How facial recognition for bears can help ecologists manage wildlife Recent advances in computer vision and other types of artificial intelligence offer an opportunity for facial recognition to apply to bears and other animals.

Great piece by @ewanderer.bsky.social in @us.theconversation.com about facial recognition algorithms and wildlife tracking. Gotta love the fat bears...

theconversation.com/how-facial-r...

IHPST Colloquium Second Session | Fall 2025 You are cordially invited to attend the Fall 2025 Colloquium series of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology organized by Professor Rebecca Woods

Join us today for an enlightening talk by Aaron Gluck-Thaler on the historical and current influence of patterns explored by scientists from various fields. The event, organized by Prof. Rebecca Woods @professorbopeep.bsky.social takes place at Victoria College 🔗

It was an absolute pleasure to work with @animalhistory.bsky.social on this special issue. Check it out for amazing original articles by Janet Browne, @wildpasts.bsky.social, @dinostalgia.bsky.social, @wbarlowrobles.bsky.social, and Tamar Novick & Shira Shmuely.

Animals and the History of Natural History We see the concept of nonhuman cultures and their historicity as one of the most significant and fascinating recent developments in the field.

Animals and the history of natural history, or, what would natural history look like had Charles Darwin been a cat person? With @professorbopeep.bsky.social and Anya Zilberstein @animalhistory.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/a...

Colossal Biosciences has a new project - and it seems to have press released it only to entertainment outlets rather than science media 🤔

Why are we so obsessed with bringing back the woolly mammoth? Woolly mammoths have become the poster child for de-extinction. The giant land mammals have long held our intrigue and fascination.

My new piece in The Conversation is out here:
theconversation.com/why-are-we-s...

Environmental History | Vol 30, No 2

Our April 2025 issue is now available! If you are a print subscriber look for it in the mail! #envhist #envhum
@chicagojournals.bsky.social

www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/eh/current

At the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Look at this moose throuple! @ewanderer.bsky.social has the back story on its design...

Scientists create woolly mice in an effort to resurrect the mammoth Scientists want to resurrect the woolly mammoth using research with mice; they've created a woolly mouse by altering DNA

It’s been a busy couple of weeks in de-extinction. I spoke to journalist Grace Hunter about Colossal Biosciences’s woolly mice for this article: cottagelife.com/general/scie...

You can now read Rebecca Woods' (@professorbopeep.bsky.social) "Entangled Extinction: Endangered Elephants and Extinct Mammoth Ivory in the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries" from the April 2025 issue.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Wordle Bot had something to say about my opening pick

Call for Papers - Animal History Group Conference 2024: Movers and Shapers Call for Papers - Animal History Group Conference AHG24: Movers and Shapers Online, 27–28 June 2024 Submission Deadline: 5 April 2024 Visit Website The Animal History Group is a netwo...

Call for Papers – Animal History Group Conference 2024: Movers and Shapers
Online, 27–28 June 2024
Submission Deadline: 5 April 2024

niche-canada.org/2024/03/11/c...

#envhist #animalhistory #animalstudies

The 2024 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History is now open for dominations of works published since January 2023.

Nominate your work or a work that you 💜.

Deadline 31 May.

Full details here: ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-...

Call for Participants: 2024 Canadian History & Environment Summer School / Appel à participant·e·... Our Canadian History and Environment Summer School will be in Montreal in June 2024! Apply by January 22nd!

Call for Participants: 2024 Canadian History & Environment Summer School / Appel à participant·e·s: École d’été en histoire de l’environnement 2024

Staples and Canadian History: Commodities, Ports, and Urban Space in Montreal.

niche-canada.org/2024/01/11/c...

Did he write back??

Updating this with @jaajao.bsky.social !

My excellent PhD student, Tola Ajao, was instrumental in putting this great resource together for @shothisttech.bsky.social
www.historyoftechnology.org/doing-histor...

My excellent PhD student, Tola Ajao, was instrumental in putting this great resource together for @shothisttech.bsky.social
www.historyoftechnology.org/doing-histor...

It is an honor to see this engagement with my work! Thanks @melaniekiechle.bsky.social @emilypawley.bsky.social Gabe Rosenberg, and Abe Gibson!

Super psyched to have been part of this conversation about a book I really like!