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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Consider publishing with us - we’ve expanded our categories from env history to env humanities more broadly, incl. book reviews, op ed and news commentary. Or, an inspiring field not piece like this one:

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

EHN is celebrating its 8 years of publishing. This year I’m honoured and proud to be part of it as the exec content editor. We’ll be posting new pieces and selected essays every day this week!

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Luiza Teixeira-Costa @l-teixeiracosta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And if you're attending, consider joining myself, @katiekung.bsky.social, @jmheberling.bsky.social, and stellar line up of additional contributors on Friday for a whole day of engaging with as well as learning, discussing, and writing about #InvasiveSpecies! Check out panel CF16 on the programme :)

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Rant: Another /Curse of the age of AI/ is the constant need to verify as human. And human me keeps failing it cuz I leave the tab open for too long (I guess it’s a very human thing to do). Having to be ✨smart and cheeky✨and open the link again in a new private window is also just all too human.

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

'Killing barred owls to delay this eventuality [clear fate of wild spotted owls] is a moral atrocity, an effort to ‘do something’ even if it is scientifically ineffective and ethically wrong." Good piece by my colleague Dr. Bill Lynn @panworks.bsky.social #owls #birds #science #ethics #ecology

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Killing Barred Owls is a Moral Atrocity

Originally published by Bill Lynn, PhD, in The Ecological Citizen.

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Hell yeah reposting this …

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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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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

For example, someone could write a piece about (for the lack of better terms) the delululusions surrounding that humpback whale Timmy/Hope.

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

It was a pleasure working with Olivia and Risa for this wonderful piece! At EHN we also welcome natural scientists (hello ecologists!!👋) to muse on historical, cultural and philosophical ideas with us. This field note/meditation piece is a great example!

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

It’s today! Come by RCC! (pitch welcome 😄)

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

“The message has all the subtlety of a hammer: We can’t live without fossil fuels.” “Climate change doesn’t matter when we are paying 50 cents per litre more for petrol.” Robyn’s short article out today helps us make sense of the oil&gas headlines in Aus and beyond.

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EHN. @envhnow.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

"This case reveals the power alliances, whims, and eccentricities of private interests that produced enduring ecological and social damage rooted in the state’s complicity with drug trafficking from the 1980s in Colombia," María del Pilar Peralta Ardila tells us #envhist #envhum

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Whim, Negligence, and Socio-Ecological Harm: The Culling of Escobar’s Hippo Descendants

The Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development activated a plan to curb the spread of the hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) in Colombia. These are descendants of the animals that Pablo…

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EHN. @envhnow.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

"What is clear, however, is that this way of thinking and writing sits in woeful contradiction to the way news media reports on climate, reaching for headlines that will amass clicks and not those that represent a nuanced account of the scientific facts," writes Rae Ferner-Rose #envhist #envhum

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Making Sense of Polar Bear Headlines

In recent months, I have noticed a spate of ‘positive’ headlines popping up in my news feeds and on social media about the health and well-being of polar bears. Whilst some might call me a cyn…

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I’m so proud of this new series! A space for personal reflections + scholarly expertise on timely matters.✨⏱️ (What a time to be alive…) Fast-tracked, submission on rolling basis. And check out the two opening entries we had already and… more soon!

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

If anybody has a place for an environmental humanities scholar working on seed saving and storytelling, do let me know! (7/7)

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Train’s broken, still on my way to #EASLCE2026, on a bus somewhere between Germany and Netherlands now. Look who’s also in this together though 👀

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I wrote this awhile ago with the intention to reflect on “wait what did you say?” and 10 minutes later “we are still talking about it!?”

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

1/ Calling all ECRS - we have 4x 3 year post docs on Multispecies Mutualisms working with us at Sheffield. Don't want to read through all the stuff to work out if its right for you? Here is a short video explainer 🎥 digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...

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Multispecies Mutualisms - Join Our Research Team!

We’re hiring 4 Postdoctoral Research Associates (PDRAs) In this video, members of the team share insights into four exciting PDRA opportunities currently available. If you are ready to take the next s...

