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Nikki Paterson

@niktheearthling.bsky.social
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Interdisciplinary PhD at @anthropocenebio.bsky.social, York 🌞🌿 — ethnographer exploring the worlds of outdoor swimmers across Yorkshire, thinking about rivers, entanglements, reciprocity, pollution, storytelling and wellbeing

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Govt planning c. 100 new data centres by early 2030s, mostly in already water stressed areas. They have no legal obligation to disclose how much water they use. Meanwhile Govt launches £75m publicity campaign to urge us to reduce water use & privatised water companies waste 19% thro leaks. Madness
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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
and this summer is one of the coolest of the rest of our lives, I hope everyone keeps that clearly in mind. Until emissions are zero, warming, fire, floods, drought, destruction and death will all keep climbing. Simple.
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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Remember when climate scientists said we should massively and rapidly reduce fossil fuel & meat emissions, or else? Or else 👇
Twitter post from "Extreme Temperatures Around The World"
HISTORIC RECORD HEAT EVERYWHERE
We are gonna live historic days which will be remembered for generations:
Thousands of records will be pulverized at the same time in North,South (40C in winter again !) Americas,Asia and Europe.
Stay tuned. It will be an absolute insanity.
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Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity @anthropocenebio.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Themed around ‘Diverse Origins, Multiple Futures: The stories of Political Ecology,’ the Political Ecology Network conference was a vibrant, engaging week which provided an inspiring and grounding segue into the final three months of Nikki Paterson's PhD. #POLLEN2026 www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...
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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Looking forward to kicking #POLLEN26 off with five watery talks for our panel: 'Flowing together – the potential of revitalising more-than-human riverine relations' Would love to see some friendly faces at 1.30 today, in UB-308 🦫 @riverreflections.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social
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Dr Amy-Jane Beer @amyjanebeer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
For more on Reclaiming Our Rivers join me, @alistairboxall.bsky.social, Prof Sir John Lawton, @rachaelmaskell.bsky.social Marie Taylor of @yorkdalesrt.bsky.social & Adam Ashman of #yorkshirewater for a panel discussion on water quality tomorrow. yorkfestivalofideas.com/2026/calenda...
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The Future’s in Our Hands: Reclaiming our rivers
Join our panel of experts as they decode the chemical cocktail in our waterways and share actionable steps we can all take to restore the health of our rivers.
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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
What a legacy! How lucky we are he’s lived long and productively. Happy 100 years! 🎈
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Happy centenary, David! Attenborough’s 100 most spectacular TV moments
He has been besieged by birds, had 120m crabs try to crawl up his trouser leg and stayed cool beside an erupting Icelandic volcano. As David Attenborough turns 100, we celebrate his most extraordinary...
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Right to Roam @righttoroam.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Over 110 independent cinemas will be showing FREE SCREENINGS of Our Land: a feature documentary about Right to Roam's campaign to defend and extend access to nature. The initiative is via Escapes, a BFI-backed scheme to widen access to cinema. Screenings: May 5th - 6th
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Over 100 UK cinemas to offer free screenings of countryside documentary Our Land
More than 110 independent cinemas across the UK will offer free tickets to see new documentary Our Land this May, as part of a nationwide initiative to make cinema more accessible. Screening on 5th an...
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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
It was great fun speaking about interdependency, porous boundaries, and polluted waters with Haynes Collins for his blog – An Anthropology of Swimming 🌀 Take a look here: anthropologyofswimming.com/narratives/
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
📰 I have a new paper out with Peter Sands @anthropocenebio.bsky.social in Society & Animals - setting out the idea of a #PoliticalEcology of reanimating to understand current trends in #rewilding through the lens of individual animal lives brill.com/view/journal...
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Would You Jump Into Your Local River? Swimmable Cities May Be Within Reach as Once-Polluted Waterways Are Restored - www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu... @smithsonianmag.bsky.social
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Would You Jump Into Your Local River? Swimmable Cities May Be Within Reach as Once-Polluted Waterways Are Restored
Efforts to improve the “swimmability” of urban areas are gaining global traction, from Paris to Chicago
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Emily Whittingham @emily-whittingham.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
There's still just over two weeks left to apply to our workshop exploring historical approaches to non-human life. It will take place on 9-10th April 2026, and aims to bring together scholars across disciplinary divides. PGR and ECR support available thanks to the generosity of our sponsors!
