@medievalpenguin.bsky.social
Medievalist, environmental historian, penguin historian, photographer, co-editor of Water History. Author of Medieval Riverscapes, Negotiating the Landscape, and Water in World History. EFArnold.com
An extremely cool map
03.12.2025 19:25 — 👍 259 🔁 57 💬 6 📌 0WOW
02.12.2025 20:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today is McDonald's day in Food History.
02.12.2025 13:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Brains are amazing
02.12.2025 12:57 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
breathing steadily, calmly. but there are blurbs now.
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Happy to have been able to circle back to this research (@medievalpenguin.bsky.social will recognize it!) in the context of this summer's droughts and resulting dry wells. #cdnhist #envhist
28.11.2025 16:12 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0I seriously think about and recommend your article ALL THE TIME. Really one of my favorites.
29.11.2025 13:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Interested in a tenure track position to work with us in environmental history at SEC and BOKU University in Vienna? Deadline to apply is Jan, 6 next year, details here: boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...
27.11.2025 08:49 — 👍 5 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0So amidst the regular angst of late semester grading and emails, I also have a *very big thing* that is out in the world now. Waiting to see if good things happen. Waiting is hard.
26.11.2025 01:25 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Figured since I was a medieval penguin it was especially apropos
25.11.2025 16:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Grading student responses to hydropower week while listening to Guthrie's Columbia River Collection
25.11.2025 16:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
25.11.2025 15:57 — 👍 19 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Laptop with a blue sky and a backyard view behind it
Trying to wring one pleasure out of the piles of grading
23.11.2025 19:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I love it so much.
22.11.2025 12:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
morning!
so, it's my birthday today and I'm now 50 (yikes) but it turns out i have a present for YOU! a new episode of @americanmedieval.bsky.social w/ the exceptional @sarahebond.bsky.social!
we talk dinosaurs & the American obsession w/ Rome (among other things...)
Listen now!
AND WE'RE LIVE!!!!!
Welcome to American Medieval! Our first episode sees @profgabriele.com talk with the amazing @goingmedieval.bsky.social about what got us interested in the Middle Ages, why Czech history is super cool, and why Dan Brown drives us nuts
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
So, @americanmedieval.bsky.social talks to really cool people!Including the always interesting @greenleejw.bsky.social
12.11.2025 20:20 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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...
Just sharing this cartoon made by Niels again.
Shieldwalls are awesome.
Regularly check in with loved ones to make sure they're perhaps in need of a shieldwall.
www.facebook.com/CouldBeWorse...
A screen capture of an old Facebook post from 2008 that says Ellen “is grading papers. For the rest of her life.”
Well this was oddly prescient.
28.10.2025 01:14 — 👍 24 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0There are now 183 videos of our Greenhouse #envhum book talks available to view via our Vimeo showcase. This includes our most recent talks.
You can also listen to the audio-only podcast, which is slightly behind with 154 episodes available: newnatures.org/greenhouse/f...
Will confess I am nervous
24.10.2025 15:11 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0At Notre Dame to give the keynote 😳 at the Midwest Medieval History Association meeting, which has Water, Rivers, and the Environment in the Middle Ages as the theme!
24.10.2025 13:05 — 👍 32 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0Well, Canvas being down on the very first day of the 7 week online class and the same day a bunch of assignments were due has definitely added j-ne-se-quoi to today.
20.10.2025 19:47 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0I'm so sorry I have a dr appoinment. I'm going early to see if I can get out on time to attend. But if I can't I'll watch later!!!
20.10.2025 12:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I do not think it is possible to do all the grading I need to do in the hours that exist in the world.
18.10.2025 14:53 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Apply now for a free week-long PhD course on Energy Humanities organized by the Greenhouse and the project Energy Lives! project run by @melinabuns.bsky.social
Takes place in Stavanger, Norway, 1-5 December 2025
www.uis.no/en/research/...
#envhum #envhist #energy
Aw thanks!!! I should think about that I have so many great pictures from the letters
13.10.2025 23:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I am so very very sorry
13.10.2025 23:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Amongst many great essays, there is a little story about an inter-war American "penguin craze" by yours truly.
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