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valebodi.bsky.social @valebodi.bsky.social · Aug 4

Understanding severe ME by the world ME alliance

“Severe and very severe ME/CFS represents one of the most profound states of disability found in medicine.”
– @batemanhornecenter.bsky.social , USA

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#ME/Cfs #pwME #SevereME #SevereMEDay #ICDG93.3 #ICDG93.32

Severe ME - World ME Alliance

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Christian Kull @stiankull.bsky.social · Jul 1

New article (link in blog entry below) on how the old story of "people arrived and destroyed the Madagascar environment" misses a chance for much more nuanced investigation. Who? What? When? Where? Why? are crucial questions. christiankull.net/2025/07/01/g...

Knowledge gaps and narrative traps in Madagascar’s environmental history

Onilahy River, southwest Madagascar Madagascar’s environmental past is more complex and regionally diverse than the tired narrative of a once-forested island devastated by people would have us beli…

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Christian Kull @stiankull.bsky.social · Jun 27

Had some fun with photo-editing and wrote about a worst nightmare for the hotter future….

Christian Kull @stiankull.bsky.social · Jun 27

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Wildfires coming to Switzerland

Forest fire above Rolle, VD, a terrifying vision of the future? What if, one unusually hot summer, after four weeks without rain, a wildfire progressed across the face of the Jura, the hills of la …

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Christian Kull @stiankull.bsky.social · May 21

Pacing: the solution to both ME/CFS and the climate crisis. Trenchant writing finds parallels between wildfires and long covid.

yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a...

A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles

BY VIOLET AFFLECK I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mother in a hotel room. She was shell-shocked, astonished at the scale of destruction in the neighborhood where she raised…

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Environmental Conservation @envconsjournal.bsky.social · Apr 25

Each week we like to share bios of our Editorial Board, here at #environmentalconservation. This week we are very pleased to introduce Professor Christian Kull, who is a Senior Editor at the journal. 🌍 @stiankull.bsky.social

Prof. dr. Vivienne Matthies-Boon @vmatthiesboon.bsky.social · Apr 17

#LongCovid, #MECFS and #PAIS are medical and ethical emergencies. Though many people fail to recognise this as such.

On the ethical issues, our website with the video recordings of the talks held at the #postviralethics conference is now online!! 👇

www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...

Postviral Ethics - RCPS & PCNN | Radboud University

Read the workshop report and check out the presentations.

www.ru.nl

Christian Kull @stiankull.bsky.social · Apr 9

Where are the smart people like David Brooks? Nicely argued. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

I Should Have Seen This Coming

When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won...

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Christian Kull @stiankull.bsky.social · Apr 7

What gives one man the right to take so much of everyone’s time, attention, and emotion all over the world?

Juliet J. Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social · Apr 4

Vous auriez envie de faire une thèse de doctorat en Géographie sous ma direction ou avec un•e de mes collègues, sur le thème de votre choix mais en lien à nos domaines de compétences? Postulez pour ce poste de recherche & d’assistant•e d’enseignement!
#UNIGE

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Assistant-e en géographie humaine (6305)

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Christian Kull @stiankull.bsky.social · Mar 23

The university’s glossy magazine did a profile of my work on trees that people have moved around the world 😊

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Les arbres voyageurs

Ce baobab de l’espèce Adansonia gregorii pousse non loin d’œuvres d’art rupestre, dans un site archéologique de Kununurra (nord-ouest du pays). Il est possible que des humains, lors de la Préhistoire,...

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · Mar 3

In memory of Joseph (Joe) Michael Powell, 1938–2022.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

Christian Kull @stiankull.bsky.social · Feb 11

La motion pour une Stratégie Nationale Suisse sur ME/CFS et Long Covid a été déposée au Parlement. Acceptez la! Nous connaissons presque tous quelqu'un dans nos cercles qui est atteint de Long COVID ou de ME/CFS.

Christian Kull @stiankull.bsky.social · Feb 8

The USAID thing: world’s richest man, in unelected job, closes agency that helps the world’s poorest and promotes democracy. Huh?

Christian Kull @stiankull.bsky.social · Jan 24

Bravo! Est-ce que tu arrives à lire leur « handwriting » ?

Steve Pyne @sjpyne.bsky.social · Jan 11

A thoughtful meditation and reminder of the scale of the reforms needed.It's not just that people are moving into fire-prone lands; in Mediterranean Europe the problem is people moving out of fire-prone lands.It's not where you live but how you live on the land. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/o...

Opinion | The Best Time to Fireproof Los Angeles Was Yesterday

Can a city lose an entire neighborhood now and simply shuffle on, dragging the local memory like a ghost limb?

