We had a flying start to Oceans Past XI! 🐟 Carmen Dick from the Songhees First Nation generously welcomed all Oceans Past XI attendees to Victoria 🇨🇦 We also heard from our first two keynotes, Professor Daniel Pauly and Professor Cristina Brito.

@oceanspast.bsky.social OPI conference is under way at Victoria University. Check all the talks and topics in #historicalecology and #marenvhist at oceanspast.org and project's mew results such as @erc4oceans.bsky.social

Environmental History Research Seminar Series Spring 2026 . . . @tcdtceh.bsky.social Trinity College Dublin 🧜🏼Let us go take a look behind the door #bluehumanities #whalestudies #animalstudies #environmentalhistory 🐋

@tcdtceh.bsky.social · 7mo ago

check out our EH events here! www.tcd.ie/tceh/events/

A story of 20 years in 2 pages. 💙🌀🩵 Our vibrant community of Oceans Past scholars (including all @erc4oceans.bsky.social colleagues) intertwined in my own personal journey. 🩵🌀💙 Thanks for having me @oceanspast.bsky.social

Oceans Past Initiative@oceanspast.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Our latest newsletter is here 🐟 This month we're celebrating two decades of OPI, with special features & reflections from Prof. Cristina Brito and Prof. Daniel Pauly, plus lots more! Keep up to date with current research in the field by joining our mailing list 👉 info@oceanspast.org.

Cooperation between ecologists and historians has allowed a robust reconstruction of the historical introduction of the Italian crayfish, Austropotamobius fulcisianus, to Spain in the late-16th century @ebdonana.bsky.social @um.es New OA paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hot spots and Hot moments for whales around the global plus the consequences of the success of conservation efforts for 'ecocultural' systems. Another great keynote #ECSconference2025

Luke Rendell@lrendell.bsky.social · last yr.

Inspiring plenary from Joe Roman about 'lifting baselines' and quantifying the effects whale real red ecological pathways have on nutrient cycling and transfer in the oceans - check out his latest contribution here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #ECSconference2025 🐋🦑🧪

What a privilege to present our work side by side with these great researchers. 💧🐋🫧🪸🦭💦 @erc4oceans.bsky.social

Luke Rendell@lrendell.bsky.social · last yr.

A fascinating plenary from Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social about the hugely ambitious 4 Oceans project (novaresearch.unl.pt/en/prizes/4-...) collating historical interactions between humans and marine life #ECSconference2025 🐋🦑🧪

This is what we at @erc4oceans.bsky.social are addressing through the study of human use of marine life #bluehumanities #oceanspast

Emily T Griffiths@emilytgriffiths.com · last yr.

At #ECSconference2025 @crisbri.bsky.social made a compelling #BlueAnthropocene argument: that animals are living in a world heavily and historically influenced by us. #CulturalEcosystems require historical context.

Here we go. Kicking off with the brilliant work of L. Rendell and colleagues. Myself, going back to origins or living a full circle moment in #marinemammal research, history and conservation. Tomorrow the #bluehumanities are coming to the #ECSconference2025

Luke Rendell@lrendell.bsky.social · last yr.

#ECSconference2025 let's go oooo!! 🐋🦑🧪

Whales in Fault Lines A new video output of the ERC Sy Grant #4oceans project is online. It results from the research conducted in Lisbon, history of whales, strandings and earthquakes. Full video: youtu.be/z-PEtSOu2Ek?... #bluehumanities #marenvhist #whaleshistory #baleias #humanities4theocean

Baleias em linhas de falha | Whales in fault lines

YouTube video by CHAM - Centro de Humanidades

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We talk about the #bluehumanities cham.fcsh.unl.pt/actividades-... We walk around a water city We look for documentation and material evidence about the past of water, animals, natural habitats and people #environmentalhumanities #animalstudies #Lisbon #envhist

Transdisciplinary histories. Our joint voices in an open and global conversation. #bluehumanities #environmentalhumanities #environmentalhistory #animalstudies #oceanspast #waterstudies www.whpress.co.uk/publications... @whitehorsepress.bsky.social @erc4oceans.bsky.social @wildpasts.bsky.social

Transdisciplinary histories. Our joint voices in an open and global conversation. #bluehumanities #environmentalhistory #oceanspast www.whpress.co.uk/publications... @whitehorsepress.bsky.social

The White Horse Press@whitehorsepress.bsky.social · last yr.

The issue also includes the full transcript of a conversation held at #WCEH2024 in Oulo, on the topic of ‘Transdisciplinary Histories and the Rise of the Environmental Humanities’; plus an interview with Christof Mauch. #envhist

A bit of history of the human-wolf relationship. 🐺 #animalstudies #animalshistories #landmammals #envhum

NiCHE Canada@nichecanada.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Wolves in the Human Imagination, Wolves in Human Histories" by Renee Worringer This piece was originally published with @activehist.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/01/15/w... #envhist #animalhistory #envhum #wolves

𝙒𝙚𝙩 𝙐𝙧𝙗𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙢𝙨. Um painel transdisciplinar que irá refletir sobre mitologias afrofuturistas subaquáticas, aquários públicos, indústrias extrativas e a relação entre vidas terrestres e as águas que as rodeiam. www.moma.org/calendar/eve... #WetUrbanisms #Design #Sustentability #bluehumanities

Wet Urbanisms | MoMA

Inspired by the publication of André Tavares’s new book Architecture Follows Fish: An Amphibious History of the North Atlantic, the panel discussion “Wet Urbanisms” brings Tavares in conversation with...

