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Technological Life - SoGE Oxford
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🌍 We research how different forms of collective life are shaped by increasingly complex entanglements of geological, biological, & technological processes 🌍

Website: https://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/research/technological-life/index.html
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🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐

'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'

🗓️ 2-3 February 2026
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating)

Deadline: 14th November

Full info: digicologies.com/cfp
October 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Pleased to share this paper for BioSocieties on snakebite in Kerala. I explore how social scientific theories of toxicity aid in conceiving of the structural vulnerabilities, diagnostic uncertainty, and multispecies health impacts that characterise snakebite's public health response.
Making sense of snakebite: the place of biological toxins in social scientific analyses of toxicity - BioSocieties
Through an ethnographic study of snakebite governance in Kerala, India, this article argues that social scientific theories of toxicity elucidate the biosocial dimensions of snakebite envenomation (SB...
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August 19, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Really pleased to share my new paper—"Making sense of nuclear natures"—which is available open access in Progress in Environmental Geography!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @progenvgeog.bsky.social @technatures.bsky.social #NuclearNatures
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September 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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☢️ New paper published in Progress in Environmental Geography ☢️

'Making sense of nuclear natures: Ecologies, expertise, aesthetics' by Jonathon Turnbull

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @jonnyjjt.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @technatures.bsky.social
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September 9, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Last week members of TechLife visited the ‘More-than-human’ exhibition at the Design Museum @designmuseum.bsky.social in London... A big thanks to the team of curators at the Museum for hosting us and partaking in a fascinating discussion!
July 21, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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🦉 Glitch Environmentalism 🦉

In our new paper, Naomi Parker, @admsrl.bsky.social & I explore glitches in the birding community that arose in the Self-Isolating Bird Club

We theorise glitch environmentalism to understand how transitory glitches can gain duration

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July 18, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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New paper out -- Lea gives an excellent summary of the contents and why we are ambiguous about community transport in rural Oxfordshire despite the wonderful work of its volunteers and the essential services it provides to those without a car and access to public buses @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
🚐 New paper out! My final paper on community transport with @timschwanen.bsky.social at @tsuoxford.bsky.social is now published open access in Journal of Rural Studies.

What’s it about? See 🧵 below!
June 6, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Congratulations to Dr Timothy Hodgetts, Dr @avideshseenath.bsky.social, Dr Jonathon Turnbull and Dr Raffaele Ippolito who won Divisional Teaching Excellence Awards this year! 👏👏👏

Read more about it: www.geog.ox.ac.uk/news/dr-timo...
Dr Timothy Hodgetts, Dr Avidesh Seenath, Dr Jonathon Turnbull and Dr Raffaele Ippolito win Divisional Teaching Excellence Awards 2025
Dr Timothy Hodgetts, Dr Avidesh Seenath, Dr Jonathon Turnbull and Dr Raffaele Ippolito win Divisional Teaching Excellence Awards 2025
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June 24, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Delighted to have a chapter in 'The Nuclear-Water Nexus' edited by @perhogselius.bsky.social & @siegfriedevens.bsky.social

Kate Brown and I trace the legacies of #Chornobyl through the proposed E40 waterway, exploring historical/contemporary attempts to engineer the #Prypiat River
The Nuclear-Water Nexus
Splitting atoms is a water-intensive business. To operate efficiently and safely, a standard nuclear reactor needs around 50 cubic meters (13,000 gallons) of...
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July 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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🌍 We're delighted to announce the publication of the next issue of #ROUTES 🌍

✍️ The new issue showcases original #research from talented high school and undergraduate #geographers

👇 See below for details: routesjournal.org/current-issue/ @rgsibg.bsky.social @geographicalassoc.bsky.social
Current Issue
VOLUME 4 ISSUE 3 2025 ISSN 2634-4815 Pages: 131-227 Editorial Essays This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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June 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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#OpenAccess in Transactions:

'(Re)wilding London: Fabric, politics, and aesthetics' by @jonnyjjt.bsky.social et al.

