Rafael Lembi
@rafa-lembi.bsky.social
PhD Candidate, Michigan State University. Sustainability science, participatory research, environmental justice, Amazonia 🇧🇷
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📣 Upcoming short course 📣
We are excited to offer the "Resilience science and climate change" short course with the Resilience Alliance.
🎓 Masters & PhD students and post-doctoral researchers
🗓️ 27-31 October 2025
📍 Online
📋 Apply by 5 September 2025
ℹ️ Learn more: tinyurl.com/2p9mbkax
We are excited to offer the "Resilience science and climate change" short course with the Resilience Alliance.
🎓 Masters & PhD students and post-doctoral researchers
🗓️ 27-31 October 2025
📍 Online
📋 Apply by 5 September 2025
ℹ️ Learn more: tinyurl.com/2p9mbkax
July 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
📣 Upcoming short course 📣
We are excited to offer the "Resilience science and climate change" short course with the Resilience Alliance.
🎓 Masters & PhD students and post-doctoral researchers
🗓️ 27-31 October 2025
📍 Online
📋 Apply by 5 September 2025
ℹ️ Learn more: tinyurl.com/2p9mbkax
We are excited to offer the "Resilience science and climate change" short course with the Resilience Alliance.
🎓 Masters & PhD students and post-doctoral researchers
🗓️ 27-31 October 2025
📍 Online
📋 Apply by 5 September 2025
ℹ️ Learn more: tinyurl.com/2p9mbkax
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New paper in Geographica Helvetica 🚨 I reflect on the (im)possibilities of doing slow scholarship in neoliberal academia as an early-career scholar & how precarity limits collaboration. I outline *collective* strategies to address this & invite further discussion gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...
Who can “slow down” in the neoliberal academy? Reflections on the politics of time as an early-career feminist geographer in Switzerland
Abstract. Feminist geographers' calls for “slow scholarship” as resistance to the neoliberal university raise poignant questions about who can enact slow scholarship and under what conditions. In this...
gh.copernicus.org
June 25, 2025 at 6:55 AM
New paper in Geographica Helvetica 🚨 I reflect on the (im)possibilities of doing slow scholarship in neoliberal academia as an early-career scholar & how precarity limits collaboration. I outline *collective* strategies to address this & invite further discussion gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...
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Are you an early career researcher or professional looking to connect with others studying social-ecological systems? Join us next Thursday for a fun, casual, tree-themed gathering socses.org/early-career...
June 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Are you an early career researcher or professional looking to connect with others studying social-ecological systems? Join us next Thursday for a fun, casual, tree-themed gathering socses.org/early-career...
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🎉 Reminder of upcoming launch event for early-career professionals 🎉
Join a collaborative session to co-create this exciting space for early-career professionals within SocSES.
🗓️ Tuesday, 10 June 2025
⌚ 08:00 CAT/CEST (UTC+2) / 16:00 AEST (UTC+10)
📍 Online
🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/5n6fs96j
Join a collaborative session to co-create this exciting space for early-career professionals within SocSES.
🗓️ Tuesday, 10 June 2025
⌚ 08:00 CAT/CEST (UTC+2) / 16:00 AEST (UTC+10)
📍 Online
🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/5n6fs96j
June 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
🎉 Reminder of upcoming launch event for early-career professionals 🎉
Join a collaborative session to co-create this exciting space for early-career professionals within SocSES.
🗓️ Tuesday, 10 June 2025
⌚ 08:00 CAT/CEST (UTC+2) / 16:00 AEST (UTC+10)
📍 Online
🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/5n6fs96j
Join a collaborative session to co-create this exciting space for early-career professionals within SocSES.
🗓️ Tuesday, 10 June 2025
⌚ 08:00 CAT/CEST (UTC+2) / 16:00 AEST (UTC+10)
📍 Online
🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/5n6fs96j
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It's an honour to be part of the authorship team for this new paper introducing @socses.bsky.social to the world! Being part of the team kickstarting the early career hub has felt so rewarding, especially meeting so many others around the world working on linked social-ecological research
🎉 New paper: Introducing SocSES – Why SocSES, and why now? 🎉
Read the open-access paper in Ecology and Society here 🔗 tinyurl.com/22zhetsc and visit the SocSES webpage that accompanies the paper here 🔗 tinyurl.com/35zuaamk
Read the open-access paper in Ecology and Society here 🔗 tinyurl.com/22zhetsc and visit the SocSES webpage that accompanies the paper here 🔗 tinyurl.com/35zuaamk
June 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
It's an honour to be part of the authorship team for this new paper introducing @socses.bsky.social to the world! Being part of the team kickstarting the early career hub has felt so rewarding, especially meeting so many others around the world working on linked social-ecological research
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Welcome home!
