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Cristina Brito

@crisbri.bsky.social

A story of 20 years in 2 pages.
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Our vibrant community of Oceans Past scholars (including all @erc4oceans.bsky.social colleagues) intertwined in my own personal journey.
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Thanks for having me @oceanspast.bsky.social

Oceans Past Initiative @oceanspast.bsky.social · Oct 24

Our latest newsletter is here 🐟

This month we're celebrating two decades of OPI, with special features & reflections from Prof. Cristina Brito and Prof. Daniel Pauly, plus lots more!

Keep up to date with current research in the field by joining our mailing list 👉 [email protected].

October 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM

Reposted by Cristina Brito

Miguel Clavero

@chikichanka.bsky.social

Cooperation between ecologists and historians has allowed a robust reconstruction of the historical introduction of the Italian crayfish, Austropotamobius fulcisianus, to Spain in the late-16th century
@ebdonana.bsky.social @um.es
New OA paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

September 1, 2025 at 9:13 AM

Cristina Brito

@crisbri.bsky.social

Hot spots and Hot moments for whales around the global plus the consequences of the success of conservation efforts for 'ecocultural' systems. Another great keynote #ECSconference2025

Luke Rendell @lrendell.bsky.social · May 16

Inspiring plenary from Joe Roman about 'lifting baselines' and quantifying the effects whale real red ecological pathways have on nutrient cycling and transfer in the oceans - check out his latest contribution here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #ECSconference2025 🐋🦑🧪

Joe Roman in front of a title slide about to give an inspiring plenary

May 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM

Cristina Brito

@crisbri.bsky.social

What a privilege to present our work side by side with these great researchers.
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@erc4oceans.bsky.social

Luke Rendell @lrendell.bsky.social · May 15

A fascinating plenary from Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social about the hugely ambitious 4 Oceans project (novaresearch.unl.pt/en/prizes/4-...) collating historical interactions between humans and marine life #ECSconference2025 🐋🦑🧪

Dr Cristina Brito in front of her title slide 'W is for World, Water, and Whale'

May 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM

Cristina Brito

@crisbri.bsky.social

This is what we at @erc4oceans.bsky.social are addressing through the study of human use of marine life
#bluehumanities #oceanspast

Emily T Griffiths @emilytgriffiths.com · May 15

At #ECSconference2025 @crisbri.bsky.social made a compelling #BlueAnthropocene argument: that animals are living in a world heavily and historically influenced by us. #CulturalEcosystems require historical context.

Slide from a talk giving an overview of different cultures, both historical and modern, influence on wildlife.

May 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM

Cristina Brito

@crisbri.bsky.social

Here we go. Kicking off with the brilliant work of L. Rendell and colleagues.
Myself, going back to origins or living a full circle moment in #marinemammal research, history and conservation.
Tomorrow the #bluehumanities are coming to the #ECSconference2025

Luke Rendell @lrendell.bsky.social · May 14

#ECSconference2025 let's go oooo!! 🐋🦑🧪

Teatro Micaelense in Ponta Delgada dressed up for the 2025 ECS conference

May 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM

Reposted by Cristina Brito

Cristina Brito

@crisbri.bsky.social

Whales in Fault Lines

A new video output of the ERC Sy Grant #4oceans project is online. It results from the research conducted in Lisbon, history of whales, strandings and earthquakes.

Full video: youtu.be/z-PEtSOu2Ek?...

#bluehumanities #marenvhist #whaleshistory #baleias #humanities4theocean

Baleias em linhas de falha | Whales in fault lines

YouTube video by CHAM - Centro de Humanidades

youtu.be

November 22, 2024 at 1:20 PM

Cristina Brito

@crisbri.bsky.social

We talk about the #bluehumanities

cham.fcsh.unl.pt/actividades-...

We walk around a water city

We look for documentation and material evidence about the past of water, animals, natural habitats and people

#environmentalhumanities #animalstudies #Lisbon #envhist

March 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM

Cristina Brito

@crisbri.bsky.social

Transdisciplinary histories. Our joint voices in an open and global conversation.
#bluehumanities #environmentalhumanities #environmentalhistory #animalstudies #oceanspast #waterstudies
www.whpress.co.uk/publications... @whitehorsepress.bsky.social @erc4oceans.bsky.social @wildpasts.bsky.social

February 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM

Cristina Brito

@crisbri.bsky.social

Transdisciplinary histories. Our joint voices in an open and global conversation.
#bluehumanities #environmentalhistory #oceanspast
www.whpress.co.uk/publications... @whitehorsepress.bsky.social

February 7, 2025 at 11:47 AM

Cristina Brito

@crisbri.bsky.social

A bit of history of the human-wolf relationship.
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#animalstudies #animalshistories #landmammals #envhum

NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · Jan 16

"Wolves in the Human Imagination, Wolves in Human Histories" by Renee Worringer

This piece was originally published with @activehist.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2025/01/15/w...

#envhist #animalhistory #envhum #wolves

Wolves in the Human Imagination, Wolves in Human Histories

The deep and complex relationship between humans and wolves, shaped by admiration, fear, mythology, and conflict, has evolved over millennia from reverence and coexistence in early societies to widesp...

niche-canada.org

January 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM

Cristina Brito

@crisbri.bsky.social

𝙒𝙚𝙩 𝙐𝙧𝙗𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙢𝙨.
Um painel transdisciplinar que irá refletir sobre mitologias afrofuturistas subaquáticas, aquários públicos, indústrias extrativas e a relação entre vidas terrestres e as águas que as rodeiam.

www.moma.org/calendar/eve...

#WetUrbanisms #Design #Sustentability #bluehumanities

Wet Urbanisms | MoMA

Inspired by the publication of André Tavares’s new book Architecture Follows Fish: An Amphibious History of the North Atlantic, the panel discussion “Wet Urbanisms” brings Tavares in conversation with...

www.moma.org

January 15, 2025 at 8:38 AM

Cristina Brito

@crisbri.bsky.social

A review of my book Humans and Aquatic Animals...
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'It is a valuable contribution to the pushback against the nature–culture divide.'

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/full/10....

@erc4oceans.bsky.social
#environmentalhistory #bluehumanities #animalstudies #oceanstudies

Cristina Brito, Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa | Environment and History

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk

January 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM

Cristina Brito

@crisbri.bsky.social

A bit of our #bluehumanities approach plus #environmentalhumanitirs around the globe in a very special article. Soon out.
@erc4oceans.bsky.social

The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · Jan 8

Happy New Year to everyone! And to start off, here is a sneak peak at the cover and contents of 'Global Environment' 18.1, a special issue on 'Visions of Sustainability' guest edited by Laura Meneghello. #envhist @globalenvironment.bsky.social

January 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM

Reposted by Cristina Brito

Cristina Brito

@crisbri.bsky.social

The Lisbon team of the @erc4oceans.bsky.social project had a full year. Expect much more from us in 2025, while wishing all a happy, healthy, safe, sustainable and more equitable way of living on our planet.
#bluehumanities #environmentalhistory #animalstudies #oceanspast #environmentalhumanities

December 23, 2024 at 9:39 AM

Cristina Brito

@crisbri.bsky.social

One of the most beautiful books I read last year #soundings (not just, but mostly) about
#whales and #women and the #poetry of encounters and belongings.
www.theguardian.com/books/2022/a...

Soundings by Doreen Cunningham review – a whale of a journey

A mother and her young son follow pods of whales from Mexico to Alaska in this brave, lyrical memoir

www.theguardian.com

January 4, 2025 at 10:05 AM

Reposted by Cristina Brito

Comunidade Cultura e Arte

@comculturaearte.bsky.social

“Choupos” (ed. Assírio & Alvim)
Adília Lopes🤍

December 30, 2024 at 10:49 PM

Cristina Brito

@crisbri.bsky.social

The Lisbon team of the @erc4oceans.bsky.social project had a full year. Expect much more from us in 2025, while wishing all a happy, healthy, safe, sustainable and more equitable way of living on our planet.
#bluehumanities #environmentalhistory #animalstudies #oceanspast #environmentalhumanities

December 23, 2024 at 9:39 AM

Cristina Brito

@crisbri.bsky.social

#environmentalhumanities
#bluehumanities
#animalstudies
#whaleshistory

Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · Nov 22

Whales in Fault Lines

A new video output of the ERC Sy Grant #4oceans project is online. It results from the research conducted in Lisbon, history of whales, strandings and earthquakes.

Full video: youtu.be/z-PEtSOu2Ek?...

#bluehumanities #marenvhist #whaleshistory #baleias #humanities4theocean

Baleias em linhas de falha | Whales in fault lines

YouTube video by CHAM - Centro de Humanidades

youtu.be

December 8, 2024 at 12:03 PM

Cristina Brito

@crisbri.bsky.social

4-Oceans has a new #blue account.
Go check it out.
#4oceans #oceanspast #humanities4theocean

ERC 4-OCEANS @erc4oceans.bsky.social · Nov 27

The Lisbon team of the #4oceans project has released a new visual output.
Check the story of stranded whales and earthquakes in early modern Portugal. With @crisbri.bsky.social @joangong.bsky.social @poulholm.bsky.social and many other colleagues.
#bluehumanities

November 27, 2024 at 3:23 PM

Cristina Brito

@crisbri.bsky.social

A recent output of #4oceans ERC Syn Grant by our co-PI @poulholm.bsky.social
#oceanspast #historicalfisheries

Poul Holm @poulholm.bsky.social · Oct 16

My new paper Explaining major shifts in early-modern economies: the causes for the decline of the North Sea Fisheries of Southwest Denmark, 1537–1650 @eseh.bsky.social @openaccessarch.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

November 23, 2024 at 5:58 PM

Cristina Brito

@crisbri.bsky.social

Whales in Fault Lines

A new video output of the ERC Sy Grant #4oceans project is online. It results from the research conducted in Lisbon, history of whales, strandings and earthquakes.

Full video: youtu.be/z-PEtSOu2Ek?...

#bluehumanities #marenvhist #whaleshistory #baleias #humanities4theocean

Baleias em linhas de falha | Whales in fault lines

YouTube video by CHAM - Centro de Humanidades

youtu.be

November 22, 2024 at 1:20 PM

Cristina Brito

@crisbri.bsky.social

Currently reading 'Silent Whale Letters'.
A beautiful sensorial experience for a former whale bioacoustician turned to #bluehumanities scholar of whales and the sea.
#TBA21

Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social · Nov 12

I'm a book's person. If the books are about the sea, all the better 📚🩵🌊
I'm a person of the travels. If travelling takes me to islands, even better 🔵🌎🌀
And then if I can write about it all, that's just a perfect 📝🩷🌈
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#bluehumanities #oceanspast #animalstudies #literature #poetry #ocean #whales