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A review of my book Humans and Aquatic Animals... 🦭🐋🦈 'It is a valuable contribution to the pushback against the nature–culture divide.' www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/full/10.... @erc4oceans.bsky.social #environmentalhistory #bluehumanities #animalstudies #oceanstudies

Cristina Brito, Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa | Environment and History

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A bit of our #bluehumanities approach plus #environmentalhumanitirs around the globe in a very special article. Soon out. @erc4oceans.bsky.social

The White Horse Press@whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 2y ago

Happy New Year to everyone! And to start off, here is a sneak peak at the cover and contents of 'Global Environment' 18.1, a special issue on 'Visions of Sustainability' guest edited by Laura Meneghello. #envhist @globalenvironment.bsky.social

The Lisbon team of the @erc4oceans.bsky.social project had a full year. Expect much more from us in 2025, while wishing all a happy, healthy, safe, sustainable and more equitable way of living on our planet. #bluehumanities #environmentalhistory #animalstudies #oceanspast #environmentalhumanities

One of the most beautiful books I read last year #soundings (not just, but mostly) about #whales and #women and the #poetry of encounters and belongings. www.theguardian.com/books/2022/a...

Soundings by Doreen Cunningham review – a whale of a journey

A mother and her young son follow pods of whales from Mexico to Alaska in this brave, lyrical memoir

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“Choupos” (ed. Assírio & Alvim) Adília Lopes🤍

The Lisbon team of the @erc4oceans.bsky.social project had a full year. Expect much more from us in 2025, while wishing all a happy, healthy, safe, sustainable and more equitable way of living on our planet. #bluehumanities #environmentalhistory #animalstudies #oceanspast #environmentalhumanities

#environmentalhumanities #bluehumanities #animalstudies #whaleshistory

Cristina Brito@crisbri.bsky.social · 2y ago

Whales in Fault Lines A new video output of the ERC Sy Grant #4oceans project is online. It results from the research conducted in Lisbon, history of whales, strandings and earthquakes. Full video: youtu.be/z-PEtSOu2Ek?... #bluehumanities #marenvhist #whaleshistory #baleias #humanities4theocean

4-Oceans has a new #blue account. Go check it out. #4oceans #oceanspast #humanities4theocean

ERC 4-OCEANS@erc4oceans.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Lisbon team of the #4oceans project has released a new visual output. Check the story of stranded whales and earthquakes in early modern Portugal. With @crisbri.bsky.social @joangong.bsky.social @poulholm.bsky.social and many other colleagues. #bluehumanities

A recent output of #4oceans ERC Syn Grant by our co-PI @poulholm.bsky.social #oceanspast #historicalfisheries

Poul Holm@poulholm.bsky.social · 2y ago

My new paper Explaining major shifts in early-modern economies: the causes for the decline of the North Sea Fisheries of Southwest Denmark, 1537–1650 @eseh.bsky.social @openaccessarch.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Whales in Fault Lines A new video output of the ERC Sy Grant #4oceans project is online. It results from the research conducted in Lisbon, history of whales, strandings and earthquakes. Full video: youtu.be/z-PEtSOu2Ek?... #bluehumanities #marenvhist #whaleshistory #baleias #humanities4theocean

Baleias em linhas de falha | Whales in fault lines

YouTube video by CHAM - Centro de Humanidades

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Currently reading 'Silent Whale Letters'. A beautiful sensorial experience for a former whale bioacoustician turned to #bluehumanities scholar of whales and the sea. #TBA21

Cristina Brito@crisbri.bsky.social · 3y ago

I'm a book's person. If the books are about the sea, all the better 📚🩵🌊 I'm a person of the travels. If travelling takes me to islands, even better 🔵🌎🌀 And then if I can write about it all, that's just a perfect 📝🩷🌈 . . . #bluehumanities #oceanspast #animalstudies #literature #poetry #ocean #whales

The next 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 article we'd like to highlight from issue six is "Stew of the Earth" by L. Sasha Gora. Read it here: springs-rcc.org/stew-of-the-... #springs #rccsprings #rccpublication #publication #envhum #cooking #food #nature #online #openaccess #hotsprings #stew

Ties, Tides and Times. 🩵🌍💙🌎💚 The multiple versions of the multiverse we live in, us and other animals, buildings and remains, in eco-cultural networks. #coastalhistory #4oceans #oceanspast #animalstudies #bluehumanities #BlueArchive #MarEnvHist

Slimy and tiny things of the oceans, and the larger things of the ocean, are meeting today in Lisbon #bluehumanities #marenvhist #oceanspast with N. Vieira , C. Pastore and many colleagues from CHAM, ULICES, the 4-Oceans ERC grant and other institutions. 🪼🦪🪸🐬🦈🐋