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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The TB1 termcard is here! Screenshot it, print it, stick it on your fridge, show up to whatever catches your eye. See you soon! 🌱
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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
@dudleymarianna.bsky.social @samlebutt.bsky.social @mingcan-rong.bsky.social
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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
On 13 May, we will organise our annual joint event together with @uobrisceh.bsky.social and VU Amsterdam in hybrid format with talks by Bergit Arends, @jamstersam.bsky.social, Estela Gonzalez Lopez, @finnarne.me and @mitchturnbull.bsky.social #envhum Details below ⤵ 
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Arts & The Environmental Humanities
What does it mean to do environmental humanities with or through the arts? This online event brings together researchers and practitioners working at this intersection.
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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
TOMORROW Please join us for Global/Local Plant Worlds, our final More-than-Human/ities seminar w/ York University! Come explore human-plant relationality, the role of plants in history, their affects & communication!🌱 17:45–19:15 yorku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KnwSS2dZRdaebPC73lZ4BA#/registration
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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
TONIGHT! Register for the Zoom link and come hear two Bristol CEH academics @samlebutt.bsky.social and Milo Newman and our fabulous York EUC speaker Cole Swanson discuss their material artistic practices with the more-than-human! Expect fungal collage, auk eggs, and avian performance!
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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
NEXT WED! Please join us for Thinking thru More-than-Human Materials, 3rd in our More-than-Human/ities seminar series w/ York University, Toronto Come explore interdisciplinary practices of creative, more-than-human materiality! 🐦🥚🍄 Wed 4 March 17:45–19:15 Register here yorku.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
TOMORROW! Please join us for More-than-Human Curation, 2nd in our More-than-Human/ities seminar series w/ York University, Toronto Come explore how art & wildlife interact in museum settings & curatorship🦣🌾 Wed 4 Feb 17:45–19:15 Register here yorku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1ON4d36KQQWSXZUwX10Nuw
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Rachel Murray @rachelmurray.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
The Modernist Exoskeleton has been reduced to £11 this weekend: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-mod...
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The Modernist Exoskeleton
The Modernist Exoskeleton
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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
🌺New in Geo🌺 'Cultivating scientific authority: A vegetal geography of Chinese rhododendrons at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh' by @mingcan-rong.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Mingcan Rong (2025) entitled: 'Cultivating Scientific Authority: A Vegetal Geography of Chinese Rhododendrons at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh' with an orange banner at the top.

This paper presents a vegetal geography of Chinese rhododendrons at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), examining the mechanisms through which RBGE's scientific authority is established in the field of Rhododendron research and conservation. Building on the geographical conceptualisation of relational plant agency, this paper extends it by illustrating that attending to the rhododendron–people–environment relationship sheds light on the ecological–political nature of the Rhododendron species at RBGE, the broader historical contexts that stimulate the accumulation, and the environmental conditions that encourage the maintenance. Drawing on interviews, observation and document analysis, I illustrate the contribution and labour of the underappreciated Chinese collectors in the historical botanical exploration, discuss rhododendron's ‘plantiness’ and examine RBGE's contemporary activities that aim to accumulate and sustain the ex situ rhododendrons both materially and epistemically. I argue that the scientific authority of RBGE has been shaped by the semi-colonial history of China after the First Opium War ending in 1842, the encounters between British botanists and local collectors, as well as RBGE's intentional accumulation and maintenance of rhododendrons and related knowledge, all of which are mediated by rhododendrons' agency and continue to influence today's conservation dynamics.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
A rare photosynthesizing sea slug has been found off N.S. Here's why scientists are excited #NovaScotia Researchers believe Elysia chlorotica holds promise for medical advances, but it's been too elusive to study www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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A rare photosynthesizing sea slug has been found off N.S. Here's why scientists are excited | CBC News
Researchers believe Elysia chlorotica holds promise for medical advances, but it's been too elusive to study.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
‘The narwhals stop calling’: how the noise from ships is silencing wildlife in the Arctic #Canada Evidence that the whales and other marine animals are particularly vulnerable to sound is driving calls for quieter vessels www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘The narwhals stop calling’: how the noise from ships is silencing wildlife in the Arctic
Evidence that the whales and other marine animals are particularly vulnerable to sound is driving calls for quieter vessels
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
My book Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums came out this month! I’m so happy with how gorgeous it is in full color with 90 photos. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Smiling woman holding book with green cover showing colorful parakeet under glass
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History at Bristol @uobrishistory.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Applications are open! Environmental history is a key part of this Environmental Humanities summer school + thinking about how our relationships with the natural world changes over time. Along the way we might well visit Iranian oil fields, Antarctica and the deep sea!
