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Sara Wasson
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Reader at Lancaster University. Gothic, science fiction, medicine, ecology, plant studies, the Arctic. Books: Urban Gothic; Gothic SF; Transplantation Gothic. She/her.
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The year’s last author copies are here, on the first day of my holiday break. @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and I wrote an epilogue for this excellent book on Digital Ecologies. #envhum
December 20, 2024 at 11:34 AM
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Reading this winter story aloud with the 12yo this December, passing it back & forth, 30 years after first studying it in the original (helped then by Tolkien’s translation).
This, The Seafarer, Beowulf—with their axe-knock rhythms & alliterative-accentual soundings—sank deep into my mind’s ear.
December 13, 2024 at 8:22 PM
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We welcome new submissions to 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐔𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬! Let your imagination run wild and send a postcard to and from whoever you want, send it to the past or to the future, or why not from future to the past?

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December 4, 2024 at 5:14 PM
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Our website allows for navigation like moss, roots, or a tree, and its appearance changes based on the weather conditions of our server. We organized contributions based on themes, q's, and categories, making connections across entries.

www.thinkingwithmoss.net
December 2, 2024 at 5:38 PM
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Excited to launch Thinking With Moss, an NEH-funded project that I've been working on for the past few years with @tega.bsky.social + @aansari86.bsky.social. Bringing in collabs from around the world in a series of workshops, we asked what it might mean to think with moss /

www.thinkingwithmoss.net
December 2, 2024 at 5:35 PM
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So many congratulations to my brilliant colleague @oliverklangmead.bsky.social for being named in this list 👇

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Five of the best science fiction books of 2024
From a post-apocalyptic dystopia to a brilliant time-travel debut, a far-future take on humanity and more
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December 2, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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An often overlooked aspect of experiencing landscapes: wind. Fascinating blog from Nature Scot.

'In #Gaelic tradition there are certain winds that are named and recognised. Read about them in our latest blog from Ruairidh Maclean:" scotlandsnature.wordpress.com/2024/11/29/g...
Gaels and Winds
Roddy Maclean looks at the winds recognised and named in Gaelic tradition
scotlandsnature.wordpress.com
December 2, 2024 at 7:11 PM
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Postdoctoral application open for in creative and practice-led methods of research to support the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, “Plants, Enslavement, and Public History: Re-imagining gardens and green spaces as places of heritage and healing” (2024-2028).
#envhum
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Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
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November 28, 2024 at 4:03 PM
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New open-access book on our Environment & Society Portal: 𝘜𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦: 𝘈 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 by Mihnea Tănăsescu. #EnvHum #rightsofnature
Understanding the Rights of Nature: A Critical Introduction
A monograph on the history of sacred mountains on a global scale since 1500.
www.environmentandsociety.org
November 19, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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So excited about this forthcoming title in our @umasspress.bsky.social series (available for pre-order); trees have figured in #publichistory and community memory for so long—really excited to see the scholarship appearing soon.

#EnvHum #Booksky
November 23, 2024 at 9:57 PM
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We have launched our new Energy Lives! project! A great team led by @melinabuns.bsky.social will explore how people have lived with energy transitions in the Nordic countries over the past 150 years. #envhist #envhum #energyhistory
New international research project on energy transitions
New international research project to explore energy transitions in the Nordic region over the past 150 years. The project was awarded funding from NordForsk’s 'Green Transition' call and runs from Oc...
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November 27, 2024 at 6:48 PM
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And after this AMAZING inaugural issue on the antipastoral thesis, other incredible special issues: "Affects of Energy Transition" in March 2025; "On the Cold Edge: Creative Meditations on Svalbard," Aug. '25; "Radioactive Empires," Dec. '25. Check us out! #envhum #envhist #environmentalhumanities
It's here! It's here!! "Nature Bites Back: The Anti-Pastoral Thesis in Queer and Trans Studies," the very first issue of Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture, guest edited by Cameron Clark and E.L. McCallum, with an AMAZING list of contributors.
www.regeneration-journal.org/issue/1268/i...
Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture | Issue: Issue: 1 and 2(1) Nature Bites Back: The Anti - Pastoral Thesis in Queer and Trans Studies (2024)
www.regeneration-journal.org
November 24, 2024 at 2:17 AM
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Exciting new issue of Punk and Post-Punk on Goth Histories, edited by Claire Nally and Matthew Worley! If you don’t have access through your uni library, the pre-copy-edit version of my chapter on Goth nostalgia & authenticity is on my Lancaster Uni webpage. www.intellectbooks.com/punk-post-pu...
Intellect Books
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November 27, 2024 at 9:33 AM
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Hats off to UCU for showing leadership in extending device lifecycles. The digital is the material
Finally managed to get a new computer from IT services.
November 27, 2024 at 10:05 AM
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Postdoc advertised at UCL to work on the project ‘Connecting Histories, Connecting Heritage: Early Modern Cities and Their Afterlives’ !!

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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 26, 2024 at 11:27 AM
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We’ve just published ‘Plant Perspectives’ 1.2, being a special issue on ‘Networks of Plants and the Language of Resonance in Science and Literature’ guest-edited by Gabriele Dürbeck and Yixu Lu: www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/index #plants #envhum @plantpjournal #openaccess
October 17, 2024 at 12:28 PM
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Check out the CFP, and calls for panels, for the ASLE 2025 Biennial Conference "Collective Atmospheres" July 8-11, 2025 at Univ of Maryland. Deadline for submissions is Jan. 3, 2025. Please share! #envhum #environmentalhumanities
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November 20, 2024 at 7:21 PM
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(1/27) STARTER PACK THREAD. The environmental humanities, broadly conceived, have been flourishing on BlueSky lately. To further promote this growth, we recommend the following starter packs in and beyond the #EnvHum, beginning with ICEHO's for environmental history. Let's connect!
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September 15, 2024 at 12:53 PM
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Life is short. Have a scone.
November 20, 2024 at 9:34 AM
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This looks great:
November 22, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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Our “Read to Respond” series addresses the current climate of misinformation by highlighting articles and books that encourage thoughtful, educated debate on today’s most pressing issues. Today we share resources on political protest:
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November 21, 2024 at 3:30 PM
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3rd edition out on the 3rd December - Disability Studies published by Sage
November 21, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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Interested in research on #media #epidemics #histsci #litsci or #medhums? Then welcome to Media and Epidemics! Our international, interdisciplinary project seeks to understand the role of media and technologies of communication in the making and management of epidemic outbreaks: mediaepidemics.com
November 22, 2024 at 8:19 AM
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To say: my profile pic is a LiDAR image showing the river-ghosts—historical meanders—of the Lower Mississippi.
Water, wandering, wilfully.
It’s by Daniel Coe, who has deep-mapped the pasts of many rivers.
See more of his work at dancoecarto.com/work
& below.
What wild, wondrous beings rivers are.
November 18, 2024 at 11:08 PM