Rebecca J H Woods
@professorbopeep.bsky.social
historian of science, environment, animals at the University of Toronto. Current research: frozen mammoths and the history/future of climate change. https://www.mammothhistorylab.com/
Views my own, not UofT’s.
Views my own, not UofT’s.
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Join us today for an enlightening talk by Aaron Gluck-Thaler on the historical and current influence of patterns explored by scientists from various fields. The event, organized by Prof. Rebecca Woods @professorbopeep.bsky.social takes place at Victoria College 🔗
IHPST Colloquium Second Session | Fall 2025
You are cordially invited to attend the Fall 2025 Colloquium series of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology organized by Professor Rebecca Woods
ihpst.utoronto.ca
November 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Join us today for an enlightening talk by Aaron Gluck-Thaler on the historical and current influence of patterns explored by scientists from various fields. The event, organized by Prof. Rebecca Woods @professorbopeep.bsky.social takes place at Victoria College 🔗
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Animals and the history of natural history, or, what would natural history look like had Charles Darwin been a cat person? With @professorbopeep.bsky.social and Anya Zilberstein @animalhistory.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/a...
Animals and the History of Natural History
We see the concept of nonhuman cultures and their historicity as one of the most significant and fascinating recent developments in the field.
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October 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Animals and the history of natural history, or, what would natural history look like had Charles Darwin been a cat person? With @professorbopeep.bsky.social and Anya Zilberstein @animalhistory.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/a...
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Colossal Biosciences has a new project - and it seems to have press released it only to entertainment outlets rather than science media 🤔
July 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Colossal Biosciences has a new project - and it seems to have press released it only to entertainment outlets rather than science media 🤔
My new piece in The Conversation is out here:
theconversation.com/why-are-we-s...
theconversation.com/why-are-we-s...
Why are we so obsessed with bringing back the woolly mammoth?
Woolly mammoths have become the poster child for de-extinction. The giant land mammals have long held our intrigue and fascination.
theconversation.com
July 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
My new piece in The Conversation is out here:
theconversation.com/why-are-we-s...
theconversation.com/why-are-we-s...
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Our April 2025 issue is now available! If you are a print subscriber look for it in the mail! #envhist #envhum
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Environmental History | Vol 30, No 2
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April 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Our April 2025 issue is now available! If you are a print subscriber look for it in the mail! #envhist #envhum
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At the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Look at this moose throuple! @ewanderer.bsky.social has the back story on its design...
April 13, 2025 at 11:41 AM
At the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Look at this moose throuple! @ewanderer.bsky.social has the back story on its design...
It’s been a busy couple of weeks in de-extinction. I spoke to journalist Grace Hunter about Colossal Biosciences’s woolly mice for this article: cottagelife.com/general/scie...
Scientists create woolly mice in an effort to resurrect the mammoth
Scientists want to resurrect the woolly mammoth using research with mice; they've created a woolly mouse by altering DNA
cottagelife.com
April 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
It’s been a busy couple of weeks in de-extinction. I spoke to journalist Grace Hunter about Colossal Biosciences’s woolly mice for this article: cottagelife.com/general/scie...
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You can now read Rebecca Woods' (@professorbopeep.bsky.social) "Entangled Extinction: Endangered Elephants and Extinct Mammoth Ivory in the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries" from the April 2025 issue.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Entangled Extinction: Endangered Elephants and Extinct Mammoth Ivory in the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries | Environmental History
This article uses two moments from the history of ivory to examine the shared histories of mammoths and elephants. The first came in the late nineteenth century, when mammoth ivory was proposed as a s...
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March 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
You can now read Rebecca Woods' (@professorbopeep.bsky.social) "Entangled Extinction: Endangered Elephants and Extinct Mammoth Ivory in the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries" from the April 2025 issue.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Wordle Bot had something to say about my opening pick
June 6, 2024 at 11:37 PM
Wordle Bot had something to say about my opening pick
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Call for Papers – Animal History Group Conference 2024: Movers and Shapers
Online, 27–28 June 2024
Submission Deadline: 5 April 2024
niche-canada.org/2024/03/11/c...
#envhist #animalhistory #animalstudies
Online, 27–28 June 2024
Submission Deadline: 5 April 2024
niche-canada.org/2024/03/11/c...
