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Raf De Bont 🟥

@rafdebont.bsky.social

Historian of science and the environment // Late adopter & cautious adventurer // Interested in 19th, 20th and 21st century natures // Author of Stations in the Field and Nature's Diplomats // https://moving-animals.nl

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Raf De Bont 🟥@rafdebont.bsky.social · 4w ago

On my way back from the Tensions in Europe conference Apart from the great talks, I was also charmed by Eindhoven's modernist architecture. Somehow this past futurism makes me a bit nostalgic.

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Raf De Bont 🟥@rafdebont.bsky.social · last mo.

"Drill, baby, drill!" This graph shows oil production by the three biggest producers. U.S. output has risen almost continuously since the late Bush Jr. years. Trump can be blamed for much worse, but on oil he's more an accelerant than an outlier: the shale boom made higher production bipartisan.

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Raf De Bont 🟥@rafdebont.bsky.social · last mo.

Read this wonderful article by @vbateman.bsky.social! About two very differently appreciated #movinganimals

Vanessa Bateman@vbateman.bsky.social · last mo.

My article about wapiti and red deer in 20th cent New Zealand is out with @animalhistory.bsky.social ! 🦌🚁🏔️ It’s a wild story about colonial animals + technology, trophies + pests, the venison + velvet industry, and hybridity doi.org/10.1525/ah.2... #envhist #animalhist #histech

A man in a red jumpsuit stands behind a very large and sedated red deer stag with large antlers. A small helicopter is grounded behind them in the distance. Taken in New Zealand in 1976.
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · last mo.

Meanwhile, in the US. It just takes your breath away. *50 years* in prison for protesting. Don't imagine for one moment that we are immune to this. Already, the legislative framework is in place in the UK to enable such convictions - before we get a Trumplike PM. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Alarm over ‘extreme’ sentences for anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism

First amendment groups call 50-to-100-year prison terms chilling as legal experts say sentences unusually long

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Raf De Bont 🟥@rafdebont.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Of course, I knew that 'ethnic' cuisine is usually a combination of lies and lazy stereotypes, but it becomes all the more apparent when the 'ethnicity' involved is your own. 'Flemish' fish and chips?

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Gregg Mitman@greggmitman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It was a pleasure to contribute a chapter, "Caring for Chimps as Viral Kin," on the complex relations of care and unequal relations of exchange that developed at Vilab II in Liberia, for this great volume! Open access is available @ www.jstor.org/content/oa_b... #envhist #medhist

Globalizing Wildlife on JSTOR

Humans have always incorporated wildlife into processes of work, capture, and exchange. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, globalization became the ...

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Vanessa Bateman@vbateman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

*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

Cover of the book Globalizing Wildlife, edited by Raf De Bont, Vanessa Bateman, and Tom Quick. Featuring a photo of a red deer held in a nylon sack hanging from below a helicopter.
Raf De Bont 🟥@rafdebont.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Really happy to see this one materialised — it’s been a real pleasure working on it with @vbateman.bsky.social , Tom Quick, and a wonderful group of contributors. Should be available in print and (OA) electronically by May 26!

Vanessa Bateman@vbateman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

*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

Cover of the book Globalizing Wildlife, edited by Raf De Bont, Vanessa Bateman, and Tom Quick. Featuring a photo of a red deer held in a nylon sack hanging from below a helicopter.
Raf De Bont 🟥@rafdebont.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I still remember watching the Dutch "jeugdjournaal" as a kid (as there was no Belgian equivalent). Fun to now make a brief appearance there. Particularly when it is for talking about a topic like Pablo Escobar's hippos!

Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences@fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Why are #hippos roaming wild in #Colombia? @rafdebont.bsky.social explains on @nosjeugdjournaal.bsky.social how Pablo Escobar’s former animals spread, and what this means for #ecosystems and safety - making a complex issue clear for a young audience. 📽️ jeugdjournaal.nl/artikel/2610...

Simone Schleper 🟥@moneschleper.bsky.social · 5mo ago

And here finally my contribution to this conversation doi.org/10.1017/S174... in @globalhistjnl.bsky.social. I trace the origins of #corporateenvironmentalism to heterogeneous, private #governance networks in the 1970s that served as alternatives to official UN settings. Also, great title, yes?

Private parties for a new world order: Maurice and Hanne Strong, global governance, and environmental imaginaries since 1970 | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core

Private parties for a new world order: Maurice and Hanne Strong, global governance, and environmental imaginaries since 1970

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Cyrus Mody@ccmmody.bsky.social · 7mo ago

ICYMI a summary of a recent chapter. read in combo w/ this 👇chapter (access it by downloading the entire OA volume) by @odinnmelsted.bsky.social + past & forthcoming work by @moneschleper.bsky.social to grasp what I'm calling the "Philanthropocene" ... www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Raf De Bont 🟥@rafdebont.bsky.social · 8mo ago

A report by 'Microsoft researchers' indicates that historians are the professional group whose work is one of the easiest to replace by AI. The article below shows what's wrong with the report.

Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · 8mo ago

What does Gen AI mean for the work of the historian and the value of historical experience, skills and craft? 'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social. New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2

Front page of 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' Comment article, title 'The Historian in the Age of AI', by Chris Campbell. Full abstract: "This comment interrogates the methods and conclusions of Working with AI, a recent report conducted under the auspices of Microsoft, which identified historians as the profession with the second-highest ‘AI applicability’. It finds that the authors’ conclusions are based on an erroneous simplification and misrepresentation of a historian’s typical professional tasks, which have been publicly amplified by extensive media coverage. This comment then offers a wider provocation about the report’s conception of a professional historian, and whether it is related to the public application of ‘historian’ to a number of different practitioners with varied training and qualifications. In particular, it seeks to highlight a paradox which the report exposes: that we cannot defend the specialist training and expertise of professional historians against the encroachment of AI without also separating the academic skills and qualifications of historians from those engaged in more popular forms of historical writing and communication. The comment questions how we might grapple with this paradox without reverting to academic elitism."
Betto van Waarden@bettovanwaarden.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Vacancies: Post-doc in Disinformation & European Democracy: vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... Ass. Prof European Political History since 1900: vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... Ass. Prof Political and Social Philosophy: www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3566...

Post-doctoral researcher in Disinformation and European Democracy (4-year)

Post-doctoral researcher in Disinformation and European Democracy (4-year)

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