@chrisjpearson.bsky.social
Environmental Historian | Dogs | Climate | Books Author of Collared: How We Made the Modern Dog (Profile 2024) and Dogopolis (Chicago 2024)
A 2 year postdoc research assistant job to work on the early institutional history of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, leading to the writing of a report to contribute to broader decolonising and reparative efforts. Around 40k, deadline 5 Sept 25.
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bar chart showing deaths associate with extreme heat with and without climate change in 12 European cities
About 1500 of the approx. 2300 people that will have lost their lives across 12 European cities last week would still live, if it wasn't for our burning of oil, coal and gas. If we care about the right to life, we need to stop burning fossil fuels. www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...
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Children escape the heat of the East Side New York by using fire hydrant as a shower bath
Op-ed piece from team members Kara Schlichting and Selassie Mawuko:
Does NYC need a heat czar?
citylimits.org/opinion-its-...
TLDR: yes!
Essential reading in @citylimitsnews.bsky.social given the high the temperatures #NYC has experienced this summer
#heatwave
📷 LoC
Important news for the #envhist crowd: We are hiring an Associate Professor of Environmental History!
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Application deadline is August 7.
Some tips for those interested from abroad in thread 👇
Delighted to see this finally announced!
Liverpool-led AHRC Doctoral Focal Awards
Funding loads of Environmental/Medical Humanities PhDs with CHASE, @livunienglish.bsky.social, & lots of collaborators!!!
Congratulations!!! Brilliant news! 🎉
04.07.2025 10:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0How to turn off AI on Google searches. Took me 30secs 🙏🏻🥳
24.06.2025 14:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Many thanks for including @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social in this round up. Delighted to be building on your excellent book Fatal Isolation!
23.06.2025 19:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Heat waves everywhere in the global north this week, so time for a thread on heat humanities research. Humanities scholars are exceptionally good at analyzing intersections of race, class, gender, and labor to highlight social vulnerabilities to meteorological disasters.
23.06.2025 18:56 — 👍 60 🔁 25 💬 5 📌 5We have a ☀️NEW ☀️date for Stand of the Sun - Thursday 19 June 2025.
Still FREE, still at Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, TW1 3BL
Reserve tickets here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/richmond-art...
A reminder of an upcoming webinar organised by ESEH UK & Ireland region on 'New Directions in Urban Climates of the Atlantic Archipelago'
May 20, 2025: 13:00 – 15:00 (GMT +1)
Presenters: @erikahanna.bsky.social @rebwright.bsky.social @chrisjpearson.bsky.social
Zoom link eseh.org/envhistoday-...
Photo of Antoine Marc and Bumi Thomas with Bryony Ella's artwork My Body is a Sundail
☀️Come to a FREE Melting Metropolis event at Orleans House Gallery on #Summer #Solstice 21 June 2025: Stand of the Sun ☀️
Art, music and dance, with Bryony Ella, Bumi Thomas and Antoine Marc
Booking essential:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/richmond-art...
#climatecrisis #londonart
Historians, please sign!
01.05.2025 11:43 — 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
We are excited to announce that @liverpooluni.bsky.social will host the next big @ihr.bsky.social workshop - IHR@Liverpool! The topic is 'Difficult Histories' ✨
This is geared toward PGRs + early career folks & there are bursaries available!
Sign-up + more info ➡️ www.history.ac.uk/events/ihrli...
Organising a conference on extinction with Duncan Wilson. We have enough funding to provide free registration, some support towards accommodation and limited bursaries for travel. CFP here, with the form to submit your abstract.
We also have incredible speakers for the keynote and plenaries!
Exciting film-maker opportunity to work with Melting Metropolis
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META BOOK THIEVES - They Must Do The Write Thing The Society of Authors are protesting Meta’s HQ today This image shows illustrations of authors holding placards saying “make it fair” and “do the write thing”
Today UK authors are protesting against Meta for stealing our work to train their AI model. Authors earn an average of £7000 per year, we are not rich, and yet a trillion dollar company decided it didn’t want to license our work fairly as it was “too expensive”
Theft is not a valid alternative.
Amazing opportunity alert!
20.03.2025 14:33 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0📢ACTUAL ACADEMIC JOB🚨
Tell the ECRs in your lives that we have full-time, 12-month teaching fellowship @livunienglish.bsky.social
So, while the world continues to burn, they can at least be paid properly to teach books and in a friendly department that is 75% human (10% Witch; 15% miscellaneous)
*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht.
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
#skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens
Looking forward to being back in Bristol 😍
26.02.2025 08:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today's the day and our tails are already wagging in anticipation! 🐕🐶🐩🦮🐕🦺🐾 @chrisjpearson.bsky.social
26.02.2025 06:58 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Here's our response 👇 Feel free to use our answers as a template. You've got until midnight tonight! And remember, you don't need to answer every question.
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Next Wednesday (26/2) @chrisjpearson.bsky.social will be joining us to deliver the CEH Annual Lecture on his new book Collared: How We Made the Modern Dog. The lecture will take place in the Old Council Chamber, Wills Memorial Building, Bristol at 5-6.30pm. All welcome!
21.02.2025 09:35 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1Honoured to be in such good company and excited, as ever, to be visiting the West Country!
13.01.2025 14:24 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🥳 Behold! The CEH Termcard has landed and it's packed full of exciting events -- from workshops to walkshops, lectures to moth expeditions. We're so pleased to have @chrisjpearson.bsky.social back to deliver our annual lecture on the 26 February, along with many other brilliant speakers!
13.01.2025 11:28 — 👍 11 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 3Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
09.01.2025 01:18 — 👍 36517 🔁 10518 💬 445 📌 344CfP: ESEH 2025 Summer School in Environmental History
Anthropocene Histories
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
August 25-28, 2025, right after #ESEH2025
Deadline: 28 February
#envhist #envhum #anthropocene @eseh.bsky.social
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More information👇
eseh.org/call-for-par...
“Our technology requires parasitical theft to be profitable” is a bold gambit
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