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Marta Berbés

@mberbes.bsky.social
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Prof at University of Waterloo Resilience, transformation, justice, futures, not necessarily in that order. Co Editor-in-chief Ecosystems and People @esandpeople.bsky.social

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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Goons. Nothing but goons.
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Cat: TGIF!
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
We are kicking off the ‘Blackwards’ to the Future project in Phoenix with these powerhouses. I’m trying not to get too excited because we have had false starts before but the energy in the room is palpable. Actually, too late, I am super excited to be working with this group.
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Jan Kuiper @janjkuiper.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Radical Ocean Futures webinar 🌊✨ blending imagination and science to spark new ways of thinking about futures for the #ocean and the planet. - short films and expert panel discussion. 🗓️ Wed 5 Nov · 09:00 EST / 15:00 CET Register-> stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @socses.bsky.social
Image: S. Stålenhag
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Excited to share that I’ll be teaching in the upcoming online short course on Resilience Science and Climate Change—a collaboration between @socses.bsky.social @resiliencealliance.bsky.social. The course will be online Oct 27-31. Check out more details and how to apply: socses.org/resilience-a...
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Resilience Alliance/SocSES Online Short Course: Resilience Science and Climate Change – SocSES
The 2025 Resilience Alliance short course is being offered in collaboration with SocSES. The course is designed for graduate students (Masters and PhD) and post
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for. UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families. Our full statement below. ⬇️ 1/
a line of heavily armed federal agents in riot gear standing in a field surrounded by tomato plants
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Just the essentials for spending the afternoon reviewing a student’s thesis: highlighter, pens, stickies. Cheese platter.
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Is sustainability thinking too WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic)? New article by Rachelle Gould, Yolanda Jimenez Naranjo and @pattybal.bsky.social
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Didn’t think I needed another dystopian sci-fi to kick off my summer reading, but Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's “Chain-Gang All-Stars” proved me wrong. Gladiator fights for prisoner freedom in a privatised US prison system? Uncomfortably plausible.
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ICTA-UAB @icta-uab.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
🆘Help us document and make visible the struggles for environmental justice! The EJAtlas from ICTA-UAB is a tool to document environmental conflicts and visibilise the impacts that the extractive economy generates. 💰🙏The donations will be used to maintain it micromecenatge.uab.cat/EJAtlas?mc_c...
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Thrilled to be part of this watershed moment in the field of social-ecological systems research. Coinciding w/ the launch of SocSES earlier this year, this publication takes stock of how far we've come as a community and the possibilities that lie ahead. ecologyandsociety.org/vol30/iss2/a...
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Ecology & Society: Welcome home! Introducing SocSES: a society for inclusive and impactful social-ecological research
Underpinned by systemic thinking, social-ecological systems (SES) research has emerged as a critical field for addressing the challenges of the Anthropocene, marked by a cross-scale focus, inter- and ...
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The BEING BLACK IN PUBLIC survey report is out—a powerful act of testimony, care, and visioning, released on the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder. Led with such honesty, rigour, and heart by my brilliant colleague @jaypitter.bsky.social. Dig in, reflect, share.
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
When in doubt, plant some more native plants.
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Community-rooted visions of the future are critical in uncertain times. I'm continually inspired by the work of this group of dedicated, uncompromising, and visionary organizers in the Waterloo Region. It's been a pleasure to support them, even in small ways. onemillionneighbours.ca/vision/
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The Vision
What could an abundant, resilient, and inclusive region look like? The vision statements in these 15 sections can help us paint that picture. Each section represents a topic area like disability ju…
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
A good read if, like me, you feel you are trying your best and your best is simply not good enough.
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Four SF/F/H books by women writers that I’ve recently enjoyed
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
ArizonaForward recognized our arts-science collaboration AMBIENTE with the Environmental Excellence award. Working with these folks has fed my soul in so many ways and it's just wonderful to watch, even from a distance, the accolades roll in. Find out more: www.thesagrado.org/ambiente-pub...
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
A lot of great urbanista and place-makers will be in Toronto this summer:
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
👀 The new Society for Social-Ecological Systems (SocSES) is launching on March 27. This will be an academic home for inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability scholars. Link to registration below.
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Feeling for my colleagues south of the border. Yesterday we received a stop-work order on a new NSF grant. Last week, my friend’s name appeared on a list identifying professors who were “DEI hires”. It hasn’t been a month.
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Ecosystems and People (@esandpeople.bsky.social) is now on this space! We are an inter- and transdisciplinary journal on biodiversity, ecosystems & quality of life. Give us a follow!
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
New publication led by Vanya Bisht and our group of community partners from South Phoenix where we outline the ‘barrio’ innovation, our way of co-producing knowledge to advance environmental justice. #CAPLTER doi.org/10.5751/ES-1...
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Enabling “barrio” innovation: a grassroots approach for centering community initiatives in just sustainability transformations - Ecology & Society
Sustainability transformations are most meaningful when communities take ownership of their collective futures and guide transformative processes that are rooted in their local traditions and value sy...
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Thanks to whoever made this labyrinth next to my campus building. It was a gift to take 10 minutes to walk through it and disconnect from whatever stage of late capitalism we are in. 🤍❄️
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Jan Kuiper @janjkuiper.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Looking for a postdoc @sthlmresilience.bsky.social to join 'PLURALAKES: Co-creating desirable nature futures of temperate lakes', operationalizing @ipbes.bsky.social Nature Futures Framework for lake ecosystems 💧🎣🌱⛵️https://su.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:788096/where:4/
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Postdoctor in project PLURALAKES
Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC ) is a research centre on resilience and sustainability science at Stockholm University. The Centre advances the scientific understanding of the complex, dynamic inter
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Grades are submitted, auto-reply is on!!
