If you missed the @sochistnathist.bsky.social Early Career Symposium last week, videos of 8 of the presentations are now available to watch online: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Check out these up and coming scholars and their exciting new work! #envhist #nathist

🌼 Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!🌼Happy St. David's Day!🌼 Daffodils have been a national symbol of Wales since the 19th century. This bookplate of daffodils is from ‘Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges and Ferns of Great Britain’ by the botanical illustrator Anne Pratt (1806-1893).

Just finished reading @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social's FANTASTIC "Ghosts Behind Glass". A really insightful read that dives into the different approaches to extinction in museums. Would definitely recommend to anyone interested in natural history museums or extinction studies!

Can we overcome the shifting baseline syndrome? At @au.dk they offer at three year PhD project Co-supervised by me, which aims to intertwine local ecological knowledge and scientific knowledge to gain insights into seabird breeding distributions prior to rat invasion phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...

It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

PhD students, check out this International Doctoral Workshop in Cologne, Germany, in November. Deadline: 30 April. #envhist #envhum

This is one of the most reasoned & persuasive arguments for not allowing LLMs anywhere near reading & writing intensive classrooms. We can 100% choose not to outsource our reading & writing labor to a bot, and model for our students why they should do the same. #EduSky www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...

The plural of series may be series, which is utterly irritating, but the singular possessive is series’s and the plural possessive is series’, which helps a little. #copyediting

ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE My home department at Uppsala University is advertising an endowed professorship in the history of science. This is the best position in the field in Sweden, and probably in all of Scandinavia. Apply before 30 April 2026. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

The journal is going to be in great hands! Congrats to @dudleymarianna.bsky.social & @colinhoag.bsky.social in taking over these roles.

I think it's probably time to announce that me and @colinhoag.bsky.social are the incoming Editors of Environmental Humanities journal, published by @dukepress.bsky.social . Huge thanks to Franklin Ginn & @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social for all their work as Eds, & for patiently showing us the ropes!

Join the Rural History Roundtable on Thursday March 12 from 330-5pm EST, as Dr. Tami Parr @pdxia.bsky.social presents on "Goats in America: From Poor Man's Cow to Urban Icon." 🐐 For info on how to attend this online talk, click here: www.uoguelph.ca/arts/rural/r... #aghist #animalhist #envhist

Job alert! We are looking for talented PhD researchers to write a dissertation on Benzaiten worship in modern Japan or Mazu pilgrimages in Taiwan, as part of the ERC project "Maritime Goddesses: Transnational Connections, Blue Environments, and Ritual Care in East- and Southeast Asia" (MARGO).

New #EnvHum book! Read Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for the Environmental Humanities by Emily Brownell for free on our Environment & Society Portal. This is sure to come in handy for lecturers in the field.

As someone who has published books with 100+ images, here are my tips for finding free #earlymodern images (and tips for discounts when you have to pay for them!) 🗃️ sarahabendall.com/2020/03/11/e...

Very cool looking CFP for a special issue of Animal History on the intersection between African Studies and Animal Studies: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Official opening of the PITCH project intervention “Carbon Culture. Museum of the Fossil Fuel Age” at the German Museum of Technology in Berlin tonight. Special congrats go to curators Nora Thorade & Eike Heine who have done a fantastic job.

New article: Carbon cultures of progress in history of technology museums, by me & Nora Thorade. We examine how #histtech #museums narrate our industrial heritage and make its energy reliance visible or invisible. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #envhist #petrocultures

I like this poem of the natural world by Michael Greavy from his Magma pamphlet The Man Who Made Up Trees.

The more one researches Blekinsop & Murrays locomotive, the less we in fact know about them. Every C20th and C21st model or depiction is derived from a model made in 1910 by the Science Museum in London, based on French drawings published in English in that year. But the English copies are wrong!

New article: Carbon cultures of progress in history of technology museums, by me & Nora Thorade. We examine how #histtech #museums narrate our industrial heritage and make its energy reliance visible or invisible. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #envhist #petrocultures

A reminder about the EEHN-IASH visiting fellowships 2026-27, deadline 27 Feb: blogs.ed.ac.uk/environmenta...

In case you missed our conversation about ghosts, extinction, and walking the halls of museums. 👇

What oral histories can teach us about effective environmental research – @angecass.bsky.social & Paul Merchant for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social

Friends! Vol 2, No 1 is hot off the presses with articles about Japan, Transylvania, and China, plus a 'Tracks in the Field' Essay on animals of the Byzantine era: online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/2/1

🍑🌸BEWILDERING BLOSSOMS🌰🍊 Spring's great conundrum...which blossom is which?🤔 There comes a period in the year when species of ume, quince, peach, cherry and almond trees can all be seen in bloom🔍😵‍💫 #blossom #Kyoto #Japan #京都 #cherryblossoms #梅 #桜 #桃 #木瓜 #アーモンド

A student asked about the biggest codex and you know what? I did know! It’s the Codex Gigas. But my favorite fact about this behemoth is that it took a lot of asses—160 donkeys to be exact—to produce this one book. Now that is a true book assessment 🫏 www.loc.gov/item/2021667...

