Planetary Praxis
@planetarypraxis.bsky.social
Cambridge research group studying social life, technology + the planetary through practice-based research. http://smartforests.net, http://citizensense.net, planetarypraxis.org.
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We are delighted to announce the launch of our project film Smart Forests 📽!
The film documents ongoing research into the increasing digitalization of forest environments. You can watch it now on our website: smartforests.net/smart-forests-film.
The film documents ongoing research into the increasing digitalization of forest environments. You can watch it now on our website: smartforests.net/smart-forests-film.
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How can we restore landscapes with people, not just for them?
Jennifer Gabrys' & David Brown's research explores how communities lead & shape regeneration & what makes people-centred approaches fairer, democratic, & effective.
Read more on CLRs blog: www.clr.conservation.cam.ac.uk/news/putting...
Jennifer Gabrys' & David Brown's research explores how communities lead & shape regeneration & what makes people-centred approaches fairer, democratic, & effective.
Read more on CLRs blog: www.clr.conservation.cam.ac.uk/news/putting...
October 8, 2025 at 11:13 AM
How can we restore landscapes with people, not just for them?
Jennifer Gabrys' & David Brown's research explores how communities lead & shape regeneration & what makes people-centred approaches fairer, democratic, & effective.
Read more on CLRs blog: www.clr.conservation.cam.ac.uk/news/putting...
Jennifer Gabrys' & David Brown's research explores how communities lead & shape regeneration & what makes people-centred approaches fairer, democratic, & effective.
Read more on CLRs blog: www.clr.conservation.cam.ac.uk/news/putting...
In this new paper, David Brown @browndee17.bsky.social and Jennifer Gabrys explore the role of communities in landscape regeneration initiatives worldwide through a systematic review: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
October 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
In this new paper, David Brown @browndee17.bsky.social and Jennifer Gabrys explore the role of communities in landscape regeneration initiatives worldwide through a systematic review: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
In her new paper, “This Machine Kills CO2,” Jennifer Gabrys considers the narrative of trees as machines, which reflects the role of technological thinking in addressing planetary crises: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
July 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
In her new paper, “This Machine Kills CO2,” Jennifer Gabrys considers the narrative of trees as machines, which reflects the role of technological thinking in addressing planetary crises: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Smart Forests uses tech + grey literature to rethink forest governance 🌲
With help from Policy Commons, they surfaced 60+ practice-based insights on equity and civic design.
policycommons.net/orgs/smart-f...
@planetarypraxis.bsky.social
#SmartForests #PlanetaryPraxis #ForestTech #OpenAccess
With help from Policy Commons, they surfaced 60+ practice-based insights on equity and civic design.
policycommons.net/orgs/smart-f...
@planetarypraxis.bsky.social
#SmartForests #PlanetaryPraxis #ForestTech #OpenAccess
July 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Smart Forests uses tech + grey literature to rethink forest governance 🌲
With help from Policy Commons, they surfaced 60+ practice-based insights on equity and civic design.
policycommons.net/orgs/smart-f...
@planetarypraxis.bsky.social
#SmartForests #PlanetaryPraxis #ForestTech #OpenAccess
With help from Policy Commons, they surfaced 60+ practice-based insights on equity and civic design.
policycommons.net/orgs/smart-f...
