Whale Sharks: A Window Into the Ocean and Ourselves Whale sharks gather each year at Ningaloo Reef, their seasonal appearances drawing intensive human attention, reminding us that the story of the ocean is also our own story.

Each year, whale sharks gather at Ningaloo Reef in Australia, and their seasonal appearance may remind us that the story of the ocean is also our own story. Learn more in our latest Arcadia article by Laura-Marie Dehne, illustrated by her beautiful photograps. #envhum #envhist

I was a dissertation fellow at the Library Company of Philadelphia 20 years ago. I'm thrilled to return next week to discuss my book "Canal Dreamers." I might even talk about sharks! Join me on April 15 at 5 PM.
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🗃️ #oceanhist #histsci #envhist #coastalhist

A Cold Colonialism A Cold Colonialism - Modern Exploration and the Canadian North; A Cold Colonialism reframes exploration as a modern enterprise – one through which southern Canadians and Americans sought to exert cont...

Hello Bluesky! My book *A Cold Colonialism* came out in paperback last week. To celebrate, I'm giving away one free inscribed copy.

Just like this post to enter the draw. You have till Thurs Apr 9 at 9:30 am PT to enter.

More about the book here: www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon... #cdnhist #envhist

We're pleased to note that Björn Billing's recent article in 'Environment and History', "Visualising Icebergs: Early Modern Depictions, ca 1570–1770", is now available #openaccess: www.doi.org/10.3828/whpe... @eandhwhp.bsky.social #envhist #icebergs

New Arcadia article by Eiko Honda: learn how the Japanese naturalist-polymath Minakata Kumagusu’s (1867–1941) fascination with slime mold shaped a multispecies onto-epistemology—and a fierce campaign to protect shrines and sacred forests.
www.environmentandsociety.org/node/10086/

#envhum #envhist

Associate Professor (297742) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology Job title: Associate Professor (297742), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Sunday, May 3, 2026

My old university NTNU in Trondheim is finally! recruiting a fully tenured associate professor in modern environmental history. This is a great opportunity for the right person. #envhist

This second edition is essential reading - for everyone. If there’s one book I’d recommend in environmental history, it might be this.

With an introduction by @brdemuth.bsky.social! #EnvHist

A large bull shark facing the camera, with one eye visible, with other sharks and fish in the background. It is set against a dark blue open ocean.

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Using genetic data, this study reveals a poleward shift of bull sharks along the U.S. Atlantic. These findings provide the first genetic evidence of a climate-driven response in a large, highly mobile marine predator.
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@shannonbarry.bsky.social
@floridatech.bsky.social

Check out @georgeholmes.bsky.social's review of @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social's "Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums," published in 2025 by @uchicagopress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #anthropocene
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

I reviewed @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social most recent book, about how extinction is represented in museums, and I liked it a lot.

Registration for our new Masters in Public Environmental Humanities is still open for Nordic students (either citizens or did bachelors in a Nordic country). Please pass along this great tuition-free study opportunity!

www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
#envhum #envhist #ecocrit

Hey #envhist! Parks Canada is ending its library services+ “decommissioning” its collection. We stand to lose a valuable set of materials that reveal if and how the Agency fulfilled its mandate (or didn’t). Read more here+write the Minister @juliedabrusin.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/03/10/c...

I was very lucky to be part of this amazing book. I've co-authored a piece on natural history collections and climate change with Martha Fleming (Natural History Museum of Denmark) as part of @collecol.bsky.social. Looking forward to finally seeing it in print! ✨🌿 #nathist #envhist #collections

International regulation of commercially exploited sharks: challenging the notion of shark “bycatch” in tuna RFMOs - International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics This article examines the obligations of States under international fisheries law with respect to the conservation and management of oceanic sharks caught incidentally in fisheries under the…

International regulation of commercially exploited sharks: challenging the notion of shark “bycatch” in tuna RFMOs

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Assessing mechanisms of intrinsic vulnerability in sharks occupying different marine environments - Biodiversity and Conservation The status of many shark species worldwide is concerning due to a combination of their life-history traits and widespread exposure to threats, especially fishing. However, the intrinsic vulnerability…

Assessing mechanisms of intrinsic vulnerability in sharks occupying different marine environments

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Thrilled to be included in the inaugural issue of Germinate: Environmental History Review, with a piece on Pacific salmon and meta-ecosystem histories: g-ehr.com/peer-reviewe... Lots of other great publicly-accessible articles to check out as well! #envhist #envhum #twitterstorians

New 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 #recording available now!

@milespowell.bsky.social’s “Fishing for #Sharks,” read by the author himself, dives into sportfishing practices, literature, biology, and ecology.

You can have a listen to the recording online: springs-rcc.org/fishing-for-...

