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Kärg Kama

@kargkama.bsky.social
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Environmental & resource geographer. Associate Professor at Birmingham, UK. Current research @peatscapes.bsky.social, peatscapes.com. Single mum, carer & grower.

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Peatscapes @peatscapes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
How might efforts to restore the UK's peatlands make better use of the knowledge and expertise of local communities and landowners?

 With support from @policybristol.bsky.social, we've just released a policy briefing on exactly this question! Check it out here: www.bristol.ac.uk/policybristo...
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Engaging local knowledges for UK peatland restoration | PolicyBristol | University of Bristol
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ERC RUN @natura-urb.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
In this critical intervention Matthew Gandy takes issue with institutional demands to record live teaching and the growing techno-managerial encroachment on shared spaces of learning: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
The recording of lectures has become increasingly widespread in UK universities. In this commentary I suggest that these developments are undermining the role of the classroom as a shared space of le...
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Peatscapes @peatscapes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Thrilled to see findings from Peatscapes included in a new Oxford University Press 'Intersection' on Environmental Chance and Human Experience! Led by Nye Merrill-Glover, this piece examines the hydrological dilemmas of lowland #peatland #restoration in the UK. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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Undrainage: The Hydrological Dilemmas of Peatland Restoration in the United Kingdom
Abstract. The hydrological basis of peatland restoration reveals inherent problems with uniformly ‘scaling up’ conservation while retaining the social prac
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Peatscapes @peatscapes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Two members of the @leverhulme.ac.uk Peatscapes project were involved in this recent article published in #geoforum. Great to team up with like-minded scholars looking critically at efforts to scale up peatland restoration globally!
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Rage Against the Miocene @organiccarbon.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Essential reading for all those interested in peatland protection and restoration. Carbon credits as currently structured are ineffective for funding peatland restoration - but if effective, they could be actively harmful.
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Kärg Kama @kargkama.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
New paper in #Geoforum! We're keen to advance critical #peatland studies in #politicalecology #geography #STS, with much exciting social science on its way. Open access www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Co-written with @naomimillner.bsky.social @pbresnihan.bsky.social @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social.
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Thomas Franssen @thomasfranssen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New paper with Mandy de Wilde! 'A good drainage economy: the elemental politics of Dutch carbon farming' in @jcultecon.bsky.social tracing how scientists calculated CO2 emissions and how environmental NGOs acted on them. #Valuationstudies #politicalecology #STS www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Prof Katherine Brickell FBA @kbrickell.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
We are looking for a Lecturer in Geopolitics - a 3 year post for scholars who embrace critical approaches to territorial issues, security, political geography, conflict, energy and resource questions, international governance, urban geopolitics, and/or social justice my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...
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Economy & Society @econsocjournal.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
A timely and critical collective essay on 'the state of the state', written by five members of our Editorial Board @will-davies.bsky.social @andrew-barry.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social Linsey McGoey and Samantha Ashenden www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The state of the state
Recent economic, democratic and geopolitical events have raised the question of ‘the state' anew, as problems of territory, sovereignty, protectionism, borders, authoritarianism and surveillance ha...
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Anna Jackman @ahjackman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
📢 The Department of Geography and Environmental Science @uniofreading.bsky.social are looking to hire two Lecturers in Human Geography. Info on each post in thread below. Please share widely! ⭐ You can read more about our Human Geography Research Cluster here: www.reading.ac.uk/ges/research...
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Kärg Kama @kargkama.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Exciting to see another Peatscapes paper out in the world, led by our brilliant Nye Merrill-Glover!
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Peatscapes @peatscapes.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Very happy to see our latest Peatscapes article out in Environment and Planning E, led by Nye Merrill-Glover! Do give it a read if you're interested in peatland governance, carbon credit markets, or both! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Thanks as ever to @leverhulme.ac.uk! 🙏
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Peatscapes @peatscapes.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Next week the Peatscapes Team will join up with social scientists from 10 European countries for the two-day interdisciplinary 'Mapping Peatscapes' workshop at @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social, co-organised by @kargkama.bsky.social & @thomasfranssen.bsky.social! Agenda: peatscapes.com/mappingpeats...
