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 newest issue of 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 (@globalenvironment.bsky.social) is guest edited by PhD candidate Lijuan Klassen & RCC Director Christof Mauch! It brings an environmental humanities perspective to planetary health: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpge/current #envhist #envhum

Last night, the Supreme Court ruled that the VRA cannot protect even against *intentionally* discriminatory voting policies When we say there is no federal statute remaining the enforce the 15th Amendment, this is what we mean

I’m embarrassed to say that I didn’t realize that most gums are made from plastics and aren’t biodegradable.

“In Nicaragua, señores, the mouse catches the cat.” Sandinista corrido from the 1920s. Source: Gregorio Selser (1981)

Moving tribute to my Columbia colleague David Rosner, who passed away unexpectedly a few days ago. David was pivotal to uncovering the dangers of lead, silica, and many products of industrial America. blanphear.substack.com/p/how-rosner...

How Rosner and Markowitz Revealed the Hidden Architecture of Disease

How two historians helped reveal the industrial origins of modern disease

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I infamously hate conferences (surely there must be a better way), but man HSS / ESHS is going to be fun this year. EVERYONE is going. Summer in Edinburgh. So much plant stuff (too much plant stuff). Reminder that early bird registration ends today! #histSTM #hss2026 #eshs2026

NEW: How are you getting involved around the city this week? @colleengrablick.bsky.social's picks include a performance by the Ratical Left, a community museum reopening, and more.

11 ways to get involved in D.C. this week

A performance by the Ratical Left, a community museum reopening, and more.

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When you go to the pharmacy you probably walk away with your medication in one hand, and a lengthy receipt in the other. What should you do with that receipt? This week we explain why the paper that receipts are printed on can add a lot of complications for recycling, and for your health.

Can you recycle receipts?

This week on Possibly we explain why the paper that receipts are printed on can add a lot of complications, for recycling, and for your health too

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The CEDAR Gallery is now open @UofMaryland and stands for Centering Ecologies, Diasporas and Ancestral Roots. It’s a permanent environmental micro art gallery designed to support high school and university students through climate anxiety and eco-grief.

Prof Porter is amazing 🔥🌈🌱

jayson m porter@roguechieftan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Grateful to Dean Shonekan for coming to our grand opening today to cut the green ribbon. The CEDAR Gallery to support students through climate anxiety and eco-grief is officially open! Shout out to our incredible student environmental justice organization, 17 for Peace and Justice.

Grateful to Dean Shonekan for coming to our grand opening today to cut the green ribbon. The CEDAR Gallery to support students through climate anxiety and eco-grief is officially open! Shout out to our incredible student environmental justice organization, 17 for Peace and Justice.

BREAKING: Activists have shut down multiple intersections throughout downtown Washington DC in opposition to Trump's attacks on workers, DC Home Rule, climate, and international peace. The actions kick off #MayDay events across the country.

Here is the review for When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy, by botanist Beronda L. Montgomery! 🧪 #ScienceBooks #BookReview #BlackHistory #Botany bsky.app/profile/mars...

Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒@marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Time for another book review! My next book review is When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy, by botanist Beronda L. Montgomery. (1/11) 🧪 #BookReview #ScienceBooks #BlackHistory #Botany

85 cities now have May Day strikes next week. As more unions & groups like Indivisible support them, the list is growing paydayreport.com/map-65-citie...

MAP: 85 Cities Hosting May Day General Strikes & Growing

At least 65 cities and hundreds of unions are hosting May Day General Strike events & the list is growing

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Sabotage and the Black Girl Commons —My latest essay is live and open. There’s a small glitch with one misattributed citation, which I’ll get them to fix. Shout out to Sarah Haley, whose work is a primary inspiration. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sabotage and the Black Girl Commons - J.T. Roane, 2026

Racist regionalism and the disparagement of migrants compounded with gender and minor status related to age to articulate ‘negro girl’ as a category included pa...

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"Benches are where optimistic visions of civic life meet reality. To remove them, or to curate who gets to sit, is to abandon the work of defining a civic ideal and determining, together, how to live up to it." NEW: Why benches are slowly disappearing from public spaces — and why we need them back:

The Disappearance of the Public Bench

Benches are microcosms of an expansive debate about who belongs in urban public spaces. When they are removed or made uninviting, we lose more than just a place to rest.

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We're pleased to note that Björn Billing's recent article in 'Environment and History', "Visualising Icebergs: Early Modern Depictions, ca 1570–1770", is now available #openaccess: www.doi.org/10.3828/whpe... @eandhwhp.bsky.social #envhist #icebergs

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our screening and discussion of "Without Shade, Without Rest" earlier this week! Read The Brown Daily Herald's coverage ⤵️ @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social @climatesollab.bsky.social @immokaleeworkers.bsky.social @working-films.bsky.social

‘Without Shade, Without Rest’ highlights agricultural workers’ advocacy

The film and following discussion centered around the fight for heat protection for Florida’s outdoor workers.

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Institute at Brown for Environment & Society (IBES)@brown-ibes.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Join us on April 20 to watch and discuss "Without Shade, Without Rest," a new doc about the fight for heat protection for outdoor workers in Florida. Learn more + register: https://tinyurl.com/withoutshade Watson School at Brown Climate Solutions Lab Coalition of Immokalee Workers Working Films

A man standing atop one of the historic Teotihuacan pyramids opened fire on tourists Monday, killing one Canadian and leaving at least 13 people, authorities said. n.pr/4comA0Q

Gunman shoots several tourists at historic pyramids in Mexico

A man standing atop one of the historic Teotihuacan pyramids opened fire on tourists Monday, killing one Canadian and leaving at least 13 people, authorities said.

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Two CFPs for workshops focused on women in natural history collections: Women, Marine Science and Algae Collections: Framing Nineteenth-Century Marine Herbaria, 8 Oct, Paris Female Networks of Knowledge: Natural History between Private and Public Spaces, 19-20 Nov, Vienna womnh.hypotheses.org/cfp

Check out my partner’s latest essay on finding the perfect latte. This is where her foodie and food-writing journey all began!! substack.com/@theraveeepl...

A Latte Was My Gateway Drug

An Amuse-Bouche, if You Will.

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I’m new to this shit, y’all. I wasn’t trained how to teach college students about what the U.S. govt did in Central America during the Cold War. Students came in critical, but how can you ever truly prepare to learn all of what the U.S. government has done to people everywhere?

I’m excited to go to Boston this week for a symposium on Monocultures at Tufts University. We mustn’t forget that there are more plantations today than ever before, and they continue to harm, people, places, and our planet.

Writing letters of recommendation and mentoring students in college is demanding and hidden labor, but one of my favorite students is a Truman Scholar as of today and forever, so I’m feeling a little differently about writing letters today (but probably not forever).

I wish we lived in a world where we knew as much as much about the Congolese Rainforests as we do the Amazon Rainforests.

I have to teach a 200-level global environmental history lecture course in the fall, and I’m honestly pretty nervous about it. What articles or readings have you taught or would teach in a global environmental history class?

Check out our Black and Indigenous Eco-Micro Gallery to support students through climate anxiety and other environmental concerns. Please follow us on IG @cedargalleryumd for more updates on our student-led initiatives.

I’m heading to Tokyo in July. Are there any environmental historians or environmental humanities scholars who want to connect?