Roost is a messaging app where messages aren’t instant; they travel between users at the speed of whichever bird they use to send it. Note sending is limited by the # of birds in your rookery…if they’re all out, you have to wait until one returns. [roostsocial.app]
A brilliant new study of the history of rats and plague by @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social focused on the historically neglected case of the third plague pandemic's impact on Mauritius: "Rats, Islands, and Global Infrastructure" (OA) www.jstor.org/content/oa_c...
It was a pleasure to contribute a chapter, "Caring for Chimps as Viral Kin," on the complex relations of care and unequal relations of exchange that developed at Vilab II in Liberia, for this great volume! Open access is available @ www.jstor.org/content/oa_b...
#envhist #medhist
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Streaming an eagle cam while writing about (the earliest?) eagle cam photos from over a century ago
Such great heights!
#animalhist #birds #photohistory
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Popping in to add: GLOBALIZING WILDLIFE is open access! I knew that was part of the publishing agreement but I didn't find the link until now 🦜 📖 🔓
All the chapters including mine on otters & logistics should be here: www.jstor.org/content/pdf/...
#AnimalStudies #EnvHist #Booksky #STS #AcademicSky
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Publication Day!
Christos Lynteris
Happy pub day to Globalizing Wildlife!! edited by @rafdebont.bsky.social @vbateman.bsky.social and Tom Quick, with an essay by me on otters, shipping, oil, and the California coast
(I tried to snap it "in the wild" but had to settle for a backdrop of my neighbor's shrubs)
Humans have always incorporated wildlife into processes of work, capture, and exchange. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, globalization became the ...
Humans have always incorporated wildlife into processes of work, capture, and exchange. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, globalization became the ...
My author copy has arrived. Happy to be part of this great and brilliant collective of #envhist authors…. And to write about animal navigation skills.
Gregg Mitman
V Bateman
V Bateman
V Bateman
professor tools for commensality (red scare edition)
professor tools for commensality (red scare edition)
One for the top of the reading list for 2026 - congrats to @rafdebont.bsky.social @vbateman.bsky.social & Tom Quick. The book is a series of engaging essays by brilliant writers ⬇️
*Globalizing Wildlife* is OUT THIS MONTH (!) with @uncpress.bsky.social
“An essential and timely intervention… exciting, cutting-edge vantages on crucial global histories” -Daniel Vandersommers
Edited by @rafdebont.bsky.social myself, & Tom Quick
#animalhist #globalhist #HistSci #envhist
*Globalizing Wildlife* is OUT THIS MONTH (!) with @uncpress.bsky.social
“An essential and timely intervention… exciting, cutting-edge vantages on crucial global histories” -Daniel Vandersommers
Edited by @rafdebont.bsky.social myself, & Tom Quick
#animalhist #globalhist #HistSci #envhist
*Globalizing Wildlife* is OUT THIS MONTH (!) with @uncpress.bsky.social
“An essential and timely intervention… exciting, cutting-edge vantages on crucial global histories” -Daniel Vandersommers
Edited by @rafdebont.bsky.social myself, & Tom Quick
#animalhist #globalhist #HistSci #envhist
Simone Schleper 🟥
V Bateman
V Bateman
V Bateman
Publication day!
Globalizing Wildlife - edited by Tom Quick, @vbateman.bsky.social and yours truly - shows that globalization is not just a human but also an animal affair.
