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gettin' ready for an extremely busy March at the @greenhouseuis.net with talks by among others @kyliecrane.bsky.social, @mattholmes.bsky.social and @eikeheine.bsky.social, a conversation on publishing within #envhum, and @jacobleetom.bsky.social's PhD defence! 🌿

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We are exceedingly happy and proud to announce that our co-director @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social is the recipient of the 2025 Gad Rausing Award given by The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. This is a major recognition of #envhist #envhum scholarship at the very highest level

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From next week our X account will close and be archived. We will be solely on BlueSky where we will continue to promote #history, historical practice and the humanities. Please do join us #Skystorians

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Next Greenhouse #envhum book talk: Anne Berg will discuss her book Empire of Rags and Bones: Waste and War in Nazi Germany (Oxford UP, 2024) on Monday, 17 February 2025, at 4pm Central European time / 10am Eastern time. Join the live talk! newnatures.org/greenhouse/e... #envhist

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New paper out today! "The Entwined Human and Environmental Costs of the Colonial Project: Perspectives from Natural History Collections". I explored a few themes on how natural history #museums are now working to understand their colonial legacies. A little🧵: www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

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

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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

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The AHG has moved to Bluesky! We're a predominantly online, international network, running a varied programme of seminars, conferences and other events since 2016. We're looking forward to connecting and reconnecting here with all who are interested in animals in history! animalhistorygroup.org

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gloknos director, Inanna Hamati-Ataya @berytia.bsky.social writes for @aeon.co on the deep history of globalisation | There are no pure cultures - we have always been global 👇

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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...

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We are looking for people who want to talk about their new books (2024 or 25) in environmental humanities broadly defined on the Greenhouse #envhum book talk series this spring. Online Mondays at 4pm Central European time. (If you are in Asia/Australia, it’s at 10am CET) Contact me to set a date!

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As we wrap up 2024, we would like to reflect on the last year of activities in The Greenhouse. For those who don’t already know us, we are an #envhum #envhist #ecocrit research center at @unistavanger.bsky.social in Norway.

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It’s getting real. Just signed up as a guest editor for a special issue of a fab journal. The wonderful @nickytheprof.bsky.social & I will work with a lovely group of people to tell you all about @collecol.bsky.social soonish. #HistNatHist #Collections #EnvHist #Museums #HistSTM 📗🗃️🏛️📜🧪🌿🪲

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#NationalDayoftheHorse Reading "Incest at the Zoo: Saving and (in)Breeding the Przewalski’s Horse" by @monicavasile.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2021/08/16/i... #envhist #animalhistory #histsci

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Want to know more about how we’ve measured and made sense of storms and winds in Britain? My article in Environmental History explores just that! Happy to send pdfs if you can’t get past the paywall 💨💨💨 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

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On 12 Dec our director @berytia.bsky.social is at UCL's Institute for Global Prosperity to present @camsustain.bsky.social, a knowledge-transfer social entreprise co-founded w/ @hemelkart.bsky.social at Cambridge Uni w/ ERC+UKRI support | @uclofficial.bsky.social @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social

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Can’t believe I haven’t announced this here, yet: Out now: volume 7 of our @degruyterbrill.bsky.social book series Emergence of Natural History. "Insects and Colors between Art and Natural History" ed. by Dr. V.E. Mandrij & Giulia Simonini. #OA #EntHist #ArtHist #HistSTM #HistNatHist 📗🗃️🖼️

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Great news! In 2025, the British Journal for the History of Science will move to a Research Open publication model. From 13 August 2025, all research articles will be open-access - reaching more readers and free access to the newest research in HistSTEAM!

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Today on our site we are highlighting @mattholmes.bsky.social's new book, The Graft Hybrid: Challenging Twentieth-Century Genetics (@upittpress.bsky.social, 2024) niche-canada.org/2024/11/26/n... #envhist #histsci #book

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The @ummnh.bsky.social has a “Visions of the Postnatural” special exhibition. From pregnancy test frogs (yes, that’s how pregnancy tests used to work) to goat spider silk (silk made from goat milk) to alcoholic lab rats to firefly petunias (bioluminescence from fungus genes). The world we’ve made.

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We need your submissions! I know you all were brilliant and published #envhist + #histtech articles in 2021-22, so submit them.

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Join us online tomorrow (Monday, 18 Nov 2024), 16:00 Central European time / 10:00 Eastern for Rachel Gross discussing her book Shopping All the Way to the Woods: How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America in Greenhouse #envhum book talks series newnatures.org/greenhouse/e... #envhist #envhum

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Had a great time earlier this week in the “invasive species” workshop in Zurich - so wonderful to meet all the people in this field! Great papers and great walk in Sihlwald to think about how nativeness and invasiveness are used for different agendas! @angecass.bsky.social @mattholmes.bsky.social

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Would thoroughly recommend taking Dolly up on her offer - great audience discussion and a nice way of reaching international #envhum networks!

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Hello @bsky.app we have joined the family! 👋 Watch this space.... In the meantime, how about we continue the blue theme with photographs of British Algae: cyanotype impressions by Anna Atkins (1799 - 1871). View all of them via our #DigitisedCollections nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/co...

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I created a (very incomplete) Starter Pack for Critical Animal Studies, HAS, and Multispecies Studies scholars on Bluesky. Please let me know who I'm missing! Happy to add more. go.bsky.app/PEVMUat

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Get a preview of The Lion’s Historian (which is currently available thru Jacana Media in S Africa) on Monday, 11 Nov when @wildpasts.bsky.social is on the Greenhouse #envhum book talks. 4pm in Norway (Central European time) / 5pm in South Africa newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

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Lorraine Daston's review of Greg Radick's Disputed Inheritance #histSTM #hps

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Interesting comment piece by CHSTM colleague Dr James Sumner in Nature Reviews Physics, on why the AI revolution is always just out of reach. doi.org/10.1038/s422...

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JOB Assistant Professor in energy transitions, decarbonization, and environmental justice, University of Oregon, Environmental Studies Program, USA www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis... #envhist

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EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR #ESEH2025! 15 November, 23:59 CET, is final though, so make sure to submit your proposals by then! #envhist 🌿

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We made another thing! Here is a pretty great 'HPS Starter Pack' so you too can follow all the awesome history, philosophy and social studies of science (and #metasci #histSTM #philsci #philsky #hps #histsci 🧪) accounts on Bluesky. Please share widely #academicsky :)

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The Department of Geography at my institution is hiring a Lecturer in Human Geography, fixed-term, 4 years, 0.8 FTE. Particular focus on historical geography/environmental history, and one or more aspects of global inequalities. jobs.lincoln.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

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#WorldMigratoryBirdDay "Collecting specimens and tracking migratory bird patterns enabled these men to map the British Empire and the world and therefore to exert imagined control over it." - Kirsten Greer niche-canada.org/2020/03/27/n... #envhist #histgeog #nathist

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The University of Bristol's Environmental Humanities summer school for undergrads is running in summer 2025. Please do send on your students! www.bristol.ac.uk/centre-for-s... Includes a short film featuring me and fellow environmental historian, Alice Would.

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PhD Course: Play and the Environmental Humanities 5 ECTS PhD course in #envhum to be held in Stavanger, Norway, 2-6 December 2024. Application deadline 1 November 2024. Register now! No fee for the course. www.uis.no/en/research/...

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NEW! ‘Sick Hands, Thin and White, Were Always Slipping Offerings across My Windowsill, Offerings for the Little Birdlings’: Multispecies Encounters within and around Modern Rural British Sanatoria (let me know if you can’t access it) #hstm #envhums #envhist 📗🗃️ www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

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Hello new followers! We're Collection Ecologies 👋 We investigate histories of #collections to understand how collections can serve as archives + knowledge repositories in #envhist, & by reflecting on collections as ecologies themselves. Check out our CHSTM seminar ⬇️ www.chstm.org/content/coll...

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www.academictransfer.com/nl/345235/ph... A vacancy for a PhD position at Maastricht University, to work with @moneschleper.bsky.social, @blenormand.bsky.social and me. Spread the news!

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Hope you all will join us online on Monday for this book talk on Van Gogh and nature! 👇

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From internationally famous Collection Ecologist @dominikhhh.bsky.social ! 🪲 #envhist @collecol.bsky.social

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Join us Monday Sept 9th at 4pm in Central Europe / 3pm in UK / 10am Eastern / 7am Pacific for this book talk on The Ecological Plot. We look forward to seeing you online!

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Tiles, ‘Advances of the 20th Century’, by Ramon Casas, 1901-2. Museu d’Historia de Barcelona featuring: gramophone, showers, automobiles, steam locomotive, telephone, billiards, weighing machine

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Hope all of you join us for our live online discussion with Dan Vandersommers about his book Entangled Encounters at the National Zoo: Stories from the Animal Archive on Monday 26 August 2024 at 16:00 in Norway (10am Eastern). newnatures.org/greenhouse/e... #envhist #envhum

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I was super busy at the 4th World Congress for Environmental History #wceh2024 yesterday so I didn’t post anything. But it was great! Started off in a session about failure (in academia/life/whatever)- which was good to discuss, especially with the early career colleagues.

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Some (very faint) aurora to start off an exciting week at #WCEH2024 - lots of great contributions from @greenhouseuis.bsky.social, including 2 panels on human-animal histories & technology on Monday!

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Looking forward to our exciting panel coming up on Friday at #wceh2024 'What Ever Happened to Wildlife: Histories of Human-Animal Transformations in the #Anthropocene' I am convening together with @georgeiorda.bsky.social We'll have lyrebirds, ibises and lots of mammals 🦫🐴🐻🐳🐗🐇🐘 #envhist #envhum

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