Dr Amanda Wells 🍊📚 @amandawells.bsky.social · 27/03/2026My article in the newest volume of Lilith A Feminist History Journal is out now. 'Citrus Queens' is based on a talk I gave at the AHA conference 2024, and is about Riverland women negotiating belonging in 1960s SA. press.anu.edu.au/publications... 195
Reposted by Dr Amanda Wells 🍊📚Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social · 10/03/2026🚨Call for Papers! 3–4 September, Universität Augsburg: 2-day workshop on "theorising uncharismatic species in environmental history". Who are they? Where are their voices in the historical record? What insights do they offer to the field of environmental history? Be there! Abstracts due 15/05/2026! 13526
Reposted by Dr Amanda Wells 🍊📚Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 19/11/2025New Masters in Public Environmental Humanities starts Fall 2026 in Stavanger. Registration for students from outside of EU is open now, with deadline Nov 30. So jump on it! Need more info? We have an online session coming up Friday, Nov 21. See 👇 www.uis.no/en/studies/t... #envhum #environment 0166
Reposted by Dr Amanda Wells 🍊📚Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 19/11/2025🎉 All stipendiary IHR Fellowships, Bursaries, & Prizes are now LIVE! 🎉 universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/lst/ (All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.) Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...universityoflondon.smapply.ioPrograms - School of Advanced Study 04137
Dr Amanda Wells 🍊📚 @amandawells.bsky.social · 10/11/2025The email made it official: I am Dr Amanda now! 160
Dr Amanda Wells 🍊📚 @amandawells.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Have you published #envhist or #envhums work in Apr-Sep 2025? Let the Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Environmental History Network know about it for the next publication round up. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comAANZEHN Publication Roundup: April-September 2025Have you published something environmental history related between April and September 2025? Tell us about it! If you have more than one publication to add, please submit the form multiple times. (Thi... 062
Dr Amanda Wells 🍊📚 @amandawells.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Job Alert: Level B Lecturer in History @ La Trobe (Teaching and Research) for any of my contacts looking a longer-than-6-month contract: careers.pageuppeople.com/533/caw/en/j...careers.pageuppeople.comDetails - Lecturer, History (T&R), La Trobe UniversityJobs at La Trobe University 011
Reposted by Dr Amanda Wells 🍊📚Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 21/08/2025excited to share the call for the workshop EXTRACTIVE NATURES / NATURES OF EXTRACTION happening at @uobrisceh.bsky.social on 6-7 Nov 2025, made possible by the @britishacademy.bsky.social deadline: 10 September! full call below ⤵ #envhist #envhum 37764
Dr Amanda Wells 🍊📚 @amandawells.bsky.social · 28/07/2025To repeal this would be a relatively 'easy' win, politically. And be life-changing for student access. 062
Dr Amanda Wells 🍊📚 @amandawells.bsky.social · 22/07/2025"But such an assessment places no value on the generous gift of scholarship to the ANU from Indigenous and other Australians. [...] And it turns its back on the national mission and international reputation of the ANU." insidestory.org.au/the-jewel-in...insidestory.org.auThe jewel in the crown of the ANU • Inside StoryCelebrated by previous vice-chancellors, the Australian Dictionary of Biography and its fellow national project, the Australian National Dictionary, are threatened by university cuts 010
Dr Amanda Wells 🍊📚 @amandawells.bsky.social · 21/07/2025A big few days: first solo-authored journal article is online! All about a failed Dam plan, and the South Australian view of the River Murray. (Yes, we say River first in SA!) doi.org/10.1080/1449...doi.orgHalting Chowilla Dam: salt, science, and River Murray politics in the 1960sAnnounced by South Australian Premier Thomas Playford in 1960, the plan to build Chowilla Dam on the River Murray aimed to secure water rights crucial for the state’s economic growth. This article ... 151
Reposted by Dr Amanda Wells 🍊📚Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Architects don’t just design for humans. They design, intentionally or not, for all of the nonhuman species affected by human-built structures. Western architecture has long been a driver of ecological destruction: How can we build to accommodate other species as cohabitants of a shared environment?placesjournal.orgAnimal Architecture: In ConversationAn animal studies scholar talks with an architect and an architecture writer about designing for, and with, nonhuman species. 16114
Reposted by Dr Amanda Wells 🍊📚Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 04/06/2025📣 Jobs, jobs, jobs! Aarhus University’s Department of Political Science is hiring: 🔹 Assistant Professor 🗓 Deadline: 25 August 🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil... 🔹 Associate Professor 🗓 Deadline: 8 September 🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil... 3102101
Reposted by Dr Amanda Wells 🍊📚Ysabel Muñoz @ysabelm.bsky.social · 30/06/2025"Looking for postdoctoral researcher for collective project PROTECCT, aiming to map out and understand the diversity of protection policies implemented by EU countries to protect against floods, heatwaves, coastal erosion and droughts" www.sciencespo.fr/cso/en/news/... #envhum #openpositionssciencespo.frRecruitment : POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW to work on the PROTECCT projectApplication to be sent before 6 July 2025 032
Reposted by Dr Amanda Wells 🍊📚History Council of NSW, Inc. @historynsw.bsky.social · 08/05/2025📜 We are delighted to announce that entries are now open for the 2025 History Council of New South Wales Awards! 🎉 There will be a new Award on offer this year, alongside a rise in the total prize money to over $6,000! Registrations close 8th July at 5pm Learn more via buff.ly/Vrb98GC 013
Reposted by Dr Amanda Wells 🍊📚Australian Women's History Network @auswhn.bsky.social · 19/06/2025VIDA is excited to announce Ruby Ekkel's (@rubyekkel.bsky.social) new series on environmental history and gender 🌿🏕️💃 You can read Ruby's introduction to the series here ⬇️ www.auswhn.com.au/blog/in-her-...auswhn.com.auIn Her Nature | Australian Women's History NetworkCommissioning Editor Ruby Ekkel launches a new VIDA series, exploring the intersections of environmental and women’s history. ‘Make the back-yard the embryo of your future desires. As a country we ar... 02511
Reposted by Dr Amanda Wells 🍊📚Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Roses are redde Noble are the manatees Yf we wante a bettir future Teach artes & humanityes 5797261
Reposted by Dr Amanda Wells 🍊📚Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Enjoy hunting in libraries and archives? PhD placement "Unearthing the roots of Kew Gardens’ history" with @rbgkew.bsky.social and HRP, open to UKRI-funded students. Apply by 11 May, details see link at: kew.org/science/trai... or DM mekew.orgPlacements for PhD StudentsWe welcome PhD placement students to learn from our experts and make real contributions to our work at Kew Gardens in London or Wakehurst in Sussex. 01617
Dr Amanda Wells 🍊📚 @amandawells.bsky.social · 18/04/2025After doing some undergrad marking, I am now sad to say that I can't use em-dash anymore: it looks too ChatGPT. 😭 And I'd only just come around to using it at all! 130
Reposted by Dr Amanda Wells 🍊📚Claire Waddell-Wood @clairewwood.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Celebrate environmental history week with #AANZEHN! Join us for the Shadow Places Poetry Workshop facilitated by anthropologist and poet Frances Grimshaw. Can't wait to see you! Details here: www.environmentalhistory-au-nz.org/2025/04/envi... 074
Reposted by Dr Amanda Wells 🍊📚Australian Policy and History @auspolicyhistory.bsky.social · 16/04/2025📣 ECR OPPORTUNITY 📣 In collaboration with the Centre for Contemporary Histories, we are offering 10 Writing Fellowships for ECRs! Fellows will write one opinion piece and one policy briefing note, mentored by academics from the CCH and APH. Deadline: 10 May 2025 Info: aph.org.au/2025/04/aust...aph.org.auAustralian Policy and History ECR Writing Fellowships | Australian Policy and History NetworkThe Centre for Contemporary Histories and Australian Policy and History are offering 10 Writing Fellowships for Early Career Researchers, of a value of $500 each. Successful applicants will be commissioned to write one opinion piece and one policy briefing note related to their research. Successful applicants will be mentored by academics from the Centre for […] 157
Dr Amanda Wells 🍊📚 @amandawells.bsky.social · 10/04/2025PhD position in Global History at ETH Zurich (4 years, fully funded), starting 1 July 2025 or soon after. Part of the SNSF project Engineering Empires from the Margins, led by Prof. Harald Fischer-Tiné and Dr. Monique Ligtenberg. jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...jobs.ethz.chPhD Position in Global History 031
Dr Amanda Wells 🍊📚 @amandawells.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Writing a PhD thesis while the US gives itself over to Putin's sphere of influence makes focusing ... challenging. 130
Dr Amanda Wells 🍊📚 @amandawells.bsky.social · 19/02/2025This residency and these projects sound fascinating. Ever since I read Max Liboiron’s Pollution is Colonialism I’ve been expanded-footnote-curious…. 140
Dr Amanda Wells 🍊📚 @amandawells.bsky.social · 09/02/2025I helped pull together the written version of the Oulu conversation on Transdisciplinary Histories - so chuffed that it is out now! 031
Reposted by Dr Amanda Wells 🍊📚MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 29/01/2025How do organisms that are so sedentary end up being so incredibly widely dispersed?thereader.mitpress.mit.eduThe Mysterious Deep Time Movements of SnailsHow do organisms that are so sedentary end up being so incredibly widely dispersed? 0256
Reposted by Dr Amanda Wells 🍊📚Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies @healthy-societies.bsky.social · 04/12/2023JOB: We're hiring a Level A/B Postdoc to work with us on the sociology of death, dying and bereavement. Open to a range of backgrounds - suit someone keen on qualitative and sensitive research. usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E... (Please share with your networks) Academicsky 195
Reposted by Dr Amanda Wells 🍊📚Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 24/11/2023JOB: the University of Northern British Columbia is hiring a TT Assistant Professor in #envhist, period and place open! www2.unbc.ca/79306/assist...www2.unbc.caAssistant ProfessorThe University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) invites applications for a tenure-track position in the Department of History at the rank of Assistant Professor, with a proposed starting date of 02536
Reposted by Dr Amanda Wells 🍊📚EHN. @envhnow.bsky.social · 21/11/2023Today on EHN: Valeria Zambianchi's recent talk w/ Josie Chambers abt co-production of knowledge, the concept of failure in env conservation, methodological rigour + “futuring” towards sustainabilityas part of our #DoingEnvHist series. envhistnow.com/2023/11/21/e... #EnvHist #EnvHum 043
Dr Amanda Wells 🍊📚 @amandawells.bsky.social · 09/11/2023A successful event via Zoom to talk writing history for HCNSW with Dr. Leah Liu-Chivizhe, Dr. Kiera Lindsey, and Prof. Kate Fullagar. What rich insights! (And a thrill for this history-newcomer to organise it 🤓🤩) 061