I've taken the paywall off this eulogy I wrote for my magical, mysterious ex-stray cat George - who died last year - in case anybody would like a read. It was very, very hard to write but I think it might be my favourite thing I’ve ever written about cats. www.tom-cox.com/lots-of-peop...

My first book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, will be published by Yale University Press on 11 August (UK) and 8 September (US). Please help spread the word! 🙏 UK: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... @yalebooks.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈📚🐵 US: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗃️🦋

Our latest #NewBookForum is live! Sarah Ensor, Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discusses her first monograph "Queer Lasting: Ecologies of Care for a Dying World," available now with NYU Press. @plantmetaphor.bsky.social www.g19collective.org/g19-new-book...

A mighty good paper, I heard!

If you're in Paris, don't hesitate to drop by tomorrow for the 2025 BrANCA symposium on Borders, Ethno-Nationalism and the State of/in Americanist Studies in the Long Nineteenth-Century! All relevant details on our website: branca-2025.weebly.com.

The Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Society & @cecilea19.bsky.social are seeking papers for a panel on "Atmospheric Freeman" at the 2026 edition of the ALA symposium, in Chicago! Have a look... 🍃

There is a FULL SCALE curated exhibit of dog- themed New Yorker covers at THE MUSEUM OF THE DOG on Park Ave in NYC, which by the way who even knew there was such a museum!!! There are 44 covers ⬇️⬇️⬇️

18th-century Dutch naturalist/collector Albertus Seba’s detailed engravings of hedgehogs (Thesaurus, 1734)

Deadline extended until Dec 1st!: Are you interested in joining an awesome research network on Funny Women*: Transatlantic Perspective? Check out the link for details: networks.h-net.org/group/announ... Please share with your friends and colleagues!

19th-Century Americanists of North America! Will any of you be in Europe in Dec? I've been asked to draw your attention to the BrANCA conference in Paris on Dec 12-13 They would love to see some of you there! @c19americanists.bsky.social branca-2025.weebly.com

Hi Bluesky! The Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Society is very happy to finally join you all here on this very spooky day! (It also happens to be Freeman's birthday... no wonder she wrote such great ghost stories!) Stay tuned for updates about all things Freeman--ongoing projects, new publications...!

Out Now: Humanimalia 15.2! Featuring timely essays on human–animal entanglements, including 🐴 a taxidermied horse in London, 🐗 a feral pig in Australia, 🐐 “happy” goats in Italy, 🐾 robot dogs in Gaza, 🐦 pheasants in NL, and 🐑 sheepdogs in the UK. 🔓 OA here: humanimalia.org/issue/view/1...

Today! Hear me talk about some of the cats & dogs who roam around modern queer history at the Queer Kinship Network, a collaboration btw the universities of Siena, Oxford & Toronto. Thurs 26 June 2025, 5pm (Italy); 4pm (UK); 11am (Toronto/East Coast). Watch live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcS2...

Delighted to be giving the Gender & History lecture at Uni of Bristol on 15th May (and on Zoom). Join us for a discussion of trans history, colonial history, & non-human animal history. There will, of course, be merfolk. Link here: ticketpass.org/event/ELMPHJ...

Mouton le cat. (C.1859) Image: Wellcome. #Caturday #cats

Call for submissions for the Posthuman Press' anthology "Neurodiversity and the More-Than-Human". Deadline is Aug 31, 2025. "We want to foster neurodivergent situated knowledge that is not limited to the traditional academic essay..." posthumanpress.com/pages/neuroq...

Visited the Ladies of Llangollen and met their cat Tatters

We’re more than 10% of the way there! Thank you so much every single person who has shared or donated - it means the world www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-a-gra...

There’s been some alarming news about honeybees so here’s some important context. If you want to help bees, help native bees - bumbles in particular. Instead of honey bee hives, plant native plants. Contact your local native plant society or garden shop and every where you can, plant native.

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New writing! For @sciam.bsky.social, I talk about misleading memes. If you understand evolution enough to know this already, great! But memes/youtubes/etc reach folks with no biology background. Science has been twisted to justify bad things, such as eugenics, before. NOT IN CRABS' NAME. 🦀🧪🦑⚒️

Chuffed to share my essay for The New C19 American Literary Studies @cambridgeup.bsky.social! Overview of the field & reckoning 30+ years on from The Culture of Sentiment I turn to Zitkála-Šá’s figuration of the desire to become “unfeeling stone” Happy to share! #litpoc #poc19 #c19amlit

*On Wonder*! Free to download, free to read for a few more days until 27 Feb 2025! Thank you for sharing a&nd thank you for welcoming my little wonder book! #C18L #18thcentury @cambridgeup.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/9781...

A charming little piece for Sunday: a terracotta figurine of a #cat playing the harp. From #Egypt, #Roman period, late 1st century AD. On display at Museum August Kestner, Hannover. Have a lovely Sunday! 📷 by me 🏺 AncientBlueSky #archaeology

I made the chonkiest seal and he needs your approval.

Studying for, or already have, a BA and interested in nonhuman animals? Applications are now open for this year's summer university at AU, including my popular course "Animals Matter: Transforming Perspectives Through Human-Animal Studies". Please SHARE! international.au.dk/education/ad...