Vanessa Burns

Leverhulme ECR Fellow @sheffieldgeog, environmental geographer, Australian expat, Pacific climate adaptation, decolonisation, environmental governance.

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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. https://t.co/6SLL7qvoSa via @timeshighered

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We have a new paper out in #LandUsePolicy on obstacles to #PES schemes for water management @OrlaShortall @sheffieldgeog @HuttonSEGS https://t.co/zNtPPOGuXL

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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 https://t.co/cbA464xu1e

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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

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

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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 https://t.co/ZbHAZzi3DJ

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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!! 🐝 🐝🐝😂

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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.

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Sugarcane growing in the red volcanic soil around Childers, Australia

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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”

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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?”

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Ecological tipping points could occur much sooner than expected, study finds https://t.co/WHnIpSTOi1

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Further to last…

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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

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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?

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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!

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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 https://t.co/qzO4y5Hwxr

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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)

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