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Neal Haddaway @nealhaddaway.bsky.social · Jan 15

As an environmental scientist by training, I'm used to the privilege of doing field work in beautiful locations, but this stark location (a slum in the greenhouses in Almería) was beautiful because of the amazing people who participated in our study

#Fieldwork #landscape #socSci

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Neal Haddaway @nealhaddaway.bsky.social · Jan 26

"CASI workplace harassment"

As many as 120,000 migrants maintain the 32,000ha of plastic greenhouses in Almería - the source of much of Europe's winter fruit and veg - many undocumented and working in dangerous conditions for low pay.

#agriculture #foodsupplychains #photography

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Neal Haddaway @nealhaddaway.bsky.social · Feb 13

🚨 Spain is building an open-air prison for migrant workers.

Los Grillos, a new housing project in Almería, was meant to replace informal settlements. Instead, it has fences, security cameras, and a curfew.

A thread on Europe’s hidden exploitation. 🧵👇
#MigrantRights #Spain

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Neal Haddaway @nealhaddaway.bsky.social · Feb 24

I was honoured to win a merit prize in the recent @unesco.org/Onewater "Walk of Water" photostory competition!

#photography #documentaryphotography #environment

Read about my project on water extraction and trade in the greenhouses of Almería in The New Climate here: medium.com/the-new-clim...

Water, Water Everywhere

Merit prize winner in the 2025 Onewater UNESCO ‘WALK OF WATER photo-story contest, Neal Haddaway shows Spain’s dwindling water resources.

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Neal Haddaway @nealhaddaway.bsky.social · Mar 10

This worrying trend to erase their existence demonstrates the lack of sustainability of the country's approach to lucrative intensive greenhouse production.

Read about the eviction and why this exploitation can't carry on in my new article in UnTold Magazine: untoldmag.org/photo-story-...

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Photo Story - Harvesting profit, displacing lives: The true cost of cheap vegetables - Untold

Spain’s billion-euro agriculture sector depends on undocumented migrant laborers—now evicted en masse, left homeless, and trapped in a system that profits from their exploitation.

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Neal Haddaway @nealhaddaway.bsky.social · May 1

Check out this set of investigative journalism articles in Untold Magazine, including two from my work in Almería in Spain!

#journalism #photojournalism #labour #migration #exploitation #InternationalWorkersDay

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Hidden Labor Archives - Untold

<h1 style="text-align: center"><strong>Hidden Labor</strong></h1> <p>Uncovering the exploitation, struggles, and lives of the workers shaping our world</p>

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Neal Haddaway @nealhaddaway.bsky.social · Jul 24

PhD or ECR in env/social sciences interested in systematic review/mapping?

Join our 5-day Evidence Synthesis School – bring a real question, leave with a draft protocol.

💬 “The template document is INVALUABLE!” – past participant

🔗 evidencesynthesisschool.github.io

#SystematicReview #ECR #PhD

Systematic Review and Mapping International School

Join us from the 10-15/11/25 for a 5-day workshop focusing on systematic review and mapping methodology training in social and environmental science

evidencesynthesisschool.github.io

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Neal Haddaway @nealhaddaway.bsky.social · 20d

Just published in The New Climate: Will New Laws Help to ‘Green’ Almería’s Sea of Plastic?

Almería’s greenhouses look dazzling from above — but underneath lies a system struggling with plastic, waste & fragile regulations.

👉 medium.com/the-new-clim...

Will New Laws Help to ‘Green’ Almería’s Sea of Plastic?

A photojournalism essay shows how a ban on plastic from composting facilities is a mere drop in the ocean.

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Andrés Actis @actisandres.bsky.social · 13d

Hemos sobrepasado 7 de los 9 límites planetarios

Pero, ¿todos contribuimos igual a este forzamiento?

➡️Mientras que los países más ricos y de renta media sobrepasan varios límites, los países más pobre (42% de la población mundial) están dentro de todos los límites.

Hilo🧵

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Science Magazine @science.org · 12d

Anticipating steep cuts to its budget, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, one of the world’s leading climate research centers, has laid off 29 employees and decided not to fill 21 vacant positions. https://scim.ag/46yaM9g

Renowned U.S. climate center trims staff ahead of expected budget cuts

NSF-funded National Center for Atmospheric Research is already shuttered during shutdown

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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Antonio J. Castro @antoniojcastro.bsky.social · 23d

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La UAL podrá tener otros dos grados, un máster y un doctorado junto a 15 títulos máster antes del curso 2028/29

El Consejo Andaluz de Universidades (CAU) ha informado favorablemente incluir cuatro nuevas titulaciones...

