PhD Position in Social Dimensions of Ecosystem Restoration | slu.se SLU - Science and Education for Sustainable Life

PhD position in Social Dimensions of Ecosystem Restoration at SLU in Umeå, Sweden. Scandinavian language competency required. www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Two CFPs for workshops focused on women in natural history collections:
Women, Marine Science and Algae Collections: Framing Nineteenth-Century Marine Herbaria, 8 Oct, Paris
Female Networks of Knowledge: Natural History between Private and Public Spaces, 19-20 Nov, Vienna
womnh.hypotheses.org/cfp

The talk has been rescheduled for next Monday due to technical difficulties.

John Scanlan, The Idea of Waste: On the Limits of Human Life. Announcement for book talk with cover on right side.

Due to technical difficulties with no internet service for the author, our #envhum book with John Scanlan on The Idea of Waste: On the Limits of Human Life (Reaktion Books, 2025) will be NEXT MONDAY, 27 April, at 4pm in Norway / 3pm in UK.
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Who made the monsters? A lesson from Del Toro's Frankenstein Thanks for reading my free newsletter! If you’d like to support my work, you might consider buying or gifting HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY. Excellent free...

We now know that LLM-based so-called genAI systems are ecocide-plagiarism-psychosis-harassment-surveillance-radioactive waste machines.

To continue to role them out is to enable their harms. Beware the enablers.
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Don’t forget about this online talk today!
#waste #envhum

Photo of a small vending machine full of blue and clear balls containing tiny zines, inside a bookstore. A label on the front of the machine says “minor transient documents of everyday life. Katherine Montalto” and features a QR code.

Photo of my hand with long lavender nails holding a ball from the vending machine.

Photo of my hand with long lavender nails holding a tiny zine with a fingerprint or tree rings looking design. The text reads, “minor transient documents of everyday life. Katherine Montalto.”

Photo of my hand holding open the haiku zine. On the left is Katherine Montalto’s pyramid logo. On the right is a haiku entitled “rain.” It reads, “tiny particles/ like sand in an oyster shell/ form clouds in the sky”

We visited @katherinemontalto.bsky.social’s haiku vending machine, currently on display at Whistler’s Daughter Books in Ferndale, MI.

We each got haikus. Here is mine. Each haiku costs fifty cents and you also get a piece of candy.

Photo of a Red Rebel on the front of a zine with the words Rebellion! and Davenant in white below. The zine is lying on a wooden floor.

The zine for Rebellion! is now available in my shop. It has 55 photos distilled down from 40,000 taken over the life of the project. I’m very pleased with the quality of the printing and hope you like it https://marcdavenant.com/product/rebellion-zine/

John Scanlan, The Idea of Waste: On the Limits of Human Life. Reaktion Books, 2025. Cover of book with mountain of waste on right.

Join us online Monday (20 April 2026) for John Scanlan discussing his book The Idea of Waste: On the Limits of Human Life (Reaktion Books, 2025) in the Greenhouse #envhum book talk series. Start time is 4pm Central European time / 3pm in UK / 10am Eastern.

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A front cover of a book; the background image is a 16th-century painting of a beached whale

Happy publication day to Ryan Gregg for his new book

Beached Whale Images in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp
Symbols of Humanity’s Dominion over the Earth
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John Scanlan, The Idea of Waste: On the Limits of Human Life. Reaktion Books, 2025. Cover of book with mountain of waste on right.

Join us online Monday (20 April 2026) for John Scanlan discussing his book The Idea of Waste: On the Limits of Human Life (Reaktion Books, 2025) in the Greenhouse #envhum book talk series. Start time is 4pm Central European time / 3pm in UK / 10am Eastern.

newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

A visual timeline of every animal ever sent into space From Laika the dog to Ham the chimpanzee, animals have blasted off—and died—pioneering space travel for us. See what we still send up today.

A timeline of every animal ever sent into space 🧪

I’m sad because I will actually miss the opening plenary - will be on a train from London at that time ☹️

*Revolutionary Natures* is now in print. @eastasiascitech.bsky.social @uwapress.uw.edu

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

question: are there historians working at the intersection of science, med, and enviro centering the study of allergies? like a burgeoning field of critical allergy studies?

