💐 A warm welcome to Essen! We are delighted to introduce our 12th KWI International Fellow Cohort: @oliviaglaze.bsky.social, @mattholmes.bsky.social, Ciarán Kavanagh, Floramente SJ Ponce, @rublehistory.bsky.social, and Christoph Schaub (Thyssen@KWIFellow)!
More about their work: tinyurl.com/yjw7nzcb
Excited to announce with @eguimont.bsky.social that the newest issue of Endeavour is live! We have some great articles for your summer reading. First, @farsouthhistory.bsky.social on the geopolitics of continental drift and Southern Hemisphere scientists: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The ancient trick of grafting one plant onto another could find a very modern use – enabling gene editing of plants that are very difficult or impossible to edit by other means.
Are you in UK and want to hear about my book Ghosts Behind Glass? 3 public talks in Feb:
Cambridge Museum of Zoology, 11 Feb www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk/events/talk-...
M Shed Bristol, 12 Feb www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/m-s...
Oxford NatHist Museum, 13 Feb www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/dead-a...
The Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English.
Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues!
Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
The articles in our Endeavour special issue are starting to arrive! Check out research from @mattholmes.bsky.social & @arnoldke.bsky.social which are now available open access!
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
#envhist #envhums #histsci #collections #museums
I think it's probably time to announce that me and @colinhoag.bsky.social are the incoming Editors of Environmental Humanities journal, published by @dukepress.bsky.social . Huge thanks to Franklin Ginn & @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social for all their work as Eds, & for patiently showing us the ropes!
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Many plants including cocoa, coffee and avocado cannot be gene-edited but a technique involving grafting could change that, opening the door to more productive and nutritious varieties