Mary Menton

Generative AI vegetarianism Hello, it’s me: I’m a generative AI vegetarian. The tech industry is convinced this is the future; I don’t want any of it, full stop. Why choose generative AI vegetarianism? Just like real-life veget...

New (non-work) blog post! 📝 “Generative AI vegetarianism” sboots.ca/2026/03/11/g...

Multispecies Mutualisms - Join Our Research Team! We’re hiring 4 Postdoctoral Research Associates (PDRAs) In this video, members of the team share insights into four exciting PDRA opportunities currently available. If you are ready to take the next s...

1/ Calling all ECRs - we have 4x3 year post docs on Multispecies Mutualisms working with us at Sheffield.
Don't want to read through all the stuff to work out if its right for you? Here is a short video explainer 🎥
digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...

IDS Annual Lecture 2026 with Jason Hickel - Institute of Development Studies Join us for the IDS Annual Lecture 2026 delivered by world-renowned political economist and author Prof Jason Hickel.

@ids.ac.uk Annual Lecture by @jasonhickel.bsky.social Capitalism, ecology, and class struggle in the 21st century
Online and in person
24th March 2026 at 4pm(UK-time)
Register to watch online here: www.ids.ac.uk/events/ids-a...

Thanks for sharing - appreciate having something hopeful to read right now.

How the ‘Galápagos of west Africa’ is plundered by floating fish factories A Guardian investigation with DeSmog reveals thousands of tonnes of fish are illegally turned into fishmeal and oil off the coast of Guinea-Bissau

Illegal floating fish factories off the coast of Guinea-Bissau turn thousands of tonnes of fish into fishmeal and oil which finds its way into international supply chains www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Defending dignity and claiming rights: human rights
defenders hold firm to universal values as others desert them
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of #HumanRightsDefenders by @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social documents.un.org/doc/undoc/ge...

JUST ART

Exciting PhD opportunities in the Netherlands with the project
JUST ART: Creating Common Grounds for Climate Justice Through Artistic Research justart.info

Indigenous leader assassinated in Colombia’s Caldas department Colombian Indigenous leader José Albino Cañas Ramírez was recently shot and killed. Indigenous authorities believe he was targeted for his work defending the forest.

Despite IACHR requirements for precautionary measures to protect the Embera people & recent requests for support that failed to arrive, another Indigenous leader, José Albino Cañas Ramírez was assassinated in Caldas, Colombia
news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

We Must Refuse a Forced Grieving The powerful want us to move on. It is a political imperative we do not.

We must refuse forced grieving "a kind of compulsory moving-on that we did not agree to; a forced dehumanization of those who are presumed dead, or those whose lives the powerful do not care for." @pempem.bsky.social substack.com/@mentalhellt...

‘The dinosaurs didn’t know what was coming, but we do’: Marina Silva on what needs to follow Cop30 Exclusive: Brazil’s environment minister talks about climate inaction and the course we have to plot to save ourselves and the planet

‘The dinosaurs didn’t know what was coming, but we do’: Marina Silva on what needs to follow #COP30 by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Title, BISA working group logo, 4th December. "This roundtable brings together four researchers and their perspectives to a conversation about the role of art and creativity in imagining alternative ecological futures"

List of participants. Chair Hannah Hughes, speakers Carl Death, Audra Mitchell, Farai Chipato, Cara Berger.

Happening next week, 4th December.

Alternative ecological futures: Art, climate change and the radical imagination.

Online and free 3pm-4.30pm UK time - make sure you register!

www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

COP-tastrophe: How the COP of Implementation, Truth, Forests, and Indigenous Peoples Failed on All Counts COP30 began full of promise but ended as yet another reminder that the mechanism for global climate governance is broken.

To give you an idea about just how eventful the end of COP30 was, I wrote and rewrote this entire 2000 story for @drilledmedia.bsky.social three times over a period of about six hours as it was all happening.

