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Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇

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Food Systems Historian, Environmental Humanities. Sensory History of Taste. Trying to understand all things Food & Wine & Sci/Tech, MSCA Alum UStavanger Now at Ruhr U Bochum. New project on wine and climate change. #envhist #foodstudies #foodhistory

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Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇 @gpetrick.bsky.social · Jan 25

Check out my new article from our special issue with @gfitz.bsky.social on The Senses and the Environment in @eandhwhp.bsky.social doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envirohist #envhum

Picture of Gabriella M. Perick's article Sour Disposition in Environment and History

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Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇 @gpetrick.bsky.social · 10h

It's just such a ridiculous piece. Shouldn't have been published. Yet again trashing the humanities because we challenge your ignorance.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

I now know thee, thou clear spirit, and I now know that thy right worship is defiance.

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CFRC-Folklore @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social · 1d

CFP! Journal of Festive Studies is inviting abstracts for an issue on TINY/giant: Playing with Scale. Themes include giant puppets, toy theatres, effigies for celebration or excoriation, miniature collectibles... Deadline 15 Nov, more info here: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Journal of Festive Studies Issue Nine Call for Papers: TINY/giant: Playing with Scale | H-Net

TINY/giant: Playing with Scale Guest Editors: Dawn Tracey Brandes & Martha Radice, Dalhousie University Deadline for abstracts and short bios: November 15, 2025In addition to our guest-edited section ...

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Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇 @gpetrick.bsky.social · 1d

Yes totally terrifying!!!

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇 @gpetrick.bsky.social · 1d

🤭🤭🤭🤭 I conflated learning about them in Norway with (think Dolly told me about them) with them being Norwegian. Silly me! Google says they are Celtic.

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇 @gpetrick.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, billionaires should be taxed to just millionaires but...what other billionaire went into public service on the left?

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇 @gpetrick.bsky.social · 2d

We are not human without the humanities. #nobelprize #humanities #skystorians

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...

Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

www.nytimes.com

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 3d

Virginia State Senate Dems just brought down fire and fury regarding the “Compact,” notifying the President and Rector that UVA would lose ALL STATE APPROPRIATIONS if it signs and cedes the University to “federal political control.” Notably, their letter directly restates points made here by @siva.

Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 3d

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

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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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Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇 @gpetrick.bsky.social · 2d

Confit!!! I wasn't willing to sacrifice my limited duck/goose fat so I used lard and rapeseed oil, which will be repurposed for other uses gradually. Will render the duck fat and add it to my stash for future use.

Cooked duck leg confit in lard and rapeseed oil 1 legs in a white casserole

Cooked duck leg confit in lard and rapeseed oil 3 legs in a white casserole

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇 @gpetrick.bsky.social · 2d

So may changes are needed, but also that 6 years in a non-prof position & your unemployable, but also the complete power of W profs to abuse even those with more experience than them.

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇 @gpetrick.bsky.social · 2d

He is running it all! Trump is too out of it/sick/distracted/OLD!!! to be president.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 4d

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇 @gpetrick.bsky.social · 2d

Learning from the past to change the future. Why scientist should partner with historians of #aghist #histsci #histsci. We know/have a lot of this info or know where to find it if only you would engage.

Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 2d

"Biodiversity loss is notoriously difficult to quantify. Even in Switzerland, a country with intense monitoring of nature, systematic measurements have only existed for about two decades." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Century-old papers saved from the bin reveal changes in Europe’s plant life

Plant inventories dating back to 1884 and nearly thrown away enable unique time-lapse study of biodiversity in Swiss meadows

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Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇 @gpetrick.bsky.social · 2d

Norwegian turnip carvings are terrifying!!! Halloween is coming and I'm so confused why it is a thing in Norway & Germany...maybe other EU countries? Tho Christmas has been in the stores for at least 2 weeks--crazy.

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ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social · 2d

👀 ESEH 2027 will be held in...

Salzburg! Read more here: eseh.org/eseh-confere...

#envhist

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Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇 @gpetrick.bsky.social · 2d

Yes the whole you can't call oat milk milk is just silly. It went down in flames in the US. Consumers aren't stupid & all too often industry, government, critics & advocates think they are. Easy to get something in a grocery basket once, very hard to do it every week.

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 2d

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 4d

We also have this website with an overview: www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) | Radboud University

Critical AI literacy is crucial for our world, as AI applications rapidly spread across society. In this project, we educate students, education professionals, and the public on how uncritical AI adop...

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Susie Mesure @susiemesure.bsky.social · 3d

This story - see also @londoncentric.media - is really upsetting and just awful. I emailed Neil Coyle MP just now to urge him to intervene - so should YOU.

RMJ @rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social · 3d

'Last Wednesday, I received a call from Faye Gomes, owner of exceptional Guyanese restaurant Kaieteur Kitchen. Almost in tears, she told me she, along with 3 other food traders had been locked out of their premises at Castle Square in Elephant and Castle'

www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/theres-one...

There's one week left to save one of London's best restaurants

The battle for Castle Square, and suspicious goings on in Southwark, by Jonathan Nunn and Gavin Cleaver

www.vittlesmagazine.com

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Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇 @gpetrick.bsky.social · 2d

I could go on about soy & corn being eaten by humans rather than animals or corn to ethanol which is all way worse, but won't.

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇 @gpetrick.bsky.social · 2d

5) Food systems do need to change and UPF can be quite unhealthy.

6) Changing diets is really, really, really hard and takes generations.

7) Big food isn't going away, but we can change & have to have policies that include industry & consumers.

8) Don't market to kids.

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇 @gpetrick.bsky.social · 2d

2) Palm plantations cause much more ecological damage than cocoa.

3) Locally sourced food are generally higher in carbon emissions because of the small scale & higher transport emissions.

4) Hot dogs would be a much better example for the argument.

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Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇 @gpetrick.bsky.social · 2d

1) cocoa requires forests to process it. Yes it is true ag is causing deforestation, but that is largely due to corn & cattle not cocoa. Cocoa is a tropical fruit and has limited geographical expanse unlike corn & cattle which survive in wider zones.

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Jonas Fossli Gjersø @jonasgjerso.bsky.social · 2d

📅 Save the date!

The University of Stavanger, invites you to a symposium entitled:

Freedom of Expression in Times of Genocide

🗓 Wed. Nov 12, 5–7:30 pm | Sølvberget, Stavanger & online

Speakers include: Sindre Bangstad, Raz Segal, Zoé Samudzi, Maha Abdallah & Martin Shaw

More details to follow.

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Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇 @gpetrick.bsky.social · 2d

That is great. The café has really nice cake. Yes, I love Stavanger. It is beautiful and I had such a great community when I lived there. Really wonderful people.

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇 @gpetrick.bsky.social · 3d

Did you get to eat the smoked fish? Have kake/cake?

New or old museum?

Love it so much!

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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 3d

Keep telling the truth

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago resident: The gentlemen were on the inside of the bakery, just getting a cup of coffee. I saw them being taken by the ICE agents. Mario has been a customer for years. Wonderful people, not criminals at all. And he's ill, he needs his medication.

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