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Killing as care work? I wrote this short article for 4S Backchannel, where I outlined some ways to examine killing and care by analysing kindness and the work of killing invasive species for conservation purposes, based on observations I made during my field trip in Aotearoa.

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Killing Kindly: Invasive Species, Care, and Greenwork in Aotearoa New Zealand

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Anna-Maria Senuysal @annamariasenuysal.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

We are extending the deadline for our junior scholars workshop until Feb. 5 2026! Please consider sharing this/applying! All-costs-covered workshop for PhD candidates/early career scholars to receive comprehensive feedback on Germanic #EnvironmentalHumanities works-in-progress!

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I titled an article for submission with something rather cringey, because -> certain pressure, also because of my 0 creativity. One of the peer reviews said “honestly it’s so cringe sorry not sorry”. THANK YOU. With your permission I’m empowered. Just wanted to spit it out before bed time 🌛

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Looking for any STS/Env Hum folks working on biological invasion, conservations, and multispecies violence! With this combined panel, Luiza and I planned one sesh for 1. presentations and 2. ecology-humanities tandem workshop. We hope for (lots of✨) space for interdisciplinary discussion!

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I wrote this entry “(Invasive) Neobiota” with Camille for the Umwelt Wiki for key concepts in the Germanic Environmental Humanities. Learnt so much from Camille and her research in multispecies history. 🪾🌴🌳 And big thanks to @annamariasenuysal.bsky.social for the opportunity and thoughtful edits!

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(Invasive) Neobiota | Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures

by Katie Kung and Camille Schneiter

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · 02/12/2025

in case you weren't aware of r/petswithbuttons!🐈 "My cat has started to use 'vacuum' as a curse word": "For example, he will ask for "snackie” when we JUST got done with snackie and I will say “snackie all done” and then he will go spam the vacuum button." languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=72193...

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Language Log » Pets with buttons

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

One of the best things being an editor for @envhistnow.bsky.social is to have the pleasure (+luck!) to work with texts like this. I’ve learnt fr and resonated so much with @critical-lycan.bsky.social A beautiful piece meditating on the (exclusionary..) taxonomies of species and sexology. Go read!

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Thanks so much for the invite and letting me ramble about traps and death and care and killing ‘pest’ animals. such a great time (not so much for the dead animals mentioned, always acknowledged). I was very inspired by the variety of expertise!

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Interesting how the difference between feral and companion cats is emphasised to be obvious - reminds me of Mr Black, caught as feral, purring and snuggling after 2 months, and the kittens whose mum was killed, then turned domestic enough and adopted. How wild is wild, how domestic is domestic?

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'Stone cold killer' feral cats added to Predator Free 2050 strategy, Conservation Minister announces

After initially suggesting feral cats stay out of the Predator Free plan, the government has done a U-turn, announcing they are now a target.

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EHN. @envhnow.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

If you value what we do, please consider contributing to support our website hosting and volunteer editors: ko-fi.com/envhistnow #envhist #envhum

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Support Environmental History Now

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Any narratives/rhetorics on invasive species management/eradication/marketing folks want to share their projects? (and thanks Hal Herzog for the title😁)

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Happening soon: gonna be speaking about how to kill kindly in Aotearoa at 4S Seattle.. looking forward to the discussion with other presenters and the convenors Hannah Star Rogers and Matthew Eisler! @4sweb.bsky.social 15:40 in Seattle, midnight in Germany, let’s go!

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Oh it just came out: I wrote this short essay shortly after the research trip in Aotearoa recalling a very.. strange.. experience of a field day catching wallabies. Three were caught that day, many let go because they weren’t big enough. I still think about them sometimes. 🫧

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Anthropomorphizing is...a tough topic. For scientists and writers! Because the thing is: Animals aren't just like us. They don't see the world the way we do. But also people don't want to CONSERVE something they don't identify with. brookshire-team-trash.beehiiv.com/p/what-is-hu...

