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Monica Vasile 🐾
@monicavasile.bsky.social
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Environmental historian working on wildlife conservation, extinction & political ecology of forests. University of Oulu, Finland, since June 2025.
Former @MaastrichtUni & former RCC fellow
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Monica Vasile 🐾 @monicavasile.bsky.social · Jun 26
When you research the history of #PrzewalskisHorse and your partner is a painter

#twitterstorians
#envhist
#envhum
Monuca and a takhi przewalski's foal painting
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esthermarijnen.bsky.social
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
P066: Historicizing Geopolitical Ecologies of War
Standard Panel
nomadit.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 9:40 AM
monicavasile.bsky.social
"We are all farmers ploughing in wildflowers in the night"..

This new article by Andrea Gaynor is fantastic: "Regenerative histories for troubled times"

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#envhist
#envhum
Wildflowers in the night
November 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
monicavasile.bsky.social
When your job is two hours south of the Arctic Circle, this is the road to the university:
#envhist
Road to University of Oulu
November 20, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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georgeiorda.bsky.social
🚨 Just one week left to apply for one of the THREE postdoc positions in the #GreenFrontier project hosted at @fnp-wur.bsky.social

#conservation #EnvJustice #wilderness #rewilding #rural #underdevelopment #LandAbandonment

Deadline 25 November!

Full details 👉 www.wur.nl/en/research-...
November 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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krekberg.bsky.social
Why don't we have an EU wide carbon tax? Well, some people worked as hard as they could to stop it. Important new research by Fabienne Jouty and Christophe Bonneuil!
Undermining Climate Action: The Fight by European Oil Companies Against the European Carbon Tax
This article examines, in the lead-up to the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, the role played by five major European oil companies—BP in the United Kingdom, Shell in the Netherlands and UK, ENI in Italy, ...
www.tandfonline.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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danbrockington.bsky.social
Profits from scientific publishing are eye-watering, costing us billions. In ‘The Drain of Scientific Publishing’ (arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820), (building on ‘The Strain of Scientific Publishing’ doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00327) we show how it is harmful – and unnecessary.
The Drain of Scientific Publishing
The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and ...
arxiv.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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esehnextgate.bsky.social
We have new members! Sebastian Lundsteen, Mona Bieling, and Jonatan Palmblad remain from the old team, and we welcome Nike Stolpe Wikström, Aofie O'Leary McNeice, and Gilberto Mazzoli! Updates on what we are doing and planning will follow. Nextgate supports early-career scholars in #EnvHist
November 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
Tomorrow (Monday, Nov 10) the tables are turned: I’m the guest on the Greenhouse #envhum book talk to discuss Ghosts Behind Glass with @finnarne.me & guest host @medievalpenguin.bsky.social

Join us online for the discussion! 4pm CET/3pm GMT/10am EST

newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
Book cover with colorful parakeet in a bell jar
November 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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dudleymarianna.bsky.social
If any journalists would like a copy of Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain to review, please get in touch w me /MUP. It's a rigorous history of wind energy written for a wide audience, with plenty to say about today's energy challenges. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/
Manchester University Press - Electric wind
Electric wind - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Electric wind by Marianna Dudley
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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georgeiorda.bsky.social
The Globalizing Wildlife volume emerging from the Moving Animals project is out soon. I was a great experience to contribute a chapter on #brownbear diplomacy during Cold War 🐻.
Check out the details below 👇
November 7, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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vbateman.bsky.social
So many amazing humans contributed to this book, writing about all kinds of 🌎🌍🌏 animals: rhinos, chimps, parrots, horses, rats, monkeys, bees, otters, mongoose, tigers, elephants, pigeons, bears and more! #animalhist
November 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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rafdebont.bsky.social
*Globalizing Wildlife*, a book edited by @vbateman.bsky.social, Tom Quick, and myself, is now available for pre-order with @uncpress.bsky.social!
Using code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout, you can save 30%
www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Globalizing Wildlife
Humans have always incorporated wildlife into processes of work, capture, and exchange. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, globalization became t...
www.uncpress.org
November 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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krekberg.bsky.social
Next year, Tero Toivanen and I are organizing a workshop for the Nordic Environmental Social Science conference on questions of how we understand climate obstruction / opposition! Submit your idea to the workshop 14 over here:
Workshops - Uppsala University
www.uu.se
October 24, 2025 at 9:18 AM
monicavasile.bsky.social
Wrote a piece for Springs @carsoncenter.bsky.social Marmots, eagles, Finland, Canada, two wildlife biologists

