Vanessa Burns

I love this. Public engagement and knowledge exchange funds are so often used to produce slick corporate-style media outputs. This kangaroo dance is really refreshing. timeshighereducation.com/news/drag-quee… via @timeshighered

We have a new paper out in #LandUsePolicy on obstacles to #PES schemes for water management @OrlaShortall @sheffieldgeog @HuttonSEGS authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S02…

Great read from @MylesatOxford: Just Stop Oil’ is easy to shout, but it cannot just happen, it cannot happen soon, and, crucially, it cannot happen soon justly' | University of Oxford ox.ac.uk/news/2023-12-0…

As police protect the glorious dead from pro Palestinian marches in London this morning, no image could be more evocative of the Othered dead from Judith Butler’s Frames of War

Stern & grumpy is something I'm usually very (too) good at. This time it was really hard to pull off though!

Father Karl Marx telling it how it is to the UN: A ‘club of elites’ will not realise the multilateral future we need, Holy See tells UN Assembly news.un.org/en/story/2023/…

Something else I didn’t foresee in my fieldwork risk assessment; being trapped in my room for the best part of a day because of swarming bees!! 🐝 🐝🐝😂

An unforeseen problem of remote tropical fieldwork; waking up to find gecko poo all over the last clean outfit for an important meeting that morning.

Sugarcane growing in the red volcanic soil around Childers, Australia

A little ad in an 1893 diary to attract new farming enterprises to the colonies of Victoria and South Australia: “The Fruit Garden of the Universe”

Met a very officious @Qantas staff member at Sydney domestic at 5:30am this morning who said, in my least favourite inflection, “I’m here to educate you?”

Ecological tipping points could occur much sooner than expected, study finds theguardian.com/environment/20…

Further to last…

This fish fin was tucked into a sailors diary, of an 1891 trading voyage to the Solomon Islands. I’ve found lots of (uncatalogued) artefacts in various archives, but I think this is my favourite @statelibrarynsw @sheffieldgeog

Lw @sheffieldgeog @LeverhulmeTrust held a workshop @RGS_IBG on climate #adaptation with @ilo @GCAdaptation @CDWSheffield @UCLIRDR @uclspp @cambridgelaw to ask how to define the spectrum of adaptation labour, much of which falls outside the definition of #decentwork?

Gave a lift to the lovely Astrid Toby and Charlotte today who happened to be students @sheffielduni @SheffieldSU hitchhiking to Cardiff to raise money for charity!

A monumental body of work, and such a fundamental influence on my work I can’t believe he’s gone. Bruno Latour, French philosopher and anthropologist, dies ages 75 theguardian.com/world/2022/oct…

Going through some field photos I found this dugout canoe (dug-out of a tree trunk) being crafted in Manatuto district #TimorLeste. Fishing is a relatively new livelihood learned after highlanders were displaced to the coast during the Indonesian occupation (1975-99)

5pm and my cheese box has arrived from the local ⁦@FenFarmDairy⁩ #autumn #happytuesday #eatlocal