Congratulations to (Un)worlding Collaboratory co-convenors Sophie Chao and Blanche Verlie on being awarded ARC Future Fellowships. These awards, granted by the Australian Research Council, are the most prestigious mid-career research fellowships in the country. They are highly competitive and are awarded to emerging leaders in their research fields. Sophie and Blanche both received Future Fellowships in the 2026 round of funding.

I recently co-authored an essay with Blanche Verlie and Zoë Sadokierski on "mourning in a time of planetary crisis" in The Griffith Review, vol. 92 (2026). The full text is available here. This essay builds on a conversation that the authors began as a roundtable discussion with Natasha Mitchell for an episode of ABC Radio National’s Big Ideas (

An investigation into the state of corvid–human relations.

Philosopher Thom van Dooren receives the BBVA Foundation’s 7th Biophilia Award for what the committee describes as his “central role” in “understanding and addressing species extinction.”

Celebrating the Life and Work of Elspeth Probyn

The decision to close Meanjin is the latest in a string of recent decisions that suggest universities are not safe harbours for priceless cultural institutions.

A biotech company in the United States made headlines last month by revealing photos of genetically modified gray wolves, calling them “dire wolves,” a species that hasn’t existed for more than 10,000...

Full volume of Deborah Bird Rose's posthumous book Dreaming Ecology: Nomadics and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, Victoria River, Northern Australia.

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Substituting one thing for another–things, people, habits–happens all the time. Substitution is so mundane that it can easily be taken for grante...