Delighted that my birdlings article is now out and in great company in this SI of Modernist Cultures on the theme of Gardens in the Gorse: Rural Britain's Modernist Cultures 🪶🪶🪶 www.euppublishing.com/toc/mod/19/1
Decent summary in Nature on HE crisis in the UK with a focus on STEM (as you’d expect) and particularly Chemistry - a counter perhaps to wider narratives on how this will only affect ‘pointless’ arts & humanities subjects www.nature.com/articles/d41...
As a new academic year dawns, international competition, government policies and inflationary pressures could be pushing some universities to the brink of bankruptcy.
Age of Empires II turned 25 and so I wrote a piece about the impact it had on me, and many other historians who were inspired by the game 🏰 Thanks so much to @gregjenner.bsky.social@mathewlyons.bsky.socialwww.theguardian.com/games/2024/o...
Many historians of a certain age admit that the game reinforced their passion for the past and got them into the field. Four of them explain what drew them in
In case you missed it: the American Association for the History of Medicine is holding its first ever History of Medicine Week next week! All online we're discussing impact, outreach, engagement, reaching broader audiences & what to do if you research becomes, uh, "topical". Sign up below #histSTM 🗃️
New book (open access)on Bosnian apiaries, multispecies ethnography and climate storytelling📚 Beekeeping in the End Times, by Larisa Jašarević publish.iupress.indiana.edu/projects/bee...
Every hundred years, as the story goes, two angels wonder out loud whether the bees are still swarming. For as long as the bees are swarming, the angels are reassured, the world holds together. Still,...
We are organizing a new PhD course on Play and #envhum in Stavanger in December! This should be very cool. 5 ECTS, no registration cost, though students pay their own expenses. Students in NoRS-EH and ANEST can have some or all travel expenses paid.
5 ECTS PhD course in Environmental Humanities to be held in Stavanger, 2-6 December 2024
When you finally manage to see something at the BL and discover that it’s already been digitised via Flickr 😬😭 Still I got to see some unrelated interesting garden history content 🙌
Join us online tomorrow Monday, Sept 30th, at 4pm CEST in Norway / 10am Eastern for the Greenhouse #envhumnewnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
New blog post for the Sound of Nature project: zirk.us/@klangofnatu...#envhistwww.soundofnature.eu/2024/09/23/s...