The edited collection that I contributed a chapter on penguin eggs to is part of Berghan Books' summer sale! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/McCahe...

Antarctic Materialities | Berghahn Books

Independent Publishing since 1994

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CFP: Metals, Minerals, and Material Worlds: Art, Extraction, and Knowledge in Central Europe and Beyond An International Symposium of the Minescapes Research Project Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague May 19-21, 2027. More: hpscesee.blogspot.co...

I’m really not looking forward to teaching this fall…

Jane Rosenzweig@janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 5h ago

offered as support for education, the message seems to be that writing has nothing to do with what they actually think or that thinking involves choosing from a menu of pre-existing options. This is a strange gaslighting because at each step, Claude is telling you that you are writing this paper /6

I was interviewed by the @museumsassociation.org about whether museums should still use social media. My answer: resoundingly yes :) www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

Digital detox: Is social media still worth it for museums? - Museums Association

The online landscape suddenly looks very different amid a backlash against tech giants. Geraldine Kendall Adams asks how museums are adapting to the post-X era

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Since #COVID & pandemic handling is in the news, I want to recommend the brand new COVID Studies: A Reader: www.pennpress.org/978151282949... This is a fantastic collection of essays based in SSH fields. It is available to read #openaccess for free too.

Beautiful views across the sound at the sculpture “Seven magic points”, part of Skulpturlandskap Nordland.

About to embark on a journey centered on my NEXT book (linen, landscapes, looms, Luddites, and water power) but @uchicagopress.bsky.social kindly just sent me some blurb excerpts for my forthcoming book, on hops in 19th century Wisconsin, and the tens of thousands of women who harvested them. 🍺👻📖

Special issue of Art History journal edited by Mark Cheetham & @issygapp.bsky.social looks great: Crossings in Polar Art History: South and North, Historical and Contemporary academic.oup.com/arthistory/i...

Volume 49 Issue 2 | Art History | Oxford Academic

Art History is an international, refereed journal that promotes world-class art-historical scholarship from across the globe.

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If the topics of the current exhibition and their wider historical context are of interest, you can download the East India Company at home book in full for free from @uclpress.bsky.social or as individual chapters (no subscription needed) from JSTOR. Very much enabled by @leverhulme.ac.uk . 3/4

The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857

The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a ...

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Since #COVID & pandemic handling is in the news, I want to recommend the brand new COVID Studies: A Reader: www.pennpress.org/978151282949... This is a fantastic collection of essays based in SSH fields. It is available to read #openaccess for free too.

My new article on Jorvik Viking Centre and its use of smells over the last 40 years has just come out today in The Public Historian! online.ucpress.edu/tph/article-... if you can't access it and want to read it, let me know.

The Greenhouse #envhum book talks start up again this month! Episode 199: Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social on Transforming Night: The History and Science of Light Pollution (@uwapress.uw.edu, 2026), Monday 24 August 2026, 4pm Central European / 10am Eastern. newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

Great line up of #envhist #envhum talks!

Dolly Jørgensen@dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 4d ago

The Greenhouse #envhum book talks start up again this month! Episode 199: Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social on Transforming Night: The History and Science of Light Pollution (@uwapress.uw.edu, 2026), Monday 24 August 2026, 4pm Central European / 10am Eastern. newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

In case you're wondering "does mentioning a book on bluesky get people to buy it?", I just ordered this book from my local independent bookstore. Also once this comes in I'll own three books on the history of light pollution, a topic I've thought about a lot since I first moved to Toronto.

Dolly Jørgensen@dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 4d ago

The Greenhouse #envhum book talks start up again this month! Episode 199: Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social on Transforming Night: The History and Science of Light Pollution (@uwapress.uw.edu, 2026), Monday 24 August 2026, 4pm Central European / 10am Eastern. newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

The Greenhouse #envhum book talks start up again this month! Episode 199: Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social on Transforming Night: The History and Science of Light Pollution (@uwapress.uw.edu, 2026), Monday 24 August 2026, 4pm Central European / 10am Eastern. newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

Some beautiful views from the northern Norwegian islands this afternoon, including sightings of a pirate ship(!) and a jellyfish.

