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Jonathan Prior
@jprior.bsky.social
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Human Geographer at Cardiff University. Environmental aesthetics | sonic geography | ecological restoration & rewilding.

Currently working on a cross-cultural analysis of wildlife & environmental sound archives.

https://12gatestothecity.com/
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I’ve officially started my PhD as part of the »Networked through Sound project«! My first research trip with @jprior.bsky.social and @sandrajasper.bsky.social to London was the perfect beginning. I’ve written a short blog post about it: www.geographie.nat.fau.de/first-resear...
Networked through Sound: First Research Trip to London
In the days between summer and fall, with sunny mornings and rainy afternoons (see photo 1), our team came together for a first field trip to London. Experimental Archives Conference…
www.geographie.nat.fau.de
October 23, 2025 at 9:04 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
jprior.bsky.social
@sandrajasper.bsky.social and I will be presenting our ongoing wildlife sound archives research at two events in September.
First, we will give a keynote at the Experimental Archives conference at Kingston University (11th-12th September).
Info and tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/experiment...
A poster for the experimental archives conference 2025. Above a line drawing of an open suitcase that lies empty, text reads: "Experimental Archives conference 2025, Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, Courtyard Theatre, The Town House, 11th-12th September 2025, exploring archives as spaces of transformation, fragmentation, imagination, and experimentation across disciplines".
August 26, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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A good start to this year's Butterfly Conservation count, with ten species spotted in my local urban patch, including Common Blue, Small Copper, Brown Argus, Comma, Small Skipper, and Meadow Brown.
A common blue (Polyommatus icarus) butterfly in profile perched on a grass with the underwing showing. A Brown Argus (Aricia agestis) butterfly perched on a seed head, with the upperwings showing. The wings are a variety of brown tones, with orange spots on the forewing. A Small Skipper (Thymelicus sylvestris) butterfly perched on a seed head, with the upperwings showing. The wings are a variety of orange and brown tones. Two Meadow Brown (Maniola jurtina) butterflies in profile. The butterflies are facing in opposite directions with their wings interlocked, as they copulate. The underwings are a variety of orange and brown tones, with a prominent white spot at the top.
July 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Cardiff University Council have rubber-stamped significant cuts across the University. Shameful, but not at all surprising.
June 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Common blues in Cathays Cemetery, Cardiff.
A male common blue butterfly (Polyommatus icarus) sits in profile on grass, with wings slightly splayed. The upperwing is bright blue with a white edge, and the underwing is light brown with a series of dark brown and orange spots across it. A common blue damselfly (Enallagma cyathigerum) sits in profile on a stony path in full sunshine. The damselfly is a brilliant blue with regular black markings on each segment.
May 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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phildodds.bsky.social
With interdisciplinary colleagues (biology, architecture, history, digital cultures, etc), I'm co-organising the SOUND+PURPOSE conference in Lund, 20-21 Nov. Please come and join our discussions of the *why* of sound and the *purpose* of sound research. CFP deadline 9 June: www.lmc.lu.se/en/node/591
SOUND+PURPOSE: Inaugural conference of the SOUND+ Network for Transdisciplinary Research in Sound
Lund University.
www.lmc.lu.se
May 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Research trip via train. Cardiff-London-Cologne-Berlin.
A photograph taken from the window of an early morning Eurostar train. The sun breaks through mist over a tree canopy. Inside Cologne Central Station. Two train conductors walk alongside a red Deutsche Bahn train that stretches into the distance. A view from a train near Wolfsburg. A series of wind turbines on the horizon against a blue sky with light clouds. In the foreground is a ploughed agricultural field. Inside Berlin Central Station. Light pours through the arched glass roof, hitting the train tacks and the side of a Deutsche Bahn train.
April 15, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Gwanwyn cynnar yng Nghaerdydd
A concrete planter with daffodils and hyacinths sits in front of Cardiff Central police station. Pink saucer magnolia flowers with a bright blue sky background in Bute Park, Cardiff. Two white geese with orange beaks sit on the bank of Roath Park Lake. A tree coming into leaf in the foreground, with light streaming onto the wall of a building in central Cardiff.
March 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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CfP: Join our conference in October 2025 about fleeting voices and their materialities in the archives and the arts!
#voiceletters #audioletters #heritagescience #CulturalHeritage #soundstudies #materialsciences
www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
February 24, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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georgeburdon.bsky.social
New paper from me - a Geography Compass piece on sound art geographies:

compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Sound Art Geographies: Listening at the Limits of Audibility
This paper explores the generative yet underexamined relation between human geography and sound art. Sound art has long been concerned with issues of spatiality, place and environment and yet interes....
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 24, 2025 at 1:03 AM
jprior.bsky.social
Brutal cuts on the horizon here at Cardiff University, with proposals for 400 redundancies. Whole departments to close, and poorly thought through mergers. Zero transparency. Heartbreaking.
robthomasbirds.bsky.social Rob Thomas @robthomasbirds.bsky.social · Jan 28
[reposted] The storm has broken at Cardiff University. Solidarity to everyone who is going to be affected by leaving the university, or by remaining as part of a substantially weakened workforce. Please join a union.
January 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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sandrajasper.bsky.social
📣 OUT NOW - Digital ecologies: Mediating more-than-human worlds!Very happy to have contributed a chapter on digital sonic ecologies with @hannahfhunter.bsky.social and @jprior.bsky.social
December 10, 2024 at 9:23 AM
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As part of @sandrajasper.bsky.social and my project 'Networked through Sound: Listening to 20th Century Wildlife Sound Archives', we are currently advertising a funded PhD project. Full details here:
www.jobs.fau.de/jobs/doctora...
A person holds the box of an Agfa tape reel containing animal sound recordings at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.
December 2, 2024 at 10:48 AM
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@sandrajasper.bsky.social and I have received an AHRC-DFG Research Grant for a three-year project titled 'Networked through Sound: Listening to 20th Century Wildlife Sound Archives.'
All sixteen funded projects from round 6 of this scheme are listed here: www.dfg.de/en/news/news...
UK-German Research Projects in the Arts and Humanities
www.dfg.de
November 27, 2024 at 2:01 PM
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A trip to National Museum Cardiff/ Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Caerdydd.
Front door and pillars at the entrance of Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Caerdydd. A person viewing photographs on display at Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Caerdydd. A view inside of Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Caerdydd, looking up at a large glass ceiling dome. A diorama of two shags (Gulosus aristotelis) at Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Caerdydd.
November 16, 2024 at 3:02 PM