Looking forward to speaking about Rights for Nature at this event in May with the British Ecological Society. Suspect tickets may sell out at the wonderful Burlington House. #NaturesRights www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/righ...

🎉 Huge news for BHL: The Field Museum is taking over the hosting of BHL’s website, servers & infrastructure, ensuring long-term stability and access for its 63+ million pages of open biodiversity literature. Learn more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/tran... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL 🌍 📚 🧪

📢In partnership with St Andrews University, we're looking for a 'Joseph Bell Writer in Residence at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh' to pursue a writing project drawing on our archives. Stipend of up to £15,000. Closing date 6 March 2026. www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

I blogged about “Just Objects?”, the event I ran with @drhick.bsky.social about inclusion and belonging in public space, at the Farrell Centre in Newcastle. Photo courtesy of panellist @draflint.bsky.social www.catherinemax.co.uk/just-objects/

SpaceX's 1 million AI satellites could cause "massive ozone depletion" and change the night sky forever - but the FCC has no requirement to check before approving them. Astronomers are now scrambling to submit their concerns. Story by me in New Scientist www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

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/...

Matt Goodwin today wondering why Muslims didn’t vote for him after his record of anti-Muslim bigotry

Look, it’s really not dignified to poke fun at Matt Goodwin. But crack on, knock yourselves out.

I’ve made a short film about the impact and legacy of the phenomenal #CdnHist #histSTM #EnvHist historian, Joy Parr featuring new and established scholars. Check out The Extraordinary Meaning of Everyday Life via this link! www.joyparr.com/tributes/

Also 👂🎧👂 when you have a few mins! Oral history is a powerful means for learning from emotions & experiences, critical for building bridges and collaborating beyond disciplines. Drawing on lived memories of RELU, Valuing Nature, STEPS research & beyond #HistSTM #envhums #STS #sustainability #scipol

Brilliant turnout for my workshop on “The Senses and Medical Humanities” yesterday with @durhamimh.bsky.social. I’ll be hosting an online workshop in May and a further in-person showcase on 10 July at Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds. Message me for further info!

Eco-fascism thread, aka One Dam Thing After Another.

🌿 The Environmental History Today Series continues in March with Czechia and Slovakia 🗣️ Luděk Brož and Petr Jehlička (discussants), Doubravka Olšáková (chair) 📅 Date: 10 March 2026 (Tue), 15:00–17:00 (CET) 📍 Format: Online ℹ️ Details on how to take part are below 👇 eseh.org/envhistoday-... #envhist

"If I was to use ChatGPT for my designs rather than our designer Sean, that's taking money out of the local area into the hands of a multibillionaire ... removing value from the local community and local artists [and] into the hands of some of the richest people in the world." #AIslop #refuseresist

Please touch! A major sculpture exhibition in Leeds where blind and partially blind practitioners are central to the curatorial process and make up the majority of participating artists. Includes 10,000 digestive biscuit casts embossed with Braille henry-moore.org/whats-on/bey...

Last day for this - and also a reminder of why this has taken so long. The hardback was published by Unbound, who promptly collapsed, having spent all my earnings from the book on dubious tech schemes. So although a lot of people bought it, I never saw the royalties.

A common fictional narrative shows people with nonconforming identities finding self-acceptance in towns and cities. This #LGBTQHistoryMonth, archivist Lottie Wood explores how author E. M. Barraud found the opposite, through rural work and the Women’s Land Army. merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

Job opening at the Royal Observatory Greenwich (3 year fixed term): Heritage Operations Officer, responsible for coordinating public engagement and events for the Heritage Fund programme associated with the First Light redevelopment of the site #scicomm 📜

See also slimy flexible plastic covers and brittle hard plastic components (if not flammable celluloid and crumbly asbestos)

It is the year of the animal Olympians 🐐

Today we have the latest in our Winter Olympics & Their Environments series, "Stunning Scenery, Climate Consequences, and the Winter Games" by @theliftline.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/02/18/s... #envhist #sporthistory #climatechange #olympics

I am broadly supportive of not including place of publication in citations, with the obvious exception of the erasure of Basingstoke from our work.

Are you doing #interdisciplinary, #participatory or #policy engaged research on #environment #biodiversity #sustainability? How about learning from past experience rather than starting from scratch! Stoked to see this on our @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social research with @britishlibrary.bsky.social

Sometimes you search your notes for something and you get an inexplicable list of things, like this from 2019: Horse mirror Mindfulness for horses Chicken/poultry boarding I have absolutely 0 idea what these relate to now but the horse mirror is particularly intriguing.

