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Assist. Prof. European History. Germans, Ottomans, environment, political economy. Cinephile.
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Catherine Duigan
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#Writing
and
#Research
2025: currently reviewing "GeoHibernica - The Irish
#Landscapes
, Peoples and Cultures by Paul Lyle 2025
@livunipress.bsky.social
- for The Niche
@britishecologicalsociety.org
#booksky
#envhist
#Ireland
#Hibernia
#environment
#geology
#art
#heritage
#academicsky
#library
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Catherine Duigan
about 1 month ago
#Writing
and
#Research
2025: Using National
#Library
of
#Wales
collections to identify and assess the early University of
#Wales
postgraduate ecological studies and evolving methods utilised.
#historyofscience
#envhist
#ecology
#biology
#archives
#MSc
#PhD
#innovation
#sciart
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University of Minnesota Press
2 months ago
Three recent journal issues:
[email protected]
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@breu.bsky.social
@hennefem.bsky.social
-Buildings & Landscapes 32.2 -Environment, Space, Place 16.2 via
@iasesp.bsky.social
feat.
@trepping.bsky.social
@seandlawrence.bsky.social
All on
@projectmuse.bsky.social
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EASLCE
about 1 month ago
#CFP
: "Cattle Commodification in Global History: Capitalism, Science and Empire". International Workshop, Ghent University, 3-5 June 2026. Deadline for abstracts: 23 January 2026 Info:
cattlefrontiers.eu/workshop-cat...
#envhum
#envhist
#agriculture
#environment
#hstm
#histsci
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Cattle Commodification in Global History - International Workshop
Call for Papers - CATTLEFRONTIERS International Workshop, 3-5 June, Ghent University
https://cattlefrontiers.eu/workshop-cattle-commodification-in-global-history-3/
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ESEH – European Society for Environmental History
about 1 month ago
ESEH Vice-President Sandra Swart and former ESEH President Marco Armiero have written a great summary of our last conference in Uppsala, Sweden!
#envhist
@wildpasts.bsky.social
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ICEHO
about 1 month ago
Join us! We are the International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations and we hope to expand our reach and representation in 2026. We consist of ssociations, networks, centers, institutions, publishers, and journals. Check out the page below to see our current members.
#EnvHist
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Members — ICEHO
https://www.iceho.org/members
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Joschka Meier
about 1 month ago
Some life tips from a 16th century book on animals: 1: Goats are crafty and if you aren't careful, they'll con you. 2: If you're mean to cows & oxen, then they'll inflict their revenge when you least expect it. 3: Be nice to donkeys: They have to put up with us...and they never have a day off.
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Quinn Dombrowski
about 1 month ago
In The Campus Crisis Toolkit
@drlisacorrigan.bsky.social
connects speculative finance with speculative fiction and I want to embroider this line: "Budgets are moral documents, and new budgets tell a story of changing morals." 🔥🔥🔥
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Quinn Dombrowski
about 1 month ago
Lots of respect for
@seandlawrence.bsky.social
honesty about his confusion and naivete about how the university works and what counts as normal, as a new professor right out of grad school. It's why I run this class the way I do. Ethical collaboration requires understanding complex univ systems.
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Quinn Dombrowski
about 1 month ago
The
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chapter pairs so well with the anonymous chapter on WVU Facts. What does it look like to essentially do advocacy work from the stance of a historian doing oral history, by doing a project through the front door? How does that differ from underground exposé work?
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Eleonor Marcussen
about 2 months ago
Concept, programme and abstracts for a workshop this week, part of my project on the environmental context of
#railways
and
#infrastructure
in western and central
#India
in the late nineteenth century.
