Josephine Browne, PhD, MA
@drejosephine.bsky.social
Researcher - Critical animal studies - Men & masculinities - Environment.
Co-editor, Multispecies Sociology (Routledge 2025)
Citizen Scientist & Volunteer
💜 rabbits, oceans, manta rays
#pigoneer
Unceded Bundjalung Country, AUSTRALIA
Co-editor, Multispecies Sociology (Routledge 2025)
Citizen Scientist & Volunteer
💜 rabbits, oceans, manta rays
#pigoneer
Unceded Bundjalung Country, AUSTRALIA
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How can speculative fiction advance human-animal #sociology?
@drejosephine.bsky.social @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social reflects on #pandemics, Laura Jean McKay’s #sciencefiction novel The Animals in that Country, and the uneven nature of utopias.
#OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/fF0t5SB
@drejosephine.bsky.social @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social reflects on #pandemics, Laura Jean McKay’s #sciencefiction novel The Animals in that Country, and the uneven nature of utopias.
#OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/fF0t5SB
This article means a huge amount to me. Furthering earlier work on @laurajeanmckay.bsky.social's award-winning novel, it explores the post-colonial invoking of @margaretatwood.bsky.social as a way to advance Animal Sociology #research #postcolonial #SpeculativeFiction #sociology #animals #futures
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As someone old enough to have voted for Al Gore in 2000 because of his message on climate action, I can’t say it’s not a little disheartening to be here after 25 more years wasted, listening to the world’s leaders talk about “climate pragmatism” and how we need keep burning coal to power chatbots.
Climate not-fun fact: the line from current level emissions to a reasonable chance of 1.5C is basically perpendicular to x axis. In other words, it means impossibility
November 15, 2025 at 3:07 AM
As someone old enough to have voted for Al Gore in 2000 because of his message on climate action, I can’t say it’s not a little disheartening to be here after 25 more years wasted, listening to the world’s leaders talk about “climate pragmatism” and how we need keep burning coal to power chatbots.
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I am pleased to report that Gilbert, who was brutally attacked by a stray dog 7 months ago, is totally healed, feeling great, and openly lobbying to be the cover model for our 2026 calendar. You deserve it buddy!
November 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I am pleased to report that Gilbert, who was brutally attacked by a stray dog 7 months ago, is totally healed, feeling great, and openly lobbying to be the cover model for our 2026 calendar. You deserve it buddy!
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Seen on FB just now. This is outrageous!
November 15, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Seen on FB just now. This is outrageous!
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later he was like oh man I heard this great AI music! and I was like WHAT!! you listen to AI music?? and he was like lol we have a real anti-AI person here and I was like no I’m a PRO-MUSICIAN person get it right dude
November 15, 2025 at 2:53 AM
later he was like oh man I heard this great AI music! and I was like WHAT!! you listen to AI music?? and he was like lol we have a real anti-AI person here and I was like no I’m a PRO-MUSICIAN person get it right dude
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Friday at last and...Hello to new followers! #Thanks 👋 #Friyay #Australia #photography #Bundjalung #Gratitude
#Photo #beach
#Photo #beach
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Friday at last and...Hello to new followers! #Thanks 👋 #Friyay #Australia #photography #Bundjalung #Gratitude
#Photo #beach
#Photo #beach
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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
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A review that shows someone who really *got* everything that Lorraine was working towards in this novel. Ethical dilemmas abound, morally grey characters are grey, a young girl is to be either exploited or rescued, a real look at how academia can poison those involved.
New Review - an excellent tale of digital ghosts, seers, scientists and ethics await in the brilliant The Salt Oracle by @rainewilson.bsky.social out now - very strongly recommended! Huge thanks to @solarisbooks.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/11...
The Salt Oracle by Lorraine Wilson — Runalong The Shelves
I would like to thank Solaris for an advance copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Solaris Published – Out Now Price – £18.99 hardback £7.99 Kindle ebook ...
www.runalongtheshelves.net
November 14, 2025 at 9:39 AM
A review that shows someone who really *got* everything that Lorraine was working towards in this novel. Ethical dilemmas abound, morally grey characters are grey, a young girl is to be either exploited or rescued, a real look at how academia can poison those involved.
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Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Climate knowledge has been taken hostage to prevent climate action.
“It didn’t happen by accident. It’s the product of a deliberate and systematic assault on knowledge by some of the richest people on Earth. Preventing climate breakdown means protecting ourselves from the storm of lies.”
“It didn’t happen by accident. It’s the product of a deliberate and systematic assault on knowledge by some of the richest people on Earth. Preventing climate breakdown means protecting ourselves from the storm of lies.”
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Climate knowledge has been taken hostage to prevent climate action.
“It didn’t happen by accident. It’s the product of a deliberate and systematic assault on knowledge by some of the richest people on Earth. Preventing climate breakdown means protecting ourselves from the storm of lies.”
“It didn’t happen by accident. It’s the product of a deliberate and systematic assault on knowledge by some of the richest people on Earth. Preventing climate breakdown means protecting ourselves from the storm of lies.”
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The flu panzootic continues with devastating consequences: Fears for elephant seals as bird flu kills half of population in South Atlantic
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fears for elephant seals as bird flu kills half of population in South Atlantic
Study estimates 53,000 females have died on South Georgia since 2023, with ‘dramatic impact’ on future of the species
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:54 AM
The flu panzootic continues with devastating consequences: Fears for elephant seals as bird flu kills half of population in South Atlantic
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Labor must not partner with climate vandals on Australia’s new environmental laws | Tim Flannery
Labor must not partner with climate vandals on Australia’s new environmental laws | Tim Flannery
If the government cuts a deal with them, it risks repeating the mistakes of the Abbott era, sacrificing progress for politics
This week the National Liberal Coalition has rewound the clock a decade. When Tony Abbott’s government abolished the Climate Commission in 2013, I knew it was a political act of climate vandalism. Abbott simply didn’t want to hear the facts: that pollution from coal, oil and gas were cooking our planet.
For a decade after, denial evolved: from shouting that global heating wasn’t real, to claiming it could be solved later. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Friday at last and...Hello to new followers! #Thanks 👋 #Friyay #Australia #photography #Bundjalung #Gratitude
#Photo #beach
#Photo #beach
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Friday at last and...Hello to new followers! #Thanks 👋 #Friyay #Australia #photography #Bundjalung #Gratitude
#Photo #beach
#Photo #beach
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Today's blog post is inspired by the discussion this week of the 1975 Dismissal. It looks at how Senate majorities have changed since federation, and the role of electoral systems in shaping them. I also put a case that it's multi-party politics that protects us from a repeat of 1975 #auspol
How the Senate has changed since 1975
There has been a great deal of focus this week on the events of the Dismissal of Gough Whitlam’s Labor government, fifty years ago last Tuesday. I have been particularly drawn to examining ho…
www.tallyroom.com.au
November 13, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Today's blog post is inspired by the discussion this week of the 1975 Dismissal. It looks at how Senate majorities have changed since federation, and the role of electoral systems in shaping them. I also put a case that it's multi-party politics that protects us from a repeat of 1975 #auspol
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I think lots of men believe women; they just don’t think it matters
November 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I think lots of men believe women; they just don’t think it matters
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
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The world was heading toward 4.8 degrees of warming before the Paris Climate Agreement. That estimate has declined to 2.3 to 3.4 degrees of warming, thanks to the climate action taken since 2015 and the actions expected over the next 25 years.
#COP30 Rhodium Group
https://ow.ly/wKe850XroHz
#COP30 Rhodium Group
https://ow.ly/wKe850XroHz
Rhodium Climate Outlook 2025: Probabilistic Global Emissions and Energy Baseline Projections
Today, a decade into implementation of the Paris Agreement, there has already been meaningful decarbonization progress. Renewable electricity and electric vehicle technologies are being deployed at scale…
ow.ly
November 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
The world was heading toward 4.8 degrees of warming before the Paris Climate Agreement. That estimate has declined to 2.3 to 3.4 degrees of warming, thanks to the climate action taken since 2015 and the actions expected over the next 25 years.
#COP30 Rhodium Group
https://ow.ly/wKe850XroHz
#COP30 Rhodium Group
https://ow.ly/wKe850XroHz
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⚡ Indigenous activists made headlines at COP30, storming the summit to demand urgent action and climate justice for frontline communities. Their courage centers the voices that matter most! #IndigenousRights #ClimateJustice #COP30 #NoClimateJusticeWithoutUs
November 13, 2025 at 11:57 PM
⚡ Indigenous activists made headlines at COP30, storming the summit to demand urgent action and climate justice for frontline communities. Their courage centers the voices that matter most! #IndigenousRights #ClimateJustice #COP30 #NoClimateJusticeWithoutUs
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New #book by TASA member Michael Flood et al.:
Young Men’s Online Lives: Cultivating Critical Digital Dispositions for Gender Justice
Young Men’s Online Lives: Cultivating Critical Digital Dispositions for Gender Justice
Young Men’s Online Lives
This book examines the complexities of young men’s online engagements and offers support for cultivating critical digital dispositions for gender justice.
link.springer.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
New #book by TASA member Michael Flood et al.:
Young Men’s Online Lives: Cultivating Critical Digital Dispositions for Gender Justice
Young Men’s Online Lives: Cultivating Critical Digital Dispositions for Gender Justice
#AusPol
What a stupid time we're in
What a stupid time we're in
And, if you’d like to do something genuinely meaningful about the climate crisis, and building a new world of deep democracy and mutual aid and direct action, register for the @risingtideaus.bsky.social blockade here
www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025rego?r...
www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025rego?r...
November 12, 2025 at 6:02 AM
#AusPol
What a stupid time we're in
What a stupid time we're in
You never know who you are influencing - actors going #vegan or #vegetarian
Amazing story #BeKind #futures
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Amazing story #BeKind #futures
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
‘It’s changed me’: Jeff Goldblum says he has stopped eating meat after working on Wicked
Actor said discussions about animal cruelty with director Jon Chu had led him to join Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo in renouncing meat
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
You never know who you are influencing - actors going #vegan or #vegetarian
Amazing story #BeKind #futures
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Amazing story #BeKind #futures
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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‘As we kept discussing, there was one book we kept coming back to’
Watch Roddy Doyle's speech leading up to last night's big announcement.
youtu.be/BzjflYeTcY4?...
Watch Roddy Doyle's speech leading up to last night's big announcement.
youtu.be/BzjflYeTcY4?...
Roddy Doyle announces the winner of the Booker Prize 2025 | The Booker Prize
YouTube video by The Booker Prizes
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
‘As we kept discussing, there was one book we kept coming back to’
Watch Roddy Doyle's speech leading up to last night's big announcement.
youtu.be/BzjflYeTcY4?...
Watch Roddy Doyle's speech leading up to last night's big announcement.
youtu.be/BzjflYeTcY4?...
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My holds at the library are the holds of a sucker for punishment who also really doesn’t know how to party
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
My holds at the library are the holds of a sucker for punishment who also really doesn’t know how to party
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Still fuming they are using the Lovelace name to give themselves licence to bring together five dudes to discuss the future of the UK’s research system #AdaWashing
November 11, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Still fuming they are using the Lovelace name to give themselves licence to bring together five dudes to discuss the future of the UK’s research system #AdaWashing
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now I am fuming too (but when is one not fuming nowadays)
November 11, 2025 at 10:46 AM
now I am fuming too (but when is one not fuming nowadays)
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This piece from the Weekend FT seems relevant
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bsky.app/profile/heta...
‘When Adam Smith wrote “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker that we expect our dinner but from their regard to their own interest,” he omitted any discussion of the unpaid work of his mother (& later his sister) that went into cooking his dinner.’ on.ft.com/4olyOut
What we still get wrong about women’s role in global economics
From the Enlightenment to today’s ‘tradwives’, three books look at the tension between production and reproduction
on.ft.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
This piece from the Weekend FT seems relevant
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