Dolly Jørgensen

The Art of Entanglement: Fish, Flow, and Knowing Dive into a creative world where fish, water, and story are teachers. Building on the energy and excitement of last year’s “Fish as Storytellers”, this year’s program moves more deeply into themes of ...

Building on the wild success of last year's event, I'm delighted to share that Dr. Courtney Chetwynd and I are leading another 'Fish School' at the Hollyhock Centre this October. This year's iteration is entitled 'The Art of Entanglement: Fish, Flow, and Knowing'. hollyhock.ca/programs/830...

Cover of book COVID Studies: A Reader. Blue with image of knitted globes in shape of a COVID molecule

Coming in July:
COVID Studies: A Reader.
Includes an article I co-authored with Hyeonbin Park on animals & care in a pandemic.
www.pennpress.org/978151282949...

Yes! I made a similar point a couple months back. The productive struggle is the point.

Postgraduate Funding Find out about postgraduate funding opportunities within the School of History, Classics and Archaeology.

My colleagues Annie Tindley and @drhick.bsky.social have funding 📣 for a Collaborative Doctoral Award with Museums Northern Ireland for a PhD on "Reawakening the Living Landscape: Integrating Heritage and Sustainability at the Ulster Folk Museum" - www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/study/hi... Deadline 20 April.

Every word of this post (and the original posters, too).

The point of undertaking a literature review is to engage in the slow, cumulative cognitive process of learning as you read and write. It’s not “processing thousands of references to get a statistical summary of what the LLM was fed”

A Paradise in Spring: An Ecological Account of Birds, Fishes and Hunters in the Bāburnāma Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad Bābur’s autobiography anticipates an ecological and multispecies way of understanding the environment, highlighting confluence rather than divergence between humans and nonhumans...

New Arcadia article by Smarika Nawani on how the autobiography of Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad Bābur (1483–1530), the first Mughal emperor, anticipates an ecological and multispecies understanding of the environment, highlighting confluence rather than divergence between humans and nonhumans.

#EnvHist

For anyone attending @aseh.bsky.social this year, there will be a session on the necessity of translation in the field of environmental history on the late-afternoon timeslot on Thursday.

diagram showing how a film set might simulate an underwater view, with the arrangement (from left to right) of a film camera, an aquarium, a woman dressed as a mermaid, and three sheets

my article on Georges Méliès and aquariums—the first thing published from my dissertation—is now out open access at @jcmsjournal.bsky.social!!

read on to see how fairy tale grottoes, Jules Verne's science fiction, and water infrastructure are all connected!!!

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Fungi in SFF Special Issues call for non-fiction submissions

Strange Horizons is open to non-fiction submissions for our March 30th special issue which will be all about Fungi in SFF!

More information about our submission guidelines and how to submit ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Book cover based on stylised painted art of someone digging in a large pile of soil with a shovel.

We're delighted to announce publication of 'Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for The Environmental Humanities' (E. Brownell, ed.) – exploring #soil as a vessel of human #history and point of view for inquiry. Available print or #openaccess here: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhum #envhist

Extreme Long shot but, if anyone visited the Permanent Exhibition at the National Museum of Finland between 1995-2016 and has any pictures of the interpretation panels/display/presentation of the Suontaka sword then I'd be extremely grateful for copies!

Many thanks!

Overview of the events happening at the Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities during March 2026. For more information about the center, visit the website https://www.uis.no/en/greenhouse. For information about the book talk series, see also https://newnatures.org/greenhouse/

Spring has started to sprout and the @greenhouseuis.net is looking forward to full month with events on everything from climate justice in education over the sea urchins on the menu to the architecture of low-voltage cabins.

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#envhum

If you missed the @sochistnathist.bsky.social Early Career Symposium last week, videos of 8 of the presentations are now available to watch online: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Check out these up and coming scholars and their exciting new work!
#envhist #nathist

Bookplate of daffodils by Anne Pratt

🌼 Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!🌼Happy St. David's Day!🌼

Daffodils have been a national symbol of Wales since the 19th century.

This bookplate of daffodils is from ‘Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges and Ferns of Great Britain’ by the botanical illustrator Anne Pratt (1806-1893).

Just finished reading @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social's FANTASTIC "Ghosts Behind Glass". A really insightful read that dives into the different approaches to extinction in museums. Would definitely recommend to anyone interested in natural history museums or extinction studies!

Can we overcome the shifting baseline syndrome? At @au.dk they offer at three year PhD project Co-supervised by me, which aims to intertwine local ecological knowledge and scientific knowledge to gain insights into seabird breeding distributions prior to rat invasion

phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...

It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

CFP - Speculative Climates: Hauntings Of The Past Across The Humanities – EASLCE Considering the contemporary as a timespace haunted by crises rooted in the past, the workshop on Speculative Climates asks how the intricate mesh of

PhD students, check out this International Doctoral Workshop in Cologne, Germany, in November. Deadline: 30 April. #envhist #envhum

Are AI-generated summaries suitable for studying and research? Despite didactic, ethical, and environmental concerns, the use of GenAI is on the rise in academia. For most applications, the jury is still out on whether and how they will benefit education and rese...

This is one of the most reasoned & persuasive arguments for not allowing LLMs anywhere near reading & writing intensive classrooms. We can 100% choose not to outsource our reading & writing labor to a bot, and model for our students why they should do the same. #EduSky

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The plural of series may be series, which is utterly irritating, but the singular possessive is series’s and the plural possessive is series’, which helps a little.

#copyediting

We should have arranged for you to bring an instrument to ours!

Men studying a dragon

ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE
My home department at Uppsala University is advertising an endowed professorship in the history of science. This is the best position in the field in Sweden, and probably in all of Scandinavia. Apply before 30 April 2026. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

The journal is going to be in great hands! Congrats to @dudleymarianna.bsky.social & @colinhoag.bsky.social in taking over these roles.

I think it's probably time to announce that me and @colinhoag.bsky.social are the incoming Editors of Environmental Humanities journal, published by @dukepress.bsky.social . Huge thanks to Franklin Ginn & @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social for all their work as Eds, & for patiently showing us the ropes!

Join the Rural History Roundtable on Thursday March 12 from 330-5pm EST, as Dr. Tami Parr @pdxia.bsky.social presents on "Goats in America: From Poor Man's Cow to Urban Icon." 🐐

For info on how to attend this online talk, click here:
www.uoguelph.ca/arts/rural/r...

#aghist #animalhist #envhist

TWO DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS IN EAST ASIAN RELIGIONS (296038) | University of Oslo Job title: TWO DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS IN EAST ASIAN RELIGIONS (296038), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, April 6, 2026

Job alert!

We are looking for talented PhD researchers to write a dissertation on Benzaiten worship in modern Japan or Mazu pilgrimages in Taiwan, as part of the ERC project "Maritime Goddesses: Transnational Connections, Blue Environments, and Ritual Care in East- and Southeast Asia" (MARGO).

Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for the Environmental Humanities Full open-access volume Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for the Environmental Humanities (2026), edited by Emily Brownell.

New #EnvHum book! Read Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for the Environmental Humanities by Emily Brownell for free on our Environment & Society Portal. This is sure to come in handy for lecturers in the field.

Maybe a start, but even in your small sample I found an error - the K (line 8) is in wrong column. So if you don’t check it all, I’d question any result.

As someone who has published books with 100+ images, here are my tips for finding free #earlymodern images (and tips for discounts when you have to pay for them!) 🗃️

sarahabendall.com/2020/03/11/e...

Very cool looking CFP for a special issue of Animal History on the intersection between African Studies and Animal Studies:

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