Monica Vasile 🐾
@monicavasile.bsky.social
Environmental historian working on wildlife conservation, extinction & political ecology of forests. University of Oulu, Finland, since June 2025.
Former @MaastrichtUni & former RCC fellow
Former @MaastrichtUni & former RCC fellow
Pinned
Monica Vasile 🐾
@monicavasile.bsky.social
· Jun 26
When you research the history of #PrzewalskisHorse and your partner is a painter
#twitterstorians
#envhist
#envhum
#twitterstorians
#envhist
#envhum
Reposted by Monica Vasile 🐾
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...
Reposted by Monica Vasile 🐾
If any journalists would like a copy of Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain to review, please get in touch w me /MUP. It's a rigorous history of wind energy written for a wide audience, with plenty to say about today's energy challenges. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/
Manchester University Press - Electric wind
Electric wind - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Electric wind by Marianna Dudley
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
If any journalists would like a copy of Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain to review, please get in touch w me /MUP. It's a rigorous history of wind energy written for a wide audience, with plenty to say about today's energy challenges. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/
Reposted by Monica Vasile 🐾
The Globalizing Wildlife volume emerging from the Moving Animals project is out soon. I was a great experience to contribute a chapter on #brownbear diplomacy during Cold War 🐻.
Check out the details below 👇
Check out the details below 👇
*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...
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
November 7, 2025 at 8:57 AM
The Globalizing Wildlife volume emerging from the Moving Animals project is out soon. I was a great experience to contribute a chapter on #brownbear diplomacy during Cold War 🐻.
Check out the details below 👇
Check out the details below 👇
Reposted by Monica Vasile 🐾
So many amazing humans contributed to this book, writing about all kinds of 🌎🌍🌏 animals: rhinos, chimps, parrots, horses, rats, monkeys, bees, otters, mongoose, tigers, elephants, pigeons, bears and more! #animalhist
*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...
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
November 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM
So many amazing humans contributed to this book, writing about all kinds of 🌎🌍🌏 animals: rhinos, chimps, parrots, horses, rats, monkeys, bees, otters, mongoose, tigers, elephants, pigeons, bears and more! #animalhist
Reposted by Monica Vasile 🐾
*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...
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
November 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM
*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...
Using code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout, you can save 30%
www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Reposted by Monica Vasile 🐾
Next year, Tero Toivanen and I are organizing a workshop for the Nordic Environmental Social Science conference on questions of how we understand climate obstruction / opposition! Submit your idea to the workshop 14 over here:
Workshops
- Uppsala University
www.uu.se
October 24, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Next year, Tero Toivanen and I are organizing a workshop for the Nordic Environmental Social Science conference on questions of how we understand climate obstruction / opposition! Submit your idea to the workshop 14 over here:
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
springs-rcc.org/eagles-marmo...
#envhist #envhum
#animalhist #histsci
#goldeneagles
#vancouverisland
November 6, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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
springs-rcc.org/eagles-marmo...
#envhist #envhum
#animalhist #histsci
#goldeneagles
#vancouverisland
Reposted by Monica Vasile 🐾
Details for the position with Polish: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
Postdoc GreenFrontier - Politics of Conservation and Unequal Ecological Exchange in European Peripheries - the case of Poland
www.wur.nl
November 3, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Details for the position with Polish: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
Reposted by Monica Vasile 🐾
This beautiful piece by @monicavasile.bsky.social is available online for free at springs-rcc.org/eagles-marmo.... #envhist #envhum #conservation #fieldwork
springs-rcc.org/eagles-marmo... A fantastic tale of #conservation and #care in logged landscapes. Rich in personal detail - free-to-air with #Springs @carsoncenter.bsky.social Congratulations @monicavasile.bsky.social
@esehnextgate.bsky.social @iceho.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social
@esehnextgate.bsky.social @iceho.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social
Eagles, Marmots, Humans: Knowing Wildlife Through Fieldwork - Springs
The work of two biologists in remote forests shows that species recovery depends on both data and human-animal bonds forged in the field.
springs-rcc.org
November 5, 2025 at 10:05 AM
This beautiful piece by @monicavasile.bsky.social is available online for free at springs-rcc.org/eagles-marmo.... #envhist #envhum #conservation #fieldwork
Reposted by Monica Vasile 🐾
Fancy coming to POLLEN in Barcelona and joining our panel on "Political Ecologies of Restoration: Reintroduction, Assisted
Migration, and Rewilding"? Then submit an abstract via the link below!
pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/...
Migration, and Rewilding"? Then submit an abstract via the link below!
pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/...
