Brendan Coolsaet
@bcoolsaet.bsky.social
All things environmental justice / Research at FNRS / Teaching at UCLouvain & Sciences Po Paris / Director EOS research center / Book: 'Environmental Justice: Key Issues': http://frama.link/EJ_book / About me: http://brendan.coolsaet.eu
Pinned
Brendan Coolsaet
@bcoolsaet.bsky.social
· Dec 16
🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Acknowledging the historic presence of justice in climate research, in Nature Climate Change: doi.org/10.1038/s415... - w/ @julianagyeman.bsky.social, @pkashwan.bsky.social, @danielle-rivera.bsky.social, Stacia Ryder, @dschlosberg.bsky.social & @farhanasultana.com #climatejustice
I'll be at the Blue & Green Justice event in Paris today hosted by @frbiodiv.bsky.social & @cnrs.fr presenting the results of the Just Conservation project (2019-23) in which we reviewed 50 years of data on the role of Indigenous people for conservation: www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/en/evenement...
December 15, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I'll be at the Blue & Green Justice event in Paris today hosted by @frbiodiv.bsky.social & @cnrs.fr presenting the results of the Just Conservation project (2019-23) in which we reviewed 50 years of data on the role of Indigenous people for conservation: www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/en/evenement...
Xmas came early this year! Grateful to #IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy for their Research and Knowledge Award (including backlit award plaque ✨). It's a collective award for our work on the role of Indigenous people and local communities in conservation 🌿 #selfbrag
December 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Reposted by Brendan Coolsaet
From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science, along with the Core Collection and Journal Citation Reports.
The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of Science
From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics'
www.cnrs.fr
December 1, 2025 at 11:04 AM
From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science, along with the Core Collection and Journal Citation Reports.
My people have a call for papers up for #POLLEN2026 on
Waste and Environmental Justice. Check it out here: nomadit.co.uk/conference/p... and feel free to reach out with questions! @pollenetwork.bsky.social
Waste and Environmental Justice. Check it out here: nomadit.co.uk/conference/p... and feel free to reach out with questions! @pollenetwork.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
My people have a call for papers up for #POLLEN2026 on
Waste and Environmental Justice. Check it out here: nomadit.co.uk/conference/p... and feel free to reach out with questions! @pollenetwork.bsky.social
Waste and Environmental Justice. Check it out here: nomadit.co.uk/conference/p... and feel free to reach out with questions! @pollenetwork.bsky.social
Reposted by Brendan Coolsaet
Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.
Israel seems to be intercepting right now.
All eyes needed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...
Israel seems to be intercepting right now.
All eyes needed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...
24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA
YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla
www.youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.
Israel seems to be intercepting right now.
All eyes needed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...
Israel seems to be intercepting right now.
All eyes needed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...
Reposted by Brendan Coolsaet
Major environmental justice win just dropped in Brussels 🇧🇪. The Constitutional Court suspends the postponement of the city's Low Emission Zone, stressing the disproportionate exposure of low-income communities and vulnerable groups www.brusselstimes.com/brussels/174...
Constitutional Court suspends postponement of Brussels' Low Emission Zone
"This decision is a reminder that the LEZ is an essential tool for reducing pollution, protecting the most vulnerable, and ensuring healthier air for everyone."
www.brusselstimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Major environmental justice win just dropped in Brussels 🇧🇪. The Constitutional Court suspends the postponement of the city's Low Emission Zone, stressing the disproportionate exposure of low-income communities and vulnerable groups www.brusselstimes.com/brussels/174...
Very proud to see our 2021 paper in Ecology & Society on the role of Indigenous people in conservation is most cited paper of the journal for 2020-24 🔥 masterfully led by @neildawson.bsky.social. Just Conservation project funded by FRB/Cesab @nmouquet.bsky.social @googlescholar.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Very proud to see our 2021 paper in Ecology & Society on the role of Indigenous people in conservation is most cited paper of the journal for 2020-24 🔥 masterfully led by @neildawson.bsky.social. Just Conservation project funded by FRB/Cesab @nmouquet.bsky.social @googlescholar.bsky.social
Reposted by Brendan Coolsaet
UC-Berkeley has an open-rank faculty position in our incredible Climate Equity and Environmental Justice (CEEJ) research cluster. It is an extraordinary interdisciplinary group working across multiple colleges and departments at the university! More information here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04842
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Climate Equity and Environmental Justice - Rausser College of Natural Resources
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
July 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
UC-Berkeley has an open-rank faculty position in our incredible Climate Equity and Environmental Justice (CEEJ) research cluster. It is an extraordinary interdisciplinary group working across multiple colleges and departments at the university! More information here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04842
L'absence de solutions collectives face au changement climatique nous force dans des engrenages individualisants, amplifiants à la fois les émissions de gaz à effets de serre et les inégalités face au changement climatique. Interview de l'été ☀️ 🥵 dans Moustique mag: www.moustique.be/notre-epoque...
July 7, 2025 at 8:07 AM
L'absence de solutions collectives face au changement climatique nous force dans des engrenages individualisants, amplifiants à la fois les émissions de gaz à effets de serre et les inégalités face au changement climatique. Interview de l'été ☀️ 🥵 dans Moustique mag: www.moustique.be/notre-epoque...
I'll be chairing 2 important sessions at the XXVI International Conference of the Society for Human Ecology (SHE) at UMons this week. This first one is a double keynote with @winterchristine.bsky.social and @julianagyeman.bsky.social! We'll talk about (in)justice, ecology, cities and... sand!
June 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I'll be chairing 2 important sessions at the XXVI International Conference of the Society for Human Ecology (SHE) at UMons this week. This first one is a double keynote with @winterchristine.bsky.social and @julianagyeman.bsky.social! We'll talk about (in)justice, ecology, cities and... sand!
The next EOS seminar is tomorrow with our in-house leading lady @anansoms.bsky.social presenting her latest book, Spaces for Stories (UCLouvain Press). Join us at 13:30 CEST, on site in LLN or online on Teams: www.uclouvain.be/fr/instituts...
May 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The next EOS seminar is tomorrow with our in-house leading lady @anansoms.bsky.social presenting her latest book, Spaces for Stories (UCLouvain Press). Join us at 13:30 CEST, on site in LLN or online on Teams: www.uclouvain.be/fr/instituts...
Dear #biodiversity research folks, we at CESAB have 2 new calls out for seed grants 🧔♂️🌴 Focus is on novel ideas/concepts (#IdeaShare) and on new data (#DataShare). Very much open to the social sciences & humanities 🤓! www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/en/calls/cal... @nmouquet.bsky.social
[Call for proposals IDEASHARE & DATASHARE 2025] - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité
The FRB-CESAB, in partnership with the HEIRS (hub for Human Evolution Research Synthesis), with the support of the PNDB, are launching a call to fund two types of complementary groups: the IdeaShare a...
www.fondationbiodiversite.fr
May 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Dear #biodiversity research folks, we at CESAB have 2 new calls out for seed grants 🧔♂️🌴 Focus is on novel ideas/concepts (#IdeaShare) and on new data (#DataShare). Very much open to the social sciences & humanities 🤓! www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/en/calls/cal... @nmouquet.bsky.social
For the first time in history, 6 of the 10 Belgian universities (the biggest ones!) will be run by women (starting next year). I dunno about you, but in today's world seemingly dominated by conservative backlashes, this feels like such a comforting evolution
For the first time in its 600-year history Leuven University’s next Rector will be a woman | VRT NWS: news
Tine Baelmans and Severine Vermeire have made it through to the second round of the process to elect a new Rector at the country’s old university, KU Leuven. This means that soon for the first time in...
vrtnws.be
May 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
For the first time in history, 6 of the 10 Belgian universities (the biggest ones!) will be run by women (starting next year). I dunno about you, but in today's world seemingly dominated by conservative backlashes, this feels like such a comforting evolution
📢new paper alert, check it out in the Journal of Rural Studies! Empowering European farmers: Insights from decolonial theory and indigenous people in Latin America. Led by Lou Lecuyer (@inrae-france.bsky.social): authors.elsevier.com/c/1ktvo2eyKF...
April 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
📢new paper alert, check it out in the Journal of Rural Studies! Empowering European farmers: Insights from decolonial theory and indigenous people in Latin America. Led by Lou Lecuyer (@inrae-france.bsky.social): authors.elsevier.com/c/1ktvo2eyKF...
This Thursday ! Join us at 13:30 CET in Louvain-la-Neuve (LECL93) or on MS Teams: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi... The session will be bilingual FR/EN @pyneron.bsky.social
We are hosting the one & only @pyneron.bsky.social at UCLouvain on 27 March. His new book, 'Seeing Like a Firm' (OUP) not only is the best thing you'll read this year, it also wins the prize of hottest book cover🔥💅 Join us on-site or online: www.uclouvain.be/fr/instituts... (Teams link coming soon)
March 24, 2025 at 8:39 AM
This Thursday ! Join us at 13:30 CET in Louvain-la-Neuve (LECL93) or on MS Teams: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi... The session will be bilingual FR/EN @pyneron.bsky.social
Reposted by Brendan Coolsaet
New: Compounding Barriers to Environmental Justice. It has long been argued (and clearly demonstrated) that institutionalised racism is a key barrier to EJ. We illustrate 4 distinct, interrelated ways this is manifest: general, political, legal, and cultural. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Compounding barriers to environmental justice
This paper examines how environmental justice (EJ) activists and scholars experience and think about the barriers to beneficial change. It reports findings from an international study that used Q m...
