Kate Rigby
@kateelizrigby.bsky.social
Prof. of Environmental humanities @University of Cologne, Director of @mesh-research-hub, into eco-religious studies, multispecies studies, disaster studies, ecopoetics (among others)
Walking the talk - Vatican City to become worlds’s first carbon neutral state www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘Listen to the cry of the Earth’: Pope Leo takes aim at climate change sceptics
Pontiff laments that some ‘ridicule those who speak of global warming’, days after Trump’s claims of ‘con job’
www.theguardian.com
October 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Walking the talk - Vatican City to become worlds’s first carbon neutral state www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Truth - treaty - and true reconciliation all long overdue in Australia: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Victoria’s Indigenous people experienced ‘genocide’, truth-telling inquiry says
Yoorrook Justice Commission splits on final report but makes 100 recommendations aimed at healing and reconciliation
www.theguardian.com
July 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Truth - treaty - and true reconciliation all long overdue in Australia: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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🌍 "Planetary wellbeing is the bedrock of all flourishing"
At #GSS2025, BRIDGES Cologne's Dr Nsah Mala called for more humanities voices in global policy forums.
Reflections from Berlin now on our blog:
🔗 bridges-hub.cologne/bridges-colo...
#GSS2025 #PlanetaryWellbeing #BRIDGES
At #GSS2025, BRIDGES Cologne's Dr Nsah Mala called for more humanities voices in global policy forums.
Reflections from Berlin now on our blog:
🔗 bridges-hub.cologne/bridges-colo...
#GSS2025 #PlanetaryWellbeing #BRIDGES
BRIDGES Cologne Participates in 2025 Global Solutions Summit in Berlin: Reflections by Dr Nsah Mala - UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Thematic Hub for Planetary Wellbeing
BRIDGES Cologne Participates in 2025 Global Solutions Summit in Berlin: Reflections by Dr Nsah Mala
bridges-hub.cologne
June 2, 2025 at 8:27 AM
🌍 "Planetary wellbeing is the bedrock of all flourishing"
At #GSS2025, BRIDGES Cologne's Dr Nsah Mala called for more humanities voices in global policy forums.
Reflections from Berlin now on our blog:
🔗 bridges-hub.cologne/bridges-colo...
#GSS2025 #PlanetaryWellbeing #BRIDGES
At #GSS2025, BRIDGES Cologne's Dr Nsah Mala called for more humanities voices in global policy forums.
Reflections from Berlin now on our blog:
🔗 bridges-hub.cologne/bridges-colo...
#GSS2025 #PlanetaryWellbeing #BRIDGES
Chilling report for a warming world www.ipie.info/research/sr2...
Information Integrity about Climate Science: A Systematic Review
Synthesis Report - Information Integrity about Climate Science: A Systematic Review
www.ipie.info
June 19, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Chilling report for a warming world www.ipie.info/research/sr2...
Reposted by Kate Rigby
📢 Can animals be authors?
Our latest BRIDGES Policy Insight dives into copyright, creativity & the rights of nonhuman animals. New blog post online! 🐒📸 Read more: bridges-hub.cologne/bridges-colo...
#BRIDGES #MESH #AnimalRights #MultispeciesJustice
Our latest BRIDGES Policy Insight dives into copyright, creativity & the rights of nonhuman animals. New blog post online! 🐒📸 Read more: bridges-hub.cologne/bridges-colo...
#BRIDGES #MESH #AnimalRights #MultispeciesJustice
May 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
📢 Can animals be authors?
Our latest BRIDGES Policy Insight dives into copyright, creativity & the rights of nonhuman animals. New blog post online! 🐒📸 Read more: bridges-hub.cologne/bridges-colo...
#BRIDGES #MESH #AnimalRights #MultispeciesJustice
Our latest BRIDGES Policy Insight dives into copyright, creativity & the rights of nonhuman animals. New blog post online! 🐒📸 Read more: bridges-hub.cologne/bridges-colo...
#BRIDGES #MESH #AnimalRights #MultispeciesJustice
Many thanks to Alex and Lindsay for our recent conversation about my last book, Meditations on Creation in an Era of Extinction, for the ASLE EcoCast series asleecocast.podbean.com
ASLE EcoCast Podcast | asleecocast
EcoCast: Environmental Conversations On Creative Art, Scholarship, and Teaching. The official podcast of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE). Each episode features inter...
asleecocast.podbean.com
June 2, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Many thanks to Alex and Lindsay for our recent conversation about my last book, Meditations on Creation in an Era of Extinction, for the ASLE EcoCast series asleecocast.podbean.com
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📣 Registration now open!
