The Cold War’s Accidental Whale Observatory nautil.us/the-cold-war... | Built to track enemy submarines, the Navy’s underwater listening network inadvertently revealed that whales may be singing across entire oceans

Check out Clare Gordon Bettencourt's review of Yuki Kato's "Gardens of Hope: Cultivating Food and the Future in a Post-Disaster City," published in 2025 by @nyupress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #sustainability #aghist www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Check out Margaret Spaulding's review of Donald Worster's "Be Fruitful and Multiply: How Fertility and Innovation Have Changed Humankind and the Earth," published in 2025 by @yalepress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

We are thrilled to announce that the 2026 winner of our Best Book in Canadian Environmental History Prize is Jack Bouchard for Terra Nova: Food, Water, and Work in an Early Atlantic World (@yalepress.bsky.social 2025)!! niche-canada.org/2026/06/03/b... #envhist #cdnhist #books

#OTD in 1784 William Yarrell was born. Perhaps best known for his two volume 'A History of British Fishes'' published in 1836, we have original illustrations by Yarrell, believed to have been created in preparation for this work in our archive @thembauk.bsky.social 📷PYA1

Check out Anastasija Ropa's review of Kathryn E. Renton's "Feral Empire: Horse and Human in the Early Modern Iberian World," published in 2024 by @universitypress.cambridge.org; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #animalhist www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

if it's safe for you to work in the USA then the Uni of Oklahoma is looking for a potential senior hire in #histSTM with a specialisation in women & science 🗃️ networks.h-net.org/jobs/70051/u...

According to a new survey, Texas Tech system policies on what can and cannot be taught prompted 277 courses on the Lubbock campus to be altered. https://chroni.cl/4vfb2TW

The NSF just eliminated geoscience postdocs, is trying to destroy NCAR, and is now dismantling the world's best array of ocean observatories for no reason, just uncomprehending childlike spite towards anyone who wants to learn anything about this planet www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

New article out: Antarctic science operations must account for climate change and extreme environmental events @bas.ac.uk www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03629-2

Check out Malcolm Sen's review of Ali Aslam, David W. McIvor, & Joel Alden Schlosser's "Earthborn Democracy: A Political Theory of Entangled Life," published in 2024 by @columbiaup.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhum #ecocrit #envhist www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

🚨New Issue Alert🚨 Volume 56 Issue 3 is out now with essays by Karin Nickelsen and David Kaiser, as well as a book review by John DiMoia. online.ucpress.edu/hsns/issue/5...

OMG-the challenge I was born for! @sciam.bsky.social Is it cheating if it's my job to read books about science? #histsci #STS #Sciamreading #SciAmSummerReading

***Up to $55,000 in Grants & $150,000 Fellowships from Louisville Institute*** louisville-institute.org/programs-gra...

A movie about the history of science and D-Day? I mean, did they make it just for me? #histsci #envhist

Check out Gregory Klages's review of Brent Wetters & Anthony Cushing's "Matter of North: Essays on Glenn Gould and the Idea of North," published in 2025 by @sunypress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhum #envhist #arctic #soundscapes www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

⏰ Time is running out! Registration for our Summer Meeting @zslofficial.bsky.social closes on ✨Friday 12 June✨ Join us and learn about the early history of TV and radio at the zoo, celebrity animals and the history of women in zoology 📺🦛👩‍🔬 Find out more 👇 shnh.org.uk/news/registr...

New on H-Sci-Med-Tech: Check out Sara Miglietti (@warburginstitute.bsky.social)’s review of David N. Livingstone (@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social)’s book _The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea_, pub 2024 @princetonupress.bsky.social #hstm Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social

We are pleased to announce that #ArchivesOfNaturalHistory will be accepting manuscript submissions via the OJS submissions site. @sochistnathist.bsky.social  @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social  Submit your article here:

The Faculty Senate at Texas Tech did an unscientific survey of instructors on questions of course censorship and a significant number participated (c350). The results are both shocking but not surprising. www.texastribune.org/2026/05/29/t...

