Sandra Swart
@wildpasts.bsky.social
Animal history. Stellenbosch University. Lion’s Historian.
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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
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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
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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...
I said GOOD DAY SIR
November 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I said GOOD DAY SIR
Now we’re sucking diesel!
November 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Now we’re sucking diesel!
Locked together by their horns in turf battle, two kudu bulls died of exhaustion.
There has to be a metaphor for one’s academic enemies in this?
There has to be a metaphor for one’s academic enemies in this?
November 9, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Locked together by their horns in turf battle, two kudu bulls died of exhaustion.
There has to be a metaphor for one’s academic enemies in this?
There has to be a metaphor for one’s academic enemies in this?
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As a part of ESEH NEXTGATe, I am glad that we are once again organizing a writing support program for early-career scholars! Credits to my colleague Mona Bieling for organizing this together with Andrea Gaynor. Although an ESEH initiative, we also accept applicants from other parts of the world.
October 31, 2025 at 4:52 PM
As a part of ESEH NEXTGATe, I am glad that we are once again organizing a writing support program for early-career scholars! Credits to my colleague Mona Bieling for organizing this together with Andrea Gaynor. Although an ESEH initiative, we also accept applicants from other parts of the world.
Make coffee. Breathe out. Look.
Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards – in pictures
Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards – in pictures
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year is an annual competition hosted by the Natural History Museum in London, which awards top honours in various categories for outstanding photography
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Make coffee. Breathe out. Look.
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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! 🧵💚
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
September 25, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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! 🧵💚
And here is a list for your calendar! 🧵💚
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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.
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.
September 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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.
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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Are you following our Early-Career-Scholar network, ESEH NextGate? They organize events and support young scholars. Follow here: @esehnextgate.bsky.social
#envhist #envhum
#envhist #envhum
September 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Are you following our Early-Career-Scholar network, ESEH NextGate? They organize events and support young scholars. Follow here: @esehnextgate.bsky.social
#envhist #envhum
#envhist #envhum
Committee: So Sandra, tell us your five year plan?
Me:
Me:
September 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Committee: So Sandra, tell us your five year plan?
Me:
Me:
Aisle of Cthulhu.
September 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Aisle of Cthulhu.
Just between us, my first instinct was “ooooh *someone* read my books!” Then I had better second instincts, of course.
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.
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.
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.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
September 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Just between us, my first instinct was “ooooh *someone* read my books!” Then I had better second instincts, of course.
This is the most helpful visual guide to social media I’ve ever seen
September 6, 2025 at 8:38 AM
This is the most helpful visual guide to social media I’ve ever seen
Inspired by the quiet resistance of this room. #BeUnbookable!
September 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Inspired by the quiet resistance of this room. #BeUnbookable!
The magnificent @libbydeq.bsky.social put Anthropocene scientists and historians together to see what would happen! The experiment was a success.
August 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The magnificent @libbydeq.bsky.social put Anthropocene scientists and historians together to see what would happen! The experiment was a success.
Hee hee.
Snapshots from @wildpasts.bsky.social's presentation. Taxonomy now includes academic species Reviewer Two and Panelis Parallelus
#eseh2025
#envhist
#eseh2025
#envhist
August 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Hee hee.
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✨️We invite early career scholars & friends for a networking event at #eseh2025! Tuesday, at 19:30, in Fjölnir student pub (check program). There will be drinks and snacks 🍺🍕. See you there!
#envhist
@eseh.bsky.social
@sebmergence.bsky.social
@palmblad.bsky.social
@monabie.bsky.social
#envhist
@eseh.bsky.social
@sebmergence.bsky.social
@palmblad.bsky.social
@monabie.bsky.social
August 16, 2025 at 6:43 AM
✨️We invite early career scholars & friends for a networking event at #eseh2025! Tuesday, at 19:30, in Fjölnir student pub (check program). There will be drinks and snacks 🍺🍕. See you there!
#envhist
@eseh.bsky.social
@sebmergence.bsky.social
@palmblad.bsky.social
@monabie.bsky.social
#envhist
@eseh.bsky.social
@sebmergence.bsky.social
@palmblad.bsky.social
@monabie.bsky.social
The best part of a workshop on failure is that if nobody shows up, it counts as a case study.
🌟 Join us at #ESEH2025 for a special NEXTGATe event!
Failure Session: Monday 15:30, Humanities Theatre.
We reflect on our academic journeys with the wonderful Sasha Gora, @wildpasts.bsky.social & @robgioielli.bsky.social
Failure happens: what we do with it matters 🌿
#envhist
@eseh.bsky.social
Failure Session: Monday 15:30, Humanities Theatre.
We reflect on our academic journeys with the wonderful Sasha Gora, @wildpasts.bsky.social & @robgioielli.bsky.social
Failure happens: what we do with it matters 🌿
#envhist
@eseh.bsky.social
August 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The best part of a workshop on failure is that if nobody shows up, it counts as a case study.
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Going to the library fucking rules. You can walk in and pick your favorite things and then walk right out without paying anything. It's unbelievable and 100% the kind of thing that won't exist in the future unless you recognize the goodness now before it's too late
Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
August 13, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Going to the library fucking rules. You can walk in and pick your favorite things and then walk right out without paying anything. It's unbelievable and 100% the kind of thing that won't exist in the future unless you recognize the goodness now before it's too late
As you know, I’m not one to boast. But just between you and me, my hometown snake is kicking your snake’s ass
August 13, 2025 at 7:50 AM
As you know, I’m not one to boast. But just between you and me, my hometown snake is kicking your snake’s ass
In 1997, my best friend explained the internet and email to me. With the kind of prescience and foresight for which I am justly famous, I said “Very nice, Adrian, but it’ll never catch on.”
Out of curiosity, do you remember when you first used the Internet?
I first saw it in a computer in JNU library in 1998, started using it around early 2000s, mostly for emails as it was VERY slow. Started using it for research after I moved to Oxford and got my first laptop in 2002.
I first saw it in a computer in JNU library in 1998, started using it around early 2000s, mostly for emails as it was VERY slow. Started using it for research after I moved to Oxford and got my first laptop in 2002.
August 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
In 1997, my best friend explained the internet and email to me. With the kind of prescience and foresight for which I am justly famous, I said “Very nice, Adrian, but it’ll never catch on.”
the literary circle of life
August 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
the literary circle of life
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Coming to NEXTGATe forum on Failures & Letdowns (Monday 18 Aug #ESEH2025)?
You may like this thoughtful paper (free to air Int Review of Env Hist)
press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/pr... @wildpasts.bsky.social @mcookhistory.bsky.social @ncushing12.bsky.social @ruthamorgan.bsky.social
You may like this thoughtful paper (free to air Int Review of Env Hist)
press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/pr... @wildpasts.bsky.social @mcookhistory.bsky.social @ncushing12.bsky.social @ruthamorgan.bsky.social
August 9, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Coming to NEXTGATe forum on Failures & Letdowns (Monday 18 Aug #ESEH2025)?
You may like this thoughtful paper (free to air Int Review of Env Hist)
press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/pr... @wildpasts.bsky.social @mcookhistory.bsky.social @ncushing12.bsky.social @ruthamorgan.bsky.social
You may like this thoughtful paper (free to air Int Review of Env Hist)
press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/pr... @wildpasts.bsky.social @mcookhistory.bsky.social @ncushing12.bsky.social @ruthamorgan.bsky.social