Josie Callahan @ratzsummer.bsky.social STS PhD student @Cornell 🐀🐀🐒🐒
#primatesarenotpets #rats #pests
Maisie Tomlinson @maisie-tom.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester. Human-Animal Relations, Environment and Society, Sustainable Consumption
Eva Haifa Giraud @evahaifa.bsky.social Academic, soc. studies Sheffield. Animal studies/STS/soc media/activism. Books: What Comes After Entanglement? (Duke UP) & Veganism (Bloomsbury). Ed. Cultural Politics.
@jkbright.bsky.social @jkbright.bsky.social
Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social he/him | Humboldt research fellow | environmental history | Universität Augsburg
Kate Stevens @historykate.bsky.social Pacific legal/gender/smell/ocean historian @waikato
Lindy & blues, artist/jewellery maker, mainly a lurker here. she/her, Pākehā, views my own
Claire Waddell-Wood @clairewwood.bsky.social Environmental, gender, & activist historian 💚 currently based in naarm/melbourne
Rachael Haslam @rachaelhaslam.bsky.social WRoCAH PhD at the University of York |
Medieval trust, distrust and local networks | she/her
North West Medieval Studies Postgrad Network @northwestmedieval.bsky.social Home of the North West Medieval Studies Postgraduate Network and Reading Group
Enquiries: nwmsreading@gmail.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/north-west-medieval-studies-postgrad-network
Instagram: @northwestmedieval
Nicolette Twisp @nicolettetwisp.bsky.social Lover of human rights, nature, dogs, art, music, books, and humor!
Fred Smith @fredesmith.bsky.social Career Development Fellow in Early Modern History @ Lincoln College, Oxford | Interested in early modern religious history; exile; transnational history; Catholicism
Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
tess wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social historian of medieval gender and sexuality. assistant professor, university of rochester. she/her.
tesswingard.wordpress.com
Joschka Meier @josserme.bsky.social Historian at the University of Bern: Human-animal relations, environmental adaptation & resource management of alpine communities in the Middle Ages.
Repository of articles, presentations & videos: https://hcommons.org/members/joschkameier/
Scarlett Stevens @scarlettstevens.bsky.social Uni of York/WRoCAH PhD candidate: “Seventeenth-Century Reading Pleasures: Experiencing the Early Modern Erotic.”
Reading, emotion, gender and queer histories. She/Her.
Sam Dominy @samdominy521.bsky.social
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.
Emily Whittingham @emily-whittingham.bsky.social PhD student at the Uni of York, department of history | The microscope in knowledge creation and visual culture, 1660-1830.
PG Rep for BSECS, @bsecs.bsky.social
Seminar Co-Convenor for NEHN, @northernenvhistory.bsky.social
AHRC funded through WRoCAH
Charlotte Dodds @charlottedodds.bsky.social WRoCAH PhD candidate @ University of York 🦆 Researching children’s sensory history & education in early modern England/Scotland!
Miriam Boyes @boyesdontcry.bsky.social MA Renaissance Literature @ Uni of York
Neo-Latinist
Luiza Teixeira-Costa @l-teixeiracosta.bsky.social Interested in plant-plant and plant-human relationships; monster studies; museum, garden, and library collections; climate change and cities.
Brazilian. She/Ela
https://www.luizateixeira-costa.com/
📚 🌱 🌈
Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social director @CREMS-York.bsky.social ~ advocacy & public engagement @royalhistsoc.org ~ writing on early modern religion & culture: music, language, sound, travel, women ~ reviews editor: sonancejournal.com ~ views mine ~ www.york.ac.uk/history/people/murphy/
Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at the University of York. Director of the Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab & Centre for Digital Heritage.
I post about beautiful archaeology, digital phantasmagoria and anarchist imaginaries & realities.
She/her 🏴
Dr Emma Marshall @earlymodernemma.bsky.social Arts & Humanities Impact Officer @hrcyork.bsky.social • PhD on health, care, family & letters 1630-1750 @york.ac.uk • Formerly public engagement @socialbodiesuob.bsky.social • Committee member @socialhistsoc.bsky.social
Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk
Researching place & memory
across cognitive sciences, social sciences & the arts
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social & @reaveyp.bsky.social
Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
placememory.net
Hannah D-C 🦐 @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social Political-environmental geographer. Thinking & writing about: oceans and aquatic life, biotech, biobanking, geopolitics, illegal wildlife trade & caviar
Simon Research Fellow @uomseed.bsky.social
Secretary of @rgs-agwg.bsky.social
Joe Shute @joeshute.bsky.social Writer and journalist. Daily Telegraph weather columnist. PhD researcher MMU. Author (Bloomsbury): Stowaway (2024) Forecast (2021) A Shadow Above (2018)
Alex Hibberts @hibbertsalex.bsky.social PDRA in Early Modern History
Land, Environment, Economics & Policy Institute (LEEP), University of Exeter.
Environmental & Climate Historian. Little Ice Age. Past biodiversity.
https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/46350-alexander-hibberts/about
Joana van de Löcht @doctoressa.bsky.social Klima und Literatur, frühe Neuzeit, literarische Moore und Winter, Editionen, auf der Reise durch die unerforschten Weiten der Gutenberggalaxis.
Abbi Flint @draflint.bsky.social Researcher and poet #archaeology #envhist #folklore #envhum #peatlands #moss #heritage #poetry #reindeer #sheffield #footpaths #RightsOfWay
Wilko Hardenberg @wilko.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy Modern historian, unexpected geek, wannabe naturalist, sauntering explorer, and more. A German from Vercelli. He/him. Born 332 ppm. I am a historian of the environment […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://hcommons.social/@wilko, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact- A Alice Wolff @alicewolff.bsky.social Archaeobotanist, medievalist, grad student, cat lover.
Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social 📍PhD candidate | Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich
✏️Exec. Editor | Environmental History Now
👀Troubled care and invasive species, multispecies STS, environmental humanities, political ecology, conservation. I like any critters that you don't like.
Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social international, environmental, and energy historian · associate professor at University of Stavanger and the Greenhouse Center · radioactive waste and Nordic environmental cooperation · project leader of Energy Lives! · member of the Young Academy of Norway
Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social Writer.
ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social cultural & environmental historian. #bchist and #cdnhist and #envhist. landscape, mobilities, public pasts, fordism, tourism, parks, infrastructure, rowdies, fruit stands, seasonality, 1970+, etc.
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'
Vanessa Bateman @vbateman.bsky.social Visual Culture & Human-Animal History - SSHRC Postdoc Fellow at Trent U 🇨🇦 Co-editor of GLOBALIZING WILDLIFE https://uncpress.org/9781469694757/globalizing-wildlife/
Previously: https://moving-animals.nl
Sarah Betts @wromantichistry.bsky.social PhD student researching memories and Public History of the English Civil War (Royalist Reputations) and Monarchy. Modern Monarchy section editor at Royal Studies Journal. Chronically ill mum of 3.
Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social Acq Editor for Lund Humphries; Brill; CEU Press. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com
Robert Naylor @roblnaylor.bsky.social Lecturer (Assistant Professor) @manchstm.bsky.social, specialising in history of climate studies. Managing Editor @globcon.bsky.social. President of International Commission for the History of Meteorology. Glasgow-based. He/they. AVMO.
Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social PhD Researcher at Northumbria University
Interests: Environmental History, Transport, Mobility, Built Environment, Tyneside, 20th Century, Oral Histories.
Specialist subject: Metros, Motorways, Modernism and Municipal Ferries
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
ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social News from the European Society for Environmental History. http://www.eseh.org
Next conference in Uppsala, 18–22 August 2025.
Also check out https://bsky.app/profile/esehnextgate.bsky.social
Michiel Bron @michielbron.bsky.social Energy historian | Postdoc Governance of the Future Energy Market Tilburg University | Treasurer Gewina | Board member De Windvogel | Posts Dutch & English
Peter van Dam @phvandam.bsky.social Professor of Dutch History, University of Amsterdam | Co-founder of SEVEN | Research Group Environment & Society
Dr. Dominik Huenniger @dominikhhh.bsky.social curator & #EnvHist @ German Port Museum, Hamburg & @hunterianglasgow.bsky.social
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7095-4403
#C18 #C19
#HistSTM #EntHist
#HistOcean #AnimalHistory #QueerHistory #museums
Founder @collecol.bsky.social
Treasurer @dgej.bsky.social
Eline D. Tabak @elinetabak.bsky.social Biodiversity, culture & the environment | previously: postdoc @ Oulu, Fi & #envhum PhD @ Bristol & BSU, UK | exploring biodiversity (loss) through seed saving & insect decline | story(tell)ing & care 🌱🐝 🏳️🌈 (she/her)
Monica Vasile 🐾 @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
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
De Gruyter Brill Medieval & Early Modern Studies @dgb-mem.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the Medieval and Early Modern Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social He/him. Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at University of York. Books on 'Smell in Eighteenth-Century England' and 'Smell and the Past'. Sniff: A History of Smells out 8th September #smellhistory #smellstudies #sensoryhistory
Sabine Clarke @sabineclarke.bsky.social Historian of science, technology, medicine and the environment in 20th century Britain, the Caribbean and Africa. PI of “The Chemical Empire” project on the history of past insecticide use. Works at the University of York.
Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social Freelance Historian | PhD on English print trade networks 1600-45 📚 Research Assistant, Historic Towns Trust 🗺️ Trustee, British Association for Local History 📜 Tutor, Pharos Tutors 🎓 Co-editor @howtohistory.bsky.social. www.joesaundershistory.co.uk
Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity @anthropocenebio.bsky.social World-leading interdisciplinary research into the complexities of biodiversity gains and losses in the Anthropocene, funded by The Leverhulme Trust and based at the University of York. #LCAB
Lynn Butzlaff @lynnbutzlaff.bsky.social PhD Student | Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame | Old Norse and Eco-Criticism
Adam Rowan @shinjutnt.bsky.social Black lab dad. Writer and ambient musician. The Dynasty of the Divine out now!
www.adamrowan.ccard.co
Read my book (free in Kindle Unlimited): https://www.amazon.com/Dynasty-Divine-Adam-Rowan-ebook/dp/B0FS3G3WWH/ref
Jessie Summerhayes @jessiesummerhayes.bsky.social PhD-doer, Uni of York, working on distributed cognition and nature in Old Norse and Old English poetry (mostly).
Dr Imogen Knox (she/her) @imogenknox.bsky.social Historian of suicide, emotion & gender
Teaching Fellow in Medieval and Early Modern History, Warwick
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com Philosopher & Historian of Biology 🇲🇽 • Postdoctoral Fellow @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052825/the-organism-environment-pairing/ • #philsci #HPS #philsky
Matheus Duarte @alvesduarte.bsky.social Tricolor
Historian of Medicine, Science, and Environment
PI of "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild? Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)", at King's College London
wild-diseases.org
Francis Taylor @frankietaylor317.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of York, Department for English and Related Literatures. Working on weeding in early modern agriculture, and natural philosophical, theological, and devotional prose.
Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social Professor of Medical Anthropology (University of St Andrews, Scotland) researching zoonosis, plague, epidemics, colonial medicine, biopolitics, multispecies relations, and medical visual culture
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/cl12
Guillem Rubio-Ramon @guillemrubio.bsky.social More-than-human geographies and political ecologies.
🔗 https://gru.bio
Jia Hui L. @jiahuilee.bsky.social Ethnographer. Science & Technology. Rats. Malaysian. Based in Germany.
Raf De Bont 🟥 @rafdebont.bsky.social Historian of science and the environment // Late adopter & cautious adventurer // Interested in 19th, 20th and 21st century natures // Author of Stations in the Field and Nature's Diplomats // https://moving-animals.nl
Rohan Deb Roy @rohandroy.bsky.social Historian: South Asia, colonialism, science, insects. Associate Professor: University of Reading. Author: 'Malarial Subjects' (Cambridge,2017);Editor: Locating the Medical (Oxford, 2018). Words: ConversationUK; The Independent
Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social Historian of animals, health, science, and colonialism. PI of 'Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health' (Wellcome Trust), University of Liverpool: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/jules-skotnes-brown
Charlotte Meijer @chrmeijer.bsky.social PhD candidate @Radboud University studying the history of human-insect relations 🐜🦗🪰 | Editor for the Yearbook of Women's History (AUP)| #envhist #entomology
Nederlands & English
Katy Bennett @katybennett.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval History 1100-1450 and HRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of York. Researching loyalty, lordship, and governance in the late Middle Ages, esp. Gascony/Aquitaine. She/her
TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social The official page for the Theoretical Archaeology Group conference hosted by the Department of Archaeology at the University of York in York, UK December 15-17 2025
https://tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/
@pacoanth.bsky.social @pacoanth.bsky.social Cultural Anthropologist
Eeva Nikkilä @eevanik.bsky.social Historian (PhD), historiantutkija (FT)
University of Turku
Research interests: Animal history, animals' experiences, pigs, piggeries, pig farming, agricultural history, history of animal health, animals in international relations.
Finnish/English
Francesca Johansen @chess96.bsky.social Postdoc in animal behaviour and welfare. Raising a puppy for the first time. Sleeping less than I should.
Military Pigeons @militarypigeons.bsky.social Celebrating those pigeons who helped keep our countries safe & free from peril! Sharing pics, videos, & articles all about military pigeons.
Check out my blog @ www.pigeonsofwar.org
Kathleen Walker-Meikle @medievalbadger.bsky.social Historian. Writes on medieval and early modern animals & medicine. Books: Medieval Pets, Cats in Medieval Manuscripts, Dogs in Medieval Manuscripts & many more!
Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social Environmental historian. Professor Univ of Stavanger. Co-director Greenhouse Center for #envhum. Extinction; animal history.
Books: The Medieval Pig (2024) & Ghosts Behind Glass (2025)
https://dolly.jorgensenweb.net/
Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social Military & Animal Historian🗡️ 🇲🇲🐴
Author
Burma Star Memorial Fund Scholar
PhD candidate KCL
Rep: Watson Little Ltd
Freaking out in a Moonage Daydream…
Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social Animal history. Stellenbosch University. Lion’s Historian.
Dr Miriam A. Bibby @drmabibby.bsky.social Horses, history, books, growing vegetables, reading, writing, editing, broadcasting. And a bit of sitting about. Equine historian and champion of the Galloway Nag. Co-editor Cheiron, the International Journal of Equine and Equestrian History.
H.G.W. Davie @hgwdavie.bsky.social PhD University of East Anglia - writes about Soviet Logistics in SWW, General Military Transport & Logistics, Railways, Horse-drawn Vehicles
Visting Lecturer University Wolverhampton, MA SWW Eastern Europe and Holocaust
Martina Berggren @martinaberggren.bsky.social PhD student in military history at the Swedish Defence University. Human- Animal relations in war and military preparations (Sweden and Finland, 1917-1970)
Tofutom @tofutom3.bsky.social Historian/Historiker | Tiergeschichte/Animal History | Tierrechtsgeschichte/Animal Rights History | Soziale Bewegungen/Social Movements | #CriticalAnimalStudies | nachdenken über Syndikalismus / think about syndicalism| Tofu/more Tofu
er/ihm // he/him
AASA Australasian Animal Studies Association @animalstudies.bsky.social The Australasian Animal Studies Association (AASA) is the preeminent association for animal studies in the region. www.animalstudies.org.au https://www.youtube.com/@AASA_Animals
Kristina Decker @kristinadecker.bsky.social 📚Eighteenth-Centuryist
🖋️18thC history, literature, material culture & country house studies, animal histories
✉️ Secretary, Women’s History Association of Ireland
🏠 Ireland
Matthias Allritz @realprimatthias.bsky.social Studies great ape cognition and behavior at Leipzig Zoo.
Themes: metacognition, communication, spatial cognition.
ManyPrimates 3 - Inference by exclusion.
Dr Cassandra Raby @cassandraraby.com Conservation biologist: animal behaviour and health.
Studies 🐒 🦔 🐇 🙋 | Stats, GIS, Fieldwork
Teaching Fellow, University of Leeds. FHEA.
Outdoor adventures and allotment grower
she/her (Cass/Cassie)
Otto Latva @ottolatva.bsky.social Adjunct Prof., PhD, Senior Researcher at the University of Turku, Finland. Historian specialized in human-animal and human-plant studies as well as cultural and environmental history. Project leader of http://www.utu.fi/humbio
John M. Kinder @johnmkinder.bsky.social Historian of #war, #disabilty, #veterans, #zoos. OKSTATE U. Writing book on murder in #WWII MS.
Profile: https://tinyurl.com/23xfwzmh.
World War Zoos: Humans & Other Animals in the Deadliest Conflict of the Modern Age
https://tinyurl.com/4anuu4cp
Damian Valle @damianvalle.bsky.social Lecturer in Veterinary Clinical Practice, MA in MilHis, volunteer archivist, and sporadic podcaster #RegioEsercito and #WarInItaly 🇬🇧🇪🇸🇮🇹
Ben Skipper @benskipper.bsky.social Active User, communicator and consumer of cake.
🌸 Mochimanoban 🌸 @mochimanoban.bsky.social Worldbuilder and writer making silly little doodles for a worldbuilding project 💖
🚫 No AI here 🚫
🏳️🌈
ko-fi ☕ https://ko-fi.com/mochimanoban
#worldbuilding #art
Guy Sechrist, PhD @guysechrist.bsky.social Early-modern history of science |
Commerce and Science
-Practical Maths
-Natural History
@sis-instrument-soc.bsky.social
Uni. of Tennessee |
PhD Cambridge HPS
Simone Schleper 🟥 @moneschleper.bsky.social Environmental Historian, Science/Knowledge Scholar, tenured @maastrichtu.bsky.social 👩🏫
Regional Representative BeNeLux @eseh.bsky.social 🌍
Editor-in-Chief @jhokjournal.bsky.social 💻
Twin mom of three 🦸♀️
Dr Leona Watson (formerly Skelton) @infrastructuregeek.bsky.social Associate Prof in Environmental History, Northumbria Uni. Editor in Chief, Environment and History. Environmental, social and cultural impact of British water and transport infrastructure, 1500-2000. Authored Tyne after Tyne and Sanitation in Urban Britain
Kelli Huggins @kellihuggins.bsky.social Historian and museum professional. Writing about animals in history and canine celebrity
Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social BB-LAB was established in 2021 at Vrije Universiteit Brussel by @christophe-fire.bsky.social to increase the synergy between bioarchaeological researchers in Brussels and beyond! Based at @amgc-vub.bsky.social
Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social The scholarly journal of historical animals and human-animal relationships.