Cambridge research group studying social life, technology + the planetary through practice-based research. http://smartforests.net, http://citizensense.net, planetarypraxis.org.https://bsky.app/profile/planetarypraxis.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/planetarypraxis.bsky.social/post/3mk3354filk2k“The integration of biodiversity … could safeguard carbon projects.” On Smart Forests Radio, Dr Max Bodmer of Renew Earth, formerly Head of Nature-Based Consultancy at rePLANET, explores methodologies and technologies for biodiversity and carbon quantification: https://atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/max-bodmer22 Apr 2026 08:25 +0000at://did:plc:4jcbs3hofz24mx76spkkpnsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3354filk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/planetarypraxis.bsky.social/post/3mjjdrfq7ks25¿Cómo se mantiene el equilibrio en un espacio protegido? En Smart Forests Radio, Felipe Ortega, biólogo y guardaparques en Chile, habla de cómo la conservación en el Parque Nacional Villarrica concilia las prioridades biológicas y culturales: https://atlas.smartforests.net/es/radio/felipe-ortega15 Apr 2026 07:12 +0000at://did:plc:4jcbs3hofz24mx76spkkpnsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjjdrfq7ks25https://bsky.app/profile/planetarypraxis.bsky.social/post/3mjjdmp6eo225How do you keep a protected area in balance? On Smart Forests Radio, Felipe Ortega, a biologist and park ranger in Chile, discusses how conservation at Villarrica National Park combines biological and cultural priorities (in Spanish): https://atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/felipe-ortega15 Apr 2026 07:09 +0000at://did:plc:4jcbs3hofz24mx76spkkpnsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjjdmp6eo225https://bsky.app/profile/planetarypraxis.bsky.social/post/3mixrwvhzks2pBiodiversity is no longer just the concern of NGOs and academics but increasingly intersects with the private sector. On Smart Forests Radio, Sylvain Vaquer, founder of Mozaic Earth, discusses monitoring tools developed for this evolving landscape: https://atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/sylvain-vaquer08 Apr 2026 07:37 +0000at://did:plc:4jcbs3hofz24mx76spkkpnsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mixrwvhzks2phttps://bsky.app/profile/planetarypraxis.bsky.social/post/3mig7wviefc2zCurious about how forests recover after fires? Join Andrés Fuentes Ramírez and Paola Arroyo Vargas from Universidad de la Frontera in Chile on Smart Forests Radio as they share their insights (in Spanish): https://atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/fire-recovery01 Apr 2026 08:00 +0000at://did:plc:4jcbs3hofz24mx76spkkpnsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mig7wviefc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/planetarypraxis.bsky.social/post/3mig7mxbmqc25¿Te interesa saber cómo se recuperan los bosques tras un incendio? Únete a Andrés Fuentes Ramírez y Paola Arroyo Vargas en Smart Forests Radio, donde compartirán sus conocimientos: https://atlas.smartforests.net/es/radio/recuperacion-tras-los-incendios/01 Apr 2026 07:54 +0000at://did:plc:4jcbs3hofz24mx76spkkpnsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mig7mxbmqc25https://bsky.app/profile/planetarypraxis.bsky.social/post/3mhutcupuy22s“The role of the technology should be to assist those who want to protect the forest.” On Smart Forests Radio, Murtaza Taj, Associate Professor at Lahore University of Management Sciences, details the development of forest-fire prevention systems in Pakistan: https://atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/murtaza-taj25 Mar 2026 09:59 +0000at://did:plc:4jcbs3hofz24mx76spkkpnsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhutcupuy22shttps://bsky.app/profile/planetarypraxis.bsky.social/post/3mhunhmze3s24Heading into the final stretch of the Smart Forests project, over the next few months we’ll be sharing a new wave of materials: podcasts on fire tech and UK rainforest regeneration, two short films, a collection on *Ecologies of Fire*, and our final report on Community-led Forest Technologies.25 Mar 2026 08:14 +0000at://did:plc:4jcbs3hofz24mx76spkkpnsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhunhmze3s24https://bsky.app/profile/planetarypraxis.bsky.social/post/3m24ufukb3s25In this new paper, David Brown @browndee17.bsky.social and Jennifer Gabrys explore the role of communities in landscape regeneration initiatives worldwide through a systematic review: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-025-02236-301 Oct 2025 10:47 +0000at://did:plc:4jcbs3hofz24mx76spkkpnsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3m24ufukb3s25https://bsky.app/profile/planetarypraxis.bsky.social/post/3ltysj24lmk2pIn her new paper, “This Machine Kills CO2,” Jennifer Gabrys considers the narrative of trees as machines, which reflects the role of technological thinking in addressing planetary crises: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01622439251346871 [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Jul 2025 11:31 +0000at://did:plc:4jcbs3hofz24mx76spkkpnsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltysj24lmk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/planetarypraxis.bsky.social/post/3ltmapmxags2pIn this new article, 'Designing Biodiversity Systems via Digital Kinships’, Michelle Westerlaken examines how digital biodiversity data is used in local restoration based on her fieldwork in a Dutch living lab: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10606-025-09524-2?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oa_20250616&utm_content=10.1007%2Fs10606-025-09524-210 Jul 2025 11:41 +0000at://did:plc:4jcbs3hofz24mx76spkkpnsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltmapmxags2phttps://bsky.app/profile/planetarypraxis.bsky.social/post/3lsy6il7s2k2j*समुदाय-नेतृत्व वाली वन प्रौद्योगिकी* अंतरिम रिपोर्ट अब हिंदी में भी उपलब्ध है - ऑनलाइन और पीडीएफ के रूप में: https://publications.smartforests.net/hi/community-led-forest-technologies/02 Jul 2025 12:08 +0000at://did:plc:4jcbs3hofz24mx76spkkpnsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsy6il7s2k2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/planetarypraxis.bsky.social/post/3lsy6gela622uLaporan sementara *Teknologi Hutan yang Dipimpin Masyarakat* kini telah tersedia dalam bahasa Indonesia - daring dan dalam format PDF: https://publications.smartforests.net/in/community-led-forest-technologies/02 Jul 2025 12:06 +0000at://did:plc:4jcbs3hofz24mx76spkkpnsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsy6gela622uhttps://bsky.app/profile/planetarypraxis.bsky.social/post/3lsy6e4kp2c2uNuestro informe provisional *Tecnologías Forestales Lideradas por la Comunidad* ya está disponible en español, en línea y en formato PDF: https://publications.smartforests.net/es/community-led-forest-technologies/02 Jul 2025 12:05 +0000at://did:plc:4jcbs3hofz24mx76spkkpnsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsy6e4kp2c2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/planetarypraxis.bsky.social/post/3lsy66f3cbs25Our *Community-led Forest Technologies* interim report is now available in three additional languages: Spanish, Indonesian, and Hindi, alongside English.02 Jul 2025 12:02 +0000at://did:plc:4jcbs3hofz24mx76spkkpnsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsy66f3cbs25https://bsky.app/profile/planetarypraxis.bsky.social/post/3lrscj2e3sc2yCheck out this new publication, *Common Sensing*, edited by Riccardo Badano, Tomas Percival, and Susan Schuppli at the Centre for Research Architecture. Find the book here: https://spectorbooks.com/book/common-sensing17 Jun 2025 10:38 +0000at://did:plc:4jcbs3hofz24mx76spkkpnsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrscj2e3sc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/planetarypraxis.bsky.social/post/3lrfrgfpyzs27In “Actually existing smart forests,” Jennifer Gabrys, Michelle Westerlaken, and @yutiariani.bsky.social revisit the analytic of “actually existing” to consider how speculation is a critical component of how smart environments are composed and realised: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2634982524126439312 Jun 2025 11:01 +0000at://did:plc:4jcbs3hofz24mx76spkkpnsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrfrgfpyzs27https://bsky.app/profile/planetarypraxis.bsky.social/post/3lrdjztull22lIn “Putting the digit back in digital,” Lydia Gibson & Tone Walford foreground zero as a “digit” central to digitalisation, exploring how its numerical and conceptual forms transform and reproduce forest relations in ways that are calculative and deeply colonial: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2634982525132314311 Jun 2025 13:43 +0000at://did:plc:4jcbs3hofz24mx76spkkpnsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrdjztull22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/planetarypraxis.bsky.social/post/3lrasm6r6lk27In their contribution, Priscila Santos da Costa and Steffen Dalsgaard at the Center for Climate IT at IT University of Copenhagen examine how tech-driven bioeconomy initiatives interconnect conservation and extraction, focusing on the Amazon Rainforest: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2634982524124884510 Jun 2025 11:38 +0000at://did:plc:4jcbs3hofz24mx76spkkpnsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrasm6r6lk27https://bsky.app/profile/planetarypraxis.bsky.social/post/3lqudvr3uvc24“The gendered forest,” a paper by @trishantsimlai.bsky.social and @csandbrook.bsky.social, critically examines the gendered implications of surveillance technologies, such as camera traps and drones, in forest environments: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2634982524128383705 Jun 2025 12:43 +0000at://did:plc:4jcbs3hofz24mx76spkkpnsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqudvr3uvc24https://bsky.app/profile/planetarypraxis.bsky.social/post/3lqrg2rboq22bIn “Between the god-trick and pluriversal potential,” @naomimillner.bsky.social and Mónica Amador-Jimenez explore 4 different ways that drones contribute to “making forests” and discuss their potential as pluriversal technologies for social & ecological justice: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2634982524128406004 Jun 2025 08:44 +0000at://did:plc:4jcbs3hofz24mx76spkkpnsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqrg2rboq22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/planetarypraxis.bsky.social/post/3lqp2c6ti6c2dIn “Raising the Carbonized Forest,” @estherturnhout.bsky.social and Casey R Lynch discuss how science works as a “technology of singularization” by foregrounding forests as carbon storage mechanisms: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2634982524125568503 Jun 2025 10:08 +0000at://did:plc:4jcbs3hofz24mx76spkkpnsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqp2c6ti6c2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/planetarypraxis.bsky.social/post/3lqc6zirsb22tDo “Forests high on CO2” store more carbon?” In her article, Véra Ehrenstein @ehess.fr explores the collective efforts of scientists who address this question through forest ecosystem experiments and model simulations: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2634982524124601329 May 2025 07:28 +0000at://did:plc:4jcbs3hofz24mx76spkkpnsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqc6zirsb22thttps://bsky.app/profile/planetarypraxis.bsky.social/post/3lqa43ympcc2bWhat is a forest? Rather than singular objects, forests are made up of many ecosystems and relations. “The Forest Multiple,” our new special issue in Environment and Planning F, explores the varied & conflicting ways that forests take shape amid planetary change: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2634982525132310028 May 2025 11:30 +0000at://did:plc:4jcbs3hofz24mx76spkkpnsy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqa43ympcc2b