Seb Falk @sebfalk.com Historian of science ||
Admissions Tutor at Girton College, University of Cambridge ||
Singer, sailor, runner, father ||
"Always generous" โ The New Yorker
Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen @jessiewhchen.bsky.social Historian of art, science, and knowledge. Postdoc #VisualizingTheUnknown, @huygensknaw.bsky.social. Also a maker.
https://jessieweihsuanchen.com/
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social Professor of translation, University of Geneva. Recent books: Professional Translators in 19th-c France, Translating Science in the 18th & 19th c, Translating Books for Publication. Occasional literary translator.
Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social Historian of science; Principal Curator of Science @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social & Hon Fellow, STIS, Uni of Edinburgh. President @bshsnews.bsky.social #histSTM. Views own.
Formerly known as @beckyfh
https://teleskopos.wordpress.com/profile
Simone Schleper ๐ฅ @moneschleper.bsky.social Environmental Historian, Science/Knowledge Scholar, tenured @maastrichtu.bsky.social ๐ฉโ๐ซ
Regional Representative BeNeLux @eseh.bsky.social ๐
Editor-in-Chief @jhokjournal.bsky.social ๐ป
Twin mom of three ๐ฆธโโ๏ธ
@nickyrvs.bsky.social @nickyrvs.bsky.social Apologies: Iโm not online much
Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social CASN is an academic network uniting scholars working across the chronological and geographic breadth of China who are interested in animal studies.
https://chineseanimalstudiesnetwork.com/
Sarah Finn @romanceofbooks.bsky.social Special Collections Librarian / Print Historian
Fascinated by the history of scientific illustration. Documenting natural history books I encounter in my research ๐๐ฆ
Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com Historian @tulaneu.bsky.social
Lab Dog is out: www.labdogbook.com
Rotten Beauty is next: www.rottenbeauty.work
Website: brad.bolman.com
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/bolman
~Views expressed may not reflect those of my employer~
Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social Environmental historian, Trinity College Dublin. Author of "Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy" (CUP 2025) & "Als das Dorf noch Zukunft war: Agrarismus und Expertise zwischen Zarenreich und Sowjetunion" (Bรถhlau 2014).
Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social At Johns Hopkins University Press, we envision a future where knowledge enriches the life of every person.
Home to @projectmuse.bsky.social
press.jhu.edu
Kerri Arsenault @kerriarsenault.bsky.social Author MILL TOWN; Director @storytellingstudio.bsky.social & @nsota.bsky.social; Write @ WaPo, NYRB, NYT, Boston Globe. ๐ซ๐ท kerri-arsenault.com
The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social
Working towards a world where nature is understood, valued and protected.
https://www.linnean.org/- A Anna Toledano @annatoledano.com Historian of science. #Nathist museums, ๐ช๐ธ Empire, collecting things. Wrote my college app essay about a dead turkey
Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social OCEH ๐ฟ
A space for thinking with the Earth - through art, stories and the humanities. Based at the University of Oslo.
hf.uio.no/oceh
Environmental History @envirohistory.bsky.social Environmental History is an international journal dedicated to exploring the history of human interaction with the natural world.
http://environmentalhistory.net/
Benedikt Knรผsel @beknuesel.bsky.social Executive Director of the Albert Einstein School of Public Policy at @ethz.ch โข former policy advisor and researcher โข the usual caveats apply
www.einstein-school.ethz.ch
Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social Botany (and botanicals) loving archivist, and occasional forest school assistant ๐ฟ All views are own.
Nathan Bossoh @nathanbossoh.bsky.social Historian of science, medicine, and material knowledge.
Research Fellow @unisouthampton.bsky.social working on the rise of herbal medicine research in Ghana.
Co-curator of 'The Kola Nut Cannot Be Contained'
Book Reviews Editor @advancesjournal.bsky.social
MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social We are the Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine (CHSTM) at the University of Manchester. Follow us for updates about seminars, events, research, teaching. Currently posting: @ctimmermann.bsky.social
https://www.chstm.manchester.ac.uk
Anna Lillie Svensson @annalsvensson.bsky.social Plants, books and plants-in-books, including histories of the herbarium.
Occasional florist and perennial textiles enthusiast.
Cambridge Collections Connections Communities @camglamresearch.bsky.social A University of Cambridge Strategic Research Initiative to catalyse and support projects and communities of researchers across @camunivmuseums.bsky.social, @theul.bsky.social, @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social & other collections. https://www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/
Monica Vasile ๐พ @monicavasile.bsky.social Environmental historian working on wildlife conservation, extinction & political ecology of forests. Recent interest: history of peatland restoration. University of Oulu, Finland, since June 2025.
