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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

just bought ex partum, excited to read!

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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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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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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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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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

As someone painfully gullible to cute animal stories, I am glad you flagged this as an April fools joke or I would have been done for...they got me with 'drop bears' years ago haha

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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

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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I truly enjoyed reading your book so much, thank you for your scholarship!

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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

As a Jew who left the US for London in part bc my family and I felt increasingly vulnerable because of my vocal support for Palestine on the antizionist Jewish left, I am simply left reminded that safety for minority groups will always be conditional and precarious, and bound up with one another.

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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

Utkarsh's whole PhD project from start to finish is brilliant, and his work will be extremely relevant to anyone working on hydrosocial territories, environmental politics, more-than-human political ecology, and political animal geography.

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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

From the abstract: "In an era of escalating ecological crises, dominant approaches to river conservation in India continue to exclude the very nonhuman life they claim to protect. This paper investigates this puzzle through a critical analysis of the 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 protect. This paper investigates this puzzle through a critical analysis of the Namami Gange program, India’s flagship mission for rejuvenating the Ganga River. I argue that this nonhuman erasure is not an accidental byproduct, but a direct consequence of a political logic rooted in environmental performativity. Drawing on insights from the political ecology of water, the sociology of quantification, and political animal geographies, this paper shows how a self-reinforcing cycle of quantification and infrastructural investment constitutes the Ganga River as a simplified, anthropocentric “governance object” whose problems are defined almost exclusively in relation to human utility. Employing a qualitative multi-method approach that includes analysis of policy documents, semi-structured interviews, financial records, and participant observation at national policy forums, the study reveals how the program’s calculative logics marginalize the river’s ecological complexity. Financial flows overwhelmingly prioritize engineering solutions like sewage treatment plants over ecological restoration, while governance frameworks rely on a “measurementality” that renders the river’s multispecies world invisible. This analysis demonstrates how the modern state’s governance tools produce a simplified, human-centered nature, revealing the structural limitations of current environmental policy and laying the groundwork for a more inclusive and just multispecies river politics.

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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

I got a lot of hassling from the Czech cactus community over their treatment in my book (which I stand by as both honest, sensitive, reflexive, and fair), but the proof is in the pudding, my guys.

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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

And in the most on brand Czech move of all, they hid the plants inside beer cans, and seeds inside soles of their shoes, and luggage. Have I ever seen these guys before? Who could say.

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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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