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Sandra Swart
@wildpasts.bsky.social

Animal history. Stellenbosch University. Lion’s Historian.

Sociology 30%
Political science 29%
Pinned
Coming out next year with Ohio University Press!

Beautiful way to reflect and remember.

Locked together by their horns in turf battle, two kudu bulls died of exhaustion.

There has to be a metaphor for one’s academic enemies in this?

This is a local bonfire for local people. We’ll have no trouble here…
🚨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

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Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards – in pictures
Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards – in pictures
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year is an annual competition hosted by the Natural History Museum in London, which awards top honours in various categories for outstanding photography
www.theguardian.com

Ooooh! Ready!

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Strongly support this!
Announcing the new Animal History Group seminar series for the 2025-26 academic year! - All seminars held online at 8pm UK time. 🎉 The details are here: animalhistorygroup.org/seminar-seri...
And here is a list for your calendar! 🧵💚
Seminar Series
Term One Our Seminar Series is back for 2025/2026. Seminars will be held at 8pm (GMT). Please sign up using the links below. Joining information will be sent shortly before the event. 15 October 20…
animalhistorygroup.org

How did you cite it tho?

• “A useful contribution, if only to illustrate the persistence of this dangerous misconception.”

I made this exact expression when you said that
Call for Applications

The Early Career branch of the European Society for Environmental History (ESEHNEXTGATe) is seeking new members to join its committee for a two-year term 2025–2027.

Please find the more detailed call text attached.

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Are you following our Early-Career-Scholar network, ESEH NextGate? They organize events and support young scholars. Follow here: @esehnextgate.bsky.social
#envhist #envhum

Brave Poles. Impressive.

Committee: So Sandra, tell us your five year plan?

Me:

I appreciate this more than you can know.

I pathetically tried to interest fellow shoppers in my excellent joke. They were very polite but they didn’t ROFL. They didn’t even L.

Aisle of Cthulhu.

Just between us, my first instinct was “ooooh *someone* read my books!” Then I had better second instincts, of course.
I had 7 articles in here. Search at the link and if you're in there, file at www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

If you've published open access, be mindful that depending on license some of this might be fair use.

Who knows what comes out but might as well try.
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

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I had 7 articles in here. Search at the link and if you're in there, file at www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

If you've published open access, be mindful that depending on license some of this might be fair use.

Who knows what comes out but might as well try.
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com

This is the most helpful visual guide to social media I’ve ever seen

It’s also not into material possessions.

Inspired by the quiet resistance of this room. #BeUnbookable!

The magnificent @libbydeq.bsky.social put Anthropocene scientists and historians together to see what would happen! The experiment was a success.

Hee hee.
Snapshots from @wildpasts.bsky.social's presentation. Taxonomy now includes academic species Reviewer Two and Panelis Parallelus

#eseh2025
#envhist

Sigh

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Snapshots from @wildpasts.bsky.social's presentation. Taxonomy now includes academic species Reviewer Two and Panelis Parallelus

#eseh2025
#envhist

See you soon!