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In April of 1191, a gyrfalcon from the far north flew over Acre. How did it get there? Did it feel hot? Can one use scant medieval sources to explore the experiences of a bird that lived mora than eight centuries ago? Read Ryan Mealiffe's new Arcadia piece to learn more! #envhist #envhum #animalhist
Asking Avian Questions: A Gyrfalcon Flew over Acre in April. Did it Feel Hot?
In April of 1191, a gyrfalcon from the far north flew over Acre. How did it get there? Did it feel hot? Can one use scant medieval sources to explore the experiences of a bird that lived at the end of...
www.environmentandsociety.org
October 27, 2026 at 2:34 PM
jonwestaway.bsky.social
CFP: Towards a Posthumanistic Mountain Humanities, Online Workshop 11 December 2026.
shorturl.at/wnsS8
#Mountains #EnvHist #EnvHums #HistGeog #IndigenousKnowledge #AnimalHist #NewAnimism #NewMaterialism #AssemblageTheory #Posthumanism
October 23, 2026 at 10:17 AM
farsouthhistory.bsky.social
Check out Meng Zheng's review of Carrie Friese's "A Mouse in a Cage: Rethinking Humanitarianism and the Rights of Lab Animals," published in 2025 by @nyupress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #animalhist #ethics #STS #histsci
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October 12, 2026 at 12:44 PM
vbateman.bsky.social
Prepping for the UAAC conference (Universities Art Association of Canada), where I’ll be discussing the history of nest cams - from some of the first (c.1900) to YouTube Livestreams. Below, an adult bald eagle watches their young/the camera streaming a live feed to YouTube.
#animalhist
Screenshot from 2026-05-31 of the Big Bear Valley Bald Eagle livestream on YouTube. An adult eagle is perched beside their nest, watching their two young eaglets sleep at nighttime.
October 5, 2026 at 2:32 PM
farsouthhistory.bsky.social
Check out Madelyn Powers's review of Karen M. Morin's "Cattle Trails and Animal Lives: The Founding of an American Carceral Archipelago," published by @ugapress.bsky.social in 2025; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #aghist #animalhist
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September 30, 2026 at 12:51 PM
futuremountain.bsky.social
CFP: Towards a Posthumanistic Mountain Humanities, Online Workshop 11 December 2026.
shorturl.at/wnsS8
#Mountains #EnvHist #EnvHums #HistGeog #IndigenousKnowledge #AnimalHist #NewAnimism #NewMaterialism #AssemblageTheory #Posthumanism
September 22, 2026 at 8:22 AM
farsouthhistory.bsky.social
Check out Martin Kalb's review of "Globalizing Wildlife," edited by Raf De Bont, Vanessa Bateman and Tom Quick, published in 2026 by @uncpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #animalhist
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September 16, 2026 at 4:41 PM
vbateman.bsky.social
This article was one of those case studies I couldn’t quit when researching the history of N. American wapiti (elk). 🦌 It started by asking: what happened to the 20 wapiti “gifted” to New Zealand by Theodore Roosevelt?

#animalhist
animalhistory.bsky.social Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social · Sep 10
(Dis)entangling Wapiti and Red Deer in 20th-Century New Zealand -- NEW article by Vanessa Bateman
online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/2/3
September 10, 2026 at 11:29 AM
farsouthhistory.bsky.social
Check out Caroline Ford's review of Katie Hornstein's "Myth and Menagerie: Seeing Lions in the Nineteenth Century," published in 2024 by @yalepress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #animalhist 🦁
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August 21, 2026 at 2:20 PM
leafyhistory.bsky.social
The sturgeon is Britain's biggest native fish. It's extinct in our rivers today, but once upon a time it was a regular visitor, possibly returning here to breed.

Here's a thread with some of the wild stories which were told when it was still found here. #envhist #animalhist 🧵🐟
Francis Willughby's (1686) plate of a sturgeon. This is a long fish with a pointy nose and tail. It has armoured scutes all along the sides of its body. Under its long nose it has some curly barbels coming out like downwards-pointing whiskers.
August 18, 2026 at 4:36 PM
lootina.bsky.social
"The truth is, we run a gopher museum, there's no weird questions." #animalhist #envhist
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Gopher museum in Alberta hamlet is entering a new era — but there's still weird taxidermy | CBC News
At its core, the museum began as a way to tell the story of a small Alberta hamlet, but in the hands of the next generation, that view is expanding.
www.cbc.ca
December 31, 2024 at 3:32 PM
lootina.bsky.social
You’ve got to love a used bookstore that categorizes its books like this! It’s (The Paperhound in Vancouver - not on this platform yet) #envhist and #animalhist
Bookshelf at the Paperhound used bookstore in Vancouver, BC. The category of books is “rodent as hero” One of the bookshelves at Paperhound used bookstore in Vancouver, BC. The category is “books with bears.”
December 31, 2023 at 2:54 PM
lootina.bsky.social
Anyone else find taxidermy - no matter its motive - unsettling? #envhist #animalhist www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/5f5c26a...
In Yellowknife, a taxidermy monument captures the diversity of the Arctic’s wildlife
Canada’s small museums celebrate the country’s regional quirks, perhaps none more so than Yellowknife’s Nature’s North Wildlife Gallery
www.theglobeandmail.com
October 28, 2023 at 3:59 PM
histocean.bsky.social
"[This paper] provides a fresh perspective on the role of animals in forging human’s understanding of the ocean’s depths, and on the interplay between science, technology, and myth in defining the human relationship to the natural world." #animalhist #oceanhist #envhist #envhum
a large squid is swimming in the dark water
ALT: a large squid is swimming in the dark water
media.tenor.com
April 5, 2026 at 1:36 AM
dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
Includes the chapter “Human-Animal Relationships and Extension of Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic” by
Hyeonbin Park and me.

#animalhist
CHAPTER 14 | COVID Studies: A Reader | Manifold Scholarship
Manifold @ Penn. An Intuitive, collaborative, open-source platform for scholarly publishing
penn.manifoldapp.org
August 3, 2026 at 11:19 AM
dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
I had never heard of Tom Lehrer (or at least don’t recall I had) so with all the posts about him, I decided to look up his work.

He has an AMAZING #envhist #animalhist song: Poisoning Pigeons in the Park

Listen here (has the text too):
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2-...
commons.wikimedia.org
July 28, 2025 at 4:41 AM
dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
Last night my youngest was playing with her Laika stuffed toy (complete with shiny silver spacesuit) I bought at a special space exhibition some years ago. Now we need a Félicette!
#animalhist
April 22, 2025 at 8:20 AM
dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
The Greenhouse #envhum book talk series continues this semester with 7 more talks. All are posted on our website newnatures.org/greenhouse/

Here's a rundown of what is coming so that you can mark your calendars and attend the live talks (see links for info).

#envhist #ecocrit #animalhist
March 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
Amazing history of these swan marks

library.chethams.com/collections/...
#animalhist
November 30, 2024 at 11:29 AM
dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
Sharing Spaces is here!

Get your copy and/or ask your library to get one now : upittpress.org/books/978082...

#envhist #histSTM #animalhist
Woman holding a book title Sharing Spaces with a picture of a bear face recorded in camera trap
October 15, 2024 at 12:39 PM
dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
I received an interesting call for fables from the project 'Rethinking Fables in the Age of Global Environmental Crisis'.

Call is attached. The general website for the project is
research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f... but I don't think the call itself is on there.

#animalhist #envhum
June 12, 2024 at 9:46 AM
dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
More-than-human remains: Reckoning with ivory in (post)colonial museums

envhistnow.com/2024/04/25/m...
#animalhist #envhist #museums
More-than-Human Remains: Reckoning with Ivory in (Post)Colonial Museums
Museums developed and funded by European colonization often grapple with the morally blurry lines between public education and neocolonial exploitation. Elephant tusk — otherwise known as ivory — i…
envhistnow.com
April 26, 2024 at 5:48 AM
dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
Interesting material for #animalhist folks
March 19, 2024 at 5:36 AM
dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
Flaco, an eagle owl who had escaped his zoo enclosure a year ago and was subsequently living free in New York, dies after striking building www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
#animalhist 🦉
February 24, 2024 at 2:52 PM
dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
Check out my review of "Maritime Animals: Ships, Species, Stories," ed Kaori Nagai, (Pennsylvania UP 2023) now available on H-Net

networks.h-net.org/group/review...

#envhist #envhum #animalhist #maritime #oceanhist 🦭🐟🐕🐳🪱🐀🐌
Jørgensen on Nagai, 'Maritime Animals: Ships, Species, Stories' | H-Net
Nagai, Kaori, ed.. Maritime Animals: Ships, Species, Stories. Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023. x + 229 pp. $125.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780271...
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February 23, 2024 at 8:31 PM