#envhist
📷:
#coal
transport in Jharkhand, 2008
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
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Ecologies of Infrastructure
https://lnu.se/en/meet-linnaeus-university/current/events/2025/lnucc-workshop---ecologies-of-infrastructure/
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Catherine Duigan
about 2 months ago
The
#Plastic
Bag: From a Mundane Swedish Innovation to the World’s Oceans | Environment and History
#envhist
#pollution
#environment
#history
@livunipress.bsky.social
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
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The Plastic Bag: From a Mundane Swedish Innovation to the World’s Oceans | Environment and History
If the article has an Altmetric Attention Score, you will find this displayed below.
https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/whpeh.63861480327361
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Adam Markham
about 2 months ago
Very cool!
#zooarchaeology
#EnvHist
🗃️
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Kate Shaw
about 2 months ago
I don’t write the headlines but I do like this one (post-Slaughter argument roundtable for
@nytimes.com
with
@stevevladeck.bsky.social
&
@williambaude.bsky.social
)
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
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Opinion | Looks Like the Supreme Court Will Continue to Overturn the 20th Century
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/opinion/supreme-court-trump-independent-agencies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7U8.3CZq.PUHEya6HCA7D&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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jamelle
about 2 months ago
it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.
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Remember when Cory Booker proposed it and it was 'communism' and it was 'communism' and Thomas Piketty proposed it and it was 'communism' and Jon Stewart proposed it and it was 'communism' and Trump proposed it and it's an 'Australian-style retirement program'?
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/e...
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Trump said he’s looking into an Australian-style retirement program for America. Here’s how it works | CNN Business
The Trump administration is looking Down Under for inspiration on how to improve the United States’ retirement savings system.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/economy/superannuation-australia-retirement-trump
about 2 months ago
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Dr Selena Wisnom
3 months ago
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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3 months ago
A bit about Ollie's human. I am a Professor of Modern European History with a focus on German history. With the rise of fascism in this country, I started a blog.
trepaddock.wordpress.com
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T R E Paddock
All Progress is incremental, unless you are a pug.
https://trepaddock.wordpress.com
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EconomicsInTen
3 months ago
The Economics of Optimism. Great article by
@dianecoyle1859.bsky.social
- have a read...
#EconSky
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Matt Barry
3 months ago
New experimental Phenakisto score for Lucius J. Henderson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1912).
#experimentalmusic
#instrumentalmusic
#filmscore
#silentfilm
#horrorfilm
#silentfilmscore
#drjekyllandmrhyde
#silentmovie
#horrormovies
#robertlouisstevenson
youtu.be/6MgryPVoQOo
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912) - Phenakisto score | Silent Horror Film
YouTube video by Matt Barry
https://youtu.be/6MgryPVoQOo
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Botanical University Challenge
3 months ago
🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌳🐝 Urban plants prefer to live alongside rich people! Result of surveys from around the world.
#BUC2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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NiCHE Canada
3 months ago
Today we have "Board Appeal: Curating Environmental Game Collections for the Public" by Sherri Sheu This is the fourth article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by
@theliftline.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/10/17/b...
#envhist
#envhum
#games
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Board Appeal: Curating Environmental Game Collections for the Public
Environmental board games from the 1970s onward reflect shifting ecological concerns; curating them at SHI revealed their educational, historical, and interactive museum value.
https://niche-canada.org/2025/10/17/board-appeal-curating-environmental-game-collections-for-the-public/
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Max Grund
3 months ago
Hey
#EnvHum
folks and
#archaeologists
! Are you involved in archaeological research into the history of forests? Then this call for papers might be of interest to you. Take a look:
projektwald.hypotheses.org/527
#WoodStory
#ProjektWald
#Forstgeschichte
#Archaeology
#Archäologie
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NiCHE Canada
3 months ago
Our editor,
@danielmacfarlane.bsky.social
, examines "The Erie Canal at 200." "Designing the Erie’s liquid route required amassing knowledge of local landscapes and ecological conditions."
niche-canada.org/2025/10/26/t...
