two fantastic PhD opportunities on human-eel interactions. Don't let this opportunity slip away, etc etc etc. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/435262
super paper in @peopleandnature.bsky.social by Theo Stanley on recent turns in Scottish #rewilding to integrate markets, technology but also some romanticism. A superbly rich analysis. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The Department of Anthropology at the Institute of Anthropological and Spatial Studies (IASS), Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU), Ljubljana, Slovenia, invites ap...
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Call 4 papers 📢 How are increasingly severe mountain droughts reshaping people & ecosystems? 🌄💧Mountain Research and Development seeks studies, meta-analyses, and action research on drought impacts and its solutions in mountain regions.
🗓️ Submission: 15 June 2026
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George Holmes
George Holmes
We seek contributions that offer insights into the complex, cascading effects of drought, bridge disciplinary boundaries, and present innovative responses to drought and water scarcity in mountains.
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📢 Dream job alert for degrowth & climate justice folks 🌱✨
Research & Degrowth International is hiring a Communications Officer in Barcelona 🇪🇸. If you’re into activist comms, media strategy, social movements & ecology— this might be for you 💥
🗓 Apply by May 15
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The event kicks off with a keynote discussion by Stefania Barca, Vivian Price & Erik Swyngedouw. The recording will be available afterwards.
For the next two days we are organising The Greyzone of the Green Transition conference in Sibiu, Romania. It brings together about 50 researcher from across Eastern Europe working on environmental justice issues. Full program grants.ulbsibiu.ro/ecojust/conf...
"Our old world, the one that we have inhabited for the last 12,000 years, has ended, even if no newspaper has yet printed its scientific obituary."
For Earth Day, read Mike Davis's classic essay, Who Will Build the Ark?
*Globalizing Wildlife* is OUT THIS MONTH (!) with @uncpress.bsky.social
“An essential and timely intervention… exciting, cutting-edge vantages on crucial global histories” -Daniel Vandersommers
Edited by @rafdebont.bsky.social myself, & Tom Quick
#animalhist #globalhist #HistSci #envhist
With thanks to @shokes.bsky.social for this thoughtful and generous reflection on our new film OVERBURDEN and the paradoxes posed by the convergences of #mining and #conservation for people and animals living in some of West Africa's most biodiverse and iron-rich regions.
#envhist #envhum
What follows is rather like the famous courtroom scene in Orson Welles’s The Lady from Shanghai (1947). In that noir allegory of proletarian virtue in the embrace of ruling-class decadence, Welles pla...
I wrote about a new film produced by @greggmitman.bsky.social, author of "Empire of Rubber," on the uneasy relationship between iron mining and conservation in Liberia's Nimba mountains news.mongabay.com/2026/05/in-t...
For good reason, mining and conservation are typically understood to be activities that exist in opposition to each other. But a new film explores how in some landscapes, the two have developed an une...