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What is "human-like" depends on where humans live

And why it matters for conservation

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Wilko Hardenberg @wilko.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2025

Great session yesterday at #eseh2025 #boardgaming empathy and uncertainty in the Anthropocene with Sven Seelinger (Uni Augsburg). So much fun! #envhist

Overview of the board, a dice, and a couple of cards

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Still decompressing from #ESEH2025 week but hey was it good! @elinetabak.bsky.social @chriskla.bsky.social @charrlotte.bsky.social, Sven Seelinger plus @aberehrlich.bsky.social (Go “invasive species”! I guess…)

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Luiza Teixeira-Costa @l-teixeiracosta.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Shout out and HUGE thanks to some of the amazing, inspiring, and kind women I've met this week, the likes of Aline Leite, Stefania Barca, Gaia Giuliani, Caroline Kreysel, @elinetabak.bsky.social and @katiekung.bsky.social

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

It was such a great panel and all the presentations complement so well to each other. What a pleasure to be part of it!

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Eline D. Tabak @elinetabak.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Chairing this fabulous #PlantStudies panel today: "Vegetal (hi)stories: more-than-human narratives of invasion and belonging" 🌿🌲🌾 Join us at 14.00-15.30 & 16.00-17.30 in room 21.011 for some planty goodness

Powerpoint slide acting as a poster. There's a transparent image of japanese knotweed as the background with dark green text:

Vegetal (hi)stories: more-than-human narratives of invasion and belonging
ESEH 2025: Thursday 20 August, 14.00-15.30 & 16.00-17.30, room 21.011
organised by Katie Kung (LMU) and Eline Tabak (Oulu)

Session 1 (14.00-15.30)
Christopher Klapperich (Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich) – Normalizing invasion in an altered archipelago. New debates about the belonging of native and exotic trees in Philippine reforestation
Charrlotte Adelina (Freie Universität Berlin) – Phytosociological Constructs and Pragmatic Targets in Restoration Practice
Katie Kung (Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich) – Naturalised citizens or noxious immigrants? Caring for ‘invasive’ plant species in a changing world
Session 2 (16.00-17.30)
Martin Schmitt (Paderborn University) – Sustainable foreigners to repair European natures? Experimental cultivation of foreign tree species and their use in reforestation in Spain and Prussia
Sven Seelinger (University of Augsburg) – Artificial Bramble. Barbed Wire and the Changing Human-Artefact-Biota Relationships on the Great Plains (1873–1933)
Roundtable discussion with all participants

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The past 5 weeks I’ve been in different forests (“the bush”) in Aotearoa New Zealand’s North Island. Studying “invasive” and protected animals control/monitoring and the role of kindness in killing, emotions in science.. How can you not be emotional in such beauty??

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Well done you two! So happy to see results from our previous environmental aesthetics workshop, was much fun!

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

12 ✨paid✨ PhD positions in environmental humanities - co/organised by Uni Augsburg and LMU. I’m also an affiliate there - check out the call: rethinking-environment-idk.de

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Had a great time earlier this week in the “invasive species” workshop in Zurich - so wonderful to meet all the people in this field! Great papers and great walk in Sihlwald to think about how nativeness and invasiveness are used for different agendas! @angecass.bsky.social @mattholmes.bsky.social

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Eline D. Tabak @elinetabak.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Just saw that the #ESEH2025 deadline has been extended to Nov 15, so there's still plenty of time to propose an abstract for our (@katiekung.bsky.social + me!) panel on 'Vegetal (hi)stories: more-than-human narratives of invasion and belonging' 🌿🌺 #envhum #envlit #PlantStudies

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Eline D. Tabak @elinetabak.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

Any green historian, vegetal ecocritics or (critical) plant scholars interested in submitting an abstract for a hybrid panel for #ESEH2025 in Uppsala, Sweden? 🌿🌾 @katiekung.bsky.social and I are drafting a panel proposal on "Vegetal (hi)stories: more-than-human narratives of invasion and belonging"

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