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Janani Sivarajah 🇨🇦

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Urban Forestry Prof @ulaval.ca | Applied & transdisciplinary research on #UrbanForests 🌳 & #Soils | #ResilientCities #Climate | Studying human impacts | Bridging science, policy & practice | #SciComm | 📸, #HikingTrails & travel 🇨🇦 www.jananisivarajah.com

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Université Laval @ulaval.ca · 09/06/2026
Une nouvelle carte interactive révèle une forêt urbaine méconnue à Québec Janani Sivarajah 🇨🇦
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Une nouvelle carte interactive révèle une forêt urbaine méconnue à Québec
Cet outil de la Chaire de recherche sur l'arbre urbain et son milieu met en évidence une diversité d'arbres privés essentielle à l'adaptation aux changements climatiques
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Université Laval @ulaval.ca · 24/02/2026
Un gène clé de l'agressivité du pathogène de l'orme identifié Faculté de foresterie, de géographie et de géomatique
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Un gène clé de l'agressivité du pathogène de l'orme identifié
Comprendre les facteurs de virulence de ce champignon pourrait aider à mieux freiner la maladie
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Janani Sivarajah 🇨🇦 @jananisivarajah.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Heureuse d’avoir contribué à une tribune publiée dans @lemonde.fr avec des collègues chercheurs et chercheuses français. Nous y soulignons les bénéfices écologiques, sanitaires et sociaux des #arbresurbains, ainsi que les défis pour leur gestion et leur survie face aux changements globaux.
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Elections municipales 2026 : « Les avantages écologiques, sanitaires et sociaux liés aux arbres urbains sont largement supérieurs aux coûts »
TRIBUNE. Dans une tribune au « Monde », un collectif de chercheurs évoque les bénéfices liés aux plantations d’arbres urbains, mais insiste sur le fait que ce type de mesure demeure insuffisant face a...
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Janani Sivarajah 🇨🇦 @jananisivarajah.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Our findings show that integrating social factors like accessibility, and community well-being can shift #GreenInfrastructure planning beyond traditional stormwater criteria.
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Carly Ziter @carlyziter.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Another paper out from Bella's PhD thesis, using open-source data to predict patterns of temperature and air pollution within and across seven Canadian cities: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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Predictors of land-surface temperature and air pollution across Canadian cities are largely scale and city dependent
Predictors of land-surface temperature and air pollution across Canadian cities are largely scale and city dependent, Richmond, Isabella C, Yu, Nicole, Robitaille, Alec L., Hutt-Taylor, Kayleigh, Ziter, Carly D
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Janani Sivarajah 🇨🇦 @jananisivarajah.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
🎉 New paper in Socio-Ecological Practice Research with colleagues. Using a real-time development project in the @townoflincolnon.bsky.social, we combine soil data with socio-spatial indicators to help prioritize #LowImpactDevelopment. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Mapping priority sites for low impact development: integrating socio-ecological perspectives in a new urban development in Lincoln, Ontario, Canada - Socio-Ecological Practice Research
Socio-Ecological Practice Research - Urbanization is increasing globally, driving rapid development to meet housing needs, and creating major challenges for stormwater management as impervious...
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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪
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Janani Sivarajah 🇨🇦 @jananisivarajah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Excited to help organize the 2026 Canadian Urban Forest Conference in Québec City (Oct 13–16)! 🌳 The call for proposals is open now, share your work in #urbanforestry, planning, or climate resilience with 400+ participants. Deadline: Feb 28, 2026 Link for more details: treecanada.ca/research-eng...
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Simon Donner @simondonner.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
The MOU with Alberta is deeply disappointing. It sacrifices climate policies, places too many eggs in the industrial pricing basket, proposes a pipeline deal that would increase emissions, and would have Canada double-down on fossil fuels at a time the world is moving towards clean energy.
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Janani Sivarajah 🇨🇦 @jananisivarajah.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Our lab launched a logo contest led by our amazing students and professionals. Loved seeing everyone’s creativity …it’s going to be a tough pick! #teamspirit
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Sean Michaletz @seanmichaletz.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
#UBC Botany is hiring an Assistant Professor in Non-Seed Plant Diversity - come work with us in beautiful #Vancouver, BC! Please repost! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31140
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University of British Columbia, Botany
Job #AJO31140, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN NON-SEED PLANT DIVERSITY (BRYOPHYTES, FERNS, LYCOPHYTES), Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, CA
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CSEE_SCEE @csee-scee.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
📣One week today!! CSEE Members: check your mailbox for the event link.
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Janani Sivarajah 🇨🇦 @jananisivarajah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Excited to help organize the 2026 Canadian Urban Forest Conference in Québec City (Oct 13–16)! 🌳 The call for proposals is open now, share your work in #urbanforestry, planning, or climate resilience with 400+ participants. Deadline: Feb 28, 2026 Link for more details: treecanada.ca/research-eng...
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Allison Walker 🇨🇦🌊🍄🔬🧬 @fungaldreamteam.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
🍄Working in fungal conservation? Call for papers for our upcoming special issue in Fungal Ecology 'Fungal conservation: from knowledge to actions' ! Deadline 31 January 2026 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Fungal Ecology | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier - Fungal Ecology | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Read the latest articles of Fungal Ecology at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
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Carly Ziter @carlyziter.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Urban nature based solutions are critical - but often hampered by a lack of collaboration across sectors. How can we do better? This was such a rewarding project to lead, alongside great colleagues from @environmentca.bsky.social, @treecanada.bsky.social, and many many others.
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Plants, People, Planet @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
In their Open Letter, Manuel Esperon-Rodriguez, et al. highlight the importance of #UrbanForests as essential infrastructure to policy makers at #COP30, which begins today in Brazil 👇 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #NatureBasedSolutions #PlantScience 🧵
An overhead view of a complex arrangement of trees and vegetation amidst tall buildings in a busy urban setting.
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Janani Sivarajah 🇨🇦 @jananisivarajah.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Happy to share a new publication I contributed to, based on a full day of discussions in MTL on real barriers in cross-sector work. Thanks to Kayleigh Hutt-Taylor for leading it, and to Barbara Frei and @carlyziter.bsky.social for their support. Findings now published in @facetsjournal.bsky.social
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Iberian Group of Urban Ecology @igue-aeet.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Esperón-Rodriguez et al. (2025) Urban forests as essential infrastructure for climate resilience and biodiversity: A call to policymakers - @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
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Urban forests as essential infrastructure for climate resilience and biodiversity: A call to policymakers
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Istand4people @misdha.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Urban forests as essential infrastructure for climate resilience and biodiversity: A call to policymakers - Esperon‐Rodriguez - PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Urban forests as essential infrastructure for climate resilience and biodiversity: A call to policymakers
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Janani Sivarajah 🇨🇦 @jananisivarajah.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Happy to contribute to this open letter on #UrbanForests as essential infrastructure. With recent federal climate cuts in #Canada, it’s time to rethink priorities. Thanks to Manuel Esperon-Rodriguez. @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social @cef-cfr.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Urban forests as essential infrastructure for climate resilience and biodiversity: A call to policymakers
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CTV News Montreal @ctvnewsmontreal.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Voters in roughly 1,100 municipalities across Quebec chose their local leaders on Sunday. Here are four things to know about the province’s municipal election results.
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Four things on Quebec’s municipal elections
Voters in roughly 1,100 municipalities across Quebec chose their local leaders on Sunday. Here are four things to know about the province’s municipal election results.
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Université Laval @ulaval.ca · 22/10/2025
Passage de la rectrice en commission parlementaire sur le cahier de consultation intitulé La planification de l'immigration au Québec pour la période 2026-2029.
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Politiques migratoires: chute de 41% des inscriptions internationales
L'Université Laval subit de lourds dommages réputationnels à l'international avec l'application des nouvelles politiques migratoires du gouvernement du Québec, en plus de celles déjà prescrites par Ottawa
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Nature Québec @naturequebec.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Élections municipales 2025 📣 | 81% des Québécois-e-s veulent que leur municipalité agisse contre les changements climatiques. À lire ➡️ naturequebec.org/elections-mu... #polmun #polqc #VireauVert @vivreenville.bsky.social @isabelleporter.bsky.social @fcarabin.bsky.social @aasimard.bsky.social
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Janani Sivarajah 🇨🇦 @jananisivarajah.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Getting our hands dirty — #urbansoil lab in progress! #urbanforestry #soilscience #teaching
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Run On Climate @runonclimate.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
🌱 Boston is turning vacant lots into edible forests, integrating food, nature, and community right into the city fabric. Urban climate justice in action. Shout out to @mayorwu.boston.gov for all of her great work! 🍓🌳 #foodforests #greencities 🔗
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Boston’s Food Forests Take Root as a Climate Equity Strategy - Inside Climate News
A decade of organizing has turned trash-strewn lots into edible parks. Now Boston is expanding food forests as part of its climate action plan.
