I published my very first international scientific article in Environment and History! In it, I examine the contested history of the Ecological Indian trope and its entanglements with the genealogy of Indigenous knowledges, the topic of my PhD. Read an excerpt here: #envhist

📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5 #envhist #energysky

It's a rare treat to see a medieval environmental history book, not to mention a great one. So, everybody, go get your copy and dig in! #envhist

Consider sending some funds to this rad crew of #envhist scholars doing good work.

Our recent paper in Nature Reviews Biodiversity doi.org/10.1038/s443... resulted from a wonderful workhop in Sevilla in 2023. You can now watch all the presentations from this workshop here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #envhist #histecol

Are you at the beginning of your career and interested in environmental history? This is the best way to get involved 👇

Very glad to have been part of this! 👇

Although heavily Anglo-American in focus, there is a lot I can relate to concerning #envhist in this roundtable paper, especially the bits about interdisciplinary cooperation.

Have a nice summer, everyone

My letter ‘‘Awkward wording. Rephrase’’: linguistic injustice in ecological journals, published in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social, has 100 citations in GS I received dozens of messages from all over the world sharing linguistic injustice experiences. Nice sense of group www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Hiking through Rychlebské hory (=Góry Złote, Reichensteiner Gebirge, you choose), I was suprised (and impressed) to find that many (though by far not all) kilometres of the boundary between 🇵🇱 and 🇨🇿 are marked by a drystone wall. Will check the literature to find out more!

Just completed this year's edition of our Writing Support Programme! Brilliant participants, papers & discussants✨️ Big thanks to all! @etnobioannavarga.bsky.social @sarahparkhouse.bsky.social @harrycroft.bsky.social @rubyekkel.bsky.social @yaronbalslev.bsky.social @lailaia2.bsky.social #envhist

Check out this great conference, so sorry I can't be there myself!

Yesterday we had a pleasant and fruitful workshop of like-minded researchers from three projects (INFEST, Vienna - CONCRIS, Brno - REFRESH, Ostrava) in Brno. Looking forward to further collaboration on 19th-century forests and forestry! @maschmid.bsky.social @simonegingrich.bsky.social

Started travel preparations for #eseh2025 in Uppsala! Always brings back memories of previous conferences. #envhist

📚New Book Series in #envhist edited by Stephen Brain & Viktor Pal (@viktorpal.bsky.social) is up and running! Get in touch with the editors and share your book proposal. More info 👇

Where did ordinary building timber come from before 🚂 made transport cheap? In our new paper, we analyzed 1231 dendrodated constructions and coeval archival data to show that timber was most probably sourced locally. (But watch out for 🌲🌳 floating!) #envhist www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ahead of new print alert! You can now read @julianordblad.bsky.social's "The Nature of Planetary Habitability: A Conceptual History of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services" from the April 2025 issue. #envhist #envhum #biodiversity www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Excel will make you a hierarchical treemap chart, but the ones they used to have in the 19th century are so much cooler. Check this one out in the 1830 Statistical Yearbook of the Austrian Monarchy. Land-use in Küstenland.

New 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢 article on the historical politicization of the invasive black locust (𝘙𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘱𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘥𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘢) in Hungary. Read "Links between State Power and Tree Species: Black Locust in Central Europe" by Robert Balogh on the Environment & Society Portal! #envhist

The future of humanity on planet Earth seems bleak, not only because things are bad now but also because they are moving in the wrong direction. It's hard not be depressed reading the latest report of the European Academies Science Advisory Council 👇 easac.eu/fileadmin/us...

Honestly, everyone: what's this animal running down the tree? 🤔 (map illustration from 1754 btw) #envhist

💥The ESEH is looking for the venue for the 2027 conference! Consider bringing our community to your city in a couple of years' time. Check the call and get in touch with us if you want to know more. eseh.org/call-for-app... Deadline for application: 31 March #envhist

I loved this book! I think you'll love my @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social talk with Ellen Arnold @medievalpenguin.bsky.social about her @cambridgeup.bsky.social release Medieval Riverscapes. #medievalsky #skystorians #envhist #envhum #bookSky📚💙 newbooksnetwork.com/medieval-riv...

New book: Picturing Animals and Plants in Early Modern #China and #Japan, edited by Fan Lin & Doreen Mueller of Leiden Uni. reurl.cc/46AjR2 #envhist

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

Archives always hold hidden gems: a pretty interesting paper based on a recently rediscovered major survey of what Polish people thought of storks in the 1950s (spoiler: not exactly what you'd expect). link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Quite excited to be the next speaker (with Tania Munz) in the series A History of People, Forests, and Forestry organized by the Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment and the Forest History Society yff.yale.edu/speaker/pete...

#envhist is about to go cosmic! looking forward to reading this.

A great opportunity to make your doctoral work more visible 👇👇

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

Interested in 19th-century forest history? I've just created an account for my new project CONCRIS. 👇🌳🌲

NOW would be a good time to listen to Steve Pyne 🔥🔥🔥 #envhist #firehistory

Did you write a dissertation on the environmental history of Europe the past two years? Know someone who did? The deadline for the ESEH Tallinn Dissertation Prize is Jan. 15! @eseh.bsky.social @esehnextgate.bsky.social eseh.org/call-for-sub...

I could not imagine that Trump would give us this opportunity to disseminate basic geographic knowledge and basic knowledge about map projections . www.newsweek.com/mercator-pro...

A sad day for historians in Europe and around the world: František Šmahel, arguably the greatest Czech medievalist of all times, passed away yesterday, aged 90. ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/clanek/veda/...

R.I.P. A great writer, he made me laugh like few others could.

Třeboňsko: a unique landscape of forests and #fishponds where nature and human activity have coexisted in harmony since the 15th century. A new study highlights the vital role of water quality for birds and #biodiversity. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

There is no world where we solve climate change without consuming less, including driving less. No amount of magical paint can make a car move without substantial external energy input. Ride a bike!

Happy New Year to all. 🌳🌳🌳 open.spotify.com/track/1NiqEe...

"The Big Tree is a reminder of how badly New Brunswick’s forests have been managed." - Mark McLaughlin "The Big Tree, Forestry in New Brunswick, and the Value of Nature" is our ninth most-read article of all time! niche-canada.org/2011/05/04/t... #envhist #cdnhist #foresthistory

Do apply, all you early careers, and you may even run into me:) It's always a fun place.

After the chaos of 2019, when the Hungarian Academy of Sciences lost all its research institutes (and had 54 minutes - sic! - to comment on the pertinent legislation), there's more reorganization, surely in the best interest of scientists. If you know Hungarian, read 👇 telex.hu/techtud/2024...

Early-career researchers in Environmental Humanities are encouraged to apply for the @iashedinburgh.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowships, where they will join a lively and supportive community for up to 10 months: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/early-career...

Nobody ever planted a tree in this photo. It was a working gravel pit 30 years ago. We need to get over our obsession with planting trees and let nature do the job. The results are just SO much better. It's also about realising we are not, in fact, central to everything. 🌍

ECOCIDE IS OFFICIALLY DEAD!!! The latest issue of the American Historical Review includes our massive article on Easter Island. It's part of a special issue on Histories of Resilience, with several articles focused on environmental history, Indigenous peoples, and the Global South. #envhist #histsci

Handbook of Environmental History in Japan, edited by Fujihara Tatsushi, is out #envhist

Today's visitors at work! 🎅👿 Reportedly I behaved well last year and was rewarded with some cookies!

#ERC Consolidator grant decisions are freshly out. Breakthrough results for the Czech Republic: 10 (ten, really) projects awarded! Compare to 11 for Austria, 10 for Norway, but 1 for Poland, 1 for Hungary. Congratulations to all winners.

I'm very happy to let you all know that I was awarded a three-year research project by the Czech Science Foundation! 'Constant crisis: an environmental history of Czech forestry in the long 19th century' (CONCRIS) will examine crisis discources and ecosystem change between 1780-1918.