Sometimes, when I interview bacteria or animals, I ask myself if it's not too childish. But hey, the highly respected @cnrs lets #blobs talk!
In case you need some #goodNews: Blobs are sure to take over the world (well, my hypothesis). Thanks to the CNRS and a #citizenScience project, they are already living in countless children's bedrooms. Listen to a blob: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwcx6yCdDE8

Humans, Homo sapiens, humanity, we need no borders. Naturally. We evolved to walk wherever we liked. Together. In time.

The last few days, we've got to realize, we need #noborders

#science no borders #climateaction no borders #medicalaid no borders #migration no borders #labour no borders #care no borders #moon no borders #tides no borders #earth no borders #ocean no borders #life no borders #water no borders #health no borders #ritual no borders #morethanhuman no borders #nokings no borders #nomads no borders

Or maybe the way to say it is, no borders in space but in time (remembering the King of Time #VelimirKhlebnikov)

This comes from a lovely piece on Khlebnikov by our own Chris Knight:-
'Khlebnikov’s fundamental political position was that the world should have no borders. That was partly due to his upbringing: the camels and horses in the camp where he grew up were not interested in borders. Throughout his life, he remained committed to the nomadic values of the Kalmyk people.

'But, although Khlebnikov hated territorial borders, he loved the idea of borders in time. He did not want fences, customs posts and certainly not trenches (remember this is going on during World War I, when people were fighting for a few yards of squelching, blood-stained mud). But what about borders in time? When people sing together, they must all keep to the same beat and sing each note together. Synchronising the voice means being aware of borders in time. Once the whole planet is singing, the only borders will be in the dimension of time. Natural rhythms, such as human heartbeats, the sun, the moon and the tides, would be used to set up these borders. He considered it vital not to transgress borders in time - they were needed if the world’s inhabitants were to get on with one another. By contrast, borders in space were in his eyes just bloodshed and murder.'
https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1248/prophet-and-poet-of-russian-revolution/

#lunarchy
#flourishingdiversity
#HumanRevolution

My contribution to the 700th Disquiet Junto. Thinking about our place in the more-than-human world.

https://soundcloud.com/raincat-306596410/green-presence-disquiet0700

More on the 700th weekly Disquiet Junto project, View Frame — The Assignment: Share a peek out your window and some sounds inspired by the view — at https://disquiet.com/0700/

Memories: That time when we were so isolated that we talked to our #sourdough (well, at least me but suddenly Mme Hoppla had a jailbreak!) and #bacteria: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s... #NatureMatchCuts #podcast #microorganisms #microbiome #soil #soilhealth #nature #moreThanHuman

Season 01 Ep 04 Sitting With Y...

Rocznice:
»40 lat temu zmarł Theodore Sturgeon«

8 maja 1985 roku w wieku 67 lat zmarł amerykański pisarz fantasy i science fiction Theodore Sturgeon.

https://www.fahrenheit.net.pl/aktualnosci/rocznice/40-lat-temu-zmarl-theodore-sturgeon/

A friend of mine just encouraged me to make a submission to this upcoming Anthology on the theme of Neurodiversity and the More-Than-Human.

My research is looking at experimental new ways of collaborating that can help our communities to move beyond conflict and into collective decision making by reframing how we interact (it involves basic objects on a table that folkls push around like a board game but its not a board game its a new toolkit). {I'll explain it better another time }

Posting this here for accountability for future me, and maybe you know someone who would be interested in this too.

Submissions due: 31 August 2025.

https://posthumanpress.com/pages/neuroqueer-anthology

Ethodiversity, ethodivergence, ethonormativity: yes, yes, yes. "In a world where ethonormativity meets neuronormativity, I would rather be a divergent animal than a typical human": YES. #Neurodiversity #animalMinds #moreThanHuman

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ydzwvnlaoqw6ye7bfvdrqwti/post/3lj6j4regpc2j

The bonobos are talking, like, in sentences. Your regular reminder that human exceptionalism has no visible means of support.

#multispecies #moreThanHuman #language

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/bonobos-calls-may-be-the-closest-thing-to-animal-language-weve-seen/

One of my methods for dealing with spiralling #SocialAnxiety thoughts:

Translating my behaviour into that of a another being because I find it so much easier to have compassion for others than myself.

