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Simone Edgar Holmes

@sedgarholmes.bsky.social
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PhD student in Early Modern Studies at UCL / Cartography / Ecocriticism / Dutch colonial history, focus on Suriname 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈

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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Now that we are fully in the school year, it might be time for you to read a new book! Check out this list of (probably) great new titles I have available to review for H-Environment #envhist #envhum #aghist #ecocrit #envphil #energy #envtech #conservation #climate docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Books Available to review for H-Environment
Books Available for Review for H-Environment Below are the books currently available for review for H-Environment. Interested in reviewing one? Please email me at dmccahey@uci.edu. If we haven’t met,...
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A programme! A veritable programme! Would you look at these cool talks for our Autumn line-up, with dream team @bobpi.bsky.social, @ninondubourg.bsky.social, and @ewatson.bsky.social Join us at the @ihr.bsky.social (or on zoom) on Fridays at 17:30 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #LowCountries
Autumn term programme for the Low Countries seminar at the Institute f Historical research on Fridays at 17:30

23 Oct	Bob Pierik (Brussels), ‘Water, Space and Environmental Inequality in Early Modern Amsterdam’ 
 
20 Nov	Ninon Dubourgh (Cologne), ‘Between Old Age, Illness, and Disability: Everyday Care in the Hospitals of Late Medieval Liège’ 
 
18 Dec	Elise Watson (Edinburgh), ‘”For women by women”: Gendered Networks in Operation in the Dutch Book Trade’
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Joe Borsato @theecoalchemyst.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My latest blog post about Cree geographic knowledge in 17th-century cartography is now live with the British Library’s blog, focusing on some research that I completed this summer at the library as a 2026 Eccles Fellow. www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
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Charting Indigenous lands and waterways
Cree geographical knowledge at the British Library and the early cartography of the Hudson Bay watershed.
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Simone Edgar Holmes @sedgarholmes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Maps in the news!
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Tina Adcock @tinaadcock.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Super cool if you study Canadian history: an interactive digital map of Hudson's Bay Company posts! Thanks, @trailmark.bsky.social! #cdnhist #cdnhistory trailmark.cloud/trailmark/pu...
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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
*Call for Papers* @srsrensoc.bsky.social has announced its next #conference at the Warburg. 'The Renaissance beyond Borders' frames the #Renaissance as a dynamic, interwoven process that transcends the geographical limitations of a fixed European moment. Learn more ➡️ rensoc.org.uk/announcement...
Image credit: 'A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, Borough of Southwark, and Parts Adjacent’ (detail), by John Mottley (London: J. Read, 1734-5). With thanks to Senate House Library for the image.
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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Check out Simone Edgar Holmes's review of Nicholas Walton's "Orange Sky, Rising Water: The Remarkable Past and Uncertain Future of the Netherlands," published in 2025 by @hurstpublishers.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
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EHN. @envhnow.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Thrilled to share the latest piece in our series POLITICS OF NATURE, by contributor Torrey Chin #envhist #envhum
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A Pear Tree Grew In Dorchester
An essay on invasive Bradford pear trees in Massachusetts, weaving together ecological regulation, Boston’s pear history, racialized school busing, family memory, and the politics of belonging in chan...
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
There's a new post on our blog, by Milja van Tielhof on 'Amsterdam, a city with two water problems', introducing her recent #openaccess article in @eandhwhp.bsky.social. Read it here: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/06/01/a... #envhist #envhum #water
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Amsterdam, a city with two water problems
In this blog Milja van Tielhof introduces the subjects covered in more detail in her just-published Open Access paper in Environment and History, ‘Building Cisterns to Buffer Water Scarcity. …
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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 30/05/2026
@gijn.org debunks 10 myths about adaptation in an excerpt from “Climate Adaptation: Guide for Journalists and Newsrooms,” a new guide from Instituto Talanoa, a Brazil-based climate policy think tank.
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Popular Myths About Climate Adaptation Journalists Should Know
... that Journalists Should Know
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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Planners are working with water to bring wildlife back to the heart of our cities, towns & villages - creating a cooler, more pleasant urban environment along the way: share.google/hDpVMc4Hr6rD...
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How to build cities for wildlife, not just people – new research
Urban waterways sit at the heart of the global nature crisis.
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Tamir Moustafa @tamirmoustafa.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Fantastic writing tips by Marcus Rediker. pghrev.com/sixteen-writ...
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Sixteen Writing Tips from Marcus Rediker - Pittsburgh Review of Books
Editor's Note: Acclaimed writer and Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh Marcus Rediker has long informally circulated
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German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Happening tomorrow! 📆 Join us for a lecture by John Morgan (Bristol) on 'The Politics of Flooding in Early Modern England'. Sign up here to attend in person or online: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu... #skystorians #medievalmonday #environmentalhistory
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Simone Edgar Holmes @sedgarholmes.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Next Friday I have 10 minutes (plus discussion) to explain my entire dissertation project, alongside two other PhD students with fascinating Dutch art historical projects to share. Challenge accepted, thank you HNA! 2:00-3:15pm EST, on Zoom.
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2026 Dissertation Forum - Historians of Netherlandish Art
Next Friday, May 8, from 2:00-3:15 pm (EST) we will be holding our annual HNA Dissertation Forum. This is an opportunity to hear from three graduate
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Malcolm MacLean @malcomaxx.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
CFP: the state on the humanities (submissions close 15 May)
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Growing Humanities: Flourishing Futures in Challenging Times - Call for Papers - RHS
Higher Education Conference 29th June 2026, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London         Across the UK and internationally, Humanities disciplines are navigating a period of profound c...
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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Now that we all left KC after a wonderful #ASEH #ASEH2026, continue the scholar conversation by reviewing a book for H-Environment! Check out my list of books below! #envhist #envhum #ecocrit #aghist #energy #animalhist #sustainability #anthropocene #plantstudies docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Books Available to review for H-Environment
Books Available for Review for H-Environment Below are the books currently available for review for H-Environment. Interested in reviewing one? Please email me at dmccahey@uci.edu. If we haven’t met,...
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Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
🥳The Routledge Handbook of Health and Environmental Humanities is published today! Ed. by the fab Amber Abrams, @victoriabates.bsky.social & @rothiotome.bsky.social. It also includes a chapter 'Research on the Move' by @draflint.bsky.social and me. (Probably one to ask your library to order tho' £)
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The Routledge Handbook of Health and Environmental Humanities
This handbook delves into the innovative intersection of health and environmental humanities, capturing its multidisciplinary creative spirit by showcasing key concepts and tools, on-the-ground applic...
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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
📢 Call for Papers: The Culture + Language of the Living Landscape in the Neerlandophone World. The 16th Biennial ALCS Conference (22-24 June 2026) is @york.ac.uk . Exploring "Delta Dialogues"—from polders to mangroves. 🌾🌊 🔹 CfP deadline: 15 March 2026 More info: buff.ly/q5RdGcC
Delta Dialogues logo and conference information: The Culture and Language of the Living Landscape in the Neerlandophone World. 
Association for Low Countries Studies, 16th Biennial Conference
22-24 June 2026
University of York, UK
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Simone Edgar Holmes @sedgarholmes.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Looking forward to sharing my research as the first talk in the Northern Environmental History Network's spring seminar series! I'll be looking closely at a handful of 17th-century maps of the Caribbean sugar colony of Suriname and their unusual depictions of nature
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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Screenshot of map showing areas of London & home counties predicted to be below annual flood level by 2050. This is a screenshot from a global map. You can investigate how flood risk is predicted to rise where you live via link below: share.google/V1FP4UpSUEHY...
Map showing areas of London, Essex and Thames Estuary predicted to be below the annual flood level by 2050, as climate change progresses.
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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
#maritimehistory
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Simone Edgar Holmes @sedgarholmes.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Sadly can’t make it but absolutely thrilled this is happening! Excited to see what new information can be extracted from these maps
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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
This is a really good piece. What does walking do for our research? "Does being in a landscape automatically imbue us with a greater understanding of it? Sounds a bit like saying if you immerse yourself in historical documents, they ‘speak for themselves’."
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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Reviewing a book is one of the best and most fun service opportunities available! Check out the awesome books available from H-Environment! #envhist #envhum #envtech #conservation #sustainability #envjustice #ecocrit #envphil #plantstudies #animalstudies #nature docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Books Available for Review for H-Environment Below are the books currently available for review for H-Environment. Interested in reviewing one? Please email me at dmccahey@uci.edu. If we haven’t met,...
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Simone Edgar Holmes @sedgarholmes.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Checks all my boxes—concepts of nature, travel writing, early modern maps featuring goats—excellent new article from Liz and Natalia!
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Nice to see that the Arctic Fever exhibition at the U of Toronto Fisher Rare Books library that I’m here in Canada for (opening event tonight) got coverage in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f... #envhum #envhist #books
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Arctic Fever: new exhibit finds 19th-century parallels to Trump’s Greenland obsession
As far back as 1867, White House officials have viewed Greenland, and Iceland, as having immense strategic value
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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 03/02/2026
The Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...
Map identifying the approximate regions where various Indigenous groups lived in North America in 1776.
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Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
New seminars on Instructing Colonial Natural History 🌿 We can look forward to papers by Yunting Gu, Adriana Craciun and @nulybranch.bsky.social. For more info see instructingnaturalhistory.com (more info will be added). #skystorians #museums #collecting #histsci #envhist
Poster showing the seminar schedule. The image is of Louis XVI giving instructions
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
From the current issue: “Failure to Drain: Expert Resistance and Environmental Thought in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic” by @annalunapost.bsky.social (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
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Failure to Drain: Expert Resistance and Environmental Thought in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic*
Abstract. Historical scholarship has long highlighted the extensive landscape interventions initiated by state agents, early capitalists and experts in the
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ESEH NEXTGATe @esehnextgate.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Apply to this fantastic workshop by 31 January!
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Can an archive make a monster of a historian? But of course! I wrote about this for @contingent-mag.bsky.social, and the essay is now both free to read online and available as an audio read by me! The audio version: 💙📚 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH #maps #cartography 1/2
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Can the Archive Make a Monster of a Historian? — audio
A historian who pays full attention to their sources can’t help but be transformed into a monster...
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chloelewis.bsky.social @chloelewis.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
It could be you
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Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this
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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
“Protecting Greenland's ice is the most important piece of national security and global security you can imagine. It's not critical minerals. It's not military strategy. It's keeping that ice frozen.” - Longtime climate researcher Paul Bierman. Watch the rest: revkin.substack.com/p/tonight-me...
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Early modern women writing in books! An online resource. #earlymodern #Renaissance 🗃
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Our first event in the new year will be a talk today by Stephan Pauleit (Strategic #Landscape Planning and Management, TUM) on “Transforming #Urban Landscapes: Why #GreenCities Are the Future.”
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
WHOA! Elly Robson Dezateux’s Violent Waters @universitypress.cambridge.org is every bit as genius as I had assumed/hoped/dreamed. 🤩 Get this on all your reading lists, #EarlyModern #SkyStorians www.cambridge.org/core/books/v...
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Violent Waters
Cambridge Core - Environmental History - Violent Waters
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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
New semester, new books! Check out this wonderful, ever changing, list of books available to review for H-Environment! #envhist #envhum #aghist #energy #climate #animalstudies #ecocrit #plantstudies #waterhist #envphil #envtech #histsci #conservation #sustainability docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Books Available for Review for H-Environment Below are the books currently available for review for H-Environment. Interested in reviewing one? Please email me at dmccahey@uci.edu. If we haven’t met,...
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
And the extension pack, get more #EarlyModern #Skystorians. Collect them all. go.bsky.app/K2gp9GK
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Simone Edgar Holmes @sedgarholmes.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Was a pleasure to present my previous MA research into the physical and mapped waterways of Dutch colonial Cape Town as part of the Living with Water seminar series in May 2025. Big thank you to Sam, Giulia, Jack and Paola!
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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Master thread of all our recordings. Please watch (well, listen, most of these would also work as podcasts) and share!
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Historici vertellen @historicivertellen.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Gister een draadje over Galileo, vandaag de polders. Na mijn promotie in 2020 ben ik qua onderzoek best een andere weg ingeslagen. Met 2 beurzen kon ik 3 jaar naar het buitenland (Los Angeles en Cambridge) om daar nieuw onderzoek op te zetten, naar 17e eeuwse inpolderingsprojecten dus.
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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
New OA article linking the timing of the Black Death's arrival in Europe to a volcanically induced climate downturn in 1345-1347 that brought famine & desperation among Italian city-states to import additional grain from Black Sea regions already impacted by plague: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Climate-driven changes in Mediterranean grain trade mitigated famine but introduced the Black Death to medieval Europe - Communications Earth & Environment
Post-volcanic climate downtown in southern Europe around 1345–1347 CE caused widespread famine, leading to Italian maritime republics importing grain from the Black Sea region and introducing fleas ca...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
'Vast swathes of Europe’s water reserves are drying up, a new analysis using two decades of satellite data reveals, with freshwater storage shrinking across southern and central Europe, from Spain and Italy to Poland and parts of the UK.'
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Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
The November 2025 issue of Environmental Humanities is out now! Check it out for all the lastest #envhum scholarship read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta... Cover image: A Marshall Islands navigation chart collected by Thomas William Smillie in 1899. Smithsonian Institution Archives.
cover of journal Environmental Humanities. White sticks laid out in a shape on a light blue background
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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Are you looking to read read a new book over the winter break?! (and then send me a review afterwards? 😀) Check out this amazing list of books that I have available to review for H-Environment! #envhist #envhum #ecocrit #aghist #landscape #conservation #anthropocene docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Books Available for Review for H-Environment Below are the books currently available for review for H-Environment. Interested in reviewing one? Please email me at dmccahey@uci.edu. If we haven’t met,...
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I've begun a starter pack of scholars of the early modern Low Countries. Let me know if you want me to add you. #earlymodern 🗃️ go.bsky.app/VsHZ9xJ
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Robert Groß @robertgro5.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Are you an early-career environmental historian or interested in the challenges aspiring environmental historians face? Join our panel discussion with @askehn.bsky.social @kathiescharf.bsky.social @tidetales.bsky.social and @wilkohardenberg.bsky.social et al., hosted by @eseh.bsky.social #envhist
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