The bonobos are talking, like, in sentences. Your regular reminder that human exceptionalism has no visible means of support.

The bonobos are talking, like, in sentences. Your regular reminder that human exceptionalism has no visible means of support.
Now it's time to submit your abstracts in the Multispecies Future Symposium! The call closes on Apr 23.
"The chapters, constructed as 'multispecies stories,' ... consider ecologies & infrastructure together in novel ways that challenge our conceptual separations between the two. Readers will find a theoretically exciting & vibrantly composed read with OIL BEACH"
https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/24661
Thank you for this lovely review, Shelley Tuazon Guyton & IJOC!
Here's the book:
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo185167017.html
#Commodon #STS #EnvHist @ecologies @sts #OilBeach #multispecies #CriticalLogistics
My ANU colleague Gavin Smith is doing amazing work on the lives of urban brown snakes around Canberra. Here’s an update on the impacts of relocating snakes around the urban fringe.
@ANUResearch #herpetology #multispecies #canberra #wildlife
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-09/research-project-canberra-snake-tracking-discoveries/104904398?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link
In 2014, the fate of an 18-month old giraffe garnered international attention. Marius’ death & #dissection continues to spark debate about captive animal management in #zoos
Read my article on the sticky ethics of zoo animal euthanasia here: #Multispecies #anthropology https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-8322.12938
Community Efforts to Care for Animals During Climate Disasters:
Experiences and Recommendations from an Australian Bushfire Affected Region
"Formal disaster prevention, preparation, risk management, and response remain highly anthropocentric, with non-human animals afforded minimal attention, resourcing, and support. This article reports on informal community efforts to care for non-human animals during and after the 2019/2020 “Black Summer” bushfires in Australia, when over three billion animals were killed, injured, or displaced."
"Key findings are that:
human communities understood and treated non-human animals as part of their communities; humans went to extraordinary lengths to care for and rescue animals; these efforts were largely invisible to, and unsupported—even condemned—by formal emergency management agencies. We conclude that human-centric emergency and disaster management policies are at odds with community values and behaviors. We argue that disaster management must evolve to accommodate and support the realities of community-based rather than individual-based approaches, and must simultaneously expand to consider communities as multispecies."
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Sturman, A., Celermajer, D., MacDonald, F. et al. Community Efforts to Care for Animals During Climate Disasters: Experiences and Recommendations from an Australian Bushfire Affected Region. Int J Disaster Risk Sci (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-025-00623-8
#bushfires #fires #FossilFuels #ClimateBreakdown #care #biodiversity #wildlife #NSW #megafires #2019Bushfires #BlackSummer #disaster #preparation #pets #property #livestock #anthropocentrism #multispecies #community #values
When is the best partner not the best choice? Considering a multispecies mutualism in a variable environment, Stevens et al. demonstrate the potential benefits of supporting a diversity of partners equally in spite of differences in quality.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/733224
Dunne and Raby in conversation with Nagel’s classic ‘What is it Like to be a Bat?’ (via @bruces)
https://fojournal.org/re-reading/thomas-nagel-dunne-and-raby/
Dear #STS community with interest in #GermanSTS,
the upcoming https://sts-hub.de/25 comes with a registration deadline: tomorrow, 15th January.
REGISTER now :)
See you in Berlin, March 11 – 14! For discussions about Diffracting the Critical - #Multispecies, #STSpedagogy, #war, #psychology, #kinship, #capitalism ...
New instance, new #introduction, many hashtags. Hi! I'm an #STS #technopolitics scholar, also thinking w #anthropology #geography #EnvHist #Commodon
This is my non-chattery account for research updates, topics may include:
#feministSTS #multispecies #anticolonial #California #trucks #internet #port #SupplyChain #MediaActivism #labor #FreeRadio #CommunityMedia #SoundStudies #soundscapes #ClimateCrisis #LowPower #LosAngeles #oil #InfrastructureStudies #CriticalLogistics #Radio #FOSS #hacking #Energy #ToxicLA
Frog saunas, artificial trees, now osprey nesting platforms. The era of #habitecture is well and truly here
What makes a good tree? We used AI to ask birds
Exciting #multispecies #design work happening here in Canberra
https://theconversation.com/what-makes-a-good-tree-we-used-ai-to-ask-birds-233281
The amazing LeVar Burton chose a story from SOLARPUNK CREATURES to read on his podcast!
Check out "Quarropts Can't Dance" by Rodrigo Culagovski ( @culagovski ) in this week's episode
#solarpunk #ScienceFiction #Multispecies #MoreThanHuman #SciFiStories #PodcastFiction #LeVarBurton #LeVarBurtonReads
Highly Pathogenic Avian #Influenza A(#H5N1) Viruses from #Multispecies #Outbreak, #Argentina, August 2023, Emerg Infect Dis.: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/30/4/23-1725_article
-- We report full-genome characterization of HPAI A(H5N1) clade 2.3.4.4b virus from an outbreak among sea lions (August 2023) in Argentina and possible #spillover to fur #seals and #terns. #Mammalian #adaptation mutations in virus isolated from marine mammals and a human in Chile were detected in mammalian and avian hosts.
Remember #Marius the giraffe who was euthanized and dissected by Copenhagen Zoo? It is coming up to ten years since Marius caught the attention of the media across Europe, the US, and further afield.
In my latest article, I question the forms of #nature such #dissections reinforce & highlight how a #multispecies sensibility is central to #DarkPedagogy in #EnvironmentalEducation.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13504622.2023.2286931
SOLARPUNK CREATURES comes out two weeks from today! Order a paperback directly from World Weaver Press, and I can probably get it to you a little early. (US shipping) Also available in ebook, of course!
#solarpunk #ClimateFiction #Multispecies #MultispeciesCities #MultispeciesJustice #ScienceFiction #NewBooks #NewYearNewBooks #SmallPress
https://www.worldweaverpress.com/store/p186/Solarpunk_Creatures.html
Want an early review copy of SOLARPUNK CREATURES? It's still available on NetGalley for the next couple of weeks!
#solarpunk #anthology #ShortStories #AdvanceReviewCopy #ARC #BookReviewer #ScienceFiction #Multispecies #ClimateFiction