On the history of the primate trade and colonial/postcolonial ecologies of extraction, conservation and care. Thanks to my co-editor Tara Suri and all who contributed to this Focus section in Isis. FREE ACCESS! #envhist #sts #conservation #primates www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Seems like a good time to mention the Bokkja i bakken (The Dog on the Hill) statue at the Holmenkollen Ski jump in Oslo - created by Elene Engelsen to celebrate the fact that the escape of a dog onto the jump happened so often it almost became tradition (photo (c) me from a trip last July)

It was great to talk to John Platt about my book Ghosts Behind Glass. Read through our convo here: therevelator.org/extinction-g... #extinction #envhist

Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums "It’s a haunting book, but it’s not really about grief. It’s an examination of how we tell stories of our recent losses — and how those stories can motivate action against ongoing environmental crises." therevelator.org/extinction-g...

It was great to talk to John Platt about my book Ghosts Behind Glass. Read through our convo here: therevelator.org/extinction-g... #extinction #envhist

Exhibiting Extinction: The Ghosts That Haunt Us My interview with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social about her moving new book, Ghosts Behind Glass. Today on @therevelator.org therevelator.org/extinction-g...

Thanks to those who have suggested an 'eyrye of swannys' - an extraordinary bequest! 🪹🦢🦢🦢🦢🦢🦢 According to Lee Raye's atlas of #EarlyModern wildlife, the mute swan was considered to be semi-domesticated and in medieval and early modern England they were widely prized. 1/

The earliest reference in the Vintners’ accounts to swans is when James the under swan herd took them up from the Thames during the ‘great frost’ - they crop up again and again for centuries thereafter!

Final push on this CfP...4 days left to submit your abstracts to our 'More-than-human Seas' conference session at @rgs.org annual conference. We've already received some fantastic abstracts and would love to include more :)

Are you from an 🇪🇺 country or 🇳🇴🇮🇸🇨🇭 interested in studying how humanities can help communicate and address environmental issues? Registration is open now for our Master in Public Environmental Humanities! Free tuition for our 2 year program in Stavanger, Norway. www.uis.no/en/studies/t...

New chapter on ocean digitalization and governance out in volume edited by Bernhard Siegert, alongside great essays by Jussi Parikka, Geoffrey Bowker, @ranjodhdhaliwal.com @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social and others meson.press/books/reckon...

Online tomorrow Monday, 16 February 2026: Greenhouse book talk with Kip Hutchins @songsforhorses.com on A Song for the Horses: Musical Heritage for More-than-Human Futures in Mongolia (University of Arizona Press, 2025) at 16:00 CET / 10:00 EST. newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

In case you ever wondered how edtech companies, academic publishers, and big AI corporations, as well as HE institutions, make money out of your academic work, here's our new paper starting to unpack the assetization of academic content

We're also marking the launch of Radical Rural, a gallery trail championing many more voices who champion and care for rural England today. From summoning the folk spirits of England's woods and tors, to meticulously mapping the data of who really owns England. merl.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/rad...

Coming up this evening : my final talk this week on Ghosts Behind Glass happening in Oxford. Come over if you are in the area! oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/dead-a...

Phd Position: Art and Soil Ecologies, Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Closes 15 March 2026 ehc-amsterdam.nl/phd-position... #envhum

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

It is so important to keep hammering in this point. People always ask me why I would have to go visit archives - why not just look at a scan? Because they haven’t been scanned! And they are never going to be! There are millions & millions of pieces of paper in every archive.

Lovely discussion with @alicewould.bsky.social about my book Ghosts behind Glass for the Univ of Bristol masters students this afternoon. Will be discussing it this evening in the Bristol Museums Winter Lecture series. There is an option to watch online too: www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/m-s...

To celebrate #DarwinDay2026 #DarwinDay - here is the Type of Anthrax primitiva (=Chrysanthrax) which was collected by the birthday boy from 'Galapagos' - and here is Francis Walkers original description #treasures #flies #beeflies #bombyliidae #collections @dipterists.bsky.social

A new extinction encounter. Not on display at Cambridge zoology museum, but thanks to Jack Ashby, I got to see the only two Rodrigues parakeet specimen in existence.

Brilliant talk 🗣 @camzoology.bsky.social by @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social on Encountering Extinction: Ghosts Behind Glass We often take #museum exhibits & interpretation at face value without thinking about the message, wider context or bias 🤔 Another book 📖 to be read 😊 #nature #climate #extinction

After being a PhD examiner this morning and then giving a vital geology seminar, I’m ready for my book talk at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social