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Cristina Brito
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An environmental historian with a long time crush for the ocean 🌊🩵

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Author of 'Humans and Aquatic Animals...'
https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463728218/humans-and-aquatic-animals-in-early-modern-america-and-africa

#bluehumanities #oceanspast
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Whales in Fault Lines

A new video output of the ERC Sy Grant #4oceans project is online. It results from the research conducted in Lisbon, history of whales, strandings and earthquakes.

Full video: youtu.be/z-PEtSOu2Ek?...

#bluehumanities #marenvhist #whaleshistory #baleias #humanities4theocean
Baleias em linhas de falha | Whales in fault lines
YouTube video by CHAM - Centro de Humanidades
youtu.be
A story of 20 years in 2 pages.
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Our vibrant community of Oceans Past scholars (including all @erc4oceans.bsky.social colleagues) intertwined in my own personal journey.
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Thanks for having me @oceanspast.bsky.social
Our latest newsletter is here 🐟

This month we're celebrating two decades of OPI, with special features & reflections from Prof. Cristina Brito and Prof. Daniel Pauly, plus lots more!

Keep up to date with current research in the field by joining our mailing list 👉 info@oceanspast.org.
October 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Reposted by Cristina Brito
Cooperation between ecologists and historians has allowed a robust reconstruction of the historical introduction of the Italian crayfish, Austropotamobius fulcisianus, to Spain in the late-16th century
@ebdonana.bsky.social @um.es
New OA paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 1, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Hot spots and Hot moments for whales around the global plus the consequences of the success of conservation efforts for 'ecocultural' systems. Another great keynote #ECSconference2025
Inspiring plenary from Joe Roman about 'lifting baselines' and quantifying the effects whale real red ecological pathways have on nutrient cycling and transfer in the oceans - check out his latest contribution here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #ECSconference2025 🐋🦑🧪
May 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
What a privilege to present our work side by side with these great researchers.
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@erc4oceans.bsky.social
A fascinating plenary from Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social about the hugely ambitious 4 Oceans project (novaresearch.unl.pt/en/prizes/4-...) collating historical interactions between humans and marine life #ECSconference2025 🐋🦑🧪
May 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
This is what we at @erc4oceans.bsky.social are addressing through the study of human use of marine life
#bluehumanities #oceanspast
At #ECSconference2025 @crisbri.bsky.social made a compelling #BlueAnthropocene argument: that animals are living in a world heavily and historically influenced by us. #CulturalEcosystems require historical context.
May 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Here we go. Kicking off with the brilliant work of L. Rendell and colleagues.
Myself, going back to origins or living a full circle moment in #marinemammal research, history and conservation.
Tomorrow the #bluehumanities are coming to the #ECSconference2025
#ECSconference2025 let's go oooo!! 🐋🦑🧪
May 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Reposted by Cristina Brito
Whales in Fault Lines

A new video output of the ERC Sy Grant #4oceans project is online. It results from the research conducted in Lisbon, history of whales, strandings and earthquakes.

Full video: youtu.be/z-PEtSOu2Ek?...

#bluehumanities #marenvhist #whaleshistory #baleias #humanities4theocean
Baleias em linhas de falha | Whales in fault lines
YouTube video by CHAM - Centro de Humanidades
youtu.be
November 22, 2024 at 1:20 PM
We talk about the #bluehumanities

cham.fcsh.unl.pt/actividades-...

We walk around a water city

We look for documentation and material evidence about the past of water, animals, natural habitats and people

#environmentalhumanities #animalstudies #Lisbon #envhist
March 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Transdisciplinary histories. Our joint voices in an open and global conversation.
#bluehumanities #environmentalhistory #oceanspast
www.whpress.co.uk/publications... @whitehorsepress.bsky.social
February 7, 2025 at 11:47 AM
𝙒𝙚𝙩 𝙐𝙧𝙗𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙢𝙨.
Um painel transdisciplinar que irá refletir sobre mitologias afrofuturistas subaquáticas, aquários públicos, indústrias extrativas e a relação entre vidas terrestres e as águas que as rodeiam.

www.moma.org/calendar/eve...

#WetUrbanisms #Design #Sustentability #bluehumanities
Wet Urbanisms | MoMA
Inspired by the publication of André Tavares’s new book Architecture Follows Fish: An Amphibious History of the North Atlantic, the panel discussion “Wet Urbanisms” brings Tavares in conversation with...
www.moma.org
January 15, 2025 at 8:38 AM

A review of my book Humans and Aquatic Animals...
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'It is a valuable contribution to the pushback against the nature–culture divide.'

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/full/10....

@erc4oceans.bsky.social
#environmentalhistory #bluehumanities #animalstudies #oceanstudies
Cristina Brito, Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa | Environment and History
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
January 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A bit of our #bluehumanities approach plus #environmentalhumanitirs around the globe in a very special article. Soon out.
@erc4oceans.bsky.social
Happy New Year to everyone! And to start off, here is a sneak peak at the cover and contents of 'Global Environment' 18.1, a special issue on 'Visions of Sustainability' guest edited by Laura Meneghello. #envhist @globalenvironment.bsky.social
January 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Reposted by Cristina Brito
The Lisbon team of the @erc4oceans.bsky.social project had a full year. Expect much more from us in 2025, while wishing all a happy, healthy, safe, sustainable and more equitable way of living on our planet.
#bluehumanities #environmentalhistory #animalstudies #oceanspast #environmentalhumanities
December 23, 2024 at 9:39 AM
One of the most beautiful books I read last year #soundings (not just, but mostly) about
#whales and #women and the #poetry of encounters and belongings.
www.theguardian.com/books/2022/a...
Soundings by Doreen Cunningham review – a whale of a journey
A mother and her young son follow pods of whales from Mexico to Alaska in this brave, lyrical memoir
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Reposted by Cristina Brito
“Choupos” (ed. Assírio & Alvim)
Adília Lopes🤍
December 30, 2024 at 10:49 PM
The Lisbon team of the @erc4oceans.bsky.social project had a full year. Expect much more from us in 2025, while wishing all a happy, healthy, safe, sustainable and more equitable way of living on our planet.
#bluehumanities #environmentalhistory #animalstudies #oceanspast #environmentalhumanities
December 23, 2024 at 9:39 AM
Whales in Fault Lines

A new video output of the ERC Sy Grant #4oceans project is online. It results from the research conducted in Lisbon, history of whales, strandings and earthquakes.

Full video: youtu.be/z-PEtSOu2Ek?...

#bluehumanities #marenvhist #whaleshistory #baleias #humanities4theocean
Baleias em linhas de falha | Whales in fault lines
YouTube video by CHAM - Centro de Humanidades
youtu.be
December 8, 2024 at 12:03 PM
4-Oceans has a new #blue account.
Go check it out.
#4oceans #oceanspast #humanities4theocean
The Lisbon team of the #4oceans project has released a new visual output.
Check the story of stranded whales and earthquakes in early modern Portugal. With @crisbri.bsky.social @joangong.bsky.social @poulholm.bsky.social and many other colleagues.
#bluehumanities
November 27, 2024 at 3:23 PM
A recent output of #4oceans ERC Syn Grant by our co-PI @poulholm.bsky.social
#oceanspast #historicalfisheries
My new paper Explaining major shifts in early-modern economies: the causes for the decline of the North Sea Fisheries of Southwest Denmark, 1537–1650 @eseh.bsky.social @openaccessarch.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 23, 2024 at 5:58 PM
Whales in Fault Lines

A new video output of the ERC Sy Grant #4oceans project is online. It results from the research conducted in Lisbon, history of whales, strandings and earthquakes.

Full video: youtu.be/z-PEtSOu2Ek?...

#bluehumanities #marenvhist #whaleshistory #baleias #humanities4theocean
Baleias em linhas de falha | Whales in fault lines
YouTube video by CHAM - Centro de Humanidades
youtu.be
November 22, 2024 at 1:20 PM
Currently reading 'Silent Whale Letters'.
A beautiful sensorial experience for a former whale bioacoustician turned to #bluehumanities scholar of whales and the sea.
#TBA21
I'm a book's person. If the books are about the sea, all the better 📚🩵🌊
I'm a person of the travels. If travelling takes me to islands, even better 🔵🌎🌀
And then if I can write about it all, that's just a perfect 📝🩷🌈
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#bluehumanities #oceanspast #animalstudies #literature #poetry #ocean #whales
November 17, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Reposted by Cristina Brito
The next 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 article we'd like to highlight from issue six is "Stew of the Earth" by L. Sasha Gora.

Read it here: springs-rcc.org/stew-of-the-...

#springs #rccsprings #rccpublication #publication #envhum #cooking #food #nature #online #openaccess #hotsprings #stew
November 14, 2024 at 11:10 AM