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 // moving-animals.nl
Talking about the field ethos at a conference at the marine station of Wimereux. The contents of the (very generous) conference bag really illustrate this ethos nicely...
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Nice! Also really seems interesting for ('muskox in a box') @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social !
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Congratulations!
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In the wake of Covid it has been a while for reviews of my book Nature's Diplomats (2021) to come out. But I am surely very happy with this one by Andrea Duffy in the journal Isis! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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For more on the Moving Animals Festival, you can also take a look here: moving-animals.nl/moving-anima...
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Vincent Bijman closed the evening, interviewing writer and evolutionary biologist Tijs Goldschmidt:
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And I could return to one of my favorite topics: the tempestuous relationship between the Dutch and their wild hamsters!
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While @vbateman.bsky.social delved into myths in early wildlife films (involving some hapless lemmings):
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@monicavasile.bsky.social and @bartbraun.bsky.social foregrounded questions of wildlife reintroduction and de-extinction:
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Vincent Bijman and Manon de Visser gave a workshop on exotic animals, and when and where they were deemed 'welcome' or 'invasive':
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There was an opening lecture trying to convey the message that animals have history:
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Looking back with enormous pleasure at our Moving Animals Festival @naturalis.bsky.social of last Friday. Thanks to @bartbraun.bsky.social and the Naturalis crew for co-organizing, to NWO for the financial support, and to Tom Quick for thinking along (and the pictures). Some impressions:
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De eerste keynote voor de Historicidagen 2024
@FasosMaastricht is bekend: Jo Guldi! Meer hier: historicidagen.nl/2024/02/01/e...
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For people interested in teaming up with Vanessa Bateman, Tom Quick and me, a reminder of this call:
Animal (Im)mobilities. Traditional Open Panel P234 at conference EASST-4S 2024 Amsterdam: Making and Doing Transformations.
nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
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Take-off
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Nice! Yours includes a bird beverage!
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Animal tracking
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And, not to forget, also with Vanessa Bateman!
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On 2 February, @naturalis.bsky.social organises the Moving Animals science festival together with FASoS historians Vincent Bijman, @rafdebont.bsky.social & @monicavasile.bsky.social. About lemmings running off cliffs, the history of taxidermy & genetic engineering mammoths.
Tickets👉shorturl.at/jltw9
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Nog drie weken tot het Moving Animals Festival!
Three more weeks until the Moving Animals Festival!
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VACANCY: ***Associate*** Professor in Globalisation and Transnationalism at Maastricht University
Application deadline: 29 January. Please RT/share
➡️ vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
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A buzzing mind after a most interesting conference yesterday: 'Laboratory animal (im)mobilities', organized by Tom Quick,@FasosMaastricht.
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Volgende maand heeft Naturalis een avondopenstelling/festival met praatjes door wetenschappers als @rafdebont.bsky.social. Ik mag op mijn favoriete stokpaardje rijden: de-extinction. Nou nog een goed Nederlands woord daarvoor. Ontuitsterven? Insterven?
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Ahead of print alert! You can now read my article "The Economy of Rarity: Animal-Catching, Cryptozoology, and the Mid-Twentieth-Century Zoo" for the January 2024 issue of Environmental History for free.
#envhist #animalhistory #endangeredspecies #zoos www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Erg bedroefd om het overlijden van Maastrichtse collega Mathieu Segers te vernemen. Een zeer trieste dag. www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/nl/memoriam-...
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The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History, edited by Emily O'Gorman, William San Martín, Mark Carey, and @wildpasts.bsky.social is out.
Including an OA chapter by @rafdebont.bsky.social and me on ANT, conservation treaties, and non-human agents.
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
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Ticket sale has started!
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In de Kempen hebben mensen wel vaker last van 'baaitende wepsen'.
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Thanks, Brigitte! From 16 onward, I am afraid...
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Of in het Nederlands: Het Moving Animals team gaat naar
@museumnaturalis voor een heus festival! Zie hier voor de voorlopige line-up: www.naturalis.nl/agenda/movin...
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Mark your calendars for the Moving Animals Festival, February 2, @museumnaturalis! For the provisional line-up, see: www.naturalis.nl/en/agenda/mo...
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Just received an invitation to join 'the esteemed Editorial Board' of 'Journal of Eye Disorders and Therapy'. I feel tempted.
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Animals and animal historians are obviously most welcome!
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Looking forward to this! Given Maastricht's location, it will also be a great occasion for Belgian and German historians to meet up with their Dutch colleagues and to jointly 'undiscipline' history.
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Had a good meeting at the Naturalis museum about an upcoming Moving Animals event for the upcoming Spring. Especially nice to bump into an old research subject in the corridors 👇
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Nothing creates an instant historical sensation like old family photos. These are of my grandfather in the 1930s and 1940s. Two generations ago, but what a different world - socially, politically and ecologically.
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The pope just cited Haraway. www.vatican.va/content/fran...
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Et pour les néerlandophones la même chose: www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/nl/nieuws/ho...
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On the occasion of #WorldAnimalDay, I was interviewed by Romy Veul. It took me from the history of hamsters and rhinos to Ursala von der Leyen's pony: www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/how-wil...
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