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Greenhouse Games Lab @greenhousegameslab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The GHGL Developer Blog is now live! The blog will include reflections on our current game development process, images of prototypes and concept art, as well as insights into the research being translated into games. Check out the first two posts: www.uis.no/en/greenhous...

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The Greenhouse Games Lab is Live

Our new research platform has received funding and is now live!

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 22/09/2026

Big news from the Greenhouse today, on our new TOPPFORSK project on Living Beings as More-Than-Human Heritage.

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Very excited to be a part of this amazing new Greenhouse project! More horsepower research incoming! Congratulations @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and @finnarne.me and thanks for all your hard work on the application (my two paragraphs notwithstanding). #envhum

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

In a new experience for me, you can now watch the video abstract for my latest article on Coach Dogs and Automobile Dogs in American literature. If someone knows how to change a YouTube video thumbnail, let me know 😆 #envhum youtu.be/mdO8GdDC8t8?...

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Bowman JLS Abstract

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Trying to come up with some front cover suggestions for Horsepower - If anyone can think of any paintings by US artists from between 1890 and 1940, depicting horses and automobiles, I'm open to suggestions! I'm looking at George Bellows already, along with a few cartoons from Puck and Life! #envhum

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Modernism/modernity is looking for a new co-editor! Could this be you? If you're interested, applications are due Nov. 16. It's a four-year term, and you'll be working with one of the current editors. More info about how to apply here: @mmodernity.bsky.social

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The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The @greenhouseuis.net is back from the summer break and already fully immersed in the buzz of term start – this year with the new MA programme in Public Environmental Humanities! @sarabpritchard.bsky.social will kick off the #envhum book talks next Monday! ☀️

Overview of the events happening at the Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities during August 2026. For more information about the center, visit the website https://www.uis.no/en/greenhouse. For information about the book talk series, see also https://newnatures.org/greenhouse/

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Deeply chuffed that my essay on Dalmatians (or Coach Dogs) in early US road literature has won the BSLS essay prize 2026! You can read it here in the Journal of Literature and Science www.literatureandscience.org/volume-19-is... #envhum #LitSci #WarOnCars

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Volume 19, Issue 1 (2026) | Journal of Literature and Science

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

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Volume 19, Issue 1 (2026) | Journal of Literature and Science

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Katie Ritson @untamed.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

CfP for all Nordic-facing #ecocritics! You have just a few more days to put in an abstract for the 2026 ENSCAN workshop on the topic of #resilience. enscan.net/workshops/re... What is the role of resilience in Nordic literature & culture? #EnvHum #Ecocriticism #økokritikk

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Latest from board game extraordinaire Dr Tom

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Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Deeply enticing CFP: Feminanimals: women as/and animals - April 2027 in Oxford, with the fabulous Fanny Clemente and Greta Colombani organising and Kaori Nagai and Chloe Taylor as keynotes - www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/events/2027/...

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FEMINANIMALS: Representations of Women and/as Animals in Literature, Arts, and Other Media

FEMINANIMALS is a three-day international conference investigating representations of women as non-human animals and of the relationship between women and non-human animals in literature, arts, and ot...

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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

This will go down as a major stain on FIFA and its World Cup before a ball has even been kicked. Infantino has been banging on about the most inclusive World Cup and Africa’s top referee can’t even get into the country. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/w...

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U.S. Denies Entry to World Cup Referee From Somalia

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Except it literally is a jersey ffs

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Except it literally is a jersey ffs

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Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Applications are open for the 2026/27 BSECS-Northumbria Fellowship, offering expenses up to the value of £4000 to support a visiting scholar undertaking research into the long eighteenth century. More information and apply at bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a... @bsecs.bsky.social

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

oh so it's insisting on being recognised as part of the research community but also trying to use its uni card to get student discounts?

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Rachel Murray @rachelmurray.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Blue Extinction in Literature, Art, and Culture has been published! 🥳 Edited by Vera Fibisan and me and featuring essays by Stacy Alaimo, @stevementz.bsky.social, Dominic O'Key, Rick de Vos, and many others. Do consider ordering a copy for your library: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Blue Extinction in Literature, Art, and Culture

The book demonstrate the affordances of literary and artistic forms in exposing the plight of aquatic organisms that are contributing to their destruction.

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

One of the reasons I'm writing and banging on about road trips and car politics all the time

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

We finished off our semester of #envhum book talks yesterday by talking to Bob McKay about his new book Anthropofugal Fictions. This was #198 in our series. You can listen/watch our conversation here: 🎧 newnatures.org/greenhouse/p... 🎥 newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

Greenhouse Environmental Humanities Book Talks #198 with hands holding a potted plant growing a book. Cover of Anthropofugal Fictions book with man sitting with animals including zebra, giraffe, and penguins

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Lawrence Culver @lawrencecphd.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

After a trip using the Paris Metro, London Underground, the Eurostar Chunnel train, and rail systems in France and the UK, I know I’ll likely never see an equivalent transit system in the US for most cities or national travel. This article helps explain why. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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How car-loving American cities fell so far behind their global peers on public transit

With most major European cities well served by trains and buses, bringing US transit up to par would cost $4.6tn

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

May at the @greenhouseuis.net with our regular Monday book talks, Wednesday research talks and many special events featuring @mmendoza.bsky.social, Hauke Ohls, @erikahanna.bsky.social and others. #envhum 🌷

Overview of the events happening at the Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities during May 2026. For more information about the center, visit the website https://www.uis.no/en/greenhouse. For information about the book talk series, see also https://newnatures.org/greenhouse/

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Do you want to know about the connection of cultural heritage and green transitions? Find out more about contemporary carbon culture & how it influences cultural #heritage through our PITCH project: pitch-horizon.eu

A museum, an industry site & a landscape in a black circle arrow toward a green outline

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

it’s worth reading every word of this brilliant, excoriating column by Fraser Nelson

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Kwasi Kwarteng's crypto company? When I was investigating Reform's financial ties a few months ago, drawing up a map of who was connected to whom, this was the biggest mystery. Nine years ago, aged 53, he declared himself "skint" because "there's no money in politics".
Only two years ago he was telling friends that he could not afford to run in the coming election. Then suddenly, his fortunes seemed to
and change utterly. How?
The likely explanation emerged this week: he was given E5 million by Christopher Harborne, a Thailand-based crypto billionaire and Reform UK donor. The money, Farage says, was a personal gift
disclosable. It was to pay for bodyguards, he said, making him "safe and secure for the rest of my life". But such protection costs are, at most, £300,000 a year. Farage was given a lifetime of financial security, clearing the way for his return to the political arena. Albeit with a lifelong feeling of debt to Harborne, who sits in a web of interlocking global financial interests.
The world of donors is one of sharks and angels. Many donors want to support causes (or people) they believe in, with no ulterior motive. But then there are the
- cash-rich, status-poor
- who've often made their money using murky means. They usually
Trump for flouting US money-
proposes a new "Big Bang" that
And if you're not an MP-
- like
could add tens of billions to crypto
laundering rules, has said he'll move
Zia Yusuf, Reform's hyperactive
companies market value. A Reform
"shadow" home secretary there's
Left have champagne
government would order HM
no financial transparency at all.
Treasury to stop work on its own
The next UK general election
digital currency apparatus, which
socialists, right have
looks set to usher in hundreds of
could threaten the current crypto
Reform MPs to join the governing
plutocrat populists
elite. The Bank of England would instead be told to hold Bitcoin,
party (or coalition). How many more
to Britain to keep his cash flowing t…

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

My latest article has been published in Animal History (guess I'm interdisciplinary now)! Could the Dalmatian (or Coach Dog) change its spots with the coming of the automobile? Are there more dog and car puns in the text? Read it here! 👇 @animalhistory.bsky.social #envhum tinyurl.com/82y69rcs

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An Epitaph for the Coach DogAnimal Affect and Agency in Technological Transition

This article explores the Dalmatian—or “Coach Dog”—as a historical agent within 19th- and early 20th-century transport systems, tracing the breed’s rise and decline alongside the transition from horse...

