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Posts by Katie Kung
✨✨✨I’m so grateful for the interdisciplinary space and interest provided by @easlce.bsky.social!
If anybody has a place for an environmental humanities scholar working on seed saving and storytelling, do let me know! (7/7)
Best conference pals 👌✨
Train’s broken, still on my way to #EASLCE2026, on a bus somewhere between Germany and Netherlands now. Look who’s also in this together though 👀
Ah thank you! If you ever find your blogpost again (and other research out there on this..) I’d love to read it. There must be many similar exp on how this language is used so nonchalantly.
I wrote this awhile ago with the intention to reflect on “wait what did you say?” and 10 minutes later “we are still talking about it!?”
1/ Calling all ECRS - we have 4x 3 year post docs on Multispecies Mutualisms working with us at Sheffield. Don't want to read through all the stuff to work out if its right for you? Here is a short video explainer 🎥
digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...
Some ideas were presented at the "greenwork" workshop and panel at the 4S conference by Hannah Rogers and Matthew Eisler, many thanks for polishing my ideas and to Mardi for editing!🙏
Killing as care work?
I wrote this short article for 4S Backchannel, where I outlined some ways to examine killing and care by analysing kindness and the work of killing invasive species for conservation purposes, based on observations I made during my field trip in Aotearoa.
We are extending the deadline for our junior scholars workshop until Feb. 5 2026! Please consider sharing this/applying! All-costs-covered workshop for PhD candidates/early career scholars to receive comprehensive feedback on Germanic #EnvironmentalHumanities works-in-progress!
I titled an article for submission with something rather cringey, because -> certain pressure, also because of my 0 creativity. One of the peer reviews said “honestly it’s so cringe sorry not sorry”. THANK YOU. With your permission I’m empowered.
Just wanted to spit it out before bed time 🌛
Looking for any STS/Env Hum folks working on biological invasion, conservations, and multispecies violence!
With this combined panel, Luiza and I planned one sesh for 1. presentations and 2. ecology-humanities tandem workshop. We hope for (lots of✨) space for interdisciplinary discussion!
CfP: Reimagining futures with #InvasiveSpecies through #STS
Organized by @katiekung.bsky.social and I for the @easst.bsky.social conference, the panel welcomes contributions from different backgrounds dealing with any spp deemed invasive. More about it here: nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
just thinking about what their alienness-or-not has to do with what exactly... how much is it acquiescence because because..
I wrote this entry “(Invasive) Neobiota” with Camille for the Umwelt Wiki for key concepts in the Germanic Environmental Humanities. Learnt so much from Camille and her research in multispecies history. 🌴🌳
And big thanks to @annamariasenuysal.bsky.social for the opportunity and thoughtful edits!
in case you weren't aware of r/petswithbuttons!🐈 "My cat has started to use 'vacuum' as a curse word": "For example, he will ask for "snackie” when we JUST got done with snackie and I will say “snackie all done” and then he will go spam the vacuum button."
languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=72193...
One of the best things being an editor for @envhistnow.bsky.social is to have the pleasure (+luck!) to work with texts like this.
I’ve learnt fr and resonated so much with @critical-lycan.bsky.social A beautiful piece meditating on the (exclusionary..) taxonomies of species and sexology. Go read!
Thanks so much for the invite and letting me ramble about traps and death and care and killing ‘pest’ animals. such a great time (not so much for the dead animals mentioned, always acknowledged). I was very inspired by the variety of expertise!
A cautionary tale to tell my two cats tonight, after brushing their teeth...
Tensions between hatred and kindness, killing and nurturing can exist in the same space.. it's important that they have the space to co-exist.
Also interesting - the interviewee (NZ Conservation Minister) having multiple cats as pets himself still easily describes them as stone-cold and noxious. What does it say about conservation commonsense?
Interesting how the difference between feral and companion cats is emphasised to be obvious - reminds me of Mr Black, caught as feral, purring and snuggling after 2 months, and the kittens whose mum was killed, then turned domestic enough and adopted. How wild is wild, how domestic is domestic?
Latest piece out today from Adrienne Brown; a safety briefing for research in #envhist #envhum envhistnow.com/2025/10/07/p...
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Any narratives/rhetorics on invasive species management/eradication/marketing folks want to share their projects? (and thanks Hal Herzog for the title😁)
Happening soon: gonna be speaking about how to kill kindly in Aotearoa at 4S Seattle.. looking forward to the discussion with other presenters and the convenors Hannah Star Rogers and Matthew Eisler! @4sweb.bsky.social 15:40 in Seattle, midnight in Germany, let’s go!
Oh it just came out: I wrote this short essay shortly after the research trip in Aotearoa recalling a very.. strange.. experience of a field day catching wallabies. Three were caught that day, many let go because they weren’t big enough. I still think about them sometimes. 🫧
Anthropomorphizing is...a tough topic. For scientists and writers! Because the thing is: Animals aren't just like us. They don't see the world the way we do.
But also people don't want to CONSERVE something they don't identify with. brookshire-team-trash.beehiiv.com/p/what-is-hu...