A reminder that we're collecting for our 2025 contingent publication lists!

Pleased to have contributed to this roundtable discussion on Meredith McKittrick's book, 'Green Lands for White Men': eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Looking forward to talking on The Greenhouse tomorrow about my book!

Isis, November 2025.

📣Annual Book Development Prize Competition 📣 Submissions are now invited for the 2026 Award, which funds authors to turn a proposal into a book in the Social Histories of Medicine series, published by @manchesterup.bsky.social Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until 16 Jan 2026. #histmed

Looking forward to talking about my book on the Greenhouse on 15 September!

Conference: Planetary Futures - Rethinking Extinction and Conservation in the Anthropocene. Manchester, 18-19 Sept 2025. Registration is free - please register your interest in attending by Friday 22 August. blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...

Interesting article on the introduction of rose-ringed parakeets into London. www.thetimes.com/article/b8d4... Can anyone recommend any environmental histories of these birds?

CFA The Human Diversity Dilemma: Navigating the intersection of microbes, ethics & society ISHPSSB Off-Year Workshop Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa October 1-3, 2025 Abstracts due Aug.18 Organizers @abigailnd.bsky.social & @msimang.bsky.social #philsci #STS 🦠 More info ⤵️

This promises to be fascinating reading!

One week left to apply for this tenured #envhist job!

Great 3-year STS post-doc at Edinburgh, closes 18 August #sts

Two very interesting papers from 2024 on birds and technology: 'Bird feeding devices exclude unwelcome visitors' by Heta Lähdesmäki, Tuomas Aivelo, and Panu Savolainen: doi.org/10.1177/2514... And 'Bird Boxes and Sparrow Traps' by @mattholmes.bsky.social : muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

"This highlights a critical but overlooked link between biodiversity loss and climate change, revealing how unmitigated animal declines undermine the ability of forest carbon to recover after disturbance and emphasizing the need to incorporate animal biodiversity into climate mitigation strategies"

Major carbon sink may have vanished for 2nd year in a row. Record heat in 2024 caused ecosystems on land to emit nearly as much CO2 as they took out of the atmosphere. Every news outet should be reporting on this, not just the New Scientist. www.newscientist.com/article/2489...

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

Interesting new environmental history / historical ecology of African horsesickness in JSAS: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

So the @researchireland.ie Global Talent Scheme is now open for "exceptional mid-career and established researchers," currently employed outside Ireland, who want to move their research here. All disciplines (I think). Individual awards up to €3.25m (!) www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob...

Review of the two recent books on Dr Calhoun's rat experiments @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

Job Opening at the Chair of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology at TUM! Research Fellow for 3 years (renewable). Preferably philosopher w interest in plant, crop & agricultural research (& their history and social studies) All details: www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei... #philsci #sts

Congratulations to @hopkinspress.bsky.social author @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social who has won the Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org First Book Prize! You can buy the book anywhere in Europe from your local bookstore or @blackwells.bsky.social. royalhistsoc.org/prizes/royal...

In "Water, Race and Power," Kristin Brig-Ortiz analyzes the intersections among these dynamics in the context of British water management in South Africa. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3...

Nice to see Segregated Species on display at #BSHS2025

Historians: this is a worrying development. Historians use the Hansard to analyze what was said in parliamentary discussions. If the Hansard is subject to editing out things that are politically unacceptable at the time, we (and future historians) have a problem.

SOAS is currently advertising a one-year fixed-term position in the History of the Middle East for 2025-2026. If this is for you, apply by 27 July 2025. For more info, go to vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/727934

TOMORROW in Cambridge! Don’t miss Sadiah Qureshi live, sharing insight on memory, knowledge & empire from her new book "Vanished". With an introduction by Helen Macdonald 📍 David Attenborough Building | 6–10pm 🎟 Free: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1395979053... #PublicLecture #histSTEM #BSHS2025

The hallmarks of settler colonial genocides: offering relief as an opportunity to kill; complete dehumanisation (“zombie hordes”) and an exultation at the infliction of pain & suffering. Gaza aid contractor tells BBC he saw colleagues fire on hungry Palestinians www.bbc.com/news/article...

