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Dr Milica Prokic

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environmental historian, illustrator, island nerd.

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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published OTD in 1962. “[W]e have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.” 🌱🐋 # HistSTM 🧪🌎 #philsci #philsky #WomeninSTEM
Caricature of Rachel Carson by David Levine for the New York Review of Books.
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
In 2020, the Foundling Museum held an exhibition on pregnancy portraits from the 16th century onwards. It was marvellous. (It was also pretty much the last thing I went to before lockdown.) foundlingmuseum.org.uk/event/portra...
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Portraying Pregnancy: From Holbein to Social Media - Foundling Museum
A major exhibition exploring representations of the pregnant female body through portraits over 500 years.
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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
We're attracted to simple big stories to explain complicate problems. In Scotland the idea of the energy transition is a key example. When oil and gas workplaces close down and workers lose their jobs we're told it's down to the transition. Except usually it isn't. Here's why🧵
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Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen @jessiewhchen.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Join us in Rome or online for a seminar on plant illustrations on 6 November! 🪴🌻🌿 Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany. www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...
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The Role of Images in Early Modern Botany
This seminar brings together two experts on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century plants. Zooming in on the dilemma of visualizing plants (or not), and how images could become part of epistemic methods w...
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Philippa Grand @philippagrand.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
"Knowledge should not be locked behind paywalls. We owe it to our students, and to learners everywhere, to open the doors" 👏👏👏 Great article by @lsepress.bsky.social MD @niamhtumelty.bsky.social & @heroicendeavour.bsky.social on why OERs should be central to the public mission of universities.
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
This Day in Labor History: September 14, 1889. Black guano workers on Navassa Island rose up and killed five white bosses in an act of desperation in revolt against a racist work regime. Let's talk about conditions of radicalized labor on this American owned island!
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Graeme Macdonald @gmacdonald.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
This (once) astonishing story signals the extent to which the far right fascist culture of organised violence has been fostered, emboldened and extended by MAGA politics. Disgusting and frightening. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites
BBC identifies members of Infidels MC gang hired as armed security at US and Israel-backed aid sites.
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 10/09/2025
Does anyone think the BBC will report that a ship flying a UK flag was attacked by an unidentified drone last night? aje.io/e4f7v5?updat...
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Gaza Global Sumud flotilla attacked again in Tunisia
Gaza Flotilla reports another drone attack in Tunisia, on separate vessel to one that was attacked the previous night.
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European Angie, Earth Carer @lifelearner47.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Bravo the Italian dock workers. Heroes wear all different kinds of helmets.
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The Govan Stones @govanstones.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
⛏️ Digging our 1,500-year-old churchyard! THIS WEEKEND, University of Glasgow Archaeology and Clyde Archaeology excavate one of the most exciting early medieval sites in Europe, as part of this University of Glasgow field school! 📷 Thanks to Clyde Archaeology for the photographs
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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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Lisa Matthews @lisaleziza.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Shameful. The existence of Manston - and the policies that enable people to be held there - degrade us all. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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‘People sleeping while walking’: inside Manston asylum centre in Kent
Six staff members speak of new arrivals’ exhaustion and ill-health and colleagues’ indifference to their plight
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ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The Rachel Carson Center just published a virtual exhibition on dunes and coastlines! @envhist @envhum
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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
I spent last week in Shropshire, and I'd like to share something I saw in the village of Minsterley, just SW of Shrewsbury: maidens' garlands, aka virgins' crowns, aka virgins' crants. I'd never seen anything like it, and I'd wager many other people haven't either.
View upwards in a church towards a row of five beige coloured circular objects of unclear nature, mounted on poles sticking out from the wall above a gallery rail.
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no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Friends! Friends! It's the THOUSANDS OF WORMS!!! Look at them!
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
"They all knew better, the portrayers of wilderness; [Ansel] Adams assiduously avoided photographing any of the local Miwok who were rarely out of his sight as he worked Yosemite Valley. He filled thousands of human-free negatives with land he knew the Miwok had tended for at least 4,000 years."
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The Myth of a Wilderness Without Humans
For over a century, conflicting views of wild nature created a rift between indigenous people and misguided conservationists.
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Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️‍🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Working on #EnvironmentalJustice topics in Central and Eastern Europe? Then you might want to send an abstract for the conference 'The Greyzone of the Green Transition' that I'm co-organizing with my colleagues from Sibiu next year in Romania (18-19 May 2026). Participation is free of charge!
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International Conference: The Greyzone of the Green Transition – ecoJust home
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Amid Trump’s calls to remove her as UN special rapporteur on Palestine, Varoufakis, Piketty, Gosh & another 7 economists praise Francesca Albanese’s report on the Economics of Genocide www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/07/08/a...
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Amid Trump's calls to remove her as UN special rapporteur on Palestine, Varoufakis, Piketty, Gosh & another 7 economists praise Francesca Albanese's report on the Economics of Genocide - ZETEO - Yanis...
Yanis Varoufakis, Thomas Piketty, Nassim Taleb, Jayati Gosh, Michael Hudson,  Giuseppe Mastruzzo, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Robert H. Wade, Christopher Cramer and Nidhi Srinivas co-sign the open letter bel...
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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I'm very excited to co-host this event by @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social and Christliche Initiative Romero e.V. on Wednesday next week in Bonn at the main @unibonn.bsky.social building. 'Green At Home, Harm Abroad: Germany's Role in Global Resource Exploitation'. It starts at 18h so come join us!
A poster advertising the event 'Green at Home, Harm Abroad' that will be held on Wed 18 June at the University of Bonn main building from 18-19.30.
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Environmental Information: Use and Influence (Dalhousie Univ.) @eiui.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Since 2000, #OceanLiteracy (OL) has evolved to encompass the complexity of #human-ocean relationships. @emmajmckinley.bsky.social & Fradera suggest an alliance of OL with #ProcessLiteracy, i.e., understanding marine mgmt #decision-making, & explore links with spatial justice doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...
Title, authors’ names, and abstract from a paper about characterizing ocean literacy in relation to decision-making process literacy
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Glasgow Counterfire @glasgowcounterfire.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
📢 Public event announcement Get tickets for Glasgow here👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/malcolm-x-...
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Dr Milica Prokic @milicaprokic.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
What a joy it is to scroll through the @eandhwhp.bsky.social newest issue and see this wonderful review of our book by Joana Gaspar de Freitas! @pavlasimkova.bsky.social 🌊🏝️🌊 liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
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Milica Prokić and Pavla Simkova (eds), Entire of Itself? Towards an Environmental History of Islands | Environment and History
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Dr Milica Prokic @milicaprokic.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Exactly a month since @oneoceanhub.bsky.social visited KaNyaka 🇲🇿 to speak with the islanders about their long ignored traditional #ocean knowledge. Been thinking about Mozambique its islands and other environments, communities, their struggles and resilience since then ❤️💚🖤💛
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One Ocean Hub @oneoceanhub.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
🦋We're looking forward to the Exhibit at the MOTH Festival of Ideas from 12 to 14 March New York University Law School. Join the conversation with Hub’s Director Elisa Morgera and Dylan McGarry where they will be keynote speakers on the 14 March. Register here -https://tinyurl.com/35r42y98
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Peter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
"There is an intimate moment when a digger finds something, when it is just them and the object and the hovering ghost of whoever touched it last." Delighted to write about @nessofbrodgar.bsky.social for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social. Pictures by Kieran Dodds. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/disc...
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Discover the Astounding Secrets of Scotland's Stone Age Settlements
In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the chapter on a legendary excavation, capping two decades of remarkable Neolithic discoveries
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Dr Milica Prokic @milicaprokic.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Applications for Tallin Disseration Prize now open!
