Profits from scientific publishing are eye-watering, costing us billions. In ‘The Drain of Scientific Publishing’ (arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820), (building on ‘The Strain of Scientific Publishing’ doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00327) we show how it is harmful – and unnecessary.

We have new members! Sebastian Lundsteen, Mona Bieling, and Jonatan Palmblad remain from the old team, and we welcome Nike Stolpe Wikström, Aofie O'Leary McNeice, and Gilberto Mazzoli! Updates on what we are doing and planning will follow. Nextgate supports early-career scholars in #EnvHist

Tomorrow (Monday, Nov 10) the tables are turned: I’m the guest on the Greenhouse #envhum book talk to discuss Ghosts Behind Glass with @finnarne.me & guest host @medievalpenguin.bsky.social Join us online for the discussion! 4pm CET/3pm GMT/10am EST newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

If any journalists would like a copy of Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain to review, please get in touch w me /MUP. It's a rigorous history of wind energy written for a wide audience, with plenty to say about today's energy challenges. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/

The Globalizing Wildlife volume emerging from the Moving Animals project is out soon. I was a great experience to contribute a chapter on #brownbear diplomacy during Cold War 🐻. Check out the details below 👇

So many amazing humans contributed to this book, writing about all kinds of 🌎🌍🌏 animals: rhinos, chimps, parrots, horses, rats, monkeys, bees, otters, mongoose, tigers, elephants, pigeons, bears and more! #animalhist

*Globalizing Wildlife*, a book edited by @vbateman.bsky.social, Tom Quick, and myself, is now available for pre-order with @uncpress.bsky.social! Using code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout, you can save 30% www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...

Next year, Tero Toivanen and I are organizing a workshop for the Nordic Environmental Social Science conference on questions of how we understand climate obstruction / opposition! Submit your idea to the workshop 14 over here:

Wrote a piece for Springs @carsoncenter.bsky.social Marmots, eagles, Finland, Canada, two wildlife biologists springs-rcc.org/eagles-marmo... #envhist #envhum #animalhist #histsci #goldeneagles #vancouverisland

Details for the position with Polish: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

This beautiful piece by @monicavasile.bsky.social is available online for free at springs-rcc.org/eagles-marmo.... #envhist #envhum #conservation #fieldwork

Fancy coming to POLLEN in Barcelona and joining our panel on "Political Ecologies of Restoration: Reintroduction, Assisted Migration, and Rewilding"? Then submit an abstract via the link below! pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/...

📣 3 post doc roles on GreenFrontier @erc.europa.eu project - fantastic opportunities to work on an exciting project on socio-ecological relations in Italy, Spain & Poland. And best of all, a chance to work with @georgeiorda.bsky.social as team lead #PoliticalEcology #Conservation ⬇️

🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers! Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025 Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills! Please share widely!

Early-career scholars of #envhist and cognate disciplines, check out the NEXTGATe Writing Support Program! Coordinated by RCC alumnae Mona Bieling and Andrea Gaynor.

🚨We are launching the 6th edition of the NEXTGATe Writing Support Program! Are you an early career author looking for feedback on your writing in a supportive peer-group plus expert advice? You have come to the right place! For more information and how to apply, see below 👇 #envhist #envhum

Short piece in @consletters.bsky.social exploring social, cultural, political and ecological apsects of illicit and unregulated species translocations - what others (not me, due to homophone errors) might call guerilla rewilding. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A great read on the grey parrots by Nancy Jacobs @nancyjjacobs.bsky.social 🦜 #envhist #envhum #animalhist

📣 ICYMI back in the summer, we have a new paper in @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social drawing together research from the Beastly Business project. We think through #Harms #PoliticalEcology & #WildlifeTrade 🧵 ⬇️

This is an important petition on academic freedom, for a professor at Syracuse, NY, USA, who has been indefinitely suspended for a very mildly sarcastic four-word social media post relating to US politics. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

10 days left to apply for this course! Many amazing scholars will contribute to this course, including @untamed.bsky.social, @dudleymarianna.bsky.social, Abigail Harrison Moore, Alice Owen, and @andersriel.bsky.social! #envhist #energyhistory #envhum

Super excited to talk to @dudleymarianna.bsky.social about Electric Wind in the @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talk on Monday Oct 20th. Joun us for the live discussion. newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 Come work with me in Brno in a new project on how Scots pine & forestry changed societies and environments in the 18th-19th centuries! 🌲🌳 👇Fully funded postdoc position 👇 www.ibot.cas.cz/en/vacancies... Application deadline: 13.11.2025 Please distribute widely! #envhist #histecol

It appears it won't be officially online for sometime, but I don't care. I am excited to say that "Veterinarians, Vaccines, and Hybrids: Veterinary Science in the Mongolian People’s Republic," is out (or will be soon) in Mongolian Studies. Please message if you want a copy! #envhist #animalhistory

new virtual exhibition on wetlands, exploring how people interact with their wetlands, their rhythms, dynamic changes, and flows of many kinds. www.environmentandsociety.org/exhibitions/...

RIP Jane Goodall — she forever transformed what it means to do fieldwork. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Today marks the final day of The Global War Against the Rat project @standrewsanthro.bsky.social (funded @wellcometrust.bsky.social) after 6 wonderful years of collaborative interdisciplinary research with Oliver French, @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & @alvesduarte.bsky.social

Announcing the new Animal History Group seminar series for the 2025-26 academic year! - All seminars held online at 8pm UK time. 🎉 The details are here: animalhistorygroup.org/seminar-seri... And here is a list for your calendar! 🧵💚

interested in the history of mining, smelting, heavy industry, workplace health & safety, or company magazines in canada?the trail bc museum and bcrdh.ca have just digitized a complete run of "cominco magazine." bcrdh.ca/islandora/ob... thanks to @kellyblack.ca for the tip! #bchist #cdnhist #envhist

Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s... #histSTM 🧪🗃️

36 mo postdoc / research fellow position in Philosophy, History, and/or Social Studies of the Life Sciences in the STS dept. at Technical Universtiy of Munich, apps due Oct 31: #histphil #histsci #histSTM www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei...

Call for Applications! @esehnextgate.bsky.social is seeking new members to join its committee for a two-year term 2025–2027. More info below!!

Electric Wind is here! Thank you for the surprise post @manchesterup.bsky.social ! Available for pre-order and in all good bookshops from 14 October 🙂

along with @monicavasile.bsky.social and @hannalp.bsky.social I a huge fan of underwhelming species reintroduction videos. Here is my contribution, releasing some native ramshorn snails into my garden pond.

Happy Fat Bear Week, for all of those who celebrate: explore.org/fat-bear-week

Grateful for the opportunity to present my research at the Planetary Futures conference, wonderfully organised by @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social @duncanwilson78.bsky.social. Inspiring research of the more-than-human worlds that shape how we see extinction, conservation and life in the anthropocene. 🦤

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

What do we mean when we say that carnivores and other wildlife are "habituating" to people? Who actually habituates to whom? Is this bad or god? Who decides? All of this and more in our new paper, expertly led by @ethanddoney.bsky.social, out now in @peopleandnature.bsky.social.

Are you following our Early-Career-Scholar network, ESEH NextGate? They organize events and support young scholars. Follow here: @esehnextgate.bsky.social #envhist #envhum

Got a permanent contract! Now that's official it's time for a celebratory cake 🎂

The @easlce.bsky.social deadline for Utrecht is fast approaching and @katiekung.bsky.social and I are still looking for one paper for a panel on care & invasive species tentatively titled: “Some we love, some we hate, some we kill: why it’s so hard to care for invasive species” #ecocriticism #envhum

Coming up tomorrow (Monday Sept 1st)! It starts at 4pm in Norway / 3pm in UK, 10am Eastern in Americas. I’d love to see a big audience to kick off our fall 2025 talks.

JOB: come work with me @uni-konstanz.de ! We have a junior professorship to fill from 1 April 2026 (6 years, non-tenured, as funding comes from the Centre for Cultural Inquiry). The denomination is very timely: Environmental #Anthropology! Details ⬇️ stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2... #academia

Check out Thomas Rudel's review of Brett M. Bennett & Gregory A. Barton's "Saving the World: How Forests Inspired Global Efforts to Stop Climate Change," published in 2024 by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhum #envhist www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

The anatomical theater (1660s) at the Gustavianum at University of Uppsala #ESEH2025 @eseh.bsky.social

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

Made a seaweed broche at #eseh2025

🦏 📣 John Hume, the big name in rhino breeding & calls for legalisation of #RhinoHorn trade has been arrested for smuggling. Demonstrates the complex inter-relations btwn legal & illegal wildlife trades. #IWT #GreenCollarCrime Detailed piece from Save The Rhino ⬇️ www.savetherhino.org/africa/six-m...

There in spirit #eseh2025 #hybrid

Check out @monicavasile.bsky.social's review of Peter R. Grant & B. Rosemary Grant's "40 Years of Evolution: Darwin's Finches on Daphne Major Island," published in 2024 by @princetonupress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #histsci www.h-net.org/reviews/show...