Rosaleen Duffy
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Rosaleen Duffy
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Political Ecologist, interested in IWT, conservation politics and animals. Professor at Sheffield University.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/politics/people/academic-staff/rosaleen-duffy

Environmental science 36%
Political science 22%
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1/ 📣 Big news! For the next 5 years I’ll be working with this amazing team @evahaifa.bsky.social Alasdair Cochrane & Bob McKay on the @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded Multispecies Mutualisms project wellcome.org/grant-fundin...

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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)

Fantastic news - congratulations! 🥂

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
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...

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

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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

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

📣 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 ⬇️
🚨 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!
🚨 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!
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

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

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🎃 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
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 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:

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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
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
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. 👇
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/?)

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

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

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 😀

😀 I certainly do!

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

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

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

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!

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

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?

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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

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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...

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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