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Hannah D-C 🦐

@hannahdcknsn.bsky.social
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Political-environmental geographer. Thinking & writing about: oceans and aquatic life, biotech, biobanking, geopolitics, illegal wildlife trade & caviar Simon Research Fellow @uomseed.bsky.social Secretary of @rgs-agwg.bsky.social

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Richard Irvine @robotforaday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Saline giant, moving" Very excited to receive the published copy of my pamphlet on Potassium today - part of the Errant Elements chapbook project edited by Marina Peterson and Gretchen Bakke
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Simon Granberg @simongranberg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“Let’s test an unproven mining technology on the largest ecosystem on Earth.” What could possibly go wrong? 🤷‍♂️🌊 New, interesting analysis on #DeepSeaMining.⛏️🐙
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Deep-Sea Mining Is a Dangerous Experiment
As pressure mounts to exploit the ocean floor, a new report warns that deep-sea mining is technologically unproven, economically impractical, and likely to cause extensive environmental damage.
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Hannah D-C 🦐 @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
My term as Secretary for the AGWG is up! Really proud to see how this group has grown and flourished in the 3 years since Katie Oliver, Jamie Arathoon and I co-founded the group. Time for some fresh ideas and voices to join :) We are looking for a new Chair, secretary and ECR rep (UK based)
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Christina Hicks @christinahicks.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Delighted to launch a new @leverhulme.ac.uk Doctoral program on Food for Nature & Society: 30 PhD’s /w postdoc transition Details & projects to follow, 1st cohort Oct 2027 @doug-orr.bsky.social @profjessdavies.bsky.social @nickajgraham.bsky.social @ecarmosilva.bsky.social 📰 tinyurl.com/4v5yn28h
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New ‘Food for Nature and Society’ doctoral programme to fund 30 PhDs - Lancaster University
Lancaster University is launching a new ‘Food for Nature and Society' doctoral training programme to tackle our contemporary food system crises, while also protecting our planet.
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Jose A. Cañada @joseacanada.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This came out a year and half ago as online first in @sthv.bsky.social Really happy to see it now as part of an issue! The article is #openaccess and theorizes the implications of environmental care using seagrass Posidonia in the Balearics as a case study. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Blocks and Overflows of Care: Territorialization and Marine Conservation in the Balearic Sea - Jose A. Cañada, 2026
The article expands upon care theory in Science and Technology Studies by attending to marine spaces and practices for conservation of marine and coastal ecosys...
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RGS Animal Geographies @rgs-agwg.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
We have some exciting committee positions opening up - come and join us! We're looking for a new Chair, Secretary and an ECR Rep. More info and how to apply here: www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/joi...
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Join our committee! — RGS Animal Geographies
The Animal Geography Working Group (AGWG) has the following vacancies in our committee for the 26/27 academic year. If you are interested in standing for one of the below positions please send a short...
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"We don’t think of wild animals like grizzly bears as having a history, but they do, and not just collectively and evolutionarily, but as individuals." - @lootina.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2018/01/10/t... #envhist #animalhistory #bears #animalstudies
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The Bow Valley and 'People' Without a History
Multispecies ethnographies offer a way to approach the world from a "more-than-human" angle.
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Hannah D-C 🦐 @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
My term as Secretary for the AGWG is up! Really proud to see how this group has grown and flourished in the 3 years since Katie Oliver, Jamie Arathoon and I co-founded the group. Time for some fresh ideas and voices to join :) We are looking for a new Chair, secretary and ECR rep (UK based)
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Hannah D-C 🦐 @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Are you - or one of your students - a PhD researcher attending the RGS-IBG conference for the first time? I'm excited to speak at tomorrow's webinar (7th July, 1pm-2pm) on how to make the most of attending the society's annual conference. Tune in! www.rgs.org/events/upcom... @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social
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Taking part in the Society's Annual International Conference
Webinar for postgraduate geography students who want to make the most of attending the Society’s Annual International Conference.
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Hannah D-C 🦐 @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Tomorrow I will be participating in this webinar and giving some of my personal insights and reflections about attending the RGS-IBG Annual Conference for the first time. Sign-up if you're new to the conference - aimed at postgrads but anyone welcome!
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Hannah D-C 🦐 @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Today I gave a 'Friday talk' at the Institute of Marine Science (ICM) in Barcelona: 'The role of marine biobanks in conservation and the Blue Economy in Europe' The talk was live-streamed on YouTube and is available to watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhWO...
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The role of marine biobanks in conservation and the Blue Economy in Europe - H. Dickenson
YouTube video by Institut de Ciències del Mar - CSIC
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Hannah D-C 🦐 @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
My fifth visit to Barcelona in 10 years - but this seems a new thing I didn’t see on previous visits. All around cuitadella people are “taming” parakeets for tourist photos. Gave me the heebie jeebies! Why can’t we let animals be?! en.ara.cat/society/parr...
