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Chris Sandbrook

@csandbrook.bsky.social
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Professor of Conservation & Society and Director of the MPhil in Conservation Leadership at the University of Cambridge

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People and Nature @peopleandnature.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🦊 Reimagining habituation: The case for a reciprocal and contextual understanding ➡️ buff.ly/6rbtYxu @livwildlab.bsky.social @ethanddoney.bsky.social @vdonfrancesco.bsky.social @hannalp.bsky.social @csandbrook.bsky.social
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Jakub Kronenberg @jakubkronenberg.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Are you a #birdwatcher? Take part in a study on #BIRDWATCHING & #BIRDCONSERVATION Help understand birdwatchers & birdwatching better, use this opportunity for self-reflection about your own birdwatching experience Link/QR forms.office.com/e/wTCy8ghY9U pls share @rspb.bsky.social @bou.org.uk
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Planetary Praxis @planetarypraxis.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
“The gendered forest,” a paper by @trishantsimlai.bsky.social and @csandbrook.bsky.social, critically examines the gendered implications of surveillance technologies, such as camera traps and drones, in forest environments: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
The front page of the article “The gendered forest: Digital surveillance technologies for conservation and gender-environment relationships," from the Special Issue on “The Forest Multiple,” by Trishant Simlai and Chris Sandbrook, published in the Environment and Planning F.
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Chris Sandbrook @csandbrook.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I had a great afternoon at the @rgsibg.bsky.social collecting the Cuthbert Peek award. The whole event was fantastic - a really inspiring group of prize winners who are advancing geography in so many ways, including student projects, teachers, researchers, civil servants and those doing outreach.
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Chris Sandbrook @csandbrook.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
9 months waiting for UK gov action on the HE funding crisis and what we get is a tax on international student fees, which are currently keeping the entire sector afloat. Labour are bending the knee to the far right at the expense of all the benefits we get from thriving universities. So frustrating!
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Chris Sandbrook @csandbrook.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I just realised Paul Simon's song The Boy in the Bubble (1986) has a verse about the Nature FinTech sector in 2025: "And I believe These are the days of lasers in the jungle Lasers in the jungle somewhere Staccato signals of constant information A loose affiliation of millionaires And billionaires"
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Andrew King @shoalgroup.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Lucia Pedrazzi is using drones to study animal behaviour in her PhD. Here's her introduction to the topic. With me, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social, Miguel Lurgi (cosupervisors), and Hemal Naik and @csandbrook.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Advancing animal behaviour research using drone technology
Unmanned aerial vehicles or drones have revolutionized wildlife monitoring, and they are increasingly being used to study animal behaviour. In this re…
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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
#OpenAccess paper in TIBG: 'From biopower to affirmative biopolitics: A (bio)political ecology of becoming with wolves' by @vdonfrancesco.bsky.social & @csandbrook.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geo #geosky
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Valerio Donfrancesco & Chris Sandbrook (2025) entitled 'From biopower to affirmative biopolitics: A (bio)political ecology of becoming with wolves' with a red banner at the top.
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Valerio Donfrancesco @vdonfrancesco.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
New paper from my PhD, in Transactions (@tibg.bsky.social) coauthored by @csandbrook.bsky.social. On wolves, farmers and interspecies violence. "From biopower to affirmative biopolitics: A (bio)political ecology of becoming with wolves" rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... A thread below
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
Exercises of biopower to promote human–wolf coexistence can have limited success. In contrast, affirmative biopolitics grounded in place-based ethics, which recognise wolves as subjects rather than l...
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Chris Sandbrook @csandbrook.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Impeccable timing George! But an important and interesting post nonetheless
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Simon Hedges @simonhedges.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
This paper by @csandbrook.bsky.social also provides a thoughtful review of the uses and abuses of #AI in #conservation: "arguing that to date there has been too much techno-optimism and a lack of attention to risks and broader implications". conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Beyond the Hype: Navigating the Conservation Implications of Artificial Intelligence
Conservation AI—the deliberate application of artificial intelligence technology to achieve conservation goals—has great potential to boost productivity, make existing conservation actions more effic...
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SCCS Cambridge 2027 @sccscambridge.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
📢 SCCS 2025 will be re-opening for applications (attend only) on 20th December 2024. 📢 ➡️ Please go to our website www.sccs-cam.org to find out more. SCCS is for early career researchers/conservationists. ✨ ⏰ The window will close on 10th January 2025 at 17:00hrs UK time
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Student Conference on Conservation Science - Welcome
SCCS helps young conservation scientists gain experience, learn new ideas and make contacts that will be valuable for their future careers.
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Chris Sandbrook @csandbrook.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I'm delighted to have a co-authored chapter (with Bill Adams & Emma Tait) in this fantastic new book. Congrats to the whole @digicologies.bsky.social team for taking the lead on theorising digitally-mediated human–nonhuman entanglements. This field is going to be a wild ride over the coming years...
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Chris Sandbrook @csandbrook.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Digital technologies such as camera traps, drones and acoustic monitors have incredible conservation value as tools to collect data for improved decision making. However, they come with risks for people - particularly if human data are collected, either accidentally (human bycatch) or deliberately.
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