Work on water? This call is for you👇

I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow.

🎉 It's publication day for the (very affordable) paperback of Unsettling Extinction, edited by the inimitable Roman Bartosch, Ursula Heise & Kate Rigby 🎊 The book brings together some fabulous thinkers in the field of extinction studies (and me) Order a copy here www.bloomsbury.com/uk/unsettlin...

Happy midsummer (and a late hyvää juhannusta) 🌞

Here's what I have to say about Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Today marks the start of my last month as a postdoc in Finland. As much as I would like to say I managed to secure myself another position, the (academic) job market is rough right now. I’m officially #OpenTowork. It’s not all bleak as I'm moving back to NL - and my partner and our cats (1/5)

A whine I need to get out before it chokes me: I'm on the job market (aren't we all) in NL where academia is falling apart (isn't it everywhere). Since defending TT positions have disappeared. At first there were a few teaching only jobs, but those are now mostly "junior" lectureships for grads

Our early-career network is organizing a workshop on 16 June! #envhist

Uniek mens

What a crushing loss. She was so brilliant. As many others are saying here, if you haven't read Persepolis, do it as soon as you are able. Her generous, witty, humanist, nuanced vision is more relevant now than ever. www.france24.com/en/culture/2...

The pots I made during my art-research residency at De Proef have all been fired and will be part of an exhibition at Frederiksoord this month 🍐 Unfortunately I'll miss it, but if anybody happens to be around do have a look! Ga eem kiekn

Happy Pride Month to all of my queer homies! Whether you’re out or closeted, we’re here 💜

Very cool (PT/FT) job with the the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership team at Wakehurst 🫘 careers.kew.org/vacancy/seed...

The insights in this thread 👌

Incredible operation to save invaluable heritage materials. It really says something about the nature of Israel's war against the Palestinians that an organisation founded to support refugee welfare also has to undertake such efforts to preserve the records of their existence.

“When we distinguish between intellectuals and non-intellectuals in common speech, we are referring only to the immediate social function of the professional intellectual class. +

De natuur staat al genoeg onder druk, de stikstofcrisis, klimaatcrisis, biodiversiteitscrisis, daar kan geen andere onachtzaamheid meer bij. Teken je de petitie ook? stopdefensiebijbrandgevaar.petities.nl

Very pleased to have my first academic publication (in English) archived on the RCC Springs website 🦋 this time with a little foreword that I hope shows my growth as a scholar but also that it's still really about the same two things for me: storytelling and the environment

An important, powerful paper by @oliviamason.bsky.social on #precarity in academia: "the experiences of what it means to enter, get a job in, and then stay in the neoliberal academy are defining mine and others' experiences of being an academic." rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

📣 We're #Hiring! #ERC Consolidator Project BOTLEG at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is recruiting: - 1 PostDoc ➡️ jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/9... - 2 PhDs ➡️ jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/c... 📅 Deadline: 25 May 2026 #PhDSky #HistSci #PhilSci #HPBio #EnvHist #DigitalHumanities #AcademicSky

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was killed today in a targeted Israeli strike. The IDF fired live rounds and stun grenades at the Red Cross ambulances trying to reach her. She is the 4th journalist killed by Israel while in the field since 2 March. Photo via X @HindRFoundation.

I accidentally got rid of my verification badge on linkedin a while ago and apparently you now have to download the app and then scan your ID or passport and give it to an American company?? thanks but no thanks (Can't wait for the day I can not so accidentally get rid of linkedin)

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

After #EASLCE2026, I think it’s time to update the ecocriticism and envlit list (and starter pack) 🌻 Should you be on it? Please respond to this post and I’ll add you bsky.app/profile/did:...

After #EASLCE2026, I think it’s time to update the ecocriticism and envlit list (and starter pack) 🌻 Should you be on it? Please respond to this post and I’ll add you bsky.app/profile/did:...

It has become my academic mission and passion to combine plant ecophysiology and the humanities. The @easlce.bsky.social conference this past week allowed me to look at parasitic plants through an ecocriticism lens and it was a blast! Now onto organizing ideas into manuscript and grant applications.

Sad about the end of the #EASLCE2026 in Utrecht? Those working on Nordic #Ecocritism & #EnvHum can put in a proposal for the ENSCAN workshop later this year. enscan.net/workshops/re...

I was in Utrecht this week for the @easlce.bsky.social conference. I’m taking the weekend to recover but also want to take a moment to share how good it was: inspiring talks; meeting new friends and colleagues; seeing friends for the first time in years; sneaking away to have a coffee... (1/7)

Excellent(!) article by @katiekung.bsky.social on a really uncomfortable experience during her fieldwork that I imagine more will recognise. It certainly reminds me of some of the things I have seen. (Has anybody written about animals and rape culture in conservation work yet? Is it time?)

My old university NTNU in Trondheim is finally! recruiting a fully tenured associate professor in modern environmental history. This is a great opportunity for the right person. #envhist

JOB ALERT: Two 4.5 year postdoctoral positions to work on my Wellcome-funded project 'Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health'. Please share widely! CLOSING DATE: 23 April (the date on Jobs.ac.uk is apparently incorrect)

“AI products are best understood not as technologies of information […] but of labor management and the accelerated concentration of wealth.” My mantra and yours for the long fight ahead

Also file this under I am so done with AI 🤖

Soooo... I'm looking up books on a certain topic and found one that looks to me like it might be an AI pub. Cover doesn't make sense, no hits on the author, "independently published", author has another book out on a wildly diff topic. Any other red flags I should look out for in the future?

Not only is this devestating for the academics, it makes the UK look petty and pathetic. What kind of a country thinks it's being diminished by being attractive to intellects from abroad? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

We're hiring! 🌿 The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger invites applications for a 3-year postdoc in Environmental History. See thread for more details. #envhist #envhum

Book announcement!! 🎉 CREATURES OF STORY AND SONG looks through Britain’s stories and poems to rediscover our lost species. It’s time to remember what people thought about wolves, lynxes, great whales, great auks, sturgeon & more when they were all still here! 🐺🦫🐳💚 @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

A workshop on uncharismatic species in Augsburg - surely I know people who want to present at this 🕷️🦐🪱* *not sure if these are uncharismatic but they're definitely a little weird

Big news: issue 3.1 marks John C. Ryan’s last as editor for Plant Perspectives. Thank you to John for all your work establishing PP and a very warm welcome to Joela Jacobs (@joelalala.bsky.social) who takes over as editor 🌱 More in the blog: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/03/17/p...

Funded PhD opportunity working with my ex-supervisor Staffan at Cambridge; a good fit for historians of insect-human relations, natural history collections and history of science. Information session online 24 March 11:00–12:00 pm BST www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

Pleased to be quoted here. This is the first request for a conversation I've accepted from a journalist who emailed me abt AI bc the journalist, Kathryn Palmer, didn't approach me as a stenographer for industry but instead to provide visibility for a movement.We had a great substantive conversation

Make your Monday morning better. Lovely writing about the GOAT

(I’ve been put on an AI hater mod list and honestly? Yeah. Yes, I am a hater and I am poorly disposed for productive conversation about AI.)

Issue 3.1 of ‘Plant Perspectives’ is now live online. This journal is #openaccess again in 2026 through #subscribetoopen – with warm thanks to all of our subscriber-supporters! Read it here: www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/index #plantstudies #envhum @plantperspectives.bsky.social

Min och Maarits bok Havet och Tove har kommit ut och vi har fått våra författarexemplar! #tovejansson #environmentalbiography

📷 Looking for photo essays in the humanities Before I scour every journal archive ever - would people be willing to share/name any photo essays published in academic journals they had published or really like? I'd like to have a look at some examples :)

Dear everyone, As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included. A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.

Admin complicity has been kind of heartbreaking > Many universities’ administrations are embracing AI for instruction, research, and evaluation. In some cases, AI has guided decisions about which programs to cut at times of austerity in the education sector. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

With only five months left of my postdoc I’ve been applying for jobs and can I just say that appl portals that require you to submit your work history line by line in addition to your CV come straight from The Bad Place? As if these times aren’t trying enough.