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Rebecca J H Woods

@professorbopeep.bsky.social
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historian of science, environment, animals at the University of Toronto. Current research: frozen mammoths and the history/future of climate change. www.mammothhistorylab.com Views my own, not UofT’s.

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Rebecca J H Woods @professorbopeep.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Great piece by @ewanderer.bsky.social in @us.theconversation.com about facial recognition algorithms and wildlife tracking. Gotta love the fat bears... theconversation.com/how-facial-r...
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How facial recognition for bears can help ecologists manage wildlife
Recent advances in computer vision and other types of artificial intelligence offer an opportunity for facial recognition to apply to bears and other animals.
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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Join us today for an enlightening talk by Aaron Gluck-Thaler on the historical and current influence of patterns explored by scientists from various fields. The event, organized by Prof. Rebecca Woods @professorbopeep.bsky.social takes place at Victoria College 🔗
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IHPST Colloquium Second Session | Fall 2025
You are cordially invited to attend the Fall 2025 Colloquium series of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology organized by Professor Rebecca Woods
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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Animals and the history of natural history, or, what would natural history look like had Charles Darwin been a cat person? With @professorbopeep.bsky.social and Anya Zilberstein @animalhistory.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/a...
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Animals and the History of Natural History
We see the concept of nonhuman cultures and their historicity as one of the most significant and fascinating recent developments in the field.
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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Colossal Biosciences has a new project - and it seems to have press released it only to entertainment outlets rather than science media 🤔
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Rebecca J H Woods @professorbopeep.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
My new piece in The Conversation is out here: theconversation.com/why-are-we-s...
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Why are we so obsessed with bringing back the woolly mammoth?
Woolly mammoths have become the poster child for de-extinction. The giant land mammals have long held our intrigue and fascination.
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Environmental History @envirohistory.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Our April 2025 issue is now available! If you are a print subscriber look for it in the mail! #envhist #envhum @chicagojournals.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/eh/current
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Environmental History | Vol 30, No 2
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Rebecca J H Woods @professorbopeep.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
At the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Look at this moose throuple! @ewanderer.bsky.social has the back story on its design...
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Rebecca J H Woods @professorbopeep.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
It’s been a busy couple of weeks in de-extinction. I spoke to journalist Grace Hunter about Colossal Biosciences’s woolly mice for this article: cottagelife.com/general/scie...
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Scientists create woolly mice in an effort to resurrect the mammoth
Scientists want to resurrect the woolly mammoth using research with mice; they've created a woolly mouse by altering DNA
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Environmental History @envirohistory.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
You can now read Rebecca Woods' (@professorbopeep.bsky.social) "Entangled Extinction: Endangered Elephants and Extinct Mammoth Ivory in the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries" from the April 2025 issue. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Entangled Extinction: Endangered Elephants and Extinct Mammoth Ivory in the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries | Environmental History
This article uses two moments from the history of ivory to examine the shared histories of mammoths and elephants. The first came in the late nineteenth century, when mammoth ivory was proposed as a s...
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Rebecca J H Woods @professorbopeep.bsky.social · 07/06/2024
Wordle Bot had something to say about my opening pick
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 12/03/2024
Call for Papers – Animal History Group Conference 2024: Movers and Shapers Online, 27–28 June 2024 Submission Deadline: 5 April 2024 niche-canada.org/2024/03/11/c... #envhist #animalhistory #animalstudies
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Call for Papers - Animal History Group Conference 2024: Movers and Shapers
Call for Papers - Animal History Group Conference AHG24: Movers and Shapers Online, 27–28 June 2024 Submission Deadline: 5 April 2024 Visit Website The Animal History Group is a netwo...
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James Baker @jwbaker.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
The 2024 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History is now open for dominations of works published since January 2023. Nominate your work or a work that you 💜. Deadline 31 May. Full details here: ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-...
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Jim Clifford @jimclifford.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
Call for Participants: 2024 Canadian History & Environment Summer School / Appel à participant·e·s: École d’été en histoire de l’environnement 2024 Staples and Canadian History: Commodities, Ports, and Urban Space in Montreal. niche-canada.org/2024/01/11/c...
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Call for Participants: 2024 Canadian History & Environment Summer School / Appel à participant·e·...
Our Canadian History and Environment Summer School will be in Montreal in June 2024! Apply by January 22nd!
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Rebecca J H Woods @professorbopeep.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
My excellent PhD student, Tola Ajao, was instrumental in putting this great resource together for @shothisttech.bsky.social www.historyoftechnology.org/doing-histor...
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Rebecca J H Woods @professorbopeep.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
My excellent PhD student, Tola Ajao, was instrumental in putting this great resource together for @shothisttech.bsky.social www.historyoftechnology.org/doing-histor...
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Rebecca J H Woods @professorbopeep.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
It is an honor to see this engagement with my work! Thanks @melaniekiechle.bsky.social @emilypawley.bsky.social Gabe Rosenberg, and Abe Gibson!
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Emily Pawley @emilypawley.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
Super psyched to have been part of this conversation about a book I really like!
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