@professorbopeep
historian of science, environment, animals at the University of Toronto. Current research: frozen mammoths and the history/future of climate change. https://www.mammothhistorylab.com/ Views my own, not UofT’s.
Great piece by @ewanderer.bsky.social in @us.theconversation.com about facial recognition algorithms and wildlife tracking. Gotta love the fat bears...
theconversation.com/how-facial-r...
Join us today for an enlightening talk by Aaron Gluck-Thaler on the historical and current influence of patterns explored by scientists from various fields. The event, organized by Prof. Rebecca Woods @professorbopeep.bsky.social takes place at Victoria College 🔗
It was an absolute pleasure to work with @animalhistory.bsky.social on this special issue. Check it out for amazing original articles by Janet Browne, @wildpasts.bsky.social, @dinostalgia.bsky.social, @wbarlowrobles.bsky.social, and Tamar Novick & Shira Shmuely.
Animals and the history of natural history, or, what would natural history look like had Charles Darwin been a cat person? With @professorbopeep.bsky.social and Anya Zilberstein @animalhistory.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/a...
Colossal Biosciences has a new project - and it seems to have press released it only to entertainment outlets rather than science media 🤔
My new piece in The Conversation is out here:
theconversation.com/why-are-we-s...
Our April 2025 issue is now available! If you are a print subscriber look for it in the mail! #envhist #envhum
@chicagojournals.bsky.social
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/eh/current
At the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Look at this moose throuple! @ewanderer.bsky.social has the back story on its design...
It’s been a busy couple of weeks in de-extinction. I spoke to journalist Grace Hunter about Colossal Biosciences’s woolly mice for this article: cottagelife.com/general/scie...
You can now read Rebecca Woods' (@professorbopeep.bsky.social) "Entangled Extinction: Endangered Elephants and Extinct Mammoth Ivory in the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries" from the April 2025 issue.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Wordle Bot had something to say about my opening pick
Call for Papers – Animal History Group Conference 2024: Movers and Shapers
Online, 27–28 June 2024
Submission Deadline: 5 April 2024
niche-canada.org/2024/03/11/c...
#envhist #animalhistory #animalstudies
The 2024 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History is now open for dominations of works published since January 2023.
Nominate your work or a work that you 💜.
Deadline 31 May.
Full details here: ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-...
Call for Participants: 2024 Canadian History & Environment Summer School / Appel à participant·e·s: École d’été en histoire de l’environnement 2024
Staples and Canadian History: Commodities, Ports, and Urban Space in Montreal.
niche-canada.org/2024/01/11/c...
Did he write back??
Updating this with @jaajao.bsky.social !
My excellent PhD student, Tola Ajao, was instrumental in putting this great resource together for @shothisttech.bsky.social
www.historyoftechnology.org/doing-histor...
My excellent PhD student, Tola Ajao, was instrumental in putting this great resource together for @shothisttech.bsky.social
www.historyoftechnology.org/doing-histor...
It is an honor to see this engagement with my work! Thanks @melaniekiechle.bsky.social @emilypawley.bsky.social Gabe Rosenberg, and Abe Gibson!
Super psyched to have been part of this conversation about a book I really like!