COP do Povo: Tribunal dos Povos condena mais de 800 empresas por ecogenocídio - Brasil de Fato Entre as empresas condenadas em 21 casos de violência ambiental, estão gigantes como a JP Morgan, Cargill e JBS

#COPdoPovo: Tribunal dos Povos condena mais de 800 empresas por ecogenocídio #BrasilDeFato www.brasildefato.com.br/2025/11/14/c...

Join us. Friday 14/11 at 1pm in the Aldeia COP. From Amazonia to the World: Brazilian Experiences and Climate Justice in Global Perspective

If you're in Belém next week for COP30, join us for a discussion on "Pillars of Climate Injustice through the Lens of Political Ecology"

Se você estiver em Belém na semana que vem para a COP30, participe da nossa mesa sobre "Pilares da Injustiça Climática pelo olhar da Ecologia Política"

🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers!

Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025

Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!

Please share widely!

Report on regional consultations with environmental defenders by Michel Forst UN Special Rapporteur on
#EnvironmentalDefenders under the #AarhusConvention unece.org/sites/defaul...

Ecofeminist Revolutionary Struggles Amid Extractivist Conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda This article investigates how, against the extractivist legacy of colonialism and the extractivist activities currently under way in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda, the ecofe...

Ecofeminist Revolutionary Struggles Amid Extractivist Conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda doi.org/10.1080/1045...

There are now 183 videos of our Greenhouse #envhum book talks available to view via our Vimeo showcase. This includes our most recent talks.

You can also listen to the audio-only podcast, which is slightly behind with 154 episodes available: newnatures.org/greenhouse/f...

Scottish data centres powering AI already using enough water to fill 27 million bottles a year The volume of tap water used by Scotland's data centres has quadrupled since 2021, figures show.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

New study found an increase in AMPA receptors may be linked to #BrainFog in long COVID
Fujimoto et al 2025: Systemic increase of AMPA receptors associated with cognitive impairment of #LongCOVID academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...

ICYMI Applications are due next week (26th Sept).
Understanding the intersection between #ClimateAction and #ClimateJustice
#PoliticalEcology #HumanGeography #PhD

If there was an academic version of The Onion...

Understanding the Intersection between Climate Action and Climate (In)Justice at Heriot-Watt University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Understanding the Intersection between Climate Action and Climate (In)Justice at Heriot-Watt University, listed on FindAPhD.com

Come do a PhD with me at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, Scotland).
Fully funded scholarship, open to international candidates, to look at "understanding the intersection between climate action and climate (in)justice"
#ClimateJustice #HumanGeography #GeoSky www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Understanding the Intersection between Climate Action and Climate (In)Justice at Heriot-Watt University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Understanding the Intersection between Climate Action and Climate (In)Justice at Heriot-Watt University, listed on FindAPhD.com

Come do a PhD with me at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, Scotland).
Fully funded scholarship, open to international candidates, to look at "understanding the intersection between climate action and climate (in)justice"
#ClimateJustice #HumanGeography #GeoSky www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

New paper by Reddington et al shows that #tropical #deforestation is associated with localised warming and #heat -related #mortality
Open access in #NatureClimateChange:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Decolonize scientific institutions, don’t just diversify them Indigenous scholars set out eight steps to stop marginalization in academia and to enable a shared Indigenous agenda in science.

#ToRead from Nature:
#Decolonize scientific institutions
8 steps to stop marginalisation in academia and enable a shared Indigenous agenda in science
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Demilitarizing Conservation Many national parks and other protected areas (PAs) are experiencing an intensification of military actors, logics, and partnerships across the globe. This amounts to one of the most consequential ...

New article🚨 Demilitarizing Conservation
A labour of love w L Lunstrum @ashavin.bsky.social A Dutta @esthermarijnen.bsky.social T Mushonga F Matose

For a more robustly care-full conservation
Demilitarization based on ethics/politics of care/nonviolence @pollenetwork.bsky.social

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#DecodeME genome study. "We found no evidence that the eight #ME/CFS genetic signals share common causal genetic variants w depression or anxiety. Our findings suggest that both immunological & neurological processes are involved in the genetic risk of ME/CFS." www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publicati...