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Mary Menton

@marymenton.bsky.social
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Environmental justice, atmospheres of violence, communities of resistance, climate, geography, political ecology. Recently rejoined academia. Never left activism. Wanderer of nonlinear paths. Justice in all its interconnected shades. She/ela/ella.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Mary Menton @marymenton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Today at 5pmUK Marco Armiero in conversation with Rob Nixon, Roberta Biasillo and David Yellow r.e. Armiero's new book Vajont: The #PoliticalEcology of an Unnatural Disaster www.YouTube.com/@RadicalEnvironment…
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Repórter Brasil @reporterbrasil.org.br · 14/09/2026
Tapajós de Fato, de Santarém (Pará), desistiu de acompanhar os candidatos em 2026 após anos de ameaças, perseguições e episódios de violência contra a equipe de jornalistas.
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Site da Amazônia deixa de cobrir eleições por medo de morrer
Tapajós de Fato, de Santarém (Pará), desistiu de acompanhar os candidatos em 2026 após anos de ameaças contra a equipe de jornalistas
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Lyla Mehta @lylamehta.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The recent glacial floods in Nepal & Tibet lay bare climate injustices & highlight that climate disruption is global, and highly unequal. The UK & high income countries must step up their commitments to support those living on the frontlines of #ClimateChange. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Climate injustices have been laid bare in the Nepal-Tibet flood disaster | Letters
Letters: Prof Lyla Mehta says the glacial floods and loss of life are a stark reminder that climate disruption is global and highly unequal. Plus letters from Lynda McDonald and Jan Bengtsson
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Gerry Flynn @geraldrflynn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention says the five Mother Nature Cambodia activists should never have stood trial, let alone been imprisoned - the Cambodian government stands by its decision to jail the activists, which the UN has branded arbitrary detention. Latest for @mongabay.com
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Cambodia defies UN call to free ‘arbitrarily jailed’ environmental activists
CHIANG MAI, Thailand — The Cambodian government has defended its continued imprisonment of five environmental activists, after the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention declared the five...
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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 22/07/2026
Just telling people now that if that graphical abstract made with AI 🤖 is published, I WILL include it in my collection: bit.ly/academic-slop
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Pulled From the Trough: Slop Images in Academic Journals
This project collects images created using generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) that have appeared in academic journals and books..If you run across examples of gen AI images in journals or books - whether figures, graphical abstract, covers, or other - please submit it using this form: https://bit.ly/JournalSlopVersion historyVersion 1.0: Released 18 December 2025. Nine entries.Version 2.0: Released 5 January 2026. Four new entries; clickable hyperlinks added to URLs; other minor changes.Version 3.0: Released 31 March 2026. One new entry.Version 2.0: 1 May 2026. Due to erroneous file upload, rollback to previous version until such time as the correct file can be repaired and uploaded.Version 4.0: Released 15 May 2026. Two new entries.Version 5.0: Released 2 June 2026. One new entry.Version 6.0: Released 15 June 2026. One new entry.Version 7.0. Released 17 June 2026. One new entry.Version 8.0: Released 18 June 2026. Two new entries; minor edits; typesetting improvements (real italics and bold type!).Version 8.1: Released 19 June 2026. Hyperlinks fixed.Version 9.0: Released 4 July 2026. One new entry.Version 10.0: Released 12 July 2026. One new entry.
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Mary Menton @marymenton.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
#POLLEN2026 starts tomorrow!
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Mary Menton @marymenton.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Will you be at #POLLEN2026 in Barcelona next week? Join our session: Global Climate Change Solutions and Shrinking Civic Space in Southeast Asia Monday 29th June 15:30pm #PoliticalEcology @pollenetwork.bsky.social
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Terra de Direitos @terradedireitos.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
#Keno vive! Crime ocorreu em 2007, quando uma milícia contratada pela transnacional assassinou Keno. O camponês participava de uma ocupação que denunciava experimentos ilegais realizados pela #Syngenta com uso de sementes #transgênicas. ::Veja aqui: www.terradedireitos.org.br/noticias/not...
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
We can't look away from the images of families fleeing burning houses without calling this out as a pogrom, whipped up by influential actors who care nothing for the people of Belfast: www.irishnews.com/news/norther...
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Mary Menton @marymenton.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
In Edinburgh this week? Join us for our Latin American Research Network Seminar with Claudelice Santos who will discuss emerging frontiers in the fight to defend the Amazon. Thus 11th June at NOON in Room 108, William Arrol Building, Heriot-Watt University @hwu-rcus.bsky.social
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 01/06/2026
A new investigation by Bellingcat has identified 115 villages in Rakhine State as partially or completely destroyed. Some of the villages that appear damaged or destroyed on satellite imagery are also missing on the latest maps. www.youtube.com/shorts/BAB73...
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How Villages in Myanmar Are Being Erased From the Map
YouTube video by Bellingcat
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Mary Menton @marymenton.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
"...he [Brooklyn Rivera] was in government custody in conditions of enforced disappearance for over two years, denied independent medical oversight. There is no other way to read this,” Reed Brody, a member of the UN Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/...
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Nicaragua confirms death in custody of Indigenous leader Brooklyn Rivera
Rivera spent nearly three years in detention, cut off from the outside world, leading advocates to fear for his welfare.
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Mary Menton @marymenton.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
In Glasgow? Join Brazilian environmental defender Claudelice Santos to mark the 11th Romaria of the Martyrs of the Forest, an event that celebrates those that have given their lives protecting Brazil's forests. We will be meeting at Galgael (15 Fairley St, Glasgow, G51 2SN) from 6pm.
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
As part of the Just Land project (with Conor McCabe, Louise Fitzgerald and myself), Sara Benceković produced this great cartoon depicting capital's frustrations with Ireland's land tenure system. You can read more about it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This sums up the era we’re in.
Times headline: “Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.”
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JUST Centre @justcentre.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Whether you’re working in the climate sector, local government or just trying to keep up with a fast-moving landscape, this session will help you understand the elections' implications and plan ahead. 📅 14 May 2026 🕒 2-3pm BST 🌍 Online via Teams 🎟️ Register now: bit.ly/48Dst7Q
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Local elections 2026: Implications for just climate action
Join our panel of leading climate researchers and activists to unpack what May's local election results mean for climate action in the UK.
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Teia dos Povos @teiadospovos.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Série de podcasts: Vida Palmarina, sobre o cotidiano no Quilombo de Palmares. "Neste 4° episódio, entrevista com Mestre Joelson e citação da Teia dos Povos. Falas sobre a importância da Terra e Território e integração com a Natureza". open.spotify.com/episode/58b6...
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EP4 | Resistência e Natureza
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Mary Menton @marymenton.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
After breaking my ankle, Google-AI overview told me that you brake and accelerate with your left foot when driving automatic cars. Luckily I didn't listen and no cars/people were damaged
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Kerstin Pfeiffer @kerstinpfeiffer.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
A drawing of a bee, a dinosaur and an angry chicken holding a sign saying „United against compulsory redundancies!“
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HWUCU @hwucu.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Our picket chicken is clucking annoyed by the lack of movement from our employer. 🐔😡🦱 No CR. #Heriot-Watt #ucu #saveScholarStaff #loveLINCS
A close up of a very angry inflatable chicken, text "the same non-offer as before but this time in a table!? Is this a clucking joke?"
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Mary Menton @marymenton.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
From Visibility to Vulnerability: When Social Media Fails #HumanRightsDefenders 31st March at 4pm (Dublin time) launch of scoping paper by @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social : will be livestreamed here: youtube.com/@marylawlorh...
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Mary Menton @marymenton.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Video: Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui Sociología de la imagen : una visión desde la historia andina hdl.handle.net/2333.1/gxd25...
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Video: Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui's keynote address : Sociología de la imagen : una visión desde la historia andina = Sociology of the image : a view from Andean history.
Video documentation of Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui's keynote address, 'Sociología de la imagen: Una visión desde la historia andina, ' presented as a part of the 7th Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institut...
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HWUCU @hwucu.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Day 3 of striking Thank you to all members who came along and to whose who struck from home (they also strike who simply do no work) Thank you to visitors: @drscottarthurmp.bsky.social @katenevens.bsky.social Unite, other branches, dogs, dinos and ❤️students❤️ for bringing joy & Solidarity🔥
A long anf joyous picket line in front of Heriot-Watt signStudents, staff, and Green Kate Nevens, wuth banana costumed man (right) Lots of signs, lots of staff & students and lots of UCU beaniesDr Scott Arthur holding one end of No compulsory redundancy banner
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Sean Boots @bluesky.sboots.ca · 11/03/2026
New (non-work) blog post! 📝 “Generative AI vegetarianism” sboots.ca/2026/03/11/g...
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Generative AI vegetarianism
Hello, it’s me: I’m a generative AI vegetarian. The tech industry is convinced this is the future; I don’t want any of it, full stop. Why choose generative AI vegetarianism? Just like real-life veget...
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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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Mary Menton @marymenton.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
@ids.ac.uk Annual Lecture by @jasonhickel.bsky.social Capitalism, ecology, and class struggle in the 21st century Online and in person 24th March 2026 at 4pm(UK-time) Register to watch online here: www.ids.ac.uk/events/ids-a...
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IDS Annual Lecture 2026 with Jason Hickel - Institute of Development Studies
Join us for the IDS Annual Lecture 2026 delivered by world-renowned political economist and author Prof Jason Hickel.
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Mary Menton @marymenton.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Illegal floating fish factories off the coast of Guinea-Bissau turn thousands of tonnes of fish into fishmeal and oil which finds its way into international supply chains www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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How the ‘Galápagos of west Africa’ is plundered by floating fish factories
A Guardian investigation with DeSmog reveals thousands of tonnes of fish are illegally turned into fishmeal and oil off the coast of Guinea-Bissau
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Mary Menton @marymenton.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Defending dignity and claiming rights: human rights defenders hold firm to universal values as others desert them Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of #HumanRightsDefenders by @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social documents.un.org/doc/undoc/ge...
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Mary Menton @marymenton.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Exciting PhD opportunities in the Netherlands with the project JUST ART: Creating Common Grounds for Climate Justice Through Artistic Research justart.info
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JUST ART
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Mary Menton @marymenton.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Despite IACHR requirements for precautionary measures to protect the Embera people & recent requests for support that failed to arrive, another Indigenous leader, José Albino Cañas Ramírez was assassinated in Caldas, Colombia news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
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Indigenous leader assassinated in Colombia’s Caldas department
Colombian Indigenous leader José Albino Cañas Ramírez was recently shot and killed. Indigenous authorities believe he was targeted for his work defending the forest.
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Mary Menton @marymenton.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
We must refuse forced grieving "a kind of compulsory moving-on that we did not agree to; a forced dehumanization of those who are presumed dead, or those whose lives the powerful do not care for." @pempem.bsky.social substack.com/@mentalhellt...
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We Must Refuse a Forced Grieving
The powerful want us to move on. It is a political imperative we do not.
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Mary Menton @marymenton.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
‘The dinosaurs didn’t know what was coming, but we do’: Marina Silva on what needs to follow #COP30 by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘The dinosaurs didn’t know what was coming, but we do’: Marina Silva on what needs to follow Cop30
Exclusive: Brazil’s environment minister talks about climate inaction and the course we have to plot to save ourselves and the planet
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Environment and Climate Politics Working Group @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Happening next week, 4th December. Alternative ecological futures: Art, climate change and the radical imagination. Online and free 3pm-4.30pm UK time - make sure you register! www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...
Title, BISA working group logo, 4th December. "This roundtable brings together four researchers and their perspectives to a conversation about the role of art and creativity in imagining alternative ecological futures" List of participants. Chair Hannah Hughes, speakers Carl Death, Audra Mitchell, Farai Chipato, Cara Berger.
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
To give you an idea about just how eventful the end of COP30 was, I wrote and rewrote this entire 2000 story for @drilledmedia.bsky.social three times over a period of about six hours as it was all happening.
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COP-tastrophe: How the COP of Implementation, Truth, Forests, and Indigenous Peoples Failed on All Counts
COP30 began full of promise but ended as yet another reminder that the mechanism for global climate governance is broken.
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Mary Menton @marymenton.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
#COPdoPovo: Tribunal dos Povos condena mais de 800 empresas por ecogenocídio #BrasilDeFato www.brasildefato.com.br/2025/11/14/c...
