The Geneva Graduate Institute, the @kofiannanfdn.bsky.social and @gpplatform.ch invites you to the fifth edition of the Kofi Annan Geneva Peace Address, a high-level lecture on peace, held annually as part of #GenevaPeaceWeek. 🗓 14 October📍 Maison de la Paix & Online 👉 shorturl.at/B9XDL

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Just like there are no people without history, there is no landscape without history. #EnvHist

#newbook: "Literature and Botany", ed. Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec, Paweł Piszczatowski, Tomasz Szybisty, Justyna Włodarczyk (Brill, V&R press) OA and info: www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entde... #envhum #envhist #ecolit #ecocriticism #planthumanities

If you were an illustrator working in 17h century France, a strong explosion drawing game was essential

*NEWS* @sciencehistory.org has acquired the History of Molecular Biology Collection from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI). This unparalleled collection documents the race to identify DNA’s double-helix structure and other significant developments that formed the foundation of molecular biology.

Delighted to see my blogpost for @nichecanada.bsky.social on Humour & Climate Crisis in High Potential up and live - with thanks to @nulybranch.bsky.social for her patient editing of the piece - check out the rest of the series!

Today we have "On Seeing and Making the World Anew in High Potential" by @drbeard79.bsky.social This is the fourth post of the Finding Humour in the Environmental History of the Climate Crisis series edited by @nulybranch.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/09/05/o... #envhist #envhum #climate

I really loved writing this about Austen’s best novel and hope you love it (and the novel) too! Please vote with pride and prejudice for Pride & Prejudice!!

Online Exhibit 🪲 Bark Beetle Calligraphy Jiri Hulcr is a forest entomologist that asked "Can insects create art?" He looks at these little beetles with scientific scrutiny but also a touch of poetry. www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/onl... 🪲 Feat.: Ips calligraphus “worm of beautiful writing”

Taxonomy’s 200-Year Mistake - @outsideinradio.bsky.social www.nhpr.org/environment/... #histsci #fungi #queerecology

Finished The Roots of Flower City by Camden Burd.

Is mold the next to join the interspecies solidarity movement? niche-canada.org/2025/08/13/c...

#WorldLizardDay "The ... lizards that move through and with the waters in the city are a queerness that extends beyond the confines of sexuality and biology; they represent rejection, marginalisation, and vilification." - Taylor Coyne niche-canada.org/2022/06/27/q... #queerecology #wetlands

Also the best symbol of global resistance? niche-canada.org/2025/08/13/c... #orcas

"oh baby, it’s so damn hot. a hazy, heavy heat, a stifling, stultifying heat; it’s horrendous, really." - Madeleine Bavley niche-canada.org/2025/07/31/o... #heatwave #ecopoetics #summer

Who is doing work on early modern (pre-1800) Black queer history? Nothing against Sweet (and passing mentions in Saunders) but I’d love to include some other voices in my syllabi! Feel free to shamelessly self-promote!

"weekend-musts": 1.draw an orca meme, 2.be an orca & ram yachts,or at least model boats in Central Park,3.wear salmon hat while escaping to put CP rangers off my scent,4.bring back up s-hat,5.hide this [email protected] @sabinelebel.bsky.social #envhum niche-canada.org/2025/08/13/c...

Multi-Disciplinary Arctic Sea Ice Research Workshop University of Aberdeen, Scotland February 19-20, 2026 Abstract Deadline: September 15, 2025 niche-canada.org/2025/08/12/c... #arctic #seaice #envhist #envhum #envstudies #polarstudies

Today we have "'Capsize the Rich': Orca Memes and Anti-Capitalist Interspecies Solidarity" by @sabinelebel.bsky.social This is the 3rd post of the Finding Humour in the Environmental History of the Climate Crisis series edited by @nulybranch.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/08/13/c... #envhum

Congrats Seán!! Super excited to read this & add to a syllabus in the near future. 🦥 🦥 For this 🍄 🌿 lover, it will put the movie Slotherhouse in historical context 😆 🤭 🦥

Today on our site Cheryl Troupe introduces us to her new book, Putting Down Roots: Métis Agency, Land Use, and Women’s Food Labour in a Qu’Appelle Valley Road Allowance Community ( @umanitobapress.bsky.social 2025) niche-canada.org/2025/08/08/m... #envhist #metis #cdnhist #skhistory #wmnshist

All the workshop material from 2025 is now posted and available here: github.com/soltislab/Bo...

Packed room for the @soltislab.bsky.social #Botany2025 workshop. If you cannot make it, all the resources can be found here: github.com/soltislab/Bo...

"The origin of the apologetic narrative can be found in a crafty piece of propaganda published by the military only days after the bombing of #Hiroshima to enlighten the public in the United States. It’s called the Smyth Report (1945)..." niche-canada.org/2023/08/08/t... #HISTSCI #envhist #nuclear

Today we have "City with Problem, Wrote Ecologies" by Matthew Moscato This is the second post of the Finding Humour in the Environmental History of the Climate Crisis series edited by @nulybranch.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/08/05/c... #envhum #builtenvironment #poetry #humour

Today we have "ode to the kiddy pool" by Madeleine Bavley This is the first post of the Finding Humour in the Environmental History of the Climate Crisis series edited by @nulybranch.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/07/31/o... #envhum #ecopoetics #climatecrisis #humour

Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social. chose "'B is for Baby' / B is for Bitumen." by Elysia French as our most recent Editor's Pick! niche-canada.org/2025/05/16/b... #envhist #envhum #mininghistory #museums

Was just sent this, author unknown. There's plenty to debate but they're right about evolutionary ecology. 🌏

the oil spillover - read all about it! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The argument of THE ARROGANT APE is that human exceptionalism—a.k.a. anthropocentrism or human supremacy—is at the root of the ecological crisis, giving humans a sense of dominion over Nature, entitled to commodify earth and other species for our own exclusive benefit.

Henry = Humankind 👥 | Tommy = Climate Crisis🔥

A comprehensive account of the concept of organism should involve a botanical part: Check out my paper on #plantorganism #organicism It is open access. #philsci 🌱

Very happy to see my "Positively Misleading Errors" finally published (it's been a long road). It generalizes an error of statistical reasoning discovered by Joe Felsenstein in 1978. Really happy with how it turned out. Currently free to access and download, so go for it! doi.org/10.1007/s112...

"The topic of naming taxa—not just in botany—is a very timely one." #STEM #angiosperms #plants #botany #taxonomy #namingmatters #gender #eponymy #etymology #nomenclature nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The Baobab😍🌳 #baobab #saintexupery #Madagascar #botany #trees #plants

After years of research, I’m thrilled to share my article on biometric voting in Africa. I focus on the companies who sell the tech. They have become key actors for both election management and citizen identification. Yet we know little about them. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📢 The #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary is entering a bold new chapter – and we need your help! Today we release our official Call for Support. We’re seeking new hosts for BHL’s staff, infrastructure, and services. Learn more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/06/tran... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL

Can one particle instantaneously affect another? Is nature truly random? And did Heisenberg also get seasick?? Some musings on my weird and wonderful week on the island of Heligoland ⚛️🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Our editor-in-chief @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social's picks for environmental history you should read, watch, and listen to from May are now out! niche-canada.org/2025/06/11/e... #envhist

Congratulations to @plso.bsky.social, whose book on ballooning and modernity in 19th century France has just been published by @mitpress.bsky.social! 📖🎈🇫🇷 mitpress.mit.edu/978026254980... #histSTM #histtech #PubDay #aviation #ballooning #booksky

On the role that diagramming played in Crick and Watson’s contributions to the structure of DNA--and on diagrams as epistemic tools in science and math more generally--see www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (paywall). 🌱🐋🧪🐡 #EvoBio #HistSTM

#PrideMonth Reading "The Queer (& Kink) Ecology of Tank Girl" by Madeleine Bavley niche-canada.org/2024/08/19/t... #envhum #queerecology #filmstudies

What theoretical & methodological challenges emerge when investigating #behavior across the tree of life? We are organizing an interdisciplinary workshop on 'comparative behavioral biology' (Sept. 26-27). Please help us share the open CfA! 📢👇 hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/... #philsci #HPbio #evobio

Post from Herbarium World on some of my favorite specimens herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/h... #herbarium

Our latest is a serendipitously discovered pair of reactions that can pull either the C2 or C3 carbon out of quinolines by choice of an amine scavenger. A deep mechanistic dive took us some surprising places, in @chemiejisoo.bsky.social's latest. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

In our Archives collections, we hold this fascinating manuscript journal of George Maw's travels to Morocco in 1871. It doesn't just include botanical observations, but it is a rich account of culture, history, linguistics, and meteorology, to name a few. #KewLA #ExploreYourArchive #VE80