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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦
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Geographer, Durham

Researching nuclear natures at Chornobyl & urban rewilding in London

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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · Jan 16
Delighted to have an essay in here with Oksana Semenik on nature in the work of Maria Prymachenko in the #Chornobyl region.

Get your copy now 👇
ukrenvhum.bsky.social Ukrainian Environmental Humanities Network @ukrenvhum.bsky.social · Jan 16
🔱 Solomiya: The Environmental Issue is now available for pre-order in #Ukraine and the rest of the world

🔵 We're so excited to share this issue with you which features photography, art, and writing on key #environmental issues in Ukraine

Order here: solomiyamag.com/issue/4
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digicologies.bsky.social
Last four days to send in your abstracts 👇
digicologies.bsky.social Digital Ecologies @digicologies.bsky.social · Oct 6
🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐

'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'

🗓️ 2-3 February 2026
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating)

Deadline: 14th November

Full info: digicologies.com/cfp
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Lights out: can we stop glow-worms and fireflies fading away?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Lights out: can we stop glow-worms and fireflies fading away?
From night walks with children to switching off streetlights and rewilding areas, naturalists are working to save Europe’s dwindling populations
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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jwyg.bsky.social
Public Data Cultures is out today on @politybooks.bsky.social! 📗🎊 jonathangray.org/2025/10/23/p...
It aims to nurture critical and creative engagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation and as site of transnational politics. Happy to see it out in the world! 🦔🌌💜
unboxing Public Data Cultures book Copies of the book on a train in Totoro bag. Front and back cover of Public Data Cultures with quotes and book blurb.
October 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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digicologies.bsky.social
There's still over a week left to submit to our next conference, 'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'.

Deadline: 14th November.

Any questions, get in touch with the organisers!
digicologies.bsky.social Digital Ecologies @digicologies.bsky.social · Oct 6
🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐

'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'

🗓️ 2-3 February 2026
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating)

Deadline: 14th November

Full info: digicologies.com/cfp
November 6, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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naturerecovery.bsky.social
Did you miss @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social's lively talk last Friday? If so, don't worry, you can watch it at leisure here now. 🦔
@ecioxford.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk
Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation. Hugh Warwick, Ecologist and author
YouTube video by Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery
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November 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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palmblad.bsky.social
As of today I will serve as Associate Editor for the 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 journal together with Jessica DeWitt, Giulia Champion & Jonny Turnbull. Having followed EH since its early days, this is a great honor!

@jessicamdewitt.bsky.social @giuliachampion.bsky.social @jonnyjjt.bsky.social #envhum
November 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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georgeiorda.bsky.social
🚨 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!
November 3, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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jonnyjjt.bsky.social
🌅 How are digital technologies refashioning ecological aesthetics? 🌅

Join us for the next Digital Ecologies conference in February 2026 - CFP now open!

We're delighted to welcome Joanna Zylinska and Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg as our keynotes!

Any questions, get in touch.
digicologies.bsky.social Digital Ecologies @digicologies.bsky.social · Oct 6
🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐

'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'

🗓️ 2-3 February 2026
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating)

Deadline: 14th November

Full info: digicologies.com/cfp
October 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
jonnyjjt.bsky.social
🌅 How are digital technologies refashioning ecological aesthetics? 🌅

Join us for the next Digital Ecologies conference in February 2026 - CFP now open!

We're delighted to welcome Joanna Zylinska and Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg as our keynotes!

Any questions, get in touch.
digicologies.bsky.social Digital Ecologies @digicologies.bsky.social · Oct 6
🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐

'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'

🗓️ 2-3 February 2026
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating)

Deadline: 14th November

Full info: digicologies.com/cfp
October 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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digicologies.bsky.social
🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐

'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'

🗓️ 2-3 February 2026
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating)

Deadline: 14th November

Full info: digicologies.com/cfp
October 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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tibg.bsky.social
📢New issue of TIBG📢

Transactions' September Issue features two interventions on environmental crisis & geographies of creativity, 21 papers, and two commentaries on the war in Ukraine.

