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Dolly Jørgensen

@dollyjorgensen.bsky.social

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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 .. more

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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

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 4d

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...

Double page spread with a photo of diorama

Chapter 3 Cursed treasures on left, lion on right

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 7h

That’s quite a caveat!

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 7h

@dbellingradt.bsky.social might have suggestions for this.

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 11h

Haha. I always heard it referred to as “the yellow book”. The “school bus book” is funny.

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 16h

I looked through my “extinction in museums” files and discovered that I have encountered a slender-billed curlew at the Museum of Natural History, University of Wrocław, Poland.
Now gets added to the list of extinct animals.

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 18h

Devastating news: the Slender-billed Curlew has just been declared extinct. This Slender-billed Curlew is from "A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles" (1863). #SciArt by Benjamin Fawcett #ExtinctionIsForever www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42530095

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 1d

This collaborative PhD project with the LSE and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century, sounds amazing.

I’m sure many of you might be interested.

#STS #HPS #HistSci

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LSE Collaborative Studentship with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2d

Oh no! Hope your body decides to get its act together quickly. Get well soon.

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2d

Congrats!

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Manipulating Flora @manipulatingflora.bsky.social · 2d

As a part of the EU-funded project led by @fabribald.bsky.social , this is a first event - Constructing the Environment #ConEnvHist on Monday 13th afternoon in Milan - speaking about practices and theories in premodern studies of nature #nature #histsci #histbotany #environment #environmentalhistory

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 2d

BHL has retrospectively assigned DOIs to 50,000+ historic journal articles These articles, which include the first scientific description of the Platypus (1799), are now part of the great linked network of scholarly research: doi.org/10.5962/p.30... #ILoveBHL #RetroPIDs 🧪
@crossref.bsky.social

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2d

Hilarious. In my academic genealogy, he’s my academic grandfather - was advisor to my advisor Sally Vaughn.

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 3d

This editorial by a professor of media studies at UVA is worth reading to understand the position universities are in at this moment.

Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 3d

I can’t believe my life is being affected by the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment

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Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 3d

Quite the honor to give “More-than-human histories: Changing whose histories matter” as my Gad Rausing prize lecture at the Vitterhetsakademien meeting this evening in Stockholm.

Woman in front of doorway with arch which says Vitterhetsakademien

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social · 3d

It's the official publication day for ETHANOL: A HEMISPHERIC HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE OF BIOFUELS. Want to know why the US turns 40 percent of the corn crop into fuel? How the US and Brazil became the world's two largest ethanol producers? Tom Rogers and I have answers.
www.oupress.com/978080619601...

Ethanol - University of Oklahoma Press

Though ethanol, a liquid fuel made from agricultural byproducts, has generated controversy in recent years—good or bad for the environment? a big-ag boon o...

www.oupress.com

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Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social · 3d

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

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PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne

Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

www.unilu.ch

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Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science @mcps-philsci.bsky.social · 3d

A month to go to submit abstracts for the 2nd HPS of Biodiversity meeting in Copenhagen, 30.04–2.05.26. Deadline: Fri 7 Nov 2025. Contributions welcome “that reflect on the conceptualization/quantification/classification/measurement/valuation/crisis/conservation of biodiversity.”

Second HPS of Biodiversity Meeting

We are inviting abstracts for the Second HPS of Biodiversity Meeting.

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 3d

Oh yes! And of course I reference your article on that exhibition.

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 3d

I can’t believe my life is being affected by the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 3d

We've put a new post up on our blog, in which Maria Kernecker explores how plants can provide a 'way in' to a landscape; the relates to her recently published article in 'Plant Perspectives'. #plantstudies @plantperspectives.bsky.social whitehorsepress.blog/2025/10/07/p...

Plants as a Way In

In this blog, linked to her recently published article in Plant Perspectives, entitled BETWEEN GRAZING AND GATHERING: PLANT KNOWLEDGES, BELONGING AND BECOMING IN THE SWISS ALPS, Maria Kernecker exp…

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 3d

Cuts to humanities, arts and social science courses at universities are leaving students unable to study close to home - which particularly impacts students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Read more 👀 www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/univers...

University course closures leave students unable to study many SHAPE subjects close to home - report

A new report shows that students are shut out of SHAPE education in their home regions, as large swathes of the UK are ‘cold spots’ for humanities, social sciences and arts degrees.

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 4d

Yes! The whole thing (every page) is color.

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Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present @asapartsnow.bsky.social · 4d

First up in our shortlist for the ASAP/16 Book Prize is Sarah Dimick’s UNSEASONABLE: CLIMATE CHANGE IN GLOBAL LITERATURES from @columbiaup.bsky.social. We will announce the winner at this year’s conference in Houston, TX. Please join us!

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 4d

Had you seen this one I had posted from Palermo? bsky.app/profile/doll...

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · Apr 14

Very fascinated by the table the gospel writers are using in the mosaics. It appears to have a screw mechanism to allow the height to be adjusted.

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 4d

'What does it mean to become energy literate?'

Read @sros.bsky.social reflections on her time at E-WERK Luckenwalde published on the #energylives project blog. ⤵

#envhum #energyhistory #nordforsk

www.uis.no/en/the-curre...

Learning to read energy: reflections from a summer residency at E-WERK Luckenwalde

Suzanne Ros, PhD Candidate at the University of Stavanger / Energy Lives Project, reflects on her experience of her summer residency at E-WERK, Luckenwalde, Germany.

www.uis.no

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 5d

Tomorrow Monday Oct 6, we’ll be talking to @royscranton.bsky.social about Impasse: Climate Change & the Limits of Progress on the @greenhouseuis.net book talk.

Join us for the live discussion at 4pm Central European time / 10am Eastern
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

Book cover of Impasse by Roy Scranton with swirls of color like a wave or dragon

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 7d

I ask because I’m reading a history text that goes back and forth between migrant & immigrant when I wouldn’t. I think it’s related to contemporary discourse which I see mixes up the two terms. I see that as something which should be resisted by historians because words have precision.
Thoughts?

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 7d

Whereas an immigrant is someone who left one place and moved somewhere else with the intent of staying there.
This person is also an emigrant from the place they left.
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 7d

Question for historians: Have people always used immigrant & migrant interchangeably?
I would only use migrant for someone who goes back & forth between places, or moves around. A migrant worker is a person who moves around to work, usually seasonally, maybe returning “home” regularly. /1

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