Gavin Lamb
@gavinlamb.org
sociolinguist: conservation, tourism, environmental communication, climate knowledge networks, sea turtles & seals🐢🦭| Associate Professor @NHH | Researcher @NORCE | PhD @uhmanoa | new book: multispecies discourse analysis
Enjoyed visiting the University of Luxembourg campus this past week! When the steel mill there was shut down in the late 90's, it was converted into a new campus and integrated into the university's architecture. Gives a bit of a sci-fi/steampunk vibe🏭
September 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Enjoyed visiting the University of Luxembourg campus this past week! When the steel mill there was shut down in the late 90's, it was converted into a new campus and integrated into the university's architecture. Gives a bit of a sci-fi/steampunk vibe🏭
Exploring the mountains around Bergen a bit with a much more energetic hiking buddy
September 7, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Exploring the mountains around Bergen a bit with a much more energetic hiking buddy
reading today!📚🤖 Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination, by Webb Keane. Nicely engages with a lot of old and new work in (linguistic) anthropology on human-animal interaction!🐢 also just learned what a 'deodand' is too
September 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
reading today!📚🤖 Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination, by Webb Keane. Nicely engages with a lot of old and new work in (linguistic) anthropology on human-animal interaction!🐢 also just learned what a 'deodand' is too
reading today!📚 "Econarrative: Ethics, Ecology and the search for New Narratives to Live by"
September 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
reading today!📚 "Econarrative: Ethics, Ecology and the search for New Narratives to Live by"
Sunday walk up the mountain⛰️😅
September 1, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Sunday walk up the mountain⛰️😅
Interesting essays in this book!📚☀️: "Solarities: Elemental Encounters and Refractions is a transdiciplinary essay collection that explores the physical, conceptual, and political possibilities materialized by “solarity”— a form of relation to the sun and its elemental force upon planetary life."
April 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Interesting essays in this book!📚☀️: "Solarities: Elemental Encounters and Refractions is a transdiciplinary essay collection that explores the physical, conceptual, and political possibilities materialized by “solarity”— a form of relation to the sun and its elemental force upon planetary life."
reading today📚 Creating constellations of coexistence through connections between people in human–wildlife conflict areas. Interesting new essay in a recent special issue of conservation biology on diversifying voices in conservation: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
January 24, 2025 at 10:08 AM
reading today📚 Creating constellations of coexistence through connections between people in human–wildlife conflict areas. Interesting new essay in a recent special issue of conservation biology on diversifying voices in conservation: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Misrepresentation of invasive species in the mass media with images of unrelated organisms📚🐜 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
January 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Misrepresentation of invasive species in the mass media with images of unrelated organisms📚🐜 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
📚🦙"Camelids are vital to the cultures and economies of the Andes. The animals have also been at the heart of ecological and social catastrophe...Llamas beyond the Andes tells the five-hundred-year history of animals removed from their native habitats and transported overseas."
January 14, 2025 at 12:13 PM
📚🦙"Camelids are vital to the cultures and economies of the Andes. The animals have also been at the heart of ecological and social catastrophe...Llamas beyond the Andes tells the five-hundred-year history of animals removed from their native habitats and transported overseas."
Conference: EELC10 Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communication, University of Copenhagen, 18-19 Aug. 2025 (call for abstracts extended to Jan 18). nors.ku.dk/english/cale...
December 18, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Conference: EELC10 Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communication, University of Copenhagen, 18-19 Aug. 2025 (call for abstracts extended to Jan 18). nors.ku.dk/english/cale...
interesting new book! 📚🐿️ Animating Central Park: A multispecies history. "Dawn Day Biehler examines the vibrant and intimately connected lives of humans and nonhuman animals in the park...grazing sheep, teeming fish, nesting swans, migrating warblers, and escaped bison as well as human New Yorkers"
December 4, 2024 at 2:23 PM
interesting new book! 📚🐿️ Animating Central Park: A multispecies history. "Dawn Day Biehler examines the vibrant and intimately connected lives of humans and nonhuman animals in the park...grazing sheep, teeming fish, nesting swans, migrating warblers, and escaped bison as well as human New Yorkers"
Looking forward to reading all the fascinating contributions in here, and happy to co-author this chapter with Bal Krishna Sharma on ecotourism!
