Corals, conservation and multispecies worlds 🪸 IG: @coral.ecologies 🪸
PhD Candidate at University of Westminster | ACCESS Knowledge Exchange and Impact Fellow
Anita Lateano
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I was recently interviewed about this work and my journey in environmental social sciences by my friend Jaya Gajparia for the ACCESS Spotlight series. We reflect on the importance of care, reflexivity and lived experience to make collaboration meaningful, not performative.
You can read it here👇
Key questions on justice and access in conservation were raised - who’s included, who’s resourced, and what must change to make the field equitable for all.
Between discussions, we explored the beauty of the Garden Route, to reflect and draw inspiration from nature 🌿 Excited for what’s next!
This comes as part of my new role as Knowledge Exchange & Impact Fellow with @accessnetwork.bsky.social, which aims to strengthen interdisciplinary working between environmental and social scientists, looking at ways social science is valued, mobilised and integrated across disciplines.
Heartbreaking news for the planet's coral reefs. 💔🪸
Restoration offers hope but not salvation - we can’t tech-fix our way out of a heating planet. What’s really needed is courage to end fossil fuels and centre ocean justice before transformation becomes extinction.
Earlier this week I had a wonderful time at the @accessnetwork.bsky.social Annual Retreat. We reflected on hopes and fears for the project, its impact, and what it’s meant for us personally.
A highlight was trying Lego serious play for the first time and of course spending time with lovely people 💚
Returning to reality after a special week at Nelson Mandela University for #ICN2025 @iccs.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk 🇿🇦
I got to meet 30 fellow conservation ECRs from all over the world, where we learnt from each other, heard about exciting research projects, shared stories and made new friendships.
World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life
I've been working on the @unibirmingham.bsky.social BBS Decolonisation Project for the last few years. We have just launched an online repository sharing workshops, creative projects & practical frameworks for decolonising teaching and curriculum.
Explore it here: decolonisingabusinessschool.co.uk
Grateful for the opportunity to present my research at the Planetary Futures conference, wonderfully organised by @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social @duncanwilson78.bsky.social.
Inspiring research of the more-than-human worlds that shape how we see extinction, conservation and life in the anthropocene. 🦤
Advancing Capacity for Climate and Environment Social Science
Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns
Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as seven of nine planetary boundaries now transgressed
The world’s oceans have failed a key planetary health check for the first time, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels, a report has shown.
In its latest annual assessment, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research said ocean acidity had crossed a critical threshold for marine life. Continue reading...
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An online depository for an ongoing project to decolonise a business school in the UK