Introducing SocSES: a society for inclusive and impactful social-ecological research
doi.org/10.5751/ES-1...
a paper introducing socses.org
Introducing SocSES: a society for inclusive and impactful social-ecological research
doi.org/10.5751/ES-1...
a paper introducing socses.org
Ecology & Society: Welcome home! Introducing SocSES: a society for inclusive and impactful social-ecological research
Underpinned by systemic thinking, social-ecological systems (SES) research has emerged as a critical field for addressing the challenges of the Anthropocene, marked by a cross-scale focus, inter- and ...
doi.org
June 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Welcome home!
Introducing SocSES: a society for inclusive and impactful social-ecological research
doi.org/10.5751/ES-1...
a paper introducing socses.org
Introducing SocSES: a society for inclusive and impactful social-ecological research
doi.org/10.5751/ES-1...
a paper introducing socses.org
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🎉 New paper: Introducing SocSES – Why SocSES, and why now? 🎉
Read the open-access paper in Ecology and Society here 🔗 tinyurl.com/22zhetsc and visit the SocSES webpage that accompanies the paper here 🔗 tinyurl.com/35zuaamk
Read the open-access paper in Ecology and Society here 🔗 tinyurl.com/22zhetsc and visit the SocSES webpage that accompanies the paper here 🔗 tinyurl.com/35zuaamk
June 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
🎉 New paper: Introducing SocSES – Why SocSES, and why now? 🎉
Read the open-access paper in Ecology and Society here 🔗 tinyurl.com/22zhetsc and visit the SocSES webpage that accompanies the paper here 🔗 tinyurl.com/35zuaamk
Read the open-access paper in Ecology and Society here 🔗 tinyurl.com/22zhetsc and visit the SocSES webpage that accompanies the paper here 🔗 tinyurl.com/35zuaamk
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Join us this Thursday June 5 at 2pm (CET) for a webinar on Regeneration – An Emerging Paradigm for Social-Ecological Systems. Please follow the following link to register tinyurl.com/4sj9fe5x
June 2, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Join us this Thursday June 5 at 2pm (CET) for a webinar on Regeneration – An Emerging Paradigm for Social-Ecological Systems. Please follow the following link to register tinyurl.com/4sj9fe5x
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Join a series of virtual, regional consultations bringing together senior leaders, policymakers, and resilience experts!
🌍 Africa – Thur 22 May | 14:00–16:00 SAST
🌎 Latin America – Tue 27 May | 11:00–13:00 EST
🌏 Asia – Wed 28 May | 14:00–16:00 IST
🔗 Learn more: www.eventbrite.com/e/advancing-...
🌍 Africa – Thur 22 May | 14:00–16:00 SAST
🌎 Latin America – Tue 27 May | 11:00–13:00 EST
🌏 Asia – Wed 28 May | 14:00–16:00 IST
🔗 Learn more: www.eventbrite.com/e/advancing-...
May 21, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Join a series of virtual, regional consultations bringing together senior leaders, policymakers, and resilience experts!
🌍 Africa – Thur 22 May | 14:00–16:00 SAST
🌎 Latin America – Tue 27 May | 11:00–13:00 EST
🌏 Asia – Wed 28 May | 14:00–16:00 IST
🔗 Learn more: www.eventbrite.com/e/advancing-...
🌍 Africa – Thur 22 May | 14:00–16:00 SAST
🌎 Latin America – Tue 27 May | 11:00–13:00 EST
🌏 Asia – Wed 28 May | 14:00–16:00 IST
🔗 Learn more: www.eventbrite.com/e/advancing-...
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This might be a special issue to consider! Lovely editors and a great topic: Methodological advances for locally led climate change adaptation. See more here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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May 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
This might be a special issue to consider! Lovely editors and a great topic: Methodological advances for locally led climate change adaptation. See more here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Honored to be nominated for an Emmy for PBS’s Serving Up Science - a series funded by the NSF.
As public media & fed agencies are under attack, the recognition demonstrates the value of investing in #science, education & storytelling. Please support the institutions that make it possible.
As public media & fed agencies are under attack, the recognition demonstrates the value of investing in #science, education & storytelling. Please support the institutions that make it possible.
May 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Honored to be nominated for an Emmy for PBS’s Serving Up Science - a series funded by the NSF.
As public media & fed agencies are under attack, the recognition demonstrates the value of investing in #science, education & storytelling. Please support the institutions that make it possible.
As public media & fed agencies are under attack, the recognition demonstrates the value of investing in #science, education & storytelling. Please support the institutions that make it possible.
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Prof. Elena Bennett with global colleagues has launched the Society for Social Ecological Systems (SocSES). The society ushers in a new era for SES global research and will foster global collaboration.
Congrats to everyone involved on this exciting step.
www.mcgill.ca/environment/...
Congrats to everyone involved on this exciting step.
www.mcgill.ca/environment/...
Global Society Marks New Era in Research
After years of research and global collaboration, Professor Elena Bennett and her international colleagues have created the Society for Social Ecological Systems (SocSES), marking a new era in social…
www.mcgill.ca
May 12, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Prof. Elena Bennett with global colleagues has launched the Society for Social Ecological Systems (SocSES). The society ushers in a new era for SES global research and will foster global collaboration.
Congrats to everyone involved on this exciting step.
www.mcgill.ca/environment/...
Congrats to everyone involved on this exciting step.
www.mcgill.ca/environment/...
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From UNESCO sites in 3 countries, Katja Malmborg, Caroline Seiferth & I propose place-based identities and senses of belonging as potential deep leverage points for transformative action-oriented research for sustainability. Check out our new paper: shorturl.at/b5rF9
May 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
From UNESCO sites in 3 countries, Katja Malmborg, Caroline Seiferth & I propose place-based identities and senses of belonging as potential deep leverage points for transformative action-oriented research for sustainability. Check out our new paper: shorturl.at/b5rF9
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So cool to see SES researchers calling in from around the world for today's official launch of the @socses.bsky.social Early Career Hub! 🥳
April 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
So cool to see SES researchers calling in from around the world for today's official launch of the @socses.bsky.social Early Career Hub! 🥳
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Join us for the launch of the Resilience Modelling and Theory thematic stream to get involved!
Opportunity 1️⃣:
🗓️ May 1, 2025
⏰ 6pm Central (US) / 9am Eastern (Australia)
🔗 tinyurl.com/2s4ve7zd
Opportunity 2️⃣:
🗓️ May 6, 2025
⏰ 9am Central (US) / 4pm Central (Africa/Europe)
🔗 tinyurl.com/a2v28ysp
Opportunity 1️⃣:
🗓️ May 1, 2025
⏰ 6pm Central (US) / 9am Eastern (Australia)
🔗 tinyurl.com/2s4ve7zd
Opportunity 2️⃣:
🗓️ May 6, 2025
⏰ 9am Central (US) / 4pm Central (Africa/Europe)
🔗 tinyurl.com/a2v28ysp
April 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Join us for the launch of the Resilience Modelling and Theory thematic stream to get involved!
Opportunity 1️⃣:
🗓️ May 1, 2025
⏰ 6pm Central (US) / 9am Eastern (Australia)
🔗 tinyurl.com/2s4ve7zd
Opportunity 2️⃣:
🗓️ May 6, 2025
⏰ 9am Central (US) / 4pm Central (Africa/Europe)
🔗 tinyurl.com/a2v28ysp
Opportunity 1️⃣:
🗓️ May 1, 2025
⏰ 6pm Central (US) / 9am Eastern (Australia)
🔗 tinyurl.com/2s4ve7zd
Opportunity 2️⃣:
🗓️ May 6, 2025
⏰ 9am Central (US) / 4pm Central (Africa/Europe)
🔗 tinyurl.com/a2v28ysp
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🌏🌱 The SocSES Early-Career Hub is launching next week!
🗓️ Tuesday, 29 April 2025
⌚ 6pm CAT / 12pm EDT
📍 Online (Zoom)
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/SocSES-EC-Hu...
