Sara Wasson

The year’s last author copies are here, on the first day of my holiday break. @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and I wrote an epilogue for this excellent book on Digital Ecologies. #envhum

Reading this winter story aloud with the 12yo this December, passing it back & forth, 30 years after first studying it in the original (helped then by Tolkien’s translation).
This, The Seafarer, Beowulf—with their axe-knock rhythms & alliterative-accentual soundings—sank deep into my mind’s ear.

We welcome new submissions to 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐔𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬! Let your imagination run wild and send a postcard to and from whoever you want, send it to the past or to the future, or why not from future to the past?

Read more here:
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#EnvHist #EnvHum

Our website allows for navigation like moss, roots, or a tree, and its appearance changes based on the weather conditions of our server. We organized contributions based on themes, q's, and categories, making connections across entries.

www.thinkingwithmoss.net

Excited to launch Thinking With Moss, an NEH-funded project that I've been working on for the past few years with @tega.bsky.social + @aansari86.bsky.social. Bringing in collabs from around the world in a series of workshops, we asked what it might mean to think with moss /

www.thinkingwithmoss.net

Five of the best science fiction books of 2024 From a post-apocalyptic dystopia to a brilliant time-travel debut, a far-future take on humanity and more

So many congratulations to my brilliant colleague @oliverklangmead.bsky.social for being named in this list 👇

www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...

Gaels and Winds Roddy Maclean looks at the winds recognised and named in Gaelic tradition

An often overlooked aspect of experiencing landscapes: wind. Fascinating blog from Nature Scot.

'In #Gaelic tradition there are certain winds that are named and recognised. Read about them in our latest blog from Ruairidh Maclean:" scotlandsnature.wordpress.com/2024/11/29/g...

Postdoctoral application open for in creative and practice-led methods of research to support the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, “Plants, Enslavement, and Public History: Re-imagining gardens and green spaces as places of heritage and healing” (2024-2028).
#envhum
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

This is such an excellent idea

Understanding the Rights of Nature: A Critical Introduction A monograph on the history of sacred mountains on a global scale since 1500.

New open-access book on our Environment & Society Portal: 𝘜𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦: 𝘈 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 by Mihnea Tănăsescu. #EnvHum #rightsofnature

Book jacket for Branching Out: The Public History of Trees

So excited about this forthcoming title in our @umasspress.bsky.social series (available for pre-order); trees have figured in #publichistory and community memory for so long—really excited to see the scholarship appearing soon.

#EnvHum #Booksky

New international research project on energy transitions New international research project to explore energy transitions in the Nordic region over the past 150 years. The project was awarded funding from NordForsk’s 'Green Transition' call and runs from Oc...

We have launched our new Energy Lives! project! A great team led by @melinabuns.bsky.social will explore how people have lived with energy transitions in the Nordic countries over the past 150 years. #envhist #envhum #energyhistory

And after this AMAZING inaugural issue on the antipastoral thesis, other incredible special issues: "Affects of Energy Transition" in March 2025; "On the Cold Edge: Creative Meditations on Svalbard," Aug. '25; "Radioactive Empires," Dec. '25. Check us out! #envhum #envhist #environmentalhumanities

Edinburgh Young adult Fiction Prize — Scottish Arts Trust For writers and illustrators of novels and graphic novels created for readers aged 12 years and older. All genres including humour, romance, drama, horror, queer, contemporary, realist, speculative f...

A competition open to worldwide entries of YA novel or graphic novels! #ukkidlit #ukkidlitnews

www.scottishartstrust.org/young-adult-...

What a fantastic event!

Exciting new issue of Punk and Post-Punk on Goth Histories, edited by Claire Nally and Matthew Worley! If you don’t have access through your uni library, the pre-copy-edit version of my chapter on Goth nostalgia & authenticity is on my Lancaster Uni webpage. www.intellectbooks.com/punk-post-pu...

Hats off to UCU for showing leadership in extending device lifecycles. The digital is the material

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Postdoc advertised at UCL to work on the project ‘Connecting Histories, Connecting Heritage: Early Modern Cities and Their Afterlives’ !!

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

We’ve just published ‘Plant Perspectives’ 1.2, being a special issue on ‘Networks of Plants and the Language of Resonance in Science and Literature’ guest-edited by Gabriele Dürbeck and Yixu Lu: www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/index #plants #envhum @plantpjournal #openaccess

Circular blue Logo with Collective Atmospheres conference information

Check out the CFP, and calls for panels, for the ASLE 2025 Biennial Conference "Collective Atmospheres" July 8-11, 2025 at Univ of Maryland. Deadline for submissions is Jan. 3, 2025. Please share! #envhum #environmentalhumanities
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(1/27) STARTER PACK THREAD. The environmental humanities, broadly conceived, have been flourishing on BlueSky lately. To further promote this growth, we recommend the following starter packs in and beyond the #EnvHum, beginning with ICEHO's for environmental history. Let's connect!
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Life is short. Have a scone.

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Graphic featuring covers of "All Of Us or None" and "Fire Dreams." At the top are the words "Political Protests and Movements of Resistance" and "Read to Respond."

Our “Read to Respond” series addresses the current climate of misinformation by highlighting articles and books that encourage thoughtful, educated debate on today’s most pressing issues. Today we share resources on political protest:
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Book cover image and message reading ‘just published’

3rd edition out on the 3rd December - Disability Studies published by Sage

Interested in research on #media #epidemics #histsci #litsci or #medhums? Then welcome to Media and Epidemics! Our international, interdisciplinary project seeks to understand the role of media and technologies of communication in the making and management of epidemic outbreaks: mediaepidemics.com

To say: my profile pic is a LiDAR image showing the river-ghosts—historical meanders—of the Lower Mississippi.
Water, wandering, wilfully.
It’s by Daniel Coe, who has deep-mapped the pasts of many rivers.
See more of his work at dancoecarto.com/work
& below.
What wild, wondrous beings rivers are.

River running through wooded & arable landscape in England, seen from an angled aerial viewpoint

Hello––I'm interested in poetry & songs written to protest against harm to rivers or to protect them from harm.
Not just paeans to rivers, of which there are many. But words to protest or protect.
Can you recommend anything? I’d really like to grow a list.
Any century, language, culture, custom.

‘The land is tearing itself apart’: life on a collapsing Arctic isle On Qikiqtaruk, off Canada, researchers at the frontier of climate change are seeing its rich ecology slide into the sea as the melting permafrost leaves little behind Last summer, the western Arctic was uncomfortably hot. Smoke from Canada’s wildfires…

‘The land is tearing itself apart’: life on a collapsing Arctic isle

Archives and Emotions Archives and Emotions argues, at its most fundamental level, that emotions matter and have always mattered to both the people whose histories are documented by…

And here it is, out today in electronic format!
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/archives-... Wondrous cover is an oil painting by artist Nunzia Spadolino made especially for this volume. The title is Pagine di emozioni - Pages of Emotions