@planetarypraxis.bsky.social
#SmartForests #PlanetaryPraxis #ForestTech #OpenAccess
In this new article, 'Designing Biodiversity Systems via Digital Kinships’, Michelle Westerlaken examines how digital biodiversity data is used in local restoration based on her fieldwork in a Dutch living lab: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
July 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
In this new article, 'Designing Biodiversity Systems via Digital Kinships’, Michelle Westerlaken examines how digital biodiversity data is used in local restoration based on her fieldwork in a Dutch living lab: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Our department is hiring for this prestigious professorship! Applications are welcome from scholars working in any area of the discipline. The position offers a competitive salary.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI980/t... @camsociology.bsky.social
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI980/t... @camsociology.bsky.social
The Professorship of Sociology (1985) at University of Cambridge
Apply for the The Professorship of Sociology (1985) role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
www.jobs.ac.uk
June 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Our department is hiring for this prestigious professorship! Applications are welcome from scholars working in any area of the discipline. The position offers a competitive salary.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI980/t... @camsociology.bsky.social
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI980/t... @camsociology.bsky.social
*समुदाय-नेतृत्व वाली वन प्रौद्योगिकी* अंतरिम रिपोर्ट अब हिंदी में भी उपलब्ध है - ऑनलाइन और पीडीएफ के रूप में: publications.smartforests.net/hi/community...
July 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
*समुदाय-नेतृत्व वाली वन प्रौद्योगिकी* अंतरिम रिपोर्ट अब हिंदी में भी उपलब्ध है - ऑनलाइन और पीडीएफ के रूप में: publications.smartforests.net/hi/community...
Laporan sementara *Teknologi Hutan yang Dipimpin Masyarakat* kini telah tersedia dalam bahasa Indonesia - daring dan dalam format PDF: publications.smartforests.net/in/community...
July 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Laporan sementara *Teknologi Hutan yang Dipimpin Masyarakat* kini telah tersedia dalam bahasa Indonesia - daring dan dalam format PDF: publications.smartforests.net/in/community...
Nuestro informe provisional *Tecnologías Forestales Lideradas por la Comunidad* ya está disponible en español, en línea y en formato PDF: publications.smartforests.net/es/community...
July 2, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Nuestro informe provisional *Tecnologías Forestales Lideradas por la Comunidad* ya está disponible en español, en línea y en formato PDF: publications.smartforests.net/es/community...
Our *Community-led Forest Technologies* interim report is now available in three additional languages: Spanish, Indonesian, and Hindi, alongside English.
July 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Our *Community-led Forest Technologies* interim report is now available in three additional languages: Spanish, Indonesian, and Hindi, alongside English.
Check out this new publication, *Common Sensing*, edited by Riccardo Badano, Tomas Percival, and Susan Schuppli at the Centre for Research Architecture.
Find the book here: spectorbooks.com/book/common-...
Find the book here: spectorbooks.com/book/common-...
June 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Check out this new publication, *Common Sensing*, edited by Riccardo Badano, Tomas Percival, and Susan Schuppli at the Centre for Research Architecture.
Find the book here: spectorbooks.com/book/common-...
Find the book here: spectorbooks.com/book/common-...
In “Actually existing smart forests,” Jennifer Gabrys, Michelle Westerlaken, and @yutiariani.bsky.social revisit the analytic of “actually existing” to consider how speculation is a critical component of how smart environments are composed and realised: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
June 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
In “Actually existing smart forests,” Jennifer Gabrys, Michelle Westerlaken, and @yutiariani.bsky.social revisit the analytic of “actually existing” to consider how speculation is a critical component of how smart environments are composed and realised: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
In “Putting the digit back in digital,” Lydia Gibson & Tone Walford foreground zero as a “digit” central to digitalisation, exploring how its numerical and conceptual forms transform and reproduce forest relations in ways that are calculative and deeply colonial: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
June 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
In “Putting the digit back in digital,” Lydia Gibson & Tone Walford foreground zero as a “digit” central to digitalisation, exploring how its numerical and conceptual forms transform and reproduce forest relations in ways that are calculative and deeply colonial: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
In their contribution, Priscila Santos da Costa and Steffen Dalsgaard at the Center for Climate IT at IT University of Copenhagen examine how tech-driven bioeconomy initiatives interconnect conservation and extraction, focusing on the Amazon Rainforest: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
June 10, 2025 at 11:39 AM