Join us for a collaborative session to co-create this new community.
ℹ️ Learn more about the Early-Career Hub here: tinyurl.com/SocSES-EC-Hub
🗓️ Tuesday, 29 April 2025
⌚ 6pm CAT / 12pm EDT
📍 Online (Zoom)
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/SocSES-EC-Hu...
Join us for a collaborative session to co-create this new community.
ℹ️ Learn more about the Early-Career Hub here: tinyurl.com/SocSES-EC-Hub
April 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
🌏🌱 The SocSES Early-Career Hub is launching next week!
🗓️ Tuesday, 29 April 2025
⌚ 6pm CAT / 12pm EDT
📍 Online (Zoom)
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/SocSES-EC-Hu...
Join us for a collaborative session to co-create this new community.
ℹ️ Learn more about the Early-Career Hub here: tinyurl.com/SocSES-EC-Hub
🗓️ Tuesday, 29 April 2025
⌚ 6pm CAT / 12pm EDT
📍 Online (Zoom)
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/SocSES-EC-Hu...
Join us for a collaborative session to co-create this new community.
ℹ️ Learn more about the Early-Career Hub here: tinyurl.com/SocSES-EC-Hub
myself and other dear friends from SocSES will be facilitating this event! all early career people are welcomed to attend 😁
Join the launch of the SocSES Early-Career Hub 🎉
The EC Hub team will host an interactive session to introduce the Hub and facilitate a collaborative session to co-create this exciting new space.
🗓️ Tuesday, 29 April 2025
⌚ 6pm CAT / 12pm EDT
📍 Online (Zoom)
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/SocSES-EC-Hu...
The EC Hub team will host an interactive session to introduce the Hub and facilitate a collaborative session to co-create this exciting new space.
🗓️ Tuesday, 29 April 2025
⌚ 6pm CAT / 12pm EDT
📍 Online (Zoom)
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/SocSES-EC-Hu...
April 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
myself and other dear friends from SocSES will be facilitating this event! all early career people are welcomed to attend 😁
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🌍✨ SocSES is dedicated to advancing and supporting social-ecological systems research, practice, and action. Our goal is to provide a “home” for researchers and practitioners in the rapidly growing SES field. #SocialEcologicalSystems #Sustainability #Research
March 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
🌍✨ SocSES is dedicated to advancing and supporting social-ecological systems research, practice, and action. Our goal is to provide a “home” for researchers and practitioners in the rapidly growing SES field. #SocialEcologicalSystems #Sustainability #Research
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EMPATHY– a true driving force for a future that is not only more sustainable but also more loving and caring! This is the core of the #EmpathyforSustainability Project that I am proudly part of! Learn more about our research works in these newly released video vignettes:
youtu.be/tD-v44ls5qQ?...
youtu.be/tD-v44ls5qQ?...
[ EP4 | EN | Meet the Team ] What benefits do you see from this work for you?
YouTube video by Empathy for Sustainability
youtu.be
December 5, 2024 at 1:29 AM
EMPATHY– a true driving force for a future that is not only more sustainable but also more loving and caring! This is the core of the #EmpathyforSustainability Project that I am proudly part of! Learn more about our research works in these newly released video vignettes:
youtu.be/tD-v44ls5qQ?...
youtu.be/tD-v44ls5qQ?...
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💡How do #AI and #socialnetworks shape our #ClimateEmotions change and our willingness to act?
Our new paper in nature led by @vgalaz.bsky.social explores the emotional dynamics of AI, digital networks, and climate action, highlighting key research gaps 🌍
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Our new paper in nature led by @vgalaz.bsky.social explores the emotional dynamics of AI, digital networks, and climate action, highlighting key research gaps 🌍
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Artificial intelligence, digital social networks, and climate emotions - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - Artificial intelligence, digital social networks, and climate emotions
www.nature.com
March 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
💡How do #AI and #socialnetworks shape our #ClimateEmotions change and our willingness to act?
Our new paper in nature led by @vgalaz.bsky.social explores the emotional dynamics of AI, digital networks, and climate action, highlighting key research gaps 🌍
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Our new paper in nature led by @vgalaz.bsky.social explores the emotional dynamics of AI, digital networks, and climate action, highlighting key research gaps 🌍
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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We are still recruiting a PhD student for this awesome position on Pacific salmon collaborating with Heiltsuk First Nation, the Wild Salmon Center, and Hakai Institute.
If interested, let me know if you have any questions.
If interested, let me know if you have any questions.
Another PhD opportunity in our lab.
We seek a PhD student applicant to study how ocean and freshwater changes affect Pacific salmon in the Central Coast. Partners include: Heiltsuk First Nation, the Wild Salmon Center, and Hakai Institute. See attached advertisement. Please circulate widely!
We seek a PhD student applicant to study how ocean and freshwater changes affect Pacific salmon in the Central Coast. Partners include: Heiltsuk First Nation, the Wild Salmon Center, and Hakai Institute. See attached advertisement. Please circulate widely!
March 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
We are still recruiting a PhD student for this awesome position on Pacific salmon collaborating with Heiltsuk First Nation, the Wild Salmon Center, and Hakai Institute.
If interested, let me know if you have any questions.
If interested, let me know if you have any questions.
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📣 JOB ALERT
PostDoc (3+3 years) and PhD (3 years) in Cultural Geography/Society-Environment Research in the new Society-Environment Research Group at @fau.de
Deadline: 28 March 2025.
More info here:
www.geographie.nat.fau.de/job-offer-po...
Do get in touch with any questions!
PostDoc (3+3 years) and PhD (3 years) in Cultural Geography/Society-Environment Research in the new Society-Environment Research Group at @fau.de
Deadline: 28 March 2025.
More info here:
www.geographie.nat.fau.de/job-offer-po...
Do get in touch with any questions!
March 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
📣 JOB ALERT
PostDoc (3+3 years) and PhD (3 years) in Cultural Geography/Society-Environment Research in the new Society-Environment Research Group at @fau.de
Deadline: 28 March 2025.
More info here:
www.geographie.nat.fau.de/job-offer-po...
Do get in touch with any questions!
PostDoc (3+3 years) and PhD (3 years) in Cultural Geography/Society-Environment Research in the new Society-Environment Research Group at @fau.de
Deadline: 28 March 2025.
More info here:
www.geographie.nat.fau.de/job-offer-po...
Do get in touch with any questions!
so cool to see our 2024 publication in the account of @esandpeople.bsky.social ! using a participatory approach, we developed a qualitative model and future scenarios for nature’s contributions to people at the periurban region of Campinas, a metropolis in Brazil!
March 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
so cool to see our 2024 publication in the account of @esandpeople.bsky.social ! using a participatory approach, we developed a qualitative model and future scenarios for nature’s contributions to people at the periurban region of Campinas, a metropolis in Brazil!
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Our new paper shows how arts-based methods can uncover human-nature connections 🎨
At Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, Chagga women connect with nature through cooking, agriculture, emotions and shared values 🏔️
You can read more here: doi.org/10.1080/2639...
@esandpeople.bsky.social
At Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, Chagga women connect with nature through cooking, agriculture, emotions and shared values 🏔️
You can read more here: doi.org/10.1080/2639...
@esandpeople.bsky.social
Chagga women´s connections with nature: fostering relationality through arts-based methods
Relational approaches in research are now recognised as a potential pathway to fostering transformations in sustainability research. Drawing on insights from Chagga women at Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanz...
doi.org
March 4, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Our new paper shows how arts-based methods can uncover human-nature connections 🎨
At Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, Chagga women connect with nature through cooking, agriculture, emotions and shared values 🏔️
You can read more here: doi.org/10.1080/2639...
@esandpeople.bsky.social
At Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, Chagga women connect with nature through cooking, agriculture, emotions and shared values 🏔️
You can read more here: doi.org/10.1080/2639...
@esandpeople.bsky.social
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My group at @anufennerschool.bsky.social has made a website about our research! We've called ourselves Resilient Human And Planetary Systems (RHAPS). Check out our website www.rhaps.earth for details of our research on resilience, Earth systems, social-ecological systems and more!
March 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
My group at @anufennerschool.bsky.social has made a website about our research! We've called ourselves Resilient Human And Planetary Systems (RHAPS). Check out our website www.rhaps.earth for details of our research on resilience, Earth systems, social-ecological systems and more!