Catherine Trundle
@catherinetrundle.bsky.social
Medical anthropologist @ La Trobe University Public Health, climate justice and heat stress, nuclear afterlives, contested illness, ethnographic methods, poetry
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📣Our latest QHRN seminar is now open for registration!
💬From Paperwork to Paper Trails: Ethnographic Document Analysis as a Method for Qualitative Health Research
🗓️ 4 December 2025
🕑 11am-12pm GMT
🗣️Dr @catherinetrundle.bsky.social & Dr Tarryn Phillips
More info & to register: tinyurl.com/3s4r7yv9
💬From Paperwork to Paper Trails: Ethnographic Document Analysis as a Method for Qualitative Health Research
🗓️ 4 December 2025
🕑 11am-12pm GMT
🗣️Dr @catherinetrundle.bsky.social & Dr Tarryn Phillips
More info & to register: tinyurl.com/3s4r7yv9
November 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM
📣Our latest QHRN seminar is now open for registration!
💬From Paperwork to Paper Trails: Ethnographic Document Analysis as a Method for Qualitative Health Research
🗓️ 4 December 2025
🕑 11am-12pm GMT
🗣️Dr @catherinetrundle.bsky.social & Dr Tarryn Phillips
More info & to register: tinyurl.com/3s4r7yv9
💬From Paperwork to Paper Trails: Ethnographic Document Analysis as a Method for Qualitative Health Research
🗓️ 4 December 2025
🕑 11am-12pm GMT
🗣️Dr @catherinetrundle.bsky.social & Dr Tarryn Phillips
More info & to register: tinyurl.com/3s4r7yv9
Austerity cuts in the UK have persistently hollowed out the everyday infrastructures that can protect people from heat stress, including cuts to the maintenance budgets of parks and the closures of libraries and swimming pools.
15 Years of Austerity Eroded Public Infrastructure—Now Extreme Heat Is Exposing the Cost - Global Development Institute Blog
By Dr Gemma Sou and Ms Clare Steele. We’re told ever-hotter summers are inevitable. What’s less discussed is that Britain’s ability to cope has been systematically dismantled — not by the climate itse...
blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk
August 28, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Austerity cuts in the UK have persistently hollowed out the everyday infrastructures that can protect people from heat stress, including cuts to the maintenance budgets of parks and the closures of libraries and swimming pools.
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Reflexive Reflexivity
“We advocate for *robust reflexivity,* a practice that critically reflects on reflexivity itself.”
By @catherinetrundle.bsky.social and colleagues
Open Access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
“We advocate for *robust reflexivity,* a practice that critically reflects on reflexivity itself.”
By @catherinetrundle.bsky.social and colleagues
Open Access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
August 27, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Reflexive Reflexivity
“We advocate for *robust reflexivity,* a practice that critically reflects on reflexivity itself.”
By @catherinetrundle.bsky.social and colleagues
Open Access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
“We advocate for *robust reflexivity,* a practice that critically reflects on reflexivity itself.”
By @catherinetrundle.bsky.social and colleagues
Open Access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Maja Vahlberg:“I watched a reindeer stay in the same patch of shade for three days straight without grazing, a quiet sign of the strain the heat was causing,”
‘No country is safe’: deadly Nordic heatwave supercharged by climate crisis, scientists say
‘No country is safe’: deadly Nordic heatwave supercharged by climate crisis, scientists say
Historically cool nations saw hospitals overheating and surge in drownings, wildfires and toxic algal blooms
The prolonged Nordic heatwave in July was supercharged by the climate crisis and shows “no country is safe from climate change”, scientists say.
Norway, Sweden and Finland have historically cool climates but were hit by soaring temperatures, including a record run of 22 days above 30C (86C) in Finland. Sweden endured 10 straight days of “tropical nights”, when temperatures did not fall below 20C (68F). Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 14, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Maja Vahlberg:“I watched a reindeer stay in the same patch of shade for three days straight without grazing, a quiet sign of the strain the heat was causing,”
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NEW RESEARCH: Parked cars can account for 10 percent of the surface areas of some cities. It turns out that their albedo (reflectivity) can significantly contribute to the urban heat island effect.
