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Margaret Cook

@mcookhistory.bsky.social
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Historian of environment, climate-related disasters & waterways. ARC Industry Fellow, Griffith University

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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great to see this work with Kerrie Saunders & Kamilaroi women from Moree & Mungindi published. Free to download. doi.org/10.1080/1444...
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Water, Grasses and Food Sovereignty: Aboriginal Knowledge in a Changing Murray–Darling Basin
This article examines the ecological and social impacts of altered river flow regimes and industrial agriculture on the Kamilaroi people and their traditional Country in Moree and Mungindi, New Sou...
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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Reposting for the crowd on the other side of the world!
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Ruth Morgan @ruthamorgan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Working in the environmental humanities? If you have a fresh take on new approaches/concepts/methods/sources - plz pitch to the Approaches section in OUP's new initiative, Environmental Change & Human Experience (led by maestros Georgina Endfield & Poul Holm academic.oup.com/oxford-inter...
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This news is horrifying. That number is only human deaths, not animals or ecological consequences.
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ANU Press @anupress.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
📣 Calling all established writers of memoir, autobiography and biography! Applications for the Peter Blazey Fellowship close 27 July. Receive up to $20,000 to support your life writing work-in-progress. Find out more and apply: arts.unimelb.edu.au/scholarships... #WritingFellowship
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Peter Blazey Fellowship
Peter Blazey Fellowship
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This would be amazing!
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Thanks @libbydeq.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social @whitehorsepress.bsky.social for the opportunity to acknowledge scholars who inspire my work. I hope you love Kylie Stevens’ art.
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Kerrie Saunders is doing such important work promoting native grasses & celebrating Kamilaroi culture.
sbs.com.au
Meet the woman reviving ‘guli’ and one of the world’s oldest breads
On Gomeroi Country in north-west NSW, Kerrie Saunders is helping revive a native grain tied to one of the world’s oldest bread making traditions, while sharing its story with 'Rick Stein’s Australia'.
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
It was such a wonderful experience to share a stage today at #Ozwater26 with Cameron Costello, Emma Thomas & Kevin Werksman. Photo credit: Ozwater
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Excited to be the keynote speaker tomorrow at the start of OzWater '26. I'll be speaking about managing droughts and flooding rains in SEQ.
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
These wetlands have international significance & are highly valued in the community as you can read in Voices from the Basin: www.mdba.gov.au/node/7580
theguardian.com
‘Incomprehensible’: birds flee and hundreds of turtles left to die after government cuts water to NSW wetlands
Frogs and sheep in the Gwydir wetlands near Moree have also been bogged after WaterNSW stopped environmental flows, researchers say
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
When meteorologists say cyclone paths are hard to predict, they are not joking. Map of cyclone paths 1910-1969. BOM history of Cyclone Ada.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained. That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social
nature.com
Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration
Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.
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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
☀️ 🫡 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
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'Electrons to the people:' Neighbours build commercial solar farm
Hundreds of residents of a rural NSW town combine to build their own commercial solar farm, demonstrating the community benefits of renewable energy.
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
abc.net.au
'Electrons to the people:' Neighbours build commercial solar farm
Hundreds of residents of a rural NSW town combine to build their own commercial solar farm, demonstrating the community benefits of renewable energy.
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Not @amandawells.bsky.social standard of research related clothing but my here’s my nod to rivers.
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Are you from an 🇪🇺 country or 🇳🇴🇮🇸🇨🇭 interested in studying how humanities can help communicate and address environmental issues? Registration is open now for our Master in Public Environmental Humanities! Free tuition for our 2 year program in Stavanger, Norway. www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
People sitting in grass drawing on left; books on right
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Thanks @harrycroft.bsky.social for a thoughtful & wonderful review. I feel seen. Am I fearless or foolhardy - not sure? But the book has certainly caused ripples!
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
We need to hear this & act. “In mid January, the lower Murray was listed as a critically endangered ecological community under Australia’s nature laws. This means there’s an extremely high chance its native ecosystems will become extinct within the immediate future, in as little as ten years.”
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
How’s this? I was being recorded for a USA podcast on rivers & floods & chatting about the more-than human world & thinking about sounds, animals, emotions & humans. And my cat comes in & screams repeatedly (far more than a mild miaow). Ironic? Proving my point? Mmmm 😼 agency 💪
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ICEHO @iceho.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
The University of Bristol will offer their summer school in Environmental Humanities again! @bristoluni.bsky.social #envhum #envhist
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Great to share our Murray Darling Basin oral history project with colleagues @Professional Historians Association conference. If you are curious, type ‘Voices from the Basin’ into a search engine
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
This was such a well organised & friendly conference. I particularly enjoyed the opportunity to think about the practice of history. Whose story are we telling? Why & how or could/should this be done.
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Writers (including historians) spend years writing. Our work is not produced to train AI without our knowledge or recompense. It is our work & Intellectual Propery. I commend this action:
theguardian.com
Labor rules out giving tech giants free rein to mine copyright content to train AI
Attorney general Michelle Rowland shuts down contentious proposal to grant copyright exemption for AI models
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Hi @ncushing12.bsky.social, I’m wondering if you have any tips?