A flyer for the 'Mapping Peatscapes' workshop, taking place at the Lapworth Museum of Geology, University of Birmingham, March 30–31st 2026.
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Peatscapes @peatscapes.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Last week, members of the Peatscapes team staged a public forum on the future of peatland restoration in the Somerset village of Burtle. The event brought together representatives of environmental charities, rewilding groups, local residents, parish councillors, farmers and former peat extractors.
Photo showing participants at a public forum on peatland restoration and landscape management in the Somerset Levels, staged in a village hall.A photo taken in the Somerset Levels showing standing water in a field and fencing.
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Peatscapes @peatscapes.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
This week, we were excited to present our research to social scientists in #Estonia, led by Roosa Rytkönen at Tallinn University. It was a great opportunity to share knowledge amidst intense expert and public disputes on the large-scale #rewetting of Estonia's forested #peatlands. @leverhulme.ac.uk
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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgs.org · 17/02/2026
UK universities are currently facing a significant financial crisis. Recently, we undertook a snapshot survey across all UK higher education institutions offering geography. Read our new report by Professor Jenny Pickerill, the Society’s Vice President for Research and Higher Education.
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The State of Geography in UK Higher Education
https://www.rgs.org/media/qhpipvi3/the-state-of-geography-in-uk-higher-education.pdf:
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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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Peatscapes @peatscapes.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Last week, our very own Roosa Rytkönen was guest speaker at the University of Freiburg's lecture series on ‘Healing, Repair and Ecological Restoration: Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Planetary Health’! Roosa spoke to contestations around forestry-drained peatland restoration in Estonia and Finland.
Dr Roosa Rytkönen delivers her lecture on contestations around repair in the restoration of forestry-drained peatlands at the University of Freiburg, as part of a series on 'Healing, Repair, and Ecological Restoration: Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Planetary Health’ at the Centre of Planetary Health.
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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
A link to a petition to save Geography, its staff, department and degree programmes at Leicester University, UK
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Angela Last @mutablematter.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!
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Peatscapes @peatscapes.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Proud to share our first project output in Estonian! 🇪🇪 Our Roosa Rytkönen presents this poster today at the "Habitat restoration and conservation" conference in Saaremaa, Estonia, organized by key national experts and the State Forest Management Centre, RMK. Excited for feedback! @leverhulme.ac.uk
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Kärg Kama @kargkama.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The Estonia-Oxford postdoctoral visiting fellowship in Baltic Studies at St Anthony's College is now open for 2026/27 applications: www.sant.ox.ac.uk/european-stu...
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ESC Vacancies - St Antony's
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Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
PhD scholarship opportunity, to work with @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social and myself on the 'local politics of climate backlash' at @uompols.bsky.social and @justcentre.bsky.social. Please circulate to anyone who might be interested! www.findaphd.com/phds/project....
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
@triofrancos.bsky.social on the astonishing biodiversity in the Atacama Salt Flat and the environmental cost of green capitalism.
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What Mining for Water in the Andean Desert Reveals About “Green” Capitalism
A high-­altitude desert plateau traverses Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile. I am on the Chilean side, in the passenger seat of a Jeep, along with two other researchers. The afternoon air is thin and b…
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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5 #envhist #energysky
Book cover of "Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy" by Katja Bruisch. A black and white photograph shows a woman with a headscarf stacking peat
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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Today is publication day! EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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Eestimaa Looduse Fond @elfond.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
"To understand Estonia, you must understand its bogs."🙏 www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
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Bog walking: Exploring Estonia's otherworldly wild landscapes
Once feared as homes to spirits, Estonia's bogs cover a fifth of the country and are vital to its culture and ecology. Today, travellers can explore them on guided bog-shoe treks.
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James Palmer @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
We have a great line-up for these two @rgsibg.bsky.social sessions this afternoon, on the politics of carbon in land management and restoration! Please join @kargkama.bsky.social, @annakspeaking.bsky.social and me over in the Alan Walters Building, Room 111, from 14.40 until the end of the day!
