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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

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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/

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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 · 06/06/2025

In 1823, during his Black Painting series, Goya painted "Duelo a garrotazos", translated as "Duel with Cudgels". The painting depicts two men violently striking each other with cudgels while seemingly trapped in a muddy or barren landscape, often interpreted as an allegory of civil strife.

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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 · 03/06/2025

I am, of course, of no help but thanks for the validation! I’ve been having the same wide range in quotes: Booking starts at $50, the rental car company starts at $700.

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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Of course! I was happy to support this effort. I am still waiting for the patio weather but yes, let’s make this happen.

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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

I love the ferns. We plantef some a couple of years ago. They look nothing like yours but I still have hope.

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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 · 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 · 02/01/2025

Not exactly what you are after but a former PhD student wrote this paper on assessing participation in energy transitions: doi.org/10.1016/j.er...

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Redirecting

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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Yes! They had to design the game themselves. They were not given a lot of rules except that it had to be futures and urban oriented. I think that it would have been better if they had had more constraints, e.g., a specific imaginary, or city, or game logic. But it worked out nicely.

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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 · 12/12/2024

Thanks! This is usually the highlight of the course for me and the students rarely disappoint!

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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

Thanks! It’s been a labor of love that hopefully starts to catalyze community conversations around health and justice.

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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The color corresponds to air quality (PM 2.5). Green means good, yellow concerning, red/purple bad. The design of the obelisk itself was Sam Gomez and Selina Martínez from Phoenix Design Empowerment. The design for the lights was Dan Beaver from UWaterloo. The sensor is from Clarity.

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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Making visible the invisible was actually the name of the initial grant ;) We feel that environmental justice has a lot to do with shining light on slow, everyday violence that happens in the form of pollution. THANKS for the Alt text, I should have included it in the original.

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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

* I should prefaced it all with, it’s not a work of sci-fi! It just includes a future vision.

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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The Free People’s Village used that same idea but in a punk, dystopian, but a bit hopeful, sort of way.

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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I find sci-fi depicts complex visions but not necessarily positive ones. However, in the last chapter of “Becoming abolitionists”, derecka.bsky.social describes a vision for a future that I found inspiring. Curious to see other replies.

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Bluesky

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Marta Berbés @mberbes.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

As the US heads toward another Trump presidency, I’m reminded of a saying that organizers used in Brazil after Bolsonaro was elected that translates to “nobody let go of anyone’s hand”

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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.

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A 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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