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Jared Margulies

@jaredmargulies.bsky.social
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Geographer, political ecologist, enthusiastic dilettante, plant pal. Recently relocated to the Big Smoke from the Deep South. Author of The Cactus Hunters ('23, Minnesota). All the links: linktr.ee/jdmargulies

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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I have had a 40 oz jar of Duke's Mayonnaise in a shopping cart online for months now and I get so close to buying it so many times but then remember it is the equivalent of 23 USD for what at home would be a 5 dollar jar... VERY DIFFICULT! Kewpie has its place but sometimes you just need Dukes!
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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I got a snickery talking to by someone on the tube today because I gave a woman politely asking for money a pound. After I did, mean lady proceeded to yell at the woman asking for money for 'taking advantage of us poor tube riders' and then she told me off and said I was part of the problem. BOOO.
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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
What’s up with 4 Czech men getting arrested in Brazil for allegedly smuggling hundreds of endemic cacti? And what can it teach us about responses to illegal wildlife trade more broadly?- a little explainer for @theconversation.com here: theconversation.com/the-strange-...
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The strange history of Czech cactus hunters – and why some see themselves as Robin Hood figures
Some collectors believe breaking the law can help save endangered plants.
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite
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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
More of this World Cup content
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
🐕‍🦺🐴🐦‍⬛🐄 Our new Multispecies Mutualisms project website is now live. The amazing design work is by Sheffield artist Lisa O’Hara. Some exciting announcements to come about our new post docs - keep a 👀 out 👇 multispeciesmutualisms.org
Pink background, black silhouettes of animals and the letters MM . Text says  ‘a transformative reimagining of Multispecies mutualisms’
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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Another great paper just out from Utkarsh Roy Choudhury, published in environment planning e: “Maintained disrepair: Accumulation by rejuvenation, financialization, and the politics of restoration in India's Namami Gange program” journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I am incredibly sad to hear this news. What a shock. I only knew Raul from our conversations on Twitter and his amazing resources on his blog. What a generous and collegiate scholar he was. He’ll be much missed 😢❤️
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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... Really important read on the sad, visionless forced march of UK higher ed into a death spiral by an intellectually bankrupt managerial class for no good reason.
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Stefan Collini · Squadrons of Pigs: Bonfire of the Universities
The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...
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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
What fucking ceasefire come the fuck on
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Three👁️Eyed👁️Devil👁️ @anarcish.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
This is like trying to drill for oil through the ruins of Pompeii. Chaco canyon is one of the most significant native archeological sites in the United States. Absolutely disgusting to even propose it
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Absolutely amazing post doc opportunity with @drjesshope.bsky.social on an #ERC project #Multispecies #PoliticalEcology
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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I have undergrad and MSc dissertations I’m now supervising related to people and pigeons, hunting tourism, cultural politics of wildlife killing, politics of representation of forests in Indian cinema, and more. And I didn’t push any of these ideas! Makes me feel I came to the right place to teach.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
daaaamn london
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Ben Garlick and Dubravka Sekulic eds. Geography with John Berger: Questions of Space and Practice - Bloomsbury, June 2026 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/geography... @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social
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Geography with John Berger
Exploring John Berger's political and creative praxis for scholarship on space, place, landscape and spatial experience, Ben Garlick and Dubravka Sekulic critic…
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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
"For the first time in more than 100 years, evidence of cougars reproducing in Minnesota was documented in video captured by the University of MN's Voyageurs Wolf Project (youtu.be/7EL1FRB11DU). The videos, shared with the MN DNR by the project researchers, show a female cougar with 3 large kittens"
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First footage ever of a cougar with kittens in Minnesota
YouTube video by Voyageurs Wolf Project
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Carol Siniscalchi @carolsiniscalchi.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Posting this again because it is just absurd!
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Very good piece on state of UK #Universities from @samfr.bsky.social In general ‘University leaders’ have totally failed to articulate the value of #HE. Sheffield is making brutal cuts as the chickens come home to roost following 2 decades of no long term strategy from government & HE leadership ⬇️
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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Who else is just finding themselves trying to get work done but instead just unable to get past thinking a whole lot about the increasingly likely disintegration of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation these days?
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Lindsay Naylor @lbnaylor.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Good morning! I got an alert that my new book is 50% off right now at this site… All Geographers Should Be Feminist Geographers: Creating Care-Full Academic Spaces (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation) a.co/d/0bFsKbjj
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All Geographers Should Be Feminist Geographers: Creating Care-Full Academic Spaces (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation)
All Geographers Should Be Feminist Geographers: Creating Care-Full Academic Spaces (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation) [Naylor, Lindsay, Christopher, Emerald, Eaves, LaToya, Kinkaid, Eden, Faria, Caroline] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. All Geographers Should Be Feminist Geographers: Creating Care-Full Academic Spaces (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation)
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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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David Roberts @drdavidlroberts.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
🚨FUNDED PHD🚨'Economic carrying capacity & the future of rhinos in privately governed OECMs' @dice-kent.bsky.social, UK & International applications welcome - closing date 14th May🦏 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Male White rhinoceros walking in the Kalahari Desert of Namibia Photo by Giles Laurent
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George Holmes @georgeholmes.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I think the fact that @sicilyfiennes.bsky.social etc latest paper has the phrase "a more than human political ecology" in its title neatly demonstrates the shift towards interdisciplinary in @conbiology.bsky.social in recent years. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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A more‐than‐human political ecology of Indonesian songbird trade
Since its inception, conservation science has considered wildlife trade a problem. In focusing on conservation outcomes, conservationists almost completely ignore the welfare of traded animals and pl...