Former @MaastrichtUni & RCC fellow
Mark Stoll @markstoll.bsky.social Environmental historian, author of Profit: An Environmental History (2023) and Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism (2015). https://www.markstoll.net/ Professor at @texastechuniv.bsky.social
BSHS @bshsnews.bsky.social The British Society for the History of Science is Britain's largest learned society devoted to #HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci. Handled by Comms Officer: Alexander Stoeger
johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social Historian, curator, walker, player of antique French horns. Photography, music, South Africa. UVA Professor Emeritus.
WIRED @wired.com For Future Reference.
Sign up for our newsletters: https://wrd.cm/newsletters
Find our WIRED journalists here: https://go.bsky.app/Boj9b5E
Animal History Group @animalhistories.bsky.social The Animal History Group (๐ animalhistorygroup.org) is an independent international research network for students, academics and other professionals whose work engages with animals in history.
Posts currently by @leafyhistory.bsky.social.
Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh @gianamar97.bsky.social Historian @uvahumanities.bsky.social | PhD @HPSCambridge.bsky.social | Author of https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo290149621.html | https://shorturl.at/i7kip | he | ๐๐ป๐ฅ
University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social University of Illinois Press / Publisher of scholarly and regional trade books and journals since 1918
Abbi Flint @draflint.bsky.social Researcher and poet #archaeology #envhist #folklore #envhum #peatlands #moss #heritage #poetry #reindeer #sheffield #footpaths #RightsOfWay
Global Environment. A Journal of Transdisciplinary History @globalenvironment.bsky.social A Journal of Transdisciplinary History published by The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social
#envhist #envhum
Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social An interdisciplinary environmental history journal, showcasing how archival, documentary evidence and oral history testimony can contribute to reconnecting historic activities with the legacy of environmental challenges in the present and future #envhist
Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net Open-access, peer-reviewed journal for research, discussion & innovation of natural history collections.
Publications foster deeper understanding & appreciation of natural history.
Published by @pensoft.net. Powered by ARPHA.
Website: nhcm.pensoft.net
lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social I'm an environmental historian interested in wildlife conservation, sustainable cities, green politics, and animal studies. Forthcoming book: https://tinyurl.com/Green-Germany-book
Katrin Kleemann @katrinkleemann.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher at the German Maritime Museum/Leibniz Institute for Maritime History. Environmental historian working on volcanoes, earthquakes, oceans, history of science, and of course #Laki1783๐๐ฎ๐ธ.
www.katrinkleemann.com
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social Historian at the University of Chicago. Co-editor of The Journal of Modern History. New projects: Infinite Coal: How Britain Became the First Fossil Fuel Economy (Princeton UP, 2027). And with Moritz von Brescius, The Long Acceleration 1500-1950.
EH @envhum.bsky.social Environmental Humanities
Mona Bieling @monabie.bsky.social historian, researching and teaching at the intersection of colonialism and the environment. Lifelong learner. She/her.
https://www.hsu-hh.de/histec/mona-bieling
Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social Animal history. Stellenbosch University. Lionโs Historian.
Northern Environmental History Network @northernenvhistory.bsky.social A network bringing together postgrads and ECR scholars from universities in northern England and Scotland working in the field of environmental history.
Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social The scholarly journal of historical animals and human-animal relationships.
ASEH Early Career Caucus @asehearlycareer.bsky.social Subgroup for American Society for Environmental History members who are in early career stages. Previously the ASEH Graduate Student Caucus, we now also serve undergraduates, postdocs, contingent faculty, & those developing non-ac or alt-ac careers.
American Society for Environmental History @aseh.bsky.social Advancing understanding of human interactions with the natural world since 1977
The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social Independent family-run scholarly press publishing books and journals on environment and society
Wilko Hardenberg @wilkohardenberg.bsky.social I will make no new posts here, please follow me at @wilko.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy
Modern historian, unexpected geek, wannabe naturalist, sauntering explorer, and more. He/him. Born 332 ppm. #envhist #histsci
Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social Writer & environmental historian of cold places, now writing about the Yukon River. Author of FLOATING COAST. Prof at Brown University. Post mostly about animals, Arctic things & books. Heart is on a dogsled. #envhist #naturewriting
EnvHumsOxford.bsky.social @envhumsoxford.bsky.social Housed by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, at Oxford University.
Webpage: https://torch.ox.ac.uk/environmental-humanities-research-hub?filter-4-event%20type-4780496=2s
Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social Historian of colonialism and modern SE Asia @ University of Eastern Finland๏ฝ๐ฒ transimperial histories of forestry ๐ฒ๏ฝpreviously: colonial cities ๐๏ธ and travel ๐ข๏ฝ๐ occasionally writes about books and films ๐๏ธ
Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social Historian of science, environment, sound, and silence. Raising small kids through covid. Pie hobbyist. The Johnny Appleseed of googly-eyes.
