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green-isles.bsky.social @green-isles.bsky.social · 18h

Environmentalism without class struggle is just gardening! 🌱✊

The application of Green politics and ecosocialism in the UK 🇬🇧

Launching on Wednesday 12th November. A place for radical thinking for an ecosocialist island.
instagram.com/green.isles
greenisles.substack.com

(website coming soon)

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 3d

Fantastic news - congratulations! 🥂

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 3d

Excellent #podcast by my terrific former colleague Dr Laura Gutierrez, discussing #IWT #eels, #WildlifeCrime, mental health and much much more ⬇️ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

Laura Gutiérrez on teaching, mental health, and critical/green criminology

Podcast Episode · culturalstudies · 14/10/2025 · 1h 3m

podcasts.apple.com

Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 3d

SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share

www.change.org/p/save-geogr...

A link to a petition to save Geography, its staff, department and degree programmes at Leicester University, UK

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 3d

📆 Check out this call for applications- with the opportunity to work with @geofrancismasse.bsky.social on some exciting topics #WildlifeTrade #Zoonosis #OneHealth #Conservation ⬇️

Francis Masse @geofrancismasse.bsky.social · 4d

Call PhD Proposals related to Political Ecologies of Conservation, Infectious Animal and Zoonotic Diseases, One Health, and Wildlife Trade
#politicalecology #humanenvironmentgeography

Please share and pass on to potentially interested people.

@pollenetwork.bsky.social
@findaphd.bsky.social

Francis Masse @geofrancismasse.bsky.social · 4d

Call PhD Proposals related to Political Ecologies of Conservation, Infectious Animal and Zoonotic Diseases, One Health, and Wildlife Trade
#politicalecology #humanenvironmentgeography

Please share and pass on to potentially interested people.

@pollenetwork.bsky.social
@findaphd.bsky.social

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 6d

This morning’s dog walk, another autumn stunner in the #PeakDistrict despite the grey clouds and drizzle

Yellow, green & red Autumn leaves reflected in the river

Yello beech leaves over a small waterfall

Orange, lime & yellow beech leaves & trees beside a path covered in orange beech leaves

Conifers in a hill, grey sky, the trees are bands of different colours green, brown, orange, red

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 6d

There is this letter of support docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/...

Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana

As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...

docs.google.com

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 7d

📣 3 post doc roles on GreenFrontier @erc.europa.eu project - fantastic opportunities to work on an exciting project on socio-ecological relations in Italy, Spain & Poland. And best of all, a chance to work with @georgeiorda.bsky.social as team lead #PoliticalEcology #Conservation ⬇️

Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️‍🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers!

Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025

Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!

Please share widely!

Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️‍🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers!

Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025

Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!

Please share widely!

Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @tekgw.bsky.social · 8d

In a new publication via @theconversation.com, Birhan &I argue,

“When famine goes unrecorded, the suffering of entire populations is erased from the world’s moral and political map. It also weakens the mechanisms designed to prevent such atrocities elsewhere.”

theconversation.com/starvation-a...

Starvation as a weapon of war: how Ethiopia created a famine in Tigray

Famine was weaponised as part of a broader campaign of destruction in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.

theconversation.com

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 10d

And much to my other half’s annoyance, the tasty turnip is now called a ‘swede’ 😉

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 10d

🎃 carving is for light weights. I tell my kid this every year when he is happily scooping out a pumpkin. I have strong (and painful!) childhood memories of the literal hours it took to get anything like a face on a turnip. But it was worth it 👻 #HappyHalloween

Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 11d

A reminder that the original Hallowe'en jack o' lanterns date back to 18th century Ireland if not earlier, were based on a shady boozy blacksmith called Stingy Jack who cheated the devil & was trapped between 2 worlds, were carved from turnips and looked like this:

A preserved carved turnip jack o'lantern from the 19th century

Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 11d

A reminder that the original Hallowe'en jack o' lanterns date back to 18th century Ireland if not earlier, were based on a shady boozy blacksmith called Stingy Jack who cheated the devil & was trapped between 2 worlds, were carved from turnips and looked like this:

POLLEN - Political Ecology Network @pollenetwork.bsky.social · 11d

Māori scholar Matt Wynyard examines how Aotearoa NZ’s dairy industry—deeply rooted in settler colonialism—has intensified, corporatized & financialized since the 1980s, driving major social & ecological tensions.
🔗 institutionallandscapes.org/contribution...