Visualising my previous actions with me as a wolf, cat, tree, etc. helps me turn the lens with which I listen and feel understanding for other people (#MoreThanHuman)... toward myself

Does anyone else do something like this?

Friday 2 May: "Conceptions of Nature Symposium" at La Trobe University City Campus, Melbourne Australia. Discussing the more-than-human across worldviews, cultures, geographies, and of course, time periods. Places limited!

https://www.environmentalhistory-au-nz.org/2025/03/conceptions-of-nature-symposium/

'Times may be getting tougher but a hell of a lot of people are committed to doing good. And the best of the good is the #nature that makes up our planet.' https://steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcuts/posts/718b5dba-b9d3-448b-96a7-38e99d4ef017

My new blog post about #writing in hard times, developing a story, messy mind palace rooms, #accents, and the sweet poison of #passion. @writers @writing

Smessaert, J. & Feola, G., (2025) “On the practices of autonomous more-than-human political communities”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 5942. doi: https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.5942

Are you curious how I invented my micro-macro-amplifyer and why I like Dr Who? How I learned from a BBC colleague that a bed is important for work? Do you want to imagine a grey haired woman watching childrens' TV and having a culture clash thanks to Audacity? How I came to podcasting (part 1) https://steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcuts/posts/e7f309ce-2f1e-46f0-ba80-e8e86b6a8430

Cached US Kindle giveaway on bsky: 10 copies of Theodore Sturgeon's MORE THAN HUMAN, over at https://bsky.app/profile/kithrup.bsky.social/post/3lhmcep7v2s24

The Dorrigo Escarpment Great Walk

Intensifying the throughput rate with a series of soaring walkways through the Gondwana Rainforest

The $56.4 million investment in Dorrigo National Park will create “accessible, engaging and immersive experiences for visitors. The 4-day walking track will “connect people with nature... The new 46-km multi-day walk along the rugged escarpment within Dorrigo and Bindarri national parks, includes hiker camps, pedestrian bridges and lookouts.”

The review of environmental factors for the Dorrigo Escarpment Great Walk is available for public comment
>> until 24 February 2025. >>
https://www2.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/parks-reserves-and-protected-areas/park-management/community-engagement/walking-tracks-and-trails-in-national-parks/dorrigo-great-walk
https://www.nsw.gov.au/have-your-say/dorrigo-escarpment-great-walk

The Dorrigo Escarpment Great Walk project has the potential to put though an extra 200,000 visitors ...>
https://bellingenshirenews.com/2023/11/22/new-opportunities-flagged-for-shire/

There is an information session at the

Gleniffer Hall at 10am on Tuesday 11 February

at which staff from National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) will outline the draft review of environmental factors (REF) for the Dorrigo Escarpment Great Walk.

We are opening a new chapter @IT:U with this call, taking interdisciplinary research to the next level: imagining digital futures through #Design #Art #MoreThanHuman #SpeculativeInnovation #NextNarratives #NextShapes - please apply and reach out for any questions

https://it-u.at/en/careers/professor-of-transforming-art-science-and-society/

#MoreThanHuman #risk #anthropology: #cetaceans beach https://doi.org/10.1017/S1473550416000252 while:
1. #Ostriches do not bury their heads https://doi.org/10.1080/00359199509520346
2. #Lemmings do not complete mass suicide https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtu015
3. #Elephants likely forget https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-024-00655-y
4. #Frogs will not boil alive in slowly-heated water https://doi.org/10.1086/physzool.41.4.30155478 (or https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/12/07/3085614.htm )
 
Any others?
 
#DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRisk #RiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #Animals #AnimalsInDisasters

Can you hear the ice giggling? It parties wildly at night with stones and rocks and hugs the tarmac.
And then you can hear it everywhere: when the big Twolegs lurch and stagger, when they scream and squeal as they pick up speed.
"World domination for rocks", giggles the ice. "Homo sapiens can't even walk properly! The world is ours!", whisper the stones and the tarmac. If you are completely still, you can feel their vibrations.

Conservation cannot succeed without #Indigenous #knowledge. Expertise is needed in the #morethanhuman

https://environment.princeton.edu/news/how-indigenous-knowledge-can-reshape-conservation/