@whitmerkelly.bsky.social @whitmerkelly.bsky.social Historian of early modern Europe, Germany in the world; pedagogy, youth, collections, projects, #histSTM #museums #naturalhistoryhumanities; new book: Useful Nature(s)
Info: bit.ly/4oGCQP7
Dr Andy Flack @drandyflack.bsky.social I'm an environmental historian, currently working on 'dark natures' and their animal inhabitants. Previous work on captive environments, including my book The Wild Within.
Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social Environmental & medical historian at Newcastle University - hospitals, gardens, landscapes, senses, inclusive interpretation, story teller.
FORAGENCY @foragency.bsky.social ERC Starting Grant FORAGENCY. Foraging, Colonialism and More-than-Human Agency in Central Africa
Social History of Capitalism Research Group (SHOC) @shoc-vub.bsky.social
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
For more info, check our website: www.ercforagency.eu
ESEH NEXTGATe @esehnextgate.bsky.social ESEH's Next Generation Action Team (NEXTGATe). Representing the Early Career Researchers branch of the European Society for Environmental History. We do events, workshops, etc. aimed at helping scholars navigate murky academic life
ICEHO @iceho.bsky.social The International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations (ICEHO) fosters international communication among environmental history organizations and #EnvHist scholars.
Website: https://iceho.org
Hanna Hodacs @hannahod.bsky.social Historian of science, global history, natural history, substitutes, and (as of recently) History of slavery
A.M. Roos @handle.invalid Historian of science and medicine. Early modernist. Author. Editor, Notes and Records for the Royal Society. Love to garden.
Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social International center for environmental humanities research in Munich, Germany.
Website: https://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de
Portal: https://www.environmentandsociety.org/
Seeing the Woods: https://seeingthewoods.org/
Springs: https://springs-rcc.org/
Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social Historian of Biology and Medicine. Science is culture, and long live the Humanities. Director of @manchstm.bsky.social. Lapsed biochemist. Immigrant. Urban cyclist (& motorist). Owned by dog. More lucky than smart. 0 attention span. Here privately. He/him.
EHN. @envhnow.bsky.social EHN showcases the environment-related work + expertise of grad students and ECRs who identify as women, trans and/or nonbinary people in #EnvHist #EnvHum ๐ฑ๐
Elizabeth Hameeteman @ehameeteman.bsky.social aka Liesbeth | PhD #EnvHist ๐ง | founder of @envhistnow.bsky.social | proud auntie | she/her
Environmental Humanities Research Hub @ehrh.bsky.social Environmental Humanities Research Hub (EHRH) at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, https://www.sas.ac.uk/about-us-6/institutes-and-centres/environmental-humanities-research-hub
Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social Researches the Scottish Enlightenment, history of racism, Linnaean natural history, and collecting. Senior Lecturer & mum of 3. https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/
Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social historian of science & technology, itinerant potter
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Sericulture ้ค่ Amami ลshima tsumugi ๅฅ็พๅคงๅณถ็ดฌ
(animal) biomaterials (ๅ็ฉ)็ไฝๆๆใปใใคใชใใใชใขใซ
Cocoon Cultures @DukeUP, 2027
RTAWD, Proteins & Fibers Working Groups @MPIWG-Berlin
Tarquin 'Howling Mad' Holmes @tarquinhh.bsky.social Oxford Law Research Admin, dabbler in history, philosophy & sociology of the life sciences & medicine.
Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social Research & Postgraduate Development Manager @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Historian of early modern science, communication & collections. She/her with 'Big North Energy'. Very personal.
Bernhard Gissibl @bgissibl.bsky.social Historian of colonialism and the environment @IEG Mainz. Author of "Nature of German Imperialism" (2016)
Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social The Institute of Historical Research is the UKโs national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
British History Online @bho.bsky.social British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the Britain, Ireland and empire. Part of the Institute of Historical Research.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social Scholar. Historian of ideas. Mostly Enlightenment & race, quite a bit on empire & colonisation, plus some corruption and a little piracy for good measure. Co-author of Race and the Scottish Enlightenment (2025). Proud to announce that I despise AI.
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social Latest issue:
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/bjps/current
BJPS Review of Books:
https://www.thebsps.org/reviewofbooks/
BJPS Short Reads:
https://www.thebsps.org/short-reads/
Podcast:
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bjps
The HPS Podcast @hpspodcast.bsky.social Award-winning podcast on the history, philosophy & social studies of science brought to you by graduate students from the University of Melbourne.
Hosted by @tespiteri.bsky.social
New episodes fortnightly.
๐ https://linktr.ee/thehpspodcast
ESEH โ European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social News from the European Society for Environmental History. http://www.eseh.org
Next conference in Uppsala, 18โ22 August 2025.