Programme - POLLEN
Login
pollenpoliticalecology.network
November 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Fancy coming to POLLEN in Barcelona and joining our panel on "Political Ecologies of Restoration: Reintroduction, Assisted
Migration, and Rewilding"? Then submit an abstract via the link below!
pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/...
Migration, and Rewilding"? Then submit an abstract via the link below!
pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/...
Reposted by Monica Vasile 🐾
📣 3 post doc roles on GreenFrontier @erc.europa.eu project - fantastic opportunities to work on an exciting project on socio-ecological relations in Italy, Spain & Poland. And best of all, a chance to work with @georgeiorda.bsky.social as team lead #PoliticalEcology #Conservation ⬇️
🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers!
Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025
Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!
Please share widely!
Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025
Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!
Please share widely!
November 3, 2025 at 8:44 AM
📣 3 post doc roles on GreenFrontier @erc.europa.eu project - fantastic opportunities to work on an exciting project on socio-ecological relations in Italy, Spain & Poland. And best of all, a chance to work with @georgeiorda.bsky.social as team lead #PoliticalEcology #Conservation ⬇️
Reposted by Monica Vasile 🐾
🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers!
Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025
Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!
Please share widely!
Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025
Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!
Please share widely!
November 3, 2025 at 7:32 AM
🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers!
Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025
Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!
Please share widely!
Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025
Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!
Please share widely!
Reposted by Monica Vasile 🐾
Early-career scholars of #envhist and cognate disciplines, check out the NEXTGATe Writing Support Program! Coordinated by RCC alumnae Mona Bieling and Andrea Gaynor.
October 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Early-career scholars of #envhist and cognate disciplines, check out the NEXTGATe Writing Support Program! Coordinated by RCC alumnae Mona Bieling and Andrea Gaynor.
Reposted by Monica Vasile 🐾
🚨We are launching the 6th edition of the NEXTGATe Writing Support Program!
Are you an early career author looking for feedback on your writing in a supportive peer-group plus expert advice? You have come to the right place!
For more information and how to apply, see below 👇
#envhist #envhum
Are you an early career author looking for feedback on your writing in a supportive peer-group plus expert advice? You have come to the right place!
For more information and how to apply, see below 👇
#envhist #envhum
October 30, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Reposted by Monica Vasile 🐾
Short piece in @consletters.bsky.social exploring social, cultural, political and ecological apsects of illicit and unregulated species translocations - what others (not me, due to homophone errors) might call guerilla rewilding. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Who Let the Frogs out? Illicit and Unregulated Species Translocations
Click on the article title to read more.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Short piece in @consletters.bsky.social exploring social, cultural, political and ecological apsects of illicit and unregulated species translocations - what others (not me, due to homophone errors) might call guerilla rewilding. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A great read on the grey parrots by Nancy Jacobs @nancyjjacobs.bsky.social 🦜
#envhist #envhum #animalhist
#envhist #envhum #animalhist
October 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
A great read on the grey parrots by Nancy Jacobs @nancyjjacobs.bsky.social 🦜
#envhist #envhum #animalhist
#envhist #envhum #animalhist
Reposted by Monica Vasile 🐾
📣 ICYMI back in the summer, we have a new paper in @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social drawing together research from the Beastly Business project. We think through #Harms #PoliticalEcology & #WildlifeTrade 🧵 ⬇️
1/ 📄New paper! Alison Hutchinson @georgeiorda.bsky.social Teresa Lappe-Osthege & myself have developed a new harms-based #PoliticalEcology as a way of understanding the #WildlifeTrade published in @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social ⬇️
beastlybusiness.org/2025/07/23/n...
beastlybusiness.org/2025/07/23/n...
New paper on harms-based political ecology - Beastly Business
Our team members Alison Hutchinson, Rosaleen Duffy, George Iordachescu and Teresa Lappe-Osthege developed an idea of bringing together debates on harms from green criminology with political ecology co...
beastlybusiness.org
October 20, 2025 at 11:52 AM
📣 ICYMI back in the summer, we have a new paper in @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social drawing together research from the Beastly Business project. We think through #Harms #PoliticalEcology & #WildlifeTrade 🧵 ⬇️
Reposted by Monica Vasile 🐾
This is an important petition on academic freedom, for a professor at Syracuse, NY, USA, who has been indefinitely suspended for a very mildly sarcastic four-word social media post relating to US politics.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana
As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...
docs.google.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:14 AM
This is an important petition on academic freedom, for a professor at Syracuse, NY, USA, who has been indefinitely suspended for a very mildly sarcastic four-word social media post relating to US politics.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Reposted by Monica Vasile 🐾
10 days left to apply for this course!