Dark-coloured cars are the worst, making the air around them 3.8°C hotter vs nearby asphalt road.
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Dark-coloured cars are the worst, making the air around them 3.8°C hotter vs nearby asphalt road.
🧵
August 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
NEW RESEARCH: Parked cars can account for 10 percent of the surface areas of some cities. It turns out that their albedo (reflectivity) can significantly contribute to the urban heat island effect.
Dark-coloured cars are the worst, making the air around them 3.8°C hotter vs nearby asphalt road.
🧵
Dark-coloured cars are the worst, making the air around them 3.8°C hotter vs nearby asphalt road.
🧵
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Brutality of climate harm and dangerous heat. Especially harmful to the poorest & most vulnerable. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Overheated homes: why UK housing is dangerously unprepared for impact of climate crisis
Building rules have been focused on keeping warm in winter and saving on energy bills, not cooling down
www.theguardian.com
August 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Brutality of climate harm and dangerous heat. Especially harmful to the poorest & most vulnerable. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
New Article: a methodological guide to ethnographic document analysis. A non prescriptive but practical resource for dwelling with documents #ethnography #qualitativemethods
Ethnographic document analysis: A guide to dwelling with documents - Catherine Trundle, Tarryn Phillips, 2025
In this article, we propose a method for ethnographic document analysis (EDA) and outline the key sensibilities and processes involved. Despite the ubiquity of ...
doi.org
August 5, 2025 at 10:22 AM
New Article: a methodological guide to ethnographic document analysis. A non prescriptive but practical resource for dwelling with documents #ethnography #qualitativemethods
Brilliant research on depersonalisation, the way our economy can reduce capacity for existentially recognising others, and the empathic failure built into the profit motives of tech.
Who profits from loneliness? Why are we being sold a "crisis of loneliness" and what else is actually going on? See my essay for Aeon based on #TheLastHumanJob
Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible | Aeon Essays aeon.co/essays/our-c...
Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible | Aeon Essays aeon.co/essays/our-c...
Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible | Aeon Essays
Our crisis of work and technology is one in which too many people feel that nobody sees them as a fellow human being
aeon.co
June 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Brilliant research on depersonalisation, the way our economy can reduce capacity for existentially recognising others, and the empathic failure built into the profit motives of tech.
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Our latest plug for the value of anthropological theory in applied contexts. Writing led by my colleague Andrea Kaiser Grolimund @swisstph.ch with collaboration from the Alive Africa project team. Funding: @erc.europa.eu Does One Health need an ontological turn? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Does One Health need an ontological turn?
One Health has gained global prominence in recent years. Alongside its emergence, there have been extensive social science critiques. In this contribution, we make the case for the value of recent ...
www.tandfonline.com
May 8, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Our latest plug for the value of anthropological theory in applied contexts. Writing led by my colleague Andrea Kaiser Grolimund @swisstph.ch with collaboration from the Alive Africa project team. Funding: @erc.europa.eu Does One Health need an ontological turn? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The first peer-reviewed article coming out of the @uclaheatlab.bsky.social, co-authored with four of the students in my lab. Incarcerated folks are at the frontline of climate change. Incarceration makes people more likely to experience heat-related illness and death (1/5)
Carceral heat exposure as harmful design: An integrative model for understanding the health impacts of heat on incarcerated people in the United States
In an era of climate change-driven weather events, extreme heat has become the most lethal form of “natural disaster” in the United States. However, i…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The first peer-reviewed article coming out of the @uclaheatlab.bsky.social, co-authored with four of the students in my lab. Incarcerated folks are at the frontline of climate change. Incarceration makes people more likely to experience heat-related illness and death (1/5)
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It was great to be part of compiling this teaching tool, following a workshop at @soasuni.bsky.social last year.
