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Cristina Brito

@crisbri.bsky.social

An environmental historian with a long time crush for the ocean 🌊🩡 (β—•(β€˜ δΊΊ β€˜) β—•) Author of 'Humans and Aquatic Animals...' https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463728218/humans-and-aquatic-animals-in-early-modern-america-and-africa #bluehumanities #oceanspast

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Cooperation between ecologists and historians has allowed a robust reconstruction of the historical introduction of the Italian crayfish, Austropotamobius fulcisianus, to Spain in the late-16th century
@ebdonana.bsky.social @um.es
New OA paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

01.09.2025 09:12 β€” πŸ‘ 65    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 9

Hot spots and Hot moments for whales around the global plus the consequences of the success of conservation efforts for 'ecocultural' systems. Another great keynote #ECSconference2025

16.05.2025 11:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What a privilege to present our work side by side with these great researchers.
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@erc4oceans.bsky.social

15.05.2025 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is what we at @erc4oceans.bsky.social are addressing through the study of human use of marine life
#bluehumanities #oceanspast

15.05.2025 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Here we go. Kicking off with the brilliant work of L. Rendell and colleagues.
Myself, going back to origins or living a full circle moment in #marinemammal research, history and conservation.
Tomorrow the #bluehumanities are coming to the #ECSconference2025

14.05.2025 10:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Baleias em linhas de falha | Whales in fault lines
YouTube video by CHAM - Centro de Humanidades Baleias em linhas de falha | Whales in fault lines

Whales in Fault Lines

A new video output of the ERC Sy Grant #4oceans project is online. It results from the research conducted in Lisbon, history of whales, strandings and earthquakes.

Full video: youtu.be/z-PEtSOu2Ek?...

#bluehumanities #marenvhist #whaleshistory #baleias #humanities4theocean

22.11.2024 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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We talk about the #bluehumanities

cham.fcsh.unl.pt/actividades-...

We walk around a water city

We look for documentation and material evidence about the past of water, animals, natural habitats and people

#environmentalhumanities #animalstudies #Lisbon #envhist

14.03.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Transdisciplinary Histories and the Rise of the Environmental Humanities | Global Environment This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0.

liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

09.02.2025 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Transdisciplinary Histories and the Rise of the Environmental Humanities | Global Environment This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0.

liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

09.02.2025 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Transdisciplinary Histories and the Rise of the Environmental Humanities | Global Environment This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0.

liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

09.02.2025 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Transdisciplinary histories. Our joint voices in an open and global conversation.
#bluehumanities #environmentalhumanities #environmentalhistory #animalstudies #oceanspast #waterstudies
www.whpress.co.uk/publications... @whitehorsepress.bsky.social @erc4oceans.bsky.social @wildpasts.bsky.social

09.02.2025 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Transdisciplinary histories. Our joint voices in an open and global conversation.
#bluehumanities #environmentalhistory #oceanspast
www.whpress.co.uk/publications... @whitehorsepress.bsky.social

07.02.2025 11:47 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A bit of history of the human-wolf relationship.
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#animalstudies #animalshistories #landmammals #envhum

16.01.2025 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wet Urbanisms | MoMA Inspired by the publication of AndrΓ© Tavares’s new book Architecture Follows Fish: An Amphibious History of the North Atlantic, the panel discussion β€œWet Urbanisms” brings Tavares in conversation with...

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Um painel transdisciplinar que irΓ‘ refletir sobre mitologias afrofuturistas subaquΓ‘ticas, aquΓ‘rios pΓΊblicos, indΓΊstrias extrativas e a relaΓ§Γ£o entre vidas terrestres e as Γ‘guas que as rodeiam.

www.moma.org/calendar/eve...

#WetUrbanisms #Design #Sustentability #bluehumanities

15.01.2025 08:38 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cristina Brito, Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa | Environment and History


A review of my book Humans and Aquatic Animals...
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'It is a valuable contribution to the pushback against the nature–culture divide.'