#envhist
#envirotech
#waterhistory
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The Erie Canal at 200
Erie Canal’s 200th: engineering success, reshaped settlement, boosted trade, harmed Indigenous lands and ecosystems, linked U.S.–Canada waterways, now mostly recreational.
https://niche-canada.org/2025/10/26/the-erie-canal-at-200/
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Daniella M.
3 months ago
Check out Elizabeth Bennett's review of Bob Wyss's "Black Gold: The Rise, Reign, and Fall of American Coal," published in 2025 by
@ucpress.bsky.social
; review now available
@hnetreviews.bsky.social
#envhist
#envhum
#energy
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
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https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=62216
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The White House movie theater demolition ends a storied era in presidential history
The vintage movie venue was destroyed this week as part of the Trump administration's plan to build a new $300 million ballroom. Former President Bill Clinton called it the office's "best perk."
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/25/nx-s1-5586110/white-house-movie-theater-cultural-history-demolition
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Why Argentina is looking to the Trump administration for a bailout − and what the US Treasury can do to help
A sharp sell-off of the peso has seen President Javier Milei seek a financial lifeline from the United States. Washington seems happy to help out.
https://theconversation.com/why-argentina-is-looking-to-the-trump-administration-for-a-bailout-and-what-the-us-treasury-can-do-to-help-265924?utm_medium=article_native_share&utm_source=theconversation.com
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Madison Condon
5 months ago
the environmental law prof reply all-debate about what exactly we are supposed to be teaching continues
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Roderic O’Gorman TD
6 months ago
No money for nature coming from the Climate & Nature Fund! The Government have completely undermined what this fund was about.
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Niklas Höhne
6 months ago
Historisches Gutachten Int.Gerichtshof: Länder gesetzlich verpflichtet (nicht nur durch Pariser Abkommen) gegen Klimawandels vorzugehen u Schäden zu beheben. Auch Stopp neuer Öl-/Gasfelder u fossiler Subventionen. Risiko vor Gericht zu verlieren nun deutlich höher.
www.tagesschau.de/ausland/euro...
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IGH-Gutachten: Völkerrecht verpflichtet Staaten zu Klimaschutz
Der Internationale Gerichtshof verlangt von Staaten mehr Einsatz gegen den Klimawandel: In einem Gutachten hat er eine "saubere, gesunde und nachhaltige Umwelt" als Menschenrecht bezeichnet. Geschädig...
https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/igh-gutachten-klima-102.html
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Jan-Niclas Gesenhues
6 months ago
Das ist historisch! Einstufung einer sauberen Umwelt als Menschenrecht durch den Internationalen Gerichtshof 👏👏 Jetzt gilt umso mehr: Wenn die Bundesregierung ihre Ziele beim Klima- und Naturschutz nicht deutlich nachbessert, handelt sie klar völker- und menschenrechtswidrig.
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Ed Burmila
6 months ago
Glad my graduate alma mater cut 60 degree programs in subjects that require people to think so that they could offer this. Looking forward to living in a world full of Prompt Engineers.
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Getting on a flight to Istanbul, apparently everyone with Global Entry on the Turkish Airlines flight have had their TSA PreCheck invalidated. When I asked if it was normal to have PreCheck ignored for no reason, explanation was "there is a reason, you just don't know what it is..."
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Anthony Michael Kreis
7 months ago
I AM HERE!
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Wolfgang Blau
7 months ago
So good to see the FT finally call out the Conservative Party for its reckless non-sense on climate:
on.ft.com/451lwfr
“How magical thinking came for net zero critics”
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How magical thinking came for net zero critics
Badenoch shows the temptation of just putting all this climate unpleasantness behind us
https://on.ft.com/451lwfr
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Turkey arrests 3 mayors in crackdown on opposition – DW – 07/05/2025
A crackdown on Erdogan's rival Republican People's Party continues, as three mayors from southern Turkey are held.
https://amp.dw.com/en/turkey-arrests-3-mayors-in-crackdown-on-opposition/a-73166013
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Kat Tenbarge
7 months ago
I will never take anyone seriously who says we need to raise the birth rates or face human extinction but it’s especially sickening now that the oligarchs have chosen to hoard even more resources by cutting off aid and killing millions of kids in the process
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The Conversation U.S.