springs-rcc.org/eagles-marmo...

#envhist #envhum
#animalhist #histsci
#goldeneagles
#vancouverisland
Katia and I on fieldwork in Finland this summer, checking golden eagles' nests, took selfie with a drone
November 6, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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georgeiorda.bsky.social
Details for the position with Polish: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
Postdoc GreenFrontier - Politics of Conservation and Unequal Ecological Exchange in European Peripheries - the case of Poland
www.wur.nl
November 3, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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carsoncenter.bsky.social
This beautiful piece by @monicavasile.bsky.social is available online for free at springs-rcc.org/eagles-marmo.... #envhist #envhum #conservation #fieldwork
November 5, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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georgeholmes.bsky.social
Fancy coming to POLLEN in Barcelona and joining our panel on "Political Ecologies of Restoration: Reintroduction, Assisted
Migration, and Rewilding"? Then submit an abstract via the link below!

pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/...
Programme - POLLEN
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November 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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rosaleenduffy.bsky.social
📣 3 post doc roles on GreenFrontier @erc.europa.eu project - fantastic opportunities to work on an exciting project on socio-ecological relations in Italy, Spain & Poland. And best of all, a chance to work with @georgeiorda.bsky.social as team lead #PoliticalEcology #Conservation ⬇️
georgeiorda.bsky.social Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️‍🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social · 22d
🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers!

Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025

Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!

Please share widely!
November 3, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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georgeiorda.bsky.social
🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers!

Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025

Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!

Please share widely!
November 3, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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carsoncenter.bsky.social
Early-career scholars of #envhist and cognate disciplines, check out the NEXTGATe Writing Support Program! Coordinated by RCC alumnae Mona Bieling and Andrea Gaynor.
esehnextgate.bsky.social ESEH NEXTGATe @esehnextgate.bsky.social · 26d
🚨We are launching the 6th edition of the NEXTGATe Writing Support Program!

Are you an early career author looking for feedback on your writing in a supportive peer-group plus expert advice? You have come to the right place!

For more information and how to apply, see below 👇

#envhist #envhum
October 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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esehnextgate.bsky.social
🚨We are launching the 6th edition of the NEXTGATe Writing Support Program!

Are you an early career author looking for feedback on your writing in a supportive peer-group plus expert advice? You have come to the right place!

For more information and how to apply, see below 👇

#envhist #envhum
October 30, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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georgeholmes.bsky.social
Short piece in @consletters.bsky.social exploring social, cultural, political and ecological apsects of illicit and unregulated species translocations - what others (not me, due to homophone errors) might call guerilla rewilding. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Who Let the Frogs out? Illicit and Unregulated Species Translocations
Click on the article title to read more.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:40 AM
monicavasile.bsky.social
A great read on the grey parrots by Nancy Jacobs @nancyjjacobs.bsky.social 🦜
#envhist #envhum #animalhist
Article title and grey parrots illustration
October 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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rosaleenduffy.bsky.social
📣 ICYMI back in the summer, we have a new paper in @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social drawing together research from the Beastly Business project. We think through #Harms #PoliticalEcology & #WildlifeTrade 🧵 ⬇️
October 20, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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georgeholmes.bsky.social
This is an important petition on academic freedom, for a professor at Syracuse, NY, USA, who has been indefinitely suspended for a very mildly sarcastic four-word social media post relating to US politics.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana
As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...
docs.google.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:14 AM