Great panel on the #Anthropocene in the last session of #eseh2025 ✨️

@wildpasts.bsky.social
@libbydeq.bsky.social
@adamwickberg.bsky.social

#envhist

Migrants, Mosquitos, and Malaria: Histories of Constructing Enemy Threats Trump’s immigration policies echo WWII-era propaganda linking disease and race, weaponizing public health fears to justify deportations and dehumanization.

Migrants, Mosquitos, and Malaria: Histories of Constructing Enemy Threats
niche-canada.org/2025/08/18/m...

A #histmed #envhist post by my daughter Marion in the @nichecanada.bsky.social series Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration

Collage of three images. The first reads: "Max Planck Institute for the history of Science. Career. We're hiring." The second image shows a researcher presenting at the March 2025 Publications Slam. The third shows a group of people at the institute's courtyard. Second image by Anna Ruhnow, MPIWG 2025. Third image by MPIWG, 2021.

Department "Knowledge Systems and Collective Life" seeks a Collaborative Research Coordinator!

🤝 Help expand its community-based, publicly engaged research
🎤 Advise researchers on cooperative methods
📋 Coordinate cooperation agreements

🗓️ Deadline: Sep 28, 2025
🔗 bit.ly/45FXu8R

#HistSci #EnvHist

Delighted to see this new review of "Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean," a book that pulls "earthlings out of their complacency to recognize the precarity of their position amid ongoing cosmic dramas." Now available for pre-order! #Space #EnvHist www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/ripp...

New open access ahead-of-print article! In "A Fishy Tale of the Nuclear Power Plant Never Built in Estonia," Kati Lindström and Achim Klüppelberg explore the envirotechnical history of nuclear development at Lake Võrtsjärv. Read it here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/... #envhist

Check out @robertfrodeman.bsky.social's review of Lynda V. Mapes's "The Trees Are Speaking: Dispatches from the Salmon Forests," published in 2025 by @uwapress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Crafting the Plasticene Robins' DIY wooden canoe project reveals deeper truths about plastic, sustainability, masculinity, and the contradictions of modern maker culture.

Today @robinshistory.bsky.social's DIY wooden canoe project reveals deeper truths about plastic, sustainability, masculinity, and the contradictions of modern maker culture, in "Crafting the Plasticene."

niche-canada.org/2025/08/07/c...

#makerculture #canoes #plastics #envhist

A cougar diorama crafted in the 1930s, a remote Sierra Nevada scene. The mother cougar rests, one cub bats at her tail, the other cub watches. The tan cats are camouflaged among the rocks.

A coyote diorama crafted in the 1950s, set in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. A male holds a jackrabbit in his jaws. The female attends to the pups who wrestle and nap.

A new kind of diorama crafted in the 21st century. Not a wilderness scene but an urban backyard. A coyote has caught a pet cat for its next meal. The backdoor to this family home remains ominously ajar.

A photo of the late cougar, P-22, at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. On a normal day, visitors would see the Hollywood Sign aglow behind him; on this day, only tributes, scrawled on a rainbow of post-it notes. Visitors, mourning his passing, transformed the wall into a collective eulogy for the "inspiring Angeleno." Photograph by Ted Soqui, February 4, 2023. Sipa USA/Alamy Live News

This one's for the taxidermy curious. We are legion, yeah?

In "Coyotes, Cougars, Californians," I trace evolving display practices @nhm.org. It's a story about how one museum revises boundaries of belonging, featuring the late great P-22.
@animalhistory.bsky.social #envhist

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How the mystery of Winston Churchill's dead platypus was finally solved - BBC News The platypus was a top secret gift from Australia, found dead in his enclosure as war raged in the seas around him.

Research by Harrison Croft on the story of Winston Churchill's dead platypus, first published as a Snapshot in Environment and History, made it to the front page of the BBC website today! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #envhist

Many don't know that Saskatchewan was a hub of alternative energy research and development in the 1970s.

Read "A Family Affair: Alternative Energy Research in 1970s Saskatchewan" by Justin Fisher

niche-canada.org/2023/11/09/a...

#energyhistory #alternativeenergy #skhistory #cdnhist #envhist

The Gulf World That Air Conditioning Wrought | NOEMA From Saudi Arabia to Qatar, rulers have used modern air conditioning to control landscapes and lives, forgoing traditional methods of keeping cool.

My new piece in @noemamag.com explores how modern air conditioning technologies helped remake the Gulf. It's one for my environmental and urban historian colleagues — please check it out! Let me know what you think. #skystorians #envhist #envhum

Environmental humanities & adjacent scholars: interested in collaborating on a panel for this @carsoncenter.bsky.social conference in July?!
#envhum #STS #envhist www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...

Call for Proposals: 2026 Joint Meeting of the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS) and History of Science Society (HSS), Scotland, 13-16 July 2026


Link to the full Call For Proposals is available here<hssonline.org/page/2...>