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Plantae.org @plantaeofficial.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Plant Science Research Weekly -- Senescence to nutrient cycling: Top-down effects of climate change (New Phytol.) @dukesjeff.bsky.social (Summary by Xavier Ozowara) buff.ly/oOvMxnX #PlantaePSRW
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Senescence to nutrient cycling: Top-down effects of climate change | Plantae
Precipitation plays an important role in shaping leaf tissue composition, and as climate change progresses, we’ll likely see dramatic shifts in precipitation regimes. Changes in leaf tissue…
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DroughtNet @droughtnet.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The latest DroughtNet paper is out in Science today! Using coordinated experiments across six continents and 74 sites, the International Drought Experiment found differences between the effects of extreme droughts and more typical droughts... (1/3) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity
As droughts become longer and more intense, impacts on terrestrial primary productivity are expected to increase progressively. Yet, some ecosystems appear to acclimate to multiyear drought, with cons...
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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) @tairnews.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
"Assistant Professor - Plant Resilience to Climate Change at University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA *Application Deadline: 11/1/2025" Read more here: arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file… #PlantSciJobs
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Justus Hennecke @henneckejustus.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Super excited to see that the last chapter of my PhD on root trait - ecosystem functioning relationships is now published in @newphyt.bsky.social! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Rooting for function: community‐level fine‐root traits relate to many ecosystem functions
Humans are driving biodiversity change, which also alters community functional traits. However, how changes in the functional traits of the community alter ecosystem functions—especially belowground...
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Janani Sivarajah 🇨🇦 @jananisivarajah.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Very cool initiative training citizens/residents in tree pruning & stewardship 🌳 Wonder if something like this will catch on here in Canada 🇨🇦
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Janani Sivarajah 🇨🇦 @jananisivarajah.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Field trip day! 🌳 Our Urban Forestry course is out in the field …Dominic, a master’s student in the lab, is leading a session on #tree plantation pits at our living lab site, where we’re testing 9 structural pit designs with the city. #UrbanForestry #FieldLearning #urbanforests
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IPBES @ipbes.net · 11/10/2025
Urban expansion can lead to habitat loss. Yet, as IPBES #GlobalAssessment shows, smart city planning + nature-based solutions can create resilient, bird-friendly cities.🌍 This #WorldMigratoryBirdDay, let’s protect migratory birds in our #SharedSpaces 🏡 🧪https://www.worldmigratorybirdday.org/
Infographic detailing seven ways to create a bird-friendly community, including planting native plants, turning off lights, avoiding pesticides, and preventing collisions.
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Janani Sivarajah 🇨🇦 @jananisivarajah.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Savannah Bissegger O’Connor, Dominic Bartolacci et Ravosoa Ramaroson de la Chaire de recherche sur l’arbre urbain et son milieu présenteront leurs travaux au Rendez-vous #arboricole 🌳 Merci à la SIAQ pour l’organisation! 👉 Inscrivez-vous : siaq.org/fr/formation... #foresterieurbaine
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Rendez-vous arboricole automnal - SIAQ - Société internationale d'arboriculture du Québec
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The-14 Media @the-14.com · 18/09/2025
Canadian cities can prepare for climate change by building with nature #Canada #Environment #ClimateChange #SustainableCities #NatureBasedSolutions #UrbanPlanning #ResilientCities #GreenInfrastructure #HousingCrisis #EcoFriendly #Cities #CityPlanning the-14.com/canadian-cit...
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Canadian cities can prepare for climate change by building with nature | The-14
Canadian cities can tackle climate change and housing needs with nature-based solutions like trees, parks, and green design to cut floods, heat, and pollution.
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Janani Sivarajah 🇨🇦 @jananisivarajah.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
New greening project underway #installation #urbansoils #biochar #urbanforests
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Trees For Streets @treesforstreets.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
In a survey conducted by the Mental Health Foundation, 70% of adults agreed that being close to nature improves their mood. Bringing nature closer to home by sponsoring a street tree feels like the ideal way to observe Mental Health Day this year, don't you think?
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Le Devoir @ledevoir.com · 09/10/2025
L’étalement urbain et la densification sont au cœur des préoccupations à Repentigny. #logement
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Où construire des logements dans une ville qui «affiche complet»?
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Faculté de foresterie, de géographie et de géomatique @ffgg-ulaval.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
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Marney Isaac @marneyisaac.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
A new paper out in Land Use Policy - “Land tenure (in)security in the context of urban flood risk in Ghana.” We show that flood risk management through post-flood land use planning has potential to have dual impacts on community resilience and tenure security. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Land tenure (in) security in the context of urban flood risk in Ghana
The increasing incidence of floods driven by urbanization and climate change destabilizes urban social, economic and environmental systems where land …
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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
My number one tip for researchers that do a significant amount of non peer reviewed paper publication/outreach: Create an excel table, every time you give an interview, talk, write an oped or white paper, etc. take 5 seconds to immediately note it in the excel.
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Carly Ziter @carlyziter.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Loved spending the summer with the @jananisivarajah.bsky.social lab and @ffgg-ulaval.bsky.social. Lots of new projects on the horizon, and great to learn from another lab group. Next up, a quick visit to U-Windsor!
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Janani Sivarajah 🇨🇦 @jananisivarajah.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Merci à @phessenauer.bsky.social pour son intervention et l’animation d’une super session sur les #pathogènes urbains! #foresterieurbaine @ffgg-ulaval.bsky.social @cef-cfr.bsky.social
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Janani Sivarajah 🇨🇦 @jananisivarajah.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Farewell to visiting prof @carlyziter.bsky.social…thanks for 4 great months of insight & #collaboration! Best wishes to Sheetal Rimal as she starts a new PDF at UofA. Excited to welcome Giles (PDF) & Maïa (UG researcher) to the lab! @ffgg-ulaval.bsky.social @cef-cfr.bsky.social
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Patrick Lovell The Producer @patricklovellpresentsthecleannewdeal.com · 01/10/2025
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Jane Goodall, renowned chimpanzee researcher and animal advocate, dies at 91
"Dr. Goodall's discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world," the Jane Goodall Institute said in a Wedne...
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Le Devoir @ledevoir.com · 06/10/2025
Ce projet de recherche mesurait les attitudes et les perceptions des Québécois face à la crise climatique.
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Québec supprime le financement du Baromètre de l’action climatique
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Temporal Ecology Lab @temporalecology.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c
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Julie Talbot @julietalbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
My department @geographieudem.bsky.social is looking for a professor in human geography specializing in the study of social-ecological transformations, political ecology, climate change, environmental justice and/or the geography of risks and infrastructures. Deadline November 10, share widely!
Glass buildings with a paved path in between (gray, with blue lines)
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Cate Macinnis-Ng @loraxcate.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
📣 Opportunity for early career researchers from developing countries who work on climate change. IPCC is calling for chapter scientists for assessment round 7. Successful applicants will receive a stipend for 48 months. 🧪🌎 www.ictp.it/opportunity/...
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IPCC AR7 Chapter Scientists | ICTP
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is in the process of preparing its Seventh Assessment report (AR7). The IPCC Working Groups are seeking highly motivated early-career researchers f...
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Ecosystems and People @esandpeople.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Rethinking nature in the Anthropocene. From ownership to reciprocity — this paper explores relational values, nature’s rights & “methodological animism” as a path to more just human–nature relations: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #RightsOfNature #RelationalValues #Sustainability
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Janani Sivarajah 🇨🇦 @jananisivarajah.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
📢 Save the date! 🌳 16th Canadian #UrbanForestry Conference (CUFC) 🗓️ Oct 14–16, 2026 | 📍 Quebec City, Canada Our Research Chair on Urban Trees and Their Environment (craum.ffgg.ulaval.ca) is proud to support the City of Quebec + Tree Canada in hosting this event. treecanada.ca/research-eng...
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