The White House today announced it plans to make major changes in how the U.S. government manages research funding. https://scim.ag/43HgW4s

Check out Jonathan E. Robins's review of Nicholas B. Miller & Ulrike Lindner's "Plantation Knowledge: Agricultural Colonization, Exploitation, and Exchange Since 1500," published in 2025 by @sunypress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhum www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Did not know about this grant before but what an opportunity!

Check out Borys Jastrzębski's review of John Brewer's "Volcanic: Vesuvius in the Age of Revolutions," published in 2023 by @yalepress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #volcano 🌋 www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Dive into our Oceans in Depth series and explore the historical and modern impact of the ocean on humanity through interdisciplinary narratives. Catch the editors at the meeting to chat with them about the series! Learn more about the series here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/se... ! #NASOH2026

Registration is now open for our summer symposium, “The Global History of Modern Science, 1400-1914” Join us at @sciencehistory.org in Philadelphia on August 6 & 7 to discuss how modern science has been shaped through global cultural exchange! www.sciencehistory.org/cainconference

Check out Sandra Chaney's review of Jan Mohnhaupt's "Animals Under the Swastika," published in 2022 by @uwiscpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #animals www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Check out this #OpenAccess book on the history of our dealings with fungal disease, by Aya Homei and Mick Worboys. Fungal Disease in Britain and the United States 1850-2000: Mycoses and Modernity link.springer.com/book/10.1057...

Check out Stephanie Foote's review of Judith Enck & Adam Mahoney's "The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It's Too Late," published in 2025 by @thenewpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Whoop whoop! My first book, Animal Kingdom: A Natural History in 100 Objects is out again in a new reprint! 🤩 It explores the *astonishing* things we can learn about the natural world from incredible specimens in natural history #museums. Go get your hands on it! #OneHundredAnimals

Recently I spoke as part of a public program on magic lanterns at Yale, and we got a nice write up on the event from Dr. Alexi Baker of the Peabody Museum:

"Bruisch’s book stands as a model of thoughtful, methodologically sophisticated historical writing—one that would serve both undergraduate and graduate students especially well as an example of how history can and should be written." So delighted! Wanna bring 🔥 Burning Swamps 🔥 into your classroom?

Check out Maria Fedorova's review of Katja Bruisch's "Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy," published in 2025 by @universitypress.cambridge.org; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #energy www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

New book review: Shmuely on Bolman, Brad: _Lab Dog: What Global Science Owes American Beagles_. University of Chicago Press, 2025. Published by H-Sci-Med-Tech. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20152539

Check out Siyu Xie's review Alison Pouliot and Stuart Patience's "Mushroom Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Fungal Lives," published in 2025 by @uchicagopress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhum #envhist www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Check out Don Desserud's review of Peter Clancy & Mario Levesque's "Environmental Governance in the Gulf of St. Lawrence," published in 2025 by @ubcpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #envpolicy www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

🚨New article klaxon🚨 Surveys, Maps, and Local Intermediaries in the Colonial Knowing of British New Guinea, 1884–1901. The Journal of Pacific History, 1–35. doi.org/10.1080/0022...

182.8 Meters xkcd.com/3248/

Congratulations to Aaron Van Neste, winner of the 2026 Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History. An honorable mention is awarded to @jgalka.bsky.social. Visit our website to learn more about their research: oceansciencehistory.com/2026/05/18/t...

Ever thought about working in #Antarctica? What about the people who do important work about Antarctica back home? Our new paper in @antarcticscience.bsky.social maps the diverse Antarctic workforce in Ōtautahi #Christchurch, one of the gateways to Antarctica: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

How were sailors were declared ‘unfit for service’ in the British navy? I’ll be giving a free online talk about this and more on June 2nd at 5.15pm GMT for the Maritime History and Culture Seminar hosted by Royal Museums Greenwich: www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/onl... #navalhistory #maritimehistory

No escaping #Antarctica!

Check out Caren Irr's review of Becca Voelcker's "Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction," published in 2025 by @ucpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #energy #extraction www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

"When the state decides which questions may and may not be researched, it is doing more than shaping curriculum. It is regulating the boundaries of knowledge itself by determining what future scholars may study and what universities are permitted to discover."