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Parrot tamers, the latest business in Parc de la Ciutadella
Feeding on this invasive species poses risks to Barcelona's ecosystem.
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 24/06/2026
Since 2013, researcher Mohammed Abu Daya has monitored fisheries' impacts on spinetail devil rays in Gaza. Operating from a displacement camp with limited resources, his ongoing work underscores the extreme conditions under which frontline marine data is being gathered. A interview by Lyse Mauvais.
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Studying giant devil rays through war in Gaza: Interview with Mohammed Abu Daya
On the messaging platform WhatsApp, Mohammed Abu Daya’s profile picture features an aerial view of Gaza City before the current war. A clutter of high-rise buildings rises against the sky; at their…
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Hannah D-C 🦐 @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I have a new chapter out in the Routledge International Handbook of Criminology and Affect. "'Caviar Hysteria' and the affective moral economies of illegal caviar trade in Europe' www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi... It is not open access but I am happy to share a copy! Just message/email me
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Hannah D-C 🦐 @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I have a new chapter out in the Routledge International Handbook of Criminology and Affect. "'Caviar Hysteria' and the affective moral economies of illegal caviar trade in Europe' www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi... It is not open access but I am happy to share a copy! Just message/email me
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Hannah D-C 🦐 @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Badger caught on our garden cam last night 🦡
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 16/06/2026
Researchers have developed the first AI algorithm designed to detect trafficked marine wildlife from 3D X-rays. The system identifies unique shapes like shark fins & seahorses, and spots sea cucumbers with 86% accuracy, targeting an underrecognized illicit trade. @danielshailer.bsky.social reports.
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‘Thinking how traffickers think’: Study uses AI to detect marine wildlife smuggling
On Sunday, April 26, Argentine officials stopped an unusual shipment arriving at an airport near Buenos Aires. Inside, they found so many dead and dying fish, octopuses and crabs that a national…
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Hannah D-C 🦐 @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Writing set up this morning… So happy to have a spot where I can work and write outside
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🌊Markus Knigge🐟 @oceanknigge.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Roman mosaic of mediterranean fish 🐟 & 🌊 marine life, from Pompeii. Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli. #muSEAum
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Hannah D-C 🦐 @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The latest in the militarisation of marine species and space. Pete Hegseth may scoff at the idea of Iran using 'kamikaze dolphins', but the US Navy has been using marine mammals for military interventions for decades (see @squirerachael.bsky.social work) edition.cnn.com/2026/05/05/p...
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
One of the world’s largest deep-sea coral reefs discovered off Argentina
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One of the world’s largest deep-sea coral reefs discovered off Argentina
Biologist Erik Cordes has spent much of his career studying cold-water reefs — coral systems typically found in chilly, dark waters far below the ocean’s surface. But his latest project took him by…
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 02/05/2026
Global trade in sea cucumbers has escalated since 2013, putting numerous species at risk. Despite a brief pandemic dip, the market remains "alarming." Researchers are calling for immediate conservation measures to halt the overexploitation of these vital marine organisms. Edward Carver reports.
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Global trade in sea cucumbers ‘alarming’ with many species at risk: Study
The global trade in sea cucumbers has grown since 2013 and continues to decimate the populations of many species, according to a recent study that cites “escalating impacts” and calls for stronger…
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 29/04/2026
Scientists have found one of the world’s largest cold-water coral reefs deep off Argentina. Home to dozens of species new to science, the reef already shows signs damage. Researchers are now testing "artificial corals" to help restore this fragile ecosystem. @elizabethalberts.bsky.social reports.
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One of the world’s largest deep-sea coral reefs discovered off Argentina
Biologist Erik Cordes has spent much of his career studying cold-water reefs — coral systems typically found in chilly, dark waters far below the ocean’s surface. But his latest project took him by…
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Hannah D-C 🦐 @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Important article documenting the persistence of sturgeon poaching in the Caspian Sea. Findings show the unintended consequences of state containment efforts - they can actually exacerbate and intensify IUU. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Persistent illegal sturgeon fishing in the Caspian Sea
Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing driven by artisanal small-scale fisheries is a critical threat to global biodiversity and is exemplified by the commercial extinction of Caspian stu...
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Tina Adcock @tinaadcock.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
.@envhistnow.bsky.social has put out a call for new content and review editors (volunteer positions). More info for interested women, trans, and/or non-binary early career scholars here! #envhist envhistnow.com/2026/04/23/c...
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Call for content and review editors
We’re looking for new content and review editors at Environmental History Now! EHN is a volunteer platform for the voices of women, trans, and/or nonbinary (FLINTA*) early career scholars in enviro…
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Hannah D-C 🦐 @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I have a new OA paper out in Geoforum: 🦐🌎 'What on Earth? Terraqueous Terraforming and Earth-shaping with shrimp-shells' 🌎🦐 doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
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Elizabeth R Johnson @e1izabethrjohnson.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
So happy to see this paper by @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social out in the world! Highly recommended reading!
