Mingcan Rong
PhDing at the University of Bristol, interested in vegetal geography, social science of plant science, plant humanities, botanic garden, rhododendron 🌺 (she/her)
- A joint Political Ecologies and Centre for Environmental Humanities symposium, joined by 3 excellent speakers! @uobrisceh.bsky.social
- This should be a great event! ‘Nature Bites Back': Monstrous & Speculative Ecologies Symposium www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nature-bit... @uobrisceh.bsky.social @uobgeogpgce.bsky.social
- Reposted by Mingcan RongA moment many years in the making – it's time to check proofs of my forthcoming book, Power Plants, due out in June with @manchesterup.bsky.social! Somehow, this has snuck on to the AAG's Winter 2025 books list – which looks great (www.aag.org/new-books-fo...). Preorder by end of Jan for 40% off 🌿🌲🌳
- Reposted by Mingcan RongNew paper just published in Synthese: Instrumental Understanding link.springer.com/article/10.1... In this paper I start developing an account of pragmatic understanding fit for an epistemology of scientific instruments, drawing especially on Davis Baird's Thing Knowledge. #philsci #philsky
- Reposted by Mingcan RongCheck out our @planthums-uk.bsky.social web pages at kew.org/science/inte... Learn who we are, what we do, and how you can work with us on #PlantHumanities #research @rbgkew.bsky.social @rhulgeography.bsky.social
- Reposted by Mingcan RongAn unexpected advent surprise - my book is available to pre-order with @manchesterup.bsky.social For those interested in biofuels & the bioeconomy, vegetal geographies, climate politics, or relationships between energy & "human progress" more broadly! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526192127/
- Reposted by Mingcan RongThe article "Plant Humanities Pedagogy: teaching at the intersection of feminist economics and economic botany" from the journal Endeavour by Frederica Bowcutt & Savvina Chowdhury is available free, open-access until Jan 14, 2026. authors.elsevier.com/a/1mA7AabuHw0bl
- Reposted by Mingcan RongJust published! I am so glad to see this in print after more than five years in the making. The Invention of Scientific Conservation @degruyterbrill.bsky.social , edited by Esther van Duijn @rijksmuseum.bsky.social and myself @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social brill.com/display/titl...
- Reposted by Mingcan Rong🚨 Job opportunity🚨 We are looking for an editorial assistant to work with me on the RGS journals (TIBG, The GJ, Area & Geo) as we move online systems. 🗓6 months fixed term 🕑0.4 FTE 📍Remote working option ❗️Closing date 11th Dec Please share & apply! Happy to answer Qs. www.rgs.org/about-us/wor...
- Reposted by Mingcan Rongamazingly produced zine from queer patch - group of sinophone queer / feminist researchers. look out for launches in various cities across 2026
- Reposted by Mingcan Rong🌺New in Geo🌺 'Cultivating scientific authority: A vegetal geography of Chinese rhododendrons at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh' by @mingcan-rong.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky
- Excited to share my first PhD paper which was based on my fieldwork at @thebotanics.bsky.social and just published on @geoopenaccess.bsky.social yesterday! 🌺
- PhD work by @mingcan-rong.bsky.social on the colonial legacy of cultivating scientific authority through the lens of Rhododendron @thebotanics.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/geo2...
- My first time organising a session at @rgsibg.bsky.social! Huge thanks to my amazing co-organisers Matthew Beach and Franklin Ginn, all the brilliant speakers across three panels, and everyone coming to our HPGRG-sponsored ‘Practicing Vegetal Geographies: Creativities and Beyond’ session!💚🪴🌺 #RGS
- Reposted by Mingcan Rong#OpenAccess in TIBG: 'Infrastructure as archive: Examining the colonial geographies of rivers' by @austinread.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky #geo
- Reposted by Mingcan Rong📗 Luís Mendonça de Carvalho edited the book ‘The Victorians: A Botanical Perspective. Volume 1’ (Springer), which provides us with a 'unique re-evaluation of the Victorian Age and presents a new historiography based on plants'. 👉 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
- Reposted by Mingcan RongThis week we've been descending into mines, scaling coal-spoil tips, and swimming under waterfalls. Read about our recent CEH field trip in our latest blog post: environmentalhumanities.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/06/20/t... #envhum
- Reposted by Mingcan Rong#GARDENS & #EMPIRES - booking open! International conference @britishlibrary.bsky.social 27-28 June Convened by #BL, @rbgkew.bsky.social & @englishheritage.bsky.social Speakers include @advollyr.bsky.social @sathnam.bsky.social & @corinnefowler.bsky.social Booking: events.bl.uk/events/garde...
- Excited to be organising a session with Matthew Beach on ‘Practicing Vegetal Geographies: Creativities and Beyond’ for the RGS-IBG Annual Conference in Birmingham, 26-29th August 2025. Please take a look at our CFP if you are interested in plants, creativities, more-than-human geography! 🌱
- CfP: PRACTISING #VEGETAL #GEOGRAPHIES: #CREATIVITIES & BEYOND @rgsibg.bsky.social Annual Conference 2025 Abstracts to mingcan.rong@bristol.ac.uk & m.j.beach@qmul.ac.uk by Feb 24 2025 More: rgs.org/research/ann... @kewgardens.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk
- Reposted by Mingcan RongI am so glad to finally have this piece published with the wonderful Heather Rogers. Open access, so no excuse to not check it out. Digital Plant Encounters: Integrating Critical Plant Studies with Digital Environmental Humanities sciendo.com/article/10.2...
- Reposted by Mingcan Rong🥳 Behold! The CEH Termcard has landed and it's packed full of exciting events -- from workshops to walkshops, lectures to moth expeditions. We're so pleased to have @chrisjpearson.bsky.social back to deliver our annual lecture on the 26 February, along with many other brilliant speakers!
- Reposted by Mingcan Rong@ahubschle.bsky.social and I have a new article out in @theconversation.com about how to approach the illegal succulent trade in South Africa through the lens of conservation justice. theconversation.com/south-africa...
- Our workshop ‘From Archives to AI: Researching and Imagining Socioenvironmental Relations’ will be held at Bristol on 12 Feb 2025, which includes talks by @oliviamason.bsky.social @mattinbiglari.bsky.social @jwyg.bsky.social & a panel discussion chaired by Mark Jackson! 🤩 Please find details below!
- Please register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-archi...
- Huge thanks to Harry Fitzpatrick-Grimes and @austinread.bsky.social for co-organising the event at different stages 🥹 And thanks @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social and Negar Elodie Behzadi for constant guidance and the funding support from the Political Ecologies Research Group and Bristol Doctoral College
- One more reading for next term’s Plants and Geographies reading group 🤩🍃🌳
- I've written a piece on biofuels and the potential for plants to help us rethink relationships between energy, growth and productivity – just out in Environmental Humanities 🌿🌳🌾 Thanks to @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social & Franklin Ginn for making space for this! read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...
