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farsouthhistory.bsky.social
Check out Dale Stahl's review of Stefan Peychev's "The Nature of the Ottoman City: Water and Urban Space in Sofia, 1380s–1910s," published in 2024 by @universitypress.cambridge.org; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #water #urban
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October 21, 2026 at 12:46 PM
sarabpritchard.bsky.social
As I argue in the book, both ground- and space- based #LightPollution sig in human and #envhist. If, then, satellites to mirrors...

#TransformingNight
🌌💡🌃🛰
ddavisspaceart.bsky.social Don Davis @ddavisspaceart.bsky.social · 19h
I have been working on visualizing the appearance of proposed space mirrors on the night skies. As the beam approaches it appears as a column of light emerging from the darkness. At the beam center of a 600 km high 54 m. mirror the reflection gives a light similar to that of 38 Full Moons, 9.5 Lux.
These are 4 frames from an animation I made visualizing the effects of a 54 meter diameter mirror orbited at 600 km altitude. The field of view is 120 X 120 degrees, the space mirror is directly overhead. Two diagonal elongated path like features appear in the sky, the fainter Milky Way at the left, and the band of the Zodiacal Light is at the right. Both are features of very dark skies free of light pollution. As the beam approaches it appears as a large column of light emerging from the darkness. The reflection of the Sun is a relatively weak 5 kilometer wide 'Sun image' which at the beam center gives a light similar to that of 38 Full Moons, 9.5 Lux. The lighting would be similar to street lighting between the light poles. The mirror itself would appear in a telescope as an oval a third the apparent diameter of Jupiter, but would be dangerously brilliant to telescopically observe. I remember when Iridium flares were a thing, as sunlight reflected from polished door sized panels of a family of satellites visible only in specific places. I would drive out to see the really bright ones, which flared briefly brighter than Venus. I have to admit I would drive some distance to see something like this as it would be a remarkable sight. However, like the starlink launches that briefly make striking satellite trains in the sky, this would get old with quantity. If there were hundreds of such satellites in orbit each one, even when not directing its reflection to you, will appear brighter than Venus and able to cast faint shadows. Cumulatively they would raise the background brightness of the sky appreciably, and individually become dangers to telescope sensors-and human eyes while looking through telescopes. This is based on the figures in this paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.06433 My short animation of the beam reaching ones location in an otherwise dark night sky can be seen here: https://vimeo.com/1237489863 #Sciart
October 21, 2026 at 9:48 AM
cduigan.bsky.social
Remembering the children of #Aberfan - Without doubt the most heart breaking place in #Wales - a tragedy embedded in our environmental history #envhist #coal #mining
October 21, 2026 at 6:54 AM
alixhui.bsky.social
It’s HERE! Couldn’t have done it without EVERYONE. Spread the word on saving the world! Open Access on November 17!
#skystorians #envhist #histsci #envhum
emilypawley.bsky.social Emily Pawley @emilypawley.bsky.social · 22h
Alix and I co-organized *A Historian's Handbook for Saving the World* over Zoom, therefore, ZOOM UNBOXING PARTY.

It will be open access on Nov. 17th at the link below. If you could ask your library to preorder a physical copy, that would be great for MIT Press, who made open access possible!
A zoom screen shot of two historians looking goofily happy--one is waving her arms, the other, a book, with possibly a sun, possibly some kind of Marimeko coral on it.
October 20, 2026 at 6:21 PM
vbateman.bsky.social
Back in Montreal this week to share new research on WPA-era habitat dioramas and the invisible labor of women who made tens of thousands of artificial plants 🌿🌾🌸

A side project and outcome of opening random folders in the archives!
#envhist #museumhist #womenshist
A black and white photo of a woman painting artificial yucca plants, taken in 1937-38. Behind is a photo of the habitat diorama in which the artificial plants were “planted.”
October 20, 2026 at 4:13 PM
mearcsteppende.bsky.social
Ever wondered what seals, cormorants and snails can tell us about the Early Middle Ages? I humbly recommend my new(ish) article on how many small human practices in coastal Scotland built the foundations for larger social changes...

link.springer.com/article/10.1... #envhist 🏺 #medievalsky
Wild animals, small practices, and the formation of an early medieval coastal landscape on the Firth of Forth - Water History
The large-scale landscape changes that occurred in northern Britain from roughly 400–800 C.E. were built on a vast array of smaller shifting practices which reflected the realities of local environmen...
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October 20, 2026 at 2:44 PM
manonraffard.bsky.social
Upcoming talk in Oxford this Thursday! I'll be discussing some of my current work on olfaction and chemical and environmental knowledge-making in the work of Robert Angus Smith

Super excited to chat with fellow smell people ✌️

Info: www.mfo.ac.uk/events/confe...

#hstm #histchem #envsci #envhist
October 20, 2026 at 1:54 PM
farsouthhistory.bsky.social
Check out Ryan Tucker Jones's review of "The Evolution of Cetacean Societies: Uncovering the Social Complexity of Whales and Dolphins," edited by Darren P. Croft et al, published in 2026 by @uchicagopress.bsky.social; now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist
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October 20, 2026 at 12:40 PM
esehnextgate.bsky.social
Our postponed zine workshop will take place on 2 November! Join us for a workshop that explores the potential + value of zines as an alternative method of research + publication for the environmental humanities. #EnvHum #EnvHist #zines

Sign up for free via the link below. And please share!
how to make a zine: alternative crafts for the environmental humanities
Online workshop: An intro to zines, along with a space for researchers who already use zines to share ideas and talk about their work
www.eventbrite.ie
October 20, 2026 at 11:08 AM
onslies.bsky.social
Coming up this Friday! We get to hear from @bobpi.bsky.social about Water, Space, and Environmental inequality in #EarlyModern Amsterdam.

If you're not around London, make sure to register for the zoom link by Thursday evening: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EnvHist #HistEnv #SkyStorians
onslies.bsky.social Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 26d
A programme! A veritable programme! Would you look at these cool talks for our Autumn line-up, with dream team @bobpi.bsky.social, @ninondubourg.bsky.social, and @ewatson.bsky.social

Join us at the @ihr.bsky.social (or on zoom) on Fridays at 17:30 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #LowCountries
Autumn term programme for the Low Countries seminar at the Institute f Historical research on Fridays at 17:30 23 Oct Bob Pierik (Brussels), ‘Water, Space and Environmental Inequality in Early Modern Amsterdam’ 20 Nov Ninon Dubourgh (Cologne), ‘Between Old Age, Illness, and Disability: Everyday Care in the Hospitals of Late Medieval Liège’ 18 Dec Elise Watson (Edinburgh), ‘”For women by women”: Gendered Networks in Operation in the Dutch Book Trade’
October 20, 2026 at 10:15 AM
nichecanada.bsky.social
ICYMI:

"In the presence of multiple environmental crises, shipworm have renewed appeal as an underdog, resisting and even flourishing in spite of human attempts to erase their presence with us across oceans and along coasts." - @historykate.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2026/10/16/d...

#envhist
Down the (Ship)wormhole: Finding Charisma in an Animal's Absence
Once feared marine pests, hidden shipworms shift from uncharismatic destroyers to celebrated artistic co-creators as their wood-tunneling patterns are repurposed into luxury design.
niche-canada.org
October 19, 2026 at 10:01 PM
node801.bsky.social
Audubon's description of the habits and horrific destruction of the Carolina Parakeet -- aka Carolina Parrot -- (Conuropsis carolinensis).
#EnvHist #HistSTM #Biodiversity #HistSci #Birds #Extinction
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Audubon's description of the habits and horrific destruction of the Carolina Parakeet (aka Carolina Parrot)
Classification Species Darwin Degeneration Evolution History of Science, Sociology, Sciences of Life, Human Variety, Natural History, Ecology
until-darwin.blogspot.com
October 19, 2026 at 4:02 PM
farsouthhistory.bsky.social
Check out Natania Meeker's review of Peter McPhee's "An Environmental History of France: Making the Landscape, 1770-2020," published in 2025 by @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #landscape
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October 19, 2026 at 1:52 PM
node801.bsky.social
Fruit Trenches: Cultivating Subtropical Plants in Freezing Temperatures
"During the first half of the twentieth century, Soviet citrologists grew (sub)tropical plants... outdoors....". #DIY #L0Tech #EnvHist #HistSTM
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Fruit Trenches: Cultivating Subtropical Plants in Freezing Temperatures
During the first half of the twentieth century, Soviet citrologists grew (sub)tropical plants in temperatures as low as minus 30 degrees Celsius – outdoors, and without the use of glass or any fossil…
solar.lowtechmagazine.com
October 18, 2026 at 4:00 PM
monicavasile.bsky.social
It has been such a pleasure to host #Overburden and @greggmitman.bsky.social at @oulu.fi, together with @joseacanada.bsky.social 🙏

A wonderful, humbling, and troubling experience. A film that stays with you about the histories of extraction and the lives caught up in them
#envhist #envhum
greggmitman.bsky.social Gregg Mitman @greggmitman.bsky.social · 4d
Thanks to @monicavasile.bsky.social for arranging a screening of Overburden @oulu.fi. Issues around the uneasy alliances of #mining and #conservation resonate from West Africa to near the Arctic Circle. We need stories across the globe connecting mining, AI, extraction, and the extinction of life.
October 18, 2026 at 7:25 AM
dagomardegroot.bsky.social
This was a fun lecture! Check it out if you want my take on the environmental history (#EnvHist) of the Moon.
October 17, 2026 at 7:00 PM
eleonormarcus.bsky.social
Happy to host Vighnesh P from Ashoka University as a visiting PhD scholar for three months, funded by our long-term Erasmus collaboration with Ashoka.
#animalhistories #history #envhist
lnuccon.bsky.social Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · Sep 10
Introducing one of our visitors this fall!

Vighnesh Prakash, PhD student, Ashoka University

His project focuses on the urban environmental history of Cochin in India. His main research interests lie in environmental & urban history along with history of science.

www.lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
October 17, 2026 at 6:50 AM
nichecanada.bsky.social
"Down the (Ship)wormhole: Finding Charisma in an Animal’s Absence" by @historykate.bsky.social is part of a series about “uncharismatic” species in environmental history.

Destructive shipworms are now celebrated as artistic co-creators in design.

niche-canada.org/2026/10/16/d...

#envhist #envhum
Down the (Ship)wormhole: Finding Charisma in an Animal's Absence
Once feared marine pests, hidden shipworms shift from uncharismatic destroyers to celebrated artistic co-creators as their wood-tunneling patterns are repurposed into luxury design.
niche-canada.org
October 16, 2026 at 9:03 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
"Sunbeam Squatters: Cats and the Making of Home" by Nicholas Miller is the first post in the Dwelling in Place series edited by Nicole Miller.

Cats reshape human architecture by continuously claiming windows as multispecies spaces.

niche-canada.org/2026/10/15/s...

#envhist #cats #animalhistory
Sunbeam Squatters: Cats and the Making of Home
Though uninvited by human design, cats historically reshape domestic architecture, utilizing windows and catios for vital sensory engagement, territorial surveillance, and multispecies co-habitation.
niche-canada.org
October 16, 2026 at 8:31 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
This conversation will be based on @colintuckerstudio.bsky.social's NiCHE article, "Placing Tuning Theory On Earth: Artistic Research Project with Commentary" - niche-canada.org/2026/06/08/p...

#envhist #musictheory #musichistory #envhum
Placing Tuning Theory On Earth: Artistic Research Project with Commentary
By analyzing early modern tuning texts, this project reveals how classical music’s foundational principles of consonance and harmony structurally rely on the violent, colonial, and ecocidal displaceme...
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October 16, 2026 at 7:42 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
"Love This Place Like an Atlantic Puffin: Cultural Seascapes of Newfoundland Ecotourism" - Chloe Lundrigan on how Newfoundland rebranded its cod-centered history into a thriving puffin-focused ecotourism ecosystem.

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#envhist #cdnhist #animalhistory #newfoundland
Love This Place Like an Atlantic Puffin: Cultural Seascapes of Newfoundland Ecotourism
Newfoundland transformed its former cod-dependent economy into a lucrative ecotourism landscape driven by mass puffin marketing and cultural performances.
niche-canada.org
October 16, 2026 at 3:51 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
"Bush flying was literally a key part of establishing what made Canada a transcontinental nation." - @blairstein.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2024/03/06/m...

#envhist #cdnhist #aviation
Make it Go with Guts and Glue: Interwar Bush Flying as Winter Narrative
Bush flying was a key part of establishing what made Canada a transcontinental nation.
niche-canada.org
October 16, 2026 at 3:47 PM
farsouthhistory.bsky.social
Check out Debra A. Reid's review of Erica Avrami's "Second-Order Preservation: Social Justice and Climate Action Through Heritage Policy," published in 2024 by @uminnpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #climate
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October 16, 2026 at 2:53 PM
tonynuspl.bsky.social
You have to see it to believe it.
Shock and horror beneath the waves.

#CommercialFishing #dragnet #oceanfloor #industrialfood

#Seaspiracy
#underwaterphotography #dropcam
dramatic, moving images
#OmnivoresDilemma #SixthExtinction #envhist
How We Filmed Bottom Trawling Like Never Before | Ocean with David Attenborough
YouTube video by Silverback Films
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October 16, 2026 at 1:19 AM
eseh.bsky.social
DEADLINE today (15 October)! Submit your proposal by 23:58 CET. Individual submissions are also considered, and we also offer experimental formats: posters, transdisciplinary workshops, "Teaching Environmental History", "Meet a Scientist", and more!
#EnvHist #EnvHum
CfP: 14th Biennial European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) Conference – European Society for Environmental History
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October 15, 2026 at 5:01 PM