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People purged from the National Park Service & agencies that manage federal lands speak out. “I have dedicated my life to being a public servant, teacher, and advocate for places that we ALL cherish. I have saved lives and put my own life at risk…” [kottke.org]

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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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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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Sadly, this is my last month as postdoc on @rafdebont.bsky.social Moving Animals project @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social. Too many highlights from the last 2.5 years - but what will remain is finding home among the (friendliest) animal + environmental history community

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Eight Clams Control This Polish City’s Water Supply. “If the waters are clean, these [cyborg] mussels stay open and happy. But when water quality drops too low, they close off and shut the water supply of millions of people with them.” [kottke.org]

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Always love reading @monicavasile.bsky.social

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Highly recommend this! Was a very productive experience and nice people too :)

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Found a sandhill crane feather in the archive last year - taped to a letter from 1930. 🪶 #animalhist #envhist

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Recently saw ANOHNI and the Johnsons in concert and want to know of other musicians who address the climate and biodiversity crises as explicitly. "There are aspects of funeral happening right now — that's not a projection, that's a reality" exclaim.ca/music/articl...

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A program that pays farmers to flood their fields to create “pop-up wetland habitats” as way-stations for migratory birds is a “rare conservation win”. [hcn.org]

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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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#envhist #envhum #histsci Exciting opportunity to do a paid PhD in the history of biology: www.academictransfer.com/nl/345235/ph... Come work with @rafdebont.bsky.social @blenormand.bsky.social and me ❤️

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Thrilled to be one of the recipients of the ESEH-Gale Fellowship in Digital Environmental History! Excited to have support for my project on photography, film, and wildlife conservation in the 20th cent 🪿🐦‍⬛🎞️ thank you @eseh.bsky.social

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“Tenacious Beasts is an accessible ecological and philosophical text, and in some ways an adventurous tale as the author takes us on a journey with him to sites of wildlife recoveries.”

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“Bellwether Histories show again and again, human attempts to control and manage animals were rarely without devastating unintended consequences.” While not “a pleasant or easy read” due to its subject matter- I highly recommend this book too! (and not because I have a chapter in it).

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Endless bird puns out there. I have no egrets, I’ve bird it all before, owl by myself, so eggs-sighting, etc.

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Happy organizers after vibrant discussions in three (!) sessions on animal (im)mobilities at #EASST4S2024

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I am organizing this workshop together with the fabulous @sarahmpicks.bsky.social. Here's our CfP. Please consider sending us an abstract! expeditions.hypotheses.org/494

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Animal history film: “Fur for the Future” (c. 1950) - an Idaho Fish and Game film on beaver reintroduction via parachutes left over from WWII #animalhist #envhist

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I'm in awe of Palestinian birders who continue taking their binoculars and cameras out after their home became a war zone. Even when it means risking their lives, they keep going because knowing the birds have returned for another year gives them hope.🪶 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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It’s #EndangeredSpeciesDay so from the blog here's a look at #VanGogh ‘s 2 exotic #animal paintings of a "green parrot" + “flying fox" & the real-life endangered species they depict: arthistoryanimalia.com/2023/05/19/a... (The Green Parrot 1886 private collection / Flying Fox 1884 Van Gogh Museum)

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One of the oldest operating farms in the US has a new art installation which was designed, quite literally, for the birds.

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#WorldMigratoryBirdDay Canadian Treaties, Laws, and Policies Addressing Migratory Birds niche-canada.org/research/tra... #birds #envhist #cdnhist #conservation

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Online Event – Saving the American Elk with Camera with Vanessa Bateman 15 May 2024, 2pm EDT, Online Animal History Group Seminar Series niche-canada.org/2024/05/10/o... #envhist #animalhistory #visualstudies

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Wednesday, May 15: I’ll be giving a talk for the Animal History Group on elk (wapiti), photography, and settler-colonial power. Online! Please join! 8pm CET. Register at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ahg-semina... #animalhist #EnvHist

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Very happy to publish a piece on Przewalski's mares in the wonderful collection 'Gender and Animals in History'. Big thanks to editor @wildpasts.bsky.social and everybody who was part of this. It's OA: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50... #envhist #animalhistory #envhum cover, abstract and the mares👇

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In good company with @moneschleper.bsky.social and @monicavasile.bsky.social in the recently published Gender and Animals in History, edited by @wildpasts.bsky.social! So many good chapters 🐱🪿🐞🐆🐘🐎 open access with @amsterdamupress.bsky.social at library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

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For enslaved men & women in America’s south, birds meant forced labor. But they also meant food, opportunity, and even freedom. The Library of Congress’s Slave Narratives Collection has amazing stories not just about Black suffering and resilience, but also relationships w/ nature. (1/7)🗃️🧵

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Out April 2nd 'Gender and Animals in History', published by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social with Sandra Swart as a guest-editor, including contributions on suffragettecats, riot dogs, lesbian seagulls and how honeybees have managed to confuse scientists about their sex for several centuries.

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This week: Presenting new research on habitat dioramas as productive archives of human-(migratory)animal histories for the TU Berlin workshop “From Passive Livestock to Untamed Beings: Reanimating Animals in the History of Technology” organized by Christian Zumbrägel. #animalhist

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Lots of zoo animal taxidermy at the Natural History Museum in Berlin. Including Bobby (1928-1935), Knut (2006-2011) and unnamed son (195?-?) of Knautschke (1943-1988). #animalhist

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Happy #IWD Excited to share my article on Martha Maxwell (taxidermist & feminist) in the Yearbook of Women’s History: Gender and Animals in History, edited by @wildpasts.bsky.social out next month! #envhist

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Working on something about migratory birds represented in habitat dioramas. Does anyone know of dioramas or museums that display tagged/ringed birds (like this tundra swan at the Bell Museum)? thank you! #envhist

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