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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Please share! More info and application details here: www.bristol.ac.uk/centre-for-s...
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Environmental Humanities | Centre for Study Abroad | University of Bristol
Examine our relationships with nature, why stories about our wild world matter and how we can build hope in the face of environmental crisis.
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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
…the connection between humans and nature felt so alive here and every session sparked something new in me. What surprised me most was how deeply I connected with art, nature and people. It’s something I’ll carry with me for a long, long time."
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Environmental Humanities | Centre for Study Abroad | University of Bristol
Examine our relationships with nature, why stories about our wild world matter and how we can build hope in the face of environmental crisis.
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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Our fabulous Environmental Humanities Summer School is open for applications for 2026! Together, we examine human relationships with nature on a Global scale, and with the city of Bristol. According to 2025 cohort student Choon Woi “Bristol itself became part of the classroom…
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History at Bristol @uobrishistory.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Today, we are sharing a recent blog post written by Zakiya McKenzie, Senior Research Associate on the ‘Plants Enslavement and Public History Project’ historiansatbristol.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/archives/941
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Climate Crisis, conservation and the compounding threats to Caribbean collections | Historians at Bristol
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History at Bristol @uobrishistory.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
‘In August 2025 I visited the Natural History Museum of Jamaica in downtown Kingston. The public exhibition on Jamaican bats and the library at the museum are worth the visit, but another treasure lies in the herbarium. There I met the Curator for the National Herbarium, botanist Keron Campbel…’
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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Our absolute pleasure to host this wonderful two-day British Academy-funded workshop on extraction and extractivism last week. Thank you @melinabuns.bsky.social 🙏💫
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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
such wonderful two days with fantastic scholars! thank you to everyone who engaged in discussions about extraction, extractivism, and beyond! thank you to the @britishacademy.bsky.social for making this workshop possible and to @uobrisceh.bsky.social for hosting it. #envhum 🪨 🌊 🌿
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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Register online: yorku.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Register in-person (University of Bristol, Clifton Campus): forms.office.com/e/XkTLgG9z4X
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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Join us for More-than-Human Sensory Worlds, the first in our hybrid 'More-than-Human/ities' seminar series, a new collaboration between UoB's CEH & EUC at York University, Toronto. Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃 Wed 19th Nov 17:45–19:00 Online & in-person
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Had a great day in Stockholm. In morning met with folks at the natural history museum who I will be collaborating with on a new project called HEART. Saw my extinct friends. Then afternoon with Stockholm Univ EnvHum group and giving a talk on Ghosts Behind Glass. Packed room & fantastic questions.
Two display cases with animals
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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Coming up on day two of Extractive Natures/ Natures of Extraction we have bodies, we have places, and we have power!
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I think lots of you all will be as excited as I am to see Jess Moody’s “Plants, Enslavement and Public History” project website and you can sign up for the mailing list in the little box in bottom right corner plantpublichistory.blogs.bristol.ac.uk 🗃️🌿🪴
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Plant Public History – Plants, Enslavement and Public History: Re-imagining green spaces as places of heritage and healing
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Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Day one of the Extractive Natures/Natures of Extraction workshop, organised by @melinabuns.bsky.social as part of her @britishacademy.bsky.social fellowship here at Bristol @uobrisceh.bsky.social . Great papers that spanned resource extraction from medieval Europe to modern day Australia
Group photo of 16 academics on a lawn with an autumnal tree and buildings behind them.
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Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Was great to celebrate Electric Wind with friends and colleagues @uobrisceh.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social . I was most excited about the book-cake. Cake-book. A book made of cake!!!!
A woman in a mustard colour shirt holds up a slab of cake with the cover of her book Electric Wind printed on it.
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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Here’s @dudleymarianna.bsky.social introducing her new book to the world, in conversation with CEH co-director Paul Merchant. Everyone go read: ‘Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain’! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/
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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
And tomorrow kicks off the ‘Extractive Natures/ Natures of Extraction’ workshop led by our fabulous visiting scholar @melinabuns.bsky.social. Phew! Stay tuned for more!
