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docroscher.bsky.social
Historian, Animal Studies Scholar, Music Lover, HWM super fan, Antifascist
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Heute vor 84 Jahren überfiel die #Wehrmacht die #Sowjetunion. Es begann ein beispielloser Raub- und Vernichtungskrieg. Der 22. Juni 1941 markiert zudem den Beginn des systematischen Mordes an den europäischen Juden - wie auch an Sinti und Roma. #otd 1941

Not the perfect week, but @animalhistory.bsky.social‬ @ucpress.bsky.social‬ had a little surprise at hand and advance-published our article: "Of Lumpi, Putzi, and Schlupp: Human-Animal Relationships in Nazi Children’s and Youth Literature". Cheers to @docroscher.bsky.social‬ doi.org/10.1525/ah.2...

Proud to announce that my paper on human-animal relationships in nazi children’s literature that I co-wrote with my esteemed colleague @histo-huebner.bsky.social has been published in @animalhistory.bsky.social online.ucpress.edu/ah/article/d...

Preorder now!! Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums Coming out with @uchicagopress.bsky.social in October 2025. Only $20 in paperback for a full color book with 80 pictures of dead things. It’s beautiful! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

The international library community is rallying around its peers and colleagues in the United States as they endure challenging times that have seen the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under attack by President Trump and Dr. Carla Hayden fired as the Librarian of Congress.

Am vergangenen Wochenende wurde am denk.mal Hannoverscher Bahnhof rechtsextrem motivierter Vandalismus in großem Ausmaß festgestellt. Wir sind erschüttert! Der Staatsschutz des LKA hat die Ermittlungen aufgenommen.

Do yourself a favor and register to this event!

It's #WorldOtterDay! To celebrate here's a lovely woodcut illustration of a very hungry little otter found in Conrad Gesner's Historiae Animalium (c.1602)

FREE from Issue 1, no. 1: Hess, "The Animal-Human Relationship in War: Cavalry Horses and Their Riders in the American Civil War" [image: Edwin Forbes, US Cavalry Horse, 1863, Library of Congress] online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/1

Heute ist es endlich soweit, unser CfP für die Tagung "Rebuild or Retreat: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Climate Migration and Mobiltiy in the Global North" ist online! Wir freuen uns auf Eure Submissions. Teilen Pflicht! #envhist, #climatechange

🦥 Call for Papers! 🦥 Sloth: A Journal of Emerging Voices in Human-Animal Studies seeks submissions from students/graduate from the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities on almost any topic around human-animal relations. niche-canada.org/2024/10/25/c... #CFP #Human-AnimalStudies #Student

Rez: A.-K. Wöbse u.a. (Hrsg.): Greening Europe https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-115163 A.-K. Wöbse u.a. (Hrsg.): Greening Europe

Stanley: "Zum Teil ist es letztlich so, wie man Deutschland 1932, '33, '34 verlassen hat. Meine Großmutter verließ Berlin mit meinem Vater 1939. Es ist also eine Familientradition." www.derstandard.de/story/300000...

Did y’all already vote for mollusc of the year? @sgn.one ? What’s your favourite? And why is it Glaucus atlanticus? 😆

PhD on offer at Kew: Plants and their Products: Biocultural collections at Kew Gardens & the South Kensington Museum during the long nineteenth century If only I could apply! Fascinating mutual interests of Kew and the V&A in plants. Closes 16 May www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...

Rocks and racism? How geologists created and perpetuated a narrative of prejudice

Octopus? Ice cream? Is there anything gulls don’t eat? – in pictures

Only six more weeks until No Country for Old Age will be available for instant download! Tantor Media will release the audiobook version on April 29, narrated by Al Kessel (whose voice does sound a little like Sam Elliott's). And check out the elephant. tantor.com/no-country-f...

Very happy to be on the advisory board of this excellent new journal!

*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens

Had the best time! Love you always @hotwatermusic.bsky.social

Here is some animal agency for you.

Life Sciences: Das betrifft uns! Wir reden längst nicht mehr (nur) über Gender Studies. Unsere internationalen Kooperationspartner*innen ohne Gehalt, unsere Datengrundlagen bei der CDC abgeschaltet, unsere Submissions blockiert.

Great presentations and discussions yesterday with this wonderful bunch, at the colloquium 'Moving Animals: Wanderings in the Anthropocene', co-organized with @vbateman.bsky.social

Having a great day at the Moving Animals conference! Papers by Helen Cowie on alpacas, @vbateman.bsky.social on wapiti & Vincent Bijman on mongooses #envhist #animalhist

To my friends overseas: I know you got your own shitshow going on but mark your calendar: 2 days after Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025, the party of Helmut Kohl and Angela Merkel made common cause with the far-right AfD on the national stage. A day that will live in infamy.

Hello, everyone! We're very happy to share the new video for 'Much Love' with you all! www.youtube.com/watch?v=L91n... This is for all of you that helped us make it through 30 years ♥ HWM

Hot Water Music: “Much Love” (ft. The Interrupters) www.punknews.org/article/8467...

Looking forward to this!

To celebrate and conclude five years of research by the Moving Animals project, @rafdebont.bsky.social and I have organized the conference “Moving Animals: Wanderings in the Anthropocene” on Jan 31 in Maastricht. #envhist #animalhist Program at: moving-animals.nl/upcoming-mov...

Die Tipps von @docroscher.bsky.social sind 🔥🔥🔥

New book out on animals and epidemics in historical perspective, edited by Nadir Weber, Christian Jaser, Axel Hüntelmann and myself. It’s open access, folks! www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entde...

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