Dr Emmy
@researchrestore.bsky.social
social scientist ~ researcher at University of #Aberdeen 🐛🐞🐦 🐪 interested in the #social decision-making aspects of #biodiversity #conservation 💮 🌻 🦬🦝🦎🦚
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Dr Emmy
@researchrestore.bsky.social
· Jul 19
Five critical questions we should ask of rewilding projects—And that social science can help us answer
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
doi.org
📢 Our new #rewilding #paper is now out in @peopleandnature.bsky.social
We show how #interdisciplinary critical #socialscience can help enhance social and environmental #justice in #conservation
Available FREE #openaccess here 👉 🔗
doi.org/10.1002/pan3... 🌎🧪
We show how #interdisciplinary critical #socialscience can help enhance social and environmental #justice in #conservation
Available FREE #openaccess here 👉 🔗
doi.org/10.1002/pan3... 🌎🧪
🌏 #rewilding is happening at home - found an intrepid flat worm in the cellar. Maybe (?)Bipalium kewense, a non-native shovel-headed garden worm. Any #worm experts please confirm! You can submit a @inaturalist.bsky.social record of cosmopolitan visitors to Buglife PotWatch campaign lnkd.in/ebKyggVG
November 4, 2025 at 5:25 PM
🌏 #rewilding is happening at home - found an intrepid flat worm in the cellar. Maybe (?)Bipalium kewense, a non-native shovel-headed garden worm. Any #worm experts please confirm! You can submit a @inaturalist.bsky.social record of cosmopolitan visitors to Buglife PotWatch campaign lnkd.in/ebKyggVG
🌍 Fantastic conservation postdoc roles x 3 with @georgeiorda.bsky.social on the Green Frontier project👇 #postdoc
🚨 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!
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 8:33 AM
🌍 Fantastic conservation postdoc roles x 3 with @georgeiorda.bsky.social on the Green Frontier project👇 #postdoc
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🪂Species reintroductions have a radical history; in the UK, where official rewilding remains tightly regulated, a covert counterculture has emerged🐗
🦅Glentworth et al. explore guerilla rewilding: unlicensed releases reshaping landscapes and challenging norms🦫
📰 lnkd.in/dw7EVA5n
🖥️ lnkd.in/dxJK4Wy6
🦅Glentworth et al. explore guerilla rewilding: unlicensed releases reshaping landscapes and challenging norms🦫
📰 lnkd.in/dw7EVA5n
🖥️ lnkd.in/dxJK4Wy6
September 16, 2025 at 11:28 AM
🪂Species reintroductions have a radical history; in the UK, where official rewilding remains tightly regulated, a covert counterculture has emerged🐗
🦅Glentworth et al. explore guerilla rewilding: unlicensed releases reshaping landscapes and challenging norms🦫
📰 lnkd.in/dw7EVA5n
🖥️ lnkd.in/dxJK4Wy6
🦅Glentworth et al. explore guerilla rewilding: unlicensed releases reshaping landscapes and challenging norms🦫
📰 lnkd.in/dw7EVA5n
🖥️ lnkd.in/dxJK4Wy6
Great to see our new guerilla #rewilding #paper out in Oryx
Available #openaccess here 👉🔗
doi.org/10.1017/S003...
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Available #openaccess here 👉🔗
doi.org/10.1017/S003...
🌍🧪
Can we learn from the UK’s guerrilla rewilding movement? | Oryx | Cambridge Core
Can we learn from the UK’s guerrilla rewilding movement?
doi.org
September 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Great to see our new guerilla #rewilding #paper out in Oryx
Available #openaccess here 👉🔗
doi.org/10.1017/S003...
🌍🧪
Available #openaccess here 👉🔗
doi.org/10.1017/S003...
🌍🧪
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Considering the value that history and other disciplines outside of the natural sciences offer for rewilding efforts.
📢 Our new #rewilding #paper is now out in @peopleandnature.bsky.social
We show how #interdisciplinary critical #socialscience can help enhance social and environmental #justice in #conservation
Available FREE #openaccess here 👉 🔗
doi.org/10.1002/pan3... 🌎🧪
We show how #interdisciplinary critical #socialscience can help enhance social and environmental #justice in #conservation
Available FREE #openaccess here 👉 🔗
doi.org/10.1002/pan3... 🌎🧪
Five critical questions we should ask of rewilding projects—And that social science can help us answer
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
doi.org
September 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Considering the value that history and other disciplines outside of the natural sciences offer for rewilding efforts.
Reposted by Dr Emmy
📣 Super important paper 📣
It explores what's needed to ensure placemaking, the built environment, & transport can play a role in health creation & overcoming inequalities. Systems thinking is vital: foster the right leadership, collaborate across disciplines, and empower.
(HT @sfrost.bsky.social)
It explores what's needed to ensure placemaking, the built environment, & transport can play a role in health creation & overcoming inequalities. Systems thinking is vital: foster the right leadership, collaborate across disciplines, and empower.
(HT @sfrost.bsky.social)
A new paper by @geoffbates.bsky.social, Pablo Newberry, Rachael McClatchey, @jacknewman.bsky.social and @sarahayres.bsky.social explores how health is integrated in urban development, and how to bring about change to support healthier development.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1186/s129...
Read it here: doi.org/10.1186/s129...
How can health be further integrated in urban development policymaking in the United Kingdom? A systems mapping approach - Health Research Policy and Systems
Background In the United Kingdom the government’s new health mission aims to reduce the burden on healthcare services by shifting from treating poor health to prevention. Delivering this requires acti...
doi.org
August 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
📣 Super important paper 📣
It explores what's needed to ensure placemaking, the built environment, & transport can play a role in health creation & overcoming inequalities. Systems thinking is vital: foster the right leadership, collaborate across disciplines, and empower.
(HT @sfrost.bsky.social)
It explores what's needed to ensure placemaking, the built environment, & transport can play a role in health creation & overcoming inequalities. Systems thinking is vital: foster the right leadership, collaborate across disciplines, and empower.
(HT @sfrost.bsky.social)
Our new #rewilding #paper is Open Access and free to view 🌎 👇
🌿 New Research: Five critical questions we should ask of rewilding projects—And that social science can help us answer ➡️ buff.ly/S3yQoqA
#SocialSciences can critically and constructively understand #rewilding decision-making to recentre issues of #social #justice
#SocialSciences can critically and constructively understand #rewilding decision-making to recentre issues of #social #justice
August 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Our new #rewilding #paper is Open Access and free to view 🌎 👇
Reposted by Dr Emmy
Louise Fitzgerald & I are hiring an 18 month postdoc and 18 month research assistant (no PhD required) for a project on the political ecology of land ownership in Ireland. 2 weeks to apply. DM for any questions. 🧵
Link to DCU website: www.dcu.ie/people/jobs
Link to DCU website: www.dcu.ie/people/jobs
Jobs - Open Vacancies at DCU | DCU People
Want to advance your career and work at Dublin City University? Find all of our job vacancies here, from teaching positions to administrative positions.
www.dcu.ie
July 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Louise Fitzgerald & I are hiring an 18 month postdoc and 18 month research assistant (no PhD required) for a project on the political ecology of land ownership in Ireland. 2 weeks to apply. DM for any questions. 🧵
Link to DCU website: www.dcu.ie/people/jobs
Link to DCU website: www.dcu.ie/people/jobs
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When she was just 26 Florence Merriam wrote the first guide to birding with binoculars in 1889. And she slipped in this incredible feminist gem:
July 29, 2025 at 2:14 AM
When she was just 26 Florence Merriam wrote the first guide to birding with binoculars in 1889. And she slipped in this incredible feminist gem:
Fantastic 🤩 👏
We're celebrating 10,000 Slow Ways routes with this stunning and electric mapping of our network by @urbangood.bsky.social.
The full map shows 5,790 routes rated 3+.
A massive congratulations and thanks to all of our volunteers.
See the map in full here buildstories.slowways.org/celebrating-...
The full map shows 5,790 routes rated 3+.
A massive congratulations and thanks to all of our volunteers.
See the map in full here buildstories.slowways.org/celebrating-...
July 25, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Fantastic 🤩 👏
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1/ 📄New paper! Alison Hutchinson @georgeiorda.bsky.social Teresa Lappe-Osthege & myself have developed a new harms-based #PoliticalEcology as a way of understanding the #WildlifeTrade published in @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social ⬇️
beastlybusiness.org/2025/07/23/n...
beastlybusiness.org/2025/07/23/n...
New paper on harms-based political ecology - Beastly Business
Our team members Alison Hutchinson, Rosaleen Duffy, George Iordachescu and Teresa Lappe-Osthege developed an idea of bringing together debates on harms from green criminology with political ecology co...
beastlybusiness.org
July 24, 2025 at 7:11 AM
1/ 📄New paper! Alison Hutchinson @georgeiorda.bsky.social Teresa Lappe-Osthege & myself have developed a new harms-based #PoliticalEcology as a way of understanding the #WildlifeTrade published in @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social ⬇️
beastlybusiness.org/2025/07/23/n...
beastlybusiness.org/2025/07/23/n...
Plus a jargon-free Plain Language Summary explaining how using #socialscience in #rewilding benefits #nature and #people 🔗👉
relationalthinkingblog.com/2025/07/15/p...
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relationalthinkingblog.com/2025/07/15/p...
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📢 Our new #rewilding #paper is now out in @peopleandnature.bsky.social
We show how #interdisciplinary critical #socialscience can help enhance social and environmental #justice in #conservation
Available FREE #openaccess here 👉 🔗
doi.org/10.1002/pan3... 🌎🧪
We show how #interdisciplinary critical #socialscience can help enhance social and environmental #justice in #conservation
Available FREE #openaccess here 👉 🔗
doi.org/10.1002/pan3... 🌎🧪
Five critical questions we should ask of rewilding projects—And that social science can help us answer
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
doi.org
July 24, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Plus a jargon-free Plain Language Summary explaining how using #socialscience in #rewilding benefits #nature and #people 🔗👉
relationalthinkingblog.com/2025/07/15/p...
🌍
relationalthinkingblog.com/2025/07/15/p...
🌍
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POLLEN 2026 is happening in Barcelona 🌅
The call for panels is open and closes on July 31st.
See here for more information: tinyurl.com/5b8c5w7j
Spread the word.
The call for panels is open and closes on July 31st.
See here for more information: tinyurl.com/5b8c5w7j
Spread the word.
POLLEN 2026: Open for Panels - POLLEN
When will POLLEN 2026 be launched? IT ALREADY HAS - get ready to come to Barcelona and join us! Panel Submissions are Currently Open (until July 31st) The announcement is here. Or take a look at this ...
tinyurl.com
June 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
POLLEN 2026 is happening in Barcelona 🌅
The call for panels is open and closes on July 31st.
See here for more information: tinyurl.com/5b8c5w7j
Spread the word.
The call for panels is open and closes on July 31st.
See here for more information: tinyurl.com/5b8c5w7j
Spread the word.
Perhaps a survey is needed by @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social to keep up the momentum following the Climate & Sustainability Assembly on this topic 🌳🚲🐦📒
🦋🌱 Have your say: a nature positive campus!
Love the green spaces at @york.ac.uk? Want more wildflowers, birdsong, or spaces to connect with nature? 🌼🦜
Tell us what you'd like to see on campus to support biodiversity, sustainability + wellbeing.
📋 Survey closes 15 August:
Love the green spaces at @york.ac.uk? Want more wildflowers, birdsong, or spaces to connect with nature? 🌼🦜
Tell us what you'd like to see on campus to support biodiversity, sustainability + wellbeing.
📋 Survey closes 15 August:
Qualtrics Survey | University of York Outdoor Space Use
A survey to gather information about how people use the outdoor spaces on the University of York campuses.
tinyurl.com
July 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Perhaps a survey is needed by @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social to keep up the momentum following the Climate & Sustainability Assembly on this topic 🌳🚲🐦📒
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OUT NOW: The laid-out version of the FULL @ipbes.net #TransformativeChange Report 💥
Explore how fundamental change can halt biodiversity loss and secure just and sustainable futures for all. 🌏🧪
Access the full report in English⬇️
https://www.ipbes.net/transformative-change-assessment
Explore how fundamental change can halt biodiversity loss and secure just and sustainable futures for all. 🌏🧪
Access the full report in English⬇️
https://www.ipbes.net/transformative-change-assessment
July 22, 2025 at 9:30 AM
OUT NOW: The laid-out version of the FULL @ipbes.net #TransformativeChange Report 💥
Explore how fundamental change can halt biodiversity loss and secure just and sustainable futures for all. 🌏🧪
Access the full report in English⬇️
https://www.ipbes.net/transformative-change-assessment
Explore how fundamental change can halt biodiversity loss and secure just and sustainable futures for all. 🌏🧪
Access the full report in English⬇️
https://www.ipbes.net/transformative-change-assessment
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Working on #EnvironmentalJustice topics in Central and Eastern Europe? Then you might want to send an abstract for the conference 'The Greyzone of the Green Transition' that I'm co-organizing with my colleagues from Sibiu next year in Romania (18-19 May 2026).
Participation is free of charge!
Participation is free of charge!
International Conference: The Greyzone of the Green Transition – ecoJust home
grants.ulbsibiu.ro
July 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Working on #EnvironmentalJustice topics in Central and Eastern Europe? Then you might want to send an abstract for the conference 'The Greyzone of the Green Transition' that I'm co-organizing with my colleagues from Sibiu next year in Romania (18-19 May 2026).
Participation is free of charge!
Participation is free of charge!
Thanks George!
There are a lot of general review type papers on social science and rewilding out there, but this is one of the best ones as a primer on the most important questions to ask: ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...
ora.ox.ac.uk
July 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Thanks George!
📢 Our new #rewilding #paper is now out in @peopleandnature.bsky.social
We show how #interdisciplinary critical #socialscience can help enhance social and environmental #justice in #conservation
Available FREE #openaccess here 👉 🔗
doi.org/10.1002/pan3... 🌎🧪
We show how #interdisciplinary critical #socialscience can help enhance social and environmental #justice in #conservation
Available FREE #openaccess here 👉 🔗
doi.org/10.1002/pan3... 🌎🧪
Five critical questions we should ask of rewilding projects—And that social science can help us answer
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
doi.org
July 19, 2025 at 6:42 AM
📢 Our new #rewilding #paper is now out in @peopleandnature.bsky.social
We show how #interdisciplinary critical #socialscience can help enhance social and environmental #justice in #conservation
Available FREE #openaccess here 👉 🔗
doi.org/10.1002/pan3... 🌎🧪
We show how #interdisciplinary critical #socialscience can help enhance social and environmental #justice in #conservation
Available FREE #openaccess here 👉 🔗
doi.org/10.1002/pan3... 🌎🧪
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Would more people get to enjoying active travel and time outdoors if they had better route information?
Do you use a wheelchair, scooter or pushchair and feel limited by a lack of good information on accessible paths?
We've got a plan. Please look and share!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/slowways ⭐🐌
Do you use a wheelchair, scooter or pushchair and feel limited by a lack of good information on accessible paths?
We've got a plan. Please look and share!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/slowways ⭐🐌
Calling everybody who walks, runs or rides!
Now’s the time - back our project to develop the ultimate walking, running, wheeling, cycling & horse riding network for Britain and Ireland
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
June 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Would more people get to enjoying active travel and time outdoors if they had better route information?
Do you use a wheelchair, scooter or pushchair and feel limited by a lack of good information on accessible paths?