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Peatscapes @peatscapes.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Excited for today's sessions on 'Carbon Creations & Creative Carbons' at the @rgsibg.bsky.social, Birmingham! Our very own Roosa Rytkönen will present on: "Seeing the Mire from the Trees: The Calculative Politics of Forestry-Drained Peatlands in Finland" 🌲🌳 4.50pm, Alan Walters Building, Room 111
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Peatscapes @peatscapes.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Peatscapes will be at #INTECOL2025 this coming week in Tartu, Estonia 🇪🇪! Our Roosa Rytkönen opens the socio-economic panels with KEYNOTE "Seeing the bog from the trees: Social science agenda for the study of forestry drained #peatlands". Monday 11:15, please drop by! intecolwetlands2025.ee #geo #STS
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12th INTECOL Wetlands Conference
Welcome to the homepage of the 12th INTECOL Wetlands conference taking place together with the 20th Annual Meeting of SWS Europe!
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Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
The Human Ecology division (part of the department of Human Geography) at Lund University is hiring a Senior Lecturer. This is a tenured position in a workplace with a strong tradition of critical research. Please forward to anyone who might be interested! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Senior Lecturer in Human Ecology
Specific subject description The Human Ecology Division applies an inter-disciplinary definition of its research field. Research and education at the division deals with human-environmental relations
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Kärg Kama @kargkama.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
So happy to see our first Peatscapes paper out! Thanks to our amazing team @peatscapes.bsky.social, to our research collaborators, and to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding. Open access! #geography #STS #politicalecology #peatland #restoration
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James Palmer @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Great to see our first paper emerging from the @peatscapes.bsky.social project. Now available open access, in @progenvgeog.bsky.social. Huge thanks to everyone in the Peatscapes team – @kargkama.bsky.social, Roosa Rytkönen and Nye Merrill-Glover – and of course to @leverhulme.ac.uk!
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Peatscapes @peatscapes.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Really excited to see our first 'Peatscapes' journal article out today in @progenvgeog.bsky.social! Carbon futures in the mire? Knowledge controversies in European peatland restoration and remaking Open Access link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #geography #sts #peat #restoration
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James Palmer @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Job alert 📣 Here in Bristol we are advertising for a 13-month fixed-term Lecturer in Environmental Policy, starting this September. Application deadline is May 14th, full details in link. Please get in touch if you're interested! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Pat Brodie and I have a book coming out in September w/ @brisunipress.bsky.social Started with data centres and energy and turned into a story about monopoly tech, empire and Ireland's (under)development in the capitalist world system.
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Anna Krzywoszynska @annakspeaking.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
JOB ALERT! Deadline 19.05 Tenure Track Assistant/Associate Prof position, environmental social scientist or humanities scholar, Oulu University, in our superb project SAFIRE. Great joining package, relocation support, fantastic team. Contact me with questions oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/what:job/job...
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Tenure Track Assistant or Associate Professor in Social Science or Humanities approaches to Ecosystem Restoration
We are now looking for a Tenure Track Assistant or Associate Professor in Social Science or Humanities approaches to Ecosystem Restoration to join us in the research program SAFIRE: Safeguarding Biod
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Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
As I'm grading dozens of essays almost certainly at least heavily co-authored by #ChatGPT, here's what I'm thinking: part of what I study is how communities survive world-threatening events. Across the board, the communities who do survive take care of their knowledge systems 1/
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Kärg Kama @kargkama.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Final CfP RGS-IBG 2025: deadline on Friday! 🌍 Carbon Creations and Creative Carbons 🌎 We seek papers on carbon farming, afforestation, peatland restoration & related work in #STS #geography 📩 @annakspeaking.bsky.social @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social @kargkama.bsky.social docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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CfP Carbon Creations RGS-IBG 2025 FINAL
Call for papers RGS-IBG 2025, Birmingham, UK, 26–29th August Carbon creations and creative carbons: the politics of carbon in land management and restoration Conveners: Kärg Kama (University of Birmin...
