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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 8d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 9d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · 19d

Sorry to hear, that sucks 👎

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 22d

I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities!

Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.

Applications are welcome until 24 October.

#envhum #envhist #energyhistory

Poster showing a wind turbine from frog perspective. The picture is in light pink and blue nuances and announces a PhD course in energy humanities. More information can be found in this website. https://www.uis.no/en/research/collaboration/the-greenhouse-centre-for-environmental-humanities/humanities/apply-for-phd

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · 22d

"Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN commission of inquiry" - in @theguardian.com today

Quotes from an online article stating that the UN commission has found Israel to be committing genocide in Gaza.

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · 23d

Start them young!

#kapittel #literature

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · 27d

I've had 2/92 days of my Norwegian parental leave and I think it's going to be the best time of my life. Although winter is coming...

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · Sep 8

Congratulations to Markus Eldegard Mindrebø @markusmindrebo.bsky.social on the official launch of his book Women, Politics, and Social Networks in the Sagas of Norwegian Kings with De Guyter!

I know a lot more about Gunnhild than I did yesterday!

A man giving a talk next to a slide show displaying Old Norse texts

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · Sep 4

The aforementioned t-shirt

Two people holding t shirts with lobster logos on

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · Sep 4

Great day out with the @greenhouseuis.net on Kvitsøy today, talking about what's working, how we can improve the Greenhouse, and what's ahead. Also having fun with everyone at the Lobster Museum and Hatchery! 🦞 🦞 🦞 (I did buy a t-shirt).

#envhum #lobstersky

A blue lobsters claws poking out of a tank

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · Sep 3

Legend

Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · Sep 3

Melvyn Bragg has decided to stand down as host of In Our Time, the BBC says.

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · Aug 28

A summary of my exhibition at the Robert Frost Library about my MSCA project on Indigenous American car culture in literature is up on Consecrated Eminence (the Amherst Special Collections blog).

consecratedeminence.wordpress.amherst.edu/2025/08/27/n...

#envhum

NOMECH: Animality and Indigeneity in American Automotive Culture – The Consecrated Eminence

consecratedeminence.wordpress.amherst.edu

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · Aug 21

excited to share the call for the workshop

EXTRACTIVE NATURES / NATURES OF EXTRACTION

happening at @uobrisceh.bsky.social on 6-7 Nov 2025,
 made possible by the @britishacademy.bsky.social

deadline: 10 September!

full call below ⤵

#envhist #envhum

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · Aug 20

Why isn't this on the BBC?

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · Aug 20

My project website for Nation of Mechanics has been massively updated (not by me as I don't have access haha)! It now includes all my work and exhibition with the Kim-Wait/Eisenberg Native American Literature Collection at Amherst College!

Thanks again to the amazing staff ❤️

tinyurl.com/3p3v3r97

Nation of Mechanics: Animality and Indigeneity in American Automotive Culture (NOMECH)

This project is funded by the EU Horizon MSCA PF 2022 programme and is led by Posdoctoral Fellow Daniel Bowman

tinyurl.com

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · Aug 20

Three absolute legends and a great cover. All signs positive! #envhum

Dominic O'Key @dominicokey.bsky.social · Aug 20

Published this week: ANIMALITY AND HORROR CINEMA: CREATURELY FEAR ON FILM.

Another fantastic title from Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature.

Brilliantly edited from Peter Sands, Mo O'Neill and
@samjhind.bsky.social

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · Aug 19

Everyone is, quite rightly, taking issue with Trump's complaints about a museum saying "how bad slavery was" - but it's also worrying that he is annoyed that a MUSEUM is saying "nothing about the future."

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Aug 19

NEWS: Trump says the Smithsonian is “WOKE” and “OUT OF CONTROL” because they talk about “how bad slavery was,” and says he has instructed his attorneys to stop this at museums in D.C.

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · Aug 19

Can't wait for Marion to help Emmy with her funding applications

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · Aug 19

Amazingly proud of our daughter Marion who has published this article with @nichecanada.bsky.social! A new generation Jørgensen academics has begun! @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social

Migrants, Mosquitos, and Malaria: Histories of Constructing Enemy Threats

Trump’s immigration policies echo WWII-era propaganda linking disease and race, weaponizing public health fears to justify deportations and dehumanization.

niche-canada.org

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · Aug 19

Migrants, Mosquitos, and Malaria: Histories of Constructing Enemy Threats
niche-canada.org/2025/08/18/m...

A #histmed #envhist post by my daughter Marion in the @nichecanada.bsky.social series Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration

Migrants, Mosquitos, and Malaria: Histories of Constructing Enemy Threats

Trump’s immigration policies echo WWII-era propaganda linking disease and race, weaponizing public health fears to justify deportations and dehumanization.

niche-canada.org

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · Aug 17

Slightly behind on social media since all our luggage (including the baby's) was left in Amsterdam.....😳

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · Aug 17

Had so much fun catching up with some old and meeting some new friends and colleagues in #ecocrit and #envhum Hope to keep in touch and see some of you at The Greenhouse in Stavanger!

A strong ShARC contingent too!

Here's my best Erosion-Crimeadh pic from County Clare

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · Aug 17

I kind of missed my daily updates (conferencing with a child is very different!) but one of many other highlights from ASLE-UKI Galway was hearing Richard Kerridge's short story 'Flooded'

A man standing at a lecturn in front of audience members

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · Aug 12

#envhum

Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · Aug 12

ASLE-UKI Conference in Galway!

Day 0: Trip around Conamorra national Park

Day 1: Keynote from Dr Nessa Cronin: "Radical Hope in Dark Times" and my talk on the Crude Tunes panel about boll weevils and Black American automobility in 1930s blues tunes

A landscape of wild grasses, bogs, and hills

A female speaker behind a lecturn with a slide reading Creimeadh Erosion

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Daniel Bowman @danielbowman.bsky.social · Aug 12

ASLE-UKI Conference in Galway!

Day 0: Trip around Conamorra national Park

Day 1: Keynote from Dr Nessa Cronin: "Radical Hope in Dark Times" and my talk on the Crude Tunes panel about boll weevils and Black American automobility in 1930s blues tunes

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