22/25 pieces are #OpenAccess and available to read here⬇️

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661...
A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are eight tiles with 2 interventions and 6 standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) 'On limit and love in times of environmental crises' by Ihnji Jon 2) 'Geographies of creativity/creative geographies' by Pat Noxolo 3) '‘My body was no longer a problem’: Electric mountain biking, disability, and the cultural politics of green exercise' by Jim Cherrington & James Brighton 4) '‘A wonderful day and a wonderful crossing!’: Internment (im)mobilities, ambivalence, and the residual tourist gaze in Second World War Britain' by Michael Holden & Peter Adey 5) '‘Smartness’ narratives: A critical discourse analysis of smart eldercare in urban China' by Yi Yu 6) 'Critique beyond relation: The stakes of working with the negative, the void and the abyss' by David Chandler & Jonathan Pugh 7) 'Poetics in the work of three urban photographers: Love for the chaotic city from the site of urban rooftops' by Paulina Nordstrom 8) 'Places as refrains: A non-constructive alternative to assemblage thinking' by Peter Merriman A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) Climate change, bodies and diplomacy: Performing watery futures in Tuvalu Liam Saddington 2) Digital animal deathscapes: The online circulation of animals killed for conservation Alexandra Palmer 3) The medium is the message: The geographies of cryptocurrency remittances to Venezuela Daniel Robins 4) ‘One school, two systems’: Navigating the geographies of alternative education in an elite primary school in China Zhenjie Yuan, Huiyu Xie, Hong Zhu 5) Translating India to India: Travelling translations, Patanjali Ayurveda, and the visual language of spiritual consumerism Raksha Pande, Alastair Bonnett 6) Urban political ecologies of sewage surveillance: Creating vital and valuable public health data from wastewater 7) Constructive (in)visibility and the trafficking industrial complex: Leveraging borders for exploitation Audrey Lumley-Sapanski, Katarina Schwarz 8) Translations, translocations, and pluralism: A transnational and multilingual analysis of the circulation of radical geographical knowledge Federico Ferretti 9) From biopower to affirmative biopolitics: A (bio)political ecology of becoming with wolves Valerio Donfrancesco, Chris Sandbrook A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are eight tiles with 6 standard articles and 2 commentaries, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) Mining an Anthropocene in Japan: On the making and work of geological imaginaries Deborah P. Dixon, Carina J. Fearnley, Mark Pendleton 2) Uneven ambient futures: Intersecting heat and housing trajectories in England and Wales Caitlin Robinson, Lenka Hasova, Lin Zhang 3) Examining the ‘gendered’ places and spaces of UK doctoral education using multilevel modelling Laura Harriet Sheppard, Jonathan Reades, Richard P. J. Freeman 4) The (non-)performance of the financial frontier: Building investment pipelines for the Sustainable Development Goals in Ghana Abbie Yunita 5) Thinking through an ethnography of infrastructure: Commonsensical reasoning, road sharing, and everyday infrastructural settlements Alan Latham, Russell Hitchings, Michael Nattrass 6) (Re)wilding London: Fabric, politics, and aesthetics Jonathon Turnbull, Tom Fry, Jamie Lorimer 7) Resilient education: The role of digital technology in supporting geographical education in Ukraine Simon M. Hutchinson, Elizabeth R. Hurrell, Kateryna Borysenko, Vladyslav Popov, Dariia Kholiavchuk, Yana Popiuk 8) Imagining post-war futures amid cycles of destruction and efforts of reconstruction Constance Carr, Olga Kryvets
October 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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socsci.ox.ac.uk
✍️handwritten assignments
🖼️a student-led public exhibition

🌟Congratulations to Dr Jonathon Turnball @jonnyjjt.bsky.social on his #TeachingExcellence Award recognising his innovative teaching methods on 'Digital Ecologies: Mediating More-than-human Worlds' course.

www.socsci.ox.ac.uk/article/winn...
September 30, 2025 at 8:31 AM
jonnyjjt.bsky.social
"The fact that hedgehogs are a part of the culture of Ukraine is a wonderful thing... they punch well above their weight & are stronger & better defended that you might expect"

Part 2 of @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social's report on hedgehog rescuers in Ukraine 🦔 🇺🇦

hughwarwick.substack.com/p/a-hedgehog...
September 16, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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hedgehoghugh.bsky.social
thanks to @jonnyjjt.bsky.social and Karolina for giving me this story - the amazing work of #hedgehog rescuers in #Ukraine open.substack.com/pub/hughwarw...
A Hedgehog on the front line (part 2)
don’t be greedy with love and caring!
open.substack.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:22 AM
jonnyjjt.bsky.social
"Until that moment the only Ukrainian hedgehogs in my mind were the ones placed on roads to act as tank defences!"

Read my friend, @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social's, new post on hedgehog rescue in #Ukraine, part 1 of 2.

hughwarwick.substack.com/p/a-hedgehog...
A Hedgehog on the front line (part 1)
While the world swirls into ever increasing spirals of chaos and doom it is lovely to find a cause for hope.
hughwarwick.substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social
Crawford's new essay in e-flux offers the best summary of the monstrous absurdity of contemporary AI that I've read in a long time.

