Tune in to @forarthistory.org.uk's Festival next week to discuss "Art & Extraction in the Pre-Modern Period" with Cara Wolahan, Lorenzo Gatta, Thomas Balfe, and yours truly - we'll be talking about mining, woodcutting, pearls, and of course water 💧 Register at forarthistory.org.uk/events/art-a...

So much to look forward to in the programme for #ESEH2025! You should of course all come to our double panel on "Colonial climates and environments" on Fri AM with @poxygraduate.bsky.social, @nphellstrom.bsky.social,‬ @gianamar97.bsky.social, @lindaaburnett.bsky.social, @jamborg.bsky.social & more 🎙️

Our special issue is (partly) out! I'm co-editing "Negotiating Water Knowledge in Early Modern Europe" with Lavinia Maddaluno & Giacomo Savani for Notes & Records @royalsociety.org - articles will drip feed over 2025, starting with this by Felicia Else 💧 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

‪Great to finally hold a paper copy of Water Cultures, the collection of essays I co-edited with Charlotte Ladevèze & Eva Rothenberger! To read us in 🇬🇧, 🇫🇷 & 🇩🇪 you don't even need a physical copy: PDF open access at www.academicpress.ch/fr/cultures-... #waterhistory #skystorians #envhist #envhums

Comme une sensation de déjà vu? Pendant plus de 100 ans, la France a envoyé ses prisonniers politiques et autres indésirables au bagne en Guyane. Au lieu d’annoncer la fin de la colonisation française, on préfère renouer avec lex vieux symbôles et être du mauvais côté de l’histoire 😢

Still in some disbelief at having been selected to be part of this stellar line-up 🤯 2025 is a good time to think about problems of social order and knowledge, as Simon Schaffer and Steven Shapin did 40y ago in Leviathan & Air-Pump! Do join us @sciencemuseum.org.uk if you're in London next Monday

If you're in Brussels next month, come help me think through the first steps of my new project on #envhist and #waterhistory of colonial Suriname! Talk will be in 🇫🇷 bit.ly/3GaepaJ

Excited (& terrified) to be thinking about "Making architectural history through the prism of environmental and decolonial issues" as part of this brilliant workshop later this week @ieadeparis.bsky.social, organised by ENSA-Malaquais: www.paris-iea.fr/en/events/fa...

On board (my first ever) Amtrak to Boston to attend #RSA2025 #RenSA25 🚂 @caromurph7.bsky.social & I have organised a panel on "Administrative Cartography" with Lorenzo Gatta, Natsumi Nonaka & @hannahmgk.bsky.social 🗺️ And of course I'll be talking Neptune again with @frederickcrofts.bsky.social 🔱

If a mine yields (far, far) more water than silver, should we call it a silver mine? Or a water mine? I had some fun thinking about this and other questions of #waterhistory and #mininghistory in "Mining for water", my new article just out in Early Science & Medicine: doi.org/10.1163/1573... 💧⛏️

What was up with Neptune 400 years ago? @frederickcrofts.bsky.social and I have been trying to find out: we had a great research stay @zikg.eu! While we cross our fingers for the article (under review), you can find out more about the project, and the small exhibition we co-curated, here:

Join us in Leipzig next month to think and talk about urban-fluvial symbioses - or fluvial anthropospheres, as #envhist colleagues there say 💧 @unileipzig.bsky.social #waterhistory #urbanhistory #skystorians

New year, new social network, new job! 2024 summary: articles on liquid streets (rb.gy/du95nc), lost gardens and fountains (rb.gy/tfbk3y), and time-traveling maps (rb.gy/rjv2nn) - plus great people @unibern.bsky.social, and lots of 🚂(see pic)! Now excited to join @ulbruxelles.bsky.social 🤓

The Age of Neptune: Art and the Power of Water, c. 1520-1650 Projektvorstellung von @davidemartino.bsky.social und Frederick Crofts morgen um 12:00 Uhr im ZI 🧜‍♂️ www.zikg.eu/aktuelles/ve...