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Cristina Brito

@crisbri.bsky.social
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An environmental historian with a long time crush for the ocean 🌊🩵 (◕(‘ 人 ‘) ◕) Author of 'Humans and Aquatic Animals...' www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463728218/hu… #bluehumanities #oceanspast

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Oceans Past Initiative @oceanspast.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
We had a flying start to Oceans Past XI! 🐟 Carmen Dick from the Songhees First Nation generously welcomed all Oceans Past XI attendees to Victoria 🇨🇦 We also heard from our first two keynotes, Professor Daniel Pauly and Professor Cristina Brito.
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
@oceanspast.bsky.social OPI conference is under way at Victoria University. Check all the talks and topics in #historicalecology and #marenvhist at oceanspast.org and project's mew results such as @erc4oceans.bsky.social
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Environmental History Research Seminar Series Spring 2026 . . . @tcdtceh.bsky.social Trinity College Dublin 🧜🏼Let us go take a look behind the door #bluehumanities #whalestudies #animalstudies #environmentalhistory 🐋
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
A story of 20 years in 2 pages. 💙🌀🩵 Our vibrant community of Oceans Past scholars (including all @erc4oceans.bsky.social colleagues) intertwined in my own personal journey. 🩵🌀💙 Thanks for having me @oceanspast.bsky.social
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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Cooperation between ecologists and historians has allowed a robust reconstruction of the historical introduction of the Italian crayfish, Austropotamobius fulcisianus, to Spain in the late-16th century @ebdonana.bsky.social @um.es New OA paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Hot spots and Hot moments for whales around the global plus the consequences of the success of conservation efforts for 'ecocultural' systems. Another great keynote #ECSconference2025
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
What a privilege to present our work side by side with these great researchers. 💧🐋🫧🪸🦭💦 @erc4oceans.bsky.social
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
This is what we at @erc4oceans.bsky.social are addressing through the study of human use of marine life #bluehumanities #oceanspast
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Here we go. Kicking off with the brilliant work of L. Rendell and colleagues. Myself, going back to origins or living a full circle moment in #marinemammal research, history and conservation. Tomorrow the #bluehumanities are coming to the #ECSconference2025
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Whales in Fault Lines A new video output of the ERC Sy Grant #4oceans project is online. It results from the research conducted in Lisbon, history of whales, strandings and earthquakes. Full video: youtu.be/z-PEtSOu2Ek?... #bluehumanities #marenvhist #whaleshistory #baleias #humanities4theocean
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Baleias em linhas de falha | Whales in fault lines
YouTube video by CHAM - Centro de Humanidades
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
We talk about the #bluehumanities cham.fcsh.unl.pt/actividades-... We walk around a water city We look for documentation and material evidence about the past of water, animals, natural habitats and people #environmentalhumanities #animalstudies #Lisbon #envhist
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Transdisciplinary histories. Our joint voices in an open and global conversation. #bluehumanities #environmentalhumanities #environmentalhistory #animalstudies #oceanspast #waterstudies www.whpress.co.uk/publications... @whitehorsepress.bsky.social @erc4oceans.bsky.social @wildpasts.bsky.social
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Transdisciplinary histories. Our joint voices in an open and global conversation. #bluehumanities #environmentalhistory #oceanspast www.whpress.co.uk/publications... @whitehorsepress.bsky.social
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The White Horse Press
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
A bit of history of the human-wolf relationship. 🐺 #animalstudies #animalshistories #landmammals #envhum
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
𝙒𝙚𝙩 𝙐𝙧𝙗𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙢𝙨. Um painel transdisciplinar que irá refletir sobre mitologias afrofuturistas subaquáticas, aquários públicos, indústrias extrativas e a relação entre vidas terrestres e as águas que as rodeiam. www.moma.org/calendar/eve... #WetUrbanisms #Design #Sustentability #bluehumanities
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Wet Urbanisms | MoMA
Inspired by the publication of André Tavares’s new book Architecture Follows Fish: An Amphibious History of the North Atlantic, the panel discussion “Wet Urbanisms” brings Tavares in conversation with...
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
A review of my book Humans and Aquatic Animals... 🦭🐋🦈 'It is a valuable contribution to the pushback against the nature–culture divide.' www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/full/10.... @erc4oceans.bsky.social #environmentalhistory #bluehumanities #animalstudies #oceanstudies
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Cristina Brito, Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa | Environment and History
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
A bit of our #bluehumanities approach plus #environmentalhumanitirs around the globe in a very special article. Soon out. @erc4oceans.bsky.social
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
The Lisbon team of the @erc4oceans.bsky.social project had a full year. Expect much more from us in 2025, while wishing all a happy, healthy, safe, sustainable and more equitable way of living on our planet. #bluehumanities #environmentalhistory #animalstudies #oceanspast #environmentalhumanities
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
One of the most beautiful books I read last year #soundings (not just, but mostly) about #whales and #women and the #poetry of encounters and belongings. www.theguardian.com/books/2022/a...
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Soundings by Doreen Cunningham review – a whale of a journey
A mother and her young son follow pods of whales from Mexico to Alaska in this brave, lyrical memoir
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Comunidade Cultura e Arte @comculturaearte.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
“Choupos” (ed. Assírio & Alvim) Adília Lopes🤍
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
The Lisbon team of the @erc4oceans.bsky.social project had a full year. Expect much more from us in 2025, while wishing all a happy, healthy, safe, sustainable and more equitable way of living on our planet. #bluehumanities #environmentalhistory #animalstudies #oceanspast #environmentalhumanities
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
#environmentalhumanities #bluehumanities #animalstudies #whaleshistory
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
4-Oceans has a new #blue account. Go check it out. #4oceans #oceanspast #humanities4theocean
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
A recent output of #4oceans ERC Syn Grant by our co-PI @poulholm.bsky.social #oceanspast #historicalfisheries
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Whales in Fault Lines A new video output of the ERC Sy Grant #4oceans project is online. It results from the research conducted in Lisbon, history of whales, strandings and earthquakes. Full video: youtu.be/z-PEtSOu2Ek?... #bluehumanities #marenvhist #whaleshistory #baleias #humanities4theocean
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Baleias em linhas de falha | Whales in fault lines
YouTube video by CHAM - Centro de Humanidades
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Currently reading 'Silent Whale Letters'. A beautiful sensorial experience for a former whale bioacoustician turned to #bluehumanities scholar of whales and the sea. #TBA21
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The next 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 article we'd like to highlight from issue six is "Stew of the Earth" by L. Sasha Gora. Read it here: springs-rcc.org/stew-of-the-... #springs #rccsprings #rccpublication #publication #envhum #cooking #food #nature #online #openaccess #hotsprings #stew
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Ties, Tides and Times. 🩵🌍💙🌎💚 The multiple versions of the multiverse we live in, us and other animals, buildings and remains, in eco-cultural networks. #coastalhistory #4oceans #oceanspast #animalstudies #bluehumanities #BlueArchive #MarEnvHist
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Slimy and tiny things of the oceans, and the larger things of the ocean, are meeting today in Lisbon #bluehumanities #marenvhist #oceanspast with N. Vieira , C. Pastore and many colleagues from CHAM, ULICES, the 4-Oceans ERC grant and other institutions. 🪼🦪🪸🐬🦈🐋
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
We are up to something. The ERC 4-Oceans project is meeting the full team in Portugal and discussing results and outputs. #4oceans #oceanspast #oceanshistory #marenvhist #bluehumanities #humanitiesmatter @poulholm.bsky.social, myself, J. Barrett & F. Ludlow will be coming back with more news.
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 03/04/2024
The ocean conference 2024 is fast approaching. Join us in Barcelona for a series of events on the #oceanadecade #oceanspast #oceansheritage and the #humanities4theocean @unesconow.bsky.social
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Mika @mikagratzke.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
Office door at Uni.
A piece of white A4 paper taped on a brown door. The black text reads: We are ALL smart in academia. Distinguish yourself by being kind.
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
Time for some whale-y good news! Humpbacks have recovered to near pre-whaling levels in Cumberland Bay on the remote island of South Georgia. California-based biologist Ted Cheeseman calls this “the single most uplifting environmental story in the world.” 🐋 hakaimagazine.com/news/humpbac...
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Humpbacks Rebound in 20th-Century Whaling Hotspot | Hakai Magazine
In summer, South Georgia island’s Cumberland Bay now sees whale numbers that rival the early days of whaling.
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 01/01/2024
Casa é onde a ilha da baleia se encontra. Bom ano novo, bom mar, ventos favoráveis e um porto seguro para ancorar. 🌎🌀🔵🌊🐳
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
Photography day. Collections day. Museum day. And all days are whale's day. 🐳🐳🐳🐳 With colleagues from #4oceanserc in #Lisbon 🌀🌎🔵🌀 #whaleshistory #animalstudies #bluehumanities #oceanspast #oceansheritage
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
Don't miss Serenalla Iovino's piece in the latest issue of 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴, in which she develops the ecology of author Italo Calvino. springs-rcc.org/home-roots-c... #ecocriticism
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Home, Roots, Cosmos: A Path through Calvino’s Ecology - Springs
This essay brings previously underexplored paths of political ecology, environmental history, and even biosemiotics and plant neurophysiology in Italo Calvino’s The Baron in the Trees (1957) to ligh...
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ICEHO @iceho.bsky.social · 09/12/2023
Early bird registration is now open for the 2024 World Congress of Environmental History - #WCEH2024 Register by 1 April 2024 for early rate. Registrants can choose between online or in-person participation. More info: wceh2024.com/registration... #envhist
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 10/12/2023
Such a beautiful film 💜🤍💛
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Showcasing our #ErcSynergy #4oceans at NOVA university of Lisbon anniversary event. The value of the #oceanshistory and the #humanities4theocean was fully highlighted.
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 10/12/2023
#Art & popular culture are true avenues of thinking about the environmental crisis and interspecies conflicts & #entanglements. #environmentalhumanities #animalstudies #morethanhuman Princess Mononoke @ghiblipictures.bsky.social
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 03/12/2023
Colouring the canopies and the sky above it, a green dossel. And the ground, sided by the river, birthing water. Floating, brown over brown, a chestnut. 🌳🪵🍃🍂
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Showcasing our #ErcSynergy #4oceans at NOVA university of Lisbon anniversary event. The value of the #oceanshistory and the #humanities4theocean was fully highlighted.
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
I'm a book's person. If the books are about the sea, all the better 📚🩵🌊 I'm a person of the travels. If travelling takes me to islands, even better 🔵🌎🌀 And then if I can write about it all, that's just a perfect 📝🩷🌈 . . . #bluehumanities #oceanspast #animalstudies #literature #poetry #ocean #whales
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
Yesterday I wanted to take many pictures of the screen, because it was so beautiful. I couldn't, but this one... Go see the boy and the heron #anime #studioghibli #hayaomiyazaki
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
#environmentalhistory opportunities 📝⬇️
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Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
All colours of green (and a splash of blue) in my recent travel to Norway. Field trip across the Trondheim Fjord into a realm of trees, paths, boats, hands & history.
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