A big thank you to the judges for such kind words about my book!

Winner of the RHS First Book Prize (2025): 'Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948', by Jules Skotnes-Brown (Johns Hopkins University Press 2024) bit.ly/4kpuKXB 1/2 #Skystorians

Absolutely thrilled to announce that my book Segregated Species was one of two winners of the RHS First Book Prize. Many congratulations to co-winner Laura Flannigan and the article prize winners William Ross Jones and Michaela Kalcher! For more see royalhistsoc.org/winners-of-t...

At a time of crisis for the History departments across the UK @ihr.bsky.social has made available a unique archive of interviews with leading post-war British historians. They point to the importance of history & the urgent need to defend the profession. historyandpolicy.org/opinion-arti...

Important news for the #envhist crowd: We are hiring an Associate Professor of Environmental History! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Application deadline is August 7. Some tips for those interested from abroad in thread 👇

Skotnes-Brown's "work has set a new standard, not only in Southern African history, but in all histories dealing with the relationship between people and animals, in which both people and animals can come to be defined as pests." doi.org/10.1017/S000...

🚨Job Alert 🚨 🐕‍🦺 🐄🐎🐦‍⬛ Do you have project management skills & an interest in human-animal relations? We are recruiting a project manager role (5 years) for our new project (info in the 🧵) @sheffielduni.bsky.social 📆 deadline 30 June www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNO134/p...

To reconsider how, where, and by whom science is done, these amazing authors explore the theme "Animal Mobilities" & guide us to some unexpected spaces to show us how animal agency & human–animal interactions have mattered in the history of knowledge production. 🐟🪰🪸🐕🦆🐒🦏🐘🐛 Check it out! 👇

A big thanks to the speakers, chairs, discussants and audience of the final conference of The Global War Against the Rat project for two days of thought-provoking papers and discussion on zoonosis as a historical and anthropological question!

The final conference of our project has commenced. Feel free to follow along with the hashtag #zoohistanth

Interesting role for a Historian or Arts/Humanities scholar to join at a senior level in the research team; overlapping specialities required: Early Modern, history of enslavement, country house history, plant humanities.

One of the most important, but devastating, facts of climate change, "insectagedon" of course begins with insects, but fans outward to those who eat them, or rely on their pollinating, affecting all of us #climatecrisis #insect #extinction

Honoured and delighted to hear that my book has been shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society First Book Prize. The two winners will be announced in July: blog.royalhistsoc.org/2025/05/28/r...

"This is an essential text for scholars working on environmental, animal, scientific, and segregation histories in South Africa and beyond". The first review of my book is out on Animal History. A big thank you to Mia Uys for this generous review. online.ucpress.edu/ah/article-a...

What an interesting project!

Call for Papers: Precarity and Scale in the History of Colonial Labour. #CFP deadline 30 June 2025. sslh.org.uk/2025/05/20/c...

A big thank you to the archivists of the National Archives of Namibia for a fantastic week of research!

History & Policy will shortly be unveiling the first publicly-searchable database of historians with policy-relevant expertise. If you are a professional historian who would like to engage more with policymakers, there's still time to submit a profile. Register your interest here: bit.ly/3YMcsXu

I love how the publisher of this 1945 agricultural manual on "Rat Control on Hawaiian Sugar Cane Plantations" took the time to create this collage for the frontispiece:

New on Bluesky! We’re OCEH - a research hub at the University of Oslo @uio.no, exploring climate, nature & culture through the humanities. Follow for research highlights, events, reading tips & snapshots from the OCEH Lab. 📸 OCEH Lab hf.uio.no/oceh #ClimateCrisis #EnvironmentalHumanities #envhum

Searching for the link to one of my articles to pass on to a colleague and this misleading AI summary comes up. 'Scurrying Seafarers' is just the title of the article, not a concept discussed in it at all...

Delighted to be giving the Gender & History lecture at Uni of Bristol on 15th May (and on Zoom). Join us for a discussion of trans history, colonial history, & non-human animal history. There will, of course, be merfolk. Link here: ticketpass.org/event/ELMPHJ...