@collecol.bsky.social is back! 🪲 We've put together a great seminar series - we hope you'll come along! On 2 Oct 11am EDT/4pm GMT we're doing a reading club - Appadurai's "The Museum, the Colony, and the Planet: Territories of the Imperial Imagination". All info ⬇️ www.chstm.org/group/collec...

New on H-Sci-Med-Tech: Check out Eric J. Richards (@btiscience.bsky.social)‬’s review of @mattholmes.bsky.social’s book _The Graft Hybrid: Challenging Twentieth-Century Genetics_ pub 2024 @upittpress.bsky.social ‬ #HSTM Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Had a really good time at the Planetary Futures conference in Manchester. Big thanks to wonderful organizers @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social, @duncanwilson78.bsky.social and presenters! Snapshots from talks🧵 @mattholmes.bsky.social @angecass.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #histsci

Join us Mon 1 Sept 2025 for @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talk with @richardfallon.bsky.social on Contesting Earth’s History in Transatlantic Literary Culture 1860-1935: Believers & Visionaries on the Borderlines of Geology & Palaeontology (Oxford UP 2025). newnatures.org/greenhouse/e... #histsci

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

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...

If you would like to review my book for a publication, get in touch! The book is a history of wind energy and I’m trying to get it out to as wide an audience as possible. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/

Make sure to read @monicavasile.bsky.social's wonderful new article in Environmental Humanities - arguing we should think of reintroduction projects not as a form of 'homecoming', but as 'homemaking'. #MovingAnimals read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...

The Humanities and Technology Association (HTA) have published a Call for Papers for their 43rd annual Humanities and Technology Association Conference, held at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island from Oct. 23-25th, 2025.

What a great roundtable! @collecol.bsky.social!

📢 The #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary is entering a bold new chapter – and we need your help! Today we release our official Call for Support. We’re seeking new hosts for BHL’s staff, infrastructure, and services. Learn more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/06/tran... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL

Please consider supporting the Biodiversity Heritage Library! #envhist #envhum

I’m very happy to announce that I’ve been awarded an IRFD Starting Grant for the project “Sovereign Flowers: Flora Danica and the Emergence of the National Flora, 1750–1900.” Hooray! The project allows me to build a small research group of a PhD student and a postdoc at Aarhus University (@au.dk).

Absolute Units returns!!! In this ep, we speak to environmental historian @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social about her research into pigs in medieval England. Topics include: taking your hogs for a walk, the Hapsburg chin of domestic pigs, Babe 2, and so much more. merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

Hey #histtech, can we dig up some suggestions here?

📣 Join historian Sadiah Qureshi as she shares insights from Vanished, her acclaimed new book on extinction, empire & erasure for free! With an introduction by Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk! 🗓 Wed 9 July, 6–10pm 📍 Cambridge 🎟 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1395979053... #PublicLecture #histSTM

I'm editing the Food (& Drink) Section for Environmental Change and Human Experience for OUP Intersections. Looking for new work on food, drink and the environment. Contact me if you want to learn more. It is peer-reviewed. academic.oup.com/oxford-inter...

Interesting role for a Historian or Arts/Humanities scholar to join at a senior level in the research team; overlapping specialities required: Early Modern, history of enslavement, country house history, plant humanities.

Join us & let‘s workshop together! #envhum #collections #museum

Today in two weeks (17.06), we'll hold the workshop "Historical Contingency" with Gregory Radick and Robert Northcott as speakers. The event will be hybrid, taking place in person in Ostrava and on Zoom. For more information, see below or here: philevents.org/event/show/1.... All welcome!

Your friendly neighborhood manatee 🤗〰️🐮〰️ #manatee #manateesofcoralcity #sirenia #cutiepie #seapotato #seacow #closeup #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

From about 1814 to 1820 Jane Talbot and several members of her extended family developed a particular interest in mosses, learning about them via books, microscopes, correspondence and being out in the field. My new article is open access in BJHS dx.doi.org/10.1017/S000... #BookHistory #bryology

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

Great piece by @beebrookshire.bsky.social on human hubris and the disastrous introduction of the mongoose to the Caribbean! #envhist #envhum #histSTM

New (open access) article time! The first arising from my @britishacademy.bsky.social project exploring the history of culture collections. If you’re into microbes, biological sciences, scientific infrastructure, or power dynamics in science it could be your thing… link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Where does our food come from and is it safe? My article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science explores the history of plant #genetics and concerns over #food in the BSE crisis and #GMO controversy: doi.org/10.1093/acre... #histSTM #envhist #aghist #EnvSci

Always happy to see a review of The Graft Hybrid 😊 muse.jhu.edu/article/956862 #histtech #histSTM

So excited to have my latest research published in Technology and Culture! Check out their April issue for my article, Plastic Grass, Suburban Dreams: AstroTurf and the Idea of Augmented Nature. #histSTM #EnvHist

We are excited to announce that @liverpooluni.bsky.social will host the next big @ihr.bsky.social workshop - IHR@Liverpool! The topic is 'Difficult Histories' ✨ This is geared toward PGRs + early career folks & there are bursaries available! Sign-up + more info ➡️ www.history.ac.uk/events/ihrli...

Very cool to see my paper on arguments about unnaturalness and historical continuity during the GMO controversies of the 1990s appear in this special collection from @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social! #histSTM #envhist

Hello from the University Museum of Zoology! The Museum is one of Cambridge's major attractions & part of the University of Cambridge Department of Zoology. We house one of the largest & most important natural history collections in the UK. Entry is free & everyone is welcome!

Today we were talking about this legendary dude who grafted 250 different varieties of apple onto a single tree

Check out our special issues of Environment & History. @gfitz.bsky.social #envhist #skystorians #sensoryhist #foodstudies

It's almost a year since my book "The Graft Hybrid" was published with @upittpress.bsky.social and it's super exciting to see developments in plant grafting happening in real time!

For #envhum #envhist early career scholars: I would be open to hosting a MSCA Postdoctoral fellowship application with @greenhouseuis.net @unistavanger.bsky.social this year. We have a very good track record with these grants. Our uni arranges applicant courses.

Monday, 28 April 2025: Polyanna Rhee @parhee.bsky.social will discuss Natural Attachments: The Domestication of American Environmentalism, 1920–1970 (University of Chicago Press, 2025) Start time 16:00 Central European time / 10:00 Eastern newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

How did computers change zoos? I discuss the question in an article that just came out in the Journal of Global History - touching upon databases, 'infrastructural globalism' and transcontinental flows of Siberian tigers. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We have two openings left in the Greenhouse #envhum book talk series this spring: April 7 & 28. Talks are at 4pm Central European time, but we move it to 10am if we have a guest from Asia/Australia. If you have a new book (2024 or 2025) that you'd like to present on one of these dates, contact me!

📢Calling all natural historians! This year our Summer Meeting is exploring the ✨senses✨ So we want to hear from you! We're looking for papers that explore the intersections of the senses - including sight, sound, smell, taste and touch - with the history of natural history.

A big thank you to @rafdebont.bsky.social, the Moving Animals project, and @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social for hosting me in Maastricht - it’s been a great opportunity to work on the #history of animal minds and technology alongside some fantastic scholars in a wonderful city! #histsci #envhist

How did people in the 19thc decide if birds were intelligent? Find out in my new article "Avian architects: Technology, domestication, and animal minds in urban America" doi.org/10.1177/0073... (1/3)

gettin' ready for an extremely busy March at the @greenhouseuis.net with talks by among others @kyliecrane.bsky.social, @mattholmes.bsky.social and @eikeheine.bsky.social, a conversation on publishing within #envhum, and @jacobleetom.bsky.social's PhD defence! 🌿

We are exceedingly happy and proud to announce that our co-director @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social is the recipient of the 2025 Gad Rausing Award given by The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. This is a major recognition of #envhist #envhum scholarship at the very highest level

From next week our X account will close and be archived. We will be solely on BlueSky where we will continue to promote #history, historical practice and the humanities. Please do join us #Skystorians

Next Greenhouse #envhum book talk: Anne Berg will discuss her book Empire of Rags and Bones: Waste and War in Nazi Germany (Oxford UP, 2024) on Monday, 17 February 2025, at 4pm Central European time / 10am Eastern time. Join the live talk! newnatures.org/greenhouse/e... #envhist

New paper out today! "The Entwined Human and Environmental Costs of the Colonial Project: Perspectives from Natural History Collections". I explored a few themes on how natural history #museums are now working to understand their colonial legacies. A little🧵: www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

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

The AHG has moved to Bluesky! We're a predominantly online, international network, running a varied programme of seminars, conferences and other events since 2016. We're looking forward to connecting and reconnecting here with all who are interested in animals in history! animalhistorygroup.org

gloknos director, Inanna Hamati-Ataya @berytia.bsky.social writes for @aeon.co on the deep history of globalisation | There are no pure cultures - we have always been global 👇