Researchers on a boat looking at marine life.
Sometimes a bookworm philosophy/literature academic like me gets to do some outside fieldwork after all 🪸
(picture taken by Danielle Wilde.)
My entry for the Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene is finally out! It is truly amazing to have my work feature in such an important editorial project. Read more here: doi.org/10.1007/978-...
#philsky #envhum #anthropocene #philosophy
On this Trans Day of Visibility, I would just like to say that trans rights are human rights and that celebrating the trans community as a part of all communities enriches every one of us.
Looking very much forward to this next EHN research talk about ontological imaginaries and the great barrier reef! 🪸 open to everyone, email us at ehn@rug.nl to receive the meeting link 🙂
This is what ecocide looks like.
These repeated attempts to "communicate" with AI left me feeling adrift from my own language. I thought of the opposite of poetry. Poetry sets you adrift from language in service of connection to meaning and other people; this is how it recreates language. This set me adrift in service of nothing.
That we cannot tell what the human is does not establish a particularly majestic anthropology: it vetoes any anthropology. | Adorno
Call for papers: Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction think.taylorandfranc... Guest editor: Lisa Bortolotti. Deadline: 31 July 2026. Submit your work! #philsky #philpsy
This piece is getting attention, and rightly. All the more reason that the occasional wayward element not be used as reason for Edgelords to dismiss the rest. Genetic algorithms are not "systems theory mixed with race science". They are...
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
Op vrijdag 27 maart 2026 vindt het symposium 'Verbeeldingen van de Wadden' plaats in het Werelderfgoedcentrum (Lauwersoog) met bijdragen uit wetenschap, kunst, muziek, literatuur, erfgoed- en natuureducatie. Klink op de link voor informatie en aanmelden. www.rug.nl/rudolf-agric...
a fantastic warm-up for the upcoming @easlce.bsky.social conference on nonhuman resistance and multispecies (in)justice: 'Join the Orca Uprising!'.
Now available for preorder - Working Nature: A History of the Energy Economy by Daniela Russ
"Consistently brilliant and illuminating, Working Nature announces the arrival of a major new voice on the scene of ecological Marxism.”
- Andreas Malm
EXTENDED DEADLINE! #CFP: "Rewritten Water Myths in Times of Global Warming", arranged by Barbara Barrow (@barbarabarrow.bsky.social) and Monika Class – Lund University, Sweden, 11–12 June 2026.
🗓️ Deadline for abstracts 13 February 2026.
Further info: bit.ly/49Bbvbd
#bluehumanities #envhum
Deep-sea animals have two modes: absolutely unbothered or deeply committed to chaos.
I will join with a talk that sides with the Orcas, but not for misanthropic reasons, promise. Looking forward to this!
💡📚 #CfP: 17th Forum on Literature and the History of Science (Jun 19, 2026)
👩🎓 Early career scholars are invited to submit and discuss their works-in-progress in #HistSci, #HistLit, and related topics
👀 Feedback will be provided by experts in the field
🔗 bit.ly/9JWS
🗓️ Deadline: Feb 16, 2026
Anyone here who can recommend where to start exploring the link between biological theory and environmental crisis? Thinking Levins & Lewontin, niche construction, or biologists engaging climate debates "through" biological theory. HPLS suggestions? Key works to follow?
A great short read about metaphor and narrative in science, and why they matter (i.e., why my research field matters 😉).
*SAVE THE DATE*
On Tuesday December 16 at 11am Eastern we will have virtual book launch of The Paradox of the Organism.
It will be hosted by the great @athenaaktipis.bsky.social.
Please join!
Zoom link here: internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/seminars/
Cover of Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness by Jonathan Howard. The cover features a dark blue background with a painted image of a Black figure in a sheer white garment on the right-hand side. The figure appears to be deep underwater, based on the patterns of refracted light on the figure's body. On the left-hand side is a distorted reflection of the figure, as though seen from above the water's surface.
Save 30% on #NewBook "Inhabitants of the Deep" by Jonathan Howard, which undertakes a black ecocritical study of the deep (oceans, rivers, lakes) in African American literature. #BlackStudies
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Screenshot of the header of a journal article from History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (2025), volume 47, article 43. The paper is titled “Marine constraints as philosophical opportunities: the Krogh principle and the benefits of philosophical engagement with the sea.” The authors listed are Elis Jones and Vincent Cuypers.
In their new 📃, @elisj.bsky.social & Vincent Cuypers argue that the marine sciences, with their extreme environmental constraints, offer revealing cases for #philsci that can sharpen our understanding of scientific generalization & the role of values 🌊🪸👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #HPBio #HPS
fascinating research via @projectceti.bsky.social
Cities turn vast amounts of food into waste—but when does food actually become waste, and for whom? Our upcoming EHN talk + discussion with Arabist, historian, and mealworm farmer Willem Flinterman!
For online participation, please send us an e-mail at ehn@rug.nl
Maar zoveel beter gaat het er niet 🤕
On the 22nd of October, Jackson Tamunosaki Jack will give our next EHN talk+discussion.
His talk, based on ethnographic research in Nigeria’s Niger Delta, reimagines crude oil not just as a capitalist commodity, but as a force deeply woven into local spirituality, ritual, and identity.
i agree, even if we can critique this on many fronts, the slow establishment of overlapping “green” infrastructures is indeed a reason for hope, if only because they set the stage and other directions become harder to take (see C. Levine’s 2023 book for this argument, if you need some more hope 🙂).
Flyer for the conference, featuring orcas gliding through the evening sky above Utrecht
🐋 1 month left! CFP for #EASLCE2026 – Join the Orca Uprising! (14–17 April, Utrecht University).
Deadline for abstracts: 15 Sept 2025.
Keynotes: Greg Garrard, Kate Rigby, Eva Meijer.
Full details here: easlce2026.sites.uu.nl
@easlce.bsky.social
@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
