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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We’ve published issue 3.2 of ‘Plant Perspectives’, a special issue on ‘Global More-than-Human Histories of Palms’ (guest edited by Sophie Chao, Pilar Egüez Guevara and Jayson Maurice Porter); #openaccess here: www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/issue/vie... #plantstudies #envhum #palms

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Eline D. Tabak @elinetabak.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Every once in a while I have to do remind myself that my years in academia did result in something and I grab a paper copy of a publication 📖📚 it’s nice

Photo of four open journals and edited volumes showing academic articles spread on a blanket for aesthetics of course

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Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Peace of Wild Things By Wendell Berry I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

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Wendell Berry, influential Kentucky writer and activist, has died

Wendell Berry, a Kentucky native and man of letters and the land, who helped inspire the new American food movement, has died. He was 92.

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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

MPIWG-NTU Centre for Biocultural Worlding advertises a Singapore-based fellowship in Curatorial Research and Practice! This 2-yr renewable position in a high-energy team is on epistemic, biological & cultural diversity. bioculturalworlding.org/postdoctoral... CBCW@ntu.edu.sg ✍️ ??? 🪲🐓🌳🏗️🛶🐢🪸🌴🌏🇸🇬

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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Call for postdocs at the Mahindra Humanities Center (Harvard) in Environmental Humanities (e.g. humanistic approaches to climate change, biodiversity, social justice, env justice, food justice, landscape, and animal studies) Due date Nov. 20, 2026 #EnvHist #EnvHum networks.h-net.org/jobs/70205/h...

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Harvard University - 2027-28 Mahindra Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellowships | H-Net

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

My genuinely non controversial take is that if you're signing an open letter of support for Cofnas you're either a racist or want to be admired in racist spaces.

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This entire disgusting situation with Arday has shown the horrible priorities of a society built for the ruling class. Our press isn't free, and it is used solely and exclusively to pursue the interests of the ruling class which owns it.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/08/2026

Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible

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Beyond Fossil Fuels @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Oil giants made $93bn in profits in just 3 months while wildfires tear through Greece, Spain and France. Polluters profit, people pay. Destroyed homes, livelihoods, and an €822bn climate inaction bill across the EU since 1980. We need to move beyond fossil fuels. www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...

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Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

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Christine Teunissen @christinepvdd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Na de verschrikkelijke branden elders in Europa, nu ook hier in Nederland. Afschuwelijk voor dier, mens en natuur De klimaatcrisis is nu. We hebben méér klimaatdrammers nodig: kabinet-Jetten moet snel klimaatactie nemen En dank aan alle hulpverleners die deze brand in Limburg bestrijden

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‘Zeer grote natuurbrand’ in Limburg, defensie zet blushelikopter in

In natuurgebied De Rosmolen woedt een zeer grote brand, aldus de veiligheidsregio Limburg-Noord. De brandweer bestrijdt de brand met ‘zeer veel mensen en voertuigen’. Een blushelikopter van defensie i...

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Mike Murphy @mjamurphy.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The costs of net zero are a lot lower than the costs of current policy

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Patricia Devlin @trishdevlin.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Worked on this wildfire investigation for the last number of months with colleagues across the EU. To publish today is, sadly, very timely. While Ireland doesn’t experience the ‘mega fires’ we see in Spain etc, the damage caused to protected sites here is actually far greater than most of Europe.

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Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Work on water? This call is for you👇

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow.

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Eline D. Tabak @elinetabak.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

🎉 It's publication day for the (very affordable) paperback of Unsettling Extinction, edited by the inimitable Roman Bartosch, Ursula Heise & Kate Rigby 🎊 The book brings together some fabulous thinkers in the field of extinction studies (and me) Order a copy here www.bloomsbury.com/uk/unsettlin...

Book cover of Unsettling Extinction: Global Challenges in the Environmental Humanities, edited by Roman Bartosch, Ursula K. Heise & Kate Rigby. The white book cover shows the title and editors, and a photo of a large glass cloche with a small bird with a spike through its chest on a twig. The bird is mostly black with a small curved beak, a yellow and red chest, and sparkling green feathers on its back. I forgot the species but eh.

