Lydia Martens 🐠🐟🦀
@lydiamartens.bsky.social
Sociologist. Thinker & interpreter. Shifting values to enable just and flourishing worlds. Marine worlds: fish-seabirds-people. Can storytelling help?
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Keele professor to explore the role of storytelling for marine-environmental recuperation
Professor Lydia Martens is embarking on a new study to examine how storytelling can be used to promote environmental awareness and connect humans with nature.
www.keele.ac.uk
Final year of Leverhulme Trust MRF work Storying Worlds Beyond Fish: Kinship and Connection in the Minch (2022-2025). I have met many inspiring fish, seabirds and people (thank you!!), and heard many stories. Now mostly digesting. Do get in touch. Read more at ..
www.keele.ac.uk/about/news/2...
www.keele.ac.uk/about/news/2...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Some tried & tested methods spring to mind: leave car parked & don’t buy plastics from Amazon for a week or two. Then donate savings to an environmental NGO … 😏
Some tried & tested methods spring to mind: leave car parked & don’t buy plastics from Amazon for a week or two. Then donate savings to an environmental NGO … 😏
Greenpeace loss will embolden big oil and gas to pursue protesters: ‘No one will feel safe’
As Trump pushes ‘drill, baby, drill’ agenda, Greenpeace verdict offers startling outlook for environmental activism
www.theguardian.com
March 22, 2025 at 7:26 AM
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Some tried & tested methods spring to mind: leave car parked & don’t buy plastics from Amazon for a week or two. Then donate savings to an environmental NGO … 😏
Some tried & tested methods spring to mind: leave car parked & don’t buy plastics from Amazon for a week or two. Then donate savings to an environmental NGO … 😏
There needs to be more public discussion & debate about issues like those raised by @adrianramsey.bsky.social in the Guardian today. Why is it so hard to have open democratic debate about human impacts on nature when it concerns green infrastructure? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Green leader Adrian Ramsay: Labour’s ‘growth v nature’ framing is an outrage
Co-leader says deprioritisation of net zero is ‘extremely dangerous’ as he rejects ‘nimby-in-chief’ characterisation
www.theguardian.com
March 15, 2025 at 7:32 AM
There needs to be more public discussion & debate about issues like those raised by @adrianramsey.bsky.social in the Guardian today. Why is it so hard to have open democratic debate about human impacts on nature when it concerns green infrastructure? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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#CfP: Friendship – Continuities and Social Change
Interdisciplinary Workshop, 1st-2nd of April, 2025
Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR), University of Edinburgh.
Abstracts of up to 250-300 words by Midnight (BST), Nov 8th. See:
www.crfr.ac.uk/friendship/
#sociology #emosoc
Interdisciplinary Workshop, 1st-2nd of April, 2025
Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR), University of Edinburgh.
Abstracts of up to 250-300 words by Midnight (BST), Nov 8th. See:
www.crfr.ac.uk/friendship/
#sociology #emosoc
Friendship - Continuities and Social Change - Centre for Research on Families and Relationships
Call for Abstracts: Friendship - Continuities and Social Change
www.crfr.ac.uk
October 14, 2024 at 3:15 PM
#CfP: Friendship – Continuities and Social Change
Interdisciplinary Workshop, 1st-2nd of April, 2025
Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR), University of Edinburgh.
Abstracts of up to 250-300 words by Midnight (BST), Nov 8th. See:
www.crfr.ac.uk/friendship/
#sociology #emosoc
Interdisciplinary Workshop, 1st-2nd of April, 2025
Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR), University of Edinburgh.
Abstracts of up to 250-300 words by Midnight (BST), Nov 8th. See:
www.crfr.ac.uk/friendship/
#sociology #emosoc
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Are you an #envhum scholar looking to make a difference for the field?
Become a co-editor of the journal Environmental Humanities!
We need a new set of 2 co-editors to replace Franklin & I from Jan 2026. See the call here:
environmentalhumanities.org
Contact us if you have any questions.
Become a co-editor of the journal Environmental Humanities!
We need a new set of 2 co-editors to replace Franklin & I from Jan 2026. See the call here:
environmentalhumanities.org
Contact us if you have any questions.
Environmental Humanities – A journal published by Duke University Press
environmentalhumanities.org
February 3, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Are you an #envhum scholar looking to make a difference for the field?
Become a co-editor of the journal Environmental Humanities!
We need a new set of 2 co-editors to replace Franklin & I from Jan 2026. See the call here:
environmentalhumanities.org
Contact us if you have any questions.
Become a co-editor of the journal Environmental Humanities!
We need a new set of 2 co-editors to replace Franklin & I from Jan 2026. See the call here:
environmentalhumanities.org
Contact us if you have any questions.
“over 80% of the talks I give are virtual talks,” says Hayhoe. “And I only travel when I can bundle events into one trip to make the carbon and the time worth it.” Yip, I have been doing this and I keep talking with HE colleagues about it, but is the message is hitting home? Source below...
‘Everyone has an impact’: how to start reducing your environmental footprint
As fires tear through California and Trump sets back efforts to curb the rise of global temperatures, what can individuals do to make a difference?
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
“over 80% of the talks I give are virtual talks,” says Hayhoe. “And I only travel when I can bundle events into one trip to make the carbon and the time worth it.” Yip, I have been doing this and I keep talking with HE colleagues about it, but is the message is hitting home? Source below...
We submitted a paper this afternoon, yeah! Why does it always feel like giving birth? Well done 👏🏼 Chloe on leading this @csdawson.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
We submitted a paper this afternoon, yeah! Why does it always feel like giving birth? Well done 👏🏼 Chloe on leading this @csdawson.bsky.social
Interesting to see US sociologist Allison Pugh in the Guardian today talking about her research on human work & why AI won’t (or shouldn’t) replace it …
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I set out to study which jobs should be done by AI – and found a very human answer | Allison Pugh
Much of the power of work such as counselling lies in a relationship where we properly see each other. And tech just can’t do that, says sociology professor Allison Pugh
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Interesting to see US sociologist Allison Pugh in the Guardian today talking about her research on human work & why AI won’t (or shouldn’t) replace it …
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Today's university in crisis is Keele, which is focusing its redundancies in Arts and Humanities. Given the regional and local implications, yet another act of HE vandalism. Happy Christmas, eh. ☹️ www.bbc.com/news/article...
Nearly 100 Keele University staff 'fear losing job' - BBC News
A union says Keele proposed a compulsory redundancy plan that may mean up to 35 will lose their job.
www.bbc.com
December 21, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Today's university in crisis is Keele, which is focusing its redundancies in Arts and Humanities. Given the regional and local implications, yet another act of HE vandalism. Happy Christmas, eh. ☹️ www.bbc.com/news/article...
Final year of Leverhulme Trust MRF work Storying Worlds Beyond Fish: Kinship and Connection in the Minch (2022-2025). I have met many inspiring fish, seabirds and people (thank you!!), and heard many stories. Now mostly digesting. Do get in touch. Read more at ..
www.keele.ac.uk/about/news/2...
www.keele.ac.uk/about/news/2...
Keele professor to explore the role of storytelling for marine-environmental recuperation
Professor Lydia Martens is embarking on a new study to examine how storytelling can be used to promote environmental awareness and connect humans with nature.
www.keele.ac.uk
December 29, 2024 at 12:17 PM
Final year of Leverhulme Trust MRF work Storying Worlds Beyond Fish: Kinship and Connection in the Minch (2022-2025). I have met many inspiring fish, seabirds and people (thank you!!), and heard many stories. Now mostly digesting. Do get in touch. Read more at ..
www.keele.ac.uk/about/news/2...
www.keele.ac.uk/about/news/2...