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Aside from everything. I’m very pleased to see @nigelslater.bsky.social onion tart recipe as the supermarket delivery brought 1kg rather than my requested 100g of shallots… 😬 www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ma...

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Our next NiCHE Conversation will be on Wednesday, March 5th, at 11am EST on Instagram Live. @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social will be joined by Carmen Gilmore to chat about the potential of empty urban lots. Follow NiCHE on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/niche.canada #envhist #urbanplanning

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Tracking DOGE/Trump firings at National Parks: www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...

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Frozen in horror listening to the feed from the Trump/Zelensky press conference. (Radio four carrying it pretty much in full)

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In a sea of terrible news these are great! One studentship ring-fenced for Black applicants and may focus on any field of historical study and any period in which the department has supervisory expertise. The other studentship will focus specifically on the History of Race, Health and Medicine… 🙌🙌🙌

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Two fully funded PhD studentships in history have just opened @liverpooluni.bsky.social - deadline for applications is 30 May www.liverpool.ac.uk/histories-la...

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'Inequalities in higher education participation between English regions have risen to record levels, new figures suggest, with the gap between the number of men and women studying also wider than ever before.' 1/3

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Workshop organised by @simonnaylor.bsky.social and colleagues - 'Mapping the histories and geographies of water knowledge workshop', Glasgow, 15 May: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/... On mapping, measuring & manipulating the place of water in the environment #histstm #localknowledge #envhist

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I kept seeing U.S. academics talk about Canadian universities as a potential haven...

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We've published a new article for 'Plant Perspectives', 'Among the Drupes (Elegy for a Wasteland)' by Cole Swanson; about The West Toronto Railpath, "an emergent ecology at the edge of ruin". Read it #openaccess here: doi.org/10.3197/whpp... #envhum #plantstudies @plantperspectives.bsky.social

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When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

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There is a website, so it must be real: "Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia’s Fossil Economy", an #envhist of peat in imperial & Soviet Russia, will drop in September in Studies in Environment & History @cambridgeup.bsky.social #energysky 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...

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☀️ Just a reminder we’re hosting drinks at the Tyne Bar in a few weeks. I’m really excited about it, though slightly nervous as I’ve never done anything like this! Nearly 30 people coming so far - if you’re into what we do don’t miss it! RSVP: www.northeastheritagelibrary.co.uk/event-detail...

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Fabulous to see this all come together! So many great articles 🤩 Also the final output from the mighty & lovely hospital senses collective @victoriabates.bsky.social @marieallitt.bsky.social @harrietbarratt.bsky.social @agnesjuliet.bsky.social and Rebecca Fleetwood-Smith

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Interesting to see Dungeness presented as a natural landscape. Shingle regularly taken from one side to the other by lorry to stop the bank being washed away and the decommissioned nuclear power reactors falling in the sea. My GCSE geography coursework was on this www.kentlive.news/whats-on/wha...

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Read this and the world will seem a better place. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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My amazing book cover is here! Coming soon from University of Chicago Press.

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I especially agree with the points made below that many people just don't know about what universities do and how they operate in the local economy of their region...

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"The National Park Service's Loss is Our Loss" 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/the-nation...

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It would be quite nice if editorials and opinion pieces on the current UK universities crisis would condescend to insert the word 'research' even just once into their texts, to signal a glimmer of recognition of what universities foundationally do (including when they teach their students).

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📣We are delighted to announce the 2025 recipients of the Joint BME Small Grants! This scheme is supported by @histedsocuk.bsky.social, EHS; History UK; @historywo.bsky.social, @royalhistsoc.bsky.social; @sslh.bsky.social and @womenshistnet.bsky.social!✨ socialhistory.org.uk/2025/02/10/b...

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Write-up of our recent #medhums in #meded workshop, a collaborative organizational effort by humanities scholars at @ox.ac.uk, @imperialmed.bsky.social and @uniofstandrews.bsky.social.

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I am extremely freaking thrilled to announce that Bad Company is officially available for preorder wherever you buy books. (I am linking to Bookshop but buy it wherever!) I worked so, so hard on this book, and it would mean a ton to me if you ordered it. bookshop.org/a/109816/978...

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From an idea in 2008 to a book in 2025, ECHOES OF CARE: DEAFNESS IN MODERN BRITAIN has been published by @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ! It explores how changing perceptions of deafness intersected with healthcare, disability, and eugenics in 19th-century Britain. www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...

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Exclusive: DfE has warned mayors their adult education budgets will be cut as part of government savings This means £30 million in adult skills and 'free courses for jobs' cuts coming next academic year feweek.co.uk/fury-as-dfe-...

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New NiCHE Series CFP! Call for Submissions – Finding Humour in the Environmental History of the Climate Crisis Get your 100-300 word proposals in to Nuala Caomhanach by March 1st! niche-canada.org/2025/02/06/c... #envhist #envhum #climatecrisis

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Post-doc in planetary health humanities, to work with Andy Lakoff and colleagues at USC on their timely project on 'The city on life support: Los Angeles as a laboratory for planetary health'. Important topic... #STS #envhum #medanthro

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#envhum folks! The 'Environmental Humanities' journal (Duke University Press) is currently looking for TWO (!!) new co-editors from January 2026 onwards! Deadline: 31 March 2025 More information ⤵ environmentalhumanities.org

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Digital book burning

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On another matter, I see Medicine on a Larger Scale has a webpage now. You could pre-order the paperback but I advise waiting till June 2025 to get it all open access #histSTM #STS #histmed #globalhealth

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I’m really looking forward to this event & talking more about what ethical community history might look like, particularly in relationship to formally honouring the huge amount of work & passion it requires from community members.

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I consulted Charlotte Bailey for her wonderful piece blending her family's tragic history of #asbestos with the tragic global history of the mineral. The article is now out with Prospect Magazine and you can read it here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol... #EnvHist #CdnHist #histSTM

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A little 'sense' of my new article now out with @eandhwhp.bsky.social!

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I'm excited to announce that my book The Nature of Kingship (University of Hawai'i Press, 2025) is out! Join me for the launch on Feb 26, 5-7pm at SOAS (Room S209, PWW, London). I'll discuss it with Prof. George E. Dutton (@gedutton.bsky.social). No registration needed! #envhum #envhis #Vietnam

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#JOBKLAXON #histmed #histstm #envhist: the colleagues in the School of History at UCD are looking for candidates who can help develop a Humanities perspective in One Health, around the inter-dependence of animals, humans, microbes and environments in history. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN959/a...

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This is a national scandal. When will the government wake up and realise they are presiding over the rapid implosion of the UK's world-renowned university sector?

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Join us on Monday for the @eseh.bsky.social environmental history today seminar! #envhist

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During 2025, I'm running a project on 'Rainfall and the Irish Urban Experience'. I've written something about it here: rainandtheirishcity.com/2025/01/14/a...

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New "Postcards for Unstable Times" by Catherine Duigan, Daniel Mills, and Sarah Davies! "The mother of freshwater ecology", Kathleen Carpenter (1891–1970), writes to the future. More on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DFFoGnvohu... @cduigan.bsky.social @sarahdavies.bsky.social #EnvHist

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