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Graeme Cumming @gscumming.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
We are hiring two postdocs. The first position is co-funded with The Australian Institute of Marine Sciences and will involve research on #marine connectivity with a stellar team, based in Perth. This is a 3-year full-time research position. More at external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/en/job/51901...
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Prospective staff : Jobs at UWA : IN DEVELOPMENT
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
It’s a wrap! My Future Cities undergraduate class is done for the term. In our last session we tested the students’ final assignments: each group designed a board game that could help decision-makers think in anticipatory ways.
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I watched the sunrise from the Superstition Mountains this morning. It was a nice way to say goodbye to the Sonoran desert for now.
A woman dressed in outdoor gear holds a black dog on a leash. The shape of the Superstition Mountains appears black against the early morning sky.
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
What a treat!
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Proud moment: many moons ago, a group of researchers and community organizers dreamed building an art piece that would display air quality to catalyze conversations about health equity in South Phoenix. Today we finally lit it up!!
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Morning at Spaces of Opportunity, one of the nicest community gardens in the South of Phoenix. We spent time reconnecting and celebrating the work of organizers.
A group of people of all ages is listening to an explanation in a gardenA woman wearing a play shirt, red pants, and a Sun hat is standing on a plot of land explaining something
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I'm feeling this one HARD this morning. In the third round of revisions, a brand new, third (!) reviewer suggests major changes to the manuscript.
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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Stockholm University is hiring up to 3 Assistant Professors working on Biodiversity su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... utilizing "...recent advances - such as within sequencing, AI, imaging, mass spectrometry, tomography and exposomics - provide new opportunities."
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Assistant Professor in Biodiversity (up to three positions)
at the Department for Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, the Department of Environmental Science, the Department of Geological Sciences, the Department of Physical Geography or the Department of
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I'll go back to posting about resilience and futures in a minute but, amid the follow frenzy here, I have found @nameshiv.bsky.social and he has brought that epic thread about his brother-in-law and the rice truck to this app. I'm complete.
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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Join us as a postdoc to evaluate climate-related financial risks in industrial fisheries. This role is part of the “Financial risks of climate impacts on seafood production” project, aiming to create strategies for companies to mitigate these risks: buff.ly/2Lu3mgn
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
A new society for social-ecological systems will launch next year. If your research focuses on resilience thinking, transformation, and SES, join the listserv and be part of this exciting community. socses.org
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SocSES
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
Wrapping up a week in beautiful Xishuangbanna talking with ecologists about the possibilities of transdisciplinary and futures research for sustainability science.
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 12/10/2024
China-bound to attend the International Long Term Ecological Research Conference 🇨🇳. I’m excited to give a keynote and a training on participatory and community-led research. www.ilter2024.org
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ILTER OSM 2024 - Official Website
ILTER OSM 2024 | International Long-Term Ecological Research 3rd Open Science Meeting 2024 | Hosted by Chinese Ecosystem Research Network
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
A drop in the bucket no doubt but the Global Student Relief Initiative at UWaterloo invites applications to the Student Relief Fellowship for students from the West Bank and Gaza due OCT 16. uwaterloo.ca/future-gradu...
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Global student relief initiative | Future Graduate Students
The Global Student Relief Initiative (GSRI) is dedicated to offering extra financial assistance to students in need.
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
New pub from #IPBES comparing values of nature embedded in future scenarios found in grey vs. academic literature. Gray lit holds more transformative visions. But, it's hard to do systematic searches of gray lit so here's a custom, open-access search process: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
Our new paper introduces Biosphere Futures, a global database of social-ecological scenarios. If you work in this space, be sure to check the database and add your scenarios. ecologyandsociety.org/vol29/iss1/a...
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
In the coldest day of winter, this piece by Indigenous artist JJ Valley arrived from Guadalupe, AZ. I feel like I have got a bit of desert in my living room.
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
One of my dearest and most dedicated collaborators from South Phoenix is the survivor of gun violence. Sam is the kind of person that would give the shirt off his back to help the community. If you can contribute to his recovery, please do: gofund.me/e3ac80bc
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
I landed in Amsterdam an hour ago and I’m putting my full trust on the Dutch train system to make it to my own presentation at the @ESG_Project conference. Come to GR 1.109 for the first panel on “Governing Urban Transformations” and point me towards the coffee.
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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
We’re looking for a Coordinator for the new, amazing IndigeLab Network, an international group of Indigenous researchers. This is a target hire for an Indigenous gender minority. Based at Memorial U. indigelabnetwork.com/2023/05/09/o...
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Hiring: IndigeLab Network Coordinator!
The Coordinator will oversee the day to day logistics of running an international Indigenous Network.
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
I’m excited that the Programme for Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) and the Resilience Alliance have announced their first conference in a long time. It’s happening in Montreal next summer and the submission portal is now open: event.fourwaves.com/pecs2024/pages
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PECS-3: Pathways to Sustainability
Fourwaves - PECS-3: Pathways to Sustainability
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
My favorite thing about living in Kitchener has to be walking to the market every Saturday. The vendors, the produce, the music, and you are always bound to run into someone you know.
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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
Beautiful Sunrise Ceremony today on campus to honor the children who never returned home and the survivors of the Canadian residential school system.
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Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
Ten (10) open positions at the Nature Conservancy of Canada. www.natureconservancy.ca/en/who-we-ar... Please share! Working here is great. #ConservationJobs
Sunset over forested hills with the words “We’re hiring!” in all caps and NCC’s green logo at the top.Screenshot of 5 job titles and locationsScreenshot of 5 job titles and locations
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