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BASEES Study Group on the Baltic States @balticbasees.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Call for Applications @ESCStAntonys in #Baltic Studies. The Estonia-Oxford Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship in Baltic Studies 2025-2026, European Studies Centre, St Anthony's College, Oxford University. Deadline February 26, 2025: www.sant.ox.ac.uk/.../Estonia-....
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Kärg Kama @kargkama.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
A historic moment as the 3 Baltic states have just desynchronized their electricity grids from Russia (incl Kaliningrad). It's been two decades in the making! #technologicalzones #STS news.err.ee/1609599566/e...
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Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania disconnected from Russian power grid
By 9:09 a.m. on Saturday, the electricity systems of all three Baltic states had successfully disconnected from the Russian-controlled IPS/UPS system, and are now operating independently in island mod...
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Technological Life - SoGE Oxford @technatures.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
This week we're joined by Dr Kärg Kama & Dr James Palmer who will be presenting their new project 'Peatscapes in transition: knowledge controversies in European peatland restoration' 🗓️ 06/02 ⏰ 4pm 📍@oxfordgeography.bsky.social All welcome! @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social @kargkama.bsky.social
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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I did a piece about the political economy of climate breakdown for @londonreview.bsky.social, pivoting off the essential new book by Andreas Malm and @wimcarton.bsky.social. Please give it a read!
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Brett Christophers · So much for Paris: Climate Overshoot
All fossil fuel projects are politically constituted. Either they are state projects, controlled and administered by...
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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Supporting the right for peaceful environmental protest - Dr Larch Maxey, a British geographer, is currently in jail for peaceful climate activism. He has asked that we support his latest appeal being heard at the Court of Appeal TODAY January 2025 defendourjuries.org/free-politic... #16for16
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Open Calls - Defend Our Juries
”We will fight for that right to free protest. We will fight for democracy in the UK.” – Chris Packham. • Defend Our Juries and the Free Political Prisoners campaign are calling on concerned groups an...
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Kärg Kama @kargkama.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Please join us in Birmingham! Deadline for abstracts 21st Feb. #geosky #geography #STS @rgsibg.bsky.social
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theostanley.bsky.social @theostanley.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Delighted to see our new paper out in Environmental Science and Policy: ‘Just nature recovery: A framework for centring multispecies and multi-dimensional justice in land management' www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @naturerecovery.bsky.social
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Just nature recovery: A framework for centring multispecies and multi-dimensional justice in land management
A rising interest in nature recovery has expanded the focus of conservation beyond protected areas to encompass a range of terrestrial and marine area…
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Anna Krzywoszynska @annakspeaking.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
JOB ALERT Please spread the word! 4-year post-doc with me @ SAFIRE on transforming ecosystem restoration research. The job unites stakeholder management and and research on theoretical/conceptual and methodological approaches to transdisciplinary research on ecosystem restoration. lnkd.in/dj-Zd3Q6
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Anna Krzywoszynska @annakspeaking.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
CFP Nordic #STS meeting in Stockholm this June. Please join us in our panel "The data, the science, and the politics of representing the food system". Conference info www.nordicsts.se, deadline 1st March. Full panel abstract attached. Hope to see you there!
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gillian rose @profgillian.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
an important report on precarity in UK geography departments: “Whilst we cannot take full responsibility for the endemic structural problems within UK Higher Education, nor can we cede responsibility for caring about our colleagues.” blog.geographydirections.com/2025/01/13/r... @rgsibg.bsky.social
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Resources for change: raising awareness of the challenges of fixed term contracts in geography departments
By the States of Precarity Team:, Johanne Bruun, Rachel Colls, James Esson, Peter Forman, Anna Jackman,  Rachael Squire (corresponding author) “Because geography is about attention to difference an…
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James Palmer @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
2 fully-funded PhD studentships are available here at Bristol as part of Naomi Millner's European Research Council project PEATSENSE: Diverse Knowledges and Sensing Practices in Peatlands for Inclusive Climate Futures Closing date for applications: 1st April 2025 www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/co...
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