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Raf De Bont 🟥 @rafdebont.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

*Globalizing Wildlife*, a book edited by @vbateman.bsky.social, Tom Quick, and myself, is now available for pre-order with @uncpress.bsky.social! Using code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout, you can save 30% www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...

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Globalizing Wildlife

Humans have always incorporated wildlife into processes of work, capture, and exchange. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, globalization became t...

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Germinate @g-ehr.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

We like Parrots and we cannot lie! Our first article is a special feature by Nancy Jacobs! It is part one of a three part three series, drawing upon her 2025 Presidential Address at the ASEH in Pittsburgh.

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The Great Acceleration (Domination without Domestication in the Grey Anthropocene, Part 1) – Germinate

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Germinate @g-ehr.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Come for the gorgeous visuals, stay for the text accompanying the visuals! g-ehr.com/special-feat...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

At March Madness today in Providence, @sethrockman.bsky.social, a historian at Brown University, and profs from other local colleges will be conducting a mobile teach-in to draw attention to how DOGE cuts will negatively impact the students and communities associated with the schools playing today.

PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release: March 22, 2025
Contact: Seth Rockman, sethrockman2018@gmail.com
NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Teach-In on the Federal Government's Attack on Higher Education
Providence, RI, March 22, 2025 College professors from Brown University, Providence College, University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island School of Design, and other local institutions will stage a "mobile teach-in" in Downtown Providence during Saturday's NCAA Men's Basketball games at the Amica Mutual Arena. Faculty will draw attention to the Trump Administration budget cuts that threaten higher education here in Rhode Island and on the campuses now competing in the tournament.
"There won't be any winners when it comes to the massive reductions of research funding and financial aid befalling schools like Purdue, Arkansas, McNeese, and St. John's," said Seth Rockman, a Brown University history professor and organizer of the event. "These institutions may no longer be able to conduct transformative research or open doors to social mobility. This will be a disaster for our country."
All eight of the institutions competing in Providence this week are at risk of losing millions in federal funding due to DOGE interference in the operations of the National Institute of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Education, and other federal agencies. Purdue University, for example, may lose $70 million in funding from USAID. Cuts to federal financial aid may render St. John's unaffordable to the more than 30 percent of its students eligible for such support. Executive orders prohibiting institutional efforts toward diversity, equity, and inclusion have placed Clemson under federal investigation and resulted in last month's termination of three teacher education programs at High Point University. "These aren't 'woke' or elite schools," observed Rockman. "Red state, blue state, big, small, public, private, it doesn't matter. Everyone los…

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Nancy J. Jacobs @nancyjjacobs.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Peter and I at the #marchmadnessteachin. Full Court Press against Trump's Education Policies!

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Nancy J. Jacobs @nancyjjacobs.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The God Abandons Us. Substitute "liberal democrats" for "Anthony" and "democracy" for "Alexandra. There we are at the window, watching her leave. Playing music as she goes. We were not worthy and now she's gone. The God isn't intervening. www.onassis.org/initiatives/...

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Nancy J. Jacobs @nancyjjacobs.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I asked Chat GPT for an image of an angry African grey parrot and got this:

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Nancy J. Jacobs @nancyjjacobs.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Last week and this week, I'm teaching on South Africa in the 1940s and 1950s. I feel something as momentous as 1948 in SA has just happened in the US. I don't say this only to rage at MAGA, but to think about what was lost and what will be required for recovery.

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Nancy J. Jacobs @nancyjjacobs.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I had a Twitter account for a bit. I considered myself in the Twitter world, but not of it. Now I'm trying BlueSky. I'm following people who share my politics, but I'm seeing a good amount of the binary thinking and purism that sent me off Twitter.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Lunchtime Colloquium with Elijah Doro - @carsoncenter.bsky.social “Toxic Narratives of the African Wasteocene: Gold Mining and Arsenic in Southern Rhodesia (Colonial Zimbabwe).” www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc5U... #envhist #mininghistory

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Lunchtime Colloquium with Elijah Doro

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Nancy J. Jacobs @nancyjjacobs.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I wonder if Mitch McConnell ever thinks about Faust..

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Nancy J. Jacobs @nancyjjacobs.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Hello Bluesky world! What if I raised my head above the parapet and said things?

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Nancy J. Jacobs @nancyjjacobs.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

I talked about parrots: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgF8...

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Nancy J. Jacobs @nancyjjacobs.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

My review of a terrific book: Gabrielle Hecht, *Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures* networks.h-net.org/group/review...

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American Society for Environmental History @aseh.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

It’s Giving Tuesday! Today, ASEH will double match a gift to the ASEH cause of your choice - that means a gift of $50 for fellowships, prizes, awards, provides $150 to support the work of environmental historians. Donation link is below, and thank you for supporting ASEH! aseh.org/together-wit...

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