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Eline D. Tabak @elinetabak.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Happy midsummer (and a late hyvää juhannusta) 🌞

Photo of a cloudy midnight sun reflecting on lake Inari with hills and trees in the background.

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Eline D. Tabak @elinetabak.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Today marks the start of my last month as a postdoc in Finland. As much as I would like to say I managed to secure myself another position, the (academic) job market is rough right now. I’m officially #OpenTowork. It’s not all bleak as I'm moving back to NL - and my partner and our cats (1/5)

Rather grey and dramatic view of the Golf of Bothnia from Nallikari beach in Oulu. You can see a lighthouse, grey skies, and the slow beginnings of a midnight sunset.

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Eline D. Tabak @elinetabak.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

A whine I need to get out before it chokes me: I'm on the job market (aren't we all) in NL where academia is falling apart (isn't it everywhere). Since defending TT positions have disappeared. At first there were a few teaching only jobs, but those are now mostly "junior" lectureships for grads

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ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Our early-career network is organizing a workshop on 16 June! #envhist

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Sarah Goodyear @sgoodyear.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

What a crushing loss. She was so brilliant. As many others are saying here, if you haven't read Persepolis, do it as soon as you are able. Her generous, witty, humanist, nuanced vision is more relevant now than ever. www.france24.com/en/culture/2...

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French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies of 'sadness' at 56

French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the book and film “Persopolis”, has died of "sadness", members of her entourage said Thursday. She was 56.

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Eline D. Tabak @elinetabak.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The pots I made during my art-research residency at De Proef have all been fired and will be part of an exhibition at Frederiksoord this month 🍐 Unfortunately I'll miss it, but if anybody happens to be around do have a look! Ga eem kiekn

A collage of photos showing 1) three small jugs made with brown clay and decorated with white slip. The jugs have ivy leaves, dandelion leaves, and espaliers, 2) a bigger round vase with dandelion leaves and a bumblebee 3) an unfired upside down bowl in progress with espaliers carved 4) the inside of the bowl decorated with pears and 5) an old espalier tree

Poster with info on an exhibition. The Dutch text reads "Tuin als spiegel, kunst in dialoog met de tuin. Expo 05/06-31/06. Feestelijke opening: vrijdag 5 juni, 15:00, De Proef Frederiksoord. 11 Kunstenaars, 11 residenties." White letters on a photo of a tree and ferns

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Elise Schuenke @troubledminnesotan.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Happy Pride Month to all of my queer homies! Whether you’re out or closeted, we’re here 💜

A sparkly white guinea pig with pink sunglasses rides a pink car. The text reads, “the horrors persist, but so do I”

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Eline D. Tabak @elinetabak.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The insights in this thread 👌

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Incredible operation to save invaluable heritage materials. It really says something about the nature of Israel's war against the Palestinians that an organisation founded to support refugee welfare also has to undertake such efforts to preserve the records of their existence.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

“When we distinguish between intellectuals and non-intellectuals in common speech, we are referring only to the immediate social function of the professional intellectual class. +

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Eline D. Tabak @elinetabak.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Very pleased to have my first academic publication (in English) archived on the RCC Springs website 🦋 this time with a little foreword that I hope shows my growth as a scholar but also that it's still really about the same two things for me: storytelling and the environment

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gillian rose @profgillian.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

An important, powerful paper by @oliviamason.bsky.social on #precarity in academia: "the experiences of what it means to enter, get a job in, and then stay in the neoliberal academy are defining mine and others' experiences of being an academic." rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library

Precarity is shaping what it means to do geography, who can do geographical research, and how we do geographical research. In this short intervention I reflect personally on the relationship between ...

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RUB History & Philosophy of Science @roto-rub.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

📣 We're #Hiring! #ERC Consolidator Project BOTLEG at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is recruiting: - 1 PostDoc ➡️ jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/9... - 2 PhDs ➡️ jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/c... 📅 Deadline: 25 May 2026 #PhDSky #HistSci #PhilSci #HPBio #EnvHist #DigitalHumanities #AcademicSky

Local collector from Guatemala (left) and digitized herbarium specimen (right)

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was killed today in a targeted Israeli strike. The IDF fired live rounds and stun grenades at the Red Cross ambulances trying to reach her. She is the 4th journalist killed by Israel while in the field since 2 March. Photo via X @HindRFoundation.

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Eline D. Tabak @elinetabak.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I accidentally got rid of my verification badge on linkedin a while ago and apparently you now have to download the app and then scan your ID or passport and give it to an American company?? thanks but no thanks (Can't wait for the day I can not so accidentally get rid of linkedin)

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Eline D. Tabak @elinetabak.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

After #EASLCE2026, I think it’s time to update the ecocriticism and envlit list (and starter pack) 🌻 Should you be on it? Please respond to this post and I’ll add you bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Eline D. Tabak @elinetabak.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

After #EASLCE2026, I think it’s time to update the ecocriticism and envlit list (and starter pack) 🌻 Should you be on it? Please respond to this post and I’ll add you bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Luiza Teixeira-Costa @l-teixeiracosta.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

It has become my academic mission and passion to combine plant ecophysiology and the humanities. The @easlce.bsky.social conference this past week allowed me to look at parasitic plants through an ecocriticism lens and it was a blast! Now onto organizing ideas into manuscript and grant applications.

A screen shows the title slide of a conference talk while a women stands to the side talking. The slide on the screen has botanical illustrations and reads "Flipping the parasite spectrum: Plant Humanities, meet Plant Ecophysiology". The woman has long black hear and is wearing a blue overall and glasses.

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Katie Ritson @untamed.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Sad about the end of the #EASLCE2026 in Utrecht? Those working on Nordic #Ecocritism & #EnvHum can put in a proposal for the ENSCAN workshop later this year. enscan.net/workshops/re...

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Eline D. Tabak @elinetabak.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I was in Utrecht this week for the @easlce.bsky.social conference. I’m taking the weekend to recover but also want to take a moment to share how good it was: inspiring talks; meeting new friends and colleagues; seeing friends for the first time in years; sneaking away to have a coffee... (1/7)

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Eline D. Tabak @elinetabak.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Excellent(!) article by @katiekung.bsky.social on a really uncomfortable experience during her fieldwork that I imagine more will recognise. It certainly reminds me of some of the things I have seen. (Has anybody written about animals and rape culture in conservation work yet? Is it time?)

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 14/04/2026

My old university NTNU in Trondheim is finally! recruiting a fully tenured associate professor in modern environmental history. This is a great opportunity for the right person. #envhist

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Associate Professor (297742) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Job title: Associate Professor (297742), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Sunday, May 3, 2026

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Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

JOB ALERT: Two 4.5 year postdoctoral positions to work on my Wellcome-funded project 'Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health'. Please share widely! CLOSING DATE: 23 April (the date on Jobs.ac.uk is apparently incorrect)

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

“AI products are best understood not as technologies of information […] but of labor management and the accelerated concentration of wealth.” My mantra and yours for the long fight ahead

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Eline D. Tabak @elinetabak.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Also file this under I am so done with AI 🤖

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Eline D. Tabak @elinetabak.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Soooo... I'm looking up books on a certain topic and found one that looks to me like it might be an AI pub. Cover doesn't make sense, no hits on the author, "independently published", author has another book out on a wildly diff topic. Any other red flags I should look out for in the future?

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Not only is this devestating for the academics, it makes the UK look petty and pathetic. What kind of a country thinks it's being diminished by being attractive to intellects from abroad? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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‘The UK is saying the same thing as the Taliban’: the women banned from studying in Britain

The Home Office has blocked new study visas for applicants from Afghanistan, Sudan, Myanmar and Cameroon. It means many women will miss out on life-changing opportunities – as five female academics ex...

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 23/03/2026

We're hiring! 🌿 The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger invites applications for a 3-year postdoc in Environmental History. See thread for more details. #envhist #envhum

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Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental History (297163) | University of Stavanger

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental History (297163), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Monday, April 20, 2026

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