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Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity @anthropocenebio.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Rooted in environmental psychology, nature connection can be understood as an eighteenth-century phenomenon. Here Harrie Neal explores how nature connection has become a highly influential psychological framework across the environmental sciences and civil society. www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...
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Bram Büscher @brambuscher.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Please consider joining our 2026 Political Ecology spring school! Planetary Political Ecologies: Environmental disasters, conflicts and possibilities in & beyond capitalism ▶️ 13-17 April 2026 ▶️ Wageningen With Annah Zhu, Erik Swyngedouw, Sumit Vij & others! wass.crs.wur.nl/courses/deta...
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WASS Courses
Prof. Bram Büscher (Wageningen University) Prof. Robert Fletcher (Wageningen University) Prof. Erik Swyngedouw (Manchester University) Dr. Annah Zhu (Wageningen University)  Dr. Sumit Vij (Wageningen University)
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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Closing tomorrow!
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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Missing you in the office already @molly-rc-brown.bsky.social, come back and visit us soon! 🌿
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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Excited that our session — 'Cyborg rivers and riverhood movements: potentials of re-imagining, re-politicizing and re-commoning relations between rivers, nonhumans and people' — was accepted for #POLLEN2026. Call for papers is open until 5th December! 🦦 pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/
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POLLEN Conference 2026 - POLLEN
Universitat de Barcelona: 29 June, 1-3 JulyUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona: 30 June The call for Presentations and posters is now Open: The call for presentations & posters has now begun, please vis...
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Hayden Lorimer @slipshodspeller.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Winter Well is on air BBC Radio 4 this week. An audio guide to thriving in winter, with advice from medics, artists, poets and future-gazers on simple but effective ways to bring light into your life during the darkest part of the year. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... @hesterparr.bsky.social
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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Finally made it along to ‘More-than-human’ at the Design Museum with @riverreflections.bsky.social. A really vibrant & engaging exhibition about learning from and designing with other beings — it’s very cool & heartening to see this thinking reaching wider audiences 🦋
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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
A big week continued with Fran Mahon’s brilliant ‘Flooded Memories’ exhibition, exploring river agency. In a space overlooking the River Ouse, he illuminated the ability of Rivers Ouse and Foss to effect change — reshaping local architectures, histories and memory @hgcresearchcentre.bsky.social
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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Loved roaming Yorkshire Arboretum & Bog Hall last week for the LCAB field trip. Mushroom season is in full swing! @anthropocenebio.bsky.social
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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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Dr Amy-Jane Beer @amyjanebeer.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Swimmers and river lovers of Yorkshire! Rave On for the Avon is coming to York THIS THURSDAY 🏊🏻‍♀️💦💙 Please share… www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail... @righttoroam.bsky.social @yorkswildlife.bsky.social
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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
And Yorkshire Water applies for drought orders, to extract water from Rivers Ouse & Wharfe. Yet 'the sector has been criticised for failing to build reservoirs and to fix leaking pipes, while attention has also focused on the large pay packets awarded to some water company bosses'
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Southern Water applies for permission to draw water from rare chalk stream
Environment secretary urged to stop drought order that could damage the ecology of River Test in Hampshire
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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Lou & I are continuing our nature journaling practices to pay deep attention to local natures and shifting seasons — highly recommend for anyone who likes to scribble
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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Had a great week in Mons for the Society of Human Ecology conference — lots on relational thinking, rights of nature, emotions & affects. Cherry on top was winning the Richard J Borden award for my poster, ‘Experiences of outdoor swimming’
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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Grateful for the opportunity to share my ongoing PhD research at the end of May - as part of a panel on biodiversity & wellbeing @anthropocenebio.bsky.social 🌊
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Department of Environment and Geography @uoyenvironment.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
An important @theguardian.com article on @alistairboxall.bsky.social's research: "A study of #Yorkshire’s rivers is helping scientists understand the impact everyday pollutants are having on waterways – and the results are sobering" 👇🌍 www.theguardian.com/environment/... #York #YorkResearch
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Pesticides, antibiotics, animal medicines: the chemical cocktail seeping into our rivers
The list of everyday pollutants is a long one, and they could be as damaging to our water ecosystems as sewage spills
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
📣 Time to get your panels and abstracts in @pollenetwork.bsky.social conf 2026 is open for submissions. @icta-uab.bsky.social is a great place to host it - and it promises to be a blast (as always!) @danbrockington.bsky.social pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/
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POLLEN Conference 2026 - POLLEN
To learn more about our rational and purposes, then please look at this page , or download this document. If would like to participate then the first step is to propose a panel, or some other contribu...
