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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

And if you gaze long into a chicken the chicken also gazes into you

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Monica Vasile 🐾 @monicavasile.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

On Monday, I defended my PhD thesis, Saving Species. I am now officially an environmental historian (with a very large diploma to prove it) #envhist

Defense @ Maastricht University with suppervisors, assessment committee & paranymphs

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Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

New Review! Sandra Swart's 'The Lion's Historian: Africa's Animal Past' - by Anna Lisa Taylor online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/2/1 @wildpasts.bsky.social @ohiounivpress.bsky.social

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Huge PhD Opportunity - the Catholic Church and Environmental History in South Africa!

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

As the guy said: life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

On international zebra day I feel honour bound to post this story of de-extinction the quagga and remind us of when I tried to invent the expression “zombie zoology”. It was WILDLY unpopular! youtu.be/7DoipvEeU8g

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Stellenbosch Forum Lecture: Zombie Zoology: the end of extinction? (Prof Sandra Swart)

YouTube video by Division for Research Development (DRD)

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Digging how this dude explains why horse riding is fun. The orcas were a surprising but welcome addition.

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Digging how this dude explains why horse riding is fun. The orcas were a surprising but welcome addition.

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Beginning to get a visceral reaction of disgust when reading ChatGPT emails and tweets. It’s the uncanny valley effect, I guess. But also a disgust at the person who didn’t put the effort in to BE A PERSON. #ChatGPT

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two south park characters are standing next to each other and one has a red flower on his hat

ALT: two south park characters are standing next to each other and one has a red flower on his hat

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Would you like to see a visual representation of Parkinson’s law?

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Had a blast with Marco remembering how much fun we had with @eseh.bsky.social and some of you get sneaky mentions!

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ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Call for Papers: "African Perspectives on Global Transformations." The conference will take place in Basel, Switzerland, in August 2026, and the submission deadline is 11 January. There are plenty of panels for #EnvHist scholars: africanperspectives.ch/call-for-pap...

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I’m so tired of being asked if I’m a robot. Does it even matter any more ? #ChatGptWon

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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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Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

🚨#History #envhist Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Environmental History. 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students! See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word... 👇👇👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...

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Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125) at University of Warwick

Explore an exciting academic career as a Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Locked together by their horns in turf battle, two kudu bulls died of exhaustion. There has to be a metaphor for one’s academic enemies in this?

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Dr. des. Jonatan Palmblad @palmblad.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

As a part of ESEH NEXTGATe, I am glad that we are once again organizing a writing support program for early-career scholars! Credits to my colleague Mona Bieling for organizing this together with Andrea Gaynor. Although an ESEH initiative, we also accept applicants from other parts of the world.

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Make coffee. Breathe out. Look.

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Animal History Group @animalhistories.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Announcing the new Animal History Group seminar series for the 2025-26 academic year! - All seminars held online at 8pm UK time. 🎉 The details are here: animalhistorygroup.org/seminar-seri... And here is a list for your calendar! 🧵💚

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Seminar Series

Term One Our Seminar Series is back for 2025/2026. Seminars will be held at 8pm (GMT). Please sign up using the links below. Joining information will be sent shortly before the event. 15 October 20…

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Tanja Riekkinen @tanjariekkinen.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Call for Applications The Early Career branch of the European Society for Environmental History (ESEHNEXTGATe) is seeking new members to join its committee for a two-year term 2025–2027. Please find the more detailed call text attached.

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ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Are you following our Early-Career-Scholar network, ESEH NextGate? They organize events and support young scholars. Follow here: @esehnextgate.bsky.social #envhist #envhum

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Committee: So Sandra, tell us your five year plan? Me:

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Just between us, my first instinct was “ooooh *someone* read my books!” Then I had better second instincts, of course.

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

This is the most helpful visual guide to social media I’ve ever seen

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Inspired by the quiet resistance of this room. #BeUnbookable!

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

The magnificent @libbydeq.bsky.social put Anthropocene scientists and historians together to see what would happen! The experiment was a success.

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ESEH NEXTGATe @esehnextgate.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

✨️We invite early career scholars & friends for a networking event at #eseh2025! Tuesday, at 19:30, in Fjölnir student pub (check program). There will be drinks and snacks 🍺🍕. See you there! #envhist @eseh.bsky.social @sebmergence.bsky.social @palmblad.bsky.social @monabie.bsky.social

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

The best part of a workshop on failure is that if nobody shows up, it counts as a case study.

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 13/08/2025

Going to the library fucking rules. You can walk in and pick your favorite things and then walk right out without paying anything. It's unbelievable and 100% the kind of thing that won't exist in the future unless you recognize the goodness now before it's too late

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

As you know, I’m not one to boast. But just between you and me, my hometown snake is kicking your snake’s ass

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

In 1997, my best friend explained the internet and email to me. With the kind of prescience and foresight for which I am justly famous, I said “Very nice, Adrian, but it’ll never catch on.”

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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Coming to NEXTGATe forum on Failures & Letdowns (Monday 18 Aug #ESEH2025)? You may like this thoughtful paper (free to air Int Review of Env Hist) press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/pr... @wildpasts.bsky.social @mcookhistory.bsky.social @ncushing12.bsky.social @ruthamorgan.bsky.social

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ESEH NEXTGATe @esehnextgate.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Dear folks, Check out this list of books up for review, sign up and claim one! 📚🌿 It’s a brilliant way to read something great and get your name out there. #envhist #envhum

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

It’s been a helluva year but here’s a full moon over a mountain - through the ears of my horse Voodoo. And suddenly it’s all ok for a moment.

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Today I got my Honours students to care about spoor. They are renaming our WhatsApp group from Anthropocene module to … “Scat Queens”.

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Wooohoooo! Worth a read I promise! Make coffee

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

This ain’t Texas… Cowboys are for everyone!

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

I feel this. They just need graduate students to explain the apps and make the font bigger

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

www.iceho.org/prize%E2%80%A6 Article Prize — ICEHO! So excited. This prize is named for one of my fav environmental historians Verena plus I get to be a judge with my mates ⁦‪Ruth Morgan‬⁩ and Shen Hou.

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Prize — ICEHO

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ICEHO @iceho.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

We are very excited to announce a new #EnvHist award: the 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐚 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐞! In honor of longtime contributor to the field and former ICEHO president Verena Winiwarter, this prize will serve to promote global environmental history articles. Read more here: www.iceho.org/prize

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

A generation of kids growing up without reading means we may lose something really valuable to the species: empathy. Novels HELP. They let us to sneak into someone else's brain and feel their strangeness but get invested. How else do we learn to care about people who are not like us?

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Um. I think we can all agree this ends in terror

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