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Environment and History Vol. 32, no. 1 is out now! This issue includes new research articles, snapshots, book reviews, and the @eseh.bsky.social notepad. Subscribers can read here liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/32/1 🗃️ #envhist
We look forward to meeting in Salzburg in 2027!
Original photo by Marina Ahammer
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📢 We are hiring! Tenure-track position in environmental history with a focus on long-term socio-ecological research. Exciting opportunity for post-docs working at the interface of environmental history & sustainability sciences. Deadline Jan 6, please spread far and wide! boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...
An interesting ecological analysis of wood-pasture paintings
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🌿 Climate change extends Europe’s growing season, but it won’t offset rising summer #drought. #Tree-ring data from 2,000+ sites show growth may benefit until 2050, then drought stress dominates. Study led by Jan Tumajer, published in Nature Communications. 🌱📉
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Screenshot of the admissions website of the Environmental History M.Phil at Trinity College Dublin
🔔 Admissions are open for the M.Phil in Environmental History at Trinity College Dublin. Come and join us - or recommend our course to your students! #envhist #skystorians
More info here 👇
www.tcd.ie/courses/post...
See also on Euraxess:
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380215
Česká verze inzerátu:
www.ibot.cas.cz/cs/vacancies...
🚨JOB ALERT🚨
Come work with me in Brno in a new project on how Scots pine & forestry changed societies and environments in the 18th-19th centuries! 🌲🌳
👇Fully funded postdoc position 👇
www.ibot.cas.cz/en/vacancies...
Application deadline: 13.11.2025
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Check out the newest #envhist journal!
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I published my very first international scientific article in Environment and History! In it, I examine the contested history of the Ecological Indian trope and its entanglements with the genealogy of Indigenous knowledges, the topic of my PhD. Read an excerpt here:
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So what was your answer? What is at stake? This is on my mind a lot, so I'd be interested in what you and the students came up with.
Book cover of "Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy" by Katja Bruisch. A black and white photograph shows a woman with a headscarf stacking peat
📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5
#envhist #energysky
It's a rare treat to see a medieval environmental history book, not to mention a great one. So, everybody, go get your copy and dig in! #envhist
Consider sending some funds to this rad crew of #envhist scholars doing good work.
My presentation is unfortunately missing (due to technical reasons), but you can still catch me during the general discussion after Chelsey's presentation.
Our recent paper in Nature Reviews Biodiversity
doi.org/10.1038/s443...
resulted from a wonderful workhop in Sevilla in 2023. You can now watch all the presentations from this workshop here:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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My presentation is unfortunately missing due to technical reasons, but you can still catch me during the general discussion after Chelsey's presentation.
Are you at the beginning of your career and interested in environmental history? This is the best way to get involved 👇
Very glad to have been part of this! 👇
Although heavily Anglo-American in focus, there is a lot I can relate to concerning #envhist in this roundtable paper, especially the bits about interdisciplinary cooperation.
Have a nice summer, everyone
My letter ‘‘Awkward wording. Rephrase’’: linguistic injustice in ecological journals, published in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social, has 100 citations in GS
I received dozens of messages from all over the world sharing linguistic injustice experiences. Nice sense of group
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Hiking through Rychlebské hory (=Góry Złote, Reichensteiner Gebirge, you choose), I was suprised (and impressed) to find
that many (though by far not all) kilometres of the boundary between 🇵🇱 and 🇨🇿 are marked by a drystone wall. Will check the literature to find out more!
Just completed this year's edition of our Writing Support Programme! Brilliant participants, papers & discussants✨️ Big thanks to all! @etnobioannavarga.bsky.social @sarahparkhouse.bsky.social @harrycroft.bsky.social @rubyekkel.bsky.social @yaronbalslev.bsky.social @lailaia2.bsky.social
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Check out this great conference, so sorry I can't be there myself!
Yesterday we had a pleasant and fruitful workshop of like-minded researchers from three projects (INFEST, Vienna - CONCRIS, Brno - REFRESH, Ostrava) in Brno. Looking forward to further collaboration on 19th-century forests and forestry!
@maschmid.bsky.social @simonegingrich.bsky.social
Started travel preparations for #eseh2025 in Uppsala! Always brings back memories of previous conferences. #envhist
📚New Book Series in #envhist edited by Stephen Brain & Viktor Pal (@viktorpal.bsky.social) is up and running!
Get in touch with the editors and share your book proposal.
More info 👇
