Dolly Jørgensen

@dollyjorgensen.bsky.social

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Environmental historian. Professor Univ of Stavanger. Co-director Greenhouse Center for #envhum. Co-editor Environmental Humanities journal. Extinction; animal history.
New book: The Medieval Pig (Boydell 2024) https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781837651689/th .. more

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Dolly Jørgensen is Professor of History at University of Stavanger, Norway and co-editor in Chief of Environmental Humanities. She served as president of the European Society for Environmental History, 2013–2017. Her research ranges from medieval to contemporary environmental issues, approached through environmental history, history of technology, and environmental humanities perspectives. Her primary areas of interest are human-animal relations, the urban environment, and environmental policymaking. Her research has been covered in media such as The New Yorker and Bioscience. She holds a PhD in History from University of Virginia (2008), a MA in history from University of Houston (2003), and a BA in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University (1994). .. more

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · Oct 6

It’s real!!
I just got my first copy of Ghosts Behind Glass and it is beautiful. You all really need to order your copies. You will not regret it. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Double page spread with a photo of diorama

Chapter 3 Cursed treasures on left, lion on right

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UBC Press @ubcpress.bsky.social · 16h

Today marks the beginning of University Press Week! #UPWeek celebrates the essential work of university presses to amplify scholarship and ideas. This year's theme, #TeamUP, honours the global community that makes knowledge possible.

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 18h

Join us today for this talk about my book Ghosts Behind Glass published with @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow (Monday, Nov 10) the tables are turned: I’m the guest on the Greenhouse #envhum book talk to discuss Ghosts Behind Glass with @finnarne.me & guest host @medievalpenguin.bsky.social

Join us online for the discussion! 4pm CET/3pm GMT/10am EST

newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

Book cover with colorful parakeet in a bell jar

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 1d

Love the aesthetic choices! The open book that poofs out is great.

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @erikklemetti.bsky.social · 1d

This is quite a view as well, with twin lava fountains at Kīlauea right now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0t... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqmp...

Twin lava fountains at Kīlauea in Hawai'i in November 9, 2025. Credit: USGS/HVO

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 1d

We have online info sessions coming up this week and next on our new Masters in Public Environmental Humanities, so be sure to check out the program and register in website if you want to know more.

Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 10d

The Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English.

Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues!

Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...

Poster for Masters in Public Environmental Humanities.
Our 2-year masters program
in beautiful Stavanger, Norway,
invites you to study today's
environmental challenges as
deeply rooted in culture and
history.
Key aspects:
• Combine critical thinking
with hands-on engagement
• Work across humanities
fields
• Put learning into action
through an internship
• Taught entirely in English
• Free tuition for students
from EU/EEA/Switzerland
and affordable for others
If you believe community-engaged
humanities can help build a more
sustainable future, this is the place to start.
GET MORE INFO &
APPLY FOR FALL 2026
Questions? Email PEH@uis.no

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 1d

Mine really liked The Nevermoor series en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nev... as well as How to Train a Dragon series

The Nevermoor series - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 1d

I really enjoyed talking about Ghosts Behind Glass on Thursday in Stockholm. Was great fun to bring their own natural history museum’s display into conversation with the book.

I’m looking forward to doing this at more venues. Some bookings already for Feb in UK. I’d welcome more invites to do so!

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · Oct 6

It’s real!!
I just got my first copy of Ghosts Behind Glass and it is beautiful. You all really need to order your copies. You will not regret it. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 2d

I'm opening up a Black & Indigenous environmental art gallery
@umterps.bsky.social to help students navigate climate anxiety & other stresses that come with learning about environmental injustice & environmental racism. Please consider donating & coming to our fundraiser @framebridge.bsky.social!

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Rebecca Williams, Michael H. Whitworth , and 2 more Lesley A. Hall, Rebecca Williams, Michael H. Whitworth, Dolly Jørgensen, David Underdown

Charlotte Abney @abney.bsky.social · 2d

For those with a scholarly interest in Franklin, Watson, and other pioneering researchers in molecular biology, @sciencehistory.org has just opened our new landmark collection of their papers, and applications for research fellowships are currently open:

www.sciencehistory.org/hmbc

History of Molecular Biology Collection

This unparalleled collection includes Rosalind Franklin's historic 'Photo 51,' which revealed the double-helix structure of DNA.

www.sciencehistory.org

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Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social · 3d

There were 52 species of Bulgarian herpetofauna (one is now thought extinct) & you can see them all exquisitely displayed, as @waspwoman.bsky.social would say at the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, Bulgaria

I’m loving the wiggle of the displays

#museums #displays

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 3d

Reminds me that it is time to put out the bird seed in the garden!

Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 3d

Frog took the box outside. He shouted in a loud voice, “HEY, BIRDS! HERE ARE COOKIES!”

Birds came from everywhere. They picked up all the cookies in their beaks and flew away.

A flock of small brown birds gobble up Toad's delicious cookies.

From "Cookies"
In *Frog and Toad Together*

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 3d

Frog took the box outside. He shouted in a loud voice, “HEY, BIRDS! HERE ARE COOKIES!”

Birds came from everywhere. They picked up all the cookies in their beaks and flew away.

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Katy Duncan 🍉 @katysduncan.bsky.social · 3d

📢 JOB ALERT 📢

Come work with me! @rigb.org is hiring an Archivist, full time, 2 year, fixed-term contract, hybrid working possible.

Please share widely!