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COP do Povo: Tribunal dos Povos condena mais de 800 empresas por ecogenocídio - Brasil de Fato
Entre as empresas condenadas em 21 casos de violência ambiental, estão gigantes como a JP Morgan, Cargill e JBS
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Mary Menton @marymenton.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Join us. Friday 14/11 at 1pm in the Aldeia COP. From Amazonia to the World: Brazilian Experiences and Climate Justice in Global Perspective
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Mary Menton @marymenton.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
If you're in Belém next week for COP30, join us for a discussion on "Pillars of Climate Injustice through the Lens of Political Ecology" Se você estiver em Belém na semana que vem para a COP30, participe da nossa mesa sobre "Pilares da Injustiça Climática pelo olhar da Ecologia Política"
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Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️‍🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers! Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025 Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills! Please share widely!
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Mary Menton @marymenton.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Report on regional consultations with environmental defenders by Michel Forst UN Special Rapporteur on #EnvironmentalDefenders under the #AarhusConvention unece.org/sites/defaul...
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Mary Menton @marymenton.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Ecofeminist Revolutionary Struggles Amid Extractivist Conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda doi.org/10.1080/1045...
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Ecofeminist Revolutionary Struggles Amid Extractivist Conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda
This article investigates how, against the extractivist legacy of colonialism and the extractivist activities currently under way in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda, the ecofe...
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
There are now 183 videos of our Greenhouse #envhum book talks available to view via our Vimeo showcase. This includes our most recent talks. You can also listen to the audio-only podcast, which is slightly behind with 154 episodes available: newnatures.org/greenhouse/f...
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Greenhouse Environmental Humanities Book Talks
Book talks with authors of recent books in environmental humanities, with the authors in discussion with Dolly Jørgensen and Finn Arne Jørgensen, University of Stavanger, Norway. The book talks are he...
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Mary Menton @marymenton.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
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Scottish data centres powering AI already using enough water to fill 27 million bottles a year
The volume of tap water used by Scotland's data centres has quadrupled since 2021, figures show.
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Mary Menton @marymenton.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
New study found an increase in AMPA receptors may be linked to #BrainFog in long COVID Fujimoto et al 2025: Systemic increase of AMPA receptors associated with cognitive impairment of #LongCOVID academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...
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Mary Menton @marymenton.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
ICYMI Applications are due next week (26th Sept). Understanding the intersection between #ClimateAction and #ClimateJustice #PoliticalEcology #HumanGeography #PhD
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Mary Menton @marymenton.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Come do a PhD with me at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, Scotland). Fully funded scholarship, open to international candidates, to look at "understanding the intersection between climate action and climate (in)justice" #ClimateJustice #HumanGeography #GeoSky www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Understanding the Intersection between Climate Action and Climate (In)Justice at Heriot-Watt University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Understanding the Intersection between Climate Action and Climate (In)Justice at Heriot-Watt University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Mary Menton @marymenton.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Come do a PhD with me at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, Scotland). Fully funded scholarship, open to international candidates, to look at "understanding the intersection between climate action and climate (in)justice" #ClimateJustice #HumanGeography #GeoSky www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Understanding the Intersection between Climate Action and Climate (In)Justice at Heriot-Watt University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Understanding the Intersection between Climate Action and Climate (In)Justice at Heriot-Watt University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Mary Menton @marymenton.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
New paper by Reddington et al shows that #tropical #deforestation is associated with localised warming and #heat -related #mortality Open access in #NatureClimateChange: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mary Menton @marymenton.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
#ToRead from Nature: #Decolonize scientific institutions 8 steps to stop marginalisation in academia and enable a shared Indigenous agenda in science www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Decolonize scientific institutions, don’t just diversify them
Indigenous scholars set out eight steps to stop marginalization in academia and to enable a shared Indigenous agenda in science.
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Francis Masse @geofrancismasse.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
New article🚨 Demilitarizing Conservation A labour of love w L Lunstrum @ashavin.bsky.social A Dutta @esthermarijnen.bsky.social T Mushonga F Matose For a more robustly care-full conservation Demilitarization based on ethics/politics of care/nonviolence @pollenetwork.bsky.social shorturl.at/Wsl9m
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Demilitarizing Conservation
Many national parks and other protected areas (PAs) are experiencing an intensification of military actors, logics, and partnerships across the globe. This amounts to one of the most consequential ...
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