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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 2h

🧠✨Why do interdisciplinary research — + what should you consider when doing it?

Join YESI’s “Interdisciplinary Research: Back to Basics” workshop to reflect, share experiences + explore what makes collaboration across disciplines work (+ when it doesn’t!).

📅 Mon 3 Nov, 1–3pm

Open to staff + PGRs

Image is of different coloured dyes dropped in water, along with event details: Environment and Health Theme Event, Interdisciplinary Research: Back to Basics, Mon 3 November 2025, 1pm to 3pm, in-person, B/T/019, Biology Building, Campus West

York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 21h

📢 Calling all food researchers, don't miss out on your chance help shape future food research, take the survey!

TABLE @tabledebates.bsky.social · 1d

Do you research food, food systems or a topic related to food?

TABLE & @foodpolicycitysg.bsky.social in partnership with @wellcometrust.bsky.social, have launched a new survey to learn what you want from food research, what you need from funders, & key topics.

Take the survey here: buff.ly/ROPrwTY

A flyer for a food research survey put out by TABLE, the Wellcome Trust and the Centre for Food Policy. The text says "Are you a food researcher? We want to hear from you to help shape the food research agenda for the EU and the UK! Take our survey to share your views on on how research and funding can better facilitate food system transformation. Results are anonymous, and will feed directly into Wellcome Trust’s food research strategy for the next 10 years."

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 23h

🎲🌱 Last chance to join Game Night 2: Urban Labor-a-tree!

Can you design the ultimate green city? 🏙️💚

Join us Tue 14 Oct at the Sustainability Clinic, @york.ac.uk.

A fast-paced strategy game inspired by real community voices.

👥 Open to all (16+)
🎟 Free – book now: buff.ly/WBWV9Jv
#yefest25

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 1d

⏰ Almost time! Don’t miss your chance to join YESI’s Meet the Editor session — this Weds 15 Oct.

Hear from editors of Atmospheric Environment, New Political Economy + Journal of Political Ecology on publishing tips, peer review + more.

Perfect for ECRs 👩🔬👨🏫

🔗 Last chance to book: buff.ly/5vobmF4

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 5d

Calling all early-career researchers 👩🔬👨🏫

Join YESI’s Meet the Editor session (15 Oct, 12–1pm, UoY Derwent D/L/006) to hear from editors of Atmospheric Environment, New Political Economy + Journal of Political Ecology.
Tips on publishing, peer review & more!

🔗 Book now: buff.ly/5vobmF4

York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 6d

🤖🌿 NERC AI for Environmental Science Workshop - New date + venue

Open to York PIs + Co-Is looking to develop/collaborate on a bid. Explore AI/data science sols for:

🌪 Environmental hazards + human health
🌳 Terrestrial ecology
🌊 Oceans + climate

💡Build ideas, meet collaborators: buff.ly/t47tBUF

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 6d

🎲🌱 Game Night 2: Urban Labor-a-tree – part of #yefest25

Join us Tue 14 Oct, 5.30–8pm, Sustainability Clinic, @york.ac.uk. Compete to build the ultimate green city in this fast-paced strategy board game inspired by real community voices.

👥 Open to all (16+)
🎟 Free – book here: buff.ly/WBWV9Jv

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 7d

🌱🔍 Want to see sustainable housing in action?

Join YESI’s Environment + Health theme for a guided tour of York’s retrofit demonstrator house 🏠⚡️
📅Tue 21 Oct | 5.30–6.30pm, 23 Vine St, York

🎟 Free, only 5 spots left! ➡️https://buff.ly/WPSp4iy

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 7d

🚀 The #YESIFellowsScheme 2025-26 is NOW OPEN!

Unlike traditional funding, YESI Fellowships break silos + spark innovation 🌍
✨ Cross-disciplinary + cross-sector
✨ Local to global partnerships
✨ Solution-focused on urgent sustainability challenges

Apply now ➡️ buff.ly/HX5N54s

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Forest Research @forestresearchuk.bsky.social · 11d

💦 Through piloting the Woodland Water Code, we worked with Blenheim Palace and AtkinsRéalis to quantify reductions in agricultural pollution and flood waters on the estate as a result of woodland creation.

🔗 Read more: www.forestresearch.gov.uk/news/blenhei...

#GreenFinance #NaturalCapital

Blenheim Palace and the Woodland Water Code - Forest Research

Discover how Blenheim Palace is piloting the Woodland Water Code to guide strategic woodland creation.

www.forestresearch.gov.uk

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 8d

🌍✨ In August, #TCESG25 brought together colleagues worldwide in Johannesburg to reimagine how transformation happens.

From dialogue + workshops to artistic expression, the conference was alive with creativity and connection.

🎥 Relive the spirit in this 3-minute film: buff.ly/VxLuiZj

TC/ESG 2025: Johannesburg Conference Recap

A month ago, more than 400 change makers from over 50 countries gathered in Johannesburg for TC/ESG25 — a co-hosted conference by the Transformations Community and the Earth System Governance…

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 10d

#FundingFriday: NERC Network Plus call – Antifungal Resistance (AFR) in the Environment🌍🧫

Develop a £4.762m Network Plus with academics, business + policy partners to investigate how AFR emerges + spreads through:
🏥 Healthcare
🌾 Agriculture
🏠 Household products

⏰Apply by: 2/12/25
🔗

Network Plus: antifungal resistance in the environment

Apply for funding to develop a Network Plus to investigate how antifungal resistance emerges and spreads in the environment through healthcare, agriculture, and household mould-preventative product…

www.ukri.org

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 11d

#FundingFriday: New NERC call: Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Environmental Science – Phase One 🌍🤖

Seeking innovative projects using AI + data science to tackle complex environmental challenges.

