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🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐

'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'

🗓️ 2-3 February 2026
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating)

Deadline: 14th November

Full info: digicologies.com/cfp

Making sense of snakebite: the place of biological toxins in social scientific analyses of toxicity - BioSocieties Through an ethnographic study of snakebite governance in Kerala, India, this article argues that social scientific theories of toxicity elucidate the biosocial dimensions of snakebite envenomation (SB...

Pleased to share this paper for BioSocieties on snakebite in Kerala. I explore how social scientific theories of toxicity aid in conceiving of the structural vulnerabilities, diagnostic uncertainty, and multispecies health impacts that characterise snakebite's public health response.

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Really pleased to share my new paper—"Making sense of nuclear natures"—which is available open access in Progress in Environmental Geography!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @progenvgeog.bsky.social @technatures.bsky.social #NuclearNatures

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☢️ New paper published in Progress in Environmental Geography ☢️

'Making sense of nuclear natures: Ecologies, expertise, aesthetics' by Jonathon Turnbull

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @jonnyjjt.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @technatures.bsky.social

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...

Last week members of TechLife visited the ‘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!

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.

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🦉 Glitch Environmentalism 🦉

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

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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

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! 👏👏👏

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

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

Current Issue VOLUME 4 ISSUE 3 2025 ISSN 2634-4815 Pages: 131-227 Editorial Essays This work is licensed under 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

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

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

🚨 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 👇

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!

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 💫

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

🗓️ 11 March
⏰ 4-6pm
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

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

🗓️ 11 March
⏰ 4-6pm
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

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'

🗓️ Thursday 6th March
⏰ 4pm
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

All welcome!

🇺🇦 Registration for our next event is now open! 🇺🇦

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

🗓️ Friday 14th March at St Antony's College, Oxford.

🕰️ Full schedule here: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/dd1...

📝 Registration: forms.office.com/e/YvyXhRce1t

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

🗓️ 27th February
⏰ 4pm
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

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

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!

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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.

🗓️ Thursday 20th Feb
⏰ 4pm
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

All welcome!

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.

🗓️ Thursday 20th Feb
⏰ 4pm
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

All welcome!

Beyond ‘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

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...

🤖🌳🚀 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...

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'.

🗓️ Thursday 13th Feb
⏰ 4pm
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

All welcome!

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...

🏙️🦫 How is #rewilding refracted by urban space? 🌲🌆

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

Happening today! All welcome!