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An Epitaph for the Coach DogAnimal Affect and Agency in Technological Transition

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

On my way to the BSLS at @unistrathclyde.bsky.social - going to need a few of these if we're to keep up the karaoke traditions this evening! And the morning after I'll be delivering an epitaph for the coach dog... @thebsls.bsky.social

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The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

We have a a new review on our website: Daniel Bowman reviews John MacNeill Miller's The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/03/macn...)

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MacNeill Miller, John, The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science – The British Society for Literature and Science

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Join us online on Monday 23 March for @brycchancarey.bsky.social discussing The Unnatural Trade: Slavery, Abolition, and Environmental Writing, 1650-1807 (Yale UP 2024) in @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talk series. Starts 4pm CET, 3pm GMT, 10am EST newnatures.org/greenhouse/e... #ecocrit

cover of book The Unnatural Trade with a drawing of black laborers with hoes at work with windmill and palm trees behind.

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

My review of @snarlsdickens.bsky.social 's The Ecological Plot is now free to read on the BSLS website. After his talk at @greenhouseuis.net I was excited to read it and was not disappointed! It's the kind of writing style I want to emulate www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/03/macn...

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MacNeill Miller, John, The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science – The British Society for Literature and Science

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I felt like I should check in with my dormant LinkedIn page and I just saw this and I am out of there for another year

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

February at the @greenhouseuis.net is packed with fantastic academic and social events for and by the #envhum community, starting with a book talk today at 4 pm, as always online, and a perfect way to close the first work day of a week with. 🌿

Overview of the events happening at the Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities during February 2026. For more information about the center, visit the website https://www.uis.no/en/greenhouse. For information about the book talk series, see also https://newnatures.org/greenhouse/

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

This was great! (Also excellent carpet)

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

It finally happened, I submitted an article for peer review containing the phrase "toad narratives" instead of "road narratives." I hope to do this again, deliberately, in the future.

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a brick wall with a metal gate leading to a forest

ALT: a brick wall with a metal gate leading to a forest

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 25/01/2026

First time in ages at Hå Gamle Prestegård to see their new exhibitions. I particularly liked Helene Espedal-Selvåg’s «Common Sky» installation. www.hagamleprestegard.no/Kalender/Cal...

Feet standing in front of screen on the floor, showing a blue sky with clouds, from Hiroshima Botanical Gardens.

Room with six screens on the floor, all showing sky videos from different places. Talk window letting in light on the far wall.

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ASLE-UKI @asleuki.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

📢Call for Papers: Yuck?: Historical Approaches to Unwanted Nonhuman Life 🐀 @northernenvhistory.bsky.social Deadline: 31 January 2026 Further details: tinyurl.com/ynwua3em

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Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Please join the @asleuki.bsky.social online seminar on Eighteenth-Century Literature & Environment. Thur 29 Jan, 15:00-19:00 GMT. With me, Eric Gidal, James Metcalf, Nicolle Jordan, Alessio Mattana, Annette Hulbert, Jodie Matthews, & @tobiasmenely.bsky.social. Register at asle.org.uk/events/semin...

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

We are now accepting proposals from scholars interested in applying for the EU's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships program in 2026. This is a great program for early career (<8 yrs from PhD) scholars to be with @greenhouseuis.net for 2 years on own project. www.uis.no/en/research/...

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The @greenhouseuis.net is slowly awaking from hibernation and is starting off the year with book talks by @issygapp.bsky.social and @kbruisch.bsky.social (as always online and open to all) and a special event to celebrate the Gad Rausing Prize 2025 awarded to @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social! #envhum

Overview of the events at the Greenhouse in January. More info on uis.no/en/greenhouse. For the book talks, see also https://newnatures.org/greenhouse/.

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Hello friends and anyone whose work I have read over in the past (not mutually exclusive)! Would anyone have time to glance over a chapter draft on animals and automobiles in Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Richard Wright before my manuscript deadline (end of Feb)? About 15k words #envhum

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