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Dr Jamie Arathoon

@jamiearathoon.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Geography @ York St John University | human-animal relations | disability and assistance animals | #EMCA | #PetTheftReform | they/them | 🏳️‍🌈

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Dr Jamie Arathoon @jamiearathoon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
BBC News - Disabled in a heatwave: 'We're talking about survival' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Disabled in a heatwave: 'We're talking about survival'
Disabled campaigners say the official advice for staying safe in a heatwave can put them in more danger.
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Pauline Couper @paulinecouper.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
A highlight of my week: @jamiearathoon.bsky.social spotting this on the university library's student feedback board. #Geography rocks / #Geography is the best ❤️🌟🥰
Photo of a dark green board with pinky/orange handwriting saying  "Geography Rocks / is the best" surrounded by hearts and stars.
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 09/04/2026
Mass drowning of chicks puts emperor penguins at risk of extinction
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Mass drowning of chicks puts emperor penguins at risk of extinction
Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice is having grim consequences for penguins yet to grow waterproof feathers
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Dr Jamie Arathoon @jamiearathoon.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
BBC News - Kenya's queen ants worth $220 each fuel booming global wildlife black market - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Kenya's queen ants worth $220 each fuel booming global wildlife black market
The craze for collecting ants takes Kenya by surprise as smugglers zone in to make a profit.
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
🐦‍⬛ 🐕‍🦺🐄🐴 Our Multispecies Mutualisms post doc roles are now also on jobs.ac.uk 🐦‍⬛ 🐕‍🦺🐄🐴 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS438/4...
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Jobs | Job Search | Job Vacancies on jobs.ac.uk
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
1/ Calling all ECRs - we have 4x3 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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𝚈𝚊𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚇𝚒𝚎 謝雅戎 @xyarong.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
📣 Submission deadline extended to 30 April 2026 for Special Issue on “Making Others Misconduct Matter In The Public Sphere”. We hope this extension offers additional time for authors to refine and submit their parts. Please share with colleagues and networks. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
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Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology
The Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology publishes papers that cover the full spectrum of community and social psychology.
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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Our new piece out today in Times Higher Education about the threats to Geography in the UK - particularly fieldwork - please do share. It links to a recent snapshot survey on the challenges being faced in UK HE, which highlights the inequities of the challenges, but also fears of what is yet to come
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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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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 06/02/2026
🌍 NEW in our Special issue "Infrastructural encounters: Disability in urban lives" Take a look 🧵👇 #UrbanStudies
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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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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
We would love for @jaytoddgla.bsky.social’s and my critical response to be read widely, given the Sullivan Review’s potential for far-reaching implications across the social and health sciences — and indeed well beyond the academy
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The Revelator @therevelator.org · 28/01/2026
Animals Are Climate Allies. So Why Are We Leaving Them Out of Climate Policy? therevelator.org/animals-climate-al…
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Animals Are Climate Allies. So Why Are We Leaving Them Out of Climate Policy? • The Revelator
Climate change threatens species around the world. At the same time, many animals can help us in the fight against climate change — if we let them.
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Myself & many colleagues are facing this at Sheffield Uni - double punishment for strike action. In the midst of this, yesterday many departments got an email announcing imminent structural reviews (ie redundancies). @sheffielducu.bsky.social
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 22/01/2026
The University of Sheffield has stopped paying staff. Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for. This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...
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Union condemns continued docking of staff pay following strike action at University of Sheffield
The University and College Union (UCU) has today condemned the lockout and withholding of staff pay at the University of Sheffield following lawful industrial action
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Hannah D-C 🦐 @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
CfP: Attuning to More-than-human Seas: Negotiating Multispecies Justice in the Anthropocene Ocean 🌊🦐🐳🪸🦈🐠🌊 Please share! @rgsibg.bsky.social @rgs-agwg.bsky.social @marsocsci.bsky.social @marineconservation.bsky.social
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Dr Jamie Arathoon @jamiearathoon.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Resharing my survey about teaching animal geographies. This is for anyone who has taught, or is teaching, animal geographies in higher education. This can be in the UK or world wide and your teaching could be individual lectures to whole modules! Link here: yorksj.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Qualtrics Survey | Teaching Animal Geographies
The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.