This paper sets out an agenda for future geographical research into urban rewilding.

doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky #geo
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
Rewilding has become established as a new mode of nature conservation. Until recently, cities and the urban were neglected by rewilding discourse; the idea of urban rewilding seen as oxymoronic. Of l...
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May 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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🚨 Call for submissions! 🚨

The Progress in Environmental Geography editorial collective is seeking Original Research Articles and Themed Interventions on important topics and issues in environmental geography

See below for details of our current and previous themed issues 👇
March 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Looking back on the Nature Buffering exhibition curated with my Digital Ecologies MSc students at @oxfordgeography.bsky.social a couple of weeks ago.

Loved seeing their creative reflections on the digital mediation of more-than-human worlds!
March 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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The Digital Ecologies MSc collective recently held an exhibition - #NatureBuffering - at Oxford. Students showcased key concepts from the #DigitalEcologies framework through a series of wonderful creative interventions 💫
Looking back on the Nature Buffering exhibition curated with my Digital Ecologies MSc students at @oxfordgeography.bsky.social a couple of weeks ago.

Loved seeing their creative reflections on the digital mediation of more-than-human worlds!
March 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Join us for the Nature Buffering exhibition!

The @digicologies.bsky.social MSc Collective will exhibit creative work reflecting on the digitisation of more-than-human worlds, w/ @jonnyjjt.bsky.social, @karolinausk.bsky.social & @admsrl.bsky.social

🗓️ 11 March
⏰ 4-6pm
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March 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Join us for the Nature Buffering exhibition!

The @digicologies.bsky.social MSc Collective will exhibit creative work reflecting on the digitisation of more-than-human worlds, w/ @jonnyjjt.bsky.social, @karolinausk.bsky.social & @admsrl.bsky.social

🗓️ 11 March
⏰ 4-6pm
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March 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This week we're delighted to be joined by Eimear McLoughlin (@dreimear.bsky.social) who will be presenting:

'Multispecies multimodalities: sensory #ethnography, industrial sentience, and porcine plurality'

🗓️ Thursday 6th March
⏰ 4pm
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All welcome!
March 5, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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🇺🇦 Registration for our next event is now open! 🇺🇦

'Consolidating the state: challenges and opportunities in postwar #reconstruction of #Ukraine'

🗓️ Friday 14th March at St Antony's College, Oxford.

🕰️ Full schedule here: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/dd1...

📝 Registration: forms.office.com/e/YvyXhRce1t
March 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
This week, we're hosting the book launch of Digital Ecologies: Mediating More-than-human Worlds w/ @jonnyjjt.bsky.social & @admsrl.bsky.social

🗓️ 27th February
⏰ 4pm
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188601/ @digicologies.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social P
Manchester University Press - Digital ecologies
Digital ecologies - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Digital ecologies by Jonathon Turnbull
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February 24, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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My new paper in East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies asks what it means to treat the #Chornobyl Zone as a laboratory, exploring a strange experiment conducted with the Chornobyl dogs.

Thanks @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social and @tlrichardson.bsky.social for support!

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February 24, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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This week we're delighted to be joined by Karolina Uskakovych who will screen her film 'Boots on the Ground, Hands in the Soil' and discuss her work on #agriculture and #gardening in the UK and #Ukraine.

🗓️ Thursday 20th Feb
⏰ 4pm
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

All welcome!
February 17, 2025 at 8:38 AM
This week we're delighted to be joined by Karolina Uskakovych who will screen her film 'Boots on the Ground, Hands in the Soil' and discuss her work on #agriculture and #gardening in the UK and #Ukraine.

🗓️ Thursday 20th Feb
⏰ 4pm
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

All welcome!
February 17, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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🌐 Check out this new blog by @caitlinhafferty.bsky.social, @jonnyjjt.bsky.social & Noemi Duroux where they reflect on the Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery conference held at the Digital Hub at Jesus College, Oxford in November last year

naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/news/beyond-... #DigitalEcologies
Beyond ‘technical fixes’: Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery conference provokes debate at the interface between theory and application
Noemi Duroux, Caitlin Hafferty, and Jonathon Turnbull reflect on the 2024 Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery conference, which created a vibrant, interdisciplinary space for knowledge sharing, posi...
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February 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM