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Colin Beale @cmbeale.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

New paper alert! Despite China’s landmark 2017 domestic ivory ban, demand hasn't vanished. The fab @molly-rc-brown.bsky.social's 2nd PhD paper out today reviews the deep-seated psychological and social reasons why demand persists. 🌍 🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 1/6

A family of elephants at a waterhole viewed from about toe height. with a baobab behind them. These are coold beasts!

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Conservation Biology @conbiology.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Brown et al shared that social marketing evaluation shows limitations of #ivory demand management due to weak integration of key principles for behavior change.🐘 doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70191 #conservation #science

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Molly Brown @molly-rc-brown.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

My first PhD paper is out today in Conservation Biology! @society4conbio.bsky.social Freely available to read here: doi.org/10.1111/cobi... Tldr 🧵 below!

An African savanna elephant using its trunk to pull branches towards its mouth.

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Colin Beale @cmbeale.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

New paper! @molly-rc-brown.bsky.social1st PhD paper is out. It evaluates 55 interventions aimed at managing demand for ivory from Asian consumers, & shows that while quality has increased over time (& effectiveness?) there's still a lot to do. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 1/5🧪🌍

Elephants, wildebeest and a bunch of other animals at a water hold in Tanzania. They're cute and should stay alive.

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Megan Tarrant @megantarrant.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Myself, @mpetel.bsky.social and Allison Bishop are seeking presentations for our panel on rights in environmental governance at #POLLEN2026 in Barcelona, June 29th - July 3rd 2026. Fancy joining us? Submit your abstract here by 5th December: nomadit.co.uk/conference/p... @pollenetwork.bsky.social

In recent years, rights have become a prominent focus of environmental governance. From human rights-based approaches to conservation aiming to redress power relations between duty bearers and rights-holders, to the Rights of Nature invoked by local governments, international organizations and some Indigenous representatives, rights are gaining popularity as an avenue through which environmental governance is conceived and enacted.
Part of the appeal of incorporating rights into environmental governance is their embeddedness in discourses, legal structures and normative frameworks centered around an individualistic concept of legal personhood, the protective role of the state, and a formalistic perspective that often obscures underlying power asymmetries. Rights are borne out of specific legal, epistemic and governance traditions and thus are not neutral ground on which to reshape environmental governance. Therein lies a tension which brings into question their transformative potential.
This panel presents a cross-disciplinary dialogue on rights and their interactions with the environment in an attempt to unpack this tension. Political ecology provides tools to investigate these dynamics, which can be complemented by insights from other disciplines. We aim to bring political ecology and environmental justice into dialogue with law, policy and practice, to highlight the ways in which different perspectives on rights and justice have implications for environmental governance.
We invite presentations from researchers, practitioners and activists that address the following:
● What, and whose, perspectives on rights are recognised in environmental discourses?
● How are rights invoked, by whom, and to what ends?
● How are rights conceived in different fields and by different “rights-holders”?
● How can alternative perspectives on justice and rights inform rights-based practice?
● What lessons can we learn from different disciplinary perspectives?

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Molly Brown @molly-rc-brown.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

🎉 Hard to believe it’s already been a month since I passed my PhD viva! Still feeling very grateful, proud, and a little bit in disbelief that I am #PhDone!

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Tiff Ki @tiff-ki.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Really glad to see this exciting and fun work from my PhD out - huge thanks to @janehillyork.bsky.social @cmbeale.bsky.social and Dr Blanca Huertas! Next summer, going to go to Sulawesi to link two of these regions with present day surveys! 🦋

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William (Bill) Sutherland @billsutherland.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Excellent advice from Hugh Possingham on monitoring conservation projects and why most Monitoring and Evaluation is flawed. youtu.be/qa6Ewt-W5mU?...

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Why most conservation projects fail to learn

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 19/09/2025

It’s time for women and allies to speak up. To say ‘not in our name’ to the discrimination and exclusion of trans people. Are you with us? ✍️ If you are a woman and agree please sign @nionwomen.bsky.social 's open letter goodlaw.social/wu1u

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Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community - Not in our name

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Molly Brown @molly-rc-brown.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community 🏳️‍⚧️ We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

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Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community - Not in our name

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Hanna Pettersson @hannalp.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

What do we mean when we say that carnivores and other wildlife are "habituating" to people? Who actually habituates to whom? Is this bad or god? Who decides? All of this and more in our new paper, expertly led by @ethanddoney.bsky.social, out now in @peopleandnature.bsky.social.

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Conservation Science and Practice @conservationsp.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

🌿 Numbers aren’t the whole story. A new perspective piece highlights how qualitative approaches—like interviews, storytelling, and participatory methods—can uncover why conservation efforts succeed (or don’t). 📚Read more from Sharkey et al at doi.org/10.1111/csp2... #Conservation #Science

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The value of qualitative approaches to impact evaluation in biodiversity conservation

We provide a conceptualization of qualitative approaches to impact evaluation in conservation and draw on case studies to illustrate the value of qualitative approaches.

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Molly Brown @molly-rc-brown.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

🆕 Publication alert! I’m excited to share a new paper I co-authored, just published in a special issue of Conservation Science and Practice: 👉 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Visual abstract titled "Why would I apply a qualitative approach to my biodiversity conservation impact evaluation?" Four key benefits are listed: (1) Understand change and test assumptions, (2) See processes of change in different ways, (3) Flexibly use different types of evidence, (4) Strengthen the rigour of the evaluation. Includes icons, two illustrated figures, a lightbulb, butterflies, and a QR code linking to the paper.

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Trans Radio UK @transradiouk.com · 17/04/2025

📢Protest Static demo Sat 26 Apr | 1PM St Helen’s Square, York This event is organised by York LGBT forum We're deeply disappointed by today's Supreme Court ruling defining "woman" by biological sex.

York Trans Rights Protest
Protesting the April 16th UK Supreme Court ruling excluding trans people from protection against gender discrimination. St Helens Square, Saturday 26 April, 1pm. Allies welcome and encouraged

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Open Research at York @uoyopenres.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Another interesting project awarded last year was Transparent tusks: Open research practices in ivory research by @molly-rc-brown.bsky.social Molly's work brought to light stories of the ivory trade, a challenging area for open and inclusive practice, through interdisciplinary outreach activities 🐘

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CASCADE @cascade-hei.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Join us for the new CASCADE webinar series! In our opening webinar on 21st March, we will be joined by Sarah Chaytor (CAPE) and Nils Bunnefeld (@eklipse-europe.bsky.social) to discuss how to improve linkages between academia and policy. Register here 👉 forms.office.com/e/Avv4aXfE4H

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Rob Marchant @rob-marchant.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Engaging day exploring the pressing issues around #climate finance, #nature positive development, future foci and how links between Government and universities can help to navigate multiple future challenges @yesiuoy.bsky.social @anthropocenebio.bsky.social

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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Eight interdisciplinary PhD opportunities open @anthropocenebio.bsky.social !

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Jake Reynolds @jakereynolds.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Net Zero needs behavior change. For decarbonization, we need to understand how to enable and encourage green choices (fairly). That’s means shifting: how we heat our homes, how we travel, and what we eat and consume. Don’t ask me, check the latest IPCC report ⬇️ 🔗 www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...

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georgia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @blahttodea.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Starter packs

BIOLOGY Ecology Macroecology https://go.bsky.app/GBn9pNZ Global ecology https://go.bsky.app/V6tN4cv Trait based ecology and evolution https://go.bsky.app/PThMXeX Invasion biology https://go.b...

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Inês Martins @inesismartins.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

🚨Fully-Funded UK PhD Opportunity!🚨 I’m hiring a #PhD exploring the complexities of #biodiversity change across space and time 🌐. Join @cmbeale.bsky.social and me at #York and for this exciting opportunity! Please share and/or message me if interested. More info and how to apply: shorturl.at/Zu7ED

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Colin Beale @cmbeale.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

CASCADE is now here, and definitely worth following if you're interested in how #UKHE can help contribute to global conservation targets! 🌍

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George Holmes @georgeholmes.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

we are recruiting a PhD student to work on illicit and unregulated conservation translocation (e.g. #beaverbombing, unregulated release of 'native' butterflies), particularly the conservation and policy aspects. Funded by NERC, in collaboration with Natural England. yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/eco...

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Ecological and conservation implications of illicit and unregulated species translocations - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences • Doctoral Training Network

Ecological and conservation implications of illicit and unregulated species translocations Conservation translocations – the movement of species to establish new populations, or bolster existing one...

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Kate Raworth @kateraworth.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Calling univ profs & lecturers! If you want to bring concepts from Doughnut Economics into your teaching, we've just launched a webpage bursting with resources for you: 7 slide decks, reading lists, videos & activities - all open access. Dive in & pls reshare! doughnuteconomics.org/university-c...

A screenshot of slides drawn from 7 slide decks, showing the range of topics addressed on the webpage

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Molly Brown @molly-rc-brown.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Thoroughly enjoyed my time at York St Peters primary school recently, so I wrote a quick #blog about the refreshing #conservation enthusiasm that filled the day ✨👩‍🏫 Read here: www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene... @uniofyork.bsky.social @uoyopenres.bsky.social

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Inspiring young conservationists

Molly Bown visits a York primary school to talk about the topic of her PhD research.

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Patrícia Pečnerová @patriciachrzan.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

▪️ Open postdoc position ▪️ 🔎🧬🐘 I'm recruiting a postdoc to work with me on mapping the genomic legacy of the elephant ivory trade in Europe using ancient DNA. Hosted by Lund University 🇸🇪 with Bengt Hansson Please RT! Info and apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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Molly Brown @molly-rc-brown.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

🔊 Looking forward to participating in the inaugural SCB online Conservation Social Science Conference on Weds Nov 20th! ⏰: 11:00 🇺🇸 | 16:00 🇬🇧 | 00:00 🇨🇳 #BehaviourChange #SocialScience #ConsumerDemand #IWT

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Molly Brown @molly-rc-brown.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I’ve been invited to St Peter’s School in York today to talk to the KS2 students about all things elephants and wildlife crime 🐘 It’s a challenging topic for anyone, esp. 6/7 year olds! Looking forward to seeing their posters and hearing about what they have learnt on their trafficking course.

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Molly Brown @molly-rc-brown.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Atmospheric morning in Ljubljana ahead of the first day of the European Social Marketing Conference 🇸🇮 #ESMC24

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Colin Beale @cmbeale.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Yesterday at #CoP16 CASCADE launched an evidence synthesis"Behaviour Change for Achieving the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework". You can read it here: cascade.ac.uk/evidence-pol... Led by the marvelous Molly Brown it brought together a great, global interdisciplinary team. Take home 🧵🌍

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