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Antonio J. Castro @antoniojcastro.bsky.social · 26d

Encantado de estar en el IESA (@iesacsic.bsky.social) la semana que viene para hablar sobre conservación de ecosistemas áridos

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Seminario Conservación de ecosistemas áridos: un camino aún por recorrer - IESA

El próximo miércoles 24 a las 12:30 tendrá lugar en el salón de actos del IESA-CSIC el seminario «Conservación de ecosistemas áridos: un camino aún por recorrer», impartido por el catedrático de la Universidad de Almería Antonio Castro. La entrada es libre hasta completar aforo Resumen: Los ecosistemas áridos y semiáridos ocupan cerca del 40% …

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 28d

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change," a brief communication in the journal Nature Climate Change. There's a map showing regions of the world, and pie charts of relevant studies as they apply to different health impacts like "heat-related deaths" and "maternal and child health"

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Antonio J. Castro @antoniojcastro.bsky.social · 29d

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Ramón Herrera on X: "👏🏻Es una grandísima noticia que nuestras universidades públicas cuente con 16 millones adicionales 🤝Esto se suma a lo ya presupuestado y a los acuerdos alcanzados en abril con los rectores 🔝Desde 2018 hemos incrementado la financiación en más de un 30% https://t.co/Js9R994fPT" / X

👏🏻Es una grandísima noticia que nuestras universidades públicas cuente con 16 millones adicionales 🤝Esto se suma a lo ya presupuestado y a los acuerdos alcanzados en abril con los rectores 🔝Desde 2018 hemos incrementado la financiación en más de un 30% https://t.co/Js9R994fPT

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Neal Haddaway @nealhaddaway.bsky.social · Sep 15

Delighted to have my photography research featured in the British Ecological Society Niche magazine!

We talk about photoelicitation, commensality and labour exploitation in Almería's intensive greenhouses.

With María López Rodríguez and @jlvicentevicente.bsky.social

#migration #foodsystems

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Pawpaw Pedinska @pedinska.bsky.social · Sep 6

This is the face of a recalcitrant toddler about to have a meltdown. Or that of a spoiled teenager who's never been told, "No."

Screenshot of RFK Jr's face puckered up like he's about to spit out that brain worm. Or - probably - just more lies.

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Antonio J. Castro @antoniojcastro.bsky.social · Aug 4

I’m beyond excited to share that the #SociECOSLab has a brand new website!

🌍 A space where you can learn more about who we are, what we do, and the kinds of research, collaboration, and community we’re building.

📍Come take a look — we’d love to connect!

sociecos.ual.es

SociECOS – Sustainability & Governance of Socio-Ecological Systems

We are SociECOS, a research group from the University of Almeria studying the relationships between society and ecosystems.

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Antonio J. Castro @antoniojcastro.bsky.social · Aug 4

I’m beyond excited to share that the #SociECOSLab has a brand new website!

🌍 A space where you can learn more about who we are, what we do, and the kinds of research, collaboration, and community we’re building.

📍Come take a look — we’d love to connect!

sociecos.ual.es

SociECOS – Sustainability & Governance of Socio-Ecological Systems

We are SociECOS, a research group from the University of Almeria studying the relationships between society and ecosystems.

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💙💙🤔CJ🤨🤣🧐💙💙🇺🇸 @cnice59.bsky.social · Jul 4

Imagine That? The birds are chirping…. It’s that quiet in Magat land. 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

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Antonio J. Castro @antoniojcastro.bsky.social · Jun 5

🎉 New paper: Introducing SocSES society!

1️⃣ SES field has grown from pioneering ideas into a vibrant, globally connected field.

2️⃣ SES remains reliant on temporary networks and precarious funding

3️⃣ SocSES is a platform designed to support existing SES networks

Read here 🔗 lnkd.in/dikBQgq2

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Antonio J. Castro @antoniojcastro.bsky.social · Jun 5

🎉 New paper: Introducing SocSES – Why SocSES, and why now? 🎉

Read the open-access paper in Ecology and Society here 🔗 tinyurl.com/22zhetsc and visit the SocSES webpage that accompanies the paper here 🔗 tinyurl.com/35zuaamk

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Society for Social-Ecological Systems @socses.bsky.social · Jun 4

🎉 New paper: Introducing SocSES – Why SocSES, and why now? 🎉

Read the open-access paper in Ecology and Society here 🔗 tinyurl.com/22zhetsc and visit the SocSES webpage that accompanies the paper here 🔗 tinyurl.com/35zuaamk

"Its publication marks a watershed moment in the evolution of the field of social-ecological systems." – Katrina Brown, Patricia Balvanera, and Craig R. Allen, Editors-in-Chief, Ecology and Society

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Antonio J. Castro @antoniojcastro.bsky.social · Jun 5

🎉 New paper: Introducing SocSES society!

1️⃣ SES field has grown from pioneering ideas into a vibrant, globally connected field.

2️⃣ SES remains reliant on temporary networks and precarious funding

3️⃣ SocSES is a platform designed to support existing SES networks

Read here 🔗 lnkd.in/dikBQgq2

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Antonio J. Castro @antoniojcastro.bsky.social · Jun 5

🎉 New paper: Introducing SocSES 🎉

Why SocSES, and why now?
1️⃣ Over the past three decades, the SES field has grown from a set of pioneering ideas into a vibrant, globally connected field, with approaches that are used across disciplines and regions to address pressing sustainability challenges.

2️⃣ As the field has matured, so too have its challenges. SES research remains institutionally fragmented and reliant on temporary networks and precarious funding. The focus on complexity that makes SES research valuable also creates tensions that require shared spaces for reflection, coherence, and ethical engagement.

3️⃣ SocSES is a unifying platform designed to support existing SES networks and initiatives by coordinating learning, supporting younger researchers, and amplifying collective impact. It offers an institutional home for a field that is both deeply grounded and rapidly expanding.

Read the open-access paper in Ecology & Society here 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dikBQgq2