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 24/12/2024
Growing up in the Caribbean, C.L.R. James told Stuart Hall in 1976, “you get a certain comprehensive view...a microcosm of society on the whole. We—not me alone—Fanon had it, Césaire had it, Padmore had it.”
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A Microcosm of the World | C.L.R. James, Stuart Hall, Phoebe Braithwaite
In May 1976, the Jamaican-born cultural theorist Stuart Hall sat down in the BBC’s studios in West London to interview the Trinidadian-born intellectual
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Dr Milica Prokic @milicaprokic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
@unsocialtheory.bsky.social oh it helps. and deeply resonates🔥
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Katarina Kušić @katkusic.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Super excited to share a CfP on political ecologies in SEE 🌱 Our guiding q's are: What do the political ecologies of SEE look like? What are the legacies that the field draws on, how is the field transforming, and what are its possible futures? Get in touch if you have an idea and please share!
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Dr Milica Prokic @milicaprokic.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Randomly stumbled upon this: the style of illustrations and the attention given to the descriptions of more-than-human world (built environment included) in this RPG makes my little geeky heart sing! 🤩
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Dr Milica Prokic @milicaprokic.bsky.social · 27/09/2024
Yay! 🏝️ A raving review from Prof. Peter Coates for our book 'Entire of Itself?Towards An Environmental History of Islands' in the Global Environment journal lnkd.in/d8BK92Qy 🤓 Congrats to my wonderful co-editor @pavlasimkova.bsky.social and all our co-authors! Book available OA lnkd.in/d2_PcbCC ,
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Dr Milica Prokic @milicaprokic.bsky.social · 03/04/2024
#Islands habitually foster #endemic species and peculiar cultures, customs and behaviours. In my chapter of the Entire of Itself? book about the arid rocky prison island #Goliotok I ask if on islands, instead of strange plants, endemic violence can grow. #OpenAccess on www.jstor.org/stable/jj.12...
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Dr Milica Prokic @milicaprokic.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
In 2014, a new island was born in the South Pacific, from the eruption of the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai volcano. In our book, 'Entire of Itself?', Jeff Wescott writes what the newborn island taught him in its short life. #OpenAccess at: www.jstor.org/stable/jj.12... #Islands #microplastics #ocean
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Dr Milica Prokic @milicaprokic.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
🏝️In our of book of #islands in #envhist Joe Djordjevski writes a fascinating #history of the Kornati archipelago as one of the first national parks in the #socialist Yugoslavia. Read Open Access here: www.jstor.org/stable/jj.12... #yugoslavia #heritage #conservation #exploitation #openaccess 🏝️
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3. Sailing Through Heritage: Nautical Tourism, Environmental Protection, Conflict and the Making of the Kornati National Park in Socialist Yugoslavia Nautical Tourism, Environmental Protection, C...
Josef Djordjevski, Sailing Through Heritage:, Entire of Itself?, pp. 77-98
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Pavla Šimková @pavlasimkova.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
In 2021, @milicaprokic.bsky.social and I started talking about a book on environmental history of islands. Three years, 18 authors and 14 islands later, here we are! Thank you, @sarahwhpress.bsky.social and @whitehorsepress.bsky.social! Available in print and in OA: www.jstor.org/stable/jj.12...
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Dr Milica Prokic @milicaprokic.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
Our book is out! The brilliant Pavla Šimková and I have had an immense pleasure to work on this book with researchers (and their islands), across the globe. The book is now available in print, and online Open Access: www.jstor.org/stable/jj.12... Thank you, The White Horse press!
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Monica Vasile 🐾 @monicavasile.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Some wildlife conservation projects have very precise goals #envhist #ConservationHistory
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Dr Milica Prokic @milicaprokic.bsky.social · 18/01/2024
Publication alert! 🥁 Thrilled to be part of the fantastic Labor History Journal special issue edited by Claudia Bernardi, Amal Shahid, and Müge Özbek. I wrote on intersections of env and labour history, and Goli otok. Check out the whole issue published OA: www.tandfonline.com/toc/clah20/6...
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