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Simone Schleper 🟥
@moneschleper.bsky.social
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Environmental historian, science scholar @Maastricht University, twin mom of three
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*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%
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Globalizing Wildlife
Humans have always incorporated wildlife into processes of work, capture, and exchange. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, globalization became t...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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naomioreskes.bsky.social
If you think mis- and disinformation is no big deal , read this: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Relative engagement with sources of climate misinformation is growing across social media platforms - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Relative engagement with sources of climate misinformation is growing across social media platforms
www.nature.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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@monicavasile.bsky.social :)
kennylinden.bsky.social Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 22d
Marmot hunter, Mongolian People's Republic, 1970s. Marmot were heavily hunted, and their skins were listed as part of the 5 year plans. 1,000s of skins were collected annually.

Hunters were seen as professional Marxist laborers with an important role in building socialism, and had clear quotas.
Grinning Mongolian marmot hunter on a motorcycle.
October 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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mellimo.bsky.social
German study shows how far right sets agenda thanks to mainstream parties reshaping their communications to respond to what are initially fringe issues, boosting the spread of these ideas and signalling to voters that these ideas and stances were legitimate

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German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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haberhauer.bsky.social
"Viele an ME/CFS Erkrankte haben keinerlei medizinische Betreuung"

@sabinehermisson.bsky.social im Interview mit @ninaweber.bsky.social im @spiegel.de
October 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
moneschleper.bsky.social
GTD X Lumiere #2: FUTURE COUNCIL
October 8th, 19:30 - 22:30

Join us! Your ticket includes a free drink on GTD
lumiere.nl/en/specials/...
@maastrichtu.bsky.social @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
moneschleper.bsky.social
What a great great loss. And what a life and legacy.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Oct 1
JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.
Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91
Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.
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October 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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October 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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#HPS #STS 🗃️
September 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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I’m a climate scientist. Trump’s U.N. address is a fire hose of misinformation by @michaelemann.bsky.social

www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
I’m a climate scientist. Trump’s U.N. address is a fire hose of misinformation
OPINION: “What Trump is really doing is advancing a plan laid down years ago by plutocrats and polluters. And making a mockery of our country as he does so,” Michael E. Mann writes.
www.sfchronicle.com
September 27, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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womenwritebalkans.bsky.social Women* Write the Balkans @womenwritebalkans.bsky.social · Aug 11
We’re looking for nonfiction—of any length or form—that dives into the many meanings and manifestations of embodiment in and of the Balkans.

Send us your pitches (50–100 words) by October 1 and join us for our first-ever Virtual Open House on September 24:

www.womenwritethebalkans.com/specials
Call for Pitches: Bodies of the Balkans
September 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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eayers0.bsky.social
36 mo postdoc / research fellow position in Philosophy, History, and/or Social Studies of the Life Sciences in the STS dept. at Technical Universtiy of Munich, apps due Oct 31: #histphil #histsci #histSTM

www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei...
Jobs
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September 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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eseh.bsky.social
Are you following our Early-Career-Scholar network, ESEH NextGate? They organize events and support young scholars. Follow here: @esehnextgate.bsky.social
#envhist #envhum
September 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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monicamedhist.bsky.social
Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s... #histSTM 🧪🗃️
August 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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ka81.bsky.social
Having done my time previously in geotechnical engineering and geophysics. This is my big worry about climate change. AMOC shutdown. #ClimateChange

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds
Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout
www.theguardian.com
August 28, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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dpcarrington.bsky.social
Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low likelihood, study finds

- Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic impacts

#climatecrisis #AMOC
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low likelihood, study finds
Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout
www.theguardian.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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rahmstorf.bsky.social
Important study!
August 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
moneschleper.bsky.social
Keynote by Gaia Giuliani #eseh2025 #hybrid: in Anthropocene maser narratives, disaster is producing the 'outthere', the place for the 'monstrous', disposable 'other', where violence and killing is legitimized. Memory and documentation of disobedience as resistance. #PoliticalEcology #envhum
August 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
moneschleper.bsky.social
#ESEH2025 #hybrid "Environmental Futures in the (Anti-)nuclear Age (Part 1): Energy and Climate Change" chaired by @michielbron.bsky.social
Up first: Mathijs Boom: After 1973 "energy as a framework to understand how the world works" #energyhist #envhist
August 21, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Medscape: Where Is the Medical Home for Postinfectious Illness?

"COVID pandemic brought a surge of more patients with POTS & infection-associated chronic illness. What had once felt like a rare or niche diagnosis now seemed to be everywhere, impossible to ignore"

www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Where Is the Medical Home for Postinfectious Illness?
A rheumatologist calls for greater awareness among her colleagues but also emphasizes that these patients require multidisciplinary care.
www.medscape.com
August 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
Call for Papers – (Un)just Transitions?: Deindustrialization and the Environment

@deindustrialpol.bsky.social Conference, Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada, June 18-20 2026
Proposal Deadline: October 1, 2025

niche-canada.org/2025/08/20/c...

#envhist #envhum #deindustrialization
Call for Papers - (Un)just Transitions?: Deindustrialization and the Environment
The 2026 DePOT conference will explore intersections of deindustrialization and environment, focusing on transitions, justice, remediation, energy, heritage, and global perspectives.
niche-canada.org
August 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
moneschleper.bsky.social
Next at #eseh2025 #hybrid: "Rethinking with Animals: Modern Fables for the Great Acceleration (1/2)" with papers by Georgina Montgomery, @emilam.bsky.social, and @rafdebont.bsky.social:
August 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
moneschleper.bsky.social
Up next at #eseh2025 #hybrid, the different world session "Colonialism, Climate Justice, and Blue Humanities"
August 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
moneschleper.bsky.social
Good morning. Up next on #ESEH2025 #hybrid the panel "Environmental Governance and Protected Areas: People, Politics, and Concepts" with papers by @astridme.bsky.social, Philipp Kuster, Daniel McDermott, and myself... I will be talking about the 'power couple' Hanne Marstrand and Maurice Strong.
August 20, 2025 at 6:49 AM
moneschleper.bsky.social
Next #eseh2025 #hybrid panel "Conflicts and Co-Existence with Awkward, Unwelcomed and Unloved Animals" 🧵
August 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM