Manon Raffard

Had a parcel delivered this week during an 8-hour window (no warning ofc). Kindly left to a "neighbour". Name of neighbour on receipt: "door". Wish I was kidding.

From a salty breeze to the stench of sewage, here’s how smell affects our ocean experience and reflects changing seas Smellscapes of the sea are multi-layered - they are shaped by interactions between water, marine life and environmental conditions.

#researchnotes: spotlight on Jieling Xiao's article for The Conversation on smell and marine environments!

Link: champ.ly/0NGbLMJL

#smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #chemicalsenses #academia #envhum #envhist

#envhum #envhist #santépublique

Etude importante sur la proximité entre industrie et risque de pathologies respiratoires ⬇️
www.santepubliquefrance.fr/docs/bassins...

A lire aussi l'HDR de C. Gramaglia : "Habiter la pollution industrielle" (www.pressesdesmines.com/produit/habi...)

Screen capture of a archive online catalogue. It describes the collection as "in poor condition" and "extremely dirty".

Don't threaten me with a good time, John Rylands cataloguist

Been in England for 8 weeks; I get more support from my employer's disability services than the NHS. And my GP practice is alright, so I cannot imagine what it must be like for autistics with high support needs or in a rural area...

📢Call For Papers📢
Sociability & Political life

Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?

Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!

I’ve just launched Research Notes Studio, where I support researchers and organisations with editing, research development, and grant-writing.
If you’re preparing a manuscript or a proposal or know someone who is, please share www.researchnotesstudio.com

UK needs a properly-funded HE sector, says me.

Also, calling all #Fanon and #decolonial scholars to read Yang Wang's essay on atmospheric violence in relation with the history of the meteorological sciences: www.venti-journal.com/yang-wang

A man covering his mouth with a handkerchief, walking through a smoggy London street. Coloured aquatint.

Source for the illustration: wellcomecollection.org/works/mtjtux...

A man covering his mouth with a handkerchief, walking through a smoggy London street

My paper on spatial segregation, class, air and smell in 19th c Paris has been published OA by the amazing team at Venti Journal!
And here it is: www.venti-journal.com/manon-raffard

#smellstudies #sensoryhistory #classinequality #envhum #envhist #urbanhistory

Yeah, I've looked into it more and it's just plain exploitative and predatory. It shouldn't exist and shouldn't be promoted. I'll try to get the posting removed to H-net Ecolit tomorrow as well.

Thank you so much for the warning Ysabel! I'll make sure the post is deleted. It is indeed abusive and I'm surprised the organisers hid it so carefully.

Read this...
'Good ventilation is associated with:
♡ improved health
♡ better concentration
♡ higher levels of satisfaction with an environment
♡ lower rates of absence from work
♡ better quality of sleep
♡ reduced exposure to a wide range of air pollutants.'
👉 #HSE www.hse.gov.uk/ventilation/...

Un article co-rédigé par notre ancien doctorant et compagnon de route Yohann Guffroy @yguffr.bsky.social. Avec Charles-Antoine Wanecq 👇

It's like those 'cake or object' videos; instead of everything being cake, now everything is an archive. I'm an archive, you're an archive, we're all archives really

Spread the word about this brand new Masters in Public Environmental Humanities with me and The Greenhouse crew in Norway.

For those outside of EU, registration is in second half of November, so don’t miss it!

Energy’s History: From colonialism, to anti-colonialism, and back again?

Book launch event:

"Energy's History: Toward a Global Canon" with editors Daniela Russ and Thomas Turnbull, followed by a talk by historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz.

🗓️ November 3, 2025

🕛 16.00-17.30

📍 Spore Initiative Berlin

🔗 spore-initiative.org/en/programmi...

#HistSci #EnvHum

#envhum #romanticism

Thrilled to have a wonderful group of speakers coming up this year for the Lancaster-Manchester Environmental DH Seminar - @ehameeteman.bsky.social @jimclifford.bsky.social @michamahlberg.bsky.social + participants in the in-person event @lancasteruni.bsky.social!

Le collectif des mineurs isolés de Rouen, devant le foyer Colette Yver qu'ils occupent en attente d'une solution pérenne

À Rouen, l’académie refuse de scolariser des mineurs isolés et à la rue. Ce dernier reportage, je n'aurais pas pu le faire sans votre soutien !

Il est à lire & voir sur Politis et pour soutenir ce travail, c'est par ici !

📸 fr.tipeee.com/louiswitter/...

Grave, le vin espagnol en plus est complètement sous-côté en France, alors qu'on est tous déjà tombés sur des Bourgogne hors de prix vraiment pas terribles

⬇️ why citation metrics are often irrelevant and not indicative of the actual significance / quality of the research.

I'm planning an interactive workshop on the senses and medical humanities, to be held in Leeds in July 2026. It will involve creative practitioners, academics, and clinicians. If this is something you'd be interested in attending, please drop me a message or reply to this post and we can chat more!

🌿✨ New Book Out! ✨🌿
Our new volume #Scents_of_Arabia: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Olfactory Worlds is now published with
@archaeopress.bsky.social

Thank you to all contributors who made this book possible!
@dai-weltweit.bsky.social
🏺🧪👩‍🔬👃

#PastScents #Heritage #Archaeology

Hey Will :)
I arrived this Monday. I'm seeing flats all day tomorrow, but i'll send you an e-mail on Friday!

Arrived in Manchester less than 2 days ago. Been called "luv" by elderly people thrice already. Feels real nice ☺️

Thank you Katie 💜

Thank you Lisa :))