📢 Register now for our next ASLE-UKI Seminar, Ecopedagogy as Method on 12th December, 4-5:30pm! Speakers: Laura Albertini Hugh Dunkerley Petra Hansson Jasmin Kirkbride www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asle-uki-s...

Join us for the next ASLE-UKI Seminar! We've got a fantastic line-up! Please share widely!

Excited to share my contribution to YWCCT (Oxford University Press) for 2024's work in Animal Studies 🐄 Featuring writing from @writedavidwrite.bsky.social, @rachelmurray.bsky.social, @verafibisan.bsky.social, @katiecmoliver.bsky.social and more 🐔 Read here: doi.org/10.1093/ywcc...

📣Green Letters: Call for Applications for Assistant Editors For details, please visit asle.org.uk/green-letter...

ASLE-UKI Online Seminar Eighteenth-Century Literature and Environment 29 January 2026, 3:00-7:00pm GMT Convenors: Brycchan Carey (Northumbria University) and Tess Somervell (University of Oxford) Further details: asle.org.uk/events/semin... Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asle-uki-s...

📣Green Letters: Call for Applications for Co-General Editor For details, please visit asle.org.uk/green-letter...

In the spirit of syllabus season, here’s a link to an extinction studies course of the #envhist #envhum variety. From the dodo to dire wolves...Please borrow, adapt, share! drive.google.com/file/d/1SzKp... cc: @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social!

Our ‘slightly scuffed’ sale of Longbarrow hardbacks continues, with collections by Angelina D'Roza, Mark Goodwin, Nancy Gaffield, Rob Hindle, Fay Musselwhite, Matthew Clegg, and Chris Jones at half price (while stocks last). Order here: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

The WINNERS of the 2025 ASLE-UKI BOOK PRIZE are:  William Henry Searle, 'Elowen' - Creative Prose  Matt Howard, 'Broadlands' - Poetry  Joanna Allan, 'Saharan Winds' - Critical Many congratulations!

Please consider filling in this survey circulated on behalf Dr Rick De Vos, as part of the 'Animals of Emotion Project': circlesofemotion.org/collections/...

Check out our final programme for the ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference ‘Erosion – Creimeadh’ in Galway. asle.org.uk/events/galwa... We look forward to welcoming you tomorrow!

📣The provisional programme for the ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference 2025 is now on our website: asle.org.uk/events/galwa...

The Wisdom of Trees: A conversation with David Macauley & Laura Pustarfi, Wed, Jul 23, 2025, 12-1pm CT. From @theplantinitiative.bsky.social. Free, online about The Wisdom of Trees, a new book applying interdisciplinary philosophical thinking to trees & forests. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-wisdom...

An emotional day - I can announce I'll be the first director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE, supported by a £4m grant from the Jeremy Coller Foundation. Our mission: to develop better policies, laws and ways of caring for animals. (1/2) www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-...

Just this this afternoon and lots of birdsong.

CFP: Victorian Infrastructures and their Environmental Legacies Irmtraud Huber and I are looking for submissions to our special collection to be published with @openlibhums.bsky.social Abstracts due 31 October, full texts due 31 March '26. Find the full CFP here: shorturl.at/OvPc4

Our next ASLE-UKI Seminar 'The Animal and the Other' brings together Prof. Dr. Marco Caracciolo, Dr. Samantha Hind @samjhind.bsky.social, and Dr. Rob O'Connor on Wednesday, 9 April, 4-6pm GMT. Convened by David Tierney BOOK HERE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asle-uki-s...

Interesting workshop with online participation possible: Merging With Water - Arctic Auditories Workshop on 30 April 2025 at 14:00-17:00 CET www.arcticauditories.com/merging-with...

we host lots of wonderful events at the @greenhouseuis.net during a month but this one is going to be extra stellar! next Thursday, we invite to a conversation about publishing within the #envhum with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and Stephanie Foote, moderated by @wrigleyca.bsky.social.

Mystery mushroom in the oregano pot.

If you don't know this publisher, you should.

We are delighted to announce that the competition is now open for the 2025 biennial ASLE-UKI book prizes in three categories: academic monograph, prose creative writing, and poetry. The closing date for nominations is 15 April. Find out more and nominate a title online: asle.org.uk/awards/book-...

The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland, is now on Bluesky. Please sign up for the latest ASLE-UKI news. As always, you can also find us, and join us, on our website at www.asle.org.uk. See you soon!

World Seagrass Day 2025. This year's theme is "Nurturing the Oceans' Lifelines: Seagrass" Seagrass meadows are vital components of marine ecosystems. They serve as critical habitats, supporting a diverse array of marine life, including various species of sharks and rays.

Hopefully warmer weather to come 🌱

Beewolf Press is launching the diamond open access journal 'Blue Humanities' in 2026. With its roots in Asia and its editorial office in Hangzhou, the journal is dedicated to critical studies of marine, river, lake, wetland, and other water-related environments. More information coming soon!

My amazing book cover is here! Coming soon from University of Chicago Press.

A reminder for those of you in London this week - I'll be reading from and discussing my new book The Unnatural Trade at the @linneansociety.bsky.social on Thursday 20 Feb, 6pm. Book at: eventbrite.co.uk/e/1111773116...

Goldcrest sighting in the garden. A small bird with such a delicate song. It's amazing to see the sheer variety of birds that the most basic seed mix will attract.

Very excited that my book is now available to read via Bloomsbury Open Access! 🎉 Can't wait to receive my physical copies 📘 Pre-order for your library and/or read it now here: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... @scotlit.bsky.social @timothycbaker.bsky.social @bendoyle.bsky.social

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We need two people to lead Environmental Humanities into a future that needs #envhum work more than ever. Please apply 👇

📣CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS📣 Temperate Rainforests in Literature and Culture: Text, Image, Sound. Dr. Vera Fibisan and Dr. John Miller (Eds.) Deadline for abstracts: 1st April 2025 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/12/...

On Monday, @verafibisan.bsky.social and I launched our new book, Blue Extinction, at Southampton's Marine and Maritime Institute with the help of three brilliant PhD students, who responded so thoughtfully to the collection. Huge thanks to Giulia Champion for organising and to all who came along!

Rachel @rachelmurray.bsky.social and I felt so welcome at the Blue Extinction launch event yesterday, kindly hosted by Giulia Champion and SMMI. Thank you to our lovely panel for their insightful comments: Renée Hoogland, Hannah Witt and Lucy Harris. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

@rachelmurray.bsky.social Two days to go until our launch event, kindly hosted by the Southampton Maritime and Marine Institute (SMMI) and organised by Dr. Giulia Champion. We look forward to seeing you there!