Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

The journal is co-presenting an online event with Oak Spring Garden Foundation on 8th October – 'Plants, Memory belonging' Join us for some wonderful research on plants by writers, artists, and academics Register here: www.osgf.org/programs-and... #envhist #envhum #PlantStudies

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

Any narratives/rhetorics on invasive species management/eradication/marketing folks want to share their projects? (and thanks Hal Herzog for the title😁)

The @easlce.bsky.social deadline for Utrecht is fast approaching and @katiekung.bsky.social and I are still looking for one paper for a panel on care & invasive species tentatively titled: “Some we love, some we hate, some we kill: why it’s so hard to care for invasive species” #ecocriticism #envhum

Are any pals planning to be in the Dutch Nationaal Archief any time soon? I have two things I'd love to see (no more than a page of manuscript to photograph in each) if anyone's there and has the bandwidth!

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

"If we could all walk or swim or wild ourselves better, one in five of us would not be disabled. After all, Thoreau, the godfather of walking literature in the US, still died of TB."

You know what never gets old? People in inflatable t-rex suits visiting t-rex skeletons in museums

#CFP: "Climate, arts, and activism: Critical inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives" for ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies (ed. Y. Schmidt, S. Thieme, M. Winkel) Deadline: 15th of October 2025 Info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ... #ecolit #ecocriticism #envhum #envhist

When the World Sleeps - by Palestinian artist, Malak Mattar Malak was born in 1999 in the Gaza Strip and grew up under occupation and the military siege. She came to London in 2023 to study Fine Art More about this artist and her work, here: www.malak-mattar.com #art #Palestine #Gaza

Google Maps update

Huge thank you to @eseh.bsky.social & local @uu.se organisers for an amazing #ESEH2025. Seeing old friends & meeting new people; great research & wonderful art. With just under a year of my contract left and the job market being what it is this may have been my last ESEH conf - but it was good :)

"A man who shared posts on his Facebook page backing Palestine Action has told how he was hauled from his bed by police and arrested on suspicion of breaking terror laws in a terrifying dawn raid." www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Deadline to register for this conference is tomorrow :)

Last day at #ESEH2025: I'll be presenting at the roundtable on sustainable academia organised by @sebmergence.bsky.social and @ehameeteman.bsky.social (11:00 in 2-0024!) & attend a panel on displacement, env. knowledge, and plant use I've been looking forward to all week... and then run to the train

'The things that are good for nature tend to be very good for people too'

This is the same eugenic belief system that many still hold re: the ongoing pandemic. They believe people’s deaths from covid are acceptable if they’re medically vulnerable. It’s a disgusting ableist belief system and this rhetoric surrounding children in Gaza is the natural consequence of that

ESEH 2027, “Environmental History Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries,” will take place on 6–10 September in beautiful Salzburg, Austria! #ESEH2025 #ESEH2027 #envhist #envhum @mknoll.bsky.social

Gaia Giuliani’s Keynote “Monsters, catastrophes and the Anthropocene. For a postcolonial critique of violent bio- and necropolitics” #ESEH2025 Giuliani is not shying away from topics like Palestine and Ukraine. People left the room when she started talking about Palestine and showed this slide

excited to share the call for the workshop EXTRACTIVE NATURES / NATURES OF EXTRACTION happening at @uobrisceh.bsky.social on 6-7 Nov 2025, 
made possible by the @britishacademy.bsky.social deadline: 10 September! full call below ⤵ #envhist #envhum

Thanks for the link, Sam. What an interview. Wow. Compulsory reading for all historians at #ESEH2025 where (imho) we haven’t acknowledged the genocide as we should

Today

I’m joining the Global Strike for Gaza today, which means: (1) Buying nothing (2) Not taking public transportation More here:

The UK government will evacuate nine of the 40+ students in Gaza with scholarship at UK universities. My PhD student Shaimaa isn't included. We must now make sure they help the other students - email your MP today. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Ready for today’s global strike in support of Gaza and to draw attention to the ongoing genocide. It’s a small sign of solidarity but it’s better than doing nothing

Please help. Please sign. I work on a part-time degree for mature students to study for a BA in English Literature & Community Engagement. Its direct access and designed for those who didn't or couldn't go to Uni at 18. Bristol plan to close it. We want to save it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Day 3 of ESEH25. For anyone interested in the Polar Bear swim today, pls note: it’s just an informal event! There is no organised bus - just turn up at 5.30, we make our own way via public transport. Ppl needing to come back for the dinner may want to share Ubers back. Location: Storvadsbadet.

this was such an amazing experience 💚 the organisers @katiekung.bsky.social @elinetabak.bsky.social, the presenters, AND the audience were so engaging.

Chairing this fabulous #PlantStudies panel today: "Vegetal (hi)stories: more-than-human narratives of invasion and belonging" 🌿🌲🌾 Join us at 14.00-15.30 & 16.00-17.30 in room 21.011 for some planty goodness

call for no more papers

Thinking about the global strike tomorrow and what to do when you’re away from home and don’t have access to a kitchen etc. Any tips? Anybody else at #ESEH2025 thinking about this? 🍉

The in-progress mourning wreath at #ESEH2025 - if you have some free time go to the craft room (upstairs in the English Park Campus) and make a little critter or something else for the wreath I made a weird little bug of course 🪲

I have gotten our @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talks for September & October posted! Always on Mondays at 16:00 (4pm) Central European time. For details see: newnatures.org/greenhouse/

Uppsala: where are your cats?

In the spirit of syllabus season, here’s a link to an extinction studies course of the #envhist #envhum variety. From the dodo to dire wolves...Please borrow, adapt, share! drive.google.com/file/d/1SzKp... cc: @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social!

Morning in Stockholm: was going for a walk with less people and ended up in Rosendals Trädgård, a public garden on Djurgården where they practise biodynamic agriculture

Forgot all my book; couldn't find anything I wanted to read in a language I can read, so am now downloading my reading for on the ferry. And that includes this new(ish?) article published in Environmental Humanities: read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...

Now waiting for the overnight ferry to Stockholm in rainy Turku. Delightful and (dare I say) productive week in Helsinki filled wirh gardens, walks, and meeting friends and colleagues. Surely that’s a good omen for #ESEH2025?

✨️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

I have a horrible feeling I forgot to post that registration for this conference about extinction, conservation and the future of our planet is now open. We have an amazing range of speakers, who are listed here, alongside the link to register. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Still remember one study where they had "AI" look at photos to diagnose cancer and it had like a 98% or 99% accuracy... ...except all the photos of actual tumors had a ruler next to them for scale. And the algorithm just got really good at spotting rulers in a photograph.

Some photos of my work in the allotment fields in Helsinki this week

Who am I seeing at ESEH in *checks notes* less than two weeks? Very much looking forward to the "Vegetal (hi)stories: more-than-human narratives of invasion and belonging" panels I’m organising with @katiekung.bsky.social 🌳🌱