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‘My lovely distraction’: live stream of kākāpō – world’s fattest parrot – and her chicks captivates New Zealand More than 100,000 people have tuned in to watch a kākāpō – a rare flightless bird – sleeping, tidying her nest and fighting off intruders

Kakapo live streaming, everyone
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Wonderful. I received it! 🙏

Really appreciate you looking into this.

Thank you 🙏!

Thank you, Ben, that's very kind!

Can anyone share w me the chapter 'The Battle of Riley Creek..' by Richard Rajala from the book Sustainability Dilemma..? Canadian folks? #envhist
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“Dave Foreman at UW Oshkosh with Bron Taylor” The lecture features environmental activist Dave Foreman, introduced by Bron Taylor at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh in 1990. The event situates Foreman’s ideas within the emerging discourse on ...

Former Carson Fellow Bron Taylor has made available some lectures and talks that might interest historians of environmentalism. First out is this lecture by Dave Foreman (Earth First!) from 1990, introduced by Bron himself.

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CFA: These are wonderful 3-years postdoc projects, check them out and apply: 🐦🐮

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Check out Monica Vasile's review of L. David Mech, Morgan Anderson & H. Dean Cluff's "The Ellesmere Wolves: Behavior and Ecology in the High Arctic," published in 2025 by @uchicagopress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #histsci
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Multispecies Mutualisms - Join Our Research Team! We’re hiring 4 Postdoctoral Research Associates (PDRAs) In this video, members of the team share insights into four exciting PDRA opportunities currently available. If you are ready to take the next s...

1/ Calling all ECRS - we have 4x 3 year post docs on Multispecies Mutualisms working with us at Sheffield. Don't want to read through all the stuff to work out if its right for you? Here is a short video explainer 🎥
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Check out Karlyn Allenbrand's review of Alyssa S. McClanahan's "Zimmer: The Movement That Defeated a Nuclear Power Plant," published in 2025 by University Press of Kentucky; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #nuclear #pollution☢️
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⏱️the countdown begins…we are 1 year in to the Multispecies Mutualisms project & next week we will advertise four 3-year post doc positions. The posts will start in Sept 2026. Keep a look out for the adverts & get in touch if you have fully completed your PhD & are interested in working with us ⬇️

Planning to attend #EASST this year? The brilliant @evahaifa.bsky.social is convening a panel on Multispecies mutualisms
📅 deadline to submit a paper proposal is 9 March- more details on this & registering are in the 🧵

And here finally my contribution to this conversation doi.org/10.1017/S174... in @globalhistjnl.bsky.social. I trace the origins of #corporateenvironmentalism to heterogeneous, private #governance networks in the 1970s that served as alternatives to official UN settings. Also, great title, yes?

The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
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Online tomorrow Monday, 16 February 2026:
Greenhouse book talk with Kip Hutchins @songsforhorses.com on A Song for the Horses: Musical Heritage for More-than-Human Futures in Mongolia (University of Arizona Press, 2025) at 16:00 CET / 10:00 EST.

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In a room with a view, finishing 2 job applications and 1 grant application, all due today. Send the good vibes.

Title page of book proofs, Transforming Night: The History and Science of Light Pollution

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#LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Night #Darkness #LightJustice

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Call for Contributions: A Sourcebook for Histories of Weather and Weathering
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The Glanely Food and Farming Schola | University of Exeter The University of Exeter is pleased to offer this scholarship, a fee reduction worth £5000, to up to five full time students enrolling on our MA Food Studies programme in 2026/2027.

MA Food Studies opportunity - 5 scholarships 2026/27: @crpr-exeter.bsky.social & @exeter.ac.uk are offering a fee reduction of £5000 to 5 full time students. Programme led by @crpr-exeter.bsky.social Co-Director and @exeterfood.bsky.social lead Prof. Harry West www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Lost Frogs report: comment from Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust This note summarises ARC’s views on “Investigating the Status of Britain’s Lost Frogs: Prospects for Rewilding” (Tweats, 2026), hereafter referred to as the “Lost Frogs report”. ARC was pleased to be ...

This is the latest salvo in what I'm calling The Great British Herpetological Hoo-Hah - disagreements on what amphibians and reptiles should be 're'-introduced to Britain, where, and how. Lots of fascinating details. Worthy of a PhD study or a 4-part BBC1 drama
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From The Christian Science Monitor 1983

An Injury To All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class will be published by Verso in October!

Today I submitted responses to last comments from my editor and worked on the blurb. It's getting closer and closer!

Black and white and sent back over: end of panda diplomacy as Japan returns bears to China The departure of pandas will leave legions of Japanese admirers bereft, but it is also symptomatic of a dramatic deterioration in China-Japan relations

In other news, end of panda diplomacy btw China and Japan 🐼 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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The fight to bring a lost species back to a California national park "We need to be recovering them to places where they’ve been lost."

Good news on the #endangered #species front. Reintroduction of the Cascadian #frog in the #Sierra.
#environment #envhist @sfgate.com
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Check out Buckley T. Foster's review of Steve Kemp's "An Exaltation of Parks: John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s Crusade to Save
America's Wonderlands," published in 2025 by @uofupress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #nationalparks
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Apply to this fantastic workshop by 31 January!

Hand holding booklet “Housing for Wood Ducks,” published by the Illinois Natural History Survey (1953). On the cover is a painting of two Wood Ducks using an artificial bird nesting box made out of wood.

Currently reading the booklet “Housing for Wood Ducks,” published by the Illinois Natural History Survey (1953) and want to know more about the making, circulation, and use of natural history circulars from the mid cent. Any suggestions for readings/info on this topic? #envhist #histSTM

Book cover image of protesters holding a yellow banner; book cover border is black with white writing

Black text on white background: Dedication in the book reads ‘To environmental defenders everywhere’

📚Thrilled to get my hard copy of the new #PoliticalEcology Handbook, expertly put together by @drjesshope.bsky.social @eliapos.bsky.social & @yolandaariadne.bsky.social A go-to resource to get the latest developments in the field⬇️

Wolf’s dinner preserved in Siberia for 14,400 years sheds light on woolly rhino Decoded genome of meat in pup’s stomach helps scientists build picture of what caused extinction of species

Apparently, evidence indicates that #climatechange, not humans or something else, drove the woolly rhinoceros to #extinction. Clever science here. #envhist #Pleistocene @theguardian.com
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