Join us July 11–12, in Cologne for the MESH Symposium 2025: Disaster Preparedness in Multispecies Worlds.
Hosted with the Sydney Environmental Institute.
🔗 mesh.uni-koeln.de/events/meshw...
#EnvironmentalHumanities #DisasterPreparedness #MESH
Join us July 11–12, in Cologne for the MESH Symposium 2025: Disaster Preparedness in Multispecies Worlds.
Hosted with the Sydney Environmental Institute.
🔗 mesh.uni-koeln.de/events/meshw...
#EnvironmentalHumanities #DisasterPreparedness #MESH
May 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
📣 Registration now open!
Join us July 11–12, in Cologne for the MESH Symposium 2025: Disaster Preparedness in Multispecies Worlds.
Hosted with the Sydney Environmental Institute.
🔗 mesh.uni-koeln.de/events/meshw...
#EnvironmentalHumanities #DisasterPreparedness #MESH
Join us July 11–12, in Cologne for the MESH Symposium 2025: Disaster Preparedness in Multispecies Worlds.
Hosted with the Sydney Environmental Institute.
🔗 mesh.uni-koeln.de/events/meshw...
#EnvironmentalHumanities #DisasterPreparedness #MESH
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🌍 How can #sharing help us tackle global challenges? Our initiative 'Sharing a Planet in Peril' builds a global, interdisciplinary network to explore #inequality, #environmentaljustice & #sustainablefutures. Now in the running for a #DFGExcellenceCluster! See more: sharing-a-planet-in-peril.com
About SAPP - Sharing a Planet in Peril
Sharing a Planet in Peril advances actionable knowledge concerning the socio-cultural dimensions of Global Environmental Change from an Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences perspective.
sharing-a-planet-in-peril.com
February 17, 2025 at 11:38 AM
🌍 How can #sharing help us tackle global challenges? Our initiative 'Sharing a Planet in Peril' builds a global, interdisciplinary network to explore #inequality, #environmentaljustice & #sustainablefutures. Now in the running for a #DFGExcellenceCluster! See more: sharing-a-planet-in-peril.com
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What if we saw early stone tools not as static inventions, but as evolving ecosystems? The new project ECOLITHIC, led by @shumon.bsky.social takes this radical view, bridging #humanities & #lifesciences to explore hidden patterns in #technologicalevolution. Funded by @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
What if we saw early stone tools not as static inventions, but as evolving ecosystems? The new project ECOLITHIC, led by @shumon.bsky.social takes this radical view, bridging #humanities & #lifesciences to explore hidden patterns in #technologicalevolution. Funded by @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social
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📅 Save the Date for our Annual Symposium 'Disaster Preparedness in Multispecies Worlds' on July 11–12, 2025, as we explore how ecological crises reshape #human&nonhuman coexistence & what #resilience can look like across species.
🎤 Speaker lineup now online: uni.koeln/CG39B
🎤 Speaker lineup now online: uni.koeln/CG39B
March 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
📅 Save the Date for our Annual Symposium 'Disaster Preparedness in Multispecies Worlds' on July 11–12, 2025, as we explore how ecological crises reshape #human&nonhuman coexistence & what #resilience can look like across species.
🎤 Speaker lineup now online: uni.koeln/CG39B
🎤 Speaker lineup now online: uni.koeln/CG39B
Vale Pope Francis, fearless critic of corporate greed, friend of the poor, and defender of the earth, our 'common home' greenchristian.org.uk/on-the-death...
On the Death of Pope Francis – Green ChristianGreen Christian | Ordinary Christians, extraordinary times
greenchristian.org.uk
April 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Vale Pope Francis, fearless critic of corporate greed, friend of the poor, and defender of the earth, our 'common home' greenchristian.org.uk/on-the-death...
Reposted by Kate Rigby
🔍 BRIDGES Cologne Policy Insights launched! 🚀
Our new blog series connects research & policy making.
Edition #1 explores the hidden co-benefits of infrastructure in renewable energy projects—shaping communities beyond just power.
🔗Read more here: bridges-hub.cologne/bridges-colo...
Our new blog series connects research & policy making.
Edition #1 explores the hidden co-benefits of infrastructure in renewable energy projects—shaping communities beyond just power.
🔗Read more here: bridges-hub.cologne/bridges-colo...
April 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
🔍 BRIDGES Cologne Policy Insights launched! 🚀
Our new blog series connects research & policy making.
