Digital Ecologies

Our special feature of People and Nature on the Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery is coming into being! The special feature emerges from our 2024 conference at the Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub, Jesus College, Oxford besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... @peopleandnature.bsky.social

In the new article, ‘Digital fire technologies and community networks’, Jennifer Gabrys, Paula Tiara Torres and Pablo González Rivas analyse how digital technologies influence fire prevention, response, and recovery in La Araucanía, Chile: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

📷️"Can digital surveillance help in nature recovery? Yes, there are lots of applications, from tracking migration to finding cryptic species, but also consequences for the way we see nature - and addressing impacts, ethics and political ecology may not be easy" 📖 Read more here! ➡️ buff.ly/veQ19kz

super paper in @peopleandnature.bsky.social by Theo Stanley on recent turns in Scottish #rewilding to integrate markets, technology but also some romanticism. A superbly rich analysis. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

⛰️ ‘We want to be the hosts of this story’: Learning from community-led approaches to data governance of land use for nature recovery @forestresearchuk.bsky.social @gsabiosphere.bsky.social Centre for Sustainable Forests and Landscapes➡️ buff.ly/1ETZSDv 📖Read the full paper here➡️ buff.ly/TJ7n3eo

Our researchers have been working on a special feature in @peopleandnature.bsky.social, exploring how digital technologies are increasingly shaping nature recovery, conservation, governance, & environmental decision-making. @caitlinhafferty.bsky.social @jonnyjjt.bsky.social @theostanley.bsky.social

Officially released today!💥Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine💥 Tracing the refusal that haunts the history of tech, my book offers a source of inspiration for those looking for a new tech politics beyond reform/acceleration. www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773... Buy w/ discount👇

We are looking for a 3-year postdoc to work on a self-defined research project in environmental history that places electronic or digital technologies at the center of its historical inquiry. More details in the announcement linked to below. #envhist

We're hiring! 🌿 The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger invites applications for a 3-year postdoc in Environmental History. See thread for more details. #envhist #envhum

Interested in animals, health & STS? Our Multispecies Mutualisms (or perhaps Multispecies Mutualisms?) project is underway and we should be advertising postdoctoral positions over the coming months so keep an eye out! In the meantime, we have a proposed panel at EASST: easst.net/conference/e...

'Samplers of the marine environment: Knowing the oceans with seabirds, 1958–Present' A fantastic new article from Oscar Hartman Davies exploring the shifting roles of seabirds in marine science and monitoring over the second half of the twentieth century www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ray Chan and I are convening a panel at the upcoming RGS-IBG 2026 conference titled "Digital Disease Ecologies of More-than-Human Health". Please see the abstract below, and if you are interested in attending send george.kirkham@sjc.ox.ac.uk a 250 word abstract with a short bio by the 23rd Feb

New article for @tibg.bsky.social. Through the case of digital snake rescue, I merge @digicologies.bsky.social and disease ecology work to develop the lens of 'digital disease ecologies' - a way to analyse how digital encounter and datafication configure disease emergence and multispecies health.

Tickets have now sold out. We're looking forward to welcoming everyone to Oxford in just over a week! The schedule can be viewed at our website: digicologies.com/schedule

Very excited to be chairing a panel at the upcoming conference on The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies! Amazing line up below:

Check out the schedule for 'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies' at our website 👇 digicologies.com/schedule A few tickets are left!

Check out the schedule for 'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies' at our website 👇 digicologies.com/schedule A few tickets are left!

learn more about the visual politics of lots of ecologies by registering for the Digital Ecologies conference, 2-3 Feb in Oxford - tickets going fast! 🧐 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-visual... @digicologies.bsky.social

There's a few tickets left for our 2026 conference!

🌐 Registration NOW OPEN for 'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies' 🌐 Join us to explore how emerging visual regimes are shaping environmental governance and knowledge politics With wonderful keynotes: @joannazylinska.bsky.social & Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-visual...