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Please refuse this application Ipswich City Council. The developer acknowledges that 100s of people will be at risk of flooding.
abc.net.au
Hundreds of units proposed on land that faces 'extreme potential flood levels'
A major developer wants to build 500 apartments on the banks of a river to Brisbane's south, but some concerned residents say the flooding risk is too high.
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
This World Rivers Day, the #InternationalRiverFoundation invited Simon Cleary (author of Everything Is Water) and me (author of A River with a City Problem) to help celebrate river, the lifeblood of our planet. www.riverfoundation.org.au/world-rivers...
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World Rivers Day 2025 - International River Foundation
Reflections from authors Simon Cleary and Dr Margaret Cook on Maiwar, the Brisbane River. Celebrating the river through storytelling.
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I really enjoyed presenting with Simon Cleary recently at the #InternationalRiversSymposium
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I really enjoyed presenting with Simon Cleary recently at the #InternationalRiversSymposium
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
At Qld State Library with Alessandro Antonello & thinking of you @ncushing12.bsky.social
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Thanks @rubyekkel.bsky.social for the opportunity to showcase the work Kerrie Saunders & I did for #MurrayDarlingBasinAuthority through #AustralianRiversinstitute
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Thanks to Prof. Karen Nelson, Vice Chancellor of University of Southern Qld, for advocating for the Humanities. Read the full article: lnkd.in/gVtTGFeg.
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Please place a vote for your favourite book in the People’s Choice Awards. My vote goes to ‘Everything is Water’. www.slq.qld.gov.au/queensland-l...
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Please consider signing to achieve affordable Arts degrees.
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Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸 @ezzyod.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
"The River Test in Hampshire has become the second waterway in the UK to be recognised as a legal entity, following a unanimous vote by Test Valley Borough Council to grant it “personhood”." www.scottishlegal.com/articles/eng...
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England: River Test granted legal personhood in protection bid
River Test The River Test in Hampshire has become the second waterway in the UK to be recognised as a legal entity, following a unanimous vote by Test Valley Borough Council to grant it “personh...
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
A great opportunity to delve into SLQ collections.
slq.qld.gov.au
Apply for the 2026 Queensland Memory Awards
Apply for a fellowship Have you ever wanted to explore historic material in State Library's collections and uncover new aspects of Queensland's history? As a research fellow, you’ll have a…
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I am still stunned at being awarded an Industry Fellowship to work with communities, QRA & NHRA on disaster resilience. Thanks @ARC, @GriffithUniversity, friends & family for support. Sympathy to all the wonderful scholars who missed out (I know that pain!)
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
www.environmentalhistory-au-nz.org/2025/06/voic...
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Voices from the Basin: Digital stories are live!
For two years a group of researchers from La Trobe University have been conducting oral histories throughout the Murray-Darling Basin, recording the voices and lived experiences of people who live …
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Looking forward to sharing my research with Kamilaroi women on water & grasses @AHA2025
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Fabulous day flying over Kati Thanda/Lake Eyre, Diamantina River & desert in flood
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Last night I was part of an art exhibition launch - “Flood Lines” - at the Ipswich Art Gallery. This video tells you about the project & collaboration between an artist (Kylie Stevens) & historian (me) vimeo.com/1075538131
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Excited to have launched Flood Lines tonight with Simon Cleary & Kylie Stevens. Here’s a video if you want to know more. www.instagram.com/reel/DIuK4PQ...
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The damage & stock loss in these floods is staggering
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Graziers speak of flood devastation in outback Queensland - ABC News
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Looking forward to seeing Kylie Stevens’ paintings @Ipswich Art Gallery.
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Thankfully Ipswich avoided major flood level last night but 30 homes flooded.
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Great work Cheryl Desha. I sit in Ipswich as the Bremer is reaching major flood level. We need climate adaptation.
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
As I watch to see what rain ex-tropical cyclone Alfred brings I wrote a Conversation article
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Brisbane is bracing for floods yet again. History shows residents should remain on very high alert
Brisbane is a subtropical city of more than 2.5 million people, situated on a flood-prone river. That’s why residents mustn’t get complacent after Cyclone Alfred.
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ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Did you know that Australia is actually a part of ESEH? Learn more about Australian #EnvHist by joining this roundtable discussion with Harrison Croft, Heather Goodall, Tom Griffiths, Ruth Morgan, and Jessica Urwin! 25 March 2025. @ruthamorgan.bsky.social
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Virtual Event - Australian Environmental History Today
25 March 2025 - This roundtable discussion will bring together historians at various career stages to reflect on the current state of Australian environmental history.
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Great to see my book “A River with a City Problem” might be helping keep people safe. #TCAlfred #SEQfloods #aanzehn #envhist www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Alice thought Brisbane wouldn’t flood twice in one decade. Now she’s bracing for Tropical Cyclone Alfred to hit
Residents in Queensland’s capital are preparing for impact – and for some it’s bringing back memories of the 2022 floods
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