Deadline extended to 6 March! Join our brilliant interdisciplinary The Leverhulme Trust #PhD cohort in #Extinction studies. We welcome topics in language and cultural evolution Evolang Conference Simon Kirby LAGB

We’re all excited for this interdisciplinary workshop, held in Durham in the spring. Our Call for Papers is open and we look forward to reading your applications! Cabinet of Curiosities English at Newcastle St Andrews Geography & SD Northumbria Music Psychology at Edinburgh Extinction Studies DTP (University of Leeds) NINE DTP White Rose BBSRC Doctoral Training Partnership Northern Bridge Consortium

It’s the final round of recruitment for our amazing interdisciplinary Extinction Studies PhD programme. See below for more info and funding.

An exciting funded PhD opportunity, including the possibility of studying philosophical and religious perspectives on extinction and apocalypse with stefan skrimshire and others...

Anyone want to do a cross-disciplinary PhD focusing on extinction with a palaeo-leaning? Email me @ [email protected]

I currently supervisor projects combining palaeobiology/marine biology & palaeobiology/poetry.

We are recruiting the final cohort of our #PhD programme in #Extinction Studies (Extinction Studies DTP (University of Leeds)), deadline 6th February. You would join 12 current PhD students working in a fascinating and interdisciplinary group. Application structure in thread below... phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/224-le…

Want to do a PhD on 'Extinction studies'? Of course you do - we are recruiting the new cohort for our Leverhulme Trust Extinction Studies DTP (University of Leeds) - apply by 6th Feb. Our team goes from Anthropology to Zoology, and all points in between.
extinctionstudiesdtp.leeds.ac.uk/how-to-apply/

Earlier this year, our 2nd year cohort took part in a 2-day event, on decolonising extinction, with guest speakers MOgada and Dr. Juno Parreñas 🌈

Sicily Fiennes 🇵🇸 has written an excellent blog post about the event, which includes further reading, here:

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What might multispecies ethnography (MSE) have to offer, when thinking about extinction monitoring?

Serena Turton-Hughes reflects on this question, following a three-day MSE workshop with Maisie Tomlinson, in the latest Extinction Studies DTP (University of Leeds) blog:

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Only a few hours until Deborah Kent speaks about mathematics, whales, and the North Sea! 🌊

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If you follow us, you'll have seen photos of our new cohort of doctoral students on their recent interdisciplinary field trip to the Yorkshire coast.

Lydia Woods reflects on our first Extinction Studies DTP (University of Leeds) field trip, last October, in this blog post:

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Some fossils at Ravenscar today with the Extinction Studies DTP (University of Leeds) fieldtrip. Going to do a show and tell of everybody's fossil finds soon. There was some really beautiful finds today 🐚💗

My sole contribution to the Extinction Studies DTP (University of Leeds) fossil hunt. Might just leave this to the PGRs, Meghan Jenkinson and Dr Alex Dunhill...

This week I was invited to lead tomorrow's fossil walk on the Extinction Studies DTP (University of Leeds) fieldtrip to Boggle Hole. Today we went rock pooling and found many creatures!

'What is the sound of extinction?'

JD Roberts reflects on this question in this wonderful Extinction Studies DTP (University of Leeds) blog post on the absence of The Great Auk. (MT)

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In the first of our series of Extinction Studies DTP (University of Leeds) blog posts, Alfie Howard writes about Põhja konn, The Northern Frog, and what the stories of this mythological creature offer us, when thinking about extinction. (MT)

extinctionstudiesdtp.leeds.ac.uk/pohja-konn-the…