Daniel Bowman
@danielbowman.bsky.social
MSCA Postdoc with The Greenhouse at the University of Stavanger, Norway. Researching Indigenous American Literature, Automobility, and the Environment (also writing a book about horses and horsepower) #envlit #ecocriticism #envhum ⛰️🌲🚗📚
CfP for all Nordic-facing #ecocritics! You have just a few more days to put in an abstract for the 2026 ENSCAN workshop on the topic of #resilience. enscan.net/workshops/re... What is the role of resilience in Nordic literature & culture? #EnvHum #Ecocriticism #økokritikk
Latest from board game extraordinaire Dr Tom
Jacob Tom@jacobleetom.bsky.social · 2mo agoMy latest board game project is almost out in the world! Books & Booze is a light card game made in collaboration with one of Stavanger's most celebrated cafés. Regional launch on June 30th, and plans for North American distribution are in the works. 📸: @andyo21 (IG)
Deeply enticing CFP: Feminanimals: women as/and animals - April 2027 in Oxford, with the fabulous Fanny Clemente and Greta Colombani organising and Kaori Nagai and Chloe Taylor as keynotes - www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/events/2027/...
FEMINANIMALS: Representations of Women and/as Animals in Literature, Arts, and Other Media
FEMINANIMALS is a three-day international conference investigating representations of women as non-human animals and of the relationship between women and non-human animals in literature, arts, and ot...
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This will go down as a major stain on FIFA and its World Cup before a ball has even been kicked. Infantino has been banging on about the most inclusive World Cup and Africa’s top referee can’t even get into the country. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/w...
U.S. Denies Entry to World Cup Referee From Somalia
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Applications are open for the 2026/27 BSECS-Northumbria Fellowship, offering expenses up to the value of £4000 to support a visiting scholar undertaking research into the long eighteenth century. More information and apply at bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a... @bsecs.bsky.social
oh so it's insisting on being recognised as part of the research community but also trying to use its uni card to get student discounts?
Mike Boylan-Kolchin@mbkplus.bsky.social · 2mo ago"AI is operating at a PhD level" oh, so it's replying 'sorry for the late response' to every email and complaining about its labor conditions?
Blue Extinction in Literature, Art, and Culture has been published! 🥳 Edited by Vera Fibisan and me and featuring essays by Stacy Alaimo, @stevementz.bsky.social, Dominic O'Key, Rick de Vos, and many others. Do consider ordering a copy for your library: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Blue Extinction in Literature, Art, and Culture
The book demonstrate the affordances of literary and artistic forms in exposing the plight of aquatic organisms that are contributing to their destruction.
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One of the reasons I'm writing and banging on about road trips and car politics all the time
David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe went sponsor by sponsor through Sean Duffy's corporate funded vacation, which also gives companies "VIP access" to the Transportation Secretary, and listed everything these companies want from the government and were willing to pay up to $1 million to secure.
We finished off our semester of #envhum book talks yesterday by talking to Bob McKay about his new book Anthropofugal Fictions. This was #198 in our series. You can listen/watch our conversation here: 🎧 newnatures.org/greenhouse/p... 🎥 newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
Very excited for this!
Dolly Jørgensen@dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 3mo agoOur final book talk of the semester is Monday 11 May 2026. Bob McKay will talk to us about his new book Anthropofugal Fictions: Literature, Species Politics and Flight from Humanity (Edinburgh UP 2026). Join us for the live discussion at 4pm in Norway / 3pm in UK: newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
After a trip using the Paris Metro, London Underground, the Eurostar Chunnel train, and rail systems in France and the UK, I know I’ll likely never see an equivalent transit system in the US for most cities or national travel. This article helps explain why. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How car-loving American cities fell so far behind their global peers on public transit
With most major European cities well served by trains and buses, bringing US transit up to par would cost $4.6tn
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May at the @greenhouseuis.net with our regular Monday book talks, Wednesday research talks and many special events featuring @mmendoza.bsky.social, Hauke Ohls, @erikahanna.bsky.social and others. #envhum 🌷
Do you want to know about the connection of cultural heritage and green transitions? Find out more about contemporary carbon culture & how it influences cultural #heritage through our PITCH project: pitch-horizon.eu
it’s worth reading every word of this brilliant, excoriating column by Fraser Nelson
My latest article has been published in Animal History (guess I'm interdisciplinary now)! Could the Dalmatian (or Coach Dog) change its spots with the coming of the automobile? Are there more dog and car puns in the text? Read it here! 👇 @animalhistory.bsky.social #envhum tinyurl.com/82y69rcs
An Epitaph for the Coach DogAnimal Affect and Agency in Technological Transition
This article explores the Dalmatian—or “Coach Dog”—as a historical agent within 19th- and early 20th-century transport systems, tracing the breed’s rise and decline alongside the transition from horse...