Also check out https://bsky.app/profile/esehnextgate.bsky.social
Manipulating Flora @manipulatingflora.bsky.social Research group working on ๐ฟplants๐ด in early modern natural philosophy - Studies of๐พPlant Physiology, Envinroment, Medicine, Anatomy and Society #histsci #envhist #histplants #plantstudies
Matthew Holmes @mattholmes.bsky.social Historian of Science, Technology, and the Environment
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8498-3264
Author of "The Graft Hybrid: Challenging Twentieth-Century Genetics" @upittpress.bsky.socialโฌ
#HistSTM #EnvHist #HistTech #AnimalHistory
matthewrholmes.com
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Elaine Harrington @walkerabroad.bsky.social Interim Head of Special Collections & Archives, UCC Library. Chair LAI Munster; Treasurer LAI Rare Books. Member LAI Executive Council 2023-2026. Co-founder SHOCC Project. Using technology to connect people with ideas. linktr.ee/walkerabroad HereSept2023
Elaine Leong @historyelaine.bsky.social Historian interested in the everyday, mom, novice potter and recipe/food enthusiast.
Reed Gochberg @reedgochberg.bsky.social Curator, Boston Athenaeum. Author, Useful Objects (OUP, 2021). All views my own.
https://reedgochberg.com
Petter Hellstrรถm @nphellstrom.bsky.social Historian of Science, Knowledge, Intellectual Culture | Occasional Orientalist
Jonathan Westaway @jonwestaway.bsky.social Cultural and environmental historian/geographer. Mountain and polar regions. Cryohistories. Indigenous knowledge. Island Studies.
PL AHRC 'Other Everests' network.
uclan.academia.edu/JonathanWestaway
Martin Kalb @historianmkalb.bsky.social Historian, intersections of nature and empire in Southern Africa (esp. #Namibia); author of "Environing Empire: Nature, Infrastructure, and the Making of German Southwest Africa" (open access);
Views my own;
Worried about planet;
#FckNZs
martinkalb.com
Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social Historian/writer. Creator, @draftingthepast.bsky.social podcast. History of science PhD candidate at Princeton, based in KCMO. Working on a history of storm chasing.
https://draftingthepast.com/
http://kathrynbcarpenter.com/
Finch Collins @finchinthestacks.bsky.social PGR at the Uni of Manchester, hosted at Chethamโs Library | libraries and data, early modern books and bodies | posts my own
Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social Undisciplined scholar. Researching science, society+policy; humans-animals-environments; #OneHealth #microbes #STS #HistSTM #scicomm.
Author, 'Vermin, Victims and Disease: British Debates over Badgers and Bovine TB'
Simone M. Mรผller @smueller.bsky.social Global Environmental Historian. Into toxicity, env. justice & the economy; waste, wetlands & verticality.
Author of Wiring the World (2016) & The Toxic Ship (2023)
Anne Goldgar @annegoldgar.bsky.social
Professor emerita of early modern European history, University of Southern California and Kingโs College London. Views expressed are mine, not theirs.
Dr. Marieke Hendriksen @mariekehendriksen.bsky.social Senior Researcher early modern history of knowledge & head of dept @KNAWHuC | Taste, medicine, identity, performative methods | FRHistS | PI ERC CoG @preservare.bsky.social | author of Het Grote Dropboek
Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org A global network of social scientists focused on political conflicts around climate change, headquartered at Brown University. https://cssn.org/
Jon Topham @jontopham.bsky.social Professor of History of Science, University of Leeds. History of print, science and religion, life and earth sciences, Britain 1790-1840. Award-winning new book: "Reading the Book of Nature" bit.ly/Book-of-Nature
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/143/
Emily Pawley @emilypawley.bsky.social Environmental historian working on the climate emergency
London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social The London Group of Historical Geographers is a seminar series hosted by the Institute of Historical Research. Conveners: Felix Driver, Margot Finn, Innes M. Keighren, and Miles Ogborn. https://lghgseminar.wordpress.com/
EcoTwig. @ecotwig.bsky.social Twigging UK climate politics.
Every. Single. Day.
๐ฑwww.ecotwig.uk
Dr Anna Lawrence @annamlawrence.bsky.social Cultural & Historical Geographer | Managing Editor @RGS-IBG (views own) | critical plant studies | 19th C. floriculture
Richard Hรถlzl @rhoelzl.bsky.social Historian interested in environments, entanglements, material culture of colonialism, incl. private opinions.
Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social Publishing on the history of ideas in global contexts, based @standrewsiih.bsky.social, printed @routledgehistory.bsky.social. Chief Editor, @rosariolopez.bsky.social; Reviews Editor, @tomaashby.bsky.social.