International regulation of commercially exploited sharks: challenging the notion of shark “bycatch” in tuna RFMOs link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Assessing mechanisms of intrinsic vulnerability in sharks occupying different marine environments link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Thrilled to be included in the inaugural issue of Germinate: Environmental History Review, with a piece on Pacific salmon and meta-ecosystem histories: g-ehr.com/peer-reviewe... Lots of other great publicly-accessible articles to check out as well! #envhist #envhum #twitterstorians

New 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 #recording available now! @milespowell.bsky.social’s “Fishing for #Sharks,” read by the author himself, dives into sportfishing practices, literature, biology, and ecology. You can have a listen to the recording online: springs-rcc.org/fishing-for-...

Great panel on the #Anthropocene in the last session of #eseh2025 ✨️ @wildpasts.bsky.social @libbydeq.bsky.social @adamwickberg.bsky.social #envhist

Migrants, Mosquitos, and Malaria: Histories of Constructing Enemy Threats niche-canada.org/2025/08/18/m... A #histmed #envhist post by my daughter Marion in the @nichecanada.bsky.social series Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration

Department "Knowledge Systems and Collective Life" seeks a Collaborative Research Coordinator! 🤝 Help expand its community-based, publicly engaged research 🎤 Advise researchers on cooperative methods 📋 Coordinate cooperation agreements 🗓️ Deadline: Sep 28, 2025 🔗 bit.ly/45FXu8R #HistSci #EnvHist

Delighted to see this new review of "Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean," a book that pulls "earthlings out of their complacency to recognize the precarity of their position amid ongoing cosmic dramas." Now available for pre-order! #Space #EnvHist www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/ripp...

New open access ahead-of-print article! In "A Fishy Tale of the Nuclear Power Plant Never Built in Estonia," Kati Lindström and Achim Klüppelberg explore the envirotechnical history of nuclear development at Lake Võrtsjärv. Read it here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/... #envhist

Check out @robertfrodeman.bsky.social's review of Lynda V. Mapes's "The Trees Are Speaking: Dispatches from the Salmon Forests," published in 2025 by @uwapress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Today @robinshistory.bsky.social's DIY wooden canoe project reveals deeper truths about plastic, sustainability, masculinity, and the contradictions of modern maker culture, in "Crafting the Plasticene." niche-canada.org/2025/08/07/c... #makerculture #canoes #plastics #envhist

This one's for the taxidermy curious. We are legion, yeah? In "Coyotes, Cougars, Californians," I trace evolving display practices @nhm.org. It's a story about how one museum revises boundaries of belonging, featuring the late great P-22. @animalhistory.bsky.social #envhist doi.org/10.1525/ah.2...

Research by Harrison Croft on the story of Winston Churchill's dead platypus, first published as a Snapshot in Environment and History, made it to the front page of the BBC website today! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #envhist

Many don't know that Saskatchewan was a hub of alternative energy research and development in the 1970s. Read "A Family Affair: Alternative Energy Research in 1970s Saskatchewan" by Justin Fisher niche-canada.org/2023/11/09/a... #energyhistory #alternativeenergy #skhistory #cdnhist #envhist

My new piece in @noemamag.com explores how modern air conditioning technologies helped remake the Gulf. It's one for my environmental and urban historian colleagues — please check it out! Let me know what you think. #skystorians #envhist #envhum

Environmental humanities & adjacent scholars: interested in collaborating on a panel for this @carsoncenter.bsky.social conference in July?! #envhum #STS #envhist www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...

Call for Proposals: 2026 Joint Meeting of the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS) and History of Science Society (HSS), Scotland, 13-16 July 2026 Link to the full Call For Proposals is available here<hssonline.org/page/2...>

Just out /2: condensing years of thinking, my philosophical examination of “Environmental Intelligence” as framing for foundations of #AI is on @harvarddataverse.bsky.social ! Officially published with commentaries in October, but sneak preview here: hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/mx9vpa0b... #philsci 🧪

In case you're wondering how scientists can say that many shark populations are threatened with extinction while some US fishermen report that they've never seen so many sharks, the answer is shifting baselines: how much things have changed depends on when you start counting.

Class info and signup: www.centerforwildlifestudies.org/courses/p/bi...

In my forthcoming book, "Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean," I show that what happens in space matters on Earth—and what happens on Earth increasingly matters in space. In this interview with Harvard University Press, I reflect on the implications of that idea. #EnvHist www.hup.harvard.edu/features/the...

We're very pleased indeed to see research first published in 'Environment and History' making waves on BBC News – it was the third most read article on the BBC's UK news website as of this morning! @eandhwhp.bsky.social #envhist

1/ Happy to share that my article “Beyond Homecoming: The Reintroduction of Seven Przewalski’s Mares in the Gobi Desert” has been published in Environmental Humanities. It is the story of seven mares flown from Australian zoos to Mongolia’s Gobi Desert in the 1990s doi.org/10.1215/2201... #envhist

3 Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Positions in the History of Science, Technology, Medicine, and the Environment at Texas State University 🗃️ #HPS #histsci #histmed #envhist networks.h-net.org/jobs/68829/t...