#envhist #animalhistory #animalstudies
Call for Papers - Animal History Group Conference 2024: Movers and Shapers
Call for Papers - Animal History Group Conference
AHG24: Movers and Shapers
Online, 27–28 June 2024
Submission Deadline: 5 April 2024
Visit Website
The Animal History Group is a netwo...
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March 12, 2024 at 2:40 PM
Call for Papers – Animal History Group Conference 2024: Movers and Shapers
Online, 27–28 June 2024
Submission Deadline: 5 April 2024
niche-canada.org/2024/03/11/c...
#envhist #animalhistory #animalstudies
Online, 27–28 June 2024
Submission Deadline: 5 April 2024
niche-canada.org/2024/03/11/c...
#envhist #animalhistory #animalstudies
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The 2024 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History is now open for dominations of works published since January 2023.
Nominate your work or a work that you 💜.
Deadline 31 May.
Full details here: ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-...
Nominate your work or a work that you 💜.
Deadline 31 May.
Full details here: ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-...
February 26, 2024 at 8:00 PM
The 2024 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History is now open for dominations of works published since January 2023.
Nominate your work or a work that you 💜.
Deadline 31 May.
Full details here: ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-...
Nominate your work or a work that you 💜.
Deadline 31 May.
Full details here: ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-...
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Call for Participants: 2024 Canadian History & Environment Summer School / Appel à participant·e·s: École d’été en histoire de l’environnement 2024
Staples and Canadian History: Commodities, Ports, and Urban Space in Montreal.
niche-canada.org/2024/01/11/c...
Staples and Canadian History: Commodities, Ports, and Urban Space in Montreal.
niche-canada.org/2024/01/11/c...
Call for Participants: 2024 Canadian History & Environment Summer School / Appel à participant·e·...
Our Canadian History and Environment Summer School will be in Montreal in June 2024! Apply by January 22nd!
niche-canada.org
January 12, 2024 at 3:20 AM
Call for Participants: 2024 Canadian History & Environment Summer School / Appel à participant·e·s: École d’été en histoire de l’environnement 2024
Staples and Canadian History: Commodities, Ports, and Urban Space in Montreal.
niche-canada.org/2024/01/11/c...
Staples and Canadian History: Commodities, Ports, and Urban Space in Montreal.
niche-canada.org/2024/01/11/c...
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My excellent PhD student, Tola Ajao, was instrumental in putting this great resource together for @shothisttech.bsky.social
www.historyoftechnology.org/doing-histor...
www.historyoftechnology.org/doing-histor...
December 5, 2023 at 2:39 PM
My excellent PhD student, Tola Ajao, was instrumental in putting this great resource together for @shothisttech.bsky.social
www.historyoftechnology.org/doing-histor...
www.historyoftechnology.org/doing-histor...
My excellent PhD student, Tola Ajao, was instrumental in putting this great resource together for @shothisttech.bsky.social
www.historyoftechnology.org/doing-histor...
www.historyoftechnology.org/doing-histor...
December 5, 2023 at 2:39 PM
My excellent PhD student, Tola Ajao, was instrumental in putting this great resource together for @shothisttech.bsky.social
www.historyoftechnology.org/doing-histor...
www.historyoftechnology.org/doing-histor...
It is an honor to see this engagement with my work! Thanks @melaniekiechle.bsky.social @emilypawley.bsky.social Gabe Rosenberg, and Abe Gibson!
For all you #envhist 📗 readers, there's a new H-Env Roundtable to feast your eyes on! @emilypawley.bsky.social, Abraham Gibson, and Gabriel Rosenberg respond to Rebecca Woods's Herds Shot Round the World. Please share widely! networks.h-net.org/sites/defaul...
December 5, 2023 at 2:20 PM
It is an honor to see this engagement with my work! Thanks @melaniekiechle.bsky.social @emilypawley.bsky.social Gabe Rosenberg, and Abe Gibson!
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Super psyched to have been part of this conversation about a book I really like!
For all you #envhist 📗 readers, there's a new H-Env Roundtable to feast your eyes on! @emilypawley.bsky.social, Abraham Gibson, and Gabriel Rosenberg respond to Rebecca Woods's Herds Shot Round the World. Please share widely! networks.h-net.org/sites/defaul...
December 4, 2023 at 9:58 PM
Super psyched to have been part of this conversation about a book I really like!