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/full/10....

@erc4oceans.bsky.social
#environmentalhistory #bluehumanities #animalstudies #oceanstudies

12.01.2025 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A bit of our #bluehumanities approach plus #environmentalhumanitirs around the globe in a very special article. Soon out.
@erc4oceans.bsky.social

08.01.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Lisbon team of the @erc4oceans.bsky.social project had a full year. Expect much more from us in 2025, while wishing all a happy, healthy, safe, sustainable and more equitable way of living on our planet.
#bluehumanities #environmentalhistory #animalstudies #oceanspast #environmentalhumanities

23.12.2024 09:39 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Soundings by Doreen Cunningham review – a whale of a journey A mother and her young son follow pods of whales from Mexico to Alaska in this brave, lyrical memoir

One of the most beautiful books I read last year #soundings (not just, but mostly) about
#whales and #women and the #poetry of encounters and belongings.
www.theguardian.com/books/2022/a...

04.01.2025 10:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œChoupos” (ed. AssΓ­rio & Alvim)
Adília Lopes🀍

30.12.2024 22:49 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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The Lisbon team of the @erc4oceans.bsky.social project had a full year. Expect much more from us in 2025, while wishing all a happy, healthy, safe, sustainable and more equitable way of living on our planet.
#bluehumanities #environmentalhistory #animalstudies #oceanspast #environmentalhumanities

23.12.2024 09:39 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#environmentalhumanities
#bluehumanities
#animalstudies
#whaleshistory

08.12.2024 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

4-Oceans has a new #blue account.
Go check it out.
#4oceans #oceanspast #humanities4theocean

27.11.2024 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A recent output of #4oceans ERC Syn Grant by our co-PI @poulholm.bsky.social
#oceanspast #historicalfisheries

23.11.2024 17:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Baleias em linhas de falha | Whales in fault lines
YouTube video by CHAM - Centro de Humanidades Baleias em linhas de falha | Whales in fault lines

Whales in Fault Lines

A new video output of the ERC Sy Grant #4oceans project is online. It results from the research conducted in Lisbon, history of whales, strandings and earthquakes.

Full video: youtu.be/z-PEtSOu2Ek?...

#bluehumanities #marenvhist #whaleshistory #baleias #humanities4theocean

22.11.2024 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Currently reading 'Silent Whale Letters'.
A beautiful sensorial experience for a former whale bioacoustician turned to #bluehumanities scholar of whales and the sea.
#TBA21

17.11.2024 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The next 𝘚𝘱𝘳π˜ͺ𝘯𝘨𝘴 article we'd like to highlight from issue six is "Stew of the Earth" by L. Sasha Gora.

Read it here: springs-rcc.org/stew-of-the-...

#springs #rccsprings #rccpublication #publication #envhum #cooking #food #nature #online #openaccess #hotsprings #stew

14.11.2024 11:10 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ties, Tides and Times.
πŸ©΅πŸŒπŸ’™πŸŒŽπŸ’š
The multiple versions of the multiverse we live in, us and other animals, buildings and remains, in eco-cultural networks.
#coastalhistory #4oceans #oceanspast #animalstudies #bluehumanities #BlueArchive #MarEnvHist

07.11.2024 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Slimy and tiny things of the oceans, and the larger things of the ocean, are meeting today in Lisbon #bluehumanities #marenvhist #oceanspast with N. Vieira , C. Pastore and many colleagues from CHAM, ULICES, the 4-Oceans ERC grant and other institutions.
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07.11.2024 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We are up to something. The ERC 4-Oceans project is meeting the full team in Portugal and discussing results and outputs.
#4oceans #oceanspast #oceanshistory #marenvhist #bluehumanities #humanitiesmatter
@poulholm.bsky.social, myself, J. Barrett & F. Ludlow will be coming back with more news.

30.10.2024 11:41 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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