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

In some ways I'm philosophical about The End these days. It is what it is. But for the final wave to hit because of the crisis when we worked the hardest we possibly could, we nearly broke ourselves, and did exactly what the govt told us to do? It seems.. painful.

Okay, but it's hard to see how "you should buy this product, says man selling product" is a news story. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Love this so much, especially the juxtaposition of English folklore paths with an Amazon spokesperson going out of their way to deny a person driving their branded vehicle is an employee.

‘it was not designed by a big-name architect but by a local council designer, Norman Engleback of the London County Council’ www.ft.com/content/93a0...

It collates much of the really vital and interesting work being done on rural and land rights, history and life at the moment, including: @guyshrubsole.bsky.social Nick Hayes, the amazing Leah Gordon, @threeacresacow.bsky.social the indefatigable Kate Ashbrook and @openspacessociety.bsky.social

My book about Britain ends with a memory. Of the first time I ever worked at Broadcasting House as a guest commentator, what that meant to me, and what the BBC means for 🇬🇧’s place in the world. The idea that the World Service could end is awful, and frankly embarrassing for the British Government.

This thread is an absolute joy! Loved all the bird facts tucked in there. Thank you @rspb.bsky.social 😍🪶

#TransformingNight 🌌💡🌃 🤩 #LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Night #Darkness #LightJustice #envhist #envhum #envjustice #histtech #histsci #sts #Anthropocene

An intriguing conference, 'Healthy Ecosystems': From Tropical Medicine to Planetary Health, at Princeton History of Science, March 20-21, 2026. Surprised that the obvious through line, climate, is scarcely mentioned ... but maybe it will surface in discussions...

NORMAN IS IN CAMEROON (Norman is a cuckoo)

There's also the fact that scans can't replicate the material evidence of the archive - the kind and quality of paper used, etc. While working with Silas Hocking's manuscript for *Her Benny*, I found that he'd written the novel on the back of about 200 unused Methodist pamphlets.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

It was an absolute joy to have been a poet on the MossWorlds project and re-story moss in collaboration with such inspiring folks. Embrace the mossibilities!

This is appalling on multiple levels. The World Service is an underrated gem for us and lots of the world.

Wet suits optional. Whatever floats your boat. And yes, boats may be necessary. Craftivism/get dry session in UNITE Building from 12.30 Thursday too. Free pizzas for pickets in Hotspur pub on Friday same time.

Would be good if the Prime Minister and/or Home Secretary would for once come out and describe this as the unadulterated racism and xenophobia it so clearly is.

#envhist meets #histmed in this essay on plants, gender, and healing in colonial America 🌱

Call for Contributions: A Sourcebook for Histories of Weather and Weathering Editors: @rhiggitt.bsky.social @tamaracaulkins.bsky.social & @lottaleiwo.bsky.social Proposal Deadline - 4 September 2026 niche-canada.org/2026/02/10/c... #envhist #climhist #histsci #weather

A very brief search though the Epstein files has some interesting insights about his interest in archaeology. It’ll take a bit to untangle his personal connections and funding initiatives but it is clear Epstein had strong interests in archaeologies of cultural evolution and environment adaption 1/2

At Malet Street Garden today, I thought about one of my favourite #urbangreenspace quotes: "'Green space,’ of course, is not always perfectly green: sometimes it is a frozen grey or muddy brown or wintry white …. But it is ubiquitous even in the biggest city" (Clark & Jauhiainen, 2006: 2).

Something compelled me to make this

"England is off coal." "[N]ow burning wood from North America, which emits more carbon dioxide per kilowatt of electricity than [..] coal." "[C]reated a new pollution problem in Louisiana and Mississippi." #UK #Louisiana #Mississippi #USA #BritishColumbia #Canada #Protest #Mining #Forests #Climate

I might not care one bit about watching the winter olympics, but I have a new #envhist #energyhistory piece out in @nichecanada.bsky.social on how the 1994 Lillehammer Olympic media village built on Norwegian cabin traditions - and transformed them after the games. niche-canada.org/2026/02/09/t...

Headed over to UK for a week of giving talks on encountering extinction in museum. Did you know that if you are in UK, you can order Ghosts Behind Glass from uk.bookshop.org for only £16?!? uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ghos...