For the curious..

Ghosts Behind Glass

How museums display extinct species—and what these exhibits say about us.   While it’s no longer possible to encounter a dodo in the wild, we can still come face-to-face with them in museums. The rema...

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Dolly Jørgensen@dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 6d ago

In addition to being important for scientists & conservationists (which is what this position paper 👇 is about), natural history museum collections are critical for public understanding of biodiversity & why we should conserve it. My book Ghosts Behind Glass explores such collections on display.

Beautiful evening in Northern Norway at Kvitnes gård (who just got a Michelin star).

Excited to share my latest research article, published in Germinate: Environmental History Review @g-ehr.bsky.social , an open-access, digital publication of the @aseh.bsky.social . Read the full piece here: doi.org/10.65131/GPS... #envhist #rachelcarson #silentspring #spain #francoistspain

The current issue of the open-access Ecological Citizen journal @ecologicalcitizen.bsky.social is now available for free download. Many articles, with a partial focus on ecocentrism in the built environment. www.ecologicalcitizen.net/issue.php?i=...

R.L. Phillips pauses with his “mosquito-proofed” horse, Sparkplug, on a gravel bar of the Tatonduk River, a tributary of the Yukon River, on June 17, 1930. Via USGS #alaskahistory #alaska

a psa that these make wonderful phone wallpapers

Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷@book-historia.bsky.social · 6d ago

Are you familiar with the University of Washington special collections Decorative and Decorated Papers digital collection? If not, you SHOULD be... what a cool resource! digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/coll...

Really interesting piece. I'd also recommend Alan MacEachern's book on the 'Miramichi' Fire of 1825 (covering some 6000 sq miles, it also burnt parts of the U.S.), an excellent piece of environmental history on a monstrous fire: www.mqup.ca/Books/T/The-...

The Miramichi Fire

On 7 October 1825, a massive forest fire swept through northeastern New Brunswick, devastating entire communities. When the smoke cleared, it was estimated that the fire had burned across six thousand...

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will pooley@willpooley.bsky.social · 6d ago

Some historical background to the fires in southwestern France, drawing on reading I did for my 2019 book about the moorlands, and lamenting the deeply depressing reality that we have known many of the causes of this ecological disaster for 150years 🗃️ williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/u...

We are setting up a 200th(!) episode special for Greenhouse book talks (newnatures.org/greenhouse/) on Aug 31, 2026, at 4pm in Norway (3pm in UK / 10am Eastern). We are looking for a guest who has watched/listened to recordings regularly and/or someone who has used them for a class. Is this you?

Took a video of a hummingbird hawk-moth in Wales last week!

Duncan Wilson@duncanwilson78.bsky.social · 6d ago

A hummingbird hawk-moth visits my friend's garden in Manchester regularly and loves to feed on his rose campion flowers. He genuinely had no idea what it was the first time but has now filmed it a couple of times. They're incredible little things

And the material you discard for one book or article still bounces around in your brain, frequently finding its niche in another piece, or a comment to a friend, or an answer to a trivia night question. You know, the important stuff!

Dr Lindsey Fitzharris@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · last wk.

Incidentally, a lot of what I do as a writer is discard material. But in order to discard it, I need to know it exists and I need to understand why it doesn't belong in my book. If I allowed AI to analyze documents for me, it would only feed me information it felt was relevant. What might I miss?

In addition to being important for scientists & conservationists (which is what this position paper 👇 is about), natural history museum collections are critical for public understanding of biodiversity & why we should conserve it. My book Ghosts Behind Glass explores such collections on display.

Prosanta Chakrabarty@prosanta.bsky.social · 7d ago

From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation iucn.org/news/202607/...

😱 They have bedbugs in the Oslo airport. A bed in a glass case and bedbugs on display with a live video feed. Sponsored by an insurance company. Now that’s some human-animal history on display!

Call for papers Communities in Medieval Wales & the March, @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2027, sponsored by the Mortimer History Society. If you are researching any aspect of Medieval Wales & the March, please consider submitting a paper proposal for our strand at next year's IMC. #MedievalSky #Skystorians