Dolly Jørgensen
@dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
Environmental historian. Professor Univ of Stavanger. Co-director Greenhouse Center for #envhum. Co-editor Environmental Humanities journal. Extinction; animal history.
New book: The Medieval Pig (Boydell 2024) https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781837651689/th
New book: The Medieval Pig (Boydell 2024) https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781837651689/th
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Ghosts Behind Glass
How museums display extinct species—and what these exhibits say about us. While it’s no longer possible to encounter a dodo in the wild, we can still come face-to-face with them in museums. The rema...
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Ghosts Behind Glass has been officially published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social!
If you are looking for an absolutely gorgeous book that tackles a deeply serious topic, this is a perfect choice. Would make a really thoughtful Christmas gift.
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If you are looking for an absolutely gorgeous book that tackles a deeply serious topic, this is a perfect choice. Would make a really thoughtful Christmas gift.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
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Nice extinction history article.
Steller’s sea cows are one of my favorite extinction encounters in museums. I discuss them in chapter 8 on playful figures (examples from @mnhn.fr & Smithsonian NatHist) and chapter 1 on forms (example from @nathist.bsky.social )
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Steller’s sea cows are one of my favorite extinction encounters in museums. I discuss them in chapter 8 on playful figures (examples from @mnhn.fr & Smithsonian NatHist) and chapter 1 on forms (example from @nathist.bsky.social )
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
November 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Nice extinction history article.
Steller’s sea cows are one of my favorite extinction encounters in museums. I discuss them in chapter 8 on playful figures (examples from @mnhn.fr & Smithsonian NatHist) and chapter 1 on forms (example from @nathist.bsky.social )
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Steller’s sea cows are one of my favorite extinction encounters in museums. I discuss them in chapter 8 on playful figures (examples from @mnhn.fr & Smithsonian NatHist) and chapter 1 on forms (example from @nathist.bsky.social )
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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As part of my Wikimedian in Residence position at the Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research Group of the Bioeconomy Science Institute I've recently created documentation on linking publications to Natural History Collections in #Wikidata doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Linking publications to collections : adding cites work, uses or acknowledged statements to Wikidata
This resource outlines simple workflows for adding “cites work”, “uses” and “acknowledges” statements to Wikidata items for publications. These statements link publications to natural history collecti...
doi.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
As part of my Wikimedian in Residence position at the Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research Group of the Bioeconomy Science Institute I've recently created documentation on linking publications to Natural History Collections in #Wikidata doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Are you an early-career environmental historian or interested in the challenges aspiring environmental historians face? Join our panel discussion with
@askehn.bsky.social @kathiescharf.bsky.social @tidetales.bsky.social and @wilkohardenberg.bsky.social et al., hosted by @eseh.bsky.social #envhist
@askehn.bsky.social @kathiescharf.bsky.social @tidetales.bsky.social and @wilkohardenberg.bsky.social et al., hosted by @eseh.bsky.social #envhist
November 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Are you an early-career environmental historian or interested in the challenges aspiring environmental historians face? Join our panel discussion with
@askehn.bsky.social @kathiescharf.bsky.social @tidetales.bsky.social and @wilkohardenberg.bsky.social et al., hosted by @eseh.bsky.social #envhist
@askehn.bsky.social @kathiescharf.bsky.social @tidetales.bsky.social and @wilkohardenberg.bsky.social et al., hosted by @eseh.bsky.social #envhist
Nice extinction history article.
Steller’s sea cows are one of my favorite extinction encounters in museums. I discuss them in chapter 8 on playful figures (examples from @mnhn.fr & Smithsonian NatHist) and chapter 1 on forms (example from @nathist.bsky.social )
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Steller’s sea cows are one of my favorite extinction encounters in museums. I discuss them in chapter 8 on playful figures (examples from @mnhn.fr & Smithsonian NatHist) and chapter 1 on forms (example from @nathist.bsky.social )
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
November 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Nice extinction history article.