The writing exercise I propose (entitled the 'Speculative Dictionary of Climate Emotion') is in the section on 'Grappling with Distress'.
culanth.org/fieldsights/...
#climatecrisis
The writing exercise I propose (entitled the 'Speculative Dictionary of Climate Emotion') is in the section on 'Grappling with Distress'.
culanth.org/fieldsights/...
#climatecrisis
Teaching Ecological Distress
This collection is compiled by the Ecological Distress Collective, hosted at SOAS Anthropology.
Introduction
In recent years, the medical and psy...
culanth.org
February 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
It was great to be part of compiling this teaching tool, following a workshop at @soasuni.bsky.social last year.
The writing exercise I propose (entitled the 'Speculative Dictionary of Climate Emotion') is in the section on 'Grappling with Distress'.
culanth.org/fieldsights/...
#climatecrisis
The writing exercise I propose (entitled the 'Speculative Dictionary of Climate Emotion') is in the section on 'Grappling with Distress'.
culanth.org/fieldsights/...
#climatecrisis
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"We have to try to protect time & space to be inefficient with each other in as many places as we want to have healthy relationships. All the places that we have contact with each other, every single one of our relationships holds political power, responsibility & ideally some degree of reciprocity"
February 17, 2025 at 2:49 AM
"We have to try to protect time & space to be inefficient with each other in as many places as we want to have healthy relationships. All the places that we have contact with each other, every single one of our relationships holds political power, responsibility & ideally some degree of reciprocity"
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Trump is making workplaces more dangerous for workers.
He's frozen all rulemaking at OSHA, including a rule that would make sure that people who work in extreme heat are able to take breaks and drink water.
He's frozen all rulemaking at OSHA, including a rule that would make sure that people who work in extreme heat are able to take breaks and drink water.
February 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Trump is making workplaces more dangerous for workers.
He's frozen all rulemaking at OSHA, including a rule that would make sure that people who work in extreme heat are able to take breaks and drink water.
He's frozen all rulemaking at OSHA, including a rule that would make sure that people who work in extreme heat are able to take breaks and drink water.
Reposted by Catherine Trundle
‘How did we miss this for so long?’: The link between extreme heat and preterm birth.
Heat waves are making pregnancy more dangerous and exacerbating existing maternal health disparities.
grist.org/health/ferti...
#Birth #PrematureBirth #Climate #Fertility
Heat waves are making pregnancy more dangerous and exacerbating existing maternal health disparities.
grist.org/health/ferti...
#Birth #PrematureBirth #Climate #Fertility
‘How did we miss this for so long?’: The link between extreme heat and preterm birth
“How did we miss this for so long? Women are often the last to get studied. But the most vulnerable people are those who are pregnant.”
grist.org
February 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
‘How did we miss this for so long?’: The link between extreme heat and preterm birth.
Heat waves are making pregnancy more dangerous and exacerbating existing maternal health disparities.
grist.org/health/ferti...
#Birth #PrematureBirth #Climate #Fertility
Heat waves are making pregnancy more dangerous and exacerbating existing maternal health disparities.
grist.org/health/ferti...
#Birth #PrematureBirth #Climate #Fertility
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“On the streets of Paris, thousands of trees are being planted…”
Replacing concrete with greenery has a key role to play in reducing the impact of extreme heat, saving lives and making cities healthier places to get around.
Replacing concrete with greenery has a key role to play in reducing the impact of extreme heat, saving lives and making cities healthier places to get around.
Global cities grapple with how to cool ‘urban heat islands’
Climate change has made tackling damaging temperature disparities increasingly urgent
www.ft.com
February 12, 2025 at 7:12 AM
“On the streets of Paris, thousands of trees are being planted…”
Replacing concrete with greenery has a key role to play in reducing the impact of extreme heat, saving lives and making cities healthier places to get around.
Replacing concrete with greenery has a key role to play in reducing the impact of extreme heat, saving lives and making cities healthier places to get around.
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As many parts of South Australia exceed 43 degrees Celsius today, it’s timely to consider potential heat impacts on physical and mental health. Priority populations include lower SES groups, rough sleepers, older persons, and people with a mental health condition. www.uclahealth.org/news/article...
4 effects of heat on mental health (and how to protect yourself)
Rising temperatures can affect your mental health, causing depression, anger and trouble concentrating. Learn the signs of heat-related mental health issues.
www.uclahealth.org
February 12, 2025 at 5:50 AM
As many parts of South Australia exceed 43 degrees Celsius today, it’s timely to consider potential heat impacts on physical and mental health. Priority populations include lower SES groups, rough sleepers, older persons, and people with a mental health condition. www.uclahealth.org/news/article...
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This is one hell of a fantastic long-read by @roycerk2.bsky.social - just, please take in the entire thing
Nuclear advocacy out of Canada and the US has become an active part of the Australian conservative push to extend coal/gas power and kill wind and solar plans...
drilled.media/news/aus-nuc...
Nuclear advocacy out of Canada and the US has become an active part of the Australian conservative push to extend coal/gas power and kill wind and solar plans...
drilled.media/news/aus-nuc...
February 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This is one hell of a fantastic long-read by @roycerk2.bsky.social - just, please take in the entire thing
Nuclear advocacy out of Canada and the US has become an active part of the Australian conservative push to extend coal/gas power and kill wind and solar plans...
drilled.media/news/aus-nuc...
Nuclear advocacy out of Canada and the US has become an active part of the Australian conservative push to extend coal/gas power and kill wind and solar plans...
drilled.media/news/aus-nuc...
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Hey #AAA2024 -- many, many of you belong on this Climate Social Science starter park. If you aren't there and want to be, please let me know! And if you are there and don't want to be, of course, let me know that as well. #anthrosky go.bsky.app/S6w6yNz
November 22, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Hey #AAA2024 -- many, many of you belong on this Climate Social Science starter park. If you aren't there and want to be, please let me know! And if you are there and don't want to be, of course, let me know that as well. #anthrosky go.bsky.app/S6w6yNz
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📢 Join my team! The new @uarizona.bsky.social Heat Resilience Initiative is seeking a Program Coordinator to help address the global challenge of extreme heat by advancing heat research, education, and outreach. arizona.csod.com/ux/...
#universityofarizona #heatresilience #extremeheat
#universityofarizona #heatresilience #extremeheat
Program Coordinator, Heat Resilience Initiative
Duties & responsibilities: · Work with the director, staff, and researchers to coordinate research...
arizona.csod.com
January 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
📢 Join my team! The new @uarizona.bsky.social Heat Resilience Initiative is seeking a Program Coordinator to help address the global challenge of extreme heat by advancing heat research, education, and outreach. arizona.csod.com/ux/...
#universityofarizona #heatresilience #extremeheat
#universityofarizona #heatresilience #extremeheat
"as deadly, hundred-degree heatwaves become commonplace, we have to learn to see shade as a civic resource shared by all. In shade, overheated bodies return to equilibrium. Blood circulation improves. People think clearly. They see better. In a physiological sense, they are themselves again."
Shade
It’s a civic resource, an index of inequality, and a requirement for public health. Shade should be a mandate for urban designers.
placesjournal.org
January 13, 2025 at 6:56 AM
"as deadly, hundred-degree heatwaves become commonplace, we have to learn to see shade as a civic resource shared by all. In shade, overheated bodies return to equilibrium. Blood circulation improves. People think clearly. They see better. In a physiological sense, they are themselves again."
🍄⚡Fungal batteries! "You can store the fungal batteries in a dried state and activate them on location by simply adding water and nutrients.
