“KUOW has also learned that the person detained is a pregnant woman from Venezuela. Her 10-month-old baby girl was in the car at the time of the arrest and was also taken into custody, according to friends of the detained woman.”

People who normalize this exploitation should rediscover shame

Delighted to announce a new H-Environment Roundtable Review! This one features Sureshkumar Muthukumaran's *The Tropical Turn: Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean.* It's the first work of ancient #envhist reviewed in this forum! networks.h-net.org/sites/defaul...

Check out @peterhhansen.bsky.social's review of Robin Patten's "The Mountain: Journeys in High Places," published in 2025 by University of Utah Press; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #alpine www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

For anyone in West Virginia, here is a website that shows which counties & roads in WV are more likely to have ICE-coordination with local police (287(g) agreements). Hopefully useful for travel planning for vulnerable communities mycountryroad.org

We've added a blog post by R. Piotrowski on 'Crisis Materials & Local Resilience: Environmental Determinants of Building Practices in Nineteenth & Twentieth Century Rural #Poland', originally an 'Environment and History' Snapshot: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/03/10/c... @eandhwhp.bsky.social #envhist

Colombia declares its entire Amazon biome a reserve for renewable natural resources—effectively bans any new oil exploration, hydrocarbon production, or large-scale mining. Protected area approx 483,000 sq km—equivalent to the size of Sweden #TropicalRainforest #decarbonization #envhist

I have a new article out in Environment and History on Deutsche Bank's role in reshaping the geography of water in Ottoman Anatolia. #envhist Water’s Worth: Reconsidering Deutsche Bank’s 1907 Konya Plain Irrigation Project | Environment and History www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

Why on earth is Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie rate R???? It has some swear words and one split second scene where someone gets shot and that's all. What are we doing here?

The saddest thing about Meta's incredibly large investment in AI politics and lobbying is they are also-rans in actual artificial intelligence.

Literally cannot stress enough that if I, a climate scientist, were running a scam it would be a lot more fun than this

LFG! 💚💙💚🏈🏈💚💙💚 #Hawks

“The problem is that we have accelerated into a consuming and exclusive narrative about science in the national interest.” Some day I’ll stop sharing my v personal perspective on how devastating humanities has in fact devastated science. Not today. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/26/d...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

#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

#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

Three recent journal issues: [email protected] 129, feat. @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 (1/3)

#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

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

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

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.

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." 🔥🔥🔥

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.

The @seandlawrence.bsky.social 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?

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...

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/...

Very cool! #zooarchaeology #EnvHist 🗃️

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...

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.

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...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

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

The Economics of Optimism. Great article by @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social - have a read... #EconSky

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

🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌳🐝 Urban plants prefer to live alongside rich people! Result of surveys from around the world. #BUC2026 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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

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

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

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...

No money for nature coming from the Climate & Nature Fund! The Government have completely undermined what this fund was about.

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...

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.

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.

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..."

I AM HERE!

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”