Locked together by their horns in turf battle, two kudu bulls died of exhaustion. There has to be a metaphor for one’s academic enemies in this?

As a part of ESEH NEXTGATe, I am glad that we are once again organizing a writing support program for early-career scholars! Credits to my colleague Mona Bieling for organizing this together with Andrea Gaynor. Although an ESEH initiative, we also accept applicants from other parts of the world.

Make coffee. Breathe out. Look.

Hear hear!

Announcing the new Animal History Group seminar series for the 2025-26 academic year! - All seminars held online at 8pm UK time. 🎉 The details are here: animalhistorygroup.org/seminar-seri... And here is a list for your calendar! 🧵💚

Call for Applications The Early Career branch of the European Society for Environmental History (ESEHNEXTGATe) is seeking new members to join its committee for a two-year term 2025–2027. Please find the more detailed call text attached.

Are you following our Early-Career-Scholar network, ESEH NextGate? They organize events and support young scholars. Follow here: @esehnextgate.bsky.social #envhist #envhum

Committee: So Sandra, tell us your five year plan? Me:

Aisle of Cthulhu.

Just between us, my first instinct was “ooooh *someone* read my books!” Then I had better second instincts, of course.

This is the most helpful visual guide to social media I’ve ever seen

Inspired by the quiet resistance of this room. #BeUnbookable!

The magnificent @libbydeq.bsky.social put Anthropocene scientists and historians together to see what would happen! The experiment was a success.

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✨️We invite early career scholars & friends for a networking event at #eseh2025! Tuesday, at 19:30, in Fjölnir student pub (check program). There will be drinks and snacks 🍺🍕. See you there! #envhist @eseh.bsky.social @sebmergence.bsky.social @palmblad.bsky.social @monabie.bsky.social

The best part of a workshop on failure is that if nobody shows up, it counts as a case study.

Going to the library fucking rules. You can walk in and pick your favorite things and then walk right out without paying anything. It's unbelievable and 100% the kind of thing that won't exist in the future unless you recognize the goodness now before it's too late

As you know, I’m not one to boast. But just between you and me, my hometown snake is kicking your snake’s ass

In 1997, my best friend explained the internet and email to me. With the kind of prescience and foresight for which I am justly famous, I said “Very nice, Adrian, but it’ll never catch on.”

the literary circle of life

Coming to NEXTGATe forum on Failures & Letdowns (Monday 18 Aug #ESEH2025)? You may like this thoughtful paper (free to air Int Review of Env Hist) press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/pr... @wildpasts.bsky.social @mcookhistory.bsky.social @ncushing12.bsky.social @ruthamorgan.bsky.social

Dear folks, Check out this list of books up for review, sign up and claim one! 📚🌿 It’s a brilliant way to read something great and get your name out there. #envhist #envhum

It’s been a helluva year but here’s a full moon over a mountain - through the ears of my horse Voodoo. And suddenly it’s all ok for a moment.

Today I got my Honours students to care about spoor. They are renaming our WhatsApp group from Anthropocene module to … “Scat Queens”.

Wooohoooo! Worth a read I promise! Make coffee

This ain’t Texas… Cowboys are for everyone!

I feel this. They just need graduate students to explain the apps and make the font bigger

www.iceho.org/prize%E2%80%A6 Article Prize — ICEHO! So excited. This prize is named for one of my fav environmental historians Verena plus I get to be a judge with my mates ⁦‪Ruth Morgan‬⁩ and Shen Hou.

We are very excited to announce a new #EnvHist award: the 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐚 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐞! In honor of longtime contributor to the field and former ICEHO president Verena Winiwarter, this prize will serve to promote global environmental history articles. Read more here: www.iceho.org/prize

A generation of kids growing up without reading means we may lose something really valuable to the species: empathy. Novels HELP. They let us to sneak into someone else's brain and feel their strangeness but get invested. How else do we learn to care about people who are not like us?

Um. I think we can all agree this ends in terror

When one works from home, one is reminded that office politics is the same everywhere

We are hiring! Fully tenured associate professorship in environmental history! We are looking for someone who can be a strong contributor to the history group, to a new #envhum related MA program (if all goes well), and to @greenhouseuis.net. #envhist

I just wrote the finest footnote of my career.

Nobody ever tells me anything. I only learned this fact today but I feel like it changes *EVERYTHING*, don’t you?

“We can’t spend the next 60 years overwhelmed and feeling helpless in the face of relentless environmental destruction. So, what can we do?” Libby Robin, environmental historian humanities.org.au/power-of-the...

My dad’s favorite line: the expectation of success is not a necessary prerequisite for doing the right thing.

No kings except

Maybe because it pities me? #DeptChair

I file under … I don’t know? FishBong? Blob Marley? Blowtox? Puff Squiddy (work with me here)

I wish Science would just fuck off with AI and Mars and focus on the only thing that matters: keeping our dogs alive.

Just when I hate humanity, I remember I still love *people* very much indeed… There is a working pink fridge - powered by solar panels - in the middle of the Namib Desert, and it’s stocked with cold drinks for anyone passing by. I’d like to see it one day and sit down and take a drink.

Well, no shit! In the woods…

The conference Q and A session was livelier than expected.

⬇️ potential PhD position ⬇️

Who doesn’t?

Post-War Oxford seems like every university all the time now: “everyone is extremely busy, everything is difficult to get or get done, and no one seems to have any time for scholarship…”

On the latest episode of Knowing Animals, I speak to @thomvandooren.bsky.social about his 2023 @mitpress.bsky.social book A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions. The episode is available free below, or in all the usual podcast places. knowinganimals.libsyn.com/episode-238-...

LEOPARDS? Oom Schalk Lourens said. Oh, yes, there are two varieties this side of the Limpopo. … But when you meet a leopard in the veld, you seldom trouble to find out what kind he belongs to. Because, whatever kind of leopard it is, you only do one kind of running. And that is the fastest kind.

Chonkles showed up in Gordon’s Bay yesterday and it was rather fabulous. Like most tourists to Cape Town, he took in a few sights, found the locals welcoming, had a brief encounter with law enforcement and then hit the beach.