@decolearthsci
A growing package of open access pedagogical resources to enable sector-wide recognition, learning, and conversations around the historical legacy of Earth Science and modern inequities. AHRC-NERC-BGS Funded project. Decolearthsci.com
Check out this amazing special issue that's just dropped in the journal 'Museum & Society'. The new bumper issue is titled "Mobilizing Museum Minerals" and features some superstar curators. We can't wait to get stuck in. #DecolonisingMuseums #DecolonisingGeology
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Check out this amazing special issue that's just dropped in the journal 'Museum & Society'. The new bumper issue is titled "Mobilizing Museum Minerals" and features some superstar curators. We can't wait to get stuck in. #DecolonisingMuseums #DecolonisingGeology
journals.le.ac.uk/index.php/ma...
Want to find out more about #InclusiveEducation? Our work on www.inclusiveeducationframework.info is featured in this podcast episode from University of Hull Teaching Excellence Academy shows.acast.com/cup-of-tea-h... #academicsky
Hello @bsky.app ! We are the Ixchel project funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund @ukri.org Expect posts on research activities, including but not limited to volcanology, disaster risk reduction, critical decolonial theory, human rights, and arts-based participative methodologies π
It's International Day of Persons with Disabilities Day! #IDPwD βοΈπͺ¨π§ͺπ
Check out our open educational resource and blog about colonialism, disability and Earth Science π
Colorful flyer for βBlood Quantum Physicsβ on a beige linen table cloth. new Native Theater, 15th Anniversary Season, Gremlin Theatre, Saint Paul, December 6-8, 1-3 pm. There is a QR code for further information.
My wonderful Indigenous Studies and history colleague and good friend Meredith McCoy has a theater performance coming up with the New Native Theater in Saint Paul, titled βBlood Quantum Physics.β ποΈ Check it out here:
What does ethics have to do with space, and what does a Mars rover have to do with Palestine?
@adeenedenton.com & I will explore this (and more!) during our lecture & discussion series with @workshops4gaza.bsky.social to benefit a family in Gaza.
Sign up: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/rei... π§ͺ
Picture of the Wilamette Meteorite
Meteorites in the Epic of Gilgamesh are described with the Akkadian word kiαΉ£ru meaning a βlumpβ of material β a βlumpβ of the sky god Anum or just βskyβ.
I find the connection between sky and rock incredible. Did the authors know that flashes in the sky were rocks that sometimes landed?
Really interesting thread on palaeontology and the rise of race science in Germany
π¨ππ’π ππππ₯π§ π¨1 PhD position for 3 years in the research project βMining Frontiers in the Kingdom of Hungary (16th-18th Century)β at the German Mining Museum Bochum: Leibniz Research Museum for Georesources. karriere.bergbaumuseum.de/jobposting/0...
It's International Day of Persons with Disabilities Day! #IDPwD βοΈπͺ¨π§ͺπ
Check out our open educational resource and blog about colonialism, disability and Earth Science π
In UK Disability History Month we launch our new infographic which explores the link between disability, colonialism and Earth Science. Read our blog to discover more and to download our resource. #EarthScience #EDI #InclusiveEducation #DisabilityHistoryMonth
www.decolearthsci.com/disability-c...
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In UK Disability History Month we launch our new infographic which explores the link between disability, colonialism and Earth Science. Read our blog to discover more and to download our resource. #EarthScience #EDI #InclusiveEducation #DisabilityHistoryMonth
www.decolearthsci.com/disability-c...
Yesterday was the start of UK Disability History Month - but how can we think about disabled voices in the past in a way that recognises their agency?
Our new series does just that! @beckierutherford.bsky.social introduces the idea that we can historicise disability as more than a medical identity.
The University of Leeds in the UK is offering scholarships for Palestinians from Gaza who have been displaced and are living in a different country (outside of the UK). www.leeds.ac.uk/undergraduat...
Autumn-Winter 2024 term-card for the Northern Environmental History Network. A machine readable version (PDF) is linked in the main post.
Having been somewhat absent here over the last year, we're now moving to keeping both this and our twitter page updated with our events for now. Here's our term card for the Autumn semester, with a machine readable version here: drive.google.com/file/d/1cCos...
π¨ A bit of a surprise, this, but our Bloomsbury volume Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe: At the Margins of Empire, 1800-1950 appears to now be ONLINE (and in OPEN ACCESS)! Read, share, tell your friends, discuss! ποΈ
We also want to tell and share stories about the history of our discipline, revealing what are sometimes the hidden or ignored histories. Of the diverse people, of the knowledge, and how geology is entangled in colonialism.
Read this piece by Munira Raji on some of those colonial histories:
We are creating a series of infographics with associated blogs/explainers on some key topics. We'll post them here as they are released (and in the meantime will work our way back through our archive).
Hello Bluesky! We're a project who are developing open access pedagogical resources to enable sector-wide recognition, learning, and conversations around the historical legacy of Earth Science and modern inequities.
Our website is: www.decolearthsci.com
Please check us out.