In their contribution, Priscila Santos da Costa and Steffen Dalsgaard at the Center for Climate IT at IT University of Copenhagen examine how tech-driven bioeconomy initiatives interconnect conservation and extraction, focusing on the Amazon Rainforest: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
“The gendered forest,” a paper by @trishantsimlai.bsky.social and @csandbrook.bsky.social, critically examines the gendered implications of surveillance technologies, such as camera traps and drones, in forest environments: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
June 5, 2025 at 12:44 PM
“The gendered forest,” a paper by @trishantsimlai.bsky.social and @csandbrook.bsky.social, critically examines the gendered implications of surveillance technologies, such as camera traps and drones, in forest environments: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
In “Between the god-trick and pluriversal potential,”
@naomimillner.bsky.social and Mónica Amador-Jimenez explore 4 different ways that drones contribute to “making forests” and discuss their potential as pluriversal technologies for social & ecological justice: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
@naomimillner.bsky.social and Mónica Amador-Jimenez explore 4 different ways that drones contribute to “making forests” and discuss their potential as pluriversal technologies for social & ecological justice: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
June 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
In “Between the god-trick and pluriversal potential,”
@naomimillner.bsky.social and Mónica Amador-Jimenez explore 4 different ways that drones contribute to “making forests” and discuss their potential as pluriversal technologies for social & ecological justice: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
@naomimillner.bsky.social and Mónica Amador-Jimenez explore 4 different ways that drones contribute to “making forests” and discuss their potential as pluriversal technologies for social & ecological justice: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
In “Raising the Carbonized Forest,” @estherturnhout.bsky.social and Casey R Lynch discuss how science works as a “technology of singularization” by foregrounding forests as carbon storage mechanisms: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
June 3, 2025 at 10:08 AM
In “Raising the Carbonized Forest,” @estherturnhout.bsky.social and Casey R Lynch discuss how science works as a “technology of singularization” by foregrounding forests as carbon storage mechanisms: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Do “Forests high on CO2” store more carbon?”
In her article, Véra Ehrenstein @ehess.fr explores the collective efforts of scientists who address this question through forest ecosystem experiments and model simulations: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
In her article, Véra Ehrenstein @ehess.fr explores the collective efforts of scientists who address this question through forest ecosystem experiments and model simulations: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
May 29, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Do “Forests high on CO2” store more carbon?”
In her article, Véra Ehrenstein @ehess.fr explores the collective efforts of scientists who address this question through forest ecosystem experiments and model simulations: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
In her article, Véra Ehrenstein @ehess.fr explores the collective efforts of scientists who address this question through forest ecosystem experiments and model simulations: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
What is a forest?
Rather than singular objects, forests are made up of many ecosystems and relations. “The Forest Multiple,” our new special issue in Environment and Planning F, explores the varied & conflicting ways that forests take shape amid planetary change: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Rather than singular objects, forests are made up of many ecosystems and relations. “The Forest Multiple,” our new special issue in Environment and Planning F, explores the varied & conflicting ways that forests take shape amid planetary change: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
May 28, 2025 at 11:31 AM
What is a forest?
Rather than singular objects, forests are made up of many ecosystems and relations. “The Forest Multiple,” our new special issue in Environment and Planning F, explores the varied & conflicting ways that forests take shape amid planetary change: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Rather than singular objects, forests are made up of many ecosystems and relations. “The Forest Multiple,” our new special issue in Environment and Planning F, explores the varied & conflicting ways that forests take shape amid planetary change: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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A new Louisiana law makes it illegal to use air pollution data to push for stricter controls or enforcement unless it's collected with expensive monitors that meet strict EPA standards. Community groups are suing, saying it violates their right to free speech.
In ‘Cancer Alley,’ a Battle Over Who Gets to Measure Air Pollution
www.nytimes.com
May 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
A new Louisiana law makes it illegal to use air pollution data to push for stricter controls or enforcement unless it's collected with expensive monitors that meet strict EPA standards. Community groups are suing, saying it violates their right to free speech.
