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International center for environmental humanities research in Munich, Germany. Website: https://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de Portal: https://www.environmentandsociety.org/ Seeing the Woods: https://seeingthewoods.org/ Springs: https://springs-rcc.org/

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · May 27

🎉It's finally here: 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 issue number 7!🎉

The new issue of our #openaccess #online publication ponders on emplacement and visibility, takes us through the centuries, and echoes an urgent call to attend to nonhuman sentience.

Read it here: springs-rcc.org

#rccsprings #newissue #research #envhum

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 1d

One more: National Geographic España reported for Spanish readers:
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www.nationalgeographic.com.es/ciencia/horm...

El curioso método milenario para hacer yogur... ¡con hormigas!

En la actualidad la mayoría de los yogures están hechos con las mismas cepas bacterianas, pero antaño eran muy distintos.

www.nationalgeographic.com.es

Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 1d

And, finally, Euro News reported in its Turkish publication:
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tr.euronews.com/kultur/2025/...

Tarihi tarif Türkiye'den: Bilim insanları 'karınca yoğurdu' yaptı

Araştırmacılar, geleneksel bir Balkan yöntemini uygulayarak yaptıkları karınca yoğurdunun içindeki bakterinin Fructilactobacillus sanfranciscensis olduğunu belirledi.

tr.euronews.com

Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 1d

Der Standard and Deutschlandfunk in German:
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www.derstandard.de/story/300000...

www.deutschlandfunk.de/forschende-u...

Wie sich mit Ameisen Joghurt machen lässt

Dänische Forschende kochten ein uraltes Rezept nach, das auf dem Balkan verbreitet war, und analysierten die Resultate. Ein Spitzenrestaurant in Kopenhagen beteiligte sich

www.derstandard.de

Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 1d

Le Temps in French:
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www.letemps.ch/sciences/et-...

Et vous, mangeriez-vous des yaourts fermentés par des fourmis? - Le Temps

Une équipe de scientifiques revisite la fabrication du yaourt, réveillant une ancienne recette pratiquée en Bulgarie et en Turquie: en guise de ferments, les chercheurs ont utilisé des fourmis, allant...

www.letemps.ch

Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 1d

CNN, The Guardian, and ScienceNews also reported on this:
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edition.cnn.com/2025/10/03/s...

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

www.sciencenews.org/article/yogu...

Scientists used ants to make yogurt. Diners in a Michelin-starred restaurant ate it | CNN

Ice cream, mascarpone and milk-washed cocktails may sound like simple pleasures — but the ones served at a two-Michelin-starred restaurant in Denmark contained a little extra something: ants.

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 1d

The study’s findings are also published in an 𝘪𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 article online: www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Making yogurt with the ant holobiont uncovers bacteria, acids, and enzymes for food fermentation

Entomology; Food microbiology

www.cell.com

Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 1d

The @nytimes.com recently reported on RCC’s doctoral candidate Sevgi Mutlu Sirakova and the #ant #yogurt study she participated in.

You can read the article “This Traditional Yogurt Recipe’s Secret Ingredient Has 6 Legs” online:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/s...

This Traditional Yogurt Recipe’s Secret Ingredient Has 6 Legs

www.nytimes.com

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow, ahead of the start of the #newsemester next week, we begin by welcoming all incoming students from our MA, Certificate, PhD programs.

Students will be introduced to the RCC and its staff and professors, get to know one another, and learn important information for their upcoming #studies.

Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 1d

In the newest addition to 𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘴, Pollyanna Rhee portrays the perennial wheatgrass Kernza, challenging its promise of endless abundance and environmental responsibility:
seeingthewoods.org/2025/10/08/f...

#perennials #wheat #envhum #envhist #planetaryhealth @parhee.bsky.social

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Telling a Different Story - Religion, Extractivism and (Green) Colonialism in Europe - Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm

Welcome to a conference that explores the intersections of religion, spirituality, colonial legacies, and ecological sustainability in European contexts. It encourages a conversation across discipline...

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 4d

Join us and others as members of ICEHO!

ICEHO @iceho.bsky.social · 5d

Join us! ICEHO exists thanks to its members, which can be centers, associations, journals, and other institutions. Check out who is already a member here: www.iceho.org/members

#EnvHist

Members — ICEHO

www.iceho.org

Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 4d

The GV film series presents environmental documentaries and includes discussions with directors, experts or film critics. The series is a cooperation between the RCC, DOK.fest München, and the Münchner Volkshochschule.

More info on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_...

