Rosaleen Duffy
@rosaleenduffy.bsky.social
Political Ecologist, interested in IWT, conservation politics and animals. Professor at Sheffield University.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/politics/people/academic-staff/rosaleen-duffy
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/politics/people/academic-staff/rosaleen-duffy
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Rosaleen Duffy
@rosaleenduffy.bsky.social
· Feb 27
1/ 📣 Big news! For the next 5 years I’ll be working with this amazing team @evahaifa.bsky.social Alasdair Cochrane & Bob McKay on the @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded Multispecies Mutualisms project wellcome.org/grant-fundin...
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TotalEnergies is facing a criminal complaint in France over its support for a Mozambican army unit that's been accused of massacring civilians on its behalf: news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
TotalEnergies faces criminal complaint in France over alleged massacre in Mozambique
As French oil and gas giant TotalEnergies prepares to resume work on its multibillion-dollar offshore gas project in northern Mozambique, it faces a criminal complaint back home over its role in fundi...
news.mongabay.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:06 AM
TotalEnergies is facing a criminal complaint in France over its support for a Mozambican army unit that's been accused of massacring civilians on its behalf: news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
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"This translates to existential risks for billions of people. Not far in the future, but within the next few years for extreme events, and within decades for tipping points"
"Warming is going to exceed 1.5°C. We are heading into “overshoot” within the next few years. The world is going to become more turbulent and more dangerous. So, what comes after failure?" Some thoughts from Johan Rockstrom & me 10 years after Paris Agreement.
theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality
The world bet on collective but voluntary action to keep global warming at a safe level.
theconversation.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:25 AM
"This translates to existential risks for billions of people. Not far in the future, but within the next few years for extreme events, and within decades for tipping points"
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Weekly reshare of our call for papers until the deadline on 5th Dec! So excited by the abstracts submitted already :)
V excited to see #POLLEN2026 sessions being advertised. Myself, @guillemrubio.bsky.social and Larissa Flesichmann are delighted that our session on 'Political Ecologies of Animal Waste/Waste Animals' has been accepted. And we would like to invite you to submit an abstract (see below!) 🐕🦺🐟💩🪶🥚🦴🐚🐌🐖
November 20, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Weekly reshare of our call for papers until the deadline on 5th Dec! So excited by the abstracts submitted already :)
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🚨 Just one week left to apply for one of the THREE postdoc positions in the #GreenFrontier project hosted at @fnp-wur.bsky.social
#conservation #EnvJustice #wilderness #rewilding #rural #underdevelopment #LandAbandonment
Deadline 25 November!
Full details 👉 www.wur.nl/en/research-...
#conservation #EnvJustice #wilderness #rewilding #rural #underdevelopment #LandAbandonment
Deadline 25 November!
Full details 👉 www.wur.nl/en/research-...
November 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
🚨 Just one week left to apply for one of the THREE postdoc positions in the #GreenFrontier project hosted at @fnp-wur.bsky.social
#conservation #EnvJustice #wilderness #rewilding #rural #underdevelopment #LandAbandonment
Deadline 25 November!
Full details 👉 www.wur.nl/en/research-...
#conservation #EnvJustice #wilderness #rewilding #rural #underdevelopment #LandAbandonment
Deadline 25 November!
Full details 👉 www.wur.nl/en/research-...
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On strike again to fight back against the relentless pursuit of damaging cuts and restructures by the appalling management at @sheffielduni.bsky.social We won't stand idly by while they continue to drive this institution into the ground! @sheffielducu.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
On strike again to fight back against the relentless pursuit of damaging cuts and restructures by the appalling management at @sheffielduni.bsky.social We won't stand idly by while they continue to drive this institution into the ground! @sheffielducu.bsky.social
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Very much looking forward to this talk next week in Prague hosted by the DEA's Ecological Anthropology Seminar series.
All details for registration are below
#GreenFrontier #PoliticalEcology #Wilderness
All details for registration are below
#GreenFrontier #PoliticalEcology #Wilderness
🌍Excited about our upcoming & final DEA seminar for 2025: Join us on Thu 20.11. at 14:00 online or in Prague for 'Conservation Frontiers: Re-storying wilderness from the margins of Europe' by @georgeiorda.bsky.social (Wageningen Univ.) ⛰️🐻🌳 More info & registration: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/rfKrvjTnE2
November 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Very much looking forward to this talk next week in Prague hosted by the DEA's Ecological Anthropology Seminar series.
All details for registration are below
#GreenFrontier #PoliticalEcology #Wilderness
All details for registration are below
#GreenFrontier #PoliticalEcology #Wilderness
Must read thread and paper on the expansion of scientific publishing from @danbrockington.bsky.social & team - like super sleuths they have been following this trail for several years now. the findings are fascinating & alarming ⬇️
Profits from scientific publishing are eye-watering, costing us billions. In ‘The Drain of Scientific Publishing’ (arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820), (building on ‘The Strain of Scientific Publishing’ doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00327) we show how it is harmful – and unnecessary.
The Drain of Scientific Publishing
The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and ...
arxiv.org
November 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Must read thread and paper on the expansion of scientific publishing from @danbrockington.bsky.social & team - like super sleuths they have been following this trail for several years now. the findings are fascinating & alarming ⬇️
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We've received some great abstracts for our #POLLEN2026 panel on Animal Waste/Waste Animals! We may be able to run it as a double session if we receive a couple more submissions.
V excited to see #POLLEN2026 sessions being advertised. Myself, @guillemrubio.bsky.social and Larissa Flesichmann are delighted that our session on 'Political Ecologies of Animal Waste/Waste Animals' has been accepted. And we would like to invite you to submit an abstract (see below!) 🐕🦺🐟💩🪶🥚🦴🐚🐌🐖
November 11, 2025 at 10:02 AM
We've received some great abstracts for our #POLLEN2026 panel on Animal Waste/Waste Animals! We may be able to run it as a double session if we receive a couple more submissions.
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Environmentalism without class struggle is just gardening! 🌱✊
The application of Green politics and ecosocialism in the UK 🇬🇧
Launching on Wednesday 12th November. A place for radical thinking for an ecosocialist island.
instagram.com/green.isles
greenisles.substack.com
(website coming soon)
The application of Green politics and ecosocialism in the UK 🇬🇧
Launching on Wednesday 12th November. A place for radical thinking for an ecosocialist island.
instagram.com/green.isles
greenisles.substack.com
(website coming soon)
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Environmentalism without class struggle is just gardening! 🌱✊
The application of Green politics and ecosocialism in the UK 🇬🇧
Launching on Wednesday 12th November. A place for radical thinking for an ecosocialist island.
instagram.com/green.isles
greenisles.substack.com
(website coming soon)
The application of Green politics and ecosocialism in the UK 🇬🇧
Launching on Wednesday 12th November. A place for radical thinking for an ecosocialist island.
instagram.com/green.isles
greenisles.substack.com
(website coming soon)
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In a new publication via @theconversation.com, Birhan &I argue,
“When famine goes unrecorded, the suffering of entire populations is erased from the world’s moral and political map. It also weakens the mechanisms designed to prevent such atrocities elsewhere.”
theconversation.com/starvation-a...
“When famine goes unrecorded, the suffering of entire populations is erased from the world’s moral and political map. It also weakens the mechanisms designed to prevent such atrocities elsewhere.”
theconversation.com/starvation-a...
Starvation as a weapon of war: how Ethiopia created a famine in Tigray
Famine was weaponised as part of a broader campaign of destruction in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
theconversation.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
In a new publication via @theconversation.com, Birhan &I argue,
“When famine goes unrecorded, the suffering of entire populations is erased from the world’s moral and political map. It also weakens the mechanisms designed to prevent such atrocities elsewhere.”
theconversation.com/starvation-a...
“When famine goes unrecorded, the suffering of entire populations is erased from the world’s moral and political map. It also weakens the mechanisms designed to prevent such atrocities elsewhere.”
theconversation.com/starvation-a...
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SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
Excellent #podcast by my terrific former colleague Dr Laura Gutierrez, discussing #IWT #eels, #WildlifeCrime, mental health and much much more ⬇️ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...