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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Lists of Jews never goes anywhere good!
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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Do you have an ethnobotany student in your life who wants to hear a little too much about Lacan? Send them along for this online seminar tomorrow!
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
🚨Editor-in-Chief position🚨 The @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social is looking for anew Editor-in-Chief. For more information please follow the link below. #AcademicSky think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
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Editor-in-Chief needed for Geopolitics
Editor-in-Chief needed for Geopolitics
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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I found a lot to love in @v-mance.bsky.social's Wild and wonderful: An ethnography of English naturalists, now available in English. Open access link to my review in American Ethnologist. Highly recommended! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I have nothing to add today to the discourse other than the London attack on the Jewish ambulance service is just despicable and so hateful.
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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I am so proud to share DR. Utkarsh Choudhury's first paper from his recently defended PhD dissertation has just been published! "The politics of invisibilization: environmental performativity and the erasure of nonhuman life in India’s Namami Gange Program" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The politics of invisibilization: environmental performativity and the erasure of nonhuman life in India’s Namami Gange Program
In an era of escalating ecological crises, dominant approaches to river conservation in India continue to exclude the very nonhuman life they claim to…
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia
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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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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Thanks, @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social -I should say for shameless promotion, I write about how and why Czechia emerged as an epicentre of cactus trade in my book (chapter 3). It's a good yarn, even if you skip the rest! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791399...
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The Cactus Hunters
An exploration of the explosive illegal trade in succulents and the passion that drives it Cacti and succulents are phenomenally popular worldwide among plan...
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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
www.blesk.cz/clanek/zprav... Really worth pulling up google translate for this one. A group of Czech men arrested in Brazil for trying to illegally smuggle out hundreds of Brazilian cacti and thousands seeds -
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Čechům v Brazílii hrozí vězení: Stovky vzácných kaktusů v plechovkách od piva!
Zločin v Jižní Americe se nemusí točit pouze kolem zbraní a tvrdých drog. Brazilská letištní kontrola nyní zachytila bandu českých pašeráků, kteří se do Evropy pokoušeli pokoutně dopravit hromadu kaktusů!
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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
So in roughly three days of this war the US spent more on munitions than the combined annual budgets of the national science foundation, national endowment for the arts, and national endowment for the humanities (and the latter two's budgets were spent in about the first few hours of the war).
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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Incredible opportunity for *4* #postdocs, *3 years each* to work with @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social, @evahaifa.bsky.social, Alasdair Cochrane and Bob McKay on their wonderful new "#multispecies #mutualisms" project at the University of of Sheffield #EnvHumanities sheffield.ac.uk/spir/news/re...
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Recruiting researchers in Animal Studies (humanities and social sciences)
Last year, ‘Multispecies Mutualisms’ was successfully awarded a Wellcome Trust grant of £1.6 million. We are now recruiting four new Post Doctoral Research Associates to join the team.
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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Is there an equivalent of an oil change for the brain? I’ve hit 100,000 miles.
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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
My uncontroversial opinion having moved back to the UK is that estate agencies shouldn’t be allowed to exist 🧛🏻👻🧟🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️🧛🏻🧛🏻🧛🏻👻
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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
A valuable read from my (new!) colleague @rikjaz.bsky.social and other great geographers about the importance of our discipline now more than ever amidst widespread cuts across the sector in the UK
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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Making America full of smog, asthma, and shorter life spans again, to say nothing of the climate, what a win. Just dystopian stuff.
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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
GOOD NEWS TODAY
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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I woke up to discover last night was the superbowl - I still don’t know who won or lost the dumb game but clearly the winner was las americas. That was the most beautiful half time show ever. God bless bad bunny!
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Edge Effects @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Today on Edge Effects, we take our first dive into Botanical Imaginations with our Spring 2026 Faculty Favorites! Faculty across academic disciplines recommend plant-y books and poems they're excited to read/teach this semester 🌿 📖
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Faculty Favorites: Critical Interventions in the Plant Humanities - Edge Effects
Faculty recommend their favorite books and poems at the intersection of plants and the environmental humanities
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Lisa Stampnitzky 🤷🏻‍♀️ @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Unreal
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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Very horrified to learn an imprisoned UCL student is being denied critical life saving care: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers ‘may die without Lammy’s intervention’
Justice secretary criticised for refusing to meet lawyers who say health of their jailed clients is ‘rapidly deteriorating’
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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Nobody ever talks about the Midrash of Hannah in the story of Chanukkah- Brilliant drash from @theradr.bsky.social especially attuned to our very challenging times, and may the memory of all those lives unjustly taken in Sydney be a blessing. www.lifeisasacredtext.com/moral-kindli...
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Moral Kindling
how the Maccabees -and we- ignite in the face of tyranny
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Ryan Anderson @anthropologia.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
It's so great when universities are like 'We're going all in on AI' but they never talk about anything specific. It's all just vague language about innovation and the power and magic of tech. They might as well be making calls for going all in on alchemy.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
The RFK, jr effect.
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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Going to share this fantastic interview between @pmbigger.bsky.social and @mjhaugen.bsky.social with so many folks- extremely valuable for students thinking about how to best make change and life outside academia
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Jacob @tullamore-jew.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
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