Daniel Pauly warns that we are rapidly approaching the end of #fish due to industrial fishing methods, government subsidization of corporate fishing operations, and climate change. @seaaroundus.org @cangeo.bsky.social o www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVeZ...

New book review: Schell on De Wolff, Kim: _Synthetic Frontiers: Ocean Plastic and the Persistence of Trash Islands_. MIT Press, 2025. Published by H-Environment. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20152179

Post by @lottaleiwo.bsky.social, Tamara Caulkins & me on the thinking behind our call for contributions to a Sourcebook for Histories of Weather and Weathering - the workshop(s) that inspired it and our own perspectives. The deadline is 4 September #histSTM #envhist meteohistory.org/announcements/

Congratulations to Aaron Van Neste, winner of the 2026 Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History. An honorable mention is awarded to @jgalka.bsky.social. Visit our website to learn more about their research: oceansciencehistory.com/2026/05/18/t...

We are excited to announce the Call for Papers for our new collaborative series with Written in the Waves, Soil and Sea: Environmental Histories of the Atlantic World Proposal deadline: June 30, 2026 Series publication beginning September 2026 niche-canada.org/2026/04/30/c... #envhist

"As a marine environmental historian who studies relationships among scientists, fishermen and environmentalists, I have seen how NOAA’s work affects American livelihoods, coastal health and the U.S. economy." - Christine Keiner niche-canada.org/2025/04/25/c... #envhist #histsci #noaa #uspoli

Join us in Paris in two weeks' time for a whole week of conferencing on "Histories of water" 💧 On Wed 20 May, I'll present a paper entitled "Sous le signe de Neptune: ambitions de contrôle des eaux dans les villes de l’Europe moderne" 🔱 #skystorians #waterhistory #envhist #envhums

Water water everywhere...Hot on the heels of the new Ecozona special issue "Sea More Blue," our book The Sea in Nordic Literature is coming soon! #EnvHums #BlueHumanities #Ecocriticism 🌊📚 www.routledge.com/The-Sea-in-N...

If you're looking for #history networks on BlueSky in 2026, our Starter Pack - recently updated - has details of 150 leading societies, organisations and groups active in the UK and Ireland bit.ly/4ptl0On #Skystorians

Incoming faculty member Dr. Skye Augustine talked to @cbcnews.ca about clam garden restoration that is reconnecting community to this traditional #Indigenous way of harvesting. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

From the Diamond Princess during Covid to the current hantavirus crisis on the MV Hondius, cruise ships have been attracting attention as epidemic percolators. Yet concerns date back to 1901 when the cruise ship Sénégal got plague, with inventors and politicians like Gaumont & Poincaré quarantined

🚨New Issue Alert🚨Up first! Tony Adler's paper analyzing the way that humans have viewed giant squid. online.ucpress.edu/hsns/article...

Thomas H Huxley was born OTD in 1825. The idea of “warfare” between science and religion is suspect, but it works for H. Protestantism lacks “a trace of any desire to set reason free. The most that can be discovered is a proposal to change masters” from the Pope to the Bible. 🧪🌱🐋 #HistSTM #EvoBio

*Globalizing Wildlife* is OUT THIS MONTH (!) with @uncpress.bsky.social “An essential and timely intervention… exciting, cutting-edge vantages on crucial global histories” -Daniel Vandersommers Edited by @rafdebont.bsky.social myself, & Tom Quick #animalhist #globalhist #HistSci #envhist

9th DHST DISSERTATION PRIZE (2027) CALL FOR APPLICATIONS CALENDAR: Exclusively electronic applications open 1 May and close 1 August 2026 (11:59 pm UTC). Announcement of prize winners will be made in early 2027. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

"Through marine social sciences, ocean humanities and Indigenous knowledge, other pathways can be explored toward a better understanding of human-ocean relationships." - @suereid.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/05/07/c... #oceans #deepseamining #mining

Check out my new article! It argues that the rise of continental drift should be understood within the context of the geopolitical shift that came from decolonization. lmk if you can't access! #histsci #STS www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Laura Tretheway sure can write! Her review of the new book, "The Dark Frontier: Unlocking the Secrets of the Deep Sea" by Jeffrey Marlow www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Oceans are darkening all over the planet – what’s going on? | New Scientist

Call for Papers – Forecasting the Weather between Divination & Science (Antiquity to the Present) Submission Deadline: 31 May 2026 Workshop, organised at the University of Oxford, UK, 9 Oct 2026, by @simondolet.bsky.social & Michelle Pfeffer niche-canada.org/2026/04/06/c... #envhist #histsci

"[This paper] provides a fresh perspective on the role of animals in forging human’s understanding of the ocean’s depths, and on the interplay between science, technology, and myth in defining the human relationship to the natural world." #animalhist #oceanhist #envhist #envhum

New book review: Meinel on Hoffmann, Richard C.: _Catch: An Environmental History of Medieval European Fisheries, The_. Studies in Environment and History Series. Cambridge University Press, 2023. Published by H-Oceans. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20145909

Fellowships! The National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam has published a call for proposals to conduct research into its maritime historical collection. More information, including the English translation of the call texts, can be found here www.hetscheepvaartmuseum.nl/collectie/on... #skystorians

Record high ocean temperatures off southern California raise fears of prolonged marine heatwave | US news https://www.europesays.com/uk/871611/ For more than a century, shoreline stations operated by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography have measured water temperatures…

Our ambassador Anna Batzeli contributed to the newsletter of the Dutch Historie van de Oceanografie Club with an article about online repositories that house collections related to the history of #oceanography, including APE. You can find it linked here: www.archivesportaleurope.net/blog/apef-on...

