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Transforming Conservation: A Practical Guide to Evidence and Decision Making

This blog post was written by Bill Sutherland (Miriam Rothschild Professor in Conservation Biology in the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) and Nigel Taylor (Research Associate in the Conservation Science Group, University of Cambridge)

Steven Jan on Music and/as Evolution

Read now a blog by OBP author Steven Jan where he discusses the topic of his latest title 'Music in Evolution and Evolution in Music'

Linking Climate Justice and Open Access: the case for truly public knowledge

Read Now: Mihnea Tănăsescu's blog on climate justice, academic research and OA written for OA Week 2022: Open for Climate Justice.

Life, Re-Scaled: The Biological Imagination in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance

What kind of character is a microbe? How can an ecosystem take to the stage? Do springtails make good protagonists for detective novels? Life, Re-Scaled explores how contemporary literature and performance engage with our century’s shifting views of life.

A People’s Voice

We all know the Romantic hero: solitary, brooding, out of the ordinary, Byronic. There is a disconnect between that hero and the society which they renounce, and that is well and good. There is a space, after all, for misfits in this world.

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