#morethanhuman — Public Fediverse posts

@davidho 🤣 A protest on the streets: moths, ants, birds, and small mammals hold signs: Why do they never ask us (if we are conscient)?

#conscience #moreThanHuman

📣 New paper: Designing for biodiversity data in place: Species, encounters, and interfaces

This open access paper presents our work developing ALA Lens for the Atlas of Living Australia.

It shows how conventional interfaces can hide the taxonomic and spatial diversity that matters in biodiversity data, and how Lens reveals the relationships between species, people, and place.

Co-authored with my @ANUResearch colleague Adrian Mackenzie and ALA collaborators Martin Westgate and Kylie Morrow 🙏

Just out in People and Nature journal, part of a special collection on the "Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery"

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pan3.70384

#design #sts #biodiversity #morethanhuman #dataviz

Come and join this online Speaker Series event. Registration is free.

>>Dear AI Reader: Nonhuman Perspective and Evolutionary Thinking in the Human-Machine Relation<< with Chris Danta, ANU.

More info and registration:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/1CwzH8B8Ta--oJcMG2Peow#/registration

#cybernetics #AI #moreThanHuman

The Special Issue guest edited by Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen and Minna Opas includes:

Introduction:
(Un)relating and (un)learning with more-than-humans during ethnographic practice
Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen, Minna Opas

Articles:
Co-responding with a Parrot in Amazonia: Cosmopolitical Engagements and Ethnography eng
Taynã Tagliati
20-42

Speaking and Singing Firmly: Beings (Un)related and (In)activated by Language in Amazonian Academic Research
Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen
43-66

Forest Cosmo-politics and the Agency of Plants: A Case Study from the Asháninka People in Peruvian Amazonia.
Monika Kujawska
67-89

Microbes and Fieldwork: Reflections Toward a (Micro)Biosocial Anthropology
Beth A. Conklin
90-113

With-nessing bacteria
Elina Oinas, Katriina Huttunen
114-133

Soul Loss in the Forest of Symbols: Transformational Bodies, Avá-Guaraní Acoustemology, and Magical Mediating Methodological Instruments
Eric Michael Kelley
134-156

Special Issue essays

The Stool: A Place for Listening to Ancestral Knowledge
Silvio Sanches Barreto Bará
157-166

How to Milk a Yak: Embodied Learning with Yaks in Practice
Siran Liang
167-174

#anthropology #multispecies #morethanhuman #ethnography
@anthropology

OnlineFirst - "Starlings, olives and the idealised fascist landscape: Tracing the time-spaces of a more-than-human Rome" by Andy Morris:

#starlings #Rome #morethanhuman #urbangeographies #aviangeographies #worlding #fascistlandscapes

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486261418493

hello mastodon —
sound, listening and performance as ways of thinking with territory.
non-anthropocentric perspectives, infrastructures, measurement, and resistant environments.
psychogeography, cultural studies, and the arts as ways of attending — including alternative mappings and cartographies.
photography as field note. sound as method.
slow conversations welcome.

#SoundStudies #SoundArt #Listening
#CriticalGeography #Psychogeography
#CulturalStudies #MoreThanHuman #cart
#STS #ArtResearch

🧵 It has to dry now ... then erasing of pencil marks and finish off. My childish #doodles for #NatureMatchCuts and #reconnectWithNature with a chubby alien cuddling #moss.

#zine #zines #solarpunk #moreThanHuman #green #mosstodon #alien #cartoon #workInProgress

audio papers #morethanhuman

https://seismograf.org/fokus/sound-and-more-human-worlds

Very honoured to give one of the keynotes next week at this great workshop at the Legal Sciences Departement at the University of Bologna. The title of my speech is: 'Shifting the criminological gaze: More-than-human harms of digital crime control' #digitalcriminology #bigdata #policing #morethanhuman https://dsg.unibo.it/it/eventi/policing-with-big-data-cybersecurity-and-the-other-risks-of-data-driven-control-in-digital-societies

"In the nineteenth century, flower painters in Denmark shifted from depicting arranged, cut flowers to showing plants within their ecosystems..."

Glorious paper by Gry Hedin on "Plant-Thinking in Nineteenth-Century Danish Flower Painting." Image: Christine Løvmand, Flower Piece, 1841.

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/culture-2024-0024/html

#botany #plants #arthistory #morethanhuman

Photo album from a visit last month to London’s Design Museum and the ‘More Than Human’ exhibition. A fascinating exhibit with a lot of thought put into how we could live better within nature. #MoreThanHuman #NatureCentredDesign #sustainability #NatureBasedSolutions flic.kr/s/aHBqjCqYLw

‘More Than Human’ and the Desi...

More than Human: Making with the Living World at the Design Museum is also worth seeing.

https://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/more-than-human

But a quick heads-up: the subtitle is more accurate than the title. It’s really about making WITH the nonhuman - plants, animals, ecosystems - not BY the more-than-human. The human still takes centre stage. A missed opportunity, perhaps, to explore what truly more-than- or other-than-human design can look like.

#art #design #human #morethanhuman #posthumanism #plants #animals #environment

SETI Post-Detection Futures: Directions for Technosignature Research and Readiness https://astrobiology.com/2025/07/seti-post-detection-futures-directions-for-technosignature-research-and-readiness.html

Happy to see our NASA DARES White Paper on Post-Discovery/Post-Detection Futures up on arXiv. 6 key areas for growing readiness for the discovery of life beyond Earth.

#astrobiology #SETI #astronomy #LifeInTheUniverse #Readiness #Space #MoreThanHuman #Futures

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

#NatureMatchCuts #blob #PhysarumPolycephalum #slimeMould #learning #intelligence #moreThanHuman

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/

#disquiet0700 #disquietjunto #soundart #ecology #posthuman #morethanhuman #experimentalmusic #glasgow

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...

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

#Neurodiversity #MoreThanHuman #HDR #PhD #Article #Submission

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/

'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

#storytelling #podcasting #blog #naturelovers #accent #languages #interviews #moreThanHuman #creativity #journalism #solarpunk #hopepunk #author

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

#politicalecology #moreThanHuman

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

#NatureMatchCuts #podcast #nature #DrWho #curiosity #BBC #moreThanHuman #Tardis #Löwenzahn #journalism #backstage #reconnectingWithNature #podcasting #podcaster

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.

#biodiversity #rainforest #Gondwana #MidNorthCoast #NationalParks #NSW #BindarriNP #Dorrigo #AdventurePark #infrastructure #lookouts #views #cars #Climate #tourism #traffic #TheDrive #Bellingen #experience #stuff #walkways #ecology #MoreThanHuman #impacts

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