James Palmer who will be presenting their new project 'Peatscapes in transition: knowledge controversies in European peatland restoration'

πŸ—“οΈ 06/02
⏰ 4pm
πŸ“@oxfordgeography.bsky.social

All welcome! @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social @kargkama.bsky.social

03.02.2025 08:54 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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This week we're joined by Dr KΓ€rg Kama & Dr James Palmer who will be presenting their new project 'Peatscapes in transition: knowledge controversies in European peatland restoration'

πŸ—“οΈ 06/02
⏰ 4pm
πŸ“@oxfordgeography.bsky.social

All welcome! @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social @kargkama.bsky.social

03.02.2025 08:54 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Austin's talk is happening this afternoon in the School of Geography and the Environment (@oxfordgeography.bsky.social).

All welcome, in person!

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Jared's talk is happening this afternoon in the School of Geography and the Environment (@oxfordgeography.bsky.social).

All welcome, in person!

28.01.2025 10:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This week, we have two speakers!

Tuesday, 4pm: Dr Jared Margulies will be presenting A political ecology of desire: loving plants into extinction?

Thursday, 4pm: Dr Austin Read will be presenting Infrastructure as archive: examining the hidden colonial histories of the River Severn, UK.

27.01.2025 08:14 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4

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