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Claira Turvey
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Sustainable development & social anthropology. Exploring multisolving, multispecies & more-than-human relations, decolonisation, cognitive justice and reparations 🌿

🌱 A lesson from nature everyday: https://naturalthinkinglab.substack.com

🕸️ Edinburgh
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This gave me a heart chuckle this morning 🧘🏽‍♀️

#Student #Elections #Edinburgh #universty
Student Elections at the University of Edinburgh campaign poster that reads: We signed up for degrees, not daily breakdowns. Burnout isn’t cured by yoga. Would Cristina Yang settle for that? Nope :) The photo also shows another campaign poster at the top that reads: Resist transphobia in academia; Peter Mathieson resign; and £120 million on a shiny new building.. well afford to pay lecturers. This highlights the recent news that the university apparently needs to cut jobs as there is a financial shortfall.
March 6, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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A neat little read, full of gems… and another book done & dusted for the Book Stack.

‘On the edges of anthropology (interviews)’ ~ James Clifford
Book cover of ‘on the edges of anthropology (interviews)’ by James Clifford
January 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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First book read of the year ~ and a journey I would definitely recommend.

Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World by Malcom Ferdinand
A book cover showing Turner’s painting of the slave ship Zong. The book is Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World by Malcom Ferdinand
January 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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🌿 November 27th ~ Yarrow

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Late flowers sprinkle the field edges....

#EverydayNature #NatureLovers #NaturalThinkingLab #WildflowerHour
A green field with white flowers. The text reads: November 27th . Yarrow. Comforting cures. Natural thinking lab . substack.com
November 27, 2024 at 9:03 PM
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🌿 November 26th ~ Teasel Stem

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The sculptural teasel is one of the last skeletal silhouettes left on the horizon...

#EverydayNature #NatureLovers #NaturalThinkingLab #Winter
A photo of a teasel flower in winter that has become dry and brown. The text reads: November 26th. Teasel Stem. Reincarnation. Natural Thinking Lab . substack.com
November 26, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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🌿 November 25th ~ Silver Birch

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These winter trees gleam across the landscape as frost disintegrates the last of the surrounding autumnal vegetation....

#EverydayNature #NatureLovers #NaturalThinkingLab #Trees #Wood
Winter birch trees in an autumnal wood. Text reads: November 25th. Silver Birch. Planting Prospects. Natural Thinking Lab . substack.com
November 25, 2024 at 8:55 PM
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🌿 November 24th ~ Orion

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It’s time to lift your lashes to the skies. The cold night distills the air and fine pricks of light beam out across vast, dark space...

#EverydayNature #NatureLovers #NaturalThinkingLab #Stars #WinterSky
A night sky with pinky clouds, and trees. Through the clouds you can see stars. The text reads: November 24th. Orion. Long Light. Natural Thinking Lab . substack . com
November 24, 2024 at 9:17 PM
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🌿 November 23rd ~ Beech Nut

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The beech trees unfurl their nuts from soft casings, inviting many mouths to the feast....

#EverydayNature #NatureLovers #NaturalThinkingLab #Nuthatch
A nuthatch bird sitting on a beech nut, surrounded by autumn leaves. The text reads: November 23rd. Beech Nut. Power provision. Natural thinking lab . substack .com
November 23, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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🌿 November 22nd ~ Fox

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Scuttle, skirt, and trot. The fox is always on a tremendous adventure...

#EverydayNature #NatureLovers #NaturalThinkingLab
A picture of a fox in the snow. The text reads: November 22nd. Fox. True traveller. Natural thinking lab .substack.com
November 22, 2024 at 8:42 PM
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🌿 November 21st ~ Groundsel

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This late bloomer is robust, and lives anywhere...

#EverydayNature #NatureLovers #NaturalThinkingLab
Bright yellow flowers that look like little suns. Text reads: November 21st. Groundsel. Drops of sun. Naturalthinkinglab.substack.com
November 21, 2024 at 8:56 PM
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🌿 November 20th ~ Muntjac Bark

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A wild escape. The Asian muntjac deer, once a confined curiosity, has wandered far and wide...

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November 20, 2024 at 9:12 PM
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🌿 November 19th ~ Mist

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A soft cloak of air descends and gently transforms the landscape....

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November 19, 2024 at 9:35 PM
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Poems on the Underground… telling tales of the changing world above.
Still Life with Sea Pinks and High Tide. A poem by Maura Dooley. Thrift grows tenacious at the tide’s reach. What is that reach when the water is rising, rising? Our melting, shifting, liquid world won’t wait for manifesto or mandate, each warning a reckoning. Ice in our gin or vodka chirrups and squeaks dissolving in the hot, still air of talking, talking.
November 19, 2024 at 2:52 PM
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🌿 November 18th ~ Coot

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#EverydayNature #NatureLovers #NaturalThinkingLab
November 18, 2024 at 9:24 PM
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As the world bends, it's good to remember that it can bend towards truth, beauty, and peace.

We can't always direct the winds but we can grow towards the light.

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#naturequotes #climateactionnow #naturelovers
‘Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better’ quote by Albert Einstein
November 17, 2024 at 10:41 AM