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adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
paper three of our 'Terraforming Terra' Geoforum special issue is now out.. thank you Hannah for such a wonderful article!!
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Hannah D-C 🦐 @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I have a new OA paper out in Geoforum: 🦐🌎 'What on Earth? Terraqueous Terraforming and Earth-shaping with shrimp-shells' 🌎🦐 doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
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Hannah D-C 🦐 @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Maddie is a superstar and this is so richly deserved!
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
📣 Fully-funded PhD position on Methane Politics on the ERC funded METHPOL project @ Leeds Uni w/Prof Jan Selby. Open to home (UK) applicants (international studentships have been filled) to start October 2026. Deadline 22 April. #ClimateChange. Full details ⬇️ phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/427-...
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Global Methane Politics
Project opportunity - Global Methane Politics at the University of Leeds
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Giorgos Kallis @giorgoskallis.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
New course from Research & Degrowth International: Blue Degrowth It offer an intensive exploration of the ocean as both a vital ecological system and a key frontier of contemporary capitalism, with perspectives from political ecology, ocean governance, environmental justice, and post-growth debates
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Deep Dive – Blue Degrowth – degrowth.org
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Hannah D-C 🦐 @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Really important intervention from the brilliant @oliviamason.bsky.social
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Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
JOB ALERT: Two 4.5 year postdoctoral positions to work on my Wellcome-funded project 'Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health'. Please share widely! CLOSING DATE: 23 April (the date on Jobs.ac.uk is apparently incorrect)
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
📆 are you interested in working with a team on understanding animal-human interactions and health? There is just under one week left to apply for these post doc roles. 🐦‍⬛🐄🐴🐕‍🦺
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Hannah D-C 🦐 @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Back out doing fieldwork. This week I’m at NOC in Southampton working in their Discovery Collections. A scientific collection of deep-sea animals collected from benthic and pelagic zones. Over 70,000 samples stored here (and specimens in the order of millions!) some friends I met yesterday 😍
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
1/ Calling all ECRS - we have 4x 3 year post docs on Multispecies Mutualisms working with us at Sheffield. Don't want to read through all the stuff to work out if its right for you? Here is a short video explainer 🎥 digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...
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Multispecies Mutualisms - Join Our Research Team!
We’re hiring 4 Postdoctoral Research Associates (PDRAs) In this video, members of the team share insights into four exciting PDRA opportunities currently available. If you are ready to take the next s...
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adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
🐄 NEW OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE We sitatue livestock agriculture as a terraforming practice making Earth alien. We develop SF author Becky Chambers' concept of 'somaforming' to examine the shaping of nonhuman bodies to suit alien Earth and how this preempts futures: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
“A 7.2% decline for every tenth of a degree per decade might sound small. But compounded over time, across entire ocean basins, it represents a staggering and deeply concerning loss of marine life.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Chronic ocean heating fuels ‘staggering’ loss of marine life, study finds
Fish levels fall by 7.2% with as little as 0.1C of warming per decade, northern hemisphere research shows
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Planning to attend #EASST this year? The brilliant @evahaifa.bsky.social is convening a panel on Multispecies mutualisms 📅 deadline to submit a paper proposal is 9 March- more details on this & registering are in the 🧵
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Eva Haifa Giraud @evahaifa.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Interested in animals, health & STS? Our Multispecies Mutualisms (or perhaps Multispecies Mutualisms?) project is underway and we should be advertising postdoctoral positions over the coming months so keep an eye out! In the meantime, we have a proposed panel at EASST: easst.net/conference/e...
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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Really importance piece in the Times Higher on cuts to Geography at a time when it matters most www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uk-u...
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The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings
From climate change to geopolitics, the knowledge, skills and insights of geographers have never been more relevant, say five professors
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Hannah D-C 🦐 @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Final push on this CfP...4 days left to submit your abstracts to our 'More-than-human Seas' conference session at @rgs.org annual conference. We've already received some fantastic abstracts and would love to include more :)
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Hannah D-C 🦐 @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Still accepting abstract submissions for our @rgsibg.bsky.social annual conference session on more-than-human seas. We are seeking papers which examine oceanic inequalities, blue justice, blue (de)growth, affect and speculative ocean futures from multispecies perspectives 🌊🦐🐳🐋🪸🏄‍♀️🏊🐠
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Dr Jamie Arathoon @jamiearathoon.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Daniel Allen and I are organising an @rgsibg.bsky.social conference (hybrid) session on legal animal geographies. We invite papers that not only highlight current multispecies injustice, but seek to challenge, resist, and contest these systems to create more just multispecies worlds and futures. 1
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Dr Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Still lots of time left to submit an abstract for mine and Leah's session #RGSIBG session! If you've got some ideas for a contribution but would like an informal chat, please feel free to get in touch with me. #GeographySky docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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RGS 2026 CfP Family as site of environmental politics
RGS Call for papers - RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2026 – London, England (1st-4th  September 2026) Session title: The family as a site of environmental politics Co-organisers: Leah Edwards [Durham U...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
'Seagrass is one of the most powerful natural tools for tackling climate change and can protect coastlines from storms and erosion, according to Wilder Humber – a partnership of the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire wildlife trusts.'