(via @jonnyjjt.bsky.social)

www.e-flux.com/architecture...
The expansion of computational capital reproduces the core-periphery dynamics of earlier empires—extracting from the Global South to enrich the North—while excavating billions of years in geological time to increase the speed of algorithmic convenience by milliseconds. After feeding at this planetary scale, the industrial beast now releases a tide of slop.
September 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social
Announcing my book, Techno-Negative!

It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.
August 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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jonnyjjt.bsky.social
Really pleased to share my new paper—"Making sense of nuclear natures"—which is available open access in Progress in Environmental Geography!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @progenvgeog.bsky.social @technatures.bsky.social #NuclearNatures
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September 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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kirkham.bsky.social
Pleased to share this paper for BioSocieties on snakebite in Kerala. I explore how social scientific theories of toxicity aid in conceiving of the structural vulnerabilities, diagnostic uncertainty, and multispecies health impacts that characterise snakebite's public health response.
Making sense of snakebite: the place of biological toxins in social scientific analyses of toxicity - BioSocieties
Through an ethnographic study of snakebite governance in Kerala, India, this article argues that social scientific theories of toxicity elucidate the biosocial dimensions of snakebite envenomation (SB...
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August 19, 2025 at 7:10 AM
jonnyjjt.bsky.social
Really pleased to share my new paper—"Making sense of nuclear natures"—which is available open access in Progress in Environmental Geography!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @progenvgeog.bsky.social @technatures.bsky.social #NuclearNatures
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September 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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progenvgeog.bsky.social
☢️ New paper published in Progress in Environmental Geography ☢️

'Making sense of nuclear natures: Ecologies, expertise, aesthetics' by Jonathon Turnbull

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @jonnyjjt.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @technatures.bsky.social
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September 9, 2025 at 8:32 AM
jonnyjjt.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Mathew Frith obituary
Other lives: Conservationist who championed wildlife in cities and improved access to green space for all
www.theguardian.com
September 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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areajournal.bsky.social
New in Area:

'Multispecies placemaking: Tibetan pastoralist perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic' by Tsering Bum & Shuling Cheng

This paper explores the impacts of Tibetan pastoralist
interpretations of the COVID crisis as karmic retribution.

doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Tsering Bum & Shuling Cheng (2025) entitled 'Multispecies placemaking: Tibetan pastoralist perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic' with a black banner at the top. This ethnographic study examines Tibetan pastoralists' perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic in Pema Rito, Golok Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, China, during the initial outbreak in 2020. Framed through the lens of multispecies placemaking, an approach that highlights the dynamic, co-creative processes by which humans and non-human beings (animals, plants, microorganisms, and viruses) collectively shape place, the study challenges traditional anthropocentric theories of space. Drawing on remote and in-person interviews, the research reveals that pastoralists understood the pandemic not merely as a public health crisis but as an ecological and moral reconfiguration of place. For Pema Rito communities, COVID-19 represented an anthropause that compelled them to renegotiate their relationships with the pastoral landscape, viruses, wildlife, and livestock. They interpreted the pandemic as karmic retribution for human exploitation of nature, reinforcing their commitment to wildlife conservation while advocating for physical distancing from wild species. Amid the crisis, pastoralists positioned their traditional lifeways as an optimal response to zoonotic and ecological disruptions. By analysing the pandemic through multispecies placemaking, this study demonstrates how crises reconfigure human–nonhuman entanglements, offering critical insights into resilience, ecological ethics, and post-pandemic placemaking.
August 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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austinread.bsky.social
my new paper is now published open access in @rgsibg.bsky.social Transactions journal: doi.org/10.1111/tran...
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper begins by looking at a biodiversity conservation project on the River Severn (UK) and argues that dominant technocratic framings of it ignore the colonial legacies that shape the river. It...
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July 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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savepolesia.bsky.social
140K+ said no — but the fight isn’t over. Despite public opposition, Polish Waters refuses to back down. The Siarzewo dam appeal could greenlight irreversible harm to the Vistula’s salmon, terns & floodplains.

‼️Read our new post: savepolesia.org/siarzewo-bat...
#stop_E40
Siarzewo dam: the battle isn’t over - Save Polesia
In January 2025, after seven years of legal battles, Poland’s General Directorate for Environmental Protection (GDOŚ) definitively revoked the environmental permit for the Siarzewo dam on the Vistula…
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July 30, 2025 at 8:49 AM