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Dolly Jørgensen
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Environmental historian. Professor Univ of Stavanger. Co-director Greenhouse Center for #envhum. Co-editor Environmental Humanities journal. Extinction; animal history.
New book: The Medieval Pig (Boydell 2024) https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781837651689/th
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It’s real!!
I just got my first copy of Ghosts Behind Glass and it is beautiful. You all really need to order your copies. You will not regret it. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Today marks the beginning of University Press Week! #UPWeek celebrates the essential work of university presses to amplify scholarship and ideas. This year's theme, #TeamUP, honours the global community that makes knowledge possible.
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Join us today for this talk about my book Ghosts Behind Glass published with @uchicagopress.bsky.social
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...
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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anyway speaking of remarkable things made possible by our tax dollars, Kīlauea is putting on a show again today and you can watch it on the livestream thanks to the USGS
This is quite a view as well, with twin lava fountains at Kīlauea right now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0t... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqmp...
November 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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We are also currently hiring a curatorial fellow to work with the papers of Rosalind Franklin and others in the History of Molecular Biology Collection!

This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits:

www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...
For those with a scholarly interest in Franklin, Watson, and other pioneering researchers in molecular biology, @sciencehistory.org has just opened our new landmark collection of their papers, and applications for research fellowships are currently open:

www.sciencehistory.org/hmbc
History of Molecular Biology Collection
This unparalleled collection includes Rosalind Franklin's historic 'Photo 51,' which revealed the double-helix structure of DNA.
www.sciencehistory.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:45 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...
November 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
We have online info sessions coming up this week and next on our new Masters in Public Environmental Humanities, so be sure to check out the program and register in website if you want to know more.
The Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English.

Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues!

Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
November 9, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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I'm opening up a Black & Indigenous environmental art gallery
@umterps.bsky.social to help students navigate climate anxiety & other stresses that come with learning about environmental injustice & environmental racism. Please consider donating & coming to our fundraiser @framebridge.bsky.social!
November 8, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I really enjoyed talking about Ghosts Behind Glass on Thursday in Stockholm. Was great fun to bring their own natural history museum’s display into conversation with the book.

I’m looking forward to doing this at more venues. Some bookings already for Feb in UK. I’d welcome more invites to do so!
It’s real!!
I just got my first copy of Ghosts Behind Glass and it is beautiful. You all really need to order your copies. You will not regret it. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
November 9, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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There were 52 species of Bulgarian herpetofauna (one is now thought extinct) & you can see them all exquisitely displayed, as @waspwoman.bsky.social would say at the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, Bulgaria

I’m loving the wiggle of the displays

#museums #displays
November 8, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Check out the UWP website for more info: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
Our forthcoming volume on the environmental history of China's era of high socialism has a cover.

Paul Pickowicz, who took the photo when he visited China in 1971 as part of a Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars delegation, also contributed the book's epilogue.
November 7, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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We're hiring in history of science at UW Madison! TT Assistant Professorship with a focus on water. Joint appointment between the History and Integrated Liberal Studies depts, and part of a university-wide hiring cluster on earth/sustainability science. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess... #STS #HSMT
Professor of History - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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jobs.wisc.edu
November 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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📢 JOB ALERT 📢

Come work with me! @rigb.org is hiring an Archivist, full time, 2 year, fixed-term contract, hybrid working possible.

Please share widely!

More details 👇
www.rigb.org/about-us/wor...
Work with us
Help us to create more opportunities for everyone to enjoy and benefit from science.
www.rigb.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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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%
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
Reminds me that it is time to put out the bird seed in the garden!
Frog took the box outside. He shouted in a loud voice, “HEY, BIRDS! HERE ARE COOKIES!”

Birds came from everywhere. They picked up all the cookies in their beaks and flew away.
November 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Sigtuna has some really nice medieval monuments including standing rune stones and church ruins.

According to this rune stone, one guy named Anund was pretty full of himself: “Anund had the stone erected in memory of himself in his lifetime.”
November 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Interesting issue with listing species status in this article - rediscovering species thought extinct causing conservation difficulties
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
This tiny native mouse is legally considered both dead and alive
Animals and plants aren't automatically taken off most national and state extinct species list in Australia if they are rediscovered, leaving them without protection as threatened species.
www.abc.net.au
November 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Had a great day in Stockholm.
In morning met with folks at the natural history museum who I will be collaborating with on a new project called HEART. Saw my extinct friends.
Then afternoon with Stockholm Univ EnvHum group and giving a talk on Ghosts Behind Glass. Packed room & fantastic questions.
November 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Virtual Event – Waste, Epidemics, and Human Health in Environmental Studies

Rethinking Ukraine’s Environment: War, Ecocide, and Beyond
An International Seminar Series
Thursday – 4 December 2025
10 a.m. MST (Edmonton) / 12 p.m. EDS (Toronto)
niche-canada.org/2025/11/05/v...

#envhist #envstudies
Virtual Event - Waste, Epidemics, and Human Health in Environmental Studies
4 December 2025 - This seminar will explore how societies have understood and managed threats to health and the environment across different historical contexts.
niche-canada.org
November 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Call for Contributions: Victorian Infrastructures & their Environmental Legacies

We're still looking for articles to be included in our @openlibhums.org special issue!

Abstracts are due 31 October, full texts 31 March '26.

@bavs-uk.bsky.social @rs4vp.org @asleuki.bsky.social @easlce.bsky.social
OLHJ_CfP.pdf
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November 4, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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The special issue of Eighteenth Century Studies on Coasts is now out - glad to be part of it with some thoughts about coasts and gardens in c18 Ireland #BlueHumanities #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies 🌊

muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889
November 6, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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hey y'all! my questionnaire on player experience in historical videogames is now LIVE! if you play videogames about the past, we want to hear from you! edu.nl/7w3yn
November 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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This entire thread is exactly what's happening in UK universities.
It's like they're being run by people who have no idea what university lecturers or even universities actually do. We're not teachers with a fixed syllabus.
We're researchers and educators.
Compulsory team teaching on every module is perhaps the biggest ever threat to the quality of teaching in UK universities.

It causes chaos on the ground for timetabling, ruins course coherence and turns lecturers into permanent supply teachers. It is pedagogically incoherent… 1/
November 6, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Seihō was one of the founders of the Nihonga 'Japanese painting' style, which combined traditional Japanese subjects and materials with European artistic techniques and conventions.

🐦 Painted and embroidered screen depicting a group of sparrows, Seihō Takeuchi (1864 - 1942), 1910–1920. EA2013.35.a
November 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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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
November 6, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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We're delighted to announce a new book, forthcoming in March: 'Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for the Environmental Humanities', edited by Emily Brownell; now open for pre-orders. More information: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhum #envhist #soil
November 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM