Yeah, it's almost fluffy!

It's gorgeous, isn't it?

A speckled brown weevil with a purplish head and black speckling on the abdomen sat on a veined green leaf, facing left towards the camera. It has large black eyes above its antenna, which set on the end of a long rostrum

A weevil on a nettle. This one has a lovely purplish tint to its head! I looked up the etymology of weevil, but apparently it just comes from the Old English wefil, meaning a small beetle. Seems like we've been calling these little guys by pretty much the same name for over a thousand years

Advertising people get paid bags of money to come up with nonsense phraseology and here am I in academia, doing it for cheap

Just me and my bestie talking about birds #illegalwildlifetrade #songbirds #indonesia

In episode 7 of our podcast, 'Edges of Exinction' @jdroberts.bsky.social talks to @sicilyfiennes.bsky.social about the complex and ambiguous 'wicked problem' of bird trade in Indonesia, and how to create just outcomes for humans and birds alike extinctionstudiesleeds.podbean.com/e/edges-of-e...

A dusty irridescent green beetle with pale spots on the abdomen standing facing right on a grey-white rock surrounded by brown fragments of heather. The top of the legs are coppery, the lower parts emerald, the jaws emormous and bone-coloured

Green tiger beetle (Cicindela campestris). A dusty emerald, stalking and pouncing across the windswept moor; tiger of the heather, jewel of the crowberry-lined path

Taking a moment to decompress after a busy morning

A tiny brown-and-white striped spider perched on a red brocl wall

Zebra spider. Lovely little animals, but very easy to overlook!

I was expecting a bit of pushback against this paper, but so far all the citations have been very positive, which is nice
doi.org/10.1017/mdh....

Episode 6 of our podcast. @jdroberts.bsky.social and Lydia Woods talk to @rachelgrandey.bsky.social about the complexities of guilt, religion, blame and loss in the context of extinction and environmental degradation in south-east Asia. extinctionstudiesleeds.podbean.com/e/a-faceless...

@hibbertsalex.bsky.social - might be a good book to read in advance of the (hopeful!) autumn workshop when it comes out!

I don't have a hot take beyond that, like most historians, I dislike Winston Churchill and think his self-mythologising has deeply distorted public understandings of the second world war, to the detriment of our country. But I like badgers, so there's that

Episode 5 of our 'Edges of Extinction' podcast: 'A Shell like a Paperclip'. @jdroberts.bsky.social and @rachelgrandey.bsky.social talk to Lydia Woods about mass extinctions in the deep past – and the strange world of marine palaeontology.

extinctionstudiesleeds.podbean.com/e/edges-of-e...

Embodied Environmental Histories of Danger in a British National Park Lena Ferriday discusses danger and wildness in Dartmoor

Last call for this awesome online seminar on danger in Dartmoor tomorrow! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/embodied-e... #envhist #environmentalhistory

Spring is beginning to spring, which means it's light and warm enough to spend a bit of time sat out with the monotron in the evenings. I can manage the tiny keys quite well so long as I'm not too sleep-deprived, but unfortunately...

They say it's publish or perish in academia, but hey, plenty of us manage to do both!

We've got a fascinating seminar coming up next week on embodied environmental histories of danger in Dartmoor! Join us at 2PM GMT next Tuesday (the 10th) for some dangerous discussions... #envhist #environmentalhistory #nationalparks #envhum #dartmoor #Devon

Aw, thank you MT! I wanted to do something simple and calm, so really glad you enjoyed it!

I relistened to 'Helluland' by Northumbria for the first time in a while last night, and it inspired me to go back to basics and make something more classically ambient

In Episode 4 of Edges of Extinction, Seb Stroud, @sicilyfiennes.bsky.social and @jdroberts.bsky.social talk to Andrea Boom about language, plants, culture and frankincense in Oman #environmentalhumanities #socialsci #linguistics #extinctionstudies extinctionstudiesleeds.podbean.com/e/edges-of-e...

Awesome, thank you!

Embodied Environmental Histories of Danger in a British National Park Lena Ferriday discusses danger and wildness in Dartmoor

Join us in a couple of weeks when @lenaferriday.bsky.social will be discussing the narratives of danger that lurk on Dartmoor in the imaginations of the last two centuries. Come along online on 10/03 at 1400. To Sign-up, see here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/embodied-e...

Fantastic news! I am currently looking for postdocs, should I drop you an email to talk more?

What do our data show?
We still don't really know
Though our analysis was formidable
There are uncertainties considerable
But we present our results even so

In Episode 3 of 'Edges of Extinction', Andrea Boom,
@sicilyfiennes.bsky.social & @jdroberts.bsky.social talk to Seb Stroud about the looming extinction of botanical knowledge and the importance of plants extinctionstudiesleeds.podbean.com/e/edges-of-e... #botany #education #extinction

This was such a fun (and fascinating!) conversation!

#skystorians #envhist #environmentalhistory #envhum

Really exciting online seminar coming up next week! "In this paper, Simone demonstrates how a water-centred, analytical perspective can reveal the limits and contradictions of colonial actors’ attempts to stabilise nature through mapping" www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thinking-w...

A Castle Amidst Trees, by JD Roberts track by JD Roberts

A new one from me - and it's another excessively chill meditation, with a wistful sax melody and a woodland soundscape
jdrobertsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/a-cast...