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New #EnvHist article! In this collaboration with art historian Rachel Kase, I explore what the visual legacy of #Arctic whaling can tell us about the possibilities - and perils - of #ClimateChange adaptation. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Really thrilled to announce that I am the 2025 recipient of the Swedish Vitterhetsakademien’s Gad Rausing prize for outstanding humanities research www.vitterhetsakademien.se/nyheter/nyhe...

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We're putting on a conference! "We" being me, @odinnmelsted.bsky.social & @michielbron.bsky.social as part of the Managing Scarcity project. Workshop on Alternative Energy Histories Dates: October 20-21, 2025 Location: Maastricht University Abstracts due: April 4, 2025 managingscarcity.com/waeh/

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if you know of any promising undergraduates interested in getting a master's degree in an STS-related field, please point them toward the ESST (1-year) and CAST (2-year) programs. outstanding instructors, curriculum, fellow students & training for a PhD or many other careers.

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I wondered how many articles are titled 'what's in a name', did a google search, and i found over 2.7 million hits 😳 #envhist #skystorians

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To celebrate #SuperbOwls, here's one of my favorites: the snowy owl. 📷 Wilbur Mills, coastal plain of Arctic National Wildlife Range (now Refuge), Alaska, 1969. Fun fact: 1969 was a "peak-lemming year" on the Arctic coastal plain. And more lemmings meant more snowy owls! #envhist #alaskasky

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Superinspiring talks at 'Rethinking Wild Europe' conference. Highlights for me included #wolves in NL by @martindrenthen.bsky.social, conservation frontiers of Europe by @georgeiorda.bsky.social, the 'king and queen' of UK rewilding by @researchrestore.bsky.social #envhist #envhum

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Excited to do the first keynote lecture for the conference Rethinking Wild Europe tomorrow cetep.eu/rethinking-w... #envhist #envhum

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Last week we had the closing conference for our wonderful project Moving Animals #envhist #histsci

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New info here on how to bring places like Tanzania into our understanding of global climate history. Such concerns inspired our collaboration newly published in the AHR showing how past La Niña droughts affected Easter Island. The southern 2/3 of the world is still barely known. #envhist #climate

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I will share some thoughts about transforming my PhD into a graphic novel. Come by, if you are in Copenhagen or share if you know someone who might be interested. #envhist #envhum

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

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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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Extended deadline for the Tallinn Dissertation Prize: 31 January 2025. eseh.org/call-for-sub... #EnvHist

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OnlineFirst - "In the weeds: Thinking through anthropological and other social science approaches to invasive plant species and their control" by @mardirs.bsky.social: #weeds #invasiveplantspecies #vegetalpoliticalecology #colonialism #toxicities journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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CFP: Wild or domestic? Research on Artificial Bird Nesting Sites, Tuesday, 6 May 2025, ONLINE We'll bring researchers together to discuss research on artificial bird nesting sites in historical, archeological, artistic, and literary sources. Any time period and geography. #envhist #envhum

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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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NOW would be a good time to listen to Steve Pyne 🔥🔥🔥 #envhist #firehistory

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Only 5 days left to submit your abstract to the Health, Environment, and Anthropology Conference to be held at Durham University (UK), April 23-24, 2025! We welcome papers for a panel on "Extraction and the Transmutation of What Remains." #STS #envhist #medanthro pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham...

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Amid all the bad, here's some good news: the lease sale of the Arctic Refuge, scheduled for tomorrow, received NO NEW BIDS. Here are pregnant female caribou, migrating to the place where they give birth, the same place that drilling proponents want to turn into an oil field. 📷 Subhankar Banerjee

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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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✨️🚀Extended deadline for submissions to the Writing Support Programme: 14th of January! If you're writing or planning an #envhist piece - chapter, article, blog - do submit and join, it's a cool&friendly venue 😊 Details: eseh.org/nextgate/cal... @carsoncenter.bsky.social

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Did you write a dissertation on the environmental history of Europe the past two years? Know someone who did? The deadline for the ESEH Tallinn Dissertation Prize is Jan. 15! @eseh.bsky.social @esehnextgate.bsky.social eseh.org/call-for-sub...

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Early-career researchers in Environmental Humanities are encouraged to apply for the @iashedinburgh.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowships, where they will join a lively and supportive community for up to 10 months: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/early-career...

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An extended deadline for applications to become Environment and History’s Deputy Editor, with me and Prof David Moon (Co-Eds.). I enjoyed being Deputy Editor, learning much about reviewing, editing and dissemination. White Horse Press is special, small and independent, an asset to our field #envhist

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Do apply, all you early careers, and you may even run into me:) It's always a fun place.

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🚨 Call for Applications: Writing Support Programme Got a work-in-progress and want to workshop it in a constructive peer group? Do apply to join us: #envhist #envhum @eseh.bsky.social @envhistnow.bsky.social @monabie.bsky.social @sebmergence.bsky.social

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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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Save the date for our next ESEH online seminar in #envhist, with an exciting talk by Anna Sokolova on foraging berries and mushrooms in Soviet forests! On December 10, 16:00 CET, register here to get the link and please invite others who might be interested: forms.gle/y5bbY9GgnmnN...

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FELLOWSHIPS for Scholars at Risk Applications until 20.01.2025 at 23:59 (CET). #SAFE offers 60 fully-funded fellowships (up to 24 months) for doctoral & postdoctoral researchers of non-EU nationality. Read the call carefully, contact potential supervisor in your academic field. saferesearchers.eu

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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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more users are joining and the hog grows longer

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Found this awesome footage from 1978 on the recovery ('transplant') of the #peregrinefalcon in New Jersey www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS9R... #envhist #envhum

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Today on our site Jack Bouchard introduces his recent Environmental History article, "Fishwork Is for the Birds: Humans and Birds in the Sixteenth-Century Northwest Atlantic" - niche-canada.org/2024/11/20/b... #envhist #earlymodern #animalhistory

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Has anyone written about the use of inflated bullock skins as boat service in Colonial India?

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Interesting new Panda Diplomacy (without pandas) #envhist

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I offer a prize for anyone who can transcribe this. From Daß holz onwards. Date is 1582. #envhist #skystorians

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Did you know that Papers in Canadian history and Environment (PiCHE) is a scholar-led, open access, peer-reviewed paper series published online and free for anyone to read. Take a look! #envhist #cdnhist niche-canada.org/piche/

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Protesting unprecedented budget cuts in higher education (As the protest in Utrecht was forbidden, we assembled in Maastricht).

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