Poster showing a truck loaded with old clothes in India.
We are thrilled to announce that the ninth installment of our open-access online publication 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 is now live. It offers a dialogue on human nature and the origins of environmental degradation, taking inspiration from tradition and Indigenous practices.
springs-rcc.org
#envhum #envhist
We've added a new post to our blog, by Koldo Trapaga-Monchet and Raúl Romero-Calcerrada on 'The royal forests of Almeirim: A multifunctional landscape in the larger Ribatejo geographical-cultural area'; here: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/02/17/a... #envhist #portugal #forests @eandhwhp.bsky.social
It is so important to keep hammering in this point. People always ask me why I would have to go visit archives - why not just look at a scan? Because they haven’t been scanned! And they are never going to be! There are millions & millions of pieces of paper in every archive.
2026 in #museums thread set to begin!
Will update this space with museums I see this year. Often these will cover special exhibits, but I’ll delve into regular collections too.
Phd Position: Art and Soil Ecologies, Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Closes 15 March 2026
ehc-amsterdam.nl/phd-position...
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If can't visit us in person, this is the next best thing!
Workers hired for "data annotation" are not told the subjects of annotation will, over time, be more and more horrific.
There ned to be class action lawsuits that bankrupt AI companies and throw executives in jail.
In the meantime, "don't use genAI" - not video, not anything else.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
“The era of hiding behind servers is over”.
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
🚨 TODAY! A seminar from the @collecol.bsky.social CHSTM group at 4pm GMT/11am EST!
Join us in welcoming @nickyrvs.bsky.social (@hunterianglasgow.bsky.social) ✨
More info & Zoom link ⬇️ www.chstm.org/group/collec...
#envhist #envhum #museums #collections #histsci
Museum door leading nowhere. Photo 2023, MfN Berlin
tomorrow at CHSTM @collecol.bsky.social we will be talking about the politics of access in museums. Here is a museum (open) door ;-) #envhist #museums #doors
Museum door leading to nowhere. MfN, Berlin, 2023 (c) Catarina Madruga
Tomorrow we are discussing the politics of ACCESS in museums. For flavour, an example from an "open" door in a museum (leading nowhere). @nickyrvs.bsky.social @collecol.bsky.social
🚨Don't miss tomorrow! ✨ @collecol.bsky.social
Thursday 5 Feb (check yr timezone)✨ www.chstm.org/group/collec...
Nicky Reeves @nickyrvs.bsky.social on his reflections on access politics in the world of museum storage, #collections and their #envhist!
🚨Don't miss tomorrow! ✨ @collecol.bsky.social
Thursday 5 Feb (check yr timezone)✨ www.chstm.org/group/collec...
Nicky Reeves @nickyrvs.bsky.social on his reflections on access politics in the world of museum storage, #collections and their #envhist!
My entry for the SEP on externalism vs. internalism about justification is now live.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/just...
Yesterday heard Daniel Liu, at the
@tuberlin.bsky.social
dan-liu.net @dan-liu.net and I was so inspired by the questions left unresolved and the ones his forthcoming book is going to answer! #historyofmicroscopy is not necessarily #historyofmicroscopes
CollEcologies is back this week with another great discussion on how THINGS are also NATURE and what is all this about collecting and preserving, and where is "knowledge"?
Happy Monday! 🌵 We're glad to say that this rescheduled Reading Club session is happening this week! Join us on 6 November to discuss Appadurai's article, a fantastically rich piece to raise questions connecting museums & collections, coloniality & the global/planetary, & the age of Anthropocene ✨
for the reconstruction of natural history practices and networks of early modern Pietism, and it can be analyzed as an archive of historical biodiversity, providing insight into climate change 🌿
We hope you'll join us! To join, see below ⬇️
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Thomas is lead researcher on the project entitled "A Testimony to Ecclesiastical Natural History and an Archive of Historical Biodiversity. The Herbarium Ruperti (1700) of the Herzog August Bibliothek". This botanical collection, compiled by a prominent Protestant clergyman around 1700, allows /2
🚨 Don't miss the next @collecol.bsky.social CHSTM seminar on Thursday 4 December at 11am EST/4pm GMT! ✨
This month, we'll hear from Thomas Biskup (University of Hull/Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel)
#envhist #histsci #histstm #envhums #collections #plants /1
Join us this coming Thursday! You won’t regret it; well, you will if you dont join us 🤭✨✨✨✨
Couldn't apply to a post yesterday because I received my PhD more than 4 years ago.
Couldn't apply to a post today because I received my PhD less than 5 years ago.
New episode of The HPS Podcast! 🎙️
Today, Dr Surekha Davies joins us to discuss her new book Humans: A Monstrous History – a sweeping look at how ideas of monstrosity shaped science, empire, and what it means to be human.
@drsurekhadavies.bsky.social #hps #history #monsters
🎧 Listen here:
ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.
🚨 Don't miss our final CHSTM seminar of the academic year! 12 June at 12pm EST/5pm BST ✨
@dominikhhh.bsky.social & @nickytheprof.bsky.social will be workshopping our forthcoming special issue with Endeavour! 🪲
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Join us & let‘s workshop together!
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