Apply by: 11/12/25 🔗 buff.ly/a9Z4cGp

Interested PI or Co-Is? Contact: [email protected]

Artificial intelligence (AI) for environmental science phase one

Secure funding to deliver new world-leading data science and AI approaches to tackle critical environmental challenges. Interdisciplinary collaboration within and beyond environmental science is…

www.ukri.org

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 11d

🎬 Singing Back the Buffalo – film screening + online Q&A with director Tasha Hubbard.

🗓 Thu 9 Oct | 6–8.30pm
📍 Bowland Auditorium, @york.ac.uk

A powerful story of buffalo, Indigenous leadership + sustainability.

👉 Register: buff.ly/9lCFr63

@dfstirrup.bsky.social

Singing Back the Buffalo - Film Screening and Director Q&A

Come to 'Singing Back the Buffalo', a film about preserving the Great Plains buffalo through Indigenous culture, followed by a director Q&A

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 12d

📢Breaking Down or Breaking Free: Climate, Race and the Struggle for Justice, guest lecture with @prosocial.bsky.social

🗓Wed 8 Oct | 5.30-7pm | @yorkstjohn.bsky.social + online

An unmissable talk on how climate & racial justice are deeply connected.

👉 Register:

Breaking Down or Breaking Free: Climate, Race and the Struggle for Justice

A guest lecture by Dr Leon Sealey-Huggins on the intertwined struggle for racial and climate justice.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 13d

📢Workshop: AI for Environmental Science – Phase One 🌍🤖

We’re bringing together UoY researchers interested in applying for the NERC AI for Environmental Science call (£400k).

💡 Focus: hazards & health | terrestrial ecology | oceans & climate
🤝 Connect with potential PIs + CoIs

🔗 buff.ly/t47tBUF

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 13d

🎲 Join Play for the Planet for Game Night 1: Daybreak! Work together to fight climate change, build resilience & introduce green tech across the globe.

Part of #yorkenvironmentfestival2025

📅 Date Sat 4 October
📍 York
💚 Collaborative, fun, and thought-provoking
🔗 buff.ly/q7jC1ck

Image shows people sat around a table playing a board game

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 14d

🔌🏠 Curious about sustainable housing in practice? Join YESI’s Environment + Health theme for a guided tour of York’s retrofit demonstrator house on Tue 21 Oct, 5.30–6.30pm. Explore heat pumps, solar panels & more!

📍 23 Vine Street, York
🎟 Free, limited to 10 places – buff.ly/WPSp4iy

The image displays a row of houses with solar panels installed on their roofs

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 14d

📄 Want to explore your own idea? Find out how to apply and read the Call Guidelines for the YESI Fellows Scheme 2025/26 here: buff.ly/LHsu7CR

Call now open!

How to apply

Changing lives for the better through academic excellence and bold, creative thinking.

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 14d

🧭 Fieldwork. Access. Impact. Inclusion.

The YESI Fellows Scheme gave Dr Kayla McCarthy (Biology) the chance to lead a project, grow as a PI + work across disciplines.

Her project explored how to reduce barriers to fieldwork in environmental research 👇
🔗 buff.ly/gHCIcf2

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 15d

🌍 How can we tackle barriers to environmental resilience & justice?

Join our hybrid workshop at @york.ac.uk on Tue 4 Nov, 13:30–15:00 (UK) with partners from Thailand, Uganda and beyond.

💡 Share ideas | 🌱 Spark collaborations | 🤝 Build solutions
🔗 Book here:

Environment, resilience and justice workshop

Join us for a hybrid workshop to tackle barriers and pathways to a just, sustainable future. A chance to share ideas, spark collaborations, and shape the next steps with global partners.

www.york.ac.uk

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 17d

💡 #FundingFriday: NIHR Climate Change & Health Research Collaboration Awards 🌍🏥

🔹 £2M available
🔹 Large-scale, transdisciplinary projects
🔹 Focus: adapting UK health + social care to climate change & extreme weather

📅 Deadline: 10 March 2026

Full info👉 www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/nihr...

www.nihr.ac.uk

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 18d

🎨 #FundingFriday!

Sustainable AI Futures (AHRC BRAID) is seeking creative practitioners to explore AI & the environment through original artworks 🌍🤖.

3 mini-residencies available: £2,750 + up to £1,000 expenses. Deadline: 1 Nov 2025.

Call for proposals👉 buff.ly/uduYmsR

susaifutures.com – Sustainable AI Futures is led by Bath Spa University, with the support of the AHRC BRAID programme

susaifutures.com

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Lindsay Stringer @proflinds.bsky.social · 18d

Our new paper published in Anthropocene Science provides a new policy option for how we deal with #drought at a global level while taking an integrated policy approach with climate change, biodiversity, disaster risk reduction and development 👇

York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 18d

🌍By 2050, droughts could hit 80% of the world’s population, costing hundreds of billion💸.

New paper led by YESI Director @proflinds.bsky.social calls for urgent, transformative drought governance under the #UNCCD—aligned with the #ParisAgreement, #CBD, #SendaiFramework + #SDGs.

🔗 buff.ly/RBb1BFP

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 18d

🌍By 2050, droughts could hit 80% of the world’s population, costing hundreds of billion💸.

New paper led by YESI Director @proflinds.bsky.social calls for urgent, transformative drought governance under the #UNCCD—aligned with the #ParisAgreement, #CBD, #SendaiFramework + #SDGs.

🔗 buff.ly/RBb1BFP

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