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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · 29d

"The fact that hedgehogs are a part of the culture of Ukraine is a wonderful thing... they punch well above their weight & are stronger & better defended that you might expect"

Part 2 of @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social's report on hedgehog rescuers in Ukraine 🦔 🇺🇦

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · Sep 15

⚡️ Global oil prices rise as Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian energy sector escalate.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sept. 14 that Ukraine's strikes on oil facilities amount to the "most effective sanctions," weakening Russia's ability to finance its war.

Global oil prices rise as Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian energy sector escalate

President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sept. 14 that Ukraine's strikes on oil facilities amount to the "most effective sanctions," weakening Russia's ability to finance its war.

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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · Sep 15

"Until that moment the only Ukrainian hedgehogs in my mind were the ones placed on roads to act as tank defences!"

Read my friend, @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social's, new post on hedgehog rescue in #Ukraine, part 1 of 2.

hughwarwick.substack.com/p/a-hedgehog...

A Hedgehog on the front line (part 1)

While the world swirls into ever increasing spirals of chaos and doom it is lovely to find a cause for hope.

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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · Sep 10

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

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Ukrainian Environmental Humanities Network @ukrenvhum.bsky.social · Jul 22

In Ukraine’s bombed out reservoir a huge forest has grown – is it a return to life or a toxic timebomb?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In Ukraine’s bombed out reservoir a huge forest has grown – is it a return to life or a toxic timebomb?

Two years after the Nova Kakhovka dam was destroyed in Ukraine, nature has returned in abundance to the drained land in a ‘big natural experiment’ – but it could be lost as quickly as it appeared

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Ukrainian Environmental Humanities Network @ukrenvhum.bsky.social · Jul 8

A thoughtful review of @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social's 'Ecocide in Ukraine' by @alexvorbrugg.bsky.social published on the website of the Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group

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Ecocide in Ukraine. The Environmental Cost of Russia’s War. Book review – Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group

Alexander Vorbrugg Ecocide in Ukraine is an outstanding testimony to the environmental costs of Russia’s war, a moving tribute to humans, ecosystems, animals, and plants in Ukraine, and a thoughtful r...

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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · Jul 1

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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Ukrainian Environmental Humanities Network @ukrenvhum.bsky.social · May 20

An exciting opportunity 👇

Please share widely!

🇺🇦 Oxford Ukraine Hub 🇺🇦 @oxfordukrainehub.bsky.social · May 20

The Oxford Ukraine Hub will host its first interdisciplinary Ukraine Summer School on 22-26 September 2025.

We invite applications from postgraduate students with an interest in contemporary Ukraine.

Deadline: 30 June 2025

More info on how to apply: oxfordukrainehub.web.ox.ac.uk/ukraine-summ...

Oxford Ukraine Hub Summer School

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🇺🇦 Oxford Ukraine Hub 🇺🇦 @oxfordukrainehub.bsky.social · May 20

The Oxford Ukraine Hub will host its first interdisciplinary Ukraine Summer School on 22-26 September 2025.

We invite applications from postgraduate students with an interest in contemporary Ukraine.

Deadline: 30 June 2025

More info on how to apply: oxfordukrainehub.web.ox.ac.uk/ukraine-summ...

Oxford Ukraine Hub Summer School

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🇺🇦 Oxford Ukraine Hub 🇺🇦 @oxfordukrainehub.bsky.social · May 20

🇺🇦 Registration for our next event is now open! 🇺🇦

'Security and Warfare in #Ukraine: Domestic and Global Developments Post-2022'

🗓️ Friday 6th June at St Antony's College, Oxford.

🕰️ Full info & schedule here: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/b28...

📝 Registration: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

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Ukrainian Environmental Humanities Network @ukrenvhum.bsky.social · Apr 9

📢 Call for Submissions – Postgraduate Research Symposium at Oxford Everyday Experiences of Conflict: The Daily Life, Legacies & Textures of War

📅 November 6, 2025

📌 Location: University of Oxford

⏰ Deadline: May 30, 2025

Find out more: www.granduniondtp.ac.uk/event/everyd...

Everyday Experiences of Conflict

Call for Abstracts and Photographs

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🇺🇦 Oxford Ukraine Hub 🇺🇦 @oxfordukrainehub.bsky.social · Mar 3

🇺🇦 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

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Ukrainian Environmental Humanities Network @ukrenvhum.bsky.social · Mar 3

This forthcoming book looks very important for understanding the US-Ukraine mineral deal in its broader political economic context and in relation to histories of colonial resource extraction

Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · Mar 3

Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed?

I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism

👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social

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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · Mar 3

Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed?

I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism

👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social

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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · Feb 24

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!

drive.google.com/file/d/1pDUo...

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Darya (Дарця) Tsymbalyuk @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social · Feb 21

Article in Translation
Anna Olenenko. “‘Our New Sea Is Our New Grief’: The Conflict between the Ukrainian and the Soviet in the Struggle to Construct the Landscape of the Lower Dnipro.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, vol. 11, no. 2, 2024. drive.google.com/file/d/1ap8o...

11.2.5 Olenenko_translation_GD.pdf

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Darya (Дарця) Tsymbalyuk @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social · Feb 21

Jonathon Turnbull. “Chornobyl as Laboratory? The Curious Case of CTVT.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 2, 2024, forthcoming. drive.google.com/file/d/1pDUo...

11.2.4 Turnbull_article_GD.pdf

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Darya (Дарця) Tsymbalyuk @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social · Feb 21

Iryna Skubii. “Toward an Animal-Sensitive History of Famines: Animals, the Environment, and Soviet Famines in Ukraine.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 2, 2024, forthcoming.
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11.2.3 Skubii_article_GD_with pictures.pdf

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Darya (Дарця) Tsymbalyuk @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social · Feb 21

Julia Malitska. “Polycentring Vegetarianism in the Russian Empire: Human-Animal Relationships in the Pages of Vegetarianskoe obozrěnie, 1909–15.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, vol. 11, no. 2, 2024.https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yr-xAPbPiZ9PFvNKl0ZJD0Dow73V42m4/view?usp=sharing

11.2.2 Malitska_article_GD.pdf

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Darya (Дарця) Tsymbalyuk @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social · Feb 21

Tanya Richardson & Darya Tsymbalyuk. “Constellations of Ukrainian Thought and the Environmental Humanities.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 2, 2024, forthcoming. drive.google.com/file/d/1PASJ...

11.2.1 Richardson Tsymbalyuk_Constellations_GD.pdf

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Darya (Дарця) Tsymbalyuk @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social · Feb 21

Adrian Ivakhiv. “Becoming Tuteishyi: Ukraine in the New Global Climatic Regime.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 1, 2024, forthcoming. drive.google.com/file/d/10rlC...

11.1.5 Ivakhiv_essay_GD.pdf

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Darya (Дарця) Tsymbalyuk @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social · Feb 21

Iryna Zamuruieva. “Gathering Ecofeminist Stories with Kateryna Hrushevs'ka.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 1, 2024, forthcoming. drive.google.com/file/d/1Mlye...

11.1.4 Zamuruieva_essay_GD.pdf

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Darya (Дарця) Tsymbalyuk @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social · Feb 21

Kateryna Iakovlenko. “A Systematic Robbery: Transforming the Memory, Culture, and Landscape of the Ukrainian Steppe.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 1, 2024, forthcoming. drive.google.com/file/d/1yy_9...

11.1.3 Iakovlenko_article_GD.pdf

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Darya (Дарця) Tsymbalyuk @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social · Feb 21

Anastassiya Andrianova. “Sunflowers in the Ruins: A Multimodal Analysis of the Environmental Aspects of Ukrainian War Songs from March to May 2022.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 1, 2024, forthcoming. drive.google.com/file/d/1Bhxm...

11.1.2 Andrianova_article_GD.pdf

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Darya (Дарця) Tsymbalyuk @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social · Feb 21

Introduction. Tanya Richardson & Darya Tsymbalyuk. “Beyond Anthropocentrism in Ukrainian Studies: Proposals from the Environmental Humanities.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 1, 2024, forthcoming. drive.google.com/file/d/1EQM6...

11.1.1 Richardson Tsymbalyuk Beyond Anthropocentrism_GD.pdf

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