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Sandra Swart

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Animal history. Stellenbosch University. Lion’s Historian.

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · Nov 9

Coming out next year with Ohio University Press!

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 17h

Ooooh! Ready!

Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 5d

Hear hear!

Elsabe Brits @elsabebrits.bsky.social · 6d

www.nature.com/articles/d44... @heriuct.bsky.social @heriuct.bsky.social @wildpasts.bsky.social

Gentle witness, fierce advocate: remembering Jane Goodall

Her studies in Tanzania reshaped primatology and how we view ourselves, while her advocacy connected animal behaviour, culture, and conservation.

www.nature.com

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Animal History Group @animalhistories.bsky.social · 14d

Announcing the new Animal History Group seminar series for the 2025-26 academic year! - All seminars held online at 8pm UK time. 🎉 The details are here: animalhistorygroup.org/seminar-seri...
And here is a list for your calendar! 🧵💚

Seminar Series

Term One Our Seminar Series is back for 2025/2026. Seminars will be held at 8pm (GMT). Please sign up using the links below. Joining information will be sent shortly before the event. 15 October 20…

animalhistorygroup.org

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 10d

Strongly support this!

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Tanja Riekkinen @tanjariekkinen.bsky.social · 26d

Call for Applications

The Early Career branch of the European Society for Environmental History (ESEHNEXTGATe) is seeking new members to join its committee for a two-year term 2025–2027.

Please find the more detailed call text attached.

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 22d

How did you cite it tho?

• “A useful contribution, if only to illustrate the persistence of this dangerous misconception.”

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 23d

I made this exact expression when you said that

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ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social · 26d

Are you following our Early-Career-Scholar network, ESEH NextGate? They organize events and support young scholars. Follow here: @esehnextgate.bsky.social
#envhist #envhum

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 29d

Brave Poles. Impressive.

Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · Sep 7

Committee: So Sandra, tell us your five year plan?

Me:

Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · Sep 6

I appreciate this more than you can know.

Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · Sep 6

I pathetically tried to interest fellow shoppers in my excellent joke. They were very polite but they didn’t ROFL. They didn’t even L.

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · Sep 6

Aisle of Cthulhu.

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · Sep 6

Just between us, my first instinct was “ooooh *someone* read my books!” Then I had better second instincts, of course.

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Sep 6

I had 7 articles in here. Search at the link and if you're in there, file at www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

If you've published open access, be mindful that depending on license some of this might be fair use.

Who knows what comes out but might as well try.

Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.