7 months ago
The rise of Lyme disease in the Northeast US can be traced back to 18th and 19th century deforestation, followed by reforestation without predator recovery. A history professor explains:
buff.ly/PKYbODV
By
@seandlawrence.bsky.social
, West Virginia University
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Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕
7 months ago
Happy Juneteenth, to those who celebrate. Double Happy Juneteenth to those who don't. Good morning. 🙂
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Write a piece for The Conversation on the environmental history of tick-human interactions. Check it out
theconversation.com/ticks-carry-...
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Ticks carry decades of history in each troublesome bite
Changes to forests, and how close people and their livestock live to them, have changed tick habitats and the risks humans face of Lyme disease and other illnesses.
https://theconversation.com/ticks-carry-decades-of-history-in-each-troublesome-bite-257110
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Since LLMs are trained on mass language use on the internet, the lesson here is that, as it turns out, most of what people say and write most of the time is bullshit.
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Reconstructionist
8 months ago
Honestly loathe that abundance stuff is probably just gonna shape up into a left-punching pro-privatization donor pleasing soiree instead of state-capacity building labor liberalism
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Katja Bruisch
8 months ago
Looking forward to this online workshop, organized by Johanna Conterio (Oslo), to prepare an edited volume on ecologies of health and disease in Eurasia.
#envhist
www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english...
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Ecologies of Health and Disease in Eurasia: New Perspectives in Medical-Environmental History - Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History
A virtual workshop bringing together scholars in the history of medicine and scholars in environmental history.
https://www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english/research/groups/multispecies-landscapes-lab/events/ecologies-of-health-and-disease-in-eurasia-new-per.html
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EASLCE
8 months ago
#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
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Victor Seow
8 months ago
I very much enjoyed speaking to Tomás Bartoletti and Samuël Coghe about Carbon Technocracy and the world in the mine. ⛏️ The transcript of our conversation is now out in the latest issue of Commodity Frontiers.
journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issu...
#histstm
#histtech
#envhist
#envhum
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ICEHO
8 months ago
Who are we and what is the history of the World Congress of Environmental History? Read this new story by Verena Winiwarter, Jane Carruthers, and Libby Robin!
@libbydeq.bsky.social
#envhist
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History — ICEHO
https://www.iceho.org/history
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
8 months ago
The decline of large seed-dispersing animals has serious implications for trees and other flora. It's also further proof of how very short-sighted it is to view forests as merely bunches of trees, rather than the complex *ecosystems* they are (or at least, should be).
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Drivers and impacts of global seed disperser decline - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Many plants rely on animals to disperse their seeds, but some groups of these seed-dispersing animals are facing severe declines. This Review summarizes evidence of seed disperser declines and discuss...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44358-025-00053-w
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Nick Touran
8 months ago
A little demo showing how to use the What is Nuclear fuel cost calculator
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yop...
calculator is here:
whatisnuclear.com/enrichment.h...
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Using the What is Nuclear Fuel Cost Calculator
YouTube video by What is Nuclear?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YopPvFAfoI
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Grace Lindsay
8 months ago
Very thorough list of resources for anyone who thinks they may want to work on climate change in some capacity:
nicolekelner.notion.site/So-You-Want-...
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So You Want to Work in Climate…
This is a crowdsourced collection of 1,000+ resources for people who want to work in climate. You can search and filter through job boards, Slack communities, books, and more. Created by Nicole Kelner...
https://nicolekelner.notion.site/So-You-Want-to-Work-in-Climate-1e5f92ed0a978091960fc1645d09d469
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William C Phelps, PhD
8 months ago
This budget proposal if passed will devastate the US leadership in science, engineering and medicine. The public needs to speak up. 🧪
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