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Claira Turvey

@clairaturvey.bsky.social
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Sustainable development & social anthropology. Exploring more-than-human relations, rights of nature, decolonisation, cognitive & procedural justice and reparations 🌿 🌱 A lesson from nature everyday: naturalthinkinglab.substack.com 🕸️ Edinburgh

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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière
Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Aboriginal men’s success in the commercial logging industry and in logging sports led to the development of 'All-Native' logging competitions in the Fraser Valley." - @colinosmond.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2016/04/04/w... #envhist #genderhistory #indigenoushistory #logging
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“We made a strong statement for First Nations loggers, plus we put on a good salmon BBQ!”: Aboriginal Logging Sports and Masculinity in British Columbia
Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of posts considering the intersection between environmental history and gender history. The entire series is available here. Today, flannel-clad, axe-wie...
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They are making their necrotopia.
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If we needed more evidence:
The result was that Johanna—who was the “female”-appearing agent, ended up with about 10.25% less money than her male-appearing counterpart, Jonah. Participants afterward said they also saw Jonah as more human than Johanna, as well.
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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wildfire smoke affects animals in unique ways. Scientists are trying to understand it
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Wildfire smoke affects animals in unique ways. Scientists are trying to understand it
The new field of "smoke ecology" examines how wildfire smoke perturbs wild places and animals — and what might be done to prevent its worst mayhem.
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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Woahhh
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Found out yesterday that one of the first pet cats whose name we know belonged to Crown Prince Thutmose of the 18th dynasty pf Egypt. She was named Ta-Miu, which translates, roughly, as "Miaow Girl".
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Josef Mühlbauer @josefmuehlbauer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
After Pax Americana? Decolonial and Local Perspectives How might global governance, peace and security be rethought through decolonial and local perspectives? Mo, 12 October, 12–15:30 CET📍 Uni Graz, REWI, Bauteil A, SZ 15.21🌐 www.youtube.com/watch?v=V92K... Zoom uni-graz.zoom.us/j/6797004452...
You’re invited: After Pax Americana? Decolonial and Local Perspectives

How might global governance, peace and security be rethought through decolonial and local perspectives? 

Join scholars from across the Global South and North for a hybrid conference exploring peace and conflict, global governance, mobility, cross-cultural dialogue and local knowledge systems. 

🎤 Keynote: Prof. Giorgio Shani, International Christian University, #Japan

💬 Discussant: Prof. Walden Bello, University of the Philippines Diliman 

The program includes two panels: “Decolonising Peace and Security: Beyond Western Epistemologies” and “Whose Security? Rethinking Peace, Mobility, and Governance.” 

Chaired by: Dr. Fatima Sajjad & Mamadou Akila Bodian, PhD   

On the Panel: Mudasser Awan, Mahmood Delkhasteh, Zahid Shahab Ahmed, Jasmin Lilian Diab, Sophia Stanger and Prof. Yang Lui 

Students will also be able to connect through interactive hubs in multiple countries. 📅 

Monday, 12 October 2026🕛 12:00–15:30 CET📍 University of Graz, REWI, Bauteil A, SZ 15.21🌐 

Hybrid event — attend in person or watch online! 

YouTube livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V92KSLz-77g

Zoom: https://uni-graz.zoom.us/j/67970044521?pwd=W9LZsH80R1pJlpgxiF4rrTbSy5cUXm.1

We look forward to welcoming you! 

Ksenia Radchenkova & Josef Muehlbauer, Universität Graz

#GlobalGovernance #PeaceAndSecurity #DecolonialPerspectives #UniversityOfGraz 

You’re invited: After Pax Americana? Decolonial and Local Perspectives

How might global governance, peace and security be rethought through decolonial and local perspectives? 

Join scholars from across the Global South and North for a hybrid conference exploring peace and conflict, global governance, mobility, cross-cultural dialogue and local knowledge systems. 

🎤 Keynote: Prof. Giorgio Shani, International Christian University, #Japan

💬 Discussant: Prof. Walden Bello, University of the Philippines Diliman 

The program includes two panels: “Decolonising Peace and Security: Beyond Western Epistemologies” and “Whose Security? Rethinking Peace, Mobility, and Governance.” 

Chaired by: Dr. Fatima Sajjad & Mamadou Akila Bodian, PhD   

On the Panel: Mudasser Awan, Mahmood Delkhasteh, Zahid Shahab Ahmed, Jasmin Lilian Diab, Sophia Stanger and Prof. Yang Lui 

Students will also be able to connect through interactive hubs in multiple countries. 📅 

Monday, 12 October 2026🕛 12:00–15:30 CET📍 University of Graz, REWI, Bauteil A, SZ 15.21🌐 

Hybrid event — attend in person or watch online! 

YouTube livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V92KSLz-77g

Zoom: https://uni-graz.zoom.us/j/67970044521?pwd=W9LZsH80R1pJlpgxiF4rrTbSy5cUXm.1

We look forward to welcoming you! 

Ksenia Radchenkova & Josef Muehlbauer, Universität Graz

#GlobalGovernance #PeaceAndSecurity #DecolonialPerspectives #UniversityOfGraz
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Karenlee Kitto @karenleekitto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#photography #ColorADay #YellowThu #nature #branches #autumn #leaves #PotD
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i regret to inform you that people have absolutely lost it www.404media.co/someone-tort...
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Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet
The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
privatizing air defenses is like peak shadowrun
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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It was such a treat to find these gorgeous little green cup mushrooms in the forest this morning. Usually all I can ever find is the bright turquoise mycelia in the rotting wood. Finding the thumbnail size fruiting bodies is pretty rare for me. Their colour is unreal. 🍄🌿
Bright turquoise green little fingernail shaped mushrooms, growing out of a rotting log
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Haiku for the tech press.
You stupid scarecrow
Under your very stick-feet
Birds are staling beans! 