🌊 🌿 Scripps Oceanography scientists are here to “kelp” uncover San Diego’s kelp history. Researchers have released an unprecedented record of kelp forests off La Jolla and Point Loma, revealing a steady long-term decline beyond normal boom-and-bust cycles. Dive in. ⤵️ https://bit.ly/40Rvddr

The programme is now available for the British Commission for Maritime History New Researchers Conference in April at Southampton. Full details and booking here: www.maritimehistory.org.uk/new-research...

Excited to share that my new article on research expeditions and seafloor mapping in the Southern Ocean is now available open access in "Räume in der Internationalen Geschichte" (in German)! 🌊 Huge thanks to the editors! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #oceanhist #histsci #envhist

"In October 1907, the USS Albatross departed San Francisco and steamed westward toward the Philippines. The 61-meter-long craft, operated by the U.S. Fish Commission, was the world’s first ship purposely built for research, and this would be its longest expedition."

“The indirect nature of our knowledge about oceans means that imagination and media and aesthetics, things like that, loom large in shaping our understanding of the oceans’’ @oceanhistories.bsky.social www.une.edu/node/121269

CFP: Journal of Postcolonial Writing Special Issue, Telling the Story of Oceans and Archives: Rethinking the Novel Form (Abstract Deadline: 11/15/25) bit.ly/4miqNpa

Invites candidates in three thematic areas to apply including "Human dimensions of oceans" (e.g. ocean social science, resource economics of fisheries, aquaculture, and other marine sectors, ocean cultures and heritage, gender studies, marine policy and governance).

With government science and regulation under attack, I thought I’d reshare this: The Myth That May Have Doomed the Titan www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/o...

"The livestream over the past week has transformed a marine exploration project into an internet sensation and shellfish into unexpected standard-bearers for those who oppose President Javier Milei’s threats to cut and privatize state-funded science."

"the sea is back in vogue. Blue Humanities has taken over large parts of the academy in the last decade, bringing the human relationship with oceans, rivers, lakes and seas to the top of the scholarly agenda just as those waters gather to end humanity for good." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

“Predator populations exploded & prey plummeted” immediately after the first smallpox outbreak, suggesting not enough Tsleil-Waututh people survived to effectively steward the #environment, said @mefford.bsky.social vancouversun.com/news/smallpo... @vancouversun.bsky.social

Why U.S. dominance at sea is shrinking The U.S. still has an advantage on the waves, but ocean science needs more — not less — investment. To lead at sea, we must understand the sea! by Peter DeMenocal, Margaret Leinen and ret. Admiral John Richardson www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... 🧪 🌊 🦑

Check out this interesting #histocean oral history project by Beatriz Martinez-Rius: talesofoceanscience.com

On a day like today, might be worth reminding y’all that there’s an entire community loving ❤️ on ocean life in #FathomVerse. 🦑🧪🌊 #onwardsanddownwards

I'll be the keynote here, talking about river monsters! midwestmedievalhc.wordpress.com/about/

🪸🦈 Human fishing reshaped Caribbean reef food webs ⬇️ Scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute studied fossilized reefs in Panama & the Dominican Republic, uncovering thousands of fish ear bones and shark scales that allowed them to reconstruct ancient reef communities. 🦑 🌊

Read about the human intimacy with the deep sea in Stacy Alaimo’s 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘣𝘺𝘴𝘴 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘬—an excerpt is now available on the Environment & Society Portal. www.environmentandsociety.org/mml/abyss-st... #envhum #envhist #ocean #bluehumanities #sea @uminnpress.bsky.social

At #ICHST2025? Dive into our Oceans in Depth series and explore the historical and modern impact of the ocean on humanity through interdisciplinary narratives. Learn more about the series here: buff.ly/JBdVWe1.

It's hard to overstate the importance of this resource to historians of science. #hstm #histsci

🌊🌊🌊New on H-Oceans 🌊🌊🌊 Check out “Gauging and Engaging Sea Levels,” Christine Keiner (@rittigers.bsky.social‬)’s review of @wilkohardenberg.bsky.social (Humboldt Uni Berlin)‬’s book _Sea Level: A History_ pub 2024 @uchicagopress.bsky.social #oceans Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social

🌊🌊🌊 New on H-Oceans 🌊🌊🌊 Check out James W. Seabrooke III (U of West Florida)’s review of Satsuki Takahashi (Hosei University)‬’s book _Fukushima Futures: Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape_ pub 2023 @uwapress.bsky.social ‬ #oceans Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social

An excerpt from my book Sea Level: A History has been published in Issues in Science and Technology! https://issues.org/sea-level-history-hardenberg/ #envhist #histsci

Hey, #oceans #fisheries peeps. I'd like your help finding a reviewer for this book, for H-Oceans. Super flexible due date. Looks like a fantastic edited volume. One catch is that we have the e-book only. Want to review it? Know someone I should ask? Drop me a note.