Many amazing scholars will contribute to this course, including @untamed.bsky.social, @dudleymarianna.bsky.social, Abigail Harrison Moore, Alice Owen, and @andersriel.bsky.social!
#envhist #energyhistory #envhum
Many amazing scholars will contribute to this course, including @untamed.bsky.social, @dudleymarianna.bsky.social, Abigail Harrison Moore, Alice Owen, and @andersriel.bsky.social!
#envhist #energyhistory #envhum
I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities!
Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.
Applications are welcome until 24 October.
#envhum #envhist #energyhistory
Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.
Applications are welcome until 24 October.
#envhum #envhist #energyhistory
October 15, 2025 at 6:44 AM
10 days left to apply for this course!
Many amazing scholars will contribute to this course, including @untamed.bsky.social, @dudleymarianna.bsky.social, Abigail Harrison Moore, Alice Owen, and @andersriel.bsky.social!
#envhist #energyhistory #envhum
Many amazing scholars will contribute to this course, including @untamed.bsky.social, @dudleymarianna.bsky.social, Abigail Harrison Moore, Alice Owen, and @andersriel.bsky.social!
#envhist #energyhistory #envhum
Reposted by Monica Vasile 🐾
Super excited to talk to @dudleymarianna.bsky.social about Electric Wind in the @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talk on Monday Oct 20th. Joun us for the live discussion. newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
October 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Super excited to talk to @dudleymarianna.bsky.social about Electric Wind in the @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talk on Monday Oct 20th. Joun us for the live discussion. newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
Reposted by Monica Vasile 🐾
🚨JOB ALERT🚨
Come work with me in Brno in a new project on how Scots pine & forestry changed societies and environments in the 18th-19th centuries! 🌲🌳
👇Fully funded postdoc position 👇
www.ibot.cas.cz/en/vacancies...
Application deadline: 13.11.2025
Please distribute widely!
#envhist #histecol
Come work with me in Brno in a new project on how Scots pine & forestry changed societies and environments in the 18th-19th centuries! 🌲🌳
👇Fully funded postdoc position 👇
www.ibot.cas.cz/en/vacancies...
Application deadline: 13.11.2025
Please distribute widely!
#envhist #histecol
October 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
🚨JOB ALERT🚨
Come work with me in Brno in a new project on how Scots pine & forestry changed societies and environments in the 18th-19th centuries! 🌲🌳
👇Fully funded postdoc position 👇
www.ibot.cas.cz/en/vacancies...
Application deadline: 13.11.2025
Please distribute widely!
#envhist #histecol
Come work with me in Brno in a new project on how Scots pine & forestry changed societies and environments in the 18th-19th centuries! 🌲🌳
👇Fully funded postdoc position 👇
www.ibot.cas.cz/en/vacancies...
Application deadline: 13.11.2025
Please distribute widely!
#envhist #histecol
Reposted by Monica Vasile 🐾
It appears it won't be officially online for sometime, but I don't care. I am excited to say that "Veterinarians, Vaccines, and Hybrids: Veterinary Science in the Mongolian People’s Republic," is out (or will be soon) in Mongolian Studies. Please message if you want a copy! #envhist #animalhistory
October 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
It appears it won't be officially online for sometime, but I don't care. I am excited to say that "Veterinarians, Vaccines, and Hybrids: Veterinary Science in the Mongolian People’s Republic," is out (or will be soon) in Mongolian Studies. Please message if you want a copy! #envhist #animalhistory
Reposted by Monica Vasile 🐾
new virtual exhibition on wetlands, exploring how people interact with their wetlands, their rhythms, dynamic changes, and flows of many kinds. www.environmentandsociety.org/exhibitions/...
Wetland Times
www.environmentandsociety.org
October 3, 2025 at 8:14 AM
new virtual exhibition on wetlands, exploring how people interact with their wetlands, their rhythms, dynamic changes, and flows of many kinds. www.environmentandsociety.org/exhibitions/...
Reposted by Monica Vasile 🐾
RIP Jane Goodall — she forever transformed what it means to do fieldwork.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91
Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
RIP Jane Goodall — she forever transformed what it means to do fieldwork.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Reposted by Monica Vasile 🐾
Today marks the final day of The Global War Against the Rat project @standrewsanthro.bsky.social (funded @wellcometrust.bsky.social) after 6 wonderful years of collaborative interdisciplinary research with Oliver French, @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & @alvesduarte.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Today marks the final day of The Global War Against the Rat project @standrewsanthro.bsky.social (funded @wellcometrust.bsky.social) after 6 wonderful years of collaborative interdisciplinary research with Oliver French, @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & @alvesduarte.bsky.social