Yayu
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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
what else is there to say other than, jfc
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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Moonrise.
The moon through trees
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Less: ChatGPT More: Researching amidst the flickering lanterns of an old-fashioned library in Prague during a raging thunderstorm with the help of a library ghost.
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Ej Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There is a corner of the internet I had never heard of before I started reporting this story. It’s called the “burnerverse”: a network of anon burner accounts ostensibly discussing college sports. But they have another goal: destroying young girls’ lives.🧵: www.wired.com/story/burner...
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A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
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Gary R. Bunt @garyrbunt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
sci-fi vibes and ethical concerns
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‘I created my mom and talk to her’: AI ghosts and deathslop are changing the way we mourn
The rise of AI-generated tributes and bots for ‘talking’ to the dead has experts concerned more people will grieve in isolation
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The US is a signatory to the Outer Space Treaty which states that space is for peaceful purposes only.
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The UK government is now actively engaged in shrinking the space available for civic engagement and opening up the space for violent engagement as the only terrain on which political action can succeed.
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I run an MA programme on conflict studies and one of the first things we teach is conflict escalation and, well, the UK government is now an active agent in conflict escalation as it is clearly suggesting that violence is a way to have your political concerns listened to.
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Wombat Every Day @wombatmylove.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
round fluffy wombat waddling straight toward the camera on grass (credit: wild
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 04/09/2026
"Oh, she said Death is not the end Inescapable I'll see you again Will you summon me? Will you speak my name? Tables turning Death is not the end Slow motion Let it wash over Unspoken Like the mouth that eats the tail I keep hoping Death is like the ocean And I'm floating An angel in the kelp"
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Death Is Not The End, by CHELSEA WOLFE
from the album The Dark
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Harebells and heather at the foot of Ros Castle #Northumberland yesterday #wildflowerhour
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Sarah Dees @sarahdees.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
My piece for @theconversation.com on Dolly Parton's religious significance theconversation.com/for-some-fan...
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For some fans, Dolly Parton was more than a musical idol – she was a spiritual icon
The legendary singer took on a saint-like aura for some fans.
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This may seem laughable, but it's also a logical extension of carving the solar system into capitalist chunks, which is already happening.
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Claira Turvey @clairaturvey.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
What’s going on 😭😭😭
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Claira Turvey @clairaturvey.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Oh my god 😭😭😭
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Rebecca Dean @rmdean.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
God damnit.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“I’m not offended by all of the dumb-blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb . . . and I also know I’m not blonde.” I might have to go back to the platinum just to honour Dolly the absolute legend!
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Claira Turvey @clairaturvey.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Sort of impossible to be sad though? Think of Dolly Parton and it’s like a joy-bomb goes off somewhere.
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Dctrojan @dctrojan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It’s not one of the amazing things that people have been posting about Dolly Parton but: a few minutes after we heard the news we were crossing a street here in Edinburgh & three teenagers were behind us singing 9 to 5 - that’s a definite cultural reach
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Claira Turvey @clairaturvey.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
She could have had another 10 or 15 years. 20 if God loved us. We live in hell. 😭
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KJ Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
there will be many ways to celebrate dolly parton and the one I want to point out is that she was a friend of Miss Piggy
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This particular picture of Dolly always takes my breath away. RIP, queen. 😭👑
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
this has always been the glorious lesson Dolly taught me too
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School of PPLS at The University of Edinburgh @schoolofppls.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Research led by PPLS linguist @simonkirby.bsky.social reveals surprising similarities between birdsong & human language. Bengalese Finches organise their songs using statistical patterns also found in human speech. Read more: tinyurl.com/5ju8h865
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Birdsong shows patterns similar to human language | School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences | School of Philosophy, Psychology and language sciences
The songs produced by birds share similarities with the structure of human language, a study shows.
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Claira Turvey @clairaturvey.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This photo is something else! I can’t stop looking at it
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Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A beautiful section in a stem of the seed plant Calamopitys embergeri, from the early Carboniferous of France 🌿⛏️ The section shows the central vascular tissues (wood etc., V) and the cortex (C). See alt-text for more details. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calamop... #FossilFriday #paleobotany
Section showing the vascular tissues (mostly wood), the cortex (C) with at the periphery bands of cells with thicker, and vascular bundles that were connected to the leaves (L)
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Neil Miles @neilsmiles.com · 17/08/2026
29th August 1985 - An excited Michael Fish gets to deploy the rarely seen red number as the temperature gets up to an incredible 26 degrees in London!
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Improbable Maps @improbablemaps.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The map's form: kaleidoscope It shows: species Its purpose: to decide
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Improbable Maps @improbablemaps.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The map's form: heat map It shows: culture Its purpose: to manipulate
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A peaceful photo of a lush meadow full of tall grasses & wildflowers in purple, white, & yellow at sunset
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Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
My god, what an image. Dead kings in a plastic box, carried off as the world burns.
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Claira Turvey @clairaturvey.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Brutal. Horrific. Careless. No way back from such cruelty.
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I feared this would happen. His story was troubling but the wave of hatred and obsession in the media when he was clearly someone who was vulnerable - whatever you thought of him - was entirely disproportionate and in my view fuelled by racists. My thoughts are with his loved ones tonight.
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