Daniel Pauly warns that we are rapidly approaching the end of #fish due to industrial fishing methods, government subsidization of corporate fishing operations, and climate change. @seaaroundus.org @cangeo.bsky.social o www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVeZ...

Daniel Pauly on preventing the end of fish

YouTube video by Canadian Geographic

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New book review: Schell on De Wolff, Kim: _Synthetic Frontiers: Ocean Plastic and the Persistence of Trash Islands_. MIT Press, 2025. Published by H-Environment. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20152179

Post by @lottaleiwo.bsky.social, Tamara Caulkins & me on the thinking behind our call for contributions to a Sourcebook for Histories of Weather and Weathering - the workshop(s) that inspired it and our own perspectives. The deadline is 4 September #histSTM #envhist meteohistory.org/announcements/

Congratulations to Aaron Van Neste, winner of the 2026 Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History. An honorable mention is awarded to @jgalka.bsky.social. Visit our website to learn more about their research: oceansciencehistory.com/2026/05/18/t...

The 2026 Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History Winner Announcement

The DHST Commission on the History of Oceanography (ICHO) is pleased to announce the winner of its 2026 Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize. The award aims to provide recognition …

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We are excited to announce the Call for Papers for our new collaborative series with Written in the Waves, Soil and Sea: Environmental Histories of the Atlantic World Proposal deadline: June 30, 2026 Series publication beginning September 2026 niche-canada.org/2026/04/30/c... #envhist

Call for Papers - Soil and Sea: Environmental Histories of the Atlantic World

We invite submissions on any topic related to environmental history of the Atlantic world.

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"As a marine environmental historian who studies relationships among scientists, fishermen and environmentalists, I have seen how NOAA’s work affects American livelihoods, coastal health and the U.S. economy." - Christine Keiner niche-canada.org/2025/04/25/c... #envhist #histsci #noaa #uspoli

Coastal economies rely on NOAA, from Maine to Florida, Texas and Alaska – even if they don’t realize it

NOAA protects coastal ecosystems, supports fisheries, combats invasive species, restores coral reefs, and leads climate research vital to the U.S. economy.

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Join us in Paris in two weeks' time for a whole week of conferencing on "Histories of water" 💧 On Wed 20 May, I'll present a paper entitled "Sous le signe de Neptune: ambitions de contrôle des eaux dans les villes de l’Europe moderne" 🔱 #skystorians #waterhistory #envhist #envhums

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Les inscriptions sont ouvertes pour le 150e Congrès du @cths.bsky.social ! L'événement aura lieu du 18 au 22 mai, sur le @campuscondorcet.bsky.social à Aubervilliers, autour du thème « Histoires d’eau ». Programme : cths.fr/co/congres.p... Inscriptions : forms.gle/XsoToBiV5QZe...

Water water everywhere...Hot on the heels of the new Ecozona special issue "Sea More Blue," our book The Sea in Nordic Literature is coming soon! #EnvHums #BlueHumanities #Ecocriticism 🌊📚 www.routledge.com/The-Sea-in-N...

If you're looking for #history networks on BlueSky in 2026, our Starter Pack - recently updated - has details of 150 leading societies, organisations and groups active in the UK and Ireland bit.ly/4ptl0On #Skystorians

Societies & groups for historians, UK and Ireland

Join the conversation

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Incoming faculty member Dr. Skye Augustine talked to @cbcnews.ca about clam garden restoration that is reconnecting community to this traditional #Indigenous way of harvesting. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Modern method? Reviving the “aquaculture” techniques of our ancestors

Scientists started talking about clam gardens in the 90s – but nations along the west coast built and maintained these beaches for thousands of years before. Rosanna speaks with Skye Augustine about t...

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From the Diamond Princess during Covid to the current hantavirus crisis on the MV Hondius, cruise ships have been attracting attention as epidemic percolators. Yet concerns date back to 1901 when the cruise ship Sénégal got plague, with inventors and politicians like Gaumont & Poincaré quarantined

🚨New Issue Alert🚨Up first! Tony Adler's paper analyzing the way that humans have viewed giant squid. online.ucpress.edu/hsns/article...

Thomas H Huxley was born OTD in 1825. The idea of “warfare” between science and religion is suspect, but it works for H. Protestantism lacks “a trace of any desire to set reason free. The most that can be discovered is a proposal to change masters” from the Pope to the Bible. 🧪🌱🐋 #HistSTM #EvoBio

*Globalizing Wildlife* is OUT THIS MONTH (!) with @uncpress.bsky.social “An essential and timely intervention… exciting, cutting-edge vantages on crucial global histories” -Daniel Vandersommers Edited by @rafdebont.bsky.social myself, & Tom Quick #animalhist #globalhist #HistSci #envhist

9th DHST DISSERTATION PRIZE (2027) CALL FOR APPLICATIONS CALENDAR: Exclusively electronic applications open 1 May and close 1 August 2026 (11:59 pm UTC). Announcement of prize winners will be made in early 2027. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

9th DHST DISSERTATION PRIZE

For doctoral dissertations completed and filed between 16 April 2024 and 15 April 2026.

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"Through marine social sciences, ocean humanities and Indigenous knowledge, other pathways can be explored toward a better understanding of human-ocean relationships." - @suereid.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/05/07/c... #oceans #deepseamining #mining

Current legal frameworks can’t protect the oceans from deep-sea mining and the negative impacts on humankind

The U.S. shift to domestic seabed mining highlights weak international protections, flawed International Seabed Authority (ISA) oversight, and growing calls for reform.

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Check out my new article! It argues that the rise of continental drift should be understood within the context of the geopolitical shift that came from decolonization. lmk if you can't access! #histsci #STS www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Geology as geopolitics: continental drift and the southern hemisphere

This article argues that the mid-twentieth-century acceptance of continental drift cannot be understood solely as the result of new geophysical eviden…

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Laura Tretheway sure can write! Her review of the new book, "The Dark Frontier: Unlocking the Secrets of the Deep Sea" by Jeffrey Marlow www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Dark discoveries

A marine microbiologist shares the joy and dangers of exploring the deep sea

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Oceans are darkening all over the planet – what’s going on? | New Scientist

Oceans are darkening all over the planet – what’s going on?

In a shift that is reshaping entire ecosystems, the open oceans are letting less light in. We don't fully understand the consequences yet, but there is still hope, says oceanographer Tim Smyth

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Call for Papers – Forecasting the Weather between Divination & Science (Antiquity to the Present) Submission Deadline: 31 May 2026 Workshop, organised at the University of Oxford, UK, 9 Oct 2026, by @simondolet.bsky.social & Michelle Pfeffer niche-canada.org/2026/04/06/c... #envhist #histsci

Call for Papers - Forecasting the Weather between Divination and Science (Antiquity to the Present)

We are seeking case studies from the ancient world to the present that focus on learned and scholarly forms of weather prediction (rather than every day or informal beliefs), including but not limited...

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"[This paper] provides a fresh perspective on the role of animals in forging human’s understanding of the ocean’s depths, and on the interplay between science, technology, and myth in defining the human relationship to the natural world." #animalhist #oceanhist #envhist #envhum

a large squid is swimming in the dark water

ALT: a large squid is swimming in the dark water

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New book review: Meinel on Hoffmann, Richard C.: _Catch: An Environmental History of Medieval European Fisheries, The_. Studies in Environment and History Series. Cambridge University Press, 2023. Published by H-Oceans. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20145909

Fellowships! The National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam has published a call for proposals to conduct research into its maritime historical collection. More information, including the English translation of the call texts, can be found here www.hetscheepvaartmuseum.nl/collectie/on... #skystorians

Record high ocean temperatures off southern California raise fears of prolonged marine heatwave | US news https://www.europesays.com/uk/871611/ For more than a century, shoreline stations operated by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography have measured water temperatures…

Record high ocean temperatures off southern California raise fears of prolonged marine heatwave | US news - United Kingdom

For more than a century, shoreline stations operated by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography have measured water temperatures along the California coast.

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Our ambassador Anna Batzeli contributed to the newsletter of the Dutch Historie van de Oceanografie Club with an article about online repositories that house collections related to the history of #oceanography, including APE. You can find it linked here: www.archivesportaleurope.net/blog/apef-on...

APEF on the Historie van de Oceanografie Club's newsletter

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🌊 🌿 Scripps Oceanography scientists are here to “kelp” uncover San Diego’s kelp history. Researchers have released an unprecedented record of kelp forests off La Jolla and Point Loma, revealing a steady long-term decline beyond normal boom-and-bust cycles. Dive in. ⤵️ https://bit.ly/40Rvddr

Researchers Create a Family History of San Diego Kelp over More Than Four Decades

Key takeaways– Giant kelp forests, an icon of the San Diego coastline, are in retreat as a result of climate change– Off the coast, water temperature has not dropped to traditional lows since the 2015...

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The programme is now available for the British Commission for Maritime History New Researchers Conference in April at Southampton. Full details and booking here: www.maritimehistory.org.uk/new-research...

Excited to share that my new article on research expeditions and seafloor mapping in the Southern Ocean is now available open access in "Räume in der Internationalen Geschichte" (in German)! 🌊 Huge thanks to the editors! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #oceanhist #histsci #envhist

Internationale Forschungsexpeditionen und die Vermessung des Meeresbodens im Südlichen Ozean im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert

Internationale Forschungsexpeditionen und die Vermessung des Meeresbodens im Südlichen Ozean im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert was published in Räume in der Internationalen Geschichte on page 203.

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"In October 1907, the USS Albatross departed San Francisco and steamed westward toward the Philippines. The 61-meter-long craft, operated by the U.S. Fish Commission, was the world’s first ship purposely built for research, and this would be its longest expedition."

DNA from rum-soaked fishes chronicles century of environmental change

Museum specimens collected during a 1907 marine expedition reveal loss of genetic diversity in the Philippines

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