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Dolly Jørgensen
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Environmental historian. Professor Univ of Stavanger. Co-director Greenhouse Center for #envhum. Extinction; animal history.
Books: The Medieval Pig (2024) & Ghosts Behind Glass (2025)
https://dolly.jorgensenweb.net/

Dolly Jørgensen is Professor of History at University of Stavanger, Norway and co-editor in Chief of Environmental Humanities. She served as president of the European Society for Environmental History, 2013–2017. Her research ranges from medieval to contemporary environmental issues, approached through environmental history, history of technology, and environmental humanities perspectives. Her primary areas of interest are human-animal relations, the urban environment, and environmental policymaking. Her research has been covered in media such as The New Yorker and Bioscience. She holds a PhD in History from University of Virginia (2008), a MA in history from University of Houston (2003), and a BA in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University (1994). .. more

Environmental science 24%
History 18%
Pinned
I know Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums has been slowly making its way into some hands and homes. Would love to hear thoughts from readers - and please leave reviews wherever you bought it.
Available thru bookstores worldwide.
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Ghosts Behind Glass
How museums display extinct species—and what these exhibits say about us.   While it’s no longer possible to encounter a dodo in the wild, we can still come face-to-face with them in museums. The rema...
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2025 in museums review 23: Birds: The Art of Cornwall’s Birdlife, Penlee House, Penzance, UK, visited July.
Fantastic art exhibit on birds in Cornwall. Lots of great seabird action captured by Charles W Simpson.

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Thank you to @historians.org and #AHA26 attendees for another great conference to start the new year! Our AHA website will be up for a few weeks so you still have time to save 40% on our latest History books: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...

See you next year in NOLA for #AHA27!
American Historical Association 2026
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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2025 in museums review 22: PK Porthcurno Museum of Global Communications, UK, visited July.
Fun interactions with old technology like rotary phones, telegraphs & flags. Even got to see the transatlantic cables still in place outside, which is the reason the museum is where it is.

2025 in museums review 21: Wheal Martyn Clay Works museum, Cornwall, UK, visited July
Both museum exhibits and industrial heritage site. Some nice stuff about the horses that worked the clay pit.

I’m still making my way thru my photos of museum visits in 2025. Up to the 20th visit as of July. Will keep adding, so watch this space.
2025 in museums review: Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas, visit in February.
Lots of agricultural history from early colonial history of Texas: brands, barbed wire, pesticides. The game where you are a settler trying to avoid disasters (from tornados to no water) was fascinating.

2025 in museums review 20: 1880 THAT (Christine Sun Kim & Thomas Mader), Wellcome Collection, London, UK, visited July
Reflects on 1880 Milan conference (w 1 deaf attendee) that decided oral ed should replace deaf ed for deaf students. As a parent of child who speaks Norwegian sign, really powerful.

Agreed. I was going to suggest two hours.
“We cannot withdraw from the fact that over 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.” 🧪

IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors. 🌍

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DIGITAL ECOLOGIES is available for just £15 in paperback until the end of January; discount applied automatically unless you're in North America, where you need to type "JAN40" at payment

this also applies to ALL @manchesterup.bsky.social books!!!

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Manchester University Press - Digital ecologies
Digital ecologies - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Digital ecologies by Jonathon Turnbull
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It was a pleasure to work with the folks @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social in publishing this review of WARBODY, an unflinching examination of war as a toxic Superfund site. WARBODY is an appeal to listen: to veterans, to their bodies, and to their calls for a more compassionate system of care.
The Toxic Landscapes of War | Los Angeles Review of Books
Gregg Mitman looks at the bodily damage that soldiers take home in Joshua Howe and Alexander Lemons’s ‘Warbody: A Marine Sniper and the Hidden Violence of Modern Warfare.’
lareviewofbooks.org
Join us on Tuesday 10 February for the 2026 Global History Lecture, hosted in partnership with @ghilondon.bsky.social

Professor Vinita Damodaran will speak on 'Decolonising the Natural History Collections of Empire' bit.ly/4qLCaYB

Booking for in-person & online attendance is now open #Skystorians
2026 Global History Lecture, with the German Historical Institute, London - RHS
On Tuesday 10 February, the Society hosts its annual Global History Lecture, in partnership with the German Historical Institute, London. This year we are delighted to welcome Professor Vinita Damodar...
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This order withdraws the US from major environmental cooperation, including:
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC);
- Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES);
- International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Just found a great one page note I’d written up in July conceptualizing a project - but of course I spent the fall writing a project proposal that doesn’t use those really good ideas, so now I’m trying to figure out how to bring them together (or how to throw one out!).

2025 in museums review 19: Fixing Our Broken Planet, Natural History Museum, London, UK, visited July.
A follow-up exhibit to the previous Our Broken Planet. More hopeful messaging with things to do (like cut plastics & fast fashion). Bird nests incorporating human-made materials were interesting.

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📣Hiring📣

Assistant Professor in Science, Technology & Society

Join a vibrant, international community, contribute to #interdisciplinary research & teaching on #sustainability, #innovation & #society.

Apply before 8 February 2026👉 shorturl.at/qLCBb

#AcademicJobs #STS

2025 in museums review 18 (yes I’m still reviewing 2025!): Unearthed: The Power of Gardening, British Library, London, UK, visited July.
Exhibit had a wide range of beautiful objects, from Anglo-Saxon herbals to a Wardian case to pesticide sprayer to images of contemporary guerrilla urban gardening.

Love this! Great to see my book being shared.

Don’t forget that anyone can also ask their local library to buy a copy to spread the reading enjoyment.
I thoroughly enjoyed it. Lots to think on. Sending it on to my ecology-evolutionary biology sister.

P.S. I routinely walk through the state museum across the street from work and get to see a stuffed Carolina Parakeet.

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I thoroughly enjoyed it. Lots to think on. Sending it on to my ecology-evolutionary biology sister.

P.S. I routinely walk through the state museum across the street from work and get to see a stuffed Carolina Parakeet.

Not to be depressing, but I *must* contribute an extinct Labrador duck, as you might guess.
I'm hiring 2 postdocs on my Wellcome project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)"

Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
King's College
3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29
Deadline: 01/02/26
shorturl.at/KZ6Vh
Postdoctoral Research Associate | King's College London
www.kcl.ac.uk

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Fellowship!

In connection with the research program in Economic History, Climate and the Environment:

histecon.fr/en/fellowshi...
THE CENTRE FOR HISTORY AND ECONOMICS IN PARIS
Fellowships
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Every Monday in 2026, we'll be posting images from our collection that represent a band or artist. Can you guess them all? (We've kept this week pretty easy, they'll get harder!) #MusicMondays #SpecialCollections

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Thrilled to be included in the inaugural issue of Germinate: Environmental History Review, with a piece on Pacific salmon and meta-ecosystem histories: g-ehr.com/peer-reviewe... Lots of other great publicly-accessible articles to check out as well! #envhist #envhum #twitterstorians

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For the New Year, we're running a SALE of 25% off all books on our site. Use code WHP2026NY on anything listed here: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... || Thanks to M. Johnson for painting these aconites, blossoming near Cambridge even in deep midwinter. #envhist #envhum #pastorialism #plantstudies

Monday, 2 March 2026, at 16:00 CET / 10:00 EST:
Jen Rose Smith, Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic (@dukepress.bsky.social , 2025)
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

Monday, 16 February 2026, at 16:00 CET / 10:00 EST:
Kip Hutchins @songsforhorses.com, A Song for the Horses: Musical Heritage for More-than-Human Futures in Mongolia (University of Arizona Press, 2025)
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Monday, 2 February 2026, at 16:00 CET / 10:00 EST:
Chris Jones @energyhist.bsky.social, The Invention of Infinite Growth: How Economists Came to Believe a Dangerous Delusion ( @uchicagopress.bsky.social, 2025)
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

Monday, 26 January 2026, at 16:00 CET / 15:00 GMT:
Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social, Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia’s Fossil Economy (@universitypress.cambridge.org, 2025) .
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

Monday, 19 January 2026, at 16:00 CET / 15:00 GMT:
Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social, A Circumpolar Landscape: Art and Environment in Scandinavia and North America, 1890-1930 (Lund Humphries, 2024)
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