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My latest article has been published in Animal History (guess I'm interdisciplinary now)! Could the Dalmatian (or Coach Dog) change its spots with the coming of the automobile? Are there more dog and car puns in the text? Read it here! 👇 @animalhistory.bsky.social #envhum tinyurl.com/82y69rcs
An Epitaph for the Coach DogAnimal Affect and Agency in Technological Transition
This article explores the Dalmatian—or “Coach Dog”—as a historical agent within 19th- and early 20th-century transport systems, tracing the breed’s rise and decline alongside the transition from horse...
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On my way to the BSLS at @unistrathclyde.bsky.social - going to need a few of these if we're to keep up the karaoke traditions this evening! And the morning after I'll be delivering an epitaph for the coach dog... @thebsls.bsky.social
On my way to the BSLS at @unistrathclyde.bsky.social - going to need a few of these if we're to keep up the karaoke traditions this evening! And the morning after I'll be delivering an epitaph for the coach dog... @thebsls.bsky.social
We have a a new review on our website: Daniel Bowman reviews John MacNeill Miller's The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/03/macn...)
MacNeill Miller, John, The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science – The British Society for Literature and Science
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Join us online on Monday 23 March for @brycchancarey.bsky.social discussing The Unnatural Trade: Slavery, Abolition, and Environmental Writing, 1650-1807 (Yale UP 2024) in @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talk series. Starts 4pm CET, 3pm GMT, 10am EST newnatures.org/greenhouse/e... #ecocrit
My review of @snarlsdickens.bsky.social 's The Ecological Plot is now free to read on the BSLS website. After his talk at @greenhouseuis.net I was excited to read it and was not disappointed! It's the kind of writing style I want to emulate www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/03/macn...
MacNeill Miller, John, The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science – The British Society for Literature and Science
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I felt like I should check in with my dormant LinkedIn page and I just saw this and I am out of there for another year
February at the @greenhouseuis.net is packed with fantastic academic and social events for and by the #envhum community, starting with a book talk today at 4 pm, as always online, and a perfect way to close the first work day of a week with. 🌿
I'll be in London talking about encountering #extinction at the Grant Museum @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social on Wednesday, 11 March 2026, 5:30-7:30pm. Sign up to attend for free.
Extinction Encounters with Professor Dolly Jørgensen
In conversation with UCL's Grant Museum of Zoology, Dolly Jørgensen takes us on a journey to encounter extinct species in museums worldwide.
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This was great! (Also excellent carpet)
Melina Antonia Buns@melinabuns.bsky.social · 7mo agoKom på festførelesing med @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social! 28. januar inviterer @greenhouseuis.net til ei open førelesing på @unistavanger.bsky.social for å feire at Dolly har blitt tildelt Gad Rausings Prisen 2025. Det er ope for alle. Meir info og påmelding ⤵ www.uis.no/en/research/...
It finally happened, I submitted an article for peer review containing the phrase "toad narratives" instead of "road narratives." I hope to do this again, deliberately, in the future.
a brick wall with a metal gate leading to a forest
ALT: a brick wall with a metal gate leading to a forest
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First time in ages at Hå Gamle Prestegård to see their new exhibitions. I particularly liked Helene Espedal-Selvåg’s «Common Sky» installation. www.hagamleprestegard.no/Kalender/Cal...