Once it's served its purpose, the biodegradable battery digests itself from the inside." 🍄⚡
Once it's served its purpose, the biodegradable battery digests itself from the inside." 🍄⚡
Scientists create fungal battery that needs feeding - then eats itself
Yeast and white rot fungus could have a small but ingenious role to play in the energy transition.
www.euronews.com
January 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
🍄⚡Fungal batteries! "You can store the fungal batteries in a dried state and activate them on location by simply adding water and nutrients.
Once it's served its purpose, the biodegradable battery digests itself from the inside." 🍄⚡
Once it's served its purpose, the biodegradable battery digests itself from the inside." 🍄⚡
Simple way to explain to others how climate change = increased fire risk.
Increased rainfall variability + warmer temperatures = increased fuel aridity.
Increased rainfall variability + warmer temperatures = increased fuel aridity.
There should be no question that climate change made the LA fires worse. This is simply a consequence of increased rainfall variability combined with warmer temperatures increasing fuel aridity.
See this paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
See this paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
January 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Simple way to explain to others how climate change = increased fire risk.
Increased rainfall variability + warmer temperatures = increased fuel aridity.
Increased rainfall variability + warmer temperatures = increased fuel aridity.
"The challenge in front of us is to learn how to be critical of our public institutions, without relinquishing hope that these institutions can become less harmful than they were in the past. This present moment of nuclear renewal calls for social uprising and protest—and also civic engagement."
My grandmother died on January 11, 1955 at the age of 21. I've spent the past year studying the story of her death. To mark the 70 year anniversary, I wrote about what I have learned so far for the literary magazine @literaryhub.bsky.social
lithub.com/from-red-dus...
lithub.com/from-red-dus...
From Red Dust to Distrust: On the Unhealed Wounds of Nuclear Testing
In the autumn of 1954, Minnie Mae, who was 21 years old, became sick with a blood-related cancer, as did several others in the small farming community in South Dakota where she lived. She spent Tha…
lithub.com
January 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
"The challenge in front of us is to learn how to be critical of our public institutions, without relinquishing hope that these institutions can become less harmful than they were in the past. This present moment of nuclear renewal calls for social uprising and protest—and also civic engagement."
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“Everything but human connection can be automated, so the prophets of automation have every incentive to denigrate it. It only makes sense that their ‘new frontier of persuasive technologies’ would be put primarily toward that end.”
robhorning.substack.com/p/emotional-...
robhorning.substack.com/p/emotional-...
Emotional infiltration
My New Year’s resolution this year is not to wait until New Year’s to make resolutions.
robhorning.substack.com
January 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
“Everything but human connection can be automated, so the prophets of automation have every incentive to denigrate it. It only makes sense that their ‘new frontier of persuasive technologies’ would be put primarily toward that end.”
robhorning.substack.com/p/emotional-...
robhorning.substack.com/p/emotional-...
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Generally, people tend to assume planetary albedo is all about snow and ice, but clouds are much more important, at least now during and interglacial.
And still they're one of our biggest problems in #Climatemodels.
And still they're one of our biggest problems in #Climatemodels.
We have a new paper out in @science.org today, led by Helge Goessling from #AWI:
The recent global temperature surge in 2023 was intensified by a record-low planetary #albedo
👉 doi.org/10.1126/scie... @thomasjung.bsky.social @ecmwf.bsky.social
This is what we found (🧵1/8)
The recent global temperature surge in 2023 was intensified by a record-low planetary #albedo
👉 doi.org/10.1126/scie... @thomasjung.bsky.social @ecmwf.bsky.social
This is what we found (🧵1/8)
Recent global temperature surge intensified by record-low planetary albedo
In 2023, the global mean temperature soared to almost 1.5K above the pre-industrial level, surpassing the previous record by about 0.17K. Previous best-guess estimates of known drivers including anthr...
doi.org
December 6, 2024 at 7:01 AM
Generally, people tend to assume planetary albedo is all about snow and ice, but clouds are much more important, at least now during and interglacial.
And still they're one of our biggest problems in #Climatemodels.
And still they're one of our biggest problems in #Climatemodels.