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Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity @anthropocenebio.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Our new seminar series Anthropocene Biopolitics starts on 3 June with a session on microbes. We’ll think about how microbial imaginaries necessitate a reimagining of how the human relates to the biodiversity that criss-crosses its boundaries. Learn more & register: www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...
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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Looking forward to contributing to the conversation tomorrow, on human-nonhuman relations and links to wellbeing. Please join us if you're free and in York
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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
To continue the watery theme, it was a real treat to have @amyjanebeer.bsky.social visit @anthropocenebio.bsky.social last week to share her wisdom 🔮 on writing well and on engaging with audiences beyond the specialist. Unsurprisingly this was very well received by our research group!
The Flow (2022), Amy-Jane BeerExcerpt from Amy-Jane Beer's chapter in 'By the River' (2024)
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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Powerful evening with @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social & @amyjanebeer.bsky.social in Leeds, on the urgent need to remember that life is lived in relation, and to reimagine rivers as life sources rather than resources. 'Our fate flows with that of rivers and always has' 🌊
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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Degrowth is not about reducing all production, but reducing the ‘damaging and unnecessary forms that exist to service elite accumulation’ and needs to be accompanied by universal public services - @jasonhickel.bsky.social to a packed lecture hall in Sheffield last night
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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Huge thanks to @livingmaps.bsky.social for a great conference last week. Particularly inspired by the design-led projects and artworks, including Claire Reddleman’s #GinkgosoftheBritishIsles, and by trying my hand at my first more-than-human map
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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
On my way to London for the More-than-human Mappings conference today & tomorrow. Hugely looking forward to making new connections and soaking in some great ideas 🧽
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Just out: figures for sewage dumping in England for 2024. * 3.61 million hrs of sewage released. * That's c. 412 years of sewage. * First yr all 15,000 CSOs were monitored. £85bn paid out to shareholders since privatisation = underfunded, collapsing infrastructure. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Sewage spilled into England's rivers and seas for record 3.6m hours last year - BBC News
Sewage spilled into England's waterways for a record number of hours last year, the Environmental Agency says.
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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Ridiculously pleased to have my fieldwork underway 🌊 will be swimming my way through Yorkshire until the summer
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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Happy spring equinox! 🌸 launched into the new season with a sunrise dip
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
"Daylighting" is the practice in urban design of restoring buried rivers to the surface. The River Sheaf been unburied in Sheffield city centre, after 100 yrs in the dark. Fabulous. A small light in the great gloom. “It is starting to make its own meandering path…” www.bbc.com/news/article...
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River Sheaf opened up next to Sheffield Castle site - BBC News
The River Sheaf has been exposed at Castlegate for the first time in over 100 years
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Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity @anthropocenebio.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
There's still time to apply for one of our fully funded (home fees) PhD studentships. We're interested in supporting interdisciplinary PhD studentships that explore the ways in which human activity enhances as well as diminishes biological diversity. Take a look: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...
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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Lichen studies on campus. Really fascinating life forms
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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Hugely recommend this; a mind-expanding experience with some great food for thought 🪄
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Nathan Oxley @nathanoxley.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
“Nature and culture intertwine indissolubly in the fenlands as in every person”
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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Eight interdisciplinary PhD opportunities open @anthropocenebio.bsky.social !
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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
My vibrant & eclectic community in York 🪱🍂🌻🦋🦠🐺🦞🦦
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Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Hello! 🌞 it's good to be here. I'm a PhD researcher at the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity @anthropocenebio.bsky.social, thinking relationally about human experiences of the living world and wellbeing. My ethnography of outdoor swimming in the UK starts in the new year
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