Had a great day in Stockholm. In morning met with folks at the natural history museum who I will be collaborating with on a new project called HEART. Saw my extinct friends. Then afternoon with Stockholm Univ EnvHum group and giving a talk on Ghosts Behind Glass. Packed room & fantastic questions.

Coming up on day two of Extractive Natures/ Natures of Extraction we have bodies, we have places, and we have power!

I think lots of you all will be as excited as I am to see Jess Moody’s “Plants, Enslavement and Public History” project website and you can sign up for the mailing list in the little box in bottom right corner plantpublichistory.blogs.bristol.ac.uk 🗃️🌿🪴

Day one of the Extractive Natures/Natures of Extraction workshop, organised by @melinabuns.bsky.social as part of her @britishacademy.bsky.social fellowship here at Bristol @uobrisceh.bsky.social . Great papers that spanned resource extraction from medieval Europe to modern day Australia

Was great to celebrate Electric Wind with friends and colleagues @uobrisceh.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social . I was most excited about the book-cake. Cake-book. A book made of cake!!!!

Here’s @dudleymarianna.bsky.social introducing her new book to the world, in conversation with CEH co-director Paul Merchant. Everyone go read: ‘Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain’! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/

There’s a bumper crop of events happening in and around the CEH at the moment. Last week we had the fabulous event ‘Landscape Flux and Flow’ - reflecting on art and the environment, in relation to Somerset Arts Week…

Also well done to @dudleymarianna.bsky.social on Electric Wind, a phenomenal work of public history with great lessons for our times, and nice to meet @noreenmasud.bsky.social whose book A Flat Place was very much a benchmark for Drifting North to try and reach.

A really wonderful event last night that lit up a dark October evening ✨

We can't wait for this event at @bookhaus.bsky.social tomorrow with our very own @dudleymarianna.bsky.social 😁

‘Low-Carbon Histories for Zero-Carbon Futures’ is out today @jofhistgeog.bsky.social - a collective case for thinking historically about energy. doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

'Why did the chicken cross the road? It didn't; it was a battery hen.' 🐓🏭 Read about current Environmental Humanities MA student Caitlin Atkins's comedy set as part of her practical dissertation: environmentalhumanities.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/blog/

CFP: 'Poetry's Environments', University of Leeds, June 2026. About poetry and the natural environment in relation to the environments in which it is written, experienced, performed, preserved, and studied. Please submit a proposal! Deadline 5 December. conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...

Happy #BookshopDay! I popped down to @bookhaus.bsky.social where I’ll be discussing Britain’s energy past & future with @dominicmhinde.bsky.social on 29 Oct (tix available!) - just 1 of loads of talks they do. My book is out Tuesday @manchesterup.bsky.social - ask your local bookshop to order it ☺️

I remember being similarly struck by the odd juxtaposition of rhino and manor house at Cotswolds Wildlife Park (pic from 2019) – I love how Rae Ferner-Rose uses this to muse on the environmental uncanny and the place of captive endangered species

A great article by our current Environmental Humanities MA student Rae Ferner-Rose 🤩

Happening this Friday evening at @bookhaus.bsky.social , featuring one of our talented CEH members, the poet Suzannah V Evans. This will be a very special event 💙

Happening this Friday evening at @bookhaus.bsky.social , featuring one of our talented CEH members, the poet Suzannah V Evans. This will be a very special event 💙

excited to share the call for the workshop EXTRACTIVE NATURES / NATURES OF EXTRACTION happening at @uobrisceh.bsky.social on 6-7 Nov 2025, 
made possible by the @britishacademy.bsky.social deadline: 10 September! full call below ⤵ #envhist #envhum

💥 COMING UP: Join Suzannah V Evans (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) for the launch of her debut poetry collection, Under the Blue Told through a series of prose poems & postcards, Under the Blue is a meditation on humanity & empathy 📅 Fri 5 September, 7-9pm 📍 @bookhaus.bsky.social 🎟️ bit.ly/3V9L7Nv

Featuring our very own @dudleymarianna.bsky.social with her new book Electric Wind! ⚡💨

Looking for a #postdoc in Aquatic #STS! MARBLOOM analyses algal blooms from a social scientific perspective with emphasis on the changing relationship between humans and the environment. Position for 3+ years. Deadline 14.08.25. Link to #opencall: tinyurl.com/49wn7vzh

Environmental humanities & adjacent scholars: interested in collaborating on a panel for this @carsoncenter.bsky.social conference in July?! #envhum #STS #envhist www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...

