Former @AFP Russia hack now conservation researcher. I tweet on nature, Russia, culture, politics. I will mute you if you're rude.
Joined July 2008
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5 Aug 2025
My friend Alec is missing in Norway, his wife is appealing to anyone who has info (her contacts are in this article) please consider posting this in any relevant networks theguardian.com/world/2025/a…
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1 Apr 2025
Giving up on this platform for all intents and purposes, but you can find me on the other one with the blue icon. Cheers.
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12 Nov 2024
Article tries to lump all 'liberal Russians' into the 'good Russian' mould, is shocked that they won't all fit, then finds 'positive examples'. Two random Russian ladies at a playground are quoted.
I mean... theguardian.com/culture/2024…
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13 Oct 2024
"Kazanian Cat, Astrakhanian mind, Siberian reason, lived gloriously, ate sweetly, farted lightly"⠀
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More on this image and more Russian lubki (colorful broadsides, 16th–early 20th century) here: buff.ly/2GxZjgq #Caturday
(Print to buy here: buff.ly/3i5naln)
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30 Aug 2024
Deep hit of nostalgia in an Estonian bog forest. Easily my favorite ecosystem 💔
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18 Aug 2024
Navalny folk icon on his grave. Brick wall and name tag on prison robes, the look of Russian sainthood these days. Via orthozombies Telegram.
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3 Aug 2024
I think my editors back in the day would have butchered this as a run-on sentence
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25 Jul 2024
🚨Job opportunity!🚨
UNEP-WCMC is recruiting for a stakeholder engagement consultant in Kazakhstan, to work on our exciting one-year SPACES project supporting development of plans to expand and fund protected areas. 🇰🇿🌷🐾
unep-wcmc.org/en/careers/ct0…
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13 Jun 2024
Punk rock in the nest of species with my fave Latin bird name (Upupa epops). From t.me/expkart
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11 Jun 2024
Existing power imbalances and injustices could be exacerbated by large flows of international funding for nature. Conservationists are still grappling with what social justice means in practice; a major shift in mindset is needed. Piece in @PLOSBiology journals.plos.org/plosbiolog…
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10 Jun 2024
Our report on the importance of having goals to halt deforestation in countries' new Nationally Determined Contributions is out today! with @critchley_megan and other colleagues
unep.org/resources/report/ra…
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10 Apr 2024
Got major cognitive dissonance coming across a Tolstoy quote in a technical book about REDD 💗
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21 Mar 2024
Spectacular deep dive obit of Jawless Jerry, the mangled coyote that became an icon in the city of Tacoma. Stay grungy, WA. thenewstribune.com/opinion/a…
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21 Feb 2024
My legacy in Russia journalism was a story on invasion of giant hogweed (borschevik), and Russia's only reason for finally taking policy measures against it is to proclaim it an American bioweapon.
mk.ru/politics/2024/02/21/bo…
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Maria Antonova retweeted
21 Feb 2024
Two years of war in Ukraine – then and now theguardian.com/artanddesign…
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18 Dec 2023
Fascinating case study (open access!) on how the Karabakh conflict has led to environmental change and resurgence of malaria. For those studying the Caucasus and anybody interested in breaking out of silos to understand complex crises.
link.springer.com/book/10.10…
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12 Dec 2023
Nice article about restoration work in Ukraine's Danube Delta hakaimagazine.com/features/f…
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