Amanda Wells 🍊📚

Job Alert: Level B Lecturer in History @ La Trobe (Teaching and Research) for any of my contacts looking a longer-than-6-month contract: careers.pageuppeople.com/533/caw/en/j...

Greetings from Australia, where it is…. October right now 😖

Rabbit holes ! 🐇

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excited to share the call for the workshop

EXTRACTIVE NATURES / NATURES OF EXTRACTION

happening at @uobrisceh.bsky.social on 6-7 Nov 2025,

made possible by the @britishacademy.bsky.social

deadline: 10 September!

full call below ⤵

#envhist #envhum

To repeal this would be a relatively 'easy' win, politically. And be life-changing for student access.

The jewel in the crown of the ANU • Inside Story Celebrated by previous vice-chancellors, the Australian Dictionary of Biography and its fellow national project, the Australian National Dictionary, are threatened by university cuts

"But such an assessment places no value on the generous gift of scholarship to the ANU from Indigenous and other Australians. [...] And it turns its back on the national mission and international reputation of the ANU." insidestory.org.au/the-jewel-in...

Crisis: I should spend more time outside for my mental health, but I need to get on with my academic career tasks.
Solution: E N V I R O N M E N T A L H I S T O R Y ✨🌿(and humanties, ofc).

Halting Chowilla Dam: salt, science, and River Murray politics in the 1960s Announced by South Australian Premier Thomas Playford in 1960, the plan to build Chowilla Dam on the River Murray aimed to secure water rights crucial for the state’s economic growth. This article ...

A big few days: first solo-authored journal article is online! All about a failed Dam plan, and the South Australian view of the River Murray. (Yes, we say River first in SA!)
doi.org/10.1080/1449...

Amanda’s PhD thesis is printed out and resting in an in-tray on her desk, in front of a coffee cup and a pot plant. She is just about to submit the digital version, and took this picture to mark the moment.

Amanda holding (a chunk of) her PhD thesis, looking happy and relieved, as the sun casts warm light on her right shoulder.

The corner of a room with a desk, an empty office chair, and streamers across the floor and hanging from a whiteboard. It is the aftermath of a celebratory moment, when Amanda handed in her PhD.

Finally get to say “PhDone”!

Animal Architecture: In Conversation An animal studies scholar talks with an architect and an architecture writer about designing for, and with, nonhuman species.

Architects don’t just design for humans. They design, intentionally or not, for all of the nonhuman species affected by human-built structures. Western architecture has long been a driver of ecological destruction: How can we build to accommodate other species as cohabitants of a shared environment?

📣 Jobs, jobs, jobs!

Aarhus University’s Department of Political Science is hiring:

🔹 Assistant Professor
🗓 Deadline: 25 August
🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...

🔹 Associate Professor
🗓 Deadline: 8 September
🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...

Recruitment : POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW to work on the PROTECCT project Application to be sent before 6 July 2025

"Looking for postdoctoral researcher for collective project PROTECCT, aiming to map out and understand the diversity of protection policies implemented by EU countries to protect against floods, heatwaves, coastal erosion and droughts"
www.sciencespo.fr/cso/en/news/...
#envhum #openpositions

📜 We are delighted to announce that entries are now open for the 2025 History Council of New South Wales Awards!

🎉 There will be a new Award on offer this year, alongside a rise in the total prize money to over $6,000!

Registrations close 8th July at 5pm

Learn more via buff.ly/Vrb98GC

That illustration is amazing too!

Slightly less I guess… on a scale of disastrous to apocalypse it’s all terrible though!

Last I knew, the nuclear program in Iran was deliberately disjointed so that they could delay other nations knowing how far they’d gone with bomb building technology. Maybe that’s still the case? 😬

In Her Nature | Australian Women's History Network Commissioning Editor Ruby Ekkel launches a new VIDA series, exploring the intersections of environmental and women’s history.  ‘Make the back-yard the embryo of your future desires. As a country we ar...

VIDA is excited to announce Ruby Ekkel's (@rubyekkel.bsky.social) new series on environmental history and gender 🌿🏕️💃

You can read Ruby's introduction to the series here ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/in-her-...

Roses are redde
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes

Make the argument; don’t assume it.

In 2006 I took on called 'Sex, Drugs, and Rock n' Roll' about anthropologies of popular culture and subcultures. Fab content to back up very cool title that I can still see on my transcript!

Placements for PhD Students We welcome PhD placement students to learn from our experts and make real contributions to our work at Kew Gardens in London or Wakehurst in Sussex.

Enjoy hunting in libraries and archives? PhD placement "Unearthing the roots of Kew Gardens’ history" with @rbgkew.bsky.social and HRP, open to UKRI-funded students. Apply by 11 May, details see link at: kew.org/science/trai... or DM me

Thank goodness I'm just refining my thesis now. If I was trying to write from scratch now, I'm sure I'd be all up in my head (more than I am!)

After doing some undergrad marking, I am now sad to say that I can't use em-dash anymore: it looks too ChatGPT. 😭 And I'd only just come around to using it at all!

Celebrate environmental history week with #AANZEHN! Join us for the Shadow Places Poetry Workshop facilitated by anthropologist and poet Frances Grimshaw. Can't wait to see you! Details here: www.environmentalhistory-au-nz.org/2025/04/envi...

📣 ECR OPPORTUNITY 📣

In collaboration with the Centre for Contemporary Histories, we are offering 10 Writing Fellowships for ECRs!

Fellows will write one opinion piece and one policy briefing note, mentored by academics from the CCH and APH.

Deadline: 10 May 2025

Info: aph.org.au/2025/04/aust...

PhD Position in Global History

PhD position in Global History at ETH Zurich (4 years, fully funded), starting 1 July 2025 or soon after.
Part of the SNSF project Engineering Empires from the Margins, led by Prof. Harald Fischer-Tiné and Dr. Monique Ligtenberg.
jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

@mjmccann.bsky.social

@harrycroft.bsky.social To add to your future readings pile!

Stunning cover!! 🙌

True! Opening social media was a rookie mistake! 😅
Back to the books I go... 📚