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)

A debate has erupted in this thread re: longstanding descriptions of Picasso's dog Bob—yes, his name was Bob!—as a Great Pyrenees, with @sharonbutler.bsky.social asserting he was clearly a St. Bernard. After the last few days not sure I have the energy for a response; you can weigh in if you'd like

“The Forest Service was the last major federal land agency that still had the institutional muscle to resist. It had the scientists. It had the regional foresters. It had the culture, imperfect as it was, that still believed forests belonged to the public.”(Jim Pattiz +hatchmag.com) #envhist

It's the start of National Wildlife Week in Canada and the start of spring migration, so it's the perfect time to make sure your windows are as bird-friendly as they can be. This great poster by @rosemarymosco.com summarizes the problem of window collisions; learn what you can do at birdsafe.ca

Bird people! What makes a duck attractive? 🦆 #birds #ducks #animahist #envhum

A 🧵on #conservation and humane treatment of one of the world's most overlooked, underdog pet #animals... 🧪🌎🦑 When I first met Crab Con founder Mary Akers in 2024, I was floored by what she told me... www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/m...

Visiting @ontarioturtlecc.bsky.social I learned that turtles need/use artificial wildlife corridors (eco-passages) just like large migratory mammals. Users also include snakes, ducks, beavers. Continually reminded of the Moving Animals project 🐢 #envhist

Extinct “Species at Risk” at the Redpath Museum at McGill University: Passenger Pigeon + Labrador Duck #animalhist

Hey #envhist! Parks Canada is ending its library services+ “decommissioning” its collection. We stand to lose a valuable set of materials that reveal if and how the Agency fulfilled its mandate (or didn’t). Read more here+write the Minister @juliedabrusin.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/03/10/c...

A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell

I recently joined the Peterborough Field Naturalists @ptbonature.bsky.social with my child and was happy to witness taxidermy as a tool for hands-on learning for the “junior naturalists” last weekend at Trent University. #animalhist Most of the tags read “window collision” as cause of death.

Restoration ecology fieldwork is delightful and deeply creepy in equal measure. #Histsci #envhist

Searching for Birds, an engaging visualization of eBird and Google Trends data that reveals human curiosity about birds. [searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com]

In the late 1930s, Henry Ruschmann patented a high-speed machine for cutting photographic prints, which produced small, glossy cellulose “schnibbles” as waste. His employees took these fragments home to use as artificial snow, and glitter was born.

1/ The NYU Wild Animal Welfare Program is hiring a Postdoctoral Associate! The NYU Wild Animal Welfare Program is currently seeking a postdoctoral associate to join an interdisciplinary research project focused on wild animals in urban environments.

CFP: The Invisible Image: Photography and the Unseen (Liverpool, 18-19 Jun 26) https://arthist.net/archive/51566

“A flock of ring-necked parakeets that were filmed feasting on the wall of a 19th Century barn were echoing Amazonian feeding habits…near Welwyn in Hertfordshire.” [bbc.com]

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

Currently reading the booklet “Housing for Wood Ducks,” published by the Illinois Natural History Survey (1953) and want to know more about the making, circulation, and use of natural history circulars from the mid cent. Any suggestions for readings/info on this topic? #envhist #histSTM

So proud to have co-edited the forthcoming volume, “Globalizing Wildlife,” with @rafdebont.bsky.social and Tom Quick 🌎🌍🌏🐀🦜🦏🐅🦦 from @uncpress.bsky.social in their series Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...

So many amazing humans contributed to this book, writing about all kinds of 🌎🌍🌏 animals: rhinos, chimps, parrots, horses, rats, monkeys, bees, otters, mongoose, tigers, elephants, pigeons, bears and more! #animalhist

Thinking about Jane Goodall, and grateful to have spent time at Gombe as a @anthropogeny.org graduate student in 2019.

"This is an essential text for scholars working on environmental, animal, scientific, and segregation histories in South Africa and beyond". The first review of my book is out on Animal History. A big thank you to Mia Uys for this generous review. online.ucpress.edu/ah/article-a...

Excited to talk #animalhist with other art historians today at the “Interspecies Interactions in the Visual Arts”symposium, org by @claralanger.bsky.social and Oriane Poret. I’ll be speaking about seeking a “bird’s eye view” in avian photography, and finding (un)wanted encounters.

