This news is horrifying. That number is only human deaths, not animals or ecological consequences.

The Saturday Paper@thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 7d ago

The combined excess death toll across Europe during the extreme heat is more than 27,600, data from a study still under peer review suggests. trib.al/qJs4rYd

📣 Calling all established writers of memoir, autobiography and biography! Applications for the Peter Blazey Fellowship close 27 July. Receive up to $20,000 to support your life writing work-in-progress. Find out more and apply: arts.unimelb.edu.au/scholarships... #WritingFellowship

This would be amazing!

British Library@britishlibrary.bsky.social · last mo.

Come and spend the next academic year embedded in our curatorial teams Two exciting fellowships are open to postdoctoral, early-career researchers which can be undertaken over 12-months full-time or part-time equivalent, as part of the Joanna and Graham Barker Fellowship Scheme Find out more👇

Thanks @libbydeq.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social @whitehorsepress.bsky.social for the opportunity to acknowledge scholars who inspire my work. I hope you love Kylie Stevens’ art.

Libby Robin@libbydeq.bsky.social · 2mo ago

www.iceho.org/an-environme... @mcookhistory.bsky.social has a great new post here @aehhub.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social

Kerrie Saunders is doing such important work promoting native grasses & celebrating Kamilaroi culture.

Meet the woman reviving ‘guli’ and one of the world’s oldest breads

On Gomeroi Country in north-west NSW, Kerrie Saunders is helping revive a native grain tied to one of the world’s oldest bread making traditions, while sharing its story with 'Rick Stein’s Australia'.

sbs.com.au

It was such a wonderful experience to share a stage today at #Ozwater26 with Cameron Costello, Emma Thomas & Kevin Werksman. Photo credit: Ozwater

Excited to be the keynote speaker tomorrow at the start of OzWater '26. I'll be speaking about managing droughts and flooding rains in SEQ.

These wetlands have international significance & are highly valued in the community as you can read in Voices from the Basin: www.mdba.gov.au/node/7580

‘Incomprehensible’: birds flee and hundreds of turtles left to die after government cuts water to NSW wetlands

Frogs and sheep in the Gwydir wetlands near Moree have also been bogged after WaterNSW stopped environmental flows, researchers say

theguardian.com

When meteorologists say cyclone paths are hard to predict, they are not joking. Map of cyclone paths 1910-1969. BOM history of Cyclone Ada.

BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained. That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration

Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

nature.com

☀️ 🫡 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

'Electrons to the people:' Neighbours build commercial solar farm

Hundreds of residents of a rural NSW town combine to build their own commercial solar farm, demonstrating the community benefits of renewable energy.

abc.net.au

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

'Electrons to the people:' Neighbours build commercial solar farm

Hundreds of residents of a rural NSW town combine to build their own commercial solar farm, demonstrating the community benefits of renewable energy.

abc.net.au

Not @amandawells.bsky.social standard of research related clothing but my here’s my nod to rivers.

Are you from an 🇪🇺 country or 🇳🇴🇮🇸🇨🇭 interested in studying how humanities can help communicate and address environmental issues? Registration is open now for our Master in Public Environmental Humanities! Free tuition for our 2 year program in Stavanger, Norway. www.uis.no/en/studies/t...

Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...

Thanks @harrycroft.bsky.social for a thoughtful & wonderful review. I feel seen. Am I fearless or foolhardy - not sure? But the book has certainly caused ripples!

Harry Croft@harrycroft.bsky.social · 7mo ago

My review of @mcookhistory.bsky.social brilliant 2nd edition of her brilliant book, A River with a City Problem: press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/pr...

We need to hear this & act. “In mid January, the lower Murray was listed as a critically endangered ecological community under Australia’s nature laws. This means there’s an extremely high chance its native ecosystems will become extinct within the immediate future, in as little as ten years.”

The Conversation AUNZ@aunz.theconversation.com · 6mo ago

The lower Murray, home to the beloved Coorong, is officially in its death throes. The only way to save it is community, research and more flowing water. 👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/the-low...

How’s this? I was being recorded for a USA podcast on rivers & floods & chatting about the more-than human world & thinking about sounds, animals, emotions & humans. And my cat comes in & screams repeatedly (far more than a mild miaow). Ironic? Proving my point? Mmmm 😼 agency 💪

The University of Bristol will offer their summer school in Environmental Humanities again! @bristoluni.bsky.social #envhum #envhist

Great to share our Murray Darling Basin oral history project with colleagues @Professional Historians Association conference. If you are curious, type ‘Voices from the Basin’ into a search engine

This was such a well organised & friendly conference. I particularly enjoyed the opportunity to think about the practice of history. Whose story are we telling? Why & how or could/should this be done.

Professional Historians Association (Vic & Tas)@phavictas.bsky.social · 10mo ago

PHA (Vic & Tas) extends our thanks to our friends at PHA (NT), Professional Historians Australia and the good people of Larrakia country for a fantastic PHA conference in Darwin over the weekend. See you all in Victoria in 2027!

Writers (including historians) spend years writing. Our work is not produced to train AI without our knowledge or recompense. It is our work & Intellectual Propery. I commend this action:

Labor rules out giving tech giants free rein to mine copyright content to train AI

Attorney general Michelle Rowland shuts down contentious proposal to grant copyright exemption for AI models

theguardian.com

Hi @ncushing12.bsky.social, I’m wondering if you have any tips?

Evan@evansmithhist.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Asking for a colleague, is there literature out there on using police interview transcripts as a historical source, particularly from a methodological perspective? #historians #histcrim 🗃️

Please refuse this application Ipswich City Council. The developer acknowledges that 100s of people will be at risk of flooding.

Hundreds of units proposed on land that faces 'extreme potential flood levels'

A major developer wants to build 500 apartments on the banks of a river to Brisbane's south, but some concerned residents say the flooding risk is too high.

abc.net.au

This World Rivers Day, the #InternationalRiverFoundation invited Simon Cleary (author of Everything Is Water) and me (author of A River with a City Problem) to help celebrate river, the lifeblood of our planet. www.riverfoundation.org.au/world-rivers...

World Rivers Day 2025 - International River Foundation

Reflections from authors Simon Cleary and Dr Margaret Cook on Maiwar, the Brisbane River. Celebrating the river through storytelling.

riverfoundation.org.au

I really enjoyed presenting with Simon Cleary recently at the #InternationalRiversSymposium

I really enjoyed presenting with Simon Cleary recently at the #InternationalRiversSymposium

At Qld State Library with Alessandro Antonello & thinking of you @ncushing12.bsky.social

Thanks @rubyekkel.bsky.social for the opportunity to showcase the work Kerrie Saunders & I did for #MurrayDarlingBasinAuthority through #AustralianRiversinstitute

Australian Women's History Network@auswhn.bsky.social · 11mo ago

NEW at #VIDAblog! Kerrie Saunders and @mcookhistory.bsky.social explore Kamilaroi women’s knowledge of nature, country, and history. The "Environment and Gender" series is guest edited by @rubyekkel.bsky.social. Read it here ⬇️ www.auswhn.com.au/blog/listeni...

Thanks to Prof. Karen Nelson, Vice Chancellor of University of Southern Qld, for advocating for the Humanities. Read the full article: lnkd.in/gVtTGFeg.