New commentary is out: "Why pronatalism fails the planetary health test." Falling birth rates aren't the crisis, ignoring planetary boundaries is. doi.org/10.3197/whpj... #Pronatalism #PlanetaryHealth #PopulationAndSustainability #ReproductiveRights #EcologicalOvershoot #Biodiversity

Today was supposed to be my ECCB 26 @society4conbio.bsky.social keynote in Leiden. eccb26leiden.eu/interview-wi... Unfortunately, I am still waiting on my Indefinite Leave to Remain, can't travel until it's decided. Applied in January. Still nothing. Fingers crossed something moves before Thursday.

Absolute privilege to give a keynote at the "Foundational Issues in #BiodiversityFinance" workshop. Can you put a price on #wetland, #pollinator, or #ecosystem, without either overselling nature's financial "value" or reducing it to a spreadsheet item? philevents.org/event/show/1...

Precisely 30 years ago I started working on my PhD dissertation, which later became my first book, East to West Migration, exploring #Migration policy and practice. Presently I seem in the middle of it lnkd.in/eM34B8hE

Mobile Labour? Lost keynotes. Frozen fieldwork. Blocked international research. 5 months waiting for a UK residence permit-no travel outside UK. Feels like under #HomeOffice arrest. Reality for thousands academics. Raised it with @cmckinnellmp.bsky.social Now raising it here. #GlobalTalent

New paper on extinction accounting & urban biodiversity governance in Hong Kong, out in AAAJ: doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ... #ecocentrism #sustainability #ESG #KunmingMontreal #GBF #30x30 #NaturePositive #KunmingMontreal #sustainability #SustainableBusiness #Rewilding #Biodiversity

Aside from #Climate we need to remember #Biodiversity on World Environment Day as #BiodiversityLoss & #ClimateChange have different (although sometimes overlapping) causes

An engaging session organised by the Ouseburn Trust! With colleagues from @newcastleuni.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social @ouseburnfarm.bsky.social @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social discussed #environmental #sustainability initiatives, also BRANCH 🌿project funded by The Reece Foundation

Impressive launch event of the North East Alliance for Research on Environmental Risks. Great feedback on our BRANCH project (The Reece Foundation) on local #transport, #waste & #sustainability. Hosted by @durham.ac.uk with colleagues from @newcastleuni.bsky.social and @northumbriauni.bsky.social

Community engagement workshop on the subject of our project BRANCH: Building Resilience Across Newcastle Communities and Habitats, funded by the Reece Foundation and co-organised by Big River Bakery was wonderfully inspiring! Lots of ground-up ideas dealing with garbage and solutions discussed

Today's Garbology walk went well!

Today is #EndangeredSpeciesDay! #Biodiversity urgently needs help. The @IUCNRedList is a barometer of life, documenting the global extinction risk of animals, fungi and plants. It includes over 172,600 species, of which more than 48,600 are threatened with #extinction.

Ha, fair point and yes, WhatsApp is also Meta, and we are all on social media criticising social media! Sunday 17 May, 11AM, outside The Quayside Wetherspoon NE1 3DX. Route map: maps.app.goo.gl/TvYFvoRwviNi... — hope to see you there, contradictions and all! 🚶no flier, but see image

What does your bin say about the past and present? Join us Sunday 17 May for a Spoon to Spoon Garbology walk along the Tyne in Newcastle, sharing findings from our Reece Foundation-funded BRANCH-OUT project. Wetherspoons to Wetherspoons. Science never looked so good. www.facebook.com/events/96474...

What does sustainability look like for communities facing food insecurity, transport poverty, and waste infrastructure failure? The BRANCH project (The Building Resilience Across Newcastle Communities and Habitats) by our research team @NorthumbriaUni discussed results

The 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize was given to Iroro Tanshi 🏆She proved that the most effective conservation happens from the ground up. She’s a brilliant strategist, whose work saved hundreds of the short-tailed roundleaf bats. #GoldmanPrize #Biodiversity #ChangeStartsWhereYouStand

#Cragside in #Northumberland is stunning. Suggestion @nationaltrust.org.uk mark the public footpath from Rothbury, reconsider 7 (!!!) car parks & roads in beautiful woods, maybe free shuttle?. Lord Armstrong dreamed of renewable energy, fewer cars would honour that vision. #NationalTrust #Transport

Does Business Education have a #biodiversity blind spot? Our open access paper in #BERJ argues for #ecopedagogy over SDG-framing, with case studies from three universities. #conservation #HigherEd #BusinessEducation #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1002/berj...

Seamus Healy: Storm on the Island (Photos Alnwick) We are prepared: we build our houses squat, Sink walls in rock and roof them with good slate. This wizened earth has never troubled us With hay, so, as you see, there are no stacks... that can be lost[...] Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.

see also WEF earlier post: For conservation to truly work, we must view the natural world as more than just objects and resources www.weforum.org/stories/2022...

The 2nd edition of the Routledge Handbook of Environmental Anthropology, is now available for pre-order! Shipping March 31, 2026. www.routledge.com/Routledge-Ha... #EnvironmentalAnthropology #ClimateChange #Biodiversity #EnvironmentalJustice #NonhumanRights #Routledge

New article Corporate roles in preventing species #extinction: Integrating #Rewilding through the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures. Open access 👉https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/27658511.2026.2633484#abstract

A Paraceratherium transouralicum, possibly the biggest land mammal of all time, a hornless rhinoceros, lived a couple of tens of millions of years back. Sad to lose it, but today we are losing #biodiversity faster than ever, with so many non-farm animals endangered. Time to act against #extinction

It was a pleasure today to present at an invited Ignite Talk at AIESEP Research Association Specialist Seminar Future Matters: Reimagining Physical Education for a Changing World. Lausanne, Switzerland. #HigherEducation #SustainabilityEducation #PhysicalEducation #EnvironmentalEducation

I asked Claude (my uni's recommended #AI tool) to reflect on bias after noticing ideological patterns. Training data reflects taboos. When we make topics "problematic," AI learns those boundaries too. How do we catch ourselves responding to assumptions? #AcademicCulture #CriticalThinking #HigherEd

Happy to share our new article "Integrating critical thinking about #SDGs: Making #Biodiversity matter for business students" doi.org/10.1177/0973... With Teresa Roca & Karim Sorour #CorporateResponsibility #BusinessEducation #Sustainability #HigherEducation #EnvironmentalEducation

We need #Ecoliteracy fostering #CriticalThinking about #Degrowth, #CircularEconomy & #Education for #Biodiversity Why remain critical of #SDGs? Our earlier work: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... Alternatives disucssed in BERJ: doi.org/10.1002/berj...

A decade on, this research showed how commericial–NGO partnerships can raise #environmentalawareness reinforcing #consumerism. As #greenwashing #CSR grows, the tension between #environmentaleducation & growth-driven #sustainableconsumption hasn’t gone. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Revisiting our 2014 paper with the late Prof. Frans Meijers on #EducationForSustainableDevelopment challenges how ESD often overlooks deep #EnvironmentalEthics and teacher identity in practice. @unesco.org look beyond #SDGs for transformative #Sustainability education. doi.org/10.1108/IJSH...

The "six-seven" meme that plagued classrooms in 2025 spread like #EducationForSustainableDevelopment. When kids mindlessly repeat nonsense, we call it #brainrot. When #HigherEducation adopts #SDG we call it innovation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...