Finally listened to this episode. Really inspiring, especially on exploring multiple topics i.e. “grazing,” accessible writing, supporting mothers/families in academia & at conferences (yes please!), and striving for completion over perfection.

Drafting the Past@draftingthepast.bsky.social · 4w ago

If you're facing down long travel to #HSS26, might I suggest some Drafting the Past episodes with historians of science? Like my latest with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social: draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...

Looking forward to reading this! Also - @nancyjjacobs.bsky.social has a wonderful chapter on grey parrots in Globalizing Wildlife! www.jstor.org/stable/10.51...

Nancy J. Jacobs@nancyjjacobs.bsky.social · 3w ago

Advance notice for *The Global Grey Parrot*! Coming January 2027: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

CfP Sea and Migration in Art, Film, and Photography (deadline 29 July 2026) - arthist.net/archive/52668 #EnvHum #BlueHumanities #EnvHist

Do you know any places named for animal-human relations? I'm thoroughly enjoying this thought-provoking #teaching module by Youjia Li on the "Ox-Town" (Shibakuruma-chō) of 18th-century Tokyo. 🐂 Teaching Animal Mobilities website 🐂 animalmobilities.org/modules/2026... #HistSci #animals #mobility

The Ox-Town

Hundreds of oxen traveled over a thousand kilometers to pull carts through the shogun’s capital. This module asks how working cattle shaped urban space, inspired iconic art, and became symbols of Edo’...

animalmobilities.org

Short but truly fascinating paper 👇Paintings will clearly be the next big thing in historical ecology. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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

On Monday, I defended my PhD thesis, Saving Species. I am now officially an environmental historian (with a very large diploma to prove it) #envhist

Roost is a messaging app where messages aren’t instant; they travel between users at the speed of whichever bird they use to send it. Note sending is limited by the # of birds in your rookery…if they’re all out, you have to wait until one returns. [roostsocial.app]

Roost - Social Connection App

Join the waitlist for Roost, the messaging app where birds travel in real-time based on distance.

roostsocial.app

A brilliant new study of the history of rats and plague by @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social focused on the historically neglected case of the third plague pandemic's impact on Mauritius: "Rats, Islands, and Global Infrastructure" (OA) www.jstor.org/content/oa_c...

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

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

Popping in to add: GLOBALIZING WILDLIFE is open access! I knew that was part of the publishing agreement but I didn't find the link until now 🦜 📖 🔓 All the chapters including mine on otters & logistics should be here: www.jstor.org/content/pdf/... #AnimalStudies #EnvHist #Booksky #STS #AcademicSky

Streaming an eagle cam while writing about (the earliest?) eagle cam photos from over a century ago Such great heights! #animalhist #birds #photohistory www.youtube.com/live/B4-L2nf...

One for the top of the reading list for 2026 - congrats to @rafdebont.bsky.social @vbateman.bsky.social & Tom Quick. The book is a series of engaging essays by brilliant writers ⬇️

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

Publication day! Globalizing Wildlife - edited by Tom Quick, @vbateman.bsky.social and yours truly - shows that globalization is not just a human but also an animal affair.

Happy pub day to Globalizing Wildlife!! edited by @rafdebont.bsky.social @vbateman.bsky.social and Tom Quick, with an essay by me on otters, shipping, oil, and the California coast (I tried to snap it "in the wild" but had to settle for a backdrop of my neighbor's shrubs)

Publication Day!

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

My author copy has arrived. Happy to be part of this great and brilliant collective of #envhist authors…. And to write about animal navigation skills.

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

Rather than “invasive” or “alien” species, “new species” is used in the Swedish Museum of Natural History to describe non-native plants and animals.

HEY HEY I may not be on social media much anymore but I wrote a thing for @biographic.bsky.social about gulls nesting in unexpected places that maybe aren't so unexpected after all. www.biographic.com/spains-cliff...

Spain’s Cliff-Nesting Gulls Are Actually Beach Bums - bioGraphic

Almost a century ago, egg-poaching humans drove yellow-legged gulls away from beaches. Now the birds are coming back.

biographic.com

In Stockholm for the “BIOrdinary Anthropocene” conference. Human- #animalhist prominently displayed in front of the royal palace and parliament building — in the form of loop net fishing boats

A very good, very 2026 headline: Japan Runs Out of Robot Wolves in Fight Against Bears. “Starting at around $4,000, each bespoke Monster Wolf is now equipped with battery power, solar panels, and detection sensors.” (via @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social) [popsci.com]

Japan runs out of robot wolves in fight against bears

The handmade, $4,000 Monster Wolf features solar panels, sensors, and intimidating audio.

popsci.com

*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

The most riveting screen time I’ve watched in ages! Yesterday, I watched one of the adult eagles casually drop off a nice fish to the nest.

kottke.org@kottke.org · 3mo ago

Livestream of the Big Bear bald eagle nest (perched 145 feet up in a pine tree) with two fuzzy bald eagle chicks that hatched 3 weeks ago. [youtube.com]

Maybe you just learned about woodcocks, but they've been a big deal for centuries. I wrote about the long history of loving the American Woodcock birdhistory.substack.com/p/more-than-...

What’s the role of history—historical archives and historical thinking—in the formation of environmental justice movements in the past and today?

JOB ALERT: Two 4.5 year postdoctoral positions to work on my Wellcome-funded project 'Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health'. Please share widely! CLOSING DATE: 23 April (the date on Jobs.ac.uk is apparently incorrect)

A debate has erupted in this thread re: longstanding descriptions of Picasso's dog Bob—yes, his name was Bob!—as a Great Pyrenees, with @sharonbutler.bsky.social asserting he was clearly a St. Bernard. After the last few days not sure I have the energy for a response; you can weigh in if you'd like

Michael Lobel@mlobelart.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Various captions describe him as a Great Pyrenees

“The Forest Service was the last major federal land agency that still had the institutional muscle to resist. It had the scientists. It had the regional foresters. It had the culture, imperfect as it was, that still believed forests belonged to the public.”(Jim Pattiz +hatchmag.com) #envhist

kottke.org@kottke.org · 4mo ago

Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service. “…the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. Not a budget cut. Not a policy shift. Not a ‘reorganization.’ An execution.” [hatchmag.com]

It's the start of National Wildlife Week in Canada and the start of spring migration, so it's the perfect time to make sure your windows are as bird-friendly as they can be. This great poster by @rosemarymosco.com summarizes the problem of window collisions; learn what you can do at birdsafe.ca

Bird people! What makes a duck attractive? 🦆 #birds #ducks #animahist #envhum

A 🧵on #conservation and humane treatment of one of the world's most overlooked, underdog pet #animals... 🧪🌎🦑 When I first met Crab Con founder Mary Akers in 2024, I was floored by what she told me... www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/m...