🫣 We call ourselves Homo sapiens—the wise storytellers who shape the world through shared narratives. But when we look at our overflowing landfills and toxic ecologies, perhaps an obscure qualifier is more fitting: Homo sapiens sapiens, the ultimate waste-generating humans. If you are ready to rethink our legacy of trash, join us for the Workshop on Socio-Ecological Crises of Waste in India on Friday, 25 September 2026. This is a critical deep dive into the complex relationships between waste generation and the marginalized human and non-human lives entangled within these environments. A massive shoutout to convener Dr. @AparnaAgarwal91 (@JindalGlobalUNI (JGU)) for her immense effort and vision in bringing together this multi-disciplinary roster of scholars, data scientists, and field experts to make this urgent dialogue happen. We have Prof. @Barbara Harriss-White et al. as experts (see the poster for details). Drop a DM for the Zoom link to secure your virtual seat in the room. (Note: All workshop timings are from 8:30 AM to 7:00 PM in IST). Are we the wise ones, or just the ones who leave the biggest mess?

At #ECBB2026, Prof. Andy Radford (Bristol Univ) left these pearls of wisdom at the end of his plenary talk. Science is important, but it is more important to understand the kind of scientists we are/shall become... and possibilities are endless. Keep a tab; be kind!

There are unfortunate aspects of culturally entrenched livelihood practices that link very distant lands: India and Brazil. Fantastic keynote in the Primate Symposium #ECBB2026. मदारी

#ECBB2026 has Kickstarted with a fantastic plenary by Prof. Andy Radford from the @Uni_Bristol

🧐On International #Dog Day!🚨 Academics Fear Reviewer #2. Then Comes Reviewer #2 Billion. Academics spend years fearing Reviewer #2. Then your paper reaches the newspaper and suddenly peer review feels like soft music. 😌 From “bullshit” to questioning whether my mother fed me—welcome to public peer review! Science entering society will encounter resistance. Sometimes, that resistance simply hardens the resolve to keep asking questions. #PublicReerReview If you wish to read the paper in @NatCities: nature.com/articles/s44284-0… The Hindu coverage: thehindu.com/sci-tech/scienc…

@ThinkpawsOrg team is glad to see this feature in @the_hindu , giving a succinct account of the paper that came in @NatCities (nature.com/articles/s44284-0…). There are scores of derogatory comments from dog lover group...but they fail to realise that coexistence with free ranging dogs has been made possible only because people love animals, in general. However, this is not a status quo and there are countless tales of human as well as animal suffering. Some cultural perspectives previously helped coexistence. But in the 21st century, large scale changes warrant active and thoughtful scientific assessments and interventions. We have discussed the same in the piece. Happy reading about an ongoing fellowship at @NCBS_Bangalore and @OxfordBiology , funded by @India_Alliance.

Come along, in person / online, at @terischool on 24th Aug 2026. Details in the poster.

🐕🐕🐕 Codes of human-dog coexistence 😇😇. A short video explaining how human-dog 🐕😇, dog-dog🐕🐕, and human-human 😇😇social dynamic dyads have overseen age-old negotiations and evolution, ever since wolf-like ancestors of modern-day dogs occupied the niche of prehistoric humans some 20,000 years ago. There is no fixed time and space to hint when and where exactly domestication happened: it was a tenet of long-drawn mutual niche reciprocation. We have reached inflexion points regarding mutual benefits, and there are countless cases of harm to people and dogs resulting from individual or organizational decisions. A set of upcoming research articles on solutions (ecoevorxiv.org/repository/vi…) and the ecology of urban, multispecies coexistence (ecoevorxiv.org/repository/vi…) can be accessed in the form of preprints. Do let us know if it resonates with your experiences. 🐕 Video by @Gulshan Singh

Felt cool 😎 examining this landmark usage by the leaf cutter bees.. check the video !

😇 A rather special moment on India's Independence Day! 🐕 Our work on “The Indian street dog crisis and multispecies coexistence in tropical urban futures” has made it to the cover of @NatCities (Link: nature.com/articles/s44284-0…) — and onto the journal’s website banner (nature.com/natcities/). But what pleases me most is how the #Thinkpaws team has invested in what the cover depicts. It is not an iconic skyline, a monumental building or a manicured urban landscape, but an ordinary Indian street, with people, dogs, food, traffic, homes, trees and all the negotiations that make a city alive. 1) We argue that Cities have never been exclusively human spaces. Across the Global South, humans and other life forms have shared streets, food systems, waste streams, infrastructure and cultural practices for centuries. Rapid urbanisation is now changing those relationships faster than our institutions, policies and perhaps even our ecological imagination can keep pace. 2) In this Perspective, I argue that the street-dog crisis in India cannot simply be understood through sterilisation, removal, feeding or compassion in isolation. Dogs are embedded within a much larger social–ecological system shaped by food subsidies, waste, infrastructure, human behaviour, animal movement and public health. Perhaps the more interesting question is therefore not simply: How do we manage animals in cities? But: What kinds of cities are we building for a future that will inevitably remain multispecies? Coexistence is not a fixed state. It is a relationship that requires constant steering. Very grateful to see that conversation represented on the cover of Nature Cities (nature.com/natcities/volumes…). Grateful to the @India_Alliance (DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance fellowship based at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (@NCBS_Bangalore) and the Department of Biology, University of Oxford (@OxfordBiology). #NatureCities #UrbanEcology #MultispeciesCities #HumanAnimalCoexistence #OneHealth #UrbanPlanning #FreeRangingDogs #UrbanBiodiversity

🐕Dog bite victims with medical prescriptions at Bhikshu Hospital, New Delhi. There was a dog bite victim at the hospital/30 min. The situation warrants major attention and systemic solutioning, unlike the knee jerk reactions by the Indian Supreme Court. nature.com/articles/s44284-0…

🚨Dog Gone?🚨In this 🐶 new @NatCities Perspective, I argue the crisis is not simply about dogs. Conversations on India's street-dog crisis revolve around managing dogs. The fundamental Q concerns coexistence futures we are trying to build? 🧐Link: nature.com/articles/s44284-0…