Ellen Arnold
@medievalpenguin.bsky.social
Medievalist, environmental historian, penguin historian, photographer, co-editor of Water History. Author of Medieval Riverscapes, Negotiating the Landscape, and Water in World History. EFArnold.com
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We have an exciting lineup of @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talks for the spring. Mark your calendars now to join the talks live at 4pm Central European time on Mondays. All are welcome.
Here's what we have set for the first 5 talks.
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Here's what we have set for the first 5 talks.
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January 5, 2026 at 9:05 AM
We have an exciting lineup of @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talks for the spring. Mark your calendars now to join the talks live at 4pm Central European time on Mondays. All are welcome.
Here's what we have set for the first 5 talks.
👇
Here's what we have set for the first 5 talks.
👇
for the new year we should just impeach everyone
January 3, 2026 at 8:27 PM
for the new year we should just impeach everyone
One of my favorite end of semester things about teaching the world history of water. Inevitably, this generation of students are deeply shocked by swimming pool discrimination earlier in US history. I love that they simply cannot fathom the depth and silliness of that racial discrimination.
December 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
One of my favorite end of semester things about teaching the world history of water. Inevitably, this generation of students are deeply shocked by swimming pool discrimination earlier in US history. I love that they simply cannot fathom the depth and silliness of that racial discrimination.
It’s grading season!!!
a penguin holding a piece of paper with the word pengu on the bottom right
ALT: a penguin holding a piece of paper with the word pengu on the bottom right
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December 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
It’s grading season!!!
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hey hey! it's new episode day! this week @profgabriele.com and @lollardfish.bsky.social talk about their recent book "Oathbreakers" (conveniently NOW OUT IN PAPERBACK!!!).
we talk about a civil war in which, quoting @wsj.com, "the brothers just didn't get along"
#medievalsky
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we talk about a civil war in which, quoting @wsj.com, "the brothers just didn't get along"
#medievalsky
pca.st/rg0l36e8
Carolingian Oathbreakers with David M. Perry
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December 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
hey hey! it's new episode day! this week @profgabriele.com and @lollardfish.bsky.social talk about their recent book "Oathbreakers" (conveniently NOW OUT IN PAPERBACK!!!).
we talk about a civil war in which, quoting @wsj.com, "the brothers just didn't get along"
#medievalsky
pca.st/rg0l36e8
we talk about a civil war in which, quoting @wsj.com, "the brothers just didn't get along"
#medievalsky
pca.st/rg0l36e8
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Mitt institutt ved UiS søker en førsteamanuensis i historie innenfor moderne norsk og internasjonal historie, med særlig vekt på politiske og økonomiske perspektiver. Må kunne skandinavisk.
www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...
www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...
Førsteamanuensis i historie (290149) | Universitetet i Stavanger
Stillingstittel: Førsteamanuensis i historie (290149), Arbeidsgiver: Universitetet i Stavanger, Søknadsfrist: onsdag 14. januar 2026
www.jobbnorge.no
December 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Mitt institutt ved UiS søker en førsteamanuensis i historie innenfor moderne norsk og internasjonal historie, med særlig vekt på politiske og økonomiske perspektiver. Må kunne skandinavisk.
www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...
www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...
Urgent care for a bread knife related injury was definitely not on my planner today. Luckily glue not stitches.
December 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Urgent care for a bread knife related injury was definitely not on my planner today. Luckily glue not stitches.
Routledge End of Year sale--20% off Water in World History. For anyone considering adopting for classroom use, I'm happy to zoom in to meet with your class!
www.routledge.com/Water-in-Wor...
www.routledge.com/Water-in-Wor...
Water in World History
This book takes a thematic approach to the global history of water, covering a wide range of human interactions with water and the ways in which it carries both life and death.
Water is one of the mos...
www.routledge.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Routledge End of Year sale--20% off Water in World History. For anyone considering adopting for classroom use, I'm happy to zoom in to meet with your class!
www.routledge.com/Water-in-Wor...
www.routledge.com/Water-in-Wor...
Happy everything in academia is due at the same time season for those who celebrate!
December 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Happy everything in academia is due at the same time season for those who celebrate!
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An extremely cool map
A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
December 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
An extremely cool map
Today is McDonald's day in Food History.
December 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Today is McDonald's day in Food History.
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Happy to have been able to circle back to this research (@medievalpenguin.bsky.social will recognize it!) in the context of this summer's droughts and resulting dry wells. #cdnhist #envhist
Today we have "On Drought, Dowsing, and Deep Drilling: Thinking About Groundwater History in an Age of Climate Emergency" by @forrestpass.bsky.social
“When European settlers arrived in the region in the nineteenth century, they found the groundwater perplexing.”
niche-canada.org/2025/11/28/o...
“When European settlers arrived in the region in the nineteenth century, they found the groundwater perplexing.”
niche-canada.org/2025/11/28/o...
On Drought, Dowsing, and Deep Drilling: Thinking About Groundwater History in an Age of Climate Emergency
Canada’s 2025 drought exposed groundwater precarity; in the past, Ottawa Valley settlers adapted to this precarity through dowsing, augers, and evolving well technologies.
niche-canada.org
November 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Happy to have been able to circle back to this research (@medievalpenguin.bsky.social will recognize it!) in the context of this summer's droughts and resulting dry wells. #cdnhist #envhist
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Interested in a tenure track position to work with us in environmental history at SEC and BOKU University in Vienna? Deadline to apply is Jan, 6 next year, details here: boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...
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November 27, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Interested in a tenure track position to work with us in environmental history at SEC and BOKU University in Vienna? Deadline to apply is Jan, 6 next year, details here: boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...
So amidst the regular angst of late semester grading and emails, I also have a *very big thing* that is out in the world now. Waiting to see if good things happen. Waiting is hard.
November 26, 2025 at 1:25 AM
So amidst the regular angst of late semester grading and emails, I also have a *very big thing* that is out in the world now. Waiting to see if good things happen. Waiting is hard.
Grading student responses to hydropower week while listening to Guthrie's Columbia River Collection
November 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Grading student responses to hydropower week while listening to Guthrie's Columbia River Collection
As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
November 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
Trying to wring one pleasure out of the piles of grading
November 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Trying to wring one pleasure out of the piles of grading
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morning!
so, it's my birthday today and I'm now 50 (yikes) but it turns out i have a present for YOU! a new episode of @americanmedieval.bsky.social w/ the exceptional @sarahebond.bsky.social!
we talk dinosaurs & the American obsession w/ Rome (among other things...)
Listen now!
so, it's my birthday today and I'm now 50 (yikes) but it turns out i have a present for YOU! a new episode of @americanmedieval.bsky.social w/ the exceptional @sarahebond.bsky.social!
we talk dinosaurs & the American obsession w/ Rome (among other things...)
Listen now!
The “Fall of Rome” with Sarah Bond
Podcast Episode · American Medieval · 11/19/2025 · 1h 4m
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November 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
morning!
so, it's my birthday today and I'm now 50 (yikes) but it turns out i have a present for YOU! a new episode of @americanmedieval.bsky.social w/ the exceptional @sarahebond.bsky.social!
we talk dinosaurs & the American obsession w/ Rome (among other things...)
Listen now!
so, it's my birthday today and I'm now 50 (yikes) but it turns out i have a present for YOU! a new episode of @americanmedieval.bsky.social w/ the exceptional @sarahebond.bsky.social!
we talk dinosaurs & the American obsession w/ Rome (among other things...)
Listen now!
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AND WE'RE LIVE!!!!!
