From Palms in the Rhine Valley to Global Policy: Vernacular Knowledge and the Climate Crisis Editor’s note: This piece was written in late 2024, before the German federal election of February 2025 and before Donald Trump’s second withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement.

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Bones of Contention What a mastodon skeleton dug up in 1839 tells us about science, settler colonialism, and who gets to own the past

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Skeletons in the Closet From $8,750 for a Gobi Desert parrot lizard to $44.6 million for a single Stegosaurus: The dinosaur bone market, museums, and the super-rich.

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Henrik J. Schneider | Substack Ph.D. candidate in American studies. Views expressed are my own.

I started a substack about dinosaurs, fossils, climate, and the environment (and the occasional unrelated rant). I’d appreciate it if I could get some subscribers and followers. I’m also looking for substacks to subscribe because I’m new to this 🫠

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Even in the Rhine River Valley, where I grew up up and snow is a lot rarer, it can be beautiful this time of the year.

Not being able to visit my family in Germany for Christmas makes me miss Odenwald winters even more ❄️

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Are you looking to read read a new book over the winter break?! (and then send me a review afterwards? 😀) Check out this amazing list of books that I have available to review for H-Environment! #envhist #envhum #ecocrit #aghist #landscape #conservation #anthropocene
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I had the privilege of doing archival research at the USC cinematic arts archive and I looked at production documents of Jurassic Park. They had a bunch of early velociraptor creature designs that were fully feathered which blew my mind.

German has so many unique compound nouns but I love the word “doch.” It is translatable but depends heavily on context. “Doch” is special because it conveys contradiction, emphasis, or reassurance depending on context. It’s like the Swiss Army knife of German modal particles.

Here are some of the pictures of the wildlife we saw :)

Actually, @stephchildress.bsky.social and I have been thinking about this since we spotted some gators and other wildlife in the Cattail Marsh Wetlands (Beaumont, TX), which was built in the early 90s by the by the Beaumont Public Utilities Department to treat wastewater.

I saw this alligator in Freeport, TX, right next to gigantic oil refineries. The intersection between marshlands and oil development on the gulf coast is so fascinating to me. Does anyone have book recommendations on this relationship from an environmental history perspective?

Fellowships for Early Modernists👇🏾

Is the second starter pack already maxed out? I’d love to be added to it.

Hello, Bluesky! I’m a German Americanist at UT Austin. I study the link between the earth sciences and cultural production in 20th-century America. My current research looks at paleontology, land use policy, and ideas about deep time in US culture.

Me, browsing Bluesky to see which starter packs to follow.

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Falsch

I wish I was there to gossip with you 😇

Is it „Where my background singers“ season yet?