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Nick Harvey Sky
@nickcharvey.bsky.social
Postdoc studying labour dynamics in conservation at CMI in Bergen, Norway | Conservation scientist and doctor of rhino dung 🦏 | Big fan of nature, cricket, plant-based cooking and gardening
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Conservation Labor: A New Frontier in Labor Theory and Conservation Science (CONLAB)
There is a rapidly developing literature on the 'human dimensions' of conservation, including critical scholarship and appli...
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June 18, 2025 at 8:55 AM
I can confirm that it is difficult, but not impossible, to wade through snow with a camera and not wake up the baby strapped to your chest.
January 16, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Greenfinch (Chloris chloris) A group of greenfinch strip the last of the berries from thin branches, bowing low like courtiers to pluck them from their perch🌿
January 16, 2025 at 7:24 AM
A red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) leaps stops to nibble on the cones of a bare larch. It turns one over in its dextrous paws, extracts the seeds, drops it almost absently then moves on to the next. A magpie (Pica pica), not dextrous enough or too lazy to open cones itself, waits for an opening 🌿
January 16, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Sunlight smearing itself through trees from just above the horizon.
January 16, 2025 at 7:24 AM
A wisp of cloud across a watery moon.
January 16, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Silhouettes appears as frozen spikes of dead vegetation against snow and bare twigs across grey skies.
January 16, 2025 at 7:24 AM
The air is so cold that the river steams like it is boiling. Steel grey water, grey concrete bridge, grey snow. People bring colour, with their painted wooden houses and the waterproof houses of those who brave the cold for a walk or a run.
January 16, 2025 at 7:24 AM
The snow textures the world, it crunches, squelches, rasps, cracks, thuds and rustles. It reveals the rhythms of the city, as it reveals the habits of animals. SCars are privileged over people as piles block paths and cut-throughs that are open the rest of the year, sacrificed for clear car parks.
January 16, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris)
January 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Of course this is supposed to be hooded crow, not hood crow!
January 6, 2025 at 12:45 PM