December 4, 2024 at 12:23 PM
Looking forward to reading all the fascinating contributions in here, and happy to co-author this chapter with Bal Krishna Sharma on ecotourism!
Great to finally get a copy of the new Bloomsbury Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes in the mail today, edited by Robert Blackwood, Stefania Tufi and Will Amos!😊📚
December 4, 2024 at 12:23 PM
Great to finally get a copy of the new Bloomsbury Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes in the mail today, edited by Robert Blackwood, Stefania Tufi and Will Amos!😊📚
listening today🎧 An interesting interview with Sunaura Taylor @sunaura.bsky.social on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about her new book, Disabled Ecologies: Lessons From a Wounded Desert.
November 27, 2024 at 11:13 AM
listening today🎧 An interesting interview with Sunaura Taylor @sunaura.bsky.social on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about her new book, Disabled Ecologies: Lessons From a Wounded Desert.
The energy I’m bringing into 2025
November 22, 2024 at 9:17 PM
The energy I’m bringing into 2025
The Three Ethologies: A Positive Vision for Rebuilding Human-Animal Relationships by Matthew Calarco
November 22, 2024 at 2:01 PM
The Three Ethologies: A Positive Vision for Rebuilding Human-Animal Relationships by Matthew Calarco
thanks for sharing this! For my first (and only) book, one of the resources I found helpful was Kristen Ghodsee’s From notes to narrative. Step 9 having Word read my chapters back to me was an interesting experience!
November 16, 2024 at 9:11 PM
thanks for sharing this! For my first (and only) book, one of the resources I found helpful was Kristen Ghodsee’s From notes to narrative. Step 9 having Word read my chapters back to me was an interesting experience!
"fossil fuel subsidies remain at an all-time high and funding for fossil fuel-prolonging projects quadrupled between 2021 and 2022. Unsurprisingly, this means that our emission projections expect an emissions peak by the end of the decade"
climateactiontracker.org/publications...
climateactiontracker.org/publications...
November 14, 2024 at 9:22 AM
"fossil fuel subsidies remain at an all-time high and funding for fossil fuel-prolonging projects quadrupled between 2021 and 2022. Unsurprisingly, this means that our emission projections expect an emissions peak by the end of the decade"
climateactiontracker.org/publications...
climateactiontracker.org/publications...
recommended reading!📚 Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation, by Juno Salazar Parreñas @youknowjuno.bsky.social "Decolonizing extinction requires a serious reconsideration of the current norms and practices around how we share this planet..."
November 13, 2024 at 1:19 PM
recommended reading!📚 Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation, by Juno Salazar Parreñas @youknowjuno.bsky.social "Decolonizing extinction requires a serious reconsideration of the current norms and practices around how we share this planet..."
If you're in Oslo tomorrow, always a fun event to check out! "The Oslo School of Environmental Humanities invites you to the Knowing Natures Eco-Slam, where students of the Environmental Humanities and Sciences Honours certificate (EHS) present their final projects" www.hf.uio.no/english/rese...
October 28, 2024 at 2:43 PM
If you're in Oslo tomorrow, always a fun event to check out! "The Oslo School of Environmental Humanities invites you to the Knowing Natures Eco-Slam, where students of the Environmental Humanities and Sciences Honours certificate (EHS) present their final projects" www.hf.uio.no/english/rese...
If you're in Honolulu Nov 21 this looks great: "This year’s Piʻo Summit will bring together community organizers, scholars, activists, and survivors to explore how communities rise to demonstrate resilience and leadership in the wake of devastating events." www.kamanabeamer.com/summits/pio-...
October 24, 2024 at 10:57 PM
If you're in Honolulu Nov 21 this looks great: "This year’s Piʻo Summit will bring together community organizers, scholars, activists, and survivors to explore how communities rise to demonstrate resilience and leadership in the wake of devastating events." www.kamanabeamer.com/summits/pio-...