Film Screening + Discussion: <i>Plastic Fantastic</i> - Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society - LMU Munich

www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de

Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 4d

Tomorrow, we will open the Green Visions film series winter lineup with 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘍𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤.

A discussion with Alexandra Caterbow (NGO HEJSupport) will follow the screening. The screening is free and open to the public.

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 8d

👉more info: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_...

The Ecological Bootprint: Past & Future Impacts of the Military Machinery - Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society - LMU Munich

www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 8d

CfP: “The Ecological Bootprint: Apprehending the Military-Environmental Nexus” (conference)
📆17–19 March 2026
✍️Submission Deadline: 15 November 2025

This #conference seeks to critically examine the entanglements between the #military and the #environment.

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 10d

We are happy to share that we have just published a #new #virtual #exhibition on the Environment & Society Portal! "Wetland Times" by Enaiê Mairê Azambuja, Blake Ewing, and Nicola Thomas investigates the complexity of time in wetland spaces.

Browse it: www.environmentandsociety.org/exhibitions/...

The graphic shows a collection of images from the virtual exhibition "Wetland Times" together with the logos of the Env&Soc Portal and the Virtual Exhibitions and a QR code that redirects to the full exhibition.

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 14d

New 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢 article by Hatib A. Kadir! Starting in the 1970s, Indonesian state experts introduced invasive species in West Papua, a deliberate ecological disruption that advanced a colonial agenda disguised as development. Read more on our Environment & Society Portal

#envhist #envhum #multispecies

Freshwater Fish Invasion as Deliberate Neglect: Unpacking Multispecies Colonialism in West Papua

Indonesian state experts introduced invasive species into West Papua, a deliberate ecological disruption that advances a colonial agenda disguised as development.

www.environmentandsociety.org

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 14d

Former RCC fellow Claudia Leal, now president of ICEHO, has summed up her take-aways from this year's SOLCHA conference. SOLCHA is Latin America's major environmental history conference, which this year took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

ICEHO @iceho.bsky.social · 14d

Latin America's regional environmental history conference, SOLCHA, took place in July this year in lovely Rio de Janeiro. Read the report by ICEHO President Claudia Leal on our website! And take note: in 2027, SOLCHA will take place in Mendoza, Argentina.

#envhist #historiaambiental

Alive and Kicking: Solcha's 12th Symposium — ICEHO

The 12th symposium of SOLCHA in Rio de Janeiro, 2025, was a huge success boding well for the future of environmental history in Latin America.

www.iceho.org

Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 15d

We are a project partner of 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝟒𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, an EU-funded research project on ecological justice. You can now follow it on Bluesky:
bsky.app/profile/spea...
#EnvHum #EnvJust #EnvLaw

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 17d

Check out the winner of the 2025 Turku Book Prize!

ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social · 17d

Congratulations to Netta Cohen, whose monograph 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘶𝘯: 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘡𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘌𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘦 is the winner of the 2025 Turku Book Award. Read the full motivation here: eseh.org/turku-book-a...

#EnvHist #EnvHum

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 22d

In this insightful exploration, author Misria Shaik Ali explores the concept of #embodiedharm at the intersection of mining and agriculture southwest of the Cuddapah Basin in #AndhraPradesh, India.

A contribution to the planetary health series on 𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘴: seeingthewoods.org/2025/09/18/t...

Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 22d

Please find more information on the position and how to apply on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_rcc/jo...

Student Assistant (6h/week, 12 months fixed-term) - Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society - LMU Munich

www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de

Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 22d

🚨CfA: student assistant
ℹ️Dr. Francesca Mezzenzana’s project “Learning #Nature(s): A Cross-Cultural Investigation of #Children and Nature(s)”
📆start date: 1 December 2025

📧application deadline: 7 October 2025

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 22d

We have just added a new #bookprofile to the Environment & Society Portal: 𝘎𝘢𝘳𝘣𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺: 𝘛𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘢 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘱𝘴𝘦 by Dr. Sayan Dey.

You can now read the full book via our Multimedia Library: www.environmentandsociety.org/mml/garbocra...

#rccportal #envhum #envhist #india #garbage #openaccess

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 24d

🚨 𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲: The deadline for submissions has been extended to 31 October 2025.

Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · Aug 4

We are looking for multidisciplinary panels to be presented at our upcoming conference "Beyond Dualism—Thinking Creatively Across Worlds," which takes place in July next year.

The full call can be found in the news section on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev... (1/?)

The graphic shows cultivated lands bordering on a river/wetland and collections of trees (credit: AXIO-IMAGES from Getty Images) in the background of text bubbles. The text summarizes key details of the conference. Please read the description and the full call on the RCC website for this information.

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