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Ellen Arnold

@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

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An extremely cool map

03.12.2025 19:25 β€” πŸ‘ 259    πŸ” 57    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

WOW

02.12.2025 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Today is McDonald's day in Food History.

02.12.2025 13:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Brains are amazing

02.12.2025 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Public Scholar A Practical Handbook

breathing steadily, calmly. but there are blurbs now.

www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

01.12.2025 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 268    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 6

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 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I seriously think about and recommend your article ALL THE TIME. Really one of my favorites.

29.11.2025 13:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Interested 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 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So 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 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Figured since I was a medieval penguin it was especially apropos

25.11.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Grading student responses to hydropower week while listening to Guthrie's Columbia River Collection

25.11.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

25.11.2025 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Laptop with a blue sky and a backyard view behind it

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 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I love it so much.

22.11.2025 12:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The β€œFall of Rome” with Sarah Bond Podcast Episode Β· American Medieval Β· 11/19/2025 Β· 1h 4m

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!

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Public Medievalism with Eleanor Janega Podcast Episode Β· American Medieval Β· 11/12/2025 Β· 57m

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

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12.11.2025 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 11

So, @americanmedieval.bsky.social talks to really cool people!Including the always interesting @greenleejw.bsky.social

12.11.2025 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Book cover with colorful parakeet in a bell jar

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...

09.11.2025 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 5
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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...

01.11.2025 22:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1942    πŸ” 332    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 18
A screen capture of an old Facebook post from 2008 that says Ellen β€œis grading papers. For the rest of her life.”

A screen capture of an old Facebook post from 2008 that says Ellen β€œis grading papers. For the rest of her life.”

Well this was oddly prescient.

28.10.2025 01:14 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Greenhouse Environmental Humanities Book Talks Book talks with authors of recent books in environmental humanities, with the authors in discussion with Dolly JΓΈrgensen and Finn Arne JΓΈrgensen, University of Stavanger, Norway. The book talks are he...

There 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...

26.10.2025 09:53 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Will confess I am nervous

24.10.2025 15:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

At 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 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Well, 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 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I'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 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I 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 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Apply for PhD Course on Energy Humanities 5 ECTS PhD course β€˜Themes within Environmental Humanities’ to be held in Stavanger, 1-5 December 2025. This year’s thematic focus is the developing field of the Energy Humanities.

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

15.10.2025 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Aw thanks!!! I should think about that I have so many great pictures from the letters

13.10.2025 23:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am so very very sorry

13.10.2025 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Amongst many great essays, there is a little story about an inter-war American "penguin craze" by yours truly.

13.10.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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