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Hanna Pettersson @hannalp.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Some very nice pieces covering our long-term analysis of the Swedish payment-for-presence scheme (which rewards reindeer herders for living with wolverines) came out during the summer. Our paper asks: can we pay our way to coexistence with carnivores, for how long? as.ft.com/r/590e7ff6-2...

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Reindeer herders bear cost of Nordic wolverine revival

The EU has sought to encourage rewilding, but Sami people say policy affects their livelihood

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Hanna Pettersson @hannalp.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

What if we pay for the presence of large carnivores, rather than for the damage they cause? This is what Sweden has been doing in the reindeer herding area since 1996, a scheme lauded as a gold standard for coexistence. But is it still delivering? We found worrying trends👇 www.slu.se/en/news/2026...

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Crisis for Sweden’s celebrated model for coexistence between carnivores and reindeer herders | slu.se

Sweden’s internationally acclaimed compensation scheme for coexistence between reindeer herders and wolverines helped the species recover. A new study now shows that the success has not lasted. Trust ...

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People and Nature @peopleandnature.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

🌟 Read our new 'behind the paper' blog from author Douglas Sheil! "Get the human relationships right, and the wildlife wins too. Get them wrong, and no fence in the world will hold. If you fund, design, or run human-wildlife conflict projects please read our article" 📖 buff.ly/9zov0mA

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Hanna Pettersson @hannalp.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Come and work with me and a bunch of other stellar nerds, including two positions on holistic metrics of biodiversity, i.e., weaving plural knowledge systems to understand, measure and monitor the natural world 🦇🦫🐺🐝🌳🌼

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Colin Beale @cmbeale.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Are you looking for a Post-doc related to biodiversity? We might have just the role for you! @anthropocenebio.bsky.social are curently advertising 10 (yes!) post-docs covering natural & social science of biodivesity. Come work with us & share with anyone appropriate! sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...

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LCAB Postdoctoral recruitment

The Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity (LCAB) is a major research centre funded by the Leverhulme Trust to increase knowledge of how the relationship between humanity and the natural worl...

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Hanna Pettersson @hannalp.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

In these Anthropocene times, the concept of "resilience", i.e. the ability of systems/landscapes to bounce back from shocks, has become all the rage. Yet those who try to implement the concept on the ground will promptly run into questions, such as: Resilience of what, and according whom? 🧵

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Hanna Pettersson @hannalp.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I cannot recommend this summer school highly enough. Gorgeous mountain village-setting, wine, food, cheese, more wine, silly games, great field excursions and dancing until the small hours. Oh, and some great learning too, as a bonus :) 🧀🍷⛰️

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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Great questions! 🌍🌐🦊🙏 The Wild Imperative: Rewilding in the Anthropocene journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Tommy's Outdoors @tommysoutdoors.com · 09/12/2025

Can we find a middle ground between those who see the EU's wolf downlisting as a catastrophe and those who celebrate it as good news? With @hannalp.bsky.social, we discuss the frustratingly polarised debate about wolf conservation in the EU. 🌍🦤🧪🦊 🎧➡️ pod.fo/e/362998

Podcast episode cover art for Tommy's Outdoors Conservation and Science featuring a woman with glasses and dark hair pulled back, wearing a black blazer over a white top, smiling while looking downward in an indoor setting. The episode title 'EU Wolf Downlisting: Time to Stop Crying Wolf' appears in white and gold text on a dark olive green overlay in the lower left corner. The design uses an olive green background with gold border framing, and includes 'PODCAST' text at the bottom.

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Hanna Pettersson @hannalp.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Interesting paper by Chapron et al, illustrating "an apparent contradiction: while many respondents support maintaining stable wolf populations, they simultaneously oppose legally killing them—an action that (...) may be necessary to cap population size". www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting - Nature Ecology & Evolution

A survey of 10,000 members of the public across European Union countries in which there are large carnivores finds strong support for carnivore recovery but simultaneous, and somewhat paradoxical, opp...

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below.

1. The four-fold drain
1.1 Money
Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for
whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who
created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis,
which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024
alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit
margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher
(Elsevier) always over 37%.
Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most
consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial
difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor &
Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American
researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The
Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3
billion in that year.

A figure detailing the drain on researcher time.

1. The four-fold drain

1.2 Time
The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce,
with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure
1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material
has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs,
grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for
profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time.
The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million
unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of
peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting
widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the
authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many
review demands.
Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of
scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in
‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow
progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to
volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier,
local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with
limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging
with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks
intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision.

A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below:

1. The four-fold drain
1.1 Money
Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for
whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who
created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis,
which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024
alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit
margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher
(Elsevier) always over 37%.
Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most
consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial
difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor &
Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American
researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The
Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3
billion in that year.

The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised
scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers
first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour
resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.

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Hanna Pettersson @hannalp.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Ping those interested in just transitions of Europe's fantastically beautiful and bio-culturally diverse rural areas of Spain, Italy and Poland. If I didn't already have a job I'd be trying to swipe the Spain one (drool)

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George Holmes @georgeholmes.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Short piece in @consletters.bsky.social exploring social, cultural, political and ecological apsects of illicit and unregulated species translocations - what others (not me, due to homophone errors) might call guerilla rewilding. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Who Let the Frogs out? Illicit and Unregulated Species Translocations

Click on the article title to read more.

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George Holmes @georgeholmes.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Happy Fat Bear Week, for all of those who celebrate: explore.org/fat-bear-week

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Fat Bear Week 2025

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Hanna Pettersson @hannalp.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Hot from the @consletters.bsky.social press: "Now What? The Conundrum of Successful Recovery of Wolves and Other Species for European Conservation", where Erica Von Essen and I discuss future trajectories of species recovery and management in Europe. Here summarised by @sthlmresilience.bsky.social.

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Hanna Pettersson @hannalp.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

What do we mean when we say that carnivores and other wildlife are "habituating" to people? Who actually habituates to whom? Is this bad or god? Who decides? All of this and more in our new paper, expertly led by @ethanddoney.bsky.social, out now in @peopleandnature.bsky.social.

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Hanna Pettersson @hannalp.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Today at #COP16, discussions on how to realise the #KunmingMontrealGBF are resumed. The framework recognises the stewardship of "Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities". But, "Who is local, and what do they know?" 👉https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pan3.10797 @ipbes.net #CBD

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WildCRU, Oxford @wildcru.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The recent release of 4 lynx in the Cairngorm mountains highlights the nuances of managing the needs of stakeholders, including the big cats. Darragh Hare, @georgeholmes.bsky.social & @hannalp.bsky.social explore the challenges surrounding illegal wildlife releases. 👉 bit.ly/4hmzSKV

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George Holmes @georgeholmes.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I wrote this @naturalengland.bsky.social blogpost at the start of last week, but the recent #lynx releases have brought this issue to the fore. P.S. the deadline for our PhD project on this has just closed, but we hope to advertise more opportunities soon. www.linkedin.com/pulse/who-le...

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Who let the frogs out? On illicit and unregulated species reintroductions.

George Holmes: Professor of Conservation and Society at the University of Leeds, and ESRT member. An odd thing has been happening across Europe in recent years.

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Hanna Pettersson @hannalp.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

So-called guerrilla or rouge rewilding is becoming increasingly common, including "beaver bombings", releasing butterflies and, this past week, lynx to Scotland. What might this mean for conservation? @georgeholmes.bsky.social, Darragh Hare and I explore in theconversation.com/lynx-in-scot...

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Lynx in Scotland: why illegal attempts to reintroduce lost species are surprisingly common

Guerrilla rewilders want to atone for past extinctions and create more vibrant ecosystems.

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