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adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
DIGITAL ECOLOGIES is available for just £15 in paperback until the end of January; discount applied automatically unless you're in North America, where you need to type "JAN40" at payment this also applies to ALL @manchesterup.bsky.social books!!! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188601/
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Manchester University Press - Digital ecologies
Digital ecologies - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Digital ecologies by Jonathon Turnbull
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Dr Jamie Arathoon @jamiearathoon.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Resharing my survey about teaching animal geographies. This is for anyone who has taught, or is teaching, animal geographies in higher education. This can be in the UK or world wide and your teaching could be individual lectures to whole modules! Link here: yorksj.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Qualtrics Survey | Teaching Animal Geographies
The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
The British honours system is corrupt and disgusting and any educated person who accepts one goes down in my estimation - especially if it's a VC who is closing a geography department, and who was born in a country subjugated by the British empire. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/new-yea...
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New Year Honours 2026: knighthood for Leicester vice-chancellor
Professors from UCL and Plymouth Marjon University receive damehoods, while four vice-chancellors commended
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Dr Jamie Arathoon @jamiearathoon.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I have designed a 20min questionnaire looking to explore how you all teach animal geographies. The survey aims to understand your pedagogical practices, course design, and how you translate all that animal geographies research out there to your students. yorksj.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 1/
Teaching animal Geographies research flyer. Includes a QR code. The text is written in the post.
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Dr Anna Lawrence @annamlawrence.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
🚨 Job opportunity🚨 We are looking for an editorial assistant to work with me on the RGS journals (TIBG, The GJ, Area & Geo) as we move online systems. 🗓6 months fixed term 🕑0.4 FTE 📍Remote working option ❗️Closing date 11th Dec Please share & apply! Happy to answer Qs. www.rgs.org/about-us/wor...
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Editorial Assistant for RGS-IBG Journals | Job vacancy
An exciting opportunity to develop a greater understanding of the academic peer review and publishing process. Part time, six-month fixed term contract.
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Dr Jamie Arathoon @jamiearathoon.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Looking for responses to my teaching animal geographies survey! If you teach any form of animal geographies in Higher education whether single lectures to full modules I'll be grateful for your response!
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Aseela Haque @aseela.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
This was a brutal read. An incisive rendering of the life of ECRs and (false) promise of an academic career: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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Dr Jamie Arathoon @jamiearathoon.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I have designed a 20min questionnaire looking to explore how you all teach animal geographies. The survey aims to understand your pedagogical practices, course design, and how you translate all that animal geographies research out there to your students. yorksj.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 1/
Teaching animal Geographies research flyer. Includes a QR code. The text is written in the post.
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Pauline Couper @paulinecouper.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Save Geography at the University of Leicester. The University of Leicester is proposing to dissolve Geography into a School of Chemical, Earth & Environmental Science. All research-active human geographers are at threat of redundancy. Add your voice to keep #Geography whole! c.org/sbYBqcwrhC
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Sign the Petition
Save Geography at the University of Leicester
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RGS Animal Geographies @rgs-agwg.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
AGWG is pleased to offer an annual prize of £100 for the best postgraduate dissertation. In addition, we will announce a Runner-Up prize! The new deadline for submissions is 30th November 2025. See more info here: www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/ani...
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Animal Geography Working Group Postgraduate Dissertation Prize — RGS Animal Geographies
The RGS-IBG Animal Geography Working Group (AGWG) is pleased to offer an annual prize of £100 for the best postgraduate dissertation. In addition, we will announce a Runner-Up prize. The new deadlin...
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Hester Parr @hesterparr.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
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Tories would slash university places by 100,000 - Research Professional News
Student numbers cap plan billed as saving £3 billion to invest in “doubled” apprenticeship funding
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RGS Animal Geographies @rgs-agwg.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Interested in learning more about corporate power and industrial chicken production? We have a new blog out from Amby Karamchedu and Ben Coles: www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/who...
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Who Owns Chickens? Corporate Power and Industrial Chicken Production in the Global South — RGS Animal Geographies
Ambarish Karamchedu and Ben Coles Why Chickens? In 2023, 76 billion chickens were slaughtered for meat [i] . This equates to 2,417 birds killed every second (compared to 10 cows and 47 pigs) [ii...
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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
New in The GJ: 'Multispecies home (un)making: Dogs and lifestyle migrants in Lijiang Ancient Town, China' by Duo Yin & Quan Gao This paper explores how dogs co-construct and contest the making of home alongside lifestyle migrants in China. doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky
This is a graphical abstract for this paper in The Geographical Journal. It is a photograph of three 'lifestyle migrants' in China celebrating a dog's birthday with seven large dogs gathered around them.
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Dr Jamie Arathoon @jamiearathoon.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Happy to see my new article co-authored with Daniel Allen and John Walliss published Open Access in Geography Compass. ◾ The article is titled: An Exploration of Dog‐Related Policy Through a Legal Animal Geographies Lens 🐶 doi.org/10.1111/gec3...
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An Exploration of Dog‐Related Policy Through a Legal Animal Geographies Lens
This article employs a legal animal geographies lens to redefine dogs as more-than-property, focusing on the UK’s legislative shift from the Theft Act 1968 to the Pet Abduction Act 2024, recognising ...
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Prof Katherine Brickell FBA @kbrickell.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
📣 I'M HIRING! Please spread the word 📣 🔎 Looking for a 1-year postdoctoral research associate to support @sensory-lives-prj.bsky.social & UK-wide tour of a playhouse tent communicating neurodivergent children’s experiences of Temporary Accommodation. 🛜 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL488/p...
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Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/
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natureandspace.bsky.social @natureandspace.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
OnlineFirst - "Planting Palestine: Food, environment, and the arts of solidarity" by @hannahkateboast.bsky.social: @uoe-llc.bsky.social #conservation #ecocinema #environmentalism #foraging #solidarity journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
🌍Are you attending the RGS-IBG Annual Conference in Birmingham later this month?🌏 🚌You can request free bus travel around Birmingham during the week of the conference - just complete the form below by Sunday 17th August. Geographers please share! forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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Microsoft Forms
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Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
A summary of some of the headline findings from our article on recent trends in dog theft (see the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...).
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
🚨Job Alert 🚨 🐕‍🦺 🐄🐎🐦‍⬛ Do you have project management skills & an interest in human-animal relations? We are recruiting a project manager role (5 years) for our new project (info in the 🧵) @sheffielduni.bsky.social 📆 deadline 30 June www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNO134/p...
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Project Manager - Multispecies Mutualisms Project at University of Sheffield
jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for professional services jobs in higher education, invites you to apply for the Project Manager - Multispecies Mutualisms Project position. Click to apply today!
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Dr Jamie Arathoon @jamiearathoon.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
28 amateur footballers who are transgender can no longer play in women's football as the FA ban starts. The FA have offered "online talking therapy" & said they could go down a route to be a referee. It's giving 'how do you feel all though we don't give a fuck and won't do anything about it'.
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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Powerful open letter from Liverpool Hope #DisabilityStudies students/grads in response to proposed redundancy of the ENTIRE DS team: DS "is not just an academic discipline but a lifeline. [Tutors] bring lived expertise, intellectual leadership, and care that cannot be replicated elsewhere"
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An Open Letter from Disabled Students Regarding Proposed Redundancies at Liverpool Hope University
An Open Letter from Disabled Students Regarding Proposed Redundancies at Liverpool Hope University To the Leadership of Liverpool Hope University, We are writing to express our disappointment regardi...
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RGS Animal Geographies @rgs-agwg.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
We have another exciting research seminar coming up – this time with Dr Muhammad Kavesh on ‘Hospitality and Hostility: Arrival and Intrusion of Foreign Pigeons in Pakistan and India’! Please see more info and QR code for registration below:
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Dr Jamie Arathoon @jamiearathoon.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Sometimes I forget other cats have two back legs. Makes her circle mode much smaller!
Shira the grey and white cat rolled up in a ball on my lap
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Dr Jamie Arathoon @jamiearathoon.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Whenever I click on the news at the moment there just seems to be constant transphobia and hate. So depressing.
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Pauline Couper @paulinecouper.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
And Course Team of the Year 2025 is...Geography!!🎈🎉 All good fun at the YSJ SU Awards last night, with one of the geographers also getting Inspirational Staff Member Award. 👏🏼
Four of the geographers in a row for a celebratory photograph. Left to right: Olalekan Adekola, Pauline Couper (with cycle helmet hair), Abby Mycroft (inspirational staff member), Jude Parks.Certificate for Course Team of the Year, YSJ Awards 2025.Abby on stage receiving her award from the Vice Chancellor and the SU President: Education. Behind them are the letter YSJ in lights.
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Geographers! Please join 300 of us — at every career stage — who are urging the Royal Geographical Society to reaffirm its commitment to trans inclusion in the face of Supreme Court ruling, and to oppose the EHRC’s interim update. Sign by WED 30 April 1700 GMT docs.google.com/document/u/0...
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Open letter to RGS on Supreme Court and EHRC events April 2025
If you are an academic geographer (broadly conceived) of any career stage, To sign the open letter please fill in this form: https://forms.gle/AmjaJh37xLt4CMwx5. Your signature will be added manually....
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Dr Jamie Arathoon @jamiearathoon.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Hi #emca scholars! I'm looking for help with some lit. I have an example I am writing up where a path is being blocked by workers, a sign, and a bollard, that a wheelchair user is trying to navigate past. On the approach they say to the workers "sorry" rather than "excuse me" to get past.
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Jennifer Cobbe @jennifercobbe.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Minority students should not have to spend their time at university being harassed, mocked, shamed, and told that who they are is invalid and unworthy or a fraud They are there to study and to learn, not to be forced to constantly defend their existence in ways others never need to
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Hamish Kallin @hamishkallin.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Funded PhD Scholarship opportunity! Come work with me and Claire Haggett in partnership with @living-rent.bsky.social on a project looking at retrofitting, housing, and tenure in Edinburgh. Please share with anyone you think might be interested, and get in touch with us if you have any questions.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/03/2025
Hope for endangered penguins as no-fishing zones agreed off South Africa
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Hope for endangered penguins as no-fishing zones agreed off South Africa
Deal will restrict fishing near colonies on Robben Island and Bird Island for 10 years, after long debate between industry and conservationists Efforts to stop the critically endangered African penguin from going extinct took a step forward on Tuesday,…
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RGS Animal Geographies @rgs-agwg.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
A reminder that the next 'Globalising Animal Geographies' seminar from is happening this Friday at 4pm. We will hear from @annaguasco.bsky.social and her research on 'reimagining whales' geographies'! Sign up using the QR code :)
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
1/ 📣 Big news! For the next 5 years I’ll be working with this amazing team @evahaifa.bsky.social Alasdair Cochrane & Bob McKay on the @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded Multispecies Mutualisms project wellcome.org/grant-fundin...
Photo of From r-l Alasdair Cochrane Rosaleen Duffy Bob McKay and Eva Haifa Giraud
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RGS Animal Geographies @rgs-agwg.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Still time to register for this Wednesday's Globalising Animal Geographies seminar series! And we have another exciting seminar coming up in March:
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