#28 A Raw Deal? The True Cost of Dairy in Aotearoa | Institutional Landscapes

institutionallandscapes.org

George Holmes @georgeholmes.bsky.social · 11d

Short piece in @consletters.bsky.social exploring social, cultural, political and ecological apsects of illicit and unregulated species translocations - what others (not me, due to homophone errors) might call guerilla rewilding. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Who Let the Frogs out? Illicit and Unregulated Species Translocations

Click on the article title to read more.

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 12d

ICYMI last week, my reaction to the govt's Skills White Paper is that it's bitterly disappointing for universities. It will make a very bad situation worse. This is a Last Word really, because IMHO large parts of the sector have crossed a red line and can't be pulled back in their present form. 👇

Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 17d

So I've been reading the Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper. There's some good things in there. But when it comes to universities there's very little to cheer. The situation is very tough and will get worse. The last chance to preserve what we've got has passed. Let me explain why. (1/?)

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 14d

Always happy to be tagged by you 😀 that’s for keeping up this important work

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 17d

Perfect - that’s great intel 😀 I will keep an eye out.

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 17d

Great tips for the rails & bitterns. Thank you! Fingers crossed for the waxwings - there were loads very near my home a couple of winters ago. Will let you know if I make the 200 😀

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 17d

😀 I certainly do!

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 17d

Fantastic recommendations- thanks so much! I always hope for bitterns & rails but they are so hard to spot 😀

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 17d

ny top tips for seeing any of these species in northern England, Co Down Northern Ireland or solway firth/cairnryan area much appreciated. These are the only places I’ll be going between now and 31 Dec

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 17d

Common Crossbill
Black necked grebe
Twite
Greenshank
Bittern
Water rail
Garganey
Avocet
Short eared owl
Green woodpecker
Diver
Cattle egret
Marsh tit
Willow tit
Brambling
Snow bunting
Bewicks swan
Brent geese
Sanderling
Peacock
Alexandrine parrot - these live in Sheffield
Snow bunting

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 17d

Next is a list of the species I feel I might get before the end of the year - very keen on finding bewicks swans & twite, will likely find Brent geese while in Northern Ireland at Christmas. Bitterns and water rail - forget about it!

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 17d

Thanks - I never thought I would make it to 100 in my first year of trying, but by June I had hit that target.

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 17d

I think I might have become a dedicated lister 😆 friends, I need some help with #My200 bird challenge. Yesterday I reached 180 species since 1 Jan, looking at choughs in Great Orme. But will I get 20 more species by 31 Dec?

180/200 species listed in #My200 bird challenge 2025

Great Orme tram, green hill against grey sky

White building, radio mast. Green hill/scrubland, clouded grey ky

3 black choughs on a scubby green grassland

POLLEN - Political Ecology Network @pollenetwork.bsky.social · 18d

May 18 -19 2026, conference in Romania 🌿 The Greyzone of the Green Transition – Environmental Inequalities in Central & Eastern Europe
🔗 grants.ulbsibiu.ro/ecojust/grey... #CallForPapers #EnvJustice #JustTransition #CEE

Call for Papers: The Greyzone of the Green Transition - Environmental Inequalities in Central and Eastern Europe - ecoJust home

The Greyzone of the Green Transition is a conference dedicated to advancing conversations on environmental justice in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). It brings together senior , doctoral, and postdo...

grants.ulbsibiu.ro

Susanna Nordlund @susanna-nordlund.bsky.social · 18d

After Long Blog Paralysis the Crime in Loliondo is on its Third Year and in NCA One Year After Epic Protests the Movement Needs to be Rekindled #Loliondo #Ngorongoro termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2025/10/afte...

In this blog post:

Intro and the sad state of “democracy”

Shomo sere, Raila – remembering 2017

The now very old German visit

Attempt at forced German-funded village land use plans

Loliondo removed from the presidential commissions, and then again included

Necessary grazing on land that’s been stolen

Most unpleasant blasts from the past

In court

Briefly about the horrible Germans and the land

FZS recruits human rights criminal as country director

In the Shadow of the Serengeti film

A year after epic protests in Ngorongoro division and what’s the result?

-President’s continued threats

-NCAA attempts at establishing a no-go zone in Ndutu

-UNESCO

-Leading to the protests

-Almost no fulfilment of promises

Carbon credits NOT in Ngorongoro

-Game reserve threat

-Best of “community-based”

-Blue Carbon from Dubai disappeared?

Yannick Ndoinyo with the blood-soaked, anti-pastoralist president

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 19d

Arrived in Bangor Uni, and genuinely wondering why I have never been here before. Jaw.Officially.Dropped. The views!!! Looking forward to the talk later

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