More details 👇
www.rigb.org/about-us/wor...

Work with us

Help us to create more opportunities for everyone to enjoy and benefit from science.

www.rigb.org

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 3d

Sigtuna has some really nice medieval monuments including standing rune stones and church ruins.

According to this rune stone, one guy named Anund was pretty full of himself: “Anund had the stone erected in memory of himself in his lifetime.”

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Raf De Bont 🟥 @rafdebont.bsky.social · 4d

*Globalizing Wildlife*, a book edited by @vbateman.bsky.social, Tom Quick, and myself, is now available for pre-order with @uncpress.bsky.social!
Using code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout, you can save 30%
www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...

Globalizing Wildlife

Humans have always incorporated wildlife into processes of work, capture, and exchange. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, globalization became t...

www.uncpress.org

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 4d

Interesting issue with listing species status in this article - rediscovering species thought extinct causing conservation difficulties
www.abc.net.au/news/science...

This tiny native mouse is legally considered both dead and alive

Animals and plants aren't automatically taken off most national and state extinct species list in Australia if they are rediscovered, leaving them without protection as threatened species.

www.abc.net.au

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 4d

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.

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 4d

We're hiring in history of science at UW Madison! TT Assistant Professorship with a focus on water. Joint appointment between the History and Integrated Liberal Studies depts, and part of a university-wide hiring cluster on earth/sustainability science. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess... #STS #HSMT

Professor of History - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

jobs.wisc.edu

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 4d

I would definitely agree with that point as a cultural historian of animals.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 4d

Virtual Event – Waste, Epidemics, and Human Health in Environmental Studies

Rethinking Ukraine’s Environment: War, Ecocide, and Beyond
An International Seminar Series
Thursday – 4 December 2025
10 a.m. MST (Edmonton) / 12 p.m. EDS (Toronto)
niche-canada.org/2025/11/05/v...

#envhist #envstudies

Virtual Event - Waste, Epidemics, and Human Health in Environmental Studies

4 December 2025 - This seminar will explore how societies have understood and managed threats to health and the environment across different historical contexts.

niche-canada.org

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keerthi sridharan🌻🇵🇸 @copperkeerthi.bsky.social · 4d

hey y'all! my questionnaire on player experience in historical videogames is now LIVE! if you play videogames about the past, we want to hear from you! edu.nl/7w3yn

a poster with a blue background and an isometric pattern of green hexes with a blue and red decoration. the text reads CALLING ALL HISTORICAL GAMERS: Playful Time Machines is an NWO-funded research project investigating what historical video gameplay means to players. We are looking for survey respondents aged 18 and up who play grand strategy, action/ adventure, and shooter games about the past! Fill in our survey at edu.nl/7w3yn!

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 5d

The appendix of my new book Ghosts Behind Glass press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... lists all the thylacine specimens on display that I saw - and I have pictures of all of them in my files. If you want to do something together on this, would be happy to collaborate.

Ghosts Behind Glass

How museums display extinct species—and what these exhibits say about us. While it’s no longer possible to encounter a dodo in the wild, we can still come face-to-face with them in museums. The rema...

press.uchicago.edu

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 5d

Seihō was one of the founders of the Nihonga 'Japanese painting' style, which combined traditional Japanese subjects and materials with European artistic techniques and conventions.

🐦 Painted and embroidered screen depicting a group of sparrows, Seihō Takeuchi (1864 - 1942), 1910–1920. EA2013.35.a

A Japanese printed screen featuring seven delicate embroidered sparrows in flight against a gold background

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Monica Vasile 🐾 @monicavasile.bsky.social · 5d

Wrote a piece for Springs @carsoncenter.bsky.social Marmots, eagles, Finland, Canada, two wildlife biologists

springs-rcc.org/eagles-marmo...

#envhist #envhum
#animalhist #histsci
#goldeneagles
#vancouverisland

Katia and I on fieldwork in Finland this summer, checking golden eagles' nests, took selfie with a drone

Reposted by Howard Williams, Elizabeth Stokoe, Charles West , and 3 more Howard Williams, Elizabeth Stokoe, Charles West, Margot C. Finn, Dolly Jørgensen, Jan R. Boehnke

Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 5d

Compulsory team teaching on every module is perhaps the biggest ever threat to the quality of teaching in UK universities.

It causes chaos on the ground for timetabling, ruins course coherence and turns lecturers into permanent supply teachers. It is pedagogically incoherent… 1/

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 5d

The special issue of Eighteenth Century Studies on Coasts is now out - glad to be part of it with some thoughts about coasts and gardens in c18 Ireland #BlueHumanities #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies 🌊

muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889

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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 5d

We're delighted to announce a new book, forthcoming in March: 'Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for the Environmental Humanities', edited by Emily Brownell; now open for pre-orders. More information: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhum #envhist #soil

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TheNACBS @thenacbs.bsky.social · 5d

This year, the John Ben Snow Prize is awarded to Melissa Reynolds for her book Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print. Congrats @melkatrey.bsky.social !! 👏 @uchicagopress.bsky.social

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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 5d

📣 There are just a few days left to apply!

We are looking for a permanent full-time archivist to join our friendly team!

Closing date: 11 November 2025

For full details and to apply ➡️ jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

#ArchiveJobs #LibraryJobs #Heritage #ExeterJobs #Exeter #Archives #RareBooks

Collage of 40 images of archives and rare books held at the University of Exeter Special Collections.

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