Congratulations to @asantonova.bsky.social, @djeffal.bsky.social, Florian Egli, Manuela Fritz, and @sciorestis.bsky.social, our new Change! Fellows at @tum.de. For an overview of all our new Change! Fellows, please visit www.volkswagenstiftung.de/de/news/aktu...

This will be a fantastic opportunity to study environmental humanities and put it into practice with an internship partner. Pass this masters study opportunity along to all your students!

2 doctoral positions on the '(Dis)Empowered Communities: A Comparative Study of Decommissioning Nuclear Sites' project led by Davide Orsini at the @carsoncenter.bsky.social Deadline: 30 November #histtech #envhist #energyhistory #nuclearhistory www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_rcc/jo...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

🌱 Fully funded PhD scholarship in Environmental Humanities at Ghent University! A unique opportunity to collaborate with Marco Caracciolo, Elly McCausland, and me on innovative research connecting literature, culture, and ecology.

A great-looking event - and the deadline is still upcoming! (30 September).

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!

We're hiring! Please share with your networks! The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026 jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

“I want to talk about the part of philosophy writing that comes after the argument… the very specific work involved in infusing your writing with energy and life” — C. Thi Nguyen (@add-hawk.bsky.social) at Daily Nous on the creative craft of writing philosophy.

POLLEN 2026 is happening in Barcelona 🌅 The call for panels is open and closes on July 31st. See here for more information: tinyurl.com/5b8c5w7j Spread the word.

Important news for the #envhist crowd: We are hiring an Associate Professor of Environmental History! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Application deadline is August 7. Some tips for those interested from abroad in thread 👇

An excellent (& devastatingly true) account on the "leaky pipeline"

Job for social movements scholars, it would be great with someone interested in environmental/climate protests!

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

🚨Job Alert 🚨 🐕‍🦺 🐄🐎🐦‍⬛ Do you have project management skills & an interest in human-animal relations? We are recruiting a project manager role (5 years) for our new project (info in the 🧵) @sheffielduni.bsky.social 📆 deadline 30 June www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNO134/p...

Little reminder: Our #writingcompetition "Tell the Untold" is still looking forward to your contributions—fiction, non-fiction, or academic ✍️ Find out more: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev... #future #envhum #rethinking #environmentalprotection #rcc #munich #lmu #writing

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1119: Everything you experience mindfully feeds your creativity. Love, art, grief, travel, food, heartbreak, theatre, music, sunshine, exercise, nature - all the things that make up a life. Don’t forget to live yours to the full in your eagerness to type words.

Bird nests made from anti-bird spikes?! 🤯 Hi, I'm a nest researcher 👋 and new here on BlueSky, sharing the craziest #bird nests I've ever found. 👀 Today, I’m sharing my discovery of rebellious birds that build nests out of anti-bird spikes. And honestly, it's like telling a joke... A thread. 🧵

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.

So looking forward to our MA students' exhibition! I may be biased, but their creative team under Franziska Bax's curatorial leadership did a phenomenal job representing their "tumbling" reflections on trust & entanglement w the environment. If you're in Munich in April, go check it out!

This is an unusual opportunity in Germany where the idea of Tenure track is relatively new. A 'W1' is basically an Assistant Professor, (although the Germans translate it to the sad-sounding 'Junior Professor'). haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/...

Dear all, we have also transitioned from twitter to bluesky :-) it would be great to find our followers back here. So please follow us and spread the news! We will be communicating about the MARE conference👇 and other MARE news via Linkedin and Bluesky!

The Rethinking Wild Europe workshop just kicked off at @univie.ac.at! For the next two days, we will discuss everything related to the politics and ethics of #rewilding & #wilderness in #Europe. Check out the programme below and follow the thread for live updates 1/ cetep.eu/rethinking-w...

Apply for our Visiting Scholar Fellowships for 2025 and 2026! We welcome applications from scholars at all levels and from all disciplines and all parts of the world, who want to work with us and contribute to shaping the emerging field of Anthropocene history. www.kth.se/anthropocene...

Are you an #envhum scholar looking to make a difference for the field? Become a co-editor of the journal Environmental Humanities! We need a new set of 2 co-editors to replace Franklin & I from Jan 2026. See the call here: environmentalhumanities.org Contact us if you have any questions.

My colleague Erik Aarden at @uniklagenfurt.bsky.social is looking for a PhD student and a postdoc for his upcoming project on the EAZA biobank—do apply if you're interested in biobanks, conservation, archives, biodiversity, zoos or cross-european collaboration: www.aau.at/blog/job-ope...

Research Assistant – Coastal TALES Project TCD Environmental Humanities universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...

Call for papers for Port Cities and Maritime Cultures International Conference @portsmouthuni, 10-11 June 2025. Submit your 300-word abstract by 19 January 2025 to [email protected] for @UoP_Maritime's inaugural conference www.port.ac.uk/news-events-...

New #OpenAccess maritime journal alert! As an alumna of the Williams-Mystic Maritime Studies program AND a former Mystic Seaport employee / happy member of its Demonstration Squad (for one brief but memorable summer), I'm obviously excited to see where this publication goes 🐋🐙⚓

⏰ #foodstudies #foodhistory job! My wonderful colleague Simone Cinotto is looking for a Postdoc (3yr) for an EU funded project on recipes/gastronomy as European heritage. You'd have to live in Bra/the Langhe, the capital of #slowfood. Tough but someone's gotta do it. 🍷🍝🧀 www.unisg.it/en/assegni-d...

Please share our CFP for the annual Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History. Submissions due by 15 March 2025. oceansciencehistory.com/2025/01/06/c...

📢New EmpowerUs Publication📢 We're pleased to share the latest article written by @asantonova.bsky.social, "Squinting like a state: Narratives of corruption, informal practices, and legacies of societal distrust on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast"🌊 Read here👉https://empowerus-project.eu/results/

The German Maritime Museum invites applications for 3-9 month-long fellowships to work on interdisciplinary object-based research focussing on the cultural & political significance of the relationship between humans and the sea. Deadline 31 January 2025. More info: www.museumsbund.de/stellenangeb...

The Environmental Humanities November 2024 issue came out a week ago, but I haven't had a chance to post a thread on it yet! I wanted to bring this massive amount of new #envhum scholarship to your attention. read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta... A thread...

Excited that Timothy Mitchell will be joining us at the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory in a few weeks! Register to join us if you are in Stockholm. www.kth.se/ehl/ehl-even...

(1/27) STARTER PACK THREAD. The environmental humanities, broadly conceived, have been flourishing on BlueSky lately. To further promote this growth, we recommend the following starter packs in and beyond the #EnvHum, beginning with ICEHO's for environmental history. Let's connect! #envhist

If you're in Munich today, stop by the LMU Munich's Große Aula at 18:30 to hear @amitav.bsky.social speak on "Hiding from the Apocalypse: How the World's Wealthiest View the Future." Very proud to have co-organized his visit to Munich & #RCC this week - this will be a definite highlight!

Hi everyone! I see the X-odus continues 😊 As it happens, I've just had an article published on the economic, societal & environmental transformations on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast that can serve as intro to my work on people, political change & the sea, check it out here: doi.org/10.1177/0308...

Hey #oceanhist crew! ICHO is organizing a session at the 2025 International Congress in New Zealand. Abstracts wanted by March 1st! See details here: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Annie Clark Tanner Fellowship in Environmental Humanities and Environmental Justice, University of Utah. Paid year-long residency at the Tanner Humanities Center Application deadline March 15. thc.utah.edu/research/fel... #envhum #envhist

📢 Postdoc in Amsterdam 📢 🥓in the project "Meat Culture" 🥓for PhD holders in History, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies 🥓work with @samuelkruizinga.bsky.social, Wilma Waterlander, Else Vogel, Mary Nicolaou, Gaston Franssen, Emilia Quinn & yours truly #foodstudies #histstm #envhistory