We're attracted to simple big stories to explain complicate problems. In Scotland the idea of the energy transition is a key example. When oil and gas workplaces close down and workers lose their jobs we're told it's down to the transition. Except usually it isn't. Here's why🧵

Join us in Rome or online for a seminar on plant illustrations on 6 November! 🪴🌻🌿 Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany. www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...

"Knowledge should not be locked behind paywalls. We owe it to our students, and to learners everywhere, to open the doors" 👏👏👏 Great article by @lsepress.bsky.social MD @niamhtumelty.bsky.social & @heroicendeavour.bsky.social on why OERs should be central to the public mission of universities.

This Day in Labor History: September 14, 1889. Black guano workers on Navassa Island rose up and killed five white bosses in an act of desperation in revolt against a racist work regime. Let's talk about conditions of radicalized labor on this American owned island!

This (once) astonishing story signals the extent to which the far right fascist culture of organised violence has been fostered, emboldened and extended by MAGA politics. Disgusting and frightening. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Does anyone think the BBC will report that a ship flying a UK flag was attacked by an unidentified drone last night? aje.io/e4f7v5?updat...

Bravo the Italian dock workers. Heroes wear all different kinds of helmets.

⛏️ Digging our 1,500-year-old churchyard! THIS WEEKEND, University of Glasgow Archaeology and Clyde Archaeology excavate one of the most exciting early medieval sites in Europe, as part of this University of Glasgow field school! 📷 Thanks to Clyde Archaeology for the photographs

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

Shameful. The existence of Manston - and the policies that enable people to be held there - degrade us all. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The Rachel Carson Center just published a virtual exhibition on dunes and coastlines! @envhist @envhum

I spent last week in Shropshire, and I'd like to share something I saw in the village of Minsterley, just SW of Shrewsbury: maidens' garlands, aka virgins' crowns, aka virgins' crants. I'd never seen anything like it, and I'd wager many other people haven't either.

Friends! Friends! It's the THOUSANDS OF WORMS!!! Look at them!

"They all knew better, the portrayers of wilderness; [Ansel] Adams assiduously avoided photographing any of the local Miwok who were rarely out of his sight as he worked Yosemite Valley. He filled thousands of human-free negatives with land he knew the Miwok had tended for at least 4,000 years."

Working on #EnvironmentalJustice topics in Central and Eastern Europe? Then you might want to send an abstract for the conference 'The Greyzone of the Green Transition' that I'm co-organizing with my colleagues from Sibiu next year in Romania (18-19 May 2026). Participation is free of charge!

Amid Trump’s calls to remove her as UN special rapporteur on Palestine, Varoufakis, Piketty, Gosh & another 7 economists praise Francesca Albanese’s report on the Economics of Genocide www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/07/08/a...

I'm very excited to co-host this event by @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social and Christliche Initiative Romero e.V. on Wednesday next week in Bonn at the main @unibonn.bsky.social building. 'Green At Home, Harm Abroad: Germany's Role in Global Resource Exploitation'. It starts at 18h so come join us!

Since 2000, #OceanLiteracy (OL) has evolved to encompass the complexity of #human-ocean relationships. @emmajmckinley.bsky.social & Fradera suggest an alliance of OL with #ProcessLiteracy, i.e., understanding marine mgmt #decision-making, & explore links with spatial justice doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...

📢 Public event announcement Get tickets for Glasgow here👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/malcolm-x-...

What a joy it is to scroll through the @eandhwhp.bsky.social newest issue and see this wonderful review of our book by Joana Gaspar de Freitas! @pavlasimkova.bsky.social 🌊🏝️🌊 liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

Exactly a month since @oneoceanhub.bsky.social visited KaNyaka 🇲🇿 to speak with the islanders about their long ignored traditional #ocean knowledge. Been thinking about Mozambique its islands and other environments, communities, their struggles and resilience since then ❤️💚🖤💛

🦋We're looking forward to the Exhibit at the MOTH Festival of Ideas from 12 to 14 March New York University Law School. Join the conversation with Hub’s Director Elisa Morgera and Dylan McGarry where they will be keynote speakers on the 14 March. Register here -https://tinyurl.com/35r42y98

"There is an intimate moment when a digger finds something, when it is just them and the object and the hovering ghost of whoever touched it last." Delighted to write about @nessofbrodgar.bsky.social for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social. Pictures by Kieran Dodds. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/disc...

Applications for Tallin Disseration Prize now open!

Growing up in the Caribbean, C.L.R. James told Stuart Hall in 1976, “you get a certain comprehensive view...a microcosm of society on the whole. We—not me alone—Fanon had it, Césaire had it, Padmore had it.”

@unsocialtheory.bsky.social oh it helps. and deeply resonates🔥

Super excited to share a CfP on political ecologies in SEE 🌱 Our guiding q's are: What do the political ecologies of SEE look like? What are the legacies that the field draws on, how is the field transforming, and what are its possible futures? Get in touch if you have an idea and please share!

Randomly stumbled upon this: the style of illustrations and the attention given to the descriptions of more-than-human world (built environment included) in this RPG makes my little geeky heart sing! 🤩

Yay! 🏝️ A raving review from Prof. Peter Coates for our book 'Entire of Itself?Towards An Environmental History of Islands' in the Global Environment journal lnkd.in/d8BK92Qy 🤓 Congrats to my wonderful co-editor @pavlasimkova.bsky.social and all our co-authors! Book available OA lnkd.in/d2_PcbCC ,

#Islands habitually foster #endemic species and peculiar cultures, customs and behaviours. In my chapter of the Entire of Itself? book about the arid rocky prison island #Goliotok I ask if on islands, instead of strange plants, endemic violence can grow. #OpenAccess on www.jstor.org/stable/jj.12...

In 2014, a new island was born in the South Pacific, from the eruption of the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai volcano. In our book, 'Entire of Itself?', Jeff Wescott writes what the newborn island taught him in its short life. #OpenAccess at: www.jstor.org/stable/jj.12... #Islands #microplastics #ocean

🏝️In our of book of #islands in #envhist Joe Djordjevski writes a fascinating #history of the Kornati archipelago as one of the first national parks in the #socialist Yugoslavia. Read Open Access here: www.jstor.org/stable/jj.12... #yugoslavia #heritage #conservation #exploitation #openaccess 🏝️

In 2021, @milicaprokic.bsky.social and I started talking about a book on environmental history of islands. Three years, 18 authors and 14 islands later, here we are! Thank you, @sarahwhpress.bsky.social and @whitehorsepress.bsky.social! Available in print and in OA: www.jstor.org/stable/jj.12...

Our book is out! The brilliant Pavla Šimková and I have had an immense pleasure to work on this book with researchers (and their islands), across the globe. The book is now available in print, and online Open Access: www.jstor.org/stable/jj.12... Thank you, The White Horse press!

Some wildlife conservation projects have very precise goals #envhist #ConservationHistory

Publication alert! 🥁 Thrilled to be part of the fantastic Labor History Journal special issue edited by Claudia Bernardi, Amal Shahid, and Müge Özbek. I wrote on intersections of env and labour history, and Goli otok. Check out the whole issue published OA: www.tandfonline.com/toc/clah20/6...