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🚨 Just one week left to apply for one of the THREE postdoc positions in the #GreenFrontier project hosted at @fnp-wur.bsky.social #conservation #EnvJustice #wilderness #rewilding #rural #underdevelopment #LandAbandonment Deadline 25 November! Full details 👉 www.wur.nl/en/research-...

🚨#History #envhist Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Environmental History. 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students! See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word... 👇👇👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...

Join us on Weds 19 November for the launch of our new co-hosted Applied History Fellowships for postdoc historians, with @ihr.bsky.social and DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education: 2.30pm, 19 November, online #Skystorians

Very valuable thread on the impact of UKHE cuts and what we stand to lose through them. I worked closely with the case study cited and wrote the Environment Template for that UoA. We have all of us been in scope for redundancy since January. Where does that leave such important research?

📢 JOB ALERT 📢 Come work with me! @rigb.org is hiring an Archivist, full time, 2 year, fixed-term contract, hybrid working possible. Please share widely! More details 👇 www.rigb.org/about-us/wor...

Really excited to see this volume will be out soon! It was an honour to have contributed to this amazing collection. A big thanks to Raf, Vanessa, Tom, and the whole Moving Animals Team for inviting me to contribute.

"By using the concepts of pest in foregrounding the philosophy behind species segregation, Segregated Species makes a great contribution to agricultural history, animal history, histories of conservation, and histories of knowledge."

A permanent post in my department. Closing date Dec 14th 2025, interviews in March. Please spread #histsci

It was a real pleasure to write this afterword for a fantastic special issue on the history of invasive species by Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social and Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social

Fantastic to see our special issue has now been formally published!

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

It has been an absolute pleasure working with @visualplague.bsky.social, @alvesduarte.bsky.social and Oliver French on this wonderful project over the last five years. I have learnt an enormous amount and had great fun with this team. Thank you Christos for putting together this amazing project.

RHS Funding opportunity: Postgraduate and Early Career Research Support Grants. Grants of up to £1000 for graduate and early career historians to undertake research projects bit.ly/4nWLNlI Closing date for the next round: 5 December 2025

I am thrilled to announce that I have been awarded a Wellcome Trust Career Development Grant. Over the next five years I'll be directing the research project "Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health".

A mostly fair critique of Segregated Species in South African Journal of Science from Anjuli Webster. The point that I have not engaged enough with Indigenous African language sources is a very important critique. doi.org/10.17159/saj...

RHS First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026. We invite submissions for the Society's book and article prizes: for eligible titles published in 2025. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v Submissions are by self-nomination by an author. Closing date: 15 December #Skystorians

A must-read for environmental historians, labour historians, & historians of embodiment, trade, Britain, the Thames, and more. Conceptually ambitious & a really good story with an unexpected & dramatic denouement. #envhist

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...