www.tandfonline.com
March 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
New: Compounding Barriers to Environmental Justice. It has long been argued (and clearly demonstrated) that institutionalised racism is a key barrier to EJ. We illustrate 4 distinct, interrelated ways this is manifest: general, political, legal, and cultural. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We are hosting the one & only @pyneron.bsky.social at UCLouvain on 27 March. His new book, 'Seeing Like a Firm' (OUP) not only is the best thing you'll read this year, it also wins the prize of hottest book cover🔥💅 Join us on-site or online: www.uclouvain.be/fr/instituts... (Teams link coming soon)
March 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
We are hosting the one & only @pyneron.bsky.social at UCLouvain on 27 March. His new book, 'Seeing Like a Firm' (OUP) not only is the best thing you'll read this year, it also wins the prize of hottest book cover🔥💅 Join us on-site or online: www.uclouvain.be/fr/instituts... (Teams link coming soon)
C'est demain! Rejoignez nous à 13h30 au Collège Leclercq (LECL93) à Louvain-la-Neuve ou sur Teams via teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
Le jeudi 20/2, @dr-pierre-andre.bsky.social et Axel Gosseries (FNRS) présentent leur livre "La justice climatique" (Que Sais-je?, 2024) à EOS: www.uclouvain.be/fr/instituts.... Rejoignez-nous (sur place/Teams) ! (une collab avec le Groupe de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur la Crise Ecologique)
February 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
C'est demain! Rejoignez nous à 13h30 au Collège Leclercq (LECL93) à Louvain-la-Neuve ou sur Teams via teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
Reposted by Brendan Coolsaet
Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate?
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
University announces new scholarships for Palestinian students
These scholarships will provide fully-funded support for two Palestinian students, with a particular focus on those impacted by the conflict in Gaza
www.sussex.ac.uk
February 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate?
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
Probably not as attractive as a paper on how to best cook egg yolk 🐣, but our Correspondence piece on climate justice is out in the February issue of Nature Climate Change @natureportfolio.nature.com trebuchet.public.springernature.app/get_content/...
February 13, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Probably not as attractive as a paper on how to best cook egg yolk 🐣, but our Correspondence piece on climate justice is out in the February issue of Nature Climate Change @natureportfolio.nature.com trebuchet.public.springernature.app/get_content/...
Le jeudi 20/2, @dr-pierre-andre.bsky.social et Axel Gosseries (FNRS) présentent leur livre "La justice climatique" (Que Sais-je?, 2024) à EOS: www.uclouvain.be/fr/instituts.... Rejoignez-nous (sur place/Teams) ! (une collab avec le Groupe de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur la Crise Ecologique)
February 5, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Le jeudi 20/2, @dr-pierre-andre.bsky.social et Axel Gosseries (FNRS) présentent leur livre "La justice climatique" (Que Sais-je?, 2024) à EOS: www.uclouvain.be/fr/instituts.... Rejoignez-nous (sur place/Teams) ! (une collab avec le Groupe de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur la Crise Ecologique)
🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Acknowledging the historic presence of justice in climate research, in Nature Climate Change: doi.org/10.1038/s415... - w/ @julianagyeman.bsky.social, @pkashwan.bsky.social, @danielle-rivera.bsky.social, Stacia Ryder, @dschlosberg.bsky.social & @farhanasultana.com #climatejustice
December 16, 2024 at 10:38 AM
🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Acknowledging the historic presence of justice in climate research, in Nature Climate Change: doi.org/10.1038/s415... - w/ @julianagyeman.bsky.social, @pkashwan.bsky.social, @danielle-rivera.bsky.social, Stacia Ryder, @dschlosberg.bsky.social & @farhanasultana.com #climatejustice
C'est vendredi ! (On commence à 13h30, pas 14h)
Nous lançons un tout nouveau centre de recherche en sciences humaines et sociales de l'environnement à l'#UCLouvain ! 👀🤓🌻 Rejoignez-nous pour le séminaire inaugural d'EOS avec Eloi Laurent (Sciences Po/Stanford) le 6 décembre prochain. Inscriptions: ttps://forms.office.com/e/5KbpErzZPe #HelloESR
December 3, 2024 at 4:55 PM
C'est vendredi ! (On commence à 13h30, pas 14h)
Reposted by Brendan Coolsaet
186 académiques s'opposent au Projet du gouvernement Degryse sur la hausse des frais d'inscription pour les étudiants non-européens en Belgique, dénonçant l’impact sur la diversité et la précarité des étudiants des Suds (1/2)
www.lalibre.be/debats/opini...
www.lalibre.be/debats/opini...
"Nous appelons à maintenir la tradition d'accessibilité et d'ouverture de l'enseignement supérieur aux étudiants internationaux"
Académiques attachés au maintien d'un modèle d'enseignement supérieur accessible, interculturel et riche de sa diversité, nous dénonçons le projet du gouvernement Degryse d'augmenter les frais d'inscr...
www.lalibre.be
November 25, 2024 at 9:13 PM
186 académiques s'opposent au Projet du gouvernement Degryse sur la hausse des frais d'inscription pour les étudiants non-européens en Belgique, dénonçant l’impact sur la diversité et la précarité des étudiants des Suds (1/2)
www.lalibre.be/debats/opini...
www.lalibre.be/debats/opini...