We've got a plan. Please look and share!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/slowways ⭐🐌
Do you use a wheelchair, scooter or pushchair and feel limited by a lack of good information on accessible paths?
We've got a plan. Please look and share!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/slowways ⭐🐌
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Looking for a research associate to explore societal engagement with forest restoration on digital media – with @lboungr.bsky.social @wildflyingpanda.bsky.social @gabrielecolombo.bsky.social & more. Grateful for help sharing with those who might be interested! jonathangray.org/2025/05/31/s...
June 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Looking for a research associate to explore societal engagement with forest restoration on digital media – with @lboungr.bsky.social @wildflyingpanda.bsky.social @gabrielecolombo.bsky.social & more. Grateful for help sharing with those who might be interested! jonathangray.org/2025/05/31/s...
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Sustain responds to Land Use Framework consultation
▶️ 21 organisations sign joint response coordinated by Sustain, highlighting key oversights in the government's proposed framework, intended to guide future decision making about land use in England.
▶️ 21 organisations sign joint response coordinated by Sustain, highlighting key oversights in the government's proposed framework, intended to guide future decision making about land use in England.
Sustain responds to Land Use Framework consultation | Sustain
21 organisations signed the joint response, highlighting key oversights in the government's proposed framework, intended to guide future decisionmaking about land use in England.
www.sustainweb.org
May 13, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Sustain responds to Land Use Framework consultation
▶️ 21 organisations sign joint response coordinated by Sustain, highlighting key oversights in the government's proposed framework, intended to guide future decision making about land use in England.
▶️ 21 organisations sign joint response coordinated by Sustain, highlighting key oversights in the government's proposed framework, intended to guide future decision making about land use in England.
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📢FREE online course on Biodiversity Finance!
Learn to develop financially sound conservation solutions, conduct needs assessments & create effective finance plans.
➡️Adopt tools to make stronger business cases for biodiversity & nature.💼🌍🧪
Learn more: www.learningfornature.org/en/courses/b...
Learn to develop financially sound conservation solutions, conduct needs assessments & create effective finance plans.
➡️Adopt tools to make stronger business cases for biodiversity & nature.💼🌍🧪
Learn more: www.learningfornature.org/en/courses/b...
Biodiversity Finance – Learning for Nature
www.learningfornature.org
May 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
📢FREE online course on Biodiversity Finance!
Learn to develop financially sound conservation solutions, conduct needs assessments & create effective finance plans.
➡️Adopt tools to make stronger business cases for biodiversity & nature.💼🌍🧪
Learn more: www.learningfornature.org/en/courses/b...
Learn to develop financially sound conservation solutions, conduct needs assessments & create effective finance plans.
➡️Adopt tools to make stronger business cases for biodiversity & nature.💼🌍🧪
Learn more: www.learningfornature.org/en/courses/b...
Closes today! ⬇️
Survey: The #UK’s global #research priorities on nature
The UK government is seeking insights on its research priorities for nature and environment in #ODA (Official Development Assistance) settings. An online survey is open until 4 April.
universityofsussex.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
The UK government is seeking insights on its research priorities for nature and environment in #ODA (Official Development Assistance) settings. An online survey is open until 4 April.
universityofsussex.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
April 4, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Closes today! ⬇️
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Survey: The #UK’s global #research priorities on nature
The UK government is seeking insights on its research priorities for nature and environment in #ODA (Official Development Assistance) settings. An online survey is open until 4 April.
universityofsussex.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
The UK government is seeking insights on its research priorities for nature and environment in #ODA (Official Development Assistance) settings. An online survey is open until 4 April.
universityofsussex.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
March 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Survey: The #UK’s global #research priorities on nature
The UK government is seeking insights on its research priorities for nature and environment in #ODA (Official Development Assistance) settings. An online survey is open until 4 April.
universityofsussex.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
The UK government is seeking insights on its research priorities for nature and environment in #ODA (Official Development Assistance) settings. An online survey is open until 4 April.
universityofsussex.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...