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Our Smart Forests project is featured in the research stories by @cambridgeuni.bsky.social. The story highlights our recent report, including key findings and proposals to ensure digital technologies enable social and environmental justice.
🔗Read the full story: www.cshss.cam.ac.uk/research/res...
🔗Read the full story: www.cshss.cam.ac.uk/research/res...
Smart Forests
Digital technology is providing new insights into forest ecology, but some communities fear it could alter their relationships with these ecosystems. A project based in the Department of Sociology is ...
www.cshss.cam.ac.uk
May 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Our Smart Forests project is featured in the research stories by @cambridgeuni.bsky.social. The story highlights our recent report, including key findings and proposals to ensure digital technologies enable social and environmental justice.
🔗Read the full story: www.cshss.cam.ac.uk/research/res...
🔗Read the full story: www.cshss.cam.ac.uk/research/res...
Our Smart Forests project is featured in the research stories by @cambridgeuni.bsky.social. The story highlights our recent report, including key findings and proposals to ensure digital technologies enable social and environmental justice.
🔗Read the full story: www.cshss.cam.ac.uk/research/res...
🔗Read the full story: www.cshss.cam.ac.uk/research/res...
Smart Forests
Digital technology is providing new insights into forest ecology, but some communities fear it could alter their relationships with these ecosystems. A project based in the Department of Sociology is ...
www.cshss.cam.ac.uk
May 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Our Smart Forests project is featured in the research stories by @cambridgeuni.bsky.social. The story highlights our recent report, including key findings and proposals to ensure digital technologies enable social and environmental justice.
🔗Read the full story: www.cshss.cam.ac.uk/research/res...
🔗Read the full story: www.cshss.cam.ac.uk/research/res...
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📚 Join us at King’s College London on 21 May for the launch of Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal, a book by @disconetwork.bsky.social exploring the possibilities that technoskepticism can create.
📍 Strand Campus and online, 17:30
🔗 Sign up: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/techn...
📍 Strand Campus and online, 17:30
🔗 Sign up: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/techn...
Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal
The Department of Digital Humanities and the Centre for Digital Culture at King’s College London are delighted to host the launch of the DISCO Network’s Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refus...
www.kcl.ac.uk
April 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM
📚 Join us at King’s College London on 21 May for the launch of Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal, a book by @disconetwork.bsky.social exploring the possibilities that technoskepticism can create.
📍 Strand Campus and online, 17:30
🔗 Sign up: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/techn...
📍 Strand Campus and online, 17:30
🔗 Sign up: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/techn...
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Do you have a research interest in how AI can harm or benefit non-human animals? I'm recruiting a Research Officer to drive forward the "Animals and AI" priority area of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE. Please apply by 6 May! 🐖🐔🐟 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
April 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Do you have a research interest in how AI can harm or benefit non-human animals? I'm recruiting a Research Officer to drive forward the "Animals and AI" priority area of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE. Please apply by 6 May! 🐖🐔🐟 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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EXCITING OPPORTUNITY to come and spend up to three weeks in our natural history collections at @camunivmuseums.bsky.social to undertake humanities research on a visiting fellowship! #museums
🥁 Drum rolls needed!
Applications for the Natural History Humanities Visiting Fellowships are now OPEN!
We are so excited to offer this incredible opportunity!
Please, help us share the news!
2 online sandpits to meet #GLAM people @uniofcam.bsky.social
Info 👇
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...
Applications for the Natural History Humanities Visiting Fellowships are now OPEN!
We are so excited to offer this incredible opportunity!
Please, help us share the news!
2 online sandpits to meet #GLAM people @uniofcam.bsky.social
Info 👇
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...
April 1, 2025 at 9:43 AM
EXCITING OPPORTUNITY to come and spend up to three weeks in our natural history collections at @camunivmuseums.bsky.social to undertake humanities research on a visiting fellowship! #museums