How’s this? I was being recorded for a USA podcast on rivers & floods & chatting about the more-than human world & thinking about sounds, animals, emotions & humans. And my cat comes in & screams repeatedly (far more than a mild miaow). Ironic? Proving my point? Mmmm 😼 agency 💪

The University of Bristol will offer their summer school in Environmental Humanities again! @bristoluni.bsky.social #envhum #envhist

Great to share our Murray Darling Basin oral history project with colleagues @Professional Historians Association conference. If you are curious, type ‘Voices from the Basin’ into a search engine

This was such a well organised & friendly conference. I particularly enjoyed the opportunity to think about the practice of history. Whose story are we telling? Why & how or could/should this be done.

Writers (including historians) spend years writing. Our work is not produced to train AI without our knowledge or recompense. It is our work & Intellectual Propery. I commend this action:

Hi @ncushing12.bsky.social, I’m wondering if you have any tips?

Please refuse this application Ipswich City Council. The developer acknowledges that 100s of people will be at risk of flooding.

This World Rivers Day, the #InternationalRiverFoundation invited Simon Cleary (author of Everything Is Water) and me (author of A River with a City Problem) to help celebrate river, the lifeblood of our planet. www.riverfoundation.org.au/world-rivers...

I really enjoyed presenting with Simon Cleary recently at the #InternationalRiversSymposium

I really enjoyed presenting with Simon Cleary recently at the #InternationalRiversSymposium

At Qld State Library with Alessandro Antonello & thinking of you @ncushing12.bsky.social

Thanks @rubyekkel.bsky.social for the opportunity to showcase the work Kerrie Saunders & I did for #MurrayDarlingBasinAuthority through #AustralianRiversinstitute

Thanks to Prof. Karen Nelson, Vice Chancellor of University of Southern Qld, for advocating for the Humanities. Read the full article: lnkd.in/gVtTGFeg.

Please place a vote for your favourite book in the People’s Choice Awards. My vote goes to ‘Everything is Water’. www.slq.qld.gov.au/queensland-l...

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"The River Test in Hampshire has become the second waterway in the UK to be recognised as a legal entity, following a unanimous vote by Test Valley Borough Council to grant it “personhood”." www.scottishlegal.com/articles/eng...

A great opportunity to delve into SLQ collections.

I am still stunned at being awarded an Industry Fellowship to work with communities, QRA & NHRA on disaster resilience. Thanks @ARC, @GriffithUniversity, friends & family for support. Sympathy to all the wonderful scholars who missed out (I know that pain!)

Looking forward to sharing my research with Kamilaroi women on water & grasses @AHA2025

Fabulous day flying over Kati Thanda/Lake Eyre, Diamantina River & desert in flood

Last night I was part of an art exhibition launch - “Flood Lines” - at the Ipswich Art Gallery. This video tells you about the project & collaboration between an artist (Kylie Stevens) & historian (me) vimeo.com/1075538131

Excited to have launched Flood Lines tonight with Simon Cleary & Kylie Stevens. Here’s a video if you want to know more. www.instagram.com/reel/DIuK4PQ...

The damage & stock loss in these floods is staggering

Looking forward to seeing Kylie Stevens’ paintings @Ipswich Art Gallery.

Thankfully Ipswich avoided major flood level last night but 30 homes flooded.

Great work Cheryl Desha. I sit in Ipswich as the Bremer is reaching major flood level. We need climate adaptation.

As I watch to see what rain ex-tropical cyclone Alfred brings I wrote a Conversation article

Did you know that Australia is actually a part of ESEH? Learn more about Australian #EnvHist by joining this roundtable discussion with Harrison Croft, Heather Goodall, Tom Griffiths, Ruth Morgan, and Jessica Urwin! 25 March 2025. @ruthamorgan.bsky.social

Great to see my book “A River with a City Problem” might be helping keep people safe. #TCAlfred #SEQfloods #aanzehn #envhist www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

It's the last week to submit an abstract for the AHA 2025 in sunny Townsville! AND registration is now open, and it's early bird prices! Get in now to nab that discount. All the information is here:

Sad and befuddling news. The NLA has removed digital historian Tim Sherratt’s Trove API access - threatening the award-winning work Tim has done over 15 years to highlight the possibilities of Trove data. Read more updates.timsherratt.org/2025/02/24/y... 🗃️

JOB: Full Professorship in “Forest History and Sustainable Development” at Freiburg University, Germany. Application deadline is 6. April 2025. #envhist uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

I thoroughly recommend listening to this insight into the history of the MDB.

Fabulous days on Kamilaroi Country in Moree learning about native wetland grasses.

Turns out that it's *really* hard to remove copilot. This might be my last run with Microsoft products. It keeps inserting extra spaces in my document that I then have to manually remove. ITS SO RIDICULOUS. *bangs keyboard*

CALL FOR CONTENT #Skystorians and #GLAM working in and/or for the Pacific! The PHA newsletter is ready for contributions; see the attached image for particulars and DM if you have any questions.

3 ‘online first' articles (gated): Cook & Jackson on Australia’s Lower River Murray, 1880–1940; Petrick on Alcohol in The Little Ice Age; and Lafay on Imperial Climates in the 19thC Gulf South of the United States' #envhist #envhums #LIA liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/0/0

I'm looking for musicians, artists, writers, filmmakers, etc. who are passionate about translating science to a broader audience. The field is at the intersection of geoscience, paleo, climate, biology, and conservation. This is a funded opportunity. Tag your favorite STEAM folks, please!

Great to start the year with a new publication. Freely available here: Locking in hydro-engineered pathways: the lower river Murray, Australia, 1880–1940 (2025-01-15) doi: doi.org/10.1007/s126...

We’ve posted a new blog, being the editorial of the first volume of Climates and Cultures in History (Open Access with *no author fees* guaranteed throughout 2025): whitehorsepress.blog/2025/01/14/c... #envhist #climatehistory #climate

2025 is off to a flying start for me.

Happy to chat to ABC News about flood risk. I won’t comment on the specific case discussed but we (including Councils & residents) need to consider resilient designs in floodplain developments. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change. Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk: www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...

Los Angeles received just 0.16 inches of rain since May 2024, the second-driest period on record. Wildfires are now engulfing the city in January. But some politicians still claim the climate crisis is a "hoax" as they do the bidding of Big Oil. What planet are they living on?

Reports of a rare summer La Niña are premature. It is also foolish to look at such climate drivers in isolation. But seasonal forecasting is becoming more complicated as the planet warms.

www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/... Great place to work!

I enjoyed my interview with ABC’s Lexy Hamilton-Smith yesterday talking about SEQ’s flood risk #envhist #seqfloods aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Thanks to ABC for making this podcast on the Millennium Drought & including me. aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Not good news for the Murray-Darling river system. theconversation.cmail20.com/t/r-l-thllej...