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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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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 10h

FBI's Ten Most Wanted

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 15h

This is the AmeriKKKa that’s always been and too many people claim not to recognize.

Plenty of white people will celebrate someone pissing on the memorial of an ASSASSINATED non-violent leader.

But we’re not a racist country.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 2d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 4h

PSA: "prompt engineering" is a scam, pass it on. No, seriously, pass it on. I am scared and horrified at how people genuinely don't understand genAI. I'm not a programmer or a digital expert and yet even my extremely basic understanding is not commonly held. it is TERRIFYING.

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Mercedes Sheldon @mercedessheldon.bsky.social · 18h

Fab editorial by @umnenglish.bsky.social faculty.
"Majoring in English is by no means a bad investment of a student’s time and tuition dollars. ... While graduates with English degrees may start out earning less than peers in other fields, they out-earn them in the second half of their careers."

Counterpoint | Actually, English majors are thriving at the University of Minnesota

"As the chair of the English department, past English chair, and assistant dean of curriculum and instruction at the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities, we often find reports of the demise of ...

www.startribune.com

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Erik Stokstad @erikstokstad.bsky.social · 20h

Yo-ho-ho and many, many bottles of rum.

www.science.org/content/arti...

DNA from rum-soaked fishes chronicles century of environmental change

Museum specimens collected during a 1907 marine expedition reveal loss of genetic diversity in the Philippines

www.science.org

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phoenixmcarthur @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 2h

Happy 99th Birthday to Winnie-the-Pooh 🎂

created by English author
A. A. Milne and English illustrator E. H. Shepard.

Christopher Robin putting on his boots, sitting with Winnie-the-Pooh who is leaning up against his back.

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Paul Willson @pauljwillson.bsky.social · 17h

Drama on the Isle of Lewis

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

Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian friends🦃🦃🦃🦃

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Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 1d

Just think of how many TT faculty lines, graduate stipends, and resources for teaching and research this kind of money could buy...

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

the more things change, the more they stay the same in college football (coaches being showered in cash for not working)

Firings so far this season by Arkansas, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Penn State, UAB, UCLA and Virginia Tech have those schools committed to buyouts totaling $93.9 million, subject to mitigation and offset, but not including amounts that also will be owed to assistant coaches

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

Here’s what experts say you need to know.

How to Fight Your Health Insurance Denial with an External Appeal

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 11d

Apply for this free PhD course on Energy Humanities in Stavanger, Norway!

Please pass the opportunity on to students you know. Students from anywhere are welcome.

#envhum #envhist

Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 28d

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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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 2d

MO & OH Dems need us to help Rally support!

A commissioned poll shows nearly 1/2 of MO voters oppose the maps

The Dem committee needs over 100,000 valid signatures across multiple congressional districts before the state’s 90-day window expires on Dec. 11 to let voters decide on the maps.

Missouri Democrats have an opportunity to block a new congressional map. They say they’re largely on their own.

Despite relatively little investment from Washington, Missouri and Ohio Democrats are looking to block new Republican-drawn maps through uncertain avenues.

www.politico.com

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

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

Yes totally terrifying!!!

Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇 @gpetrick.bsky.social · 4d

🤭🤭🤭🤭 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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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.

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

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

newrepublic.com

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Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇 @gpetrick.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 4d

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 · 5d

"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

www.theguardian.com

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Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇 @gpetrick.bsky.social · 4d

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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