Laura Gutiérrez on teaching, mental health, and critical/green criminology
Podcast Episode · culturalstudies · 14/10/2025 · 1h 3m
podcasts.apple.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Excellent #podcast by my terrific former colleague Dr Laura Gutierrez, discussing #IWT #eels, #WildlifeCrime, mental health and much much more ⬇️ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...
📆 Check out this call for applications- with the opportunity to work with @geofrancismasse.bsky.social on some exciting topics #WildlifeTrade #Zoonosis #OneHealth #Conservation ⬇️
Call PhD Proposals related to Political Ecologies of Conservation, Infectious Animal and Zoonotic Diseases, One Health, and Wildlife Trade
#politicalecology #humanenvironmentgeography
Please share and pass on to potentially interested people.
@pollenetwork.bsky.social
@findaphd.bsky.social
#politicalecology #humanenvironmentgeography
Please share and pass on to potentially interested people.
@pollenetwork.bsky.social
@findaphd.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 8:52 AM
📆 Check out this call for applications- with the opportunity to work with @geofrancismasse.bsky.social on some exciting topics #WildlifeTrade #Zoonosis #OneHealth #Conservation ⬇️
This morning’s dog walk, another autumn stunner in the #PeakDistrict despite the grey clouds and drizzle
November 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
This morning’s dog walk, another autumn stunner in the #PeakDistrict despite the grey clouds and drizzle
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Short piece in @consletters.bsky.social exploring social, cultural, political and ecological apsects of illicit and unregulated species translocations - what others (not me, due to homophone errors) might call guerilla rewilding. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Who Let the Frogs out? Illicit and Unregulated Species Translocations
Click on the article title to read more.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Short piece in @consletters.bsky.social exploring social, cultural, political and ecological apsects of illicit and unregulated species translocations - what others (not me, due to homophone errors) might call guerilla rewilding. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
📣 3 post doc roles on GreenFrontier @erc.europa.eu project - fantastic opportunities to work on an exciting project on socio-ecological relations in Italy, Spain & Poland. And best of all, a chance to work with @georgeiorda.bsky.social as team lead #PoliticalEcology #Conservation ⬇️
🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers!
Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025
Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!
Please share widely!
Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025
Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!
Please share widely!
November 3, 2025 at 8:44 AM
📣 3 post doc roles on GreenFrontier @erc.europa.eu project - fantastic opportunities to work on an exciting project on socio-ecological relations in Italy, Spain & Poland. And best of all, a chance to work with @georgeiorda.bsky.social as team lead #PoliticalEcology #Conservation ⬇️
🎃 carving is for light weights. I tell my kid this every year when he is happily scooping out a pumpkin. I have strong (and painful!) childhood memories of the literal hours it took to get anything like a face on a turnip. But it was worth it 👻 #HappyHalloween
A reminder that the original Hallowe'en jack o' lanterns date back to 18th century Ireland if not earlier, were based on a shady boozy blacksmith called Stingy Jack who cheated the devil & was trapped between 2 worlds, were carved from turnips and looked like this:
October 31, 2025 at 9:12 AM
🎃 carving is for light weights. I tell my kid this every year when he is happily scooping out a pumpkin. I have strong (and painful!) childhood memories of the literal hours it took to get anything like a face on a turnip. But it was worth it 👻 #HappyHalloween
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Māori scholar Matt Wynyard examines how Aotearoa NZ’s dairy industry—deeply rooted in settler colonialism—has intensified, corporatized & financialized since the 1980s, driving major social & ecological tensions.
🔗 institutionallandscapes.org/contribution...
🔗 institutionallandscapes.org/contribution...
#28 A Raw Deal? The True Cost of Dairy in Aotearoa | Institutional Landscapes
institutionallandscapes.org
October 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Māori scholar Matt Wynyard examines how Aotearoa NZ’s dairy industry—deeply rooted in settler colonialism—has intensified, corporatized & financialized since the 1980s, driving major social & ecological tensions.
🔗 institutionallandscapes.org/contribution...
🔗 institutionallandscapes.org/contribution...
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ICYMI last week, my reaction to the govt's Skills White Paper is that it's bitterly disappointing for universities. It will make a very bad situation worse. This is a Last Word really, because IMHO large parts of the sector have crossed a red line and can't be pulled back in their present form. 👇
So I've been reading the Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper. There's some good things in there. But when it comes to universities there's very little to cheer. The situation is very tough and will get worse. The last chance to preserve what we've got has passed. Let me explain why. (1/?)
October 29, 2025 at 11:01 AM
ICYMI last week, my reaction to the govt's Skills White Paper is that it's bitterly disappointing for universities. It will make a very bad situation worse. This is a Last Word really, because IMHO large parts of the sector have crossed a red line and can't be pulled back in their present form. 👇
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After Long Blog Paralysis the Crime in Loliondo is on its Third Year and in NCA One Year After Epic Protests the Movement Needs to be Rekindled #Loliondo #Ngorongoro termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2025/10/afte...
October 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
After Long Blog Paralysis the Crime in Loliondo is on its Third Year and in NCA One Year After Epic Protests the Movement Needs to be Rekindled #Loliondo #Ngorongoro termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2025/10/afte...
I think I might have become a dedicated lister 😆 friends, I need some help with #My200 bird challenge. Yesterday I reached 180 species since 1 Jan, looking at choughs in Great Orme. But will I get 20 more species by 31 Dec?
October 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I think I might have become a dedicated lister 😆 friends, I need some help with #My200 bird challenge. Yesterday I reached 180 species since 1 Jan, looking at choughs in Great Orme. But will I get 20 more species by 31 Dec?
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May 18 -19 2026, conference in Romania 🌿 The Greyzone of the Green Transition – Environmental Inequalities in Central & Eastern Europe
🔗 grants.ulbsibiu.ro/ecojust/grey... #CallForPapers #EnvJustice #JustTransition #CEE
🔗 grants.ulbsibiu.ro/ecojust/grey... #CallForPapers #EnvJustice #JustTransition #CEE
Call for Papers: The Greyzone of the Green Transition - Environmental Inequalities in Central and Eastern Europe - ecoJust home
The Greyzone of the Green Transition is a conference dedicated to advancing conversations on environmental justice in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). It brings together senior , doctoral, and postdo...
grants.ulbsibiu.ro
October 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
May 18 -19 2026, conference in Romania 🌿 The Greyzone of the Green Transition – Environmental Inequalities in Central & Eastern Europe
🔗 grants.ulbsibiu.ro/ecojust/grey... #CallForPapers #EnvJustice #JustTransition #CEE
🔗 grants.ulbsibiu.ro/ecojust/grey... #CallForPapers #EnvJustice #JustTransition #CEE
Arrived in Bangor Uni, and genuinely wondering why I have never been here before. Jaw.Officially.Dropped. The views!!! Looking forward to the talk later
October 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Arrived in Bangor Uni, and genuinely wondering why I have never been here before. Jaw.Officially.Dropped. The views!!! Looking forward to the talk later
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Looking for papers to join our panel on 'Animal Waste/Waste Animals' at #POLLEN2026 @pollenetwork.bsky.social
V excited to see #POLLEN2026 sessions being advertised. Myself, @guillemrubio.bsky.social and Larissa Flesichmann are delighted that our session on 'Political Ecologies of Animal Waste/Waste Animals' has been accepted. And we would like to invite you to submit an abstract (see below!) 🐕🦺🐟💩🪶🥚🦴🐚🐌🐖
October 21, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Looking for papers to join our panel on 'Animal Waste/Waste Animals' at #POLLEN2026 @pollenetwork.bsky.social
If you are in Bangor tomorrow then I’m giving a talk - finally visiting this terrific group of researchers in a beautiful part of 🏴. Thanks to @juliajones.bsky.social & Freya St John for the invite 😀 Details
on the link ⬇️ www.bangor.ac.uk/conservation...
on the link ⬇️ www.bangor.ac.uk/conservation...
Political ecology of security: harms, conservation and the illegal wildlife trade | Bangor University
www.bangor.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
If you are in Bangor tomorrow then I’m giving a talk - finally visiting this terrific group of researchers in a beautiful part of 🏴. Thanks to @juliajones.bsky.social & Freya St John for the invite 😀 Details
on the link ⬇️ www.bangor.ac.uk/conservation...
on the link ⬇️ www.bangor.ac.uk/conservation...