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 π 6 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0@technatures.bsky.social
π We research how different forms of collective life are shaped by increasingly complex entanglements of geological, biological, & technological processes π Website: https://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/research/technological-life/index.html
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 π 6 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0Last week members of TechLife visited the βMore-than-humanβ 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 π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0I 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.socialβ¬.
14.07.2025 11:41 β π 13 π 3 π¬ 2 π 0π¦ Glitch Environmentalism π¦
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...
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 π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Congratulations to Dr Timothy Hodgetts, Dr @avideshseenath.bsky.social, Dr Jonathon Turnbull and Dr Raffaele Ippolito who won Divisional Teaching Excellence Awards this year! πππ
Read more about it: www.geog.ox.ac.uk/news/dr-timo...
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
π We're delighted to announce the publication of the next issue of #ROUTES π
βοΈ The new issue showcases original #research from talented high school and undergraduate #geographers
π See below for details: routesjournal.org/current-issue/ @rgsibg.bsky.social @geographicalassoc.bsky.social
#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
π¨ Call for submissions! π¨
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 π
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 π«
21.03.2025 14:25 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Join 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
ποΈ 11 March
β° 4-6pm
π @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
ποΈ 11 March
β° 4-6pm
π @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'
ποΈ Thursday 6th March
β° 4pm
π @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
All welcome!
πΊπ¦ Registration for our next event is now open! πΊπ¦
'Consolidating the state: challenges and opportunities in postwar #reconstruction of #Ukraine'
ποΈ Friday 14th March at St Antony's College, Oxford.
π°οΈ Full schedule here: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/dd1...
π Registration: forms.office.com/e/YvyXhRce1t
This week, we're hosting the book launch of Digital Ecologies: Mediating More-than-human Worlds w/ @jonnyjjt.bsky.social & @admsrl.bsky.social
ποΈ 27th February
β° 4pm
π @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!
drive.google.com/file/d/1pDUo...
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.
ποΈ Thursday 20th Feb
β° 4pm
π @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.
ποΈ Thursday 20th Feb
β° 4pm
π @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
All welcome!
π 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
π€π³π 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'.
ποΈ Thursday 13th Feb
β° 4pm
π @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
All welcome!
ποΈπ¦« How is #rewilding refracted by urban space? π²π
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!
06.02.2025 10:47 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This 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'
ποΈ 06/02
β° 4pm
π@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
All welcome! @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social @kargkama.bsky.social
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'
ποΈ 06/02
β° 4pm
π@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
All welcome! @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social @kargkama.bsky.social
Austin's talk is happening this afternoon in the School of Geography and the Environment (@oxfordgeography.bsky.social).
All welcome, in person!
Jared's talk is happening this afternoon in the School of Geography and the Environment (@oxfordgeography.bsky.social).
All welcome, in person!
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.