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Vast seagrass meadows will shield Humber coastline
Trials to restore the saltwater plant to the Humber Estuary are hugely encouraging, experts say.
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George Kirkham @kirkham.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Ray Chan and I are convening a panel at the upcoming RGS-IBG 2026 conference titled "Digital Disease Ecologies of More-than-Human Health". Please see the abstract below, and if you are interested in attending send george.kirkham@sjc.ox.ac.uk a 250 word abstract with a short bio by the 23rd Feb
The proliferation of digital tools in public health has spurred the emergence of ‘digital health’, a term encompassing the varied technologies that utilise digital media to manage illness and support wellbeing (Lupton, 2022). Meanwhile, the rise of One Health as an influential public health paradigm – and with it the idea that animals, humans, and the environment form an interdependent system that should be governed in a coordinated, interdisciplinary manner to secure positive health for all – has contributed to new technologies that seek to monitor and manage disease emergence across species lines (Braverman, 2022). Despite this ambition, much geographical analysis has argued that digital health interventions are anthropocentric, attending to non-humans through modes of surveillance and datafication in so much as they represent a risk to human health, furthering an unequal public health paradigm that leaves little space for local contingency and the wants and needs of non-human actors (Hinchliffe, 2015; Lupton, 2022). Nevertheless, recent geographical work channeling more affirmative ‘digital ecologies’ approaches to the digitisation of more-than-human relations has considered how digital technologies also cultivate understanding of and responsiveness to how pathogens, disease vectors, reservoirs, and environments in specific contexts are implicated in and impacted by disease emergence, throwing light on how digitisation may reconfigure disease ecologies to enable life in less-pathological configurations (Turnbull, 2022; Kirkham, 2026).Expanding on understandings of digitisation as a process that materially configures disease ecologies to produce programmes of biopolitical intervention, intersubjective experiences of illness and wellbeing, and uneven health outcomes across species lines, this panel interrogates how digital technologies are shaping whose, and what, health is made to matter across diverse contexts. How can we merge digital geographies and health geography scholarship to apprehend the digital mediation of illness and wellbeing? What happens when digital health technologies are inserted into unequal health geographies? How do these technologies reconfigure the topologies of more-than-human relations that drive disease emergence? And how may digital health technology sediment or open taken-for-granted understandings of public health?
 
We are interested in papers answering:
•	The role of digital technology in practices of biosecurity and disease surveillance at the human-animal-environment nexus, including the ways in which processes of digital datafication, visualisation, and mapping alter how disease situations are apprehended and acted within;
•	how digital health technologies mediate the experiential dimensions of human-non-human encounter in the context of disease governance;
•	the political economies of digital disease governance and the role of digital technologies in challenging or supporting pathological industries;
•	the role of digital technologies as they operate within agro-industrial and veterinary sectors, and the consequences this has for labour, care practices, and more-than-human health;
•	how material infrastructures of the digital, such as data centres, chip production, and e-waste, are implicated in disease emergence and environmental health;
•	how digital technologies may or may not transform conventional public health approaches to facilitate the assembly of ‘healthy publics’ or a ‘more-than-One Health’ agenda (Hinchliffe, 2015; Hinchliffe et al., 2018).
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RGS Animal Geographies @rgs-agwg.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
We are delighted to announce our main and runner up winners for the AGWG Undergraduate Dissertation Prize! Anna Meller (Durham University) has won the best undergraduate dissertation prize and Adam Newton (University of Nottingham) has received the runner-up prize. Our congratulations to both!
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Winners - Animal Geography Working Group Undergraduate Dissertation Prize — RGS Animal Geographies
We are delighted to announce our main and a runner up winners! Anna Meller (Durham University) has won the prize for the best undergraduate dissertation with work titled ‘ A GIS-Based Study of Empe...
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Hannah D-C 🦐 @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Please check out our CfP for the @rgsibg.bsky.social annual conference. We are seeking papers about more-than-human seas which examine oceanic inequalities, blue justice, blue (de)growth, affect and much more! 🌊🦐🐳🐋🪸🏄‍♀️🏊🐠 @marsocsci.bsky.social @rgs-agwg.bsky.social
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