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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
In 5 minutes it’s our very own @dudleymarianna.bsky.social book launch for the beautifully titled Electric Wind! More photos to come! …
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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
There’s a bumper crop of events happening in and around the CEH at the moment. Last week we had the fabulous event ‘Landscape Flux and Flow’ - reflecting on art and the environment, in relation to Somerset Arts Week…
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Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Also well done to @dudleymarianna.bsky.social on Electric Wind, a phenomenal work of public history with great lessons for our times, and nice to meet @noreenmasud.bsky.social whose book A Flat Place was very much a benchmark for Drifting North to try and reach.
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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
A really wonderful event last night that lit up a dark October evening ✨
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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
We can't wait for this event at @bookhaus.bsky.social tomorrow with our very own @dudleymarianna.bsky.social 😁
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Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
‘Low-Carbon Histories for Zero-Carbon Futures’ is out today @jofhistgeog.bsky.social - a collective case for thinking historically about energy. doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...
Climate crisis has made the transition from carbon-rich to low-carbon energy systems an existential necessity for the future of our planet. This article sets out how greater attention to low-carbon energy history, currently a neglected component of modern energy development, should comprise an essential part of building a zero-carbon future. We argue for the usefulness of low-carbon as a capacious term that foregrounds the historic and ongoing relationality between low- and high-carbon energy, and set out the ways this has shaped energy infrastructures, practices, and imaginaries through the twentieth century to the present. We outline a range of analytics—materiality, scaling, community—around which critical understandings of low-carbon energy can be gained. And we show that decarbonization, while urgent, does not have to be speculative: the historical examples provided here offer valuable insights into the social and spatial impacts and temporal challenges of introducing new energy infrastructure and decommissioning old that can, and should, be paid more attention.Title page: Low-Carbon histories for zero-carbon futures, by Elizabeth Chatterjee, Marianna Dudley, Linda Ross, and Hiroki Shin, in the Journal of Historical
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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
'Why did the chicken cross the road? It didn't; it was a battery hen.' 🐓🏭 Read about current Environmental Humanities MA student Caitlin Atkins's comedy set as part of her practical dissertation: environmentalhumanities.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/blog/
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Centre for Environmental Humanities
One of the UK’s leading centres for research on the environmental humanities
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David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
CFP: 'Poetry's Environments', University of Leeds, June 2026. About poetry and the natural environment in relation to the environments in which it is written, experienced, performed, preserved, and studied. Please submit a proposal! Deadline 5 December. conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...
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Call for Proposals | Poetry's Environments
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Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Happy #BookshopDay! I popped down to @bookhaus.bsky.social where I’ll be discussing Britain’s energy past & future with @dominicmhinde.bsky.social on 29 Oct (tix available!) - just 1 of loads of talks they do. My book is out Tuesday @manchesterup.bsky.social - ask your local bookshop to order it ☺️
A woman stands in front of bokkshelves holding a book called Electric WindThe front door and signage of Bookhaus
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Heather Ray Milligan @hrmilligan.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
I remember being similarly struck by the odd juxtaposition of rhino and manor house at Cotswolds Wildlife Park (pic from 2019) – I love how Rae Ferner-Rose uses this to muse on the environmental uncanny and the place of captive endangered species
A white rhinoceros in the foreground grazes on grass; in the background a turreted manor house set amongst trees.
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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
A great article by our current Environmental Humanities MA student Rae Ferner-Rose 🤩
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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Happening this Friday evening at @bookhaus.bsky.social , featuring one of our talented CEH members, the poet Suzannah V Evans. This will be a very special event 💙
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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Happening this Friday evening at @bookhaus.bsky.social , featuring one of our talented CEH members, the poet Suzannah V Evans. This will be a very special event 💙
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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
excited to share the call for the workshop EXTRACTIVE NATURES / NATURES OF EXTRACTION happening at @uobrisceh.bsky.social on 6-7 Nov 2025, 
made possible by the @britishacademy.bsky.social deadline: 10 September! full call below ⤵ #envhist #envhum
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Arts Matter Bristol @uobartsmatter.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
💥 COMING UP: Join Suzannah V Evans (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) for the launch of her debut poetry collection, Under the Blue Told through a series of prose poems & postcards, Under the Blue is a meditation on humanity & empathy 📅 Fri 5 September, 7-9pm 📍 @bookhaus.bsky.social 🎟️ bit.ly/3V9L7Nv
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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Featuring our very own @dudleymarianna.bsky.social with her new book Electric Wind! ⚡💨
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