Researcher, do you know the Frascati Manual? It decides what really counts. And the mindset was fixed fifty years ago. This isn’t a conspiracy. The manual is the spreadsheet that weighs physics and art history, economics, engineering and philosophy open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-2...

Why did they not fish? - is a question often raised about the Irish famine of the 1840s. The short answer is they did. The long answer in the paper is about resilience and colonialism, see first comment (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...)

Calling all Danes+Brits interested in genetics+history: Danish and British biobanks of 858,635 modern individuals reveal migration history from the Middle Ages to the modern day. Major reversal of human geography of west and east Denmark before and after Black Death www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Calling all Danes+Brits interested in genetics+history: Danish and British biobanks of 858,635 modern individuals reveal migration history from the Middle Ages to the modern day.

My open access review of a great book rdcu.be/edXxx

If you like 1000 piece puzzles, this is a great example, all brought nicely together. The collapse of this fishery is the single largest environmental disaster in ocean history. Some interesting points about how current policy uses historical data. open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

For those interested in British and Irish military, commercial and other forms of migration into Scandinavia and Northern Europe, check out this biographical prosopography. Online and free since 1995. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/ssne 🗃 📚 #17thC #Skystorians #History #Genealogy Open to updates

What Can the Public Humanities Learn about Impact from the Environmental Humanities? Open access paper presenting the UNESCO Bridges Consortium and the Oceans Past Initiative @oceanspast.bsky.social @erc4oceans.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The fish revolution - how humans thrived and the oceans shrank bit.ly/3HHMnSc

This is our southern boundary. Yes, it’s a ditch, but it was dug ONE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED years ago. It marks the historic border between the Kingdom of Kent and the South Saxons (or Sussex as they like to call themselves now). It is still the border to this day.

Very much enjoying @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social's talk Inexhaustible Seas: Fisheries Management in Scotland and the British Empire. Especially pleased to see an illustration of a Dutch haringbuis (herring-bus), which I've read about but never seen. #MaritimeHistory #Fishing #Scotland

2 Year Postdoctoral Fellow (Elizabeth and Cecil Kent), History of Britain and the British World at the University of Saskatchewan. Please share widely. usask.csod.com/ux/ats/caree....

My #CoastalHistory colleague Joana Gaspar de Freitas has just published a peer reviewed monograph, _A Global Environmental History of Coastal Dunes_, Open Access: doi.org/10.4324/9781... #envhist 🗃️

My new paper Explaining major shifts in early-modern economies: the causes for the decline of the North Sea Fisheries of Southwest Denmark, 1537–1650 @eseh.bsky.social @openaccessarch.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Historical plankton index - a 1200-year North Sea history uncovered journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11… Historical Plankton Index estimates zooplankton abundance in the North Sea back to 800 CE

We examined historical information (e.g. maritime history, naturalists' accounts, recipes, nautical charts and newspapers) across the 13th–20th century for a wide range of species to document their long-term trajectories in Wales onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Check out Patrick Hayes's review of Elisabeth Townsend's "Cod: A Global History," published in 2022 by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social; review now available on H-Net #envhist #envhum #foodstudies #oceanhist #maritime 🐟 www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

It is a great honor that my book „The Gods of the Sea: Whales and Coastal Communities in Northeast Japan, c.1600–2019“ has won the North American Society for Oceanic History (NASOH) John R. Lyman Book Award in the Maritime and Naval Science, Technology, and Environment category.