Edition #1 explores the hidden co-benefits of infrastructure in renewable energy projects—shaping communities beyond just power.
🔗Read more here: bridges-hub.cologne/bridges-colo...
Our new blog series connects research & policy making.
Edition #1 explores the hidden co-benefits of infrastructure in renewable energy projects—shaping communities beyond just power.
🔗Read more here: bridges-hub.cologne/bridges-colo...
More amazingly skilled rodent helpmates www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
Carolina the giant rat retires as a hero after saving many lives
Last year, African giant pouched rats like Carolina prevented nearly 400,000 new cases of a deadly disease. It's possible because of their extreme sense of smell.
www.nationalgeographic.com
April 5, 2025 at 7:11 AM
More amazingly skilled rodent helpmates www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
2 doctoral positions in anthropology available @carsoncenter.bsky.social in the ERC-funded project “Changing Environments, Changing Childhoods: A Cross-Environmental Ethnography of Moral Socialization in Three Small-Scale Societies” www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_rcc/jo...
Two Funded Doctoral Positions in Anthropology: Project on Environmental Change and Children’s Development - Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society - LMU Munich
www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de
February 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
2 doctoral positions in anthropology available @carsoncenter.bsky.social in the ERC-funded project “Changing Environments, Changing Childhoods: A Cross-Environmental Ethnography of Moral Socialization in Three Small-Scale Societies” www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_rcc/jo...
The international and interdisciplinary MA Environment and Society is inviting applications for its 2025 admissions cycle (deadline 10/3)
www.environmentmaster.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_ma/ind...
www.environmentmaster.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_ma/ind...
About the Master of Arts Environment & Society - MA in Environment and Society - LMU Munich
www.environmentmaster.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de
February 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The international and interdisciplinary MA Environment and Society is inviting applications for its 2025 admissions cycle (deadline 10/3)
www.environmentmaster.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_ma/ind...
www.environmentmaster.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_ma/ind...
Great interview on 'deep time' intergenerational story-telling with the fabulous Aboriginal thinker and educator Tyson Yunkaporta emergencemagazine.org/conversation...
Deep Time Diligence – with Tyson Yunkaporta
Aboriginal scholar and author Tyson Yunkaporta illustrates how deep time thinking, born of an intimate relationship between a place and its community, can radically reshape our relationship to the cos...
emergencemagazine.org
February 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Great interview on 'deep time' intergenerational story-telling with the fabulous Aboriginal thinker and educator Tyson Yunkaporta emergencemagazine.org/conversation...
Happy to have been able to make a modest contribution to this article arising from a lively roundtable discussion on environmental history and environmental humanities liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
Transdisciplinary Histories and the Rise of the Environmental Humanities | Global Environment
This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0.
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
February 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Happy to have been able to make a modest contribution to this article arising from a lively roundtable discussion on environmental history and environmental humanities liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
Reposted by Kate Rigby
Hi again 🦋
our first spotlight is "Climate Change Literacy", a project exploring how novels can reshape climate communication by fostering empathy, critical thinking, & a deeper understanding. 📖
Check out the recent OA-Cambridge Elements publication for key insights www.cambridge.org/core/element...
our first spotlight is "Climate Change Literacy", a project exploring how novels can reshape climate communication by fostering empathy, critical thinking, & a deeper understanding. 📖
Check out the recent OA-Cambridge Elements publication for key insights www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Climate Change Literacy
Cambridge Core - Literary Theory - Climate Change Literacy
www.cambridge.org
January 29, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Hi again 🦋
our first spotlight is "Climate Change Literacy", a project exploring how novels can reshape climate communication by fostering empathy, critical thinking, & a deeper understanding. 📖
Check out the recent OA-Cambridge Elements publication for key insights www.cambridge.org/core/element...
our first spotlight is "Climate Change Literacy", a project exploring how novels can reshape climate communication by fostering empathy, critical thinking, & a deeper understanding. 📖
Check out the recent OA-Cambridge Elements publication for key insights www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Hi there, BlueSkiers, nothing better for my first post in this corner of the aether than a repost from the wonderful research hub @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social that I have the honour to direct (with a lot of help from my friends on the team)...
Hello BlueSky! 🦋 We are MESH – the Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities hub at the University of Cologne. Our mission? Tackling the cultural, ethical, and social dimensions of global environmental change. 🌍
February 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Hi there, BlueSkiers, nothing better for my first post in this corner of the aether than a repost from the wonderful research hub @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social that I have the honour to direct (with a lot of help from my friends on the team)...