Welcome to American Medieval! Our first episode sees @profgabriele.com talk with the amazing @goingmedieval.bsky.social about what got us interested in the Middle Ages, why Czech history is super cool, and why Dan Brown drives us nuts
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Welcome to American Medieval! Our first episode sees @profgabriele.com talk with the amazing @goingmedieval.bsky.social about what got us interested in the Middle Ages, why Czech history is super cool, and why Dan Brown drives us nuts
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Public Medievalism with Eleanor Janega
Podcast Episode · American Medieval · 11/12/2025 · 57m
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November 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
AND WE'RE LIVE!!!!!
Welcome to American Medieval! Our first episode sees @profgabriele.com talk with the amazing @goingmedieval.bsky.social about what got us interested in the Middle Ages, why Czech history is super cool, and why Dan Brown drives us nuts
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Welcome to American Medieval! Our first episode sees @profgabriele.com talk with the amazing @goingmedieval.bsky.social about what got us interested in the Middle Ages, why Czech history is super cool, and why Dan Brown drives us nuts
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
So, @americanmedieval.bsky.social talks to really cool people!Including the always interesting @greenleejw.bsky.social
Guess what! I had a great conversation with @profgabriele.com on his new podcast, @americanmedieval.bsky.social. We talked about maps, eels, history, identity, time machines and more!
It was a great time, and I’m thrilled for it to be one of the pod’s first set of episodes. Give it a listen!
It was a great time, and I’m thrilled for it to be one of the pod’s first set of episodes. Give it a listen!
BUT THAT'S NOT ALL! for our release date (TODAY!) we have a second episode!
Here @profgabriele.com talks to @greenleejw.bsky.social about, you guessed it, eels! Plus medieval maps and why they're cool.
have a listen!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
Here @profgabriele.com talks to @greenleejw.bsky.social about, you guessed it, eels! Plus medieval maps and why they're cool.
have a listen!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
November 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
So, @americanmedieval.bsky.social talks to really cool people!Including the always interesting @greenleejw.bsky.social
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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...
Join us online for the discussion! 4pm CET/3pm GMT/10am EST
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
November 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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...
Join us online for the discussion! 4pm CET/3pm GMT/10am EST
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
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Just sharing this cartoon made by Niels again.
Shieldwalls are awesome.
Regularly check in with loved ones to make sure they're perhaps in need of a shieldwall.
www.facebook.com/CouldBeWorse...
Shieldwalls are awesome.
Regularly check in with loved ones to make sure they're perhaps in need of a shieldwall.
www.facebook.com/CouldBeWorse...
November 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Just sharing this cartoon made by Niels again.
Shieldwalls are awesome.
Regularly check in with loved ones to make sure they're perhaps in need of a shieldwall.
www.facebook.com/CouldBeWorse...
Shieldwalls are awesome.
Regularly check in with loved ones to make sure they're perhaps in need of a shieldwall.
www.facebook.com/CouldBeWorse...
Well this was oddly prescient.
October 28, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Well this was oddly prescient.
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There are now 183 videos of our Greenhouse #envhum book talks available to view via our Vimeo showcase. This includes our most recent talks.
You can also listen to the audio-only podcast, which is slightly behind with 154 episodes available: newnatures.org/greenhouse/f...
You can also listen to the audio-only podcast, which is slightly behind with 154 episodes available: newnatures.org/greenhouse/f...
Greenhouse Environmental Humanities Book Talks
Book talks with authors of recent books in environmental humanities, with the authors in discussion with Dolly Jørgensen and Finn Arne Jørgensen, University of Stavanger, Norway. The book talks are he...
vimeo.com
October 26, 2025 at 9:53 AM
There are now 183 videos of our Greenhouse #envhum book talks available to view via our Vimeo showcase. This includes our most recent talks.
You can also listen to the audio-only podcast, which is slightly behind with 154 episodes available: newnatures.org/greenhouse/f...
You can also listen to the audio-only podcast, which is slightly behind with 154 episodes available: newnatures.org/greenhouse/f...