Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇
@gpetrick.bsky.social
Food Systems Historian, Environmental Humanities. Sensory History of Taste. Trying to understand all things Food & Wine & Sci/Tech, MSCA Alum UStavanger Now at Ruhr U Bochum. New project on wine and climate change. #envhist #foodstudies #foodhistory
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Check out my new article from our special issue with @gfitz.bsky.social on The Senses and the Environment in @eandhwhp.bsky.social doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envirohist #envhum
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fiona the hippo just turned nine (9). truly, time is fleeting
February 4, 2026 at 2:45 AM
fiona the hippo just turned nine (9). truly, time is fleeting
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A 300-pound Asian elephant calf was born at the National Zoo early Monday, the zoo announced.
The calf, a female, is the first elephant to be born at the zoo in almost 25 years, and only the third born there in the zoo’s 136-year history. https://wapo.st/49X44LH
The calf, a female, is the first elephant to be born at the zoo in almost 25 years, and only the third born there in the zoo’s 136-year history. https://wapo.st/49X44LH
February 4, 2026 at 5:00 AM
A 300-pound Asian elephant calf was born at the National Zoo early Monday, the zoo announced.
The calf, a female, is the first elephant to be born at the zoo in almost 25 years, and only the third born there in the zoo’s 136-year history. https://wapo.st/49X44LH
The calf, a female, is the first elephant to be born at the zoo in almost 25 years, and only the third born there in the zoo’s 136-year history. https://wapo.st/49X44LH
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'Red on the Cuillins' by Pam Carter, painter who was known for her Scottish landscapes #WomensArt
February 4, 2026 at 5:18 AM
'Red on the Cuillins' by Pam Carter, painter who was known for her Scottish landscapes #WomensArt
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I just signed. #MedievalSky 🗃️ #Humanities
I know that these things generally make little difference, but I would advise medievalists to sign the petition to save Classics and Medieval Studies at the University of Calgary. #medievalsky c.org/gGvyrHcwYt
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Save Classics and Medieval Studies at the University of Calgary!
c.org
February 3, 2026 at 10:03 PM
I just signed. #MedievalSky 🗃️ #Humanities
Yet another reason to never drink raw milk. You can get much more from raw milk than Listeria. Tuberculosis and Brucellosis are just two other killers in raw milk.
A newborn baby has died in New Mexico from a Listeria infection that state health officials say was likely contracted from raw (unpasteurized) milk that the baby’s mother drank during pregnancy.
Newborn dies after mother drinks raw milk during pregnancy
Raw milk is promoted by anti-vaccine Health Secretary Kennedy.
arstechnica.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:05 AM
Yet another reason to never drink raw milk. You can get much more from raw milk than Listeria. Tuberculosis and Brucellosis are just two other killers in raw milk.
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The research guide on Environmental History that I wrote for The National Archives, UK is now live! Includes research advice and resources on colonial environments, pollution, agriculture, and animal histories.
Available here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-yo...
#envhist #envhum
Available here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-yo...
#envhist #envhum
January 30, 2026 at 4:06 PM
The research guide on Environmental History that I wrote for The National Archives, UK is now live! Includes research advice and resources on colonial environments, pollution, agriculture, and animal histories.
Available here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-yo...
#envhist #envhum
Available here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-yo...
#envhist #envhum
Yet another over hyped food article about trends that just don't exist on any meaningful scale.
Are these guys--& they are always guys--eating hamburgers on their "beef days"? That would be sustainable rather than steak or roast.
www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ja...
Are these guys--& they are always guys--eating hamburgers on their "beef days"? That would be sustainable rather than steak or roast.
www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ja...
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Yet another over hyped food article about trends that just don't exist on any meaningful scale.
Are these guys--& they are always guys--eating hamburgers on their "beef days"? That would be sustainable rather than steak or roast.
www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ja...
Are these guys--& they are always guys--eating hamburgers on their "beef days"? That would be sustainable rather than steak or roast.
www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ja...
Not gonna lie, I love the sandwiches on KLM/Air France such a lovely treat.
January 29, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Not gonna lie, I love the sandwiches on KLM/Air France such a lovely treat.
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This Day in Labor History: January 28, 1932. Wisconsin governor Philip LaFollette signed his state’s pioneering unemployment compensation legislation, making that state the first in the nation to create such a law. This was not a great law, but it was a start to help the unemployed!
January 28, 2026 at 1:35 PM
This Day in Labor History: January 28, 1932. Wisconsin governor Philip LaFollette signed his state’s pioneering unemployment compensation legislation, making that state the first in the nation to create such a law. This was not a great law, but it was a start to help the unemployed!
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Last week no living person had seen a #kakapo lay an egg. Now you can watch it on our webcam: Rakiura laid her second today (15:01 on 25/1/2025). She'll probably lay another in 3 days' time. #conservation #kakapo2026 #birds www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/kak...
January 25, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Last week no living person had seen a #kakapo lay an egg. Now you can watch it on our webcam: Rakiura laid her second today (15:01 on 25/1/2025). She'll probably lay another in 3 days' time. #conservation #kakapo2026 #birds www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/kak...
Chinese food was very ingrained in American restaurant culture by the 1910s. The railway pushed Chinese cuisine eastward. There were even Chinese restaurants in small towns where railroad workers settled after the line was completed. I❤️ this image.
Chop Suey - 1929
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104031
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104031
January 25, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Chinese food was very ingrained in American restaurant culture by the 1910s. The railway pushed Chinese cuisine eastward. There were even Chinese restaurants in small towns where railroad workers settled after the line was completed. I❤️ this image.
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25 January 1935 | Dutch Jewish boy, John Groenteman, was born in Amsterdam.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in September 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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Children at Auschwitz:
🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in September 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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Children at Auschwitz:
🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
January 25, 2026 at 8:15 AM
25 January 1935 | Dutch Jewish boy, John Groenteman, was born in Amsterdam.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in September 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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Children at Auschwitz:
🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in September 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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Children at Auschwitz:
🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
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We are observers, not protestors. We show up to document and film the atrocities ICE is committing. Using 5 year olds as bait. Kidnapping senior citizens. Breaking down doors without warrants. Murdering poets and nurses. Media has all of that information because *observers* were there to document it
January 25, 2026 at 12:20 AM
We are observers, not protestors. We show up to document and film the atrocities ICE is committing. Using 5 year olds as bait. Kidnapping senior citizens. Breaking down doors without warrants. Murdering poets and nurses. Media has all of that information because *observers* were there to document it
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What a dreadful year it has been.
January 9, 2026 at 5:32 PM
What a dreadful year it has been.
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Almost 256 years ago, when British soldiers were occupying a city that was restless in their presence but still firmly part of the empire, a confrontation ended in the shooting death of five people, with 6 more wounded. This offset image of the Boston Massacre is so evocative. 1/
January 25, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Almost 256 years ago, when British soldiers were occupying a city that was restless in their presence but still firmly part of the empire, a confrontation ended in the shooting death of five people, with 6 more wounded. This offset image of the Boston Massacre is so evocative. 1/
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"I cannot remember a night so dark as to hinder or prevent the coming day: nor a storm so furious & dreadful as to prevent the return of warm sunshine & a cloudless sky"--John Brown, Nov. 8, 1859
Written to his wife, roughly one month before his execution. 🗃️
Written to his wife, roughly one month before his execution. 🗃️
January 25, 2026 at 12:30 PM
"I cannot remember a night so dark as to hinder or prevent the coming day: nor a storm so furious & dreadful as to prevent the return of warm sunshine & a cloudless sky"--John Brown, Nov. 8, 1859
Written to his wife, roughly one month before his execution. 🗃️
Written to his wife, roughly one month before his execution. 🗃️
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ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
The big storm is just starting in Crozet.
January 25, 2026 at 2:41 AM
The big storm is just starting in Crozet.
Jamie Dimon thinks truck drivers make 150k a year. They on average make about 56k. Billionaire are completely out of touch. Yes socialism seems to be the answer. Hey, Jamie glad you are finally on board. #taxtherich #nobillioniars
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Rollout of AI may need to be slowed to ‘save society’, says JP Morgan boss
Jamie Dimon warns of civil unrest but Nvidia’s Jensen Huang argues tech will create rather than destroy jobs
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Jamie Dimon thinks truck drivers make 150k a year. They on average make about 56k. Billionaire are completely out of touch. Yes socialism seems to be the answer. Hey, Jamie glad you are finally on board. #taxtherich #nobillioniars
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Me: I don’t allow AI in my classroom, but I do let them bring their tablets.
The Tablet:
(Late antique wooden board inscribed in ink with lines 468-473 from Book I of Homer's Iliad now at the BM)
The Tablet:
(Late antique wooden board inscribed in ink with lines 468-473 from Book I of Homer's Iliad now at the BM)
January 19, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Me: I don’t allow AI in my classroom, but I do let them bring their tablets.
The Tablet:
(Late antique wooden board inscribed in ink with lines 468-473 from Book I of Homer's Iliad now at the BM)
The Tablet:
(Late antique wooden board inscribed in ink with lines 468-473 from Book I of Homer's Iliad now at the BM)
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Happy 80th birthday to Dolly Parton!
dolly parton is laughing and pointing at something
ALT: dolly parton is laughing and pointing at something
media.tenor.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Happy 80th birthday to Dolly Parton!
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Spanberger has flipped the UVA BOV and she’s not even governor yet. We’ve got a new boss around here.
January 17, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Spanberger has flipped the UVA BOV and she’s not even governor yet. We’ve got a new boss around here.
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I am currently rereading “What Hath God Wrought” and always recall how much I enjoyed it in grad school. Howe was a wonderful historian!
Daniel Walker Howe, 88, Revisionist Historian of Jackson’s America, Dies www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/o...
Daniel Walker Howe, 88, Revisionist Historian of Jackson’s America, Dies www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/o...
Daniel Walker Howe, 88, Revisionist Historian of Jackson’s America, Dies
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:53 AM
I am currently rereading “What Hath God Wrought” and always recall how much I enjoyed it in grad school. Howe was a wonderful historian!
Daniel Walker Howe, 88, Revisionist Historian of Jackson’s America, Dies www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/o...
Daniel Walker Howe, 88, Revisionist Historian of Jackson’s America, Dies www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/o...
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War and Corpses, The Last Hope of the Rich - John Heartfield, 1932
January 16, 2026 at 11:45 AM
War and Corpses, The Last Hope of the Rich - John Heartfield, 1932