🌐 Registration NOW OPEN for 'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies' 🌐 Join us to explore how emerging visual regimes are shaping environmental governance and knowledge politics With wonderful keynotes: @joannazylinska.bsky.social & Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-visual...

register now for the Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies conference, 2-3 Feb 2026 in Oxford! with keynotes @joannazylinska.bsky.social and Daisy Ginsberg www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-visual... 🌳 📹 🦫 🛰️

DIGITAL ECOLOGIES is available for just £15 in paperback until the end of January; discount applied automatically unless you're in North America, where you need to type "JAN40" at payment this also applies to ALL @manchesterup.bsky.social books!!! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188601/

Thanks so much to everyone who has submitted to our CFP. We've had an overwhelming number of wonderful submissions. It's going to take us a while to process them all, so we'll aim to get back to you within the next few weeks)!

Today is the deadline to send your abstracts for the Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies conference!

🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐 'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies' 🗓️ 2-3 February 2026 📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating) Deadline: 14th November Full info: digicologies.com/cfp

Two days 😱

Last four days to send in your abstracts 👇

Last four days to send in your abstracts 👇

Public Data Cultures is out today on @politybooks.bsky.social! 📗🎊 jonathangray.org/2025/10/23/p... It aims to nurture critical and creative engagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation and as site of transnational politics. Happy to see it out in the world! 🦔🌌💜

There's still over a week left to submit to our next conference, 'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'. Deadline: 14th November. Any questions, get in touch with the organisers!

two weeks left!! received some INCREDIBLE abstracts so far!!

🌅 How are digital technologies refashioning ecological aesthetics? 🌅 Join us for the next Digital Ecologies conference in February 2026 - CFP now open! We're delighted to welcome Joanna Zylinska and Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg as our keynotes! Any questions, get in touch.

🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐 'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies' 🗓️ 2-3 February 2026 📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating) Deadline: 14th November Full info: digicologies.com/cfp

Crawford's new essay in e-flux offers the best summary of the monstrous absurdity of contemporary AI that I've read in a long time. (via @jonnyjjt.bsky.social) www.e-flux.com/architecture...

GLITCH ENVIRONMENTALISM is freely accessible for two weeks... make sure to download it soon!! we think with Legacy Russell's Glitch Feminism (2020) to examine digitally-mediated activism challenging birding's hegemonic, exclusionary histories and cultures w/ Naomi Parker and @jonnyjjt.bsky.social

New #DigitalEcologies paper from Naomi Parker, @admsrl.bsky.social & @jonnyjjt.bsky.social on 'glitch environmentalism'! Open Access for the next two weeks.

🦉 Glitch Environmentalism 🦉 In our new paper, Naomi Parker, @admsrl.bsky.social & I explore glitches in the birding community that arose in the Self-Isolating Bird Club We theorise glitch environmentalism to understand how transitory glitches can gain duration journals.sagepub.com/eprint/CESTC...

Plenty of brilliant books on display on the MUP stand at #BSA2025! Featuring titles from some of our key series: Theory for a Global Age 🧠 Racism, Resistance and Social Change ✊ Rethinking Borders 🌏 Music and Society 🎶 Can you spot yours?🔍

Calling all Sociologists! We're excited to be in Birmingham this week for the Association of Social Anthropologists 2025 conference #ASA2025 Pop by the MUP stand to chat with @lauramswift.bsky.social and browse a selection of our latest academic and trade titles🗨️

The Digital Ecologies MSc collective recently held an exhibition - #NatureBuffering - at Oxford. Students showcased key concepts from the #DigitalEcologies framework through a series of wonderful creative interventions 💫

More pics of the students' fantastic exhibits!

Looking back on the Nature Buffering exhibition curated with my Digital Ecologies MSc students at @oxfordgeography.bsky.social a couple of weeks ago. Loved seeing their creative reflections on the digital mediation of more-than-human worlds!

Join us for the Nature Buffering exhibition! The @digicologies.bsky.social MSc Collective will exhibit creative work reflecting on the digitisation of more-than-human worlds, w/ @jonnyjjt.bsky.social, @karolinausk.bsky.social & @admsrl.bsky.social 🗓️ 11 March ⏰ 4-6pm 📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

This week, we're hosting the book launch of Digital Ecologies: Mediating More-than-human Worlds w/ @jonnyjjt.bsky.social & @admsrl.bsky.social 🗓️ 27th February ⏰ 4pm 📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188601/ @digicologies.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social P