🥳We have just published a new virtual exhibition!🥳 "Once Upon a Dune: Coastal (Hi)Stories" is now online on the Environment and Society Portal (link below). Go over to the Portal to explore the coastal (hi)stories yourself! #virtualexhibition #dunes #online #openaccess #envhist #envhum #coast

📢 Our new #rewilding #paper is now out in @peopleandnature.bsky.social We show how #interdisciplinary critical #socialscience can help enhance social and environmental #justice in #conservation Available FREE #openaccess here 👉 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/pan3... 🌎🧪

📢 #histstm jobs! 📢 3 assistant prof. Jobs at Texas State in: #histsci/#histtech Europe/Empire #histmed North America/Atlantic 1500-1800 #envhist water

I had a chance to talk with Max Pearson on BBC’s History Hour about #extinction & #envhist last week. My interview starts at 10min into the program (part before that is about Lonesome George). www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

Touring the ship Peking at the Hamburg port museum with our workshop. The ship was used in the saltpeter trade with Chile. They had a pig pen onboard! #envhist #maritimehist

#IndigenousHistoryMonth Reading "Sport Hunting Tourism and Indigenous-Settler Histories in the Yukon Territory" by ‪@drheathergreen.bsky.social‬ niche-canada.org/2021/07/20/s... #yukon #indigenoushistory #cdnhist #envhist

Spent the last couple of days with a fabulous group of people discussing #museums from an #envhist & #envhum perspective. So much inspiration. It was also wonderful to show everyone the #GermanPortMuseum & bouncing off ideas for exhibitions & programming. Grateful to everyone. #SharingIsCaring

#IndigenousHistoryMonth Reading "Environmental Change, War, and Neutrality in Imperial–Indigenous Relations in the Maritime Colonies, 1793–1815" by John G. Reid niche-canada.org/2020/03/12/e... #envhist #cdnhist #indigenoushistory

Climates of Empire: Environmental Historians in Conversation with Climate Change Researchers Centre for World Environmental History 26-27 June 2025 – A 108, Arts A, University of Sussex & Zoom niche-canada.org/2025/06/21/h... #envhist #climhist #climatechange

Preorder now!! Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums Coming out with @uchicagopress.bsky.social in October 2025. Only $20 in paperback for a full color book with 80 pictures of dead things. It’s beautiful! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Very happy that my book, Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of U.S. Whaling, has been named a finalist for the 2025 ASLE Book Award. And I'm VERY proud to share the slate with so many other amazing authors. uncpress.org/book/9781469...

If you would like to write about the impact of cuts to federal programming on environmental programs like NOAA, check out our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series CFP: niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c... #envhist #environment #uspoli

#journal: new issue of "Animal History" at the University of California Press. More info on journal (submissions, team, etc.) here: networks.h-net.org/group/announ... Access pubs through your library here: online.ucpress.edu/ah/search-re... #envhum #envhist #ecocriticism #ecolit #animalstudies

The Stump Ranchers thediscourse.ca/comox-valley... #EnvHist #BChist #CdnHist #Comox

Learn more about the impact of cuts to NOAA in this article from Christine Keiner: niche-canada.org/2025/04/25/c... #NOAA #coast #science #histsci #envhist

Got my advance copy of Joseph Whitson’s Marketing the Wilderness from @uminnpress.bsky.social today! Looking forward to interviewing him for @nichecanada.bsky.social later this summer! #envhist #parks #publiclands #outdoorrecreation

Excited and honored to share this research next month at @greenhouseuis.net www.uis.no/en/research/...

We are hiring a new PhD student in the history group @unistavanger.bsky.social. There are several possible topics, including «Intersections between history education and education for sustainable development/environmental citizenship», which should be interesting for the #envhist #envhum crowd.

Our special issue in the Journal of Literature and Science, the Sound of Nature project’s main output, is now out in open access: www.literatureandscience.org/volume-17-nu... #envhist #envhum #literature #soundstudies

While the history of guns in the USA is typically understood through the frame of violence, considering guns not as a tool but as a symbol opens new perspectives on gun culture in America past and present. Fascinating chat with @courtneyslavin.bsky.social about her dissertation research.

If you want to write about the current situation in the US in regards to environmental knowledge, check out our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series and get in touch! niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c... #envhist #environment

Delighted to announce the publication of my first H-Environment Roundtable Review, on Bob Morrissey's *People of the Ecotone: Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America.* Please share! #envhist #envhum networks.h-net.org/morrissey-pe...

Yesterday was an extremely good mail day — perfect timing as it was official pub day for @sprucehen.bsky.social ‘s gorgeous new book 💕❄️🎉 #envhist #envhum

@anthropoceneucl.bsky.social's next #Anthropocene histories seminar is this Weds online at 1500 GMT on oceans, fish, and marine economies – all welcome! #envhum, #skyhistorians, #envhist, #oceans, #ecology, @uclhistory.bsky.social

"Why would people still want to work at the mine? Practically speaking, this was more a question of home, and people wanting to stay living in the community where their families had lived, worked, and died for generations." - @historiamagoria.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2020/10/29/t... #envhist

As Twain wrote, the Mississippi River is well worth reading about. If you agree—and you should—check out @boyceupholt.bsky.social's book THE GREAT RIVER, which I had the pleasure of reviewing for H-environment. www.h-net.org/reviews/show... 🗃️ #EnvHist