Today’s my first day as a SSHRC Postdoc Fellow at Trent University! I’ll be working on a media history of (bird) conservation in 20th cent N America. 🪿🦆🐦‍⬛🦅Grateful to have research support, be back in Canada, and look forward to working with @finisdunaway.bsky.social #envhist #animalhist

Looking forward to next week’s online workshop “Wild or Domestic? Research on Artificial Bird Nesting Sites” organized by @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social & Thomas Reitmaier. I’ll be discussing wood duck conservation via nest boxes and the film Wood Duck Ways (1956) [linked below] #envhist #animalhist

Are snowy owls attracted to airports?

People purged from the National Park Service & agencies that manage federal lands speak out. “I have dedicated my life to being a public servant, teacher, and advocate for places that we ALL cherish. I have saved lives and put my own life at risk…” [kottke.org]

Great presentations and discussions yesterday with this wonderful bunch, at the colloquium 'Moving Animals: Wanderings in the Anthropocene', co-organized with @vbateman.bsky.social

Having a great day at the Moving Animals conference! Papers by Helen Cowie on alpacas, @vbateman.bsky.social on wapiti & Vincent Bijman on mongooses #envhist #animalhist

To celebrate and conclude five years of research by the Moving Animals project, @rafdebont.bsky.social and I have organized the conference “Moving Animals: Wanderings in the Anthropocene” on Jan 31 in Maastricht. #envhist #animalhist Program at: moving-animals.nl/upcoming-mov...

Sadly, this is my last month as postdoc on @rafdebont.bsky.social Moving Animals project @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social. Too many highlights from the last 2.5 years - but what will remain is finding home among the (friendliest) animal + environmental history community

Eight Clams Control This Polish City’s Water Supply. “If the waters are clean, these [cyborg] mussels stay open and happy. But when water quality drops too low, they close off and shut the water supply of millions of people with them.” [kottke.org]

Always love reading @monicavasile.bsky.social

Highly recommend this! Was a very productive experience and nice people too :)

Found a sandhill crane feather in the archive last year - taped to a letter from 1930. 🪶 #animalhist #envhist

Recently saw ANOHNI and the Johnsons in concert and want to know of other musicians who address the climate and biodiversity crises as explicitly. "There are aspects of funeral happening right now — that's not a projection, that's a reality" exclaim.ca/music/articl...

A program that pays farmers to flood their fields to create “pop-up wetland habitats” as way-stations for migratory birds is a “rare conservation win”. [hcn.org]

#WorldMigratoryBirdDay "Collecting specimens and tracking migratory bird patterns enabled these men to map the British Empire and the world and therefore to exert imagined control over it." - Kirsten Greer niche-canada.org/2020/03/27/n... #envhist #histgeog #nathist

#envhist #envhum #histsci Exciting opportunity to do a paid PhD in the history of biology: www.academictransfer.com/nl/345235/ph... Come work with @rafdebont.bsky.social @blenormand.bsky.social and me ❤️

Thrilled to be one of the recipients of the ESEH-Gale Fellowship in Digital Environmental History! Excited to have support for my project on photography, film, and wildlife conservation in the 20th cent 🪿🐦‍⬛🎞️ thank you @eseh.bsky.social

“Tenacious Beasts is an accessible ecological and philosophical text, and in some ways an adventurous tale as the author takes us on a journey with him to sites of wildlife recoveries.”

“Bellwether Histories show again and again, human attempts to control and manage animals were rarely without devastating unintended consequences.” While not “a pleasant or easy read” due to its subject matter- I highly recommend this book too! (and not because I have a chapter in it).

Endless bird puns out there. I have no egrets, I’ve bird it all before, owl by myself, so eggs-sighting, etc.

Happy organizers after vibrant discussions in three (!) sessions on animal (im)mobilities at #EASST4S2024

I am organizing this workshop together with the fabulous @sarahmpicks.bsky.social. Here's our CfP. Please consider sending us an abstract! expeditions.hypotheses.org/494

Animal history film: “Fur for the Future” (c. 1950) - an Idaho Fish and Game film on beaver reintroduction via parachutes left over from WWII #animalhist #envhist

I'm in awe of Palestinian birders who continue taking their binoculars and cameras out after their home became a war zone. Even when it means risking their lives, they keep going because knowing the birds have returned for another year gives them hope.🪶 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It’s #EndangeredSpeciesDay so from the blog here's a look at #VanGogh ‘s 2 exotic #animal paintings of a "green parrot" + “flying fox" & the real-life endangered species they depict: arthistoryanimalia.com/2023/05/19/a... (The Green Parrot 1886 private collection / Flying Fox 1884 Van Gogh Museum)