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The sturgeon is Britain's biggest native fish. It's extinct in our rivers today, but once upon a time it was a regular visitor, possibly returning here to breed.

Here's a thread with some of the wild stories which were told when it was still found here. #envhist #animalhist 🧵🐟

Hey, still need to submit fall book orders? (I KNOW)

Teaching #envhist #envhum #envstudies #histsci #histtech #histstm #sts #discardstudies ?

🤩Please consider #TransformingNight 🌌💡🌃 -- out 3 Aug, just in time for the new academic year!

uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

Transforming Night

#envhist of space

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:eay5bbvyxip5w543ndsjrard/post/3mo6even36225

#CfP: Special Issue of Cahiers d’histoire russe, est-européenne, caucasienne et centrasiatique

"Borders, Sovereignties, and Environments in Eastern Europe (16th–20th Centuries)”

Proposals must address environmental history, borders, and sovereignties in Eastern Europe from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Full details on the submission guidelines are available here: https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/aktuelles/ausschreibungen/einzelansicht-calls/call-for-papers-borders-sovereignties-and-environments-in-eastern-europe-16th-20th-centuries.html

Deadline for abstracts: June 25, 2026

#envhist #borders #boundaries #EasternEurope

#JobKlaxon: 3-year postdoc position at Manchester Metropolitan University

Application deadline: 29th June 2026

Manchester Metropolitan University is seeking to recruit a postdoctoral Research Associate in History (full-time, 3 years) to join the team for Dr Francesca Mackenney's Leverhulme-funded project, ‘‘The Making of Natural History, 1797 - Present'

#envhist #histsci #naturalhistory #envhum

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRU994/research-associate-the-making-of-natural-history-1797-present

The Forest History Assn of BC will lead a Stanley Park walking tour on Sunday July 5.

Early Burrard Inlet sawmilling & Indigenous history; Coal Harbour's Herring, past & present; Brockton Point's Multicultural Community; Ancient Sḵwx̱wú7mesh village site; Salish canoes & SS Beaver. And more!

Join us, and thank you for sharing! Pre-registration: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/IcbOty_eRpi2xdfZLBo--w

www.fhabc.org

#BritishColumbia #ForestHistory #EnvHist #Vancouver #StanleyPark

The 2027 ASEH Call for Proposals is open at https://aseh.org/ASEH-2027-Call-for-Proposals #envhist

Popping in to add: Globalizing Wildlife is open access!! I knew that was part of the publishing agreement but I didn't find the link until now 🦜 📖 🔓

All the chapters including mine on otters and logistics should be here:

https://www.jstor.org/content/pdf/oa_chapter_edited/10.5149/9781469688879_debont

#AnimalStudies #EnvHist #Bookstodon #OpenAccess #STS

Happy pub day to Globalizing Wildlife!! edited by @rafdebont , Vanessa Bateman, and Tom Quick, with an essay by me on otters, shipping, oil, and the California coast

(I tried to snap it "in the wild" but had to settle for a backdrop of my neighbor's shrubs)

More on the book here: https://uncpress.org/9781469694757/globalizing-wildlife/

#Bookstodon #EnvHist #STS #histodons #ecology

Happening today! Join us for the next lecture in our summer series given by Etienne Benson (@[email protected]) on UNESCO’s International Hydrological Decade (1965–1974). Sign up here to attend in person or on Zoom: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu... #envhist #histsci #hydrology #skystorians

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:y3ntue55m7m6s3qaarsct2ey/post/3mlvnlixlel2r

Things are starting to feel real: the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has sent me the confirmation letter that in the fall I can start my #Heisenberg position at the University of Potsdam !

I’ll work on building the framework for what I call an environmental history of knowledge. Stay tuned! #envhist #knowledgeHistory

#CfP for the journal Worldwide Waste

#wasteStudies #sts #envhist

#JobKlaxon: Doctoral Position in European Global Studies / Global History (environmental history focus) at the University of Basel

jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stellen/doctoral-position-in-european-global-studies-global-history/04aa6519-a4d9-4fdb-855d-4a95d2b1dbfc

#envhist #globalhistory

The programme and Book of Abstracts for the Environment and Society in East-Central Europe Conference (ESIEE 2026) are now available online.

The conference will bring together scholars from across Europe and beyond to discuss environmental history, rivers, industrial landscapes, infrastructure, environmental governance, socialist modernity, energy transitions, borders, activism, and many other themes connected to the environmental past and present of East-Central Europe.

The organisers are especially excited by the extraordinary breadth of panels and the interdisciplinary dialogue emerging across history, geography, sociology, political ecology, and environmental studies.

Ostravská univerzita, Czechia
28–29 May 2026

Programme and Book of Abstracts: https://ff.osu.eu/esiee/programme/

#envhist #eastCentralEurope

ESEH Online Seminar in Environmental History: "Colonisation and Russia’s 'Green' Civilising Mission in the Far East"

Presenter: Mark Sokolsky (Royal Military College of Canada)

Discussant: Maria Pirogovskaya (LMU Munich)

Organizer and moderator: Anna Mazanik (Max Weber Network Eastern Europe)

May 20, 16:00 CET (online) #LastMinute

Registration required. Click here to register: https://forms.gle/2LNsthLwwSWEdjde6

#envhist #russianHistory #sovietHistory #Seminar

Some colleagues and I wrote a piece on the environmental history of nitrates for the iN-Net nitrates governance blog. Quite short but hopefully an interesting entry point into the topic for people!
https://www.in-net.network/blog/qatl6xsriim1fdn560bbqnj1lu2khl

#envhist #histodons #inNet #nitrates

Some friends and I put together a seaweed session at the MOYA festival in Ballybunion May 2nd. I'll be helping participants make their own seaweed cyanotype prints, historian Cianna Devitt will present some stories of Irish seaweed gathering, and chef Lily Toomey is making vegan sesame seaweed scones for people to snack on!

Loads of yoga and other sessions as well: https://moyaballybunion.ie/events/moya-2026-salty-seaweed-printmaking

#mastodaoine #envhist #printmaking #ballybunion #mastoart

Today is #EarthDay. 🌍 But what about Earth at #night? 🌌🌃 And how did scientists come to understand #night as environment, albeit in distinct ways? #envhist #envhum #histsci #histtech #sts @[email protected] uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

Transforming Night

Yesterday I was fortunate to join the Subaltern Memories Conference at EUI in Florence. It was a pleasure to present there. Everyone was super friendly and I am very grateful for the invitation!

#envhist #envhum #Chernobyl #memories #Ukraine #techhist #EUI #Florence

I am very excited to share that University of Chicago Press is giving away my book OIL BEACH for FREE this month (as an e-book)

Link is here: https://press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEbook.html

#STS #Bookstodon #EnvHist #CriticalLogistics #OilBeach #FossilFuels #oil #pollution #AnimalStudies #ecology #ports #LosAngeles

✍️ Gaia Giuliani and Farah Polato, editors of the special issue of the journal 'From the European South' on the theme “On Catastrophe: Visual Reflections and Practices”, are inviting abstract submissions for articles, essays, visual essays and conversations until 15 April.

👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/call-fromeuropeansouth-2026/

#Histodons #CFP #Arts #Cinema #PoliticalEcology #EnvHist #PoliticalPhilosophy #CulturalStudies #GenderStudies #QueerStudies #CriticalRaceStudies

#jobKlaxon: Doctoral Researcher in Digital Environmental History of Africa

3-year position at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH)

https://www.uni.lu/en/jobs/doctoral-researcher-in-digital-environmental-history-of-africa

#envhist #AfricanHistory #digitalHistory #dighist #phd

#jobKlaxon: 3-year postdoctoral researcher positions at the Institute of History at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

- 2 postdoctoral researcher position for the ERC Consolidator Grant Project ‘WILDHIST – Wild Rubber in the Industrial Age: A Global History of Production’, led by Dr. David Pretel
- Postdoc 1. The history of rubber production in the Amazon rainforest.
- Postdoc 2. The history of rubber production in the Congo Basin.
- Application deadline: 24 April 2026

https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422012

#envhist #rubber #Amazon #Congo

#jobKlaxon: Associate Professor of Modern History at the NTNU in Trondheim. Norway

- The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is looking for an Associate Professor with a doctoral degree in modern history and a research profile related to environmental history
- The position will primarily be connected with the part-time Master's programme “War and Society”
- Application deadline: May 3rd, 2026

#envhist

https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/297742/associate-professor