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Steve Pyne @sjpyne.bsky.social · Jan 11

Ok, an anecdotal image - but this is what structure protection looked like in the 1935 Malibu fires. What a change in scale and character - of fire, of the built environment, of firefighting capacity (CCC boys then). Only the inevitability of fire in some form is constant.

Christian Kull @stiankull.bsky.social · Jan 10

Les incendies qui s'étendent jusqu’en ville sont terrifiants. Ils sont récurrents dans des endroits comme la Californie avec climat et végétation de type méditerranéen. Et ils s'aggravent avec l'augmentation du nombre de maisons construites dans les zones exposées et avec le changement climatique.

Christian Kull @stiankull.bsky.social · Jan 9

It is often assumed that « more forests » is simply better and more sustainable, without careful consideration of how and where it happens, who wins and who loses, and what kinds of forests. How about a political ecology of forest transitions?
www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

Why forest transitions aren’t always sustainable « Earth & Environmental Science# « Cambridge Core Blog

Stopping and reversing deforestation is a top priority across the tropics. Numerous policies and programs try to stem forest clearance, encourage tree planting, and restore forest landscapes. The hope...

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Christian Kull @stiankull.bsky.social · Jan 6

How to reconcile global and local benefits of forest restoration - or how to ensure local voices, justice, and leadership in the face of strong forces of global agencies and intermediaries? New blog and article.
christiankull.net/2025/01/06/v...

Global carbon markets or local residents: forest restoration for whom?

Seems like everybody is planting trees or restoring forestlands these days. The emphasis is often on carbon capture to attenuate climate change. But this emphasis on carbon offsets (and the money b…

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · Dec 22

[Sarcasm alert]
All is good! Bring ChatGPT on!

Exhibit #101 on why "highlights" should not substitute an abstract. #ChatGPT

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Dec 22

This sums it up, yes.

Christian Kull @stiankull.bsky.social · Dec 18

University of Lausanne’s seasonal greetings video highlights a colleague’s fun project to re-measure the high points of the Jura mountain chain - which found a new summit, only known to squirrels, named J1…

unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social · Dec 18

L'UNIL vous souhaite de joyeuses Fêtes et une année 2025 pleine de découvertes!

Christian Kull @stiankull.bsky.social · Dec 18

Good political ecology of fire research welcome here, and all other good social science work fireecology.org/journal-news....

NEW! Social Science Section Collection — Association for Fire Ecology

The new Fire Social Science section of Fire Ecology welcomes contributions from any social science discipline and related interdisciplinary research.

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Paul Robbins @earthfutures.bsky.social · Dec 18

The road to conservation in semi-arid lands still goes straight through the thicket of colonialism: protecting the rights of Indigenous pastoralists and their rare livestock. This is both a practical question and a deeply ethical one. edgeeffects.net/conservation...

Conserving Biodiversity without Preserving Settler Ecologies - Edge Effects

Charis Enns & Brock Bersaglio trace connections between colonialism, settler ecologies, and conservation in Laikipia County, Kenya.

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unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social · Dec 18

L'UNIL vous souhaite de joyeuses Fêtes et une année 2025 pleine de découvertes!

Christian Kull @stiankull.bsky.social · Dec 18

An important petition for scientific accountability in reviewing research on ME/CFS and the advice given to doctors. Listen to the patients and the quality research, not to received ‘wisdoms’. This is important my elder son and millions of sufferers like him around the world

sarah boothby @swastrosarah.bsky.social · Dec 18

#PatientSafety please sign the call for Cochrane to withdraw its harmful endorsement of studies promoting exercise in post infection diseases www.change.org/p/cochrane-w.... Cochrane is a highly recommended resource to many post-graduate scholars in England. The next generation deserves better.

Sign the Petition

Cochrane: Withdraw the harmful 2019 Exercise therapy for CFS review

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sarah boothby @swastrosarah.bsky.social · Dec 18

#PatientSafety please sign the call for Cochrane to withdraw its harmful endorsement of studies promoting exercise in post infection diseases www.change.org/p/cochrane-w.... Cochrane is a highly recommended resource to many post-graduate scholars in England. The next generation deserves better.

Sign the Petition

Cochrane: Withdraw the harmful 2019 Exercise therapy for CFS review

www.change.org

Zali Fung @zalifung.bsky.social · Dec 18

Recent article in @natureandspace.bsky.social: I examine long-proposed ‘amorphous’ dams & diversions in the Salween River Basin & show how speculation & rumour are deployed strategically by differently placed actors working towards project development or demise. Open access!

Julia PG Jones @juliajones.bsky.social · Dec 13

The wonderful Dr Sarobidy Rakotonarivo (formerly of @bangorcosepgr.bsky.social) has been awarded a L'Oreal-UNESCO women in science prize. If you don't know about her work on conservation and development, check out her website mitsilo.org

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