Steller’s sea cows are one of my favorite extinction encounters in museums. I discuss them in chapter 8 on playful figures (examples from @mnhn.fr & Smithsonian NatHist) and chapter 1 on forms (example from @nathist.bsky.social )
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Steller’s sea cows are one of my favorite extinction encounters in museums. I discuss them in chapter 8 on playful figures (examples from @mnhn.fr & Smithsonian NatHist) and chapter 1 on forms (example from @nathist.bsky.social )
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Reminder that books make awesome gifts for all holiday events, and they taste sweeter when they’re from indie bookstores. Don’t know what to get? Indie bookstores have gift cards!
November 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Reminder that books make awesome gifts for all holiday events, and they taste sweeter when they’re from indie bookstores. Don’t know what to get? Indie bookstores have gift cards!
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It's great to see so many signing up for the @asleuki.bsky.social Online Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Environment, on 29 Jan 2026, 3-7 pm GMT, but there's still room for more! Further details and registration information at: asle.org.uk/events/semin...
November 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
It's great to see so many signing up for the @asleuki.bsky.social Online Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Environment, on 29 Jan 2026, 3-7 pm GMT, but there's still room for more! Further details and registration information at: asle.org.uk/events/semin...
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🚨#History #envhist Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Environmental History.
🗃️
Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!
See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word...
👇👇👇
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
🗃️
Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!
See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word...
👇👇👇
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125) at University of Warwick
Explore an exciting academic career as a Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🚨#History #envhist Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Environmental History.
🗃️
Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!
See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word...
👇👇👇
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
🗃️
Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!
See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word...
👇👇👇
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
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The RHS Plant Collector Archive is a unique collection of papers associated with the 12 plant collectors and their journeys. For the first time they are now fully catalogued, digitised, and free for everyone to access #skystorians #gardenhistory #nineteenthcentury
collections.rhs.org.uk/view/343871
collections.rhs.org.uk/view/343871
RHS Plant Collector Archive - 19th century papers
collections.rhs.org.uk
November 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The RHS Plant Collector Archive is a unique collection of papers associated with the 12 plant collectors and their journeys. For the first time they are now fully catalogued, digitised, and free for everyone to access #skystorians #gardenhistory #nineteenthcentury
collections.rhs.org.uk/view/343871
collections.rhs.org.uk/view/343871
Basically dreaming of my book Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums
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November 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Basically dreaming of my book Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Today is St Clement's Day, the patron saint of blacksmiths and metal workers.
At Finch Foundry in Devon, blacksmiths will gather to show their skills and complete in the annual snail race. Not what you might immediately think of, the race is to create an iron snail sculpture!
📷 Mel Peters
At Finch Foundry in Devon, blacksmiths will gather to show their skills and complete in the annual snail race. Not what you might immediately think of, the race is to create an iron snail sculpture!
📷 Mel Peters
November 22, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Today is St Clement's Day, the patron saint of blacksmiths and metal workers.
At Finch Foundry in Devon, blacksmiths will gather to show their skills and complete in the annual snail race. Not what you might immediately think of, the race is to create an iron snail sculpture!
📷 Mel Peters
At Finch Foundry in Devon, blacksmiths will gather to show their skills and complete in the annual snail race. Not what you might immediately think of, the race is to create an iron snail sculpture!
📷 Mel Peters
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CfP POLLEN26 - please join our panel, "Historicizing Geopolitical Ecologies of War" - see for more details and how to submit a proposal before 5th of December here; nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...
@casesofyou.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social @nicosananes.bsky.social
@casesofyou.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social @nicosananes.bsky.social
P066: Historicizing Geopolitical Ecologies of War
Standard Panel
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November 22, 2025 at 9:40 AM
CfP POLLEN26 - please join our panel, "Historicizing Geopolitical Ecologies of War" - see for more details and how to submit a proposal before 5th of December here; nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...
@casesofyou.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social @nicosananes.bsky.social
@casesofyou.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social @nicosananes.bsky.social
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I’ve just launched Research Notes Studio, where I support researchers and organisations with editing, research development, and grant-writing.
If you’re preparing a manuscript or a proposal or know someone who is, please share www.researchnotesstudio.com
If you’re preparing a manuscript or a proposal or know someone who is, please share www.researchnotesstudio.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I’ve just launched Research Notes Studio, where I support researchers and organisations with editing, research development, and grant-writing.
If you’re preparing a manuscript or a proposal or know someone who is, please share www.researchnotesstudio.com
If you’re preparing a manuscript or a proposal or know someone who is, please share www.researchnotesstudio.com
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Highly recommended. Mine's just arrived. It is a good read and very friendly - with lots of excellent pix. Congratulations, @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
and #ChicagoUP
and #ChicagoUP
November 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Highly recommended. Mine's just arrived. It is a good read and very friendly - with lots of excellent pix. Congratulations, @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
and #ChicagoUP
and #ChicagoUP
It’s terrible to think that we are nearly to the end of November and need to start Christmas shopping!
But, hey, that also means it is the perfect time to encourage you to buy copies of the beautifully illustrated Ghosts Behind Glass from your local or online bookstore to give away as gifts!
But, hey, that also means it is the perfect time to encourage you to buy copies of the beautifully illustrated Ghosts Behind Glass from your local or online bookstore to give away as gifts!
Ghosts Behind Glass
How museums display extinct species—and what these exhibits say about us. While it’s no longer possible to encounter a dodo in the wild, we can still come face-to-face with them in museums. The rema...
press.uchicago.edu
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
It’s terrible to think that we are nearly to the end of November and need to start Christmas shopping!
But, hey, that also means it is the perfect time to encourage you to buy copies of the beautifully illustrated Ghosts Behind Glass from your local or online bookstore to give away as gifts!
But, hey, that also means it is the perfect time to encourage you to buy copies of the beautifully illustrated Ghosts Behind Glass from your local or online bookstore to give away as gifts!
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Next Tuesday will be the third lecture of our Livestock Histories Lecture Series! Helen Cowie (University of York) will be talking about Silk of the Andes: Acclimatising Alpacas in the British Empire. For more information and to register visit our website: cattlefrontiers.eu/helen-cowie-...
Livestock Histories – Helen Cowie
Helen Cowie – Silk of the Andes: Acclimatising Alpacas in the British Empire
cattlefrontiers.eu
November 21, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Next Tuesday will be the third lecture of our Livestock Histories Lecture Series! Helen Cowie (University of York) will be talking about Silk of the Andes: Acclimatising Alpacas in the British Empire. For more information and to register visit our website: cattlefrontiers.eu/helen-cowie-...
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From hospital records to family papers, collections give unique insights into health across time and place.
But they don’t just have historical value. Collections have incredible potential for discovery research – and we need to unlock it.
Learn more in our report: wellcome.org/insights/rep...
But they don’t just have historical value. Collections have incredible potential for discovery research – and we need to unlock it.
Learn more in our report: wellcome.org/insights/rep...
Archives, manuscripts and material culture in health and wellbeing research | Reports | Wellcome
Archives, manuscripts and material culture collections hold profound potential for advancing knowledge about life, health and wellbeing. This report examines how these collections are currently used i...
wellcome.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
From hospital records to family papers, collections give unique insights into health across time and place.
But they don’t just have historical value. Collections have incredible potential for discovery research – and we need to unlock it.
Learn more in our report: wellcome.org/insights/rep...
But they don’t just have historical value. Collections have incredible potential for discovery research – and we need to unlock it.
Learn more in our report: wellcome.org/insights/rep...
