I'm not on here much anymore BUT wanted to announce that the Nursing Clio Prize for Best Article of 2024 is officially open! If you or someone you know wrote an article on medical history and gender in the past year, submit it for $$$ and fame nursingclio.org/awards/

Glimpses of the program of Environmental History Reader. Wonderful interaction with Prof. Derek Amitage and Prof. P. Nayak, University of Waterloo, Canada. Thank you to Prof. Vipul Singh for organizing this session. Vipul Singh 🌏 Prateep Kumar Nayak youtu.be/saPiq6zMvac?si…

I learned how to brush my teeth with branches from cotton plants in rural Senegal this week, and it makes me wonder if my ancestors in Alabama also knew how to use the cotton plant for dental hygiene.

Watercolour painting of #indigenouspeaples of #Virginia #USA, showing wood #fishweirs and canoes from 1558 published in 'Travels through Virginia' (1618) by William Strachey. The weirs are set of shore river or estuary and accused by canoes in the image. #coastalhistory 1/2

CFP: Deadline is March 1, 2025 to submit an abstract to present in this session on the anthropology of plants at this academic conference to be held in Gdańsk, Poland on May 7, 2025. plaurci.ug.edu.pl/2025/02/18/cfp…

Join us at IKUWA8 Oostende (Belgium) from October 13th to October 17th, 2025. Session F2. Tales of the Tide: the archaeology and cultural heritage of fish weir traditions vliz.be/ikuwa8/en/sess… Deadline is set on 15 March 2025. Link to submit form.vliz.be/nl/form/ikuwa8…

Lillian Agnes Jones Scholarship — 2025 Call for Applications - Whyte Museum The scholarship supports research and studies related to the history and culture of Western Canada. niche-canada.org/2025/02/19/lil… #cdnhist #envhist

Land & Sea: The plant workers of Charleston during the moratorium's first year (1994) youtube.com/watch?v=goEfMQ… #envhist #cdnhist #coastalhistory

South Africa mourns the torture and killing of young male baboon. At the same time, baboons are shot and poisoned in suburbia. Violence can only be stopped if we understand the deep history behind it. Link below #JusticeForRaygun #Baboon The Conversation Africa NSPCA South Africa

Book launch of new book by Joela Jacobs Dr. Joela Jacobs (@joelalala.bsky.social) Animal, Vegetal, Marginal: The German Literary Grotesque from Panizza to Kafka tinyurl.com/5n84t25r. Fri, Apr 25, 2025, 1pm PT. Online. Includes guest discussants + the author. Free. Register: ubc.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

INSTRUCTING #COLONIAL #NATURAL_HISTORY Seminar Series Spring 2025, Wednesdays 3–4pm CET, Zoom Speakers: Anita Guerrini, Anna Svensson Jens Amborg Dr Nathan Bossoh Register: [email protected] @KewScience @Kew_LAA British Society for the History of Science ARCHIVE Oregon State University University of Southampton

As the Ottoman Empire became a world power in the fifteenth century, it also became a center of culture, producing original political literature and philosophy. bit.ly/3X4mpj9

Postdoc opportunity! Postdoctoral Researcher in Disaster Resilience and Public Health with a Focus on Wildfires, Fall 2025 at the Health Sciences Department in Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences at Chapman University. Learn more at apply.interfolio.com/163541

Today is #NationalLoveYourPetDay! The companionship of a pet can’t be beat. They offer us unconditional love and make us laugh with their antics. One can only imagine what Saskatchewan’s first Lieutenant-Governor Amédée Forget’s pet monkey, Jocko, got up to! (R-A7593) Government House

On the desolate coastal fringe of #Canada’s northwest territories, water and its bounty is one of the greatest stable resources available to the #Inuit #indigenouspeoples. #coastalhistory #maritimeheritage 1/4

The Vegetal Mind: From Plant Neurobiology to Panpsychism? Session as part of the 2025 Bioneers conference on Mar 29, 2025, 3 - 4:15 pm PT. Co-sponsored by Harvard's Thinking with Plants and Fungi Initiative, with Rachael Petersen, program lead. conference.bioneers.org/the-vegetal-mi…

#Fishweirs are constructed in a dynamic environment shaped by a range of formation processes both organic & geological. This feature in #LoughSwilly #Donegal #Ireland conceals a medieval stone #fishweir owed by Religion Foundation. 1/4 #coastalhistory #IrishArchaeology

Belatedly, but after some technical difficulties our NiCHE Conversation with Richard Yeomans is now available on YouTube! Yeomans joined Dr. Jessica DeWitt to chat about the impact of the 1778 Taxation of the Colonies Act on the British North American Fishery. youtube.com/watch?v=H-wHQP…

This conversation was based on Richard Yeomans's NiCHE article, "From Olive Branch to Policing Stick: The Fishery and the Constitutional Transformation of the 1778 Taxation of the Colonies Act" - niche-canada.org/2020/09/24/fro… #envhist #cdnhist #coastalhistory