Made it

On my way to the BSLS at @unistrathclyde.bsky.social - going to need a few of these if we're to keep up the karaoke traditions this evening!

And the morning after I'll be delivering an epitaph for the coach dog...

@thebsls.bsky.social

On my way to the BSLS at @unistrathclyde.bsky.social - going to need a few of these if we're to keep up the karaoke traditions this evening!

And the morning after I'll be delivering an epitaph for the coach dog...

@thebsls.bsky.social

We have a a new review on our website: Daniel Bowman reviews John MacNeill Miller's The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/03/macn...)

cover of book The Unnatural Trade with a drawing of black laborers with hoes at work with windmill and palm trees behind.

Join us online on Monday 23 March for @brycchancarey.bsky.social discussing The Unnatural Trade: Slavery, Abolition, and Environmental Writing, 1650-1807 (Yale UP 2024) in @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talk series.

Starts 4pm CET, 3pm GMT, 10am EST

newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
#ecocrit

Call the hairdopolis

My review of @snarlsdickens.bsky.social 's The Ecological Plot is now free to read on the BSLS website. After his talk at @greenhouseuis.net I was excited to read it and was not disappointed! It's the kind of writing style I want to emulate

www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/03/macn...

I will try to be there but childcare permitting!!

They are so unhappy about being found

I got one!

I felt like I should check in with my dormant LinkedIn page and I just saw this and I am out of there for another year

Overview of the events happening at the Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities during February 2026. For more information about the center, visit the website https://www.uis.no/en/greenhouse. For information about the book talk series, see also https://newnatures.org/greenhouse/

February at the @greenhouseuis.net is packed with fantastic academic and social events for and by the #envhum community, starting with a book talk today at 4 pm, as always online, and a perfect way to close the first work day of a week with.

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Extinction Encounters with Professor Dolly Jørgensen In conversation with UCL's Grant Museum of Zoology, Dolly Jørgensen takes us on a journey to encounter extinct species in museums worldwide.

I'll be in London talking about encountering #extinction at the Grant Museum @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social on Wednesday, 11 March 2026, 5:30-7:30pm.

Sign up to attend for free.

This was great! (Also excellent carpet)

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It finally happened, I submitted an article for peer review containing the phrase "toad narratives" instead of "road narratives."

I hope to do this again, deliberately, in the future.

Feet standing in front of screen on the floor, showing a blue sky with clouds, from Hiroshima Botanical Gardens.

Room with six screens on the floor, all showing sky videos from different places. Talk window letting in light on the far wall.

First time in ages at Hå Gamle Prestegård to see their new exhibitions. I particularly liked Helene Espedal-Selvåg’s «Common Sky» installation. www.hagamleprestegard.no/Kalender/Cal...

📢Call for Papers: Yuck?: Historical Approaches to Unwanted Nonhuman Life 🐀 @northernenvhistory.bsky.social

Deadline: 31 January 2026

Further details: tinyurl.com/ynwua3em

Please join the @asleuki.bsky.social online seminar on Eighteenth-Century Literature & Environment. Thur 29 Jan, 15:00-19:00 GMT. With me, Eric Gidal, James Metcalf, Nicolle Jordan, Alessio Mattana, Annette Hulbert, Jodie Matthews, & @tobiasmenely.bsky.social. Register at asle.org.uk/events/semin...

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Today is my last day of papaperm (parental leave) in Stavanger. Might go for a latte with some dads....

We are now accepting proposals from scholars interested in applying for the EU's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships program in 2026. This is a great program for early career (<8 yrs from PhD) scholars to be with @greenhouseuis.net for 2 years on own project.

www.uis.no/en/research/...

Overview of the events at the Greenhouse in January. More info on uis.no/en/greenhouse. For the book talks, see also https://newnatures.org/greenhouse/.

The @greenhouseuis.net is slowly awaking from hibernation and is starting off the year with book talks by @issygapp.bsky.social and @kbruisch.bsky.social (as always online and open to all) and a special event to celebrate the Gad Rausing Prize 2025 awarded to @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social!

#envhum

Hello friends and anyone whose work I have read over in the past (not mutually exclusive)!

Would anyone have time to glance over a chapter draft on animals and automobiles in Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Richard Wright before my manuscript deadline (end of Feb)? About 15k words #envhum

Hello friends and anyone whose work I have read over in the past (not mutually exclusive)!

Would anyone have time to glance over a chapter draft on animals and automobiles in Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Richard Wright before my manuscript deadline (end of Feb)? About 15k words #envhum

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A man in a green hat holding 4 boxes of Yorkshire Tea outside an art Gallery in a park.

Feeling quite English today as I collect my Yorkshire Tea from a gallery in Stavanger who agreed to order in extra from their supplier @yorkshiretea.bsky.social

Thanks Stavanger Kunstmuseum!

PhD Fellowship in Museum Education (288983) | University of Stavanger Job title: PhD Fellowship in Museum Education (288983), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Sunday, January 4, 2026

My colleague Marie-Theres Fojuth has advertised a fully funded 3-year PhD Fellowship in Museum Education @unistavanger.bsky.social with the «Into the Fjords: Blue Museums as Arenas of Learning about Vulnerable Ecosystems (FJORDS)» project. Perfect for Scandinavian-speaking #envhum #envhist people!

Join us for More-than-Human Sensory Worlds, the first in our hybrid 'More-than-Human/ities' seminar series, a new collaboration between UoB's CEH & EUC at York University, Toronto.
Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃
Wed 19th Nov
17:45–19:00
Online & in-person

The Green Party's proposal for a wealth tax on 1% of assets above £10m and 2% on assets above £1bn comes top of our list of tax reforms that Britons would support, with 75% giving it their backing

yougov.co.uk/economy/arti...

I yearn for the urn

Apply for PhD Course on Energy Humanities - University of Stavanger The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities invites applicants to attend a week-long PhD course on Energy Humanities, held at the University of Stavanger from 1-5 December 2025.

The @greenhouseuis.net - Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities invites applicants to attend a week-long PhD course on Energy Humanities, at the University of Stavanger, 1-5 Dec 2025

The course is open to applicants from both within and outside of Norway.

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