I was excited to find out that my book is available for pre-order! One for anyone interested in energy, climate, and the history of Britain. Thanks to MUP for making it pretty and affordable 🫶 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/

ECR 'Blue bodies' conference in Bristol, 7-8th October, @uobrisceh.bsky.social @dudleymarianna.bsky.social would love to see your students there! 🌊💦https://www.rgs.org/events/upcoming-events/embodiment-and-water

Just back from a fabulous field trip in Wales. I couldn’t imagine a better bunch to be navigating the tricky terrain of academia with!

This week we've been descending into mines, scaling coal-spoil tips, and swimming under waterfalls. Read about our recent CEH field trip in our latest blog post: environmentalhumanities.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/06/20/t... #envhum

SAVE THE DATE #envhist and #envhum scholars of extraction and extractive practices as part of my @britishacademy.bsky.social Visiting Fellowship at the @uobrisceh.bsky.social I will be organising a workshop on 6-7 November 2025! Call will be out this summer!

📣 The draft programme for our Environmental Humanities Summer School has landed and we're so excited to share it with you: bit.ly/4miqI5k ✨ There's still time to apply but you'll need to get your skates on as the deadline is the 25th of May. More details here: bit.ly/4j3sAfi ✨

Wish we could have been there in person!

This is happening tomorrow at 3pm! Details below:

We're delighted to be hosting this international hybrid symposium today -- a collaboration between three leading environmental humanities research centres at Bristol, Stavanger and Amsterdam. Details below!

There's still time to register for this hybrid symposium tomorrow on More-than-Human Worlds in Artistic Research. Details and link below:

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...

Join us in Bristol this summer for the Environmental Humanities Summer School! You will be taught be leading experts at the University's world-renowned Centre for Environmental Humanities (1/3)

Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums coming your way in October 2025. Only $20 in paperback for a full color book with 80 pictures! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Next Wednesday at 3pm. All welcome!

We had a great time with our EH MA students at Windmill Hill City Farm exploring creative responses to animals with @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social and @alicewould.bsky.social There were kennings, cute kids (of the goat variety), ambiguous becomings, and plenty of biological exuberance.

We had a brilliant time at Bristol Museum with our Environmental Humanities MA students yesterday discussing ways of exhibiting extinction, past and present, and designing our own extinction exhibitions 🦣🦤 🖼️ So many imaginative ideas from the group 🤩💡

Very pleased to share the news that this is finally out! Hopefully it will be of interest to anyone working on histories of energy, labour, science & technology, and decolonisation!

📣 🍃 CFP - Poetic Ecosystems: Voice, Identity and Performance, 6 May 2025. Abstract Deadline: 21st March.

Today's the day and our tails are already wagging in anticipation! 🐕🐶🐩🦮🐕‍🦺🐾 @chrisjpearson.bsky.social

In less than an hour our Postgraduate Research Showcase will begin! We're so excited to hear what our amazing PGRs have been up to, and we have a wonderful array of visiting speakers, including artist Luke Jerram, Avon Storyteller Corinne Harrigan, and many more! Details here: bit.ly/41sqrEF

Thankyou to everyone who joined us for Professor Philip Terry's talks and poetry readings last week! It was fascinating to learn about the process behind Professor Terry's translation practices. Thankyou also to @bristolpoetry.bsky.social and @uobrisceh.bsky.social for supporting both events!

Next Wednesday (26/2) @chrisjpearson.bsky.social will be joining us to deliver the CEH Annual Lecture on his new book Collared: How We Made the Modern Dog. The lecture will take place in the Old Council Chamber, Wills Memorial Building, Bristol at 5-6.30pm. All welcome!

Our first blog post of the year is by @carrieetter.bsky.social about the role of haiku in connecting her to the more-than-human world. You can read Carrie's reflections here: environmentalhumanities.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/01/27/c...

Today we welcomed back former Bristol Env Hums MA student Christian Leith for a screening and discussion of his short film on urban foxes in Bristol 🦊 🦊 Christian made the film last summer as part of his final dissertation project and it’s a stunning piece of work 👏🤩🎬

🥳 Behold! The CEH Termcard has landed and it's packed full of exciting events -- from workshops to walkshops, lectures to moth expeditions. We're so pleased to have @chrisjpearson.bsky.social back to deliver our annual lecture on the 26 February, along with many other brilliant speakers!

'Her writing feels like being vigorously, ecstatically towelled after a swim. It understands, moreover, how beauty can bend, moment to moment, between the exquisite and the absurd' Dr @noreenmasud.bsky.social reviews Jen Hadfield's Storm Pegs in this week's TLS www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/autobi...