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🌿 Postdoctoral Researcher in Ethnology at CNRS, France
Research focuses on dry forest communities, biodiversity, and ethnobiology with fieldwork in Brazil.
🎓 Eligibility: PhD
📅 Deadline: 16 Feb 2026
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Ethnology – CNRS France | HigherJobz
Postdoctoral researcher job in ethnology at CNRS France. Fieldwork in Brazilian dry forests, biodiversity research, and data analysis.
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February 1, 2026 at 3:40 AM
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"This story, which has been passed down from generation to generation among the more than 50,000 Asháninka who currently live in Peru, is now enshrined in a scientific paper. Published in the journal Ethnobiology and Conservation in March 2025, the study documents..."
January 12, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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Recently learned one of my interests is called ethnobiology. Neat.
January 12, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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Ethnobiology deep dive: Dr. Coe tells McKenna how cultures pick medicinal plants purposefully. Pacha Nishi restores Amazon for sustainable ayahuasca. Plant fitness costs, indigenous science fusion—vital for biodiversity. New Brainforest Café episode!

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January 12, 2026 at 4:05 PM
yavannakemi.bsky.social
I am very happy to have been awarded the 4th place in the prize for young researchers of the SPS (Societé de philosophie des sciences) with my paper on Agnes Arber and her understanding of teleology (link.springer.com/article/10.1...)! 🥳
Congrats to Dejan Makovec who won the competition! 👏
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Screenshot from the SPS's website that shows the results of the prize for young researchers (Prix Jeunes Chercheurs et Jeunes Chercheuses 2024-25). First place was won by Dejan Makovec, for his paper “Entirely Different Kinds of Beast: The Ontological Challenge to Knowledge Integration in Ethnobiology”. Second place: Auguste Nahas, for the paper “The Case for Pluralism About Teleological Explanation” Third place: Olesya Bondarenko, for the paper “Credibility and Trustworthiness: The Promises of Sociogenomic Integration and Research on Gene-Environment Interaction” Fourth place: Vera Straetmanns (me :) ) for the paper “The Lady and the Plants: Two Notions of Teleology in Agnes Arber’s Philosophy of Plants”, Fifth place: Vladimire Vumatay, for the paper “A Metatheory of Induction-for-Use”
December 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
tegeacorymb.bsky.social
McKey, D., Rodrigues, L., Ruiz-Pérez, J., Blatrix, R., & Rostain, S. (2023). Thinking outside the Continent and outside the Box: Cross-Continental Comparative Studies Can Enrich Studies of Pre-Columbian Raised-Field Agriculture. *Journal of Ethnobiology*, 42(2), 152-179. doi.org/10.2993/0278...
Thinking outside the Continent and outside the Box: Cross-Continental Comparative Studies Can Enrich Studies of Pre-Columbian Raised-Field Agriculture - Doyle McKey, Leonor Rodrigues, Javier Ruiz-Pére...
Despite an attempt at intercontinental synthesis by Denevan and Turner (1974) almost 50 years ago, studies of agricultural raised fields (RF) in the Neotropics ...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Medicinal plant use in a context of coloniality: Congolese perspectives on lost and preserved healing traditions in Belgium
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
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Medicinal plant use in a context of coloniality: Congolese perspectives on lost and preserved healing traditions in Belgium - Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Coloniality refers to patterns of power that emerged as a result of colonialism beyond the strict limits of colonial administration. Members of the Congolese community in Belgium -being the formerly c...
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December 1, 2025 at 11:34 AM
hcexvangelical.bsky.social
Wild Saturday over here. Studying how and where native hops were used by the Apache people and the prehistoric ancestors by reading some archaeology and anthropology papers, books, and bulletins. Mapping out some hot spots to explore and forage from next Autumn.
The University of New Mexico Bulletin Ethnobiological. Studies in the American Southwest III. The Ethnobiology of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache A. THE USE OF PLANTS FOR FOODS, BEVERAGES AND NARCOTICS By EDWARD F. CASTETTER, Professor of Biology University of New Mexico and M. E. OPLER, Assistant Anthropologist, Office of Indian Affairs Leaves of dragon-head (Dracocephalum parviflorum), the mint (Mentha penardi), horsemint (Monarda menthae- folia), and the pennyroyal (Hedeoma nana) were commonly used for flavoring. These Apache say that if they had no pepper this last named species was substituted in soups, but was not added until the soup had finished cooking. They also used the mint to keep water "cool," but probably meant that it made water more palatable to drink by imparting to it a cooling flavor. Hops (Humulus lupulus neomexicanus) were gathered in October, boiled, and used for flavoring in a considerable variety of ways. Formerly they were mixed with mesquite and screw bean flour (see p. 41) but at present they are mixed with wheat flour ; they were also combined with wild potatoes to give flavor. More commonly they were used to flavor tutbai, the drink made from f er- rnented maize. Wild onions (Allium cernuum, and A. gey- eri) flavored soups and gravy but were occasionally eaten raw. A sage, Artemisia ludoviciana, was also a flavoring substance for meat. A plant in very common use by van A picture of fresnal canyon shelter near High Rolls, New Mexico on th ncover of an archaeology book HIGH ROLLS CAVE: Archaic Subsistence in Southern New Mexico AN 345 Museum of New Mexico Office of Archaeological Studies - Museum of New Mexico
November 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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#ArticleIRBio
📄 Andorran ethnomycology: culinary uses and beyond
👥Authors: Canòlich Álvarez-Puig, Teresa Garnatje, Manel Niell, Airy Gras & Joan Vallès
📕 J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine 21, 81 (2025)
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November 26, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/t...