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Call for papers #CFP
Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health and Welfare in Britain and Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present
18 June 2026: 1 day conference + NUM archive exhibition
Submit abstracts / express interest at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
Deadline: 25 Jan 2026
Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health and Welfare in Britain and Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present
18 June 2026: 1 day conference + NUM archive exhibition
Submit abstracts / express interest at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
Deadline: 25 Jan 2026
November 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Call for papers #CFP
Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health and Welfare in Britain and Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present
18 June 2026: 1 day conference + NUM archive exhibition
Submit abstracts / express interest at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
Deadline: 25 Jan 2026
Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health and Welfare in Britain and Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present
18 June 2026: 1 day conference + NUM archive exhibition
Submit abstracts / express interest at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
Deadline: 25 Jan 2026
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I have never seen this image before, but it is striking! #historyofanimals
In this amazing assemblage, hunters barbarously slaughter wildlife until, in center, wildlife turns on them and metes out well-deserved, gruesome justice. Painted in 1647 by Paulus Potter, whose day is today.
November 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I have never seen this image before, but it is striking! #historyofanimals
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Webinar: IASH Fellowship applicants for 2026-27, on Monday 15 December at 13:00 GMT. Find out about our programmes, and ask any questions you may have.
Register free: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0fdfeb...
Please sign up even if you can't attend, as a recording will be circulated afterwards.
Register free: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0fdfeb...
Please sign up even if you can't attend, as a recording will be circulated afterwards.
Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams
Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams
events.teams.microsoft.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Webinar: IASH Fellowship applicants for 2026-27, on Monday 15 December at 13:00 GMT. Find out about our programmes, and ask any questions you may have.
Register free: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0fdfeb...
Please sign up even if you can't attend, as a recording will be circulated afterwards.
Register free: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0fdfeb...
Please sign up even if you can't attend, as a recording will be circulated afterwards.
New Masters in Public Environmental Humanities starts Fall 2026 in Stavanger.
Registration for students from outside of EU is open now, with deadline Nov 30. So jump on it!
Need more info? We have an online session coming up Friday, Nov 21. See 👇
www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
#envhum #environment
Registration for students from outside of EU is open now, with deadline Nov 30. So jump on it!
Need more info? We have an online session coming up Friday, Nov 21. See 👇
www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
#envhum #environment
November 19, 2025 at 10:26 PM
New Masters in Public Environmental Humanities starts Fall 2026 in Stavanger.
Registration for students from outside of EU is open now, with deadline Nov 30. So jump on it!
Need more info? We have an online session coming up Friday, Nov 21. See 👇
www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
#envhum #environment
Registration for students from outside of EU is open now, with deadline Nov 30. So jump on it!
Need more info? We have an online session coming up Friday, Nov 21. See 👇
www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
#envhum #environment
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Call for papers!
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
November 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Call for papers!
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
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#WorldToiletDay 🚽
The Latrines at Housesteads Roman Fort (Vercovicium) in Great Britain. They included wooden seats along the sides, set over a deep channel. A smaller channel in the centre of the building was used for washing sponges.
followinghadrian.com/2013/05/09/h...
The Latrines at Housesteads Roman Fort (Vercovicium) in Great Britain. They included wooden seats along the sides, set over a deep channel. A smaller channel in the centre of the building was used for washing sponges.
followinghadrian.com/2013/05/09/h...
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
#WorldToiletDay 🚽
The Latrines at Housesteads Roman Fort (Vercovicium) in Great Britain. They included wooden seats along the sides, set over a deep channel. A smaller channel in the centre of the building was used for washing sponges.
followinghadrian.com/2013/05/09/h...
The Latrines at Housesteads Roman Fort (Vercovicium) in Great Britain. They included wooden seats along the sides, set over a deep channel. A smaller channel in the centre of the building was used for washing sponges.
followinghadrian.com/2013/05/09/h...
Some good university press suggestions in this thread for publishing mini-monographs
Hey historians 🗃️: Do you know of presses that publish short books (around 30K words / 90 pages plus notes)? I have been working on an article project that could easily turn into an great micro-history of that length, but I'm not sure it would make it to the usual full 60-90K words...
November 19, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Some good university press suggestions in this thread for publishing mini-monographs
Academics need to quit publishing with these commercial behemoths (Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Elsevier, Routledge, etc) and support university nonprofit presses instead.
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 19, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Academics need to quit publishing with these commercial behemoths (Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Elsevier, Routledge, etc) and support university nonprofit presses instead.