I've been wanting to write on plantation forestry in postwar Japan and the hist of hay fever, and I'm looking for inspiration

Second Largest Dog Museum in the World Inaugurated in Paris France opens the world’s second largest Dog Museum in Paris, showcasing art, history, and hero dogs in over 500 square meters.

One more reason to visit Paris--again.

Are you an early career research who would like to spend a semester at the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen? We have a call out now for a stipend to cover mobility expenses for 3-4 months in the first half of 2027. Apply before 15 May! skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=...

A reminder about this online talk tomorrow!

It's the last few days for Nordic students to apply for our new MA program in Public Environmental Humanities! We've had lots of interest and think we'll end up with a stellar first cohort of students. We are very much looking forward to starting up in August!
More info: www.uis.no/en/studies/m...

OMG the #ESHS-HSS program is wild! So many parallel sessions!
Stay until the very last session to hear @arnoldke.bsky.social , @whitmerkelly.bsky.social , @annalsvensson.bsky.social & yours truly talk about #pedagogy #objects #collections & #NaturalHistoryHumanities

#histmed #histSTM 📜

Prints of a photo of Brent Alpha oil platform lying on a wooden table next to a rotary paper trimmer

Brent Alpha oil platform awaiting dismantling on Teesside. This will be the anchor image for the section on Climate change in the Rebellion exhibition. I have some of these signed prints in stock and they can now be purchased here marcdavenant.com/product/bren...

Call for conttributions to special issue of @bioethicalinquiry.bsky.social on 'Bioethics for the Planet', mixing medical ethics & environmental (climate) ethics - edited by Paul Komesaroff, Cara Platts, Natasha Rooney and me. EoI by May 31 to c.platts@unimelb.edu.au
#bioethics #medhum #envhum #STS

A plastic toy snow leopard held in Alex's hand - the sculpting has lots of fur details but the plastic is largely pale cream and the spots are painted on fairly crudely.

A toy snow leopard zoomed in on its face which has been only clumsily painted giving it uneven eyes staring off in different directions.

I recently saw a video of someone repainting a toy animal to have more realistic and naturalistic colours, and it occured to me that'd be a fun little project for this snow leopard toy I got a few years back.

Here's the before, I've never tried this before so lets see what I can do!

Teaching Animal Mobilities Animals in history moved through landscapes, cultures, and systems of power. Our adaptable teaching modules bring the dynamic lives of animals into classroom conversations. Primary visual sources enco...

New #OpenAccess educational resource: "Teaching Animal Mobilities: (How to) Move Animals into Your Classroom" 🐛🪼 🐘
Modules include historical sources, discussion questions, assignment ideas, and readings to explore key themes in animal mobility.

🔗 animalmobilities.org

#HistSci #AnimalMobilities

Get a free copy of Oil Beach (see below)!

For more insights into the book, you can watch/listen to the recording our Greenhouse #envhum book talk conversation with Christina about it here:

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How did Vietnamese scientists and medical doctors build an evidentiary case against Agent Orange and its contaminant TCDD dioxin in the aftermath of war?

Join Mitch Aso's upcoming Harvard S&T in Asia talk to find out!

Zoom registration: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia

#histstm #envhist 🧪

Pigeon shaped omikuji holder (it changes colours with the seasons).

The main hall at Rokkaku-do (Choho-ji).

Pigeons gathered at Rokkaku-do.

Worship hall dedicated to Prince Shotoku.

15) PIGEONS🕊️

Pigeons feature prominently as a motif at Rokkaku-dō (六角堂), but the birds are not technically connected to the Bodhisattva enshrined.
Usually considered a pest, they have lived peacefully here since the temple was founded by Prince Shōtoku (聖徳太子) in 587.

If you are in Berlin next week, you should attend Rodney Harrison's talk Rethinking heritage and museums in the Anthropocene at the Deutsches Technikmuseum on Tuesday, April 14th.
technikmuseum.berlin/veranstaltun...
#envhum #museums

The Greenhouse #envhum book talks had 2 weeks off for Easter, but we are back Monday 13 April with @michellehenning.bsky.social discussing her book A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, and Empire (@uchicagopress.bsky.social 2025).
Join the online talk live at 4pm CET / 3pm BST / 10am ET.