More than 800m Amazon trees felled in six years to meet beef demand theguardian.com/environment/20…

Animal Rebellion occupies Gordon Ramsay’s three-star Michelin restaurant theguardian.com/environment/20…

Should we all be vegan? Looking forward to speaking at this CAVE event with Rachel A. Ankeny (she/her), Dinesh Wadiwel and Jane Johnson: eventbrite.com/e/should-we-al…

geoplanMQ is hosting a Student Showcase on Tuesday 6 September from 11am-12 as part of Social Sciences Week. Come along to C122 25 Wally’s Walk to get a taste of the variety of assessment tasks our students produce as part of the Bachelor of Planning. All welcome! SocialSciencesMQ

Two excellent sessions Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) #RGSIBG2022 yesterday focused on 'Fulfilling the Radical Potential and Promise of Vegan Geographies'. Learnt so much from the papers, and the reflections & constructive discussions that followed. What more can you ask for? lanternpm.org/book/vegan-geo…

Really pleased to work with the amazing Milena Bojovic on this paper raising important and difficult questions about the future of dairy.

Microplastics found in freshly fallen Antarctic snow for first time theguardian.com/world/2022/jun…

Microplastics found deep in lungs of living people for first time theguardian.com/environment/20…

When did it become ok for govt to prevent scientists from engaging in public debate? CSIRO has become ‘extravagant consulting company’, one of its former top climate scientists says theguardian.com/australia-news…

‘Worst it’s ever been’: a threatened species alarm sounds during the election campaign – and is ignored theguardian.com/environment/20…

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Macquarie University Research Fellowship applications now open. 10 three year postdocs on offer. Contact [email protected] if eligible (Aus. residents and PhD conferred after 1 March 2019) and interested in applying through Social Sciences: mq.edu.au/research/resea…

Vegan Geographies has arrived! Super pleased to see our new collection out through the lovely people at Lantern PM! geoplanMQ SocialSciencesMQ

Beef-led ‘Carbon bomb’: Queensland reveals big jump in land clearing theguardian.com/environment/20…

Another one not to miss!

geoplanMQ academics are presenting at today's #IAGNZGS2021 . First up Miriam Williams in the Regenerative Economy session, film by @RichieHowitt + and Andrew McGregor critical development studies and Sandie Suchet-Pearson and Kate Lloyd on Response-able and collaborative knowledge..

Big day for critical development geography at the #IAGNZGS2021 - we have 4 sessions, 18 papers, plus our IAG Critical Development study group annual meeting! Come along, all welcome!

More-than-meat - Herd of cattle runs through suburban streets after escaping LA slaughterhouse – video theguardian.com/us-news/video/…

and all the emotions, from wonder to horror, it elicits inside us is a first step in moving from killable societies in which humans, and only some humans, matter, to multispecies societies based on kinship and care.”
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'Critters labelled as such eek out existences in the shadows of society, in the casual violence of livestock industries & laboratories...away from killing eyes. And yet the ongoing liveliness of living things refutes their labelling. Learning to be affected by this liveliness...2