It pains me deeply to experience and hear about the deep damage that systems, which are entirely human and can be changed, continue to cause. I am truly sorry about your horrible experience Ida Nadia Djenontin, PhD. People should do better to be human.

A historic day! The International Court of Justice begins public hearings in South Africa's case against Israel. SA seeks provisional measures to prevent violations of the Genocide Convention by Israel in relation to #Gaza . Here are some resources ahead of the hearing 🧵

Excited to finally share VESPA (Vertebrate Eukaryotic endoSymbiont and Parasite Analysis) in Nature Communications w/ Leah Owens & Tony Goldberg. Hope this will advance parasitome research & save parasitologists like me from SO MANY hours at the microscope! 🐒💩🔬rdcu.be/dvx4I

So excited for this!

Our new paper in Ecology&Society sheds new light on how we plan and design landscapes to achieve thriving, regenerative communities in the face of planetary change ecologyandsociety.org/vol28/iss4/art5

Striking a balance between the desire for anonymity for personal privacy while being visible enough to change structural inequities is a lot of work - at least for me.

#NbS #socialinequity stories can help us understand the struggles but also the efforts deployed to meeting those equity goals.

Huge win for Indigenous land rights in Brazil! 👏 straitstimes.com/world/brazil-t…

Way to go Sampa The Great for shining a spotlight on the many ways that erasures happen and the many things they erase!

A fantastic timely wake-up call to look for marginalized and silenced voices and literature in knowledge production. Well articulated and congratulations! Zinhle ka’Nobuhlaluse
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Congratulations to Dr. Susan Kotikot on a fantastic dissertation defense!!!! Committee comments included “scholarship in its pure form” and “impressive in its scope, originality, and rigor.” Penn State Geography LandscapeU Program at PSU

How hard is it to do science in a language that’s not your first language? We quantified the severity of #languagebarriers for non-native English speakers when reading/publishing papers and attending/presenting at international conferences.
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THREAD. Admissions officer here 🙋🏾‍♀️ IMO Harvard/UNC opinion is much narrower than I expected it to be and impact will be much less than I see a lot of people suggesting -- and possibly give institutions MORE ability to curate classes based on diversity interests 1/

Concerns highlighted in the Devex article plus approved lab meat makes me wonder about the fate of natural organic nutritious African food varieties and non-communicable diseases in inadequate inequitable healthcare systems

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Meanwhile somewhere in the world … “Lab grown meat cleared for sale in the US.”

I’m thinking cultural preferences, ethical implications, micronutrient availability and accessibility, and what this means for indigenous cultural livestock and wildmeat systems.

I was honored to present our work “The construction of biodiversity in conservation policy discourse: A multiscalar analysis” at the #IASC2023 conference in Nairobi. Awesome panels, presentations, people, colleagues and city! Thanks Penn State Geography Bronwen Powell (she/her) Settler 🇨🇦 and Ida Nadia Djenontin, PhD

Thoroughly enjoyed Dr. Ogada’s keynote speech challenging the role of scientists in/of the commons. Riveting to say the least!

In the picture “African Commons today are gravely threatened by capitalists and their agents (conservation scientists, practitioners)” #IASC2023

Delighted to have our paper 'The need to include wild foods in climate change adaptation strategies' included in the COSUST special issue on climate change adaptation! #climatechange megan_mucioki Rachel Bezner Kerr authors.elsevier.com/a/1hFWh6gsyPpr…

How Fishmeal Factories Put Food Out of Reach for Communities in The Gambia - DeSmog desmog.com/2023/06/08/how…

Such a great group of alums, current students, and their support network! Todays topic= #carbonoffsets and the many career opportunities ⁦Penn State EESI⁩ ⁦Penn State Geography⁩ ⁦IEE at Penn State⁩