A post about my recent publication "Plant Agency gender and ritual in indigenous tropical cultivation systems"

#tubers
#ontology
#Amazonia
#Melanesia
#Domestication
#ritual
#Anthropology
#ethnobiology
The biosocial and cognitive significance of tubers in indigenous cultivation systems
Recent research by Luis Gregorio Abad Espinoza from the University of Milano-Bicocca Department of Human Sciences for Education “Riccardo Massa” in Milan, Italy. The illustration above …
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November 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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The Society for Ethnobotany meets in Montpellier, 31 May–4 June 2026.
A call for an undisciplined #ethnobotany centred on reciprocity, #decolonial thinking and multispecies relations. #PlantsAndPeople
#ethnobiology #plants #biodiversity #traditionalknowledge #OneHealth

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November 17, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Andorran ethnomycology: culinary uses and beyond | Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

https://www.byteseu.com/1532157/

Fungal taxa, mycological families and use reports The number of taxa reported in this study was 50 (from 23 mycological families); among these, six were identified at …
Andorran ethnomycology: culinary uses and beyond | Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine - Bytes Europe
The number of taxa reported in this study was 50 (from 23 mycological families); among these, six were identified at the genus level, four at the section
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November 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Getting to the part of Braiding Sweetgrass where I want to cry. The ethnobiology and salmon ceremony chapters
September 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Naji Sulaiman, Cheng Zhuo, and Emiel De Meyer are the winners of the 2025 JEET Emerging Scientist Award in Ethnobiology as they are recognized for their outstanding early-career contributions to ethnobiology and community-based research. Read more here!

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Announcing the Winners of the 2025 JEET Emerging Scientist Award in Ethnobiology
Naji Sulaiman, Cheng Zhuo, and Emiel De Meyer are the winners of the 2025 JEET Emerging Scientist Award in Ethnobiology as they are recognized for their outstanding early-career contributions to ethnobiology and community-based research.
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September 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
drflachsophone.bsky.social
This was a remarkable paper to write, in part because both ethnobiologist and degrowth reviewers curbed earlier versions where I was too focused on hatcheting arguments and not planting enough seeds. A shifting kyriarchy mis-applies ethnobiology, anthropology, degrowth, and other ways of thinking.
September 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
drflachsophone.bsky.social
If the point of our work is not just to interpret the world in various ways but to change it, then ethnobiology and degrowth scholars are allies in action-oriented, imaginative research. Both ask how to scale up reciprocity and care. This is a way of being, a relationship. It is not a product.
venn diagram of ethnobiology and degrowth thinking
September 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Both conversations work to transcend problematic histories: ethnobiology opposes extraction and appropriation, while degrowthers reject Malthusian and ecofascism. But as long as these inform public conversations around human–ecological relationships and downscaling, the work is never finished.
September 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
drflachsophone.bsky.social
Ethnobiology offers meticulous case studies into the web of life, neither studying life apart from human influence nor centering its intersection with humans. While we work in a world shaped through colonial hierarchies and capitalist extraction, we rarely center this context in our research.
September 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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New paper on the intersections of ethnobiology and degrowth: two ways of understanding our place in the world through action-oriented, imaginative research into socioecological relationships.

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Ethnobiology and Degrowth: A Review of the Opportunities for Collaboration, Generative Inquiry, and Solidarity in Socio-Ecological Research - Andrew Flachs, 2025
For centuries, global political economic relations have been informed by a model of growth premised on transforming plants, animals, knowledge, labor, water, an...
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September 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
larsga.bsky.social
My guess is that if I had been more experienced in ethnobiology I could have added 6-7 paragraphs of text and gotten this into the journal. I am not going to try, however.
September 17, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Anthrozoology (Zoology 🦥)

Anthrozoology, also known as human–animal studies, is the subset of ethnobiology that deals with interactions between humans and other animals. It is an interdisciplinary field that overlaps with other disciplines including anthropology, ethnology, medicine, psychology […]
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September 15, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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My teen is researching cryptid creatures of Ecuador/South America through books and articles for a high school psychology class, but we’re curious 🧐 Are there any local tales or stories they might be missing? Any insights would be amazing #Cryptozoology #Anthropology #FolkloreStudies #Ethnobiology
September 13, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Great intersection of ethnobiology, food security, and food sovereignty from Kaminski and colleagues: communities manage political ecological change by combining long-distance and local food systems ojs.ethnobiology.org/index.php/eb...

Free and open access as always from Ethnobiology Letters
Map of Fijian communities navigating food access
September 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Fabulous ethnobiology research from Tassel et al. on ‘Akkoub (Gundelia spp. and Asteraceae) in Palestine, newly out in Ethnobiology Letters

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The foliage of this hardy, prickly, perennial genus resembles the artichoke (Cynara cardunculus) and has similar culinary uses.
September 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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We soon may know the answer to an important philosophical and taxonomic dilemma going back at least to the heyday of Ward Goodenough's #ethnoscience movement...

#ethnobiology #hotdogs #sandwiches
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Experimental philosophy
timothy_thelen 7h Follow Them - You can't throw sandwiches at ICE Agents. Grabs a hot dog. "I guess we'll finally answer the old question."
August 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM