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Heather Houser @heatherhouser.bsky.social · 15d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south

Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 22d

🌱 Fully funded PhD scholarship in Environmental Humanities at Ghent University!

A unique opportunity to collaborate with Marco Caracciolo, Elly McCausland, and me on innovative research connecting literature, culture, and ecology.

PhD Scholarship in Environmental Humanities at Ghent University

Discover a PhD Scholarship in Environmental Humanities on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other PhD opportunities.

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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · Sep 5

Check out Allen MacDuffie's review of Cates Baldridge's "Plowswords: Literature and the Agricultural Trap from Shakespeare to Coetzee," published in 2024 by @uvapress.bsky.social #envhum #evhist #aghit #ecocrit
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 29d

Submit your #envhum work for ASLE Spotlight 2026, deadline October 1, 2025, details here: www.asle.org/stay-informe...

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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · Aug 8

We're launching a new Tidewater Initiative at JHU. Our research group on working waterfronts and coastal infrastructures includes a new student research lab, courses, programming partnerships with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, and more in the works. sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/

Home | The Tidewater Initiative

We are a multidisciplinary research group devoted to study, stewardship, and stories of working waterfronts, coastal infrastructures, and oceans under conditions of globalization and environmental ins...

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Jennifer C. Nash @jennifercnash.bsky.social · Aug 29

Third book in our (with @samanthapinto.bsky.social) Black Feminism in the Edge Series ( @dukepress.bsky.social) comes out in March! Congrats to Justin Mann (and check out the gorgeous cover). www.dukeupress.edu/breaking-the...

Breaking the World

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EASLCE @easlce.bsky.social · Aug 22

#academicjob: Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies.
Northfield, MN, United States

Deadline: September 22, 2025

Info: fa-ewur-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

#envhum #envhist #indigenousstudies

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies

The Department of Environmental Studies at St. Olaf College invites applications for a full-time, tenure track position in the area of North American Indigenous Environmental Relations at the Assistan...

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · Aug 27

Of Supermarkets, Shipwrecks, and Seasons: A Conversation with Sarah Dimick, @thehanopticon.bsky.social, and Ben Stanley - @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social

edgeeffects.net/sarah-dimick...

#envhum #ecocrit #clifi #foodstudies

Sarah Dimick, Lisa Han, & Ben Stanley Discuss Their New Titles - Edge Effects

Sarah Dimick, Lisa Han, and Ben Stanley discuss their new books and critical topics in the environmental humanities.

edgeeffects.net

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Heather Houser @heatherhouser.bsky.social · Aug 13

#envhum #envhist job posting in Norway

Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · Jun 26

We are hiring! Fully tenured associate professorship in environmental history! We are looking for someone who can be a strong contributor to the history group, to a new #envhum related MA program (if all goes well), and to @greenhouseuis.net. #envhist

Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801) | University of Stavanger

Job title: Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Thursday, August 7, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · Aug 12

the academic year 2025/2026 has started here in Norway and we are slowly returning to our offices - for every one in town, @greenhouseuis.net will resume next week and Anna Grasskamp and her team from Oslo are kicking off the autumn term events on 27 August !

#envhum

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Overview of the events at the Greenhouse in August. More info on uis.no/en/greenhouse. For the book talks, see also https://newnatures.org/greenhouse/.

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Heather Houser @heatherhouser.bsky.social · Aug 8

“We’re reviewing [National Climate Assessments], and we will come out with updated reports on those and with comments on those reports,” said Wright, who is one of the main supporters of the administration’s “drill, baby, drill” agenda to boost fossil fuels" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Scientists decry Trump energy chief’s plan to ‘update’ climate reports: ‘Exactly what Stalin did’

Ex-fossil fuel executive Chris Wright said administration is reviewing national assessments made by past governments

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Samantha Pinto @samanthapinto.bsky.social · Aug 4

Better link to the issue here! Intergenerational Feminisms with @jennifercnash.bsky.social and so many great folks! journals.sagepub.com/toc/ftya/26/3

Feminist Theory - Volume 26, Number 3

Table of contents for Feminist Theory, 26, 3

journals.sagepub.com

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Samantha Pinto @samanthapinto.bsky.social · Aug 2

Talking to @smartgirl07.bsky.social about being labeled the "smart girl" in her family, being a first-gen college and grad school student (esp. in the humanities!), and, you know, libraries (cue the study music).

La’Tonya Rease Miles @smartgirl07.bsky.social · Aug 2

Calling all Smart Girl smarties. If you want a deeper dive into the book, come hang out with Sam and me!
www.buzzsprout.com/2459505/epis...

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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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Heather Houser @heatherhouser.bsky.social · Aug 5

Environmental humanities & adjacent scholars: interested in collaborating on a panel for this @carsoncenter.bsky.social conference in July?!
#envhum #STS #envhist www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...

Call for Papers: “The Past and Future of the Environmental Humanities” - Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society - LMU Munich

www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de

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Samantha Pinto @samanthapinto.bsky.social · Jul 31

It's happening . . . starting tomorrow with @smartgirl07.bsky.social

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Heather Houser @heatherhouser.bsky.social · Jul 24

I spoke to @austinchronicle.bsky.social's Brant Bingamon about my decision to leave UT Austin for a new life & job. They're giving much needed attention to the plight of public universities in the current troubles. www.austinchronicle.com/news/2025-07...

Right-Wing Crackdowns Drive Academics Away From UT and the U.S.

Staff morale, federal funds, and state confidence dry up

www.austinchronicle.com

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Heather Houser @heatherhouser.bsky.social · Jul 24

Cover story about UT Michener Center alum and brilliant writer (and lovely person) Carrie Moore!

The Austin Chronicle @austinchronicle.bsky.social · Jul 21

Michener Center alum Carrie R. Moore threads Southern history into compelling fiction.

Carrie R. Moore Makes Her Way Home in Debut Story Collection

Michener Center alum threads Southern history into compelling fiction

www.austinchronicle.com

Heather Houser @heatherhouser.bsky.social · Jul 17

A lot of the reasons I love @marketplace.org in today's episode #menopause #elderpreneurs www.marketplace.org/shows/shows/...

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Heather Houser @heatherhouser.bsky.social · Jul 17

Some thots on getting real support for women and families instead of bogus pronatalism. Austin American-Statesman online & in print tmrw www.statesman.com/story/opinio...

Mothers don't need medals. Families need health care and paid leave | Opinion

We've lost the plot when leaders tell women to keep reproducing as they cut SNAP and health care and neglect America's appalling rates of maternal …

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jul 3

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Samantha Pinto @samanthapinto.bsky.social · Jun 1

We thought we knew tired when we wrote this. Exhausted with @jennifercnash.bsky.social @differences.bsky.social doi.org/10.1215/1040...

On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism

This essay is a critical response to the emergence of “care” as the antidote to the multiple crises that plague the present. The call for care— intramural care, radical care, mutual aid, etc.—has prol...

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Heather Houser @heatherhouser.bsky.social · Jun 28

Out now: my article on reproductive wondering in Critical Inquiry! @criticalinquiry.bsky.social Open access: www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/KI7NH...

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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · May 23

The Texas Legislature passed a bill Friday to allow a period for prayer or religious study — part of a larger national movement to infuse more Christianity into schools.

The bill goes now to Gov. Greg Abbott, who is expected to sign it.

Prayer period in schools backed by Texas Legislature

A House vote showed broad support for the measure that would let districts set aside time for prayer or religious study.

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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · May 23

A Texas House committee on Friday passed a comprehensive crackdown on abortion pills that also contains a controversial provision that says it cannot be challenged in state court before it is enforced.

The bill goes now to the House for a full vote.

Bill to stop flow of abortion pills into Texas clears House panel

The bill also contains a controversial provision that says it cannot be challenged in state court before it is enforced. It goes now to the House for a full vote.

www.texastribune.org

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