Monica Vasile 🐾

Great short-format opportunity for busy early-career #EnvHist researchers!

Here's a preview of the cover and contents of 'Global Environment' 19.1 (2026), a special issue on 'Global Fat Resources' edited by Elena Kochetkova, Matthias Heymann and Ines Prodöhl; #openaccess thanks to the KOALA Consortium and all our subscribers! @globalenvironment.bsky.social #envhist #fat

Whenever I hear stories of "Canadian" animals spotted in the UK, I first wonder if they're the descendants of donated Canadian national park ones that escaped. It's happened.

Here are beaver heading to London, Eng, 1946. 2 died in the traps, another in transit. heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm....

‘No one knows where it came from’: first wild beaver spotted in Norfolk in 500 years Cameras capture lone creature collecting materials for its lodge in riverside nature reserve

Another day, another illicit species release: I suspect there are a few people who know exactly where this one came from (Bavaria, originally, I bet - it seems all Europe's illicit beavers can be traced back there), and quite a few more who have strong suspicions. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

ft. @monicavasile.bsky.social & some charismatic mini-fauna (Vancouver Island Marmots)

A postcard featuring a color photograph of caribou mothers and their calves (approximately ten in total). A thick fog hovers over the land, lending a purple glow to the entire scene. The mothers graze on cottongrass. The lettering on the postcard includes the words "Arctic National Wildlife Refuge" at the top and the word "Alaska" at the bottom.

With the US Senate planning to vote today on Arctic Refuge drilling, here's a photo of caribou on the coastal plain (the same place intended for drilling). #envhist

📷 Subhankar Banerjee, caribou mothers and calves, Arctic Refuge coastal plain, 2002; postcard version, 2022.

Call for Proposals for the 2029 World Congress of Environmental History — ICEHO ICEHO invites bids for the next World Congress of Environmental History.

Please help us spread the call for proposals for the 2029 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲. So far the congress has taken place in Denmark, Portugal, Brazil, and Finland. Where in the world will we meet next time?

#envhist @aseh.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social

Extended deadline! Join our 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 by applying by 11 December. Organized by Mona Bieling and hosted by Andrea Gaynor.

@monabie.bsky.social #EnvHist #EnvHum

New Publication: Alison Hutchinson shares her new book chapter on European eels - Beastly Business Glass eels in a tray. Photo credit: Alison Hutchinson New Publication: Alison Hutchinson shares her new book chapter on European eels ‘Photovoice for Ecojustice: Following the European eel from the Sa...

📣 New paper by Alison Hutchinson on #harms #WildlifeTrade & #EuropeanEel. She uses photovoice narratives to explore understandings of harm & responses to it #PoliticalEcology #GreenCriminology beastlybusiness.org/2025/11/21/n...

#EnvHist opportunity in Vienna!

Are you an early-career environmental historian or interested in the challenges aspiring environmental historians face? Join our panel discussion with
@askehn.bsky.social @kathiescharf.bsky.social @tidetales.bsky.social and @wilkohardenberg.bsky.social et al., hosted by @eseh.bsky.social #envhist

-> @nichecanada.bsky.social has published 257 posts in 2025 alone. A the vast majority of those posts are full-length blog posts, articles really.

Do you know another history or environmental blog publishing at that rate?

We deserve your support: fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...

#envhist #envhum

Eagles, Marmots, Humans: Knowing Wildlife Through Fieldwork - Springs The work of two biologists in remote forests shows that species recovery depends on both data and human-animal bonds forged in the field.

The article follows the work of two biologists in remote forests demonstrating that species recovery depends on both data and human-animal bonds forged in the field.

You can now read the entire article on 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴: doi.org/10.5282/rcc-...
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Today, we would like to highlight “Eagles, Marmots, Humans: Knowing Wildlife Through #Fieldwork” by environmental historian and anthropologist @monicavasile.bsky.social from the recently-published eighth issue of 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴.
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Good luck!

CfP POLLEN26 - please join our panel, "Historicizing Geopolitical Ecologies of War" - see for more details and how to submit a proposal before 5th of December here; nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...

@casesofyou.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social @nicosananes.bsky.social

Wildflowers in the night

"We are all farmers ploughing in wildflowers in the night"..

This new article by Andrea Gaynor is fantastic: "Regenerative histories for troubled times"

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#envhist
#envhum

Road to University of Oulu

When your job is two hours south of the Arctic Circle, this is the road to the university:
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🚨 Just one week left to apply for one of the THREE postdoc positions in the #GreenFrontier project hosted at @fnp-wur.bsky.social

#conservation #EnvJustice #wilderness #rewilding #rural #underdevelopment #LandAbandonment

Deadline 25 November!

Full details 👉 www.wur.nl/en/research-...

Undermining Climate Action: The Fight by European Oil Companies Against the European Carbon Tax This article examines, in the lead-up to the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, the role played by five major European oil companies—BP in the United Kingdom, Shell in the Netherlands and UK, ENI in Italy, ...

Why don't we have an EU wide carbon tax? Well, some people worked as hard as they could to stop it. Important new research by Fabienne Jouty and Christophe Bonneuil!

The Drain of Scientific Publishing The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and ...

Profits from scientific publishing are eye-watering, costing us billions. In ‘The Drain of Scientific Publishing’ (arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820), (building on ‘The Strain of Scientific Publishing’ doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00327) we show how it is harmful – and unnecessary.

We have new members! Sebastian Lundsteen, Mona Bieling, and Jonatan Palmblad remain from the old team, and we welcome Nike Stolpe Wikström, Aofie O'Leary McNeice, and Gilberto Mazzoli! Updates on what we are doing and planning will follow. Nextgate supports early-career scholars in #EnvHist

Welcome to new team! 🥳🩷

Book cover with colorful parakeet in a bell jar

Tomorrow (Monday, Nov 10) the tables are turned: I’m the guest on the Greenhouse #envhum book talk to discuss Ghosts Behind Glass with @finnarne.me & guest host @medievalpenguin.bsky.social

Join us online for the discussion! 4pm CET/3pm GMT/10am EST

newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

Manchester University Press - Electric wind Electric wind - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Electric wind by Marianna Dudley

If any journalists would like a copy of Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain to review, please get in touch w me /MUP. It's a rigorous history of wind energy written for a wide audience, with plenty to say about today's energy challenges. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/

The Globalizing Wildlife volume emerging from the Moving Animals project is out soon. I was a great experience to contribute a chapter on #brownbear diplomacy during Cold War 🐻.
Check out the details below 👇

So many amazing humans contributed to this book, writing about all kinds of 🌎🌍🌏 animals: rhinos, chimps, parrots, horses, rats, monkeys, bees, otters, mongoose, tigers, elephants, pigeons, bears and more! #animalhist

Globalizing Wildlife Humans have always incorporated wildlife into processes of work, capture, and exchange. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, globalization became t...

*Globalizing Wildlife*, a book edited by @vbateman.bsky.social, Tom Quick, and myself, is now available for pre-order with @uncpress.bsky.social!
Using code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout, you can save 30%
www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...

Yay! 🎊✨️🐴

Workshops - Uppsala University

Next year, Tero Toivanen and I are organizing a workshop for the Nordic Environmental Social Science conference on questions of how we understand climate obstruction / opposition! Submit your idea to the workshop 14 over here: