@aksagal
Associate Professor; 18thc Brit Lit & Science. Author of Botanical Entanglements (UVA Press). New project on marine ecology in the works. Super into plants, running, art museums, libraries, cheese, pandas, and video games.
📣 Two Open PhD Positions in Environmental Humanities - Exploring Biodiversity Narratives
📌 The University of Fribourg, Switzerland
These interdisciplinary PhD positions are at the intersection of literary and cultural studies, the social sciences, and biodiversity communication. #EnvHum #Envhist
A green graphic of illustrated animals surrounding the text: "Now Hiring Education Manager (Parental Leave Cover). £34,000 per annum. Application deadline: Sunday 8 March 2026, 23:00 (GMT)". A cartoon of Carl Linnaeus looks up towards some of the animals through binoculars.
One week left to apply for our Education Manager role!
Inspiring young people about nature and ensuring their voices are heard is vital to achieve our vision. We are looking for parental leave cover to manager our educational workshops, events and grants.
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Wow I am thrilled for this! I have long loved both institutions and to see them pair up is just perfect.
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Hey all! My super smart students are exploring digital writing and media commentary--give them a follow to help them play around with analytics? (and, you know, confidence)
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I had never thought of that but it's perfect!
New #EnvHum book! Read Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for the Environmental Humanities by Emily Brownell for free on our Environment & Society Portal. This is sure to come in handy for lecturers in the field.
FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.
Heads up, Goths: Essaka Joshua’s splendid volume on Disability and the Gothic in the nineteenth century has just been published in my and @angelawright1794.bsky.social Elements in the Gothic series. Open access for the next 2 weeks! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Some days I wonder if my deeper scholarly loves are really history of science and art history. I'm moving on to the next chapter on my list to tackle for the book project and my reaction is "oh...poetry." I just had a blast writing about Anna Atkins, too. 🙃
Not every day we get a new dinosaur!! 🦕
Lithographs of Hawkins's sketches of Ichthyosaur anatomy, with handwritten attotations.
A very special #FossilFriday. Thanks to @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social, one of the c19th's greatest works of palaeontological literature is now properly digitised: Thomas Hawkins's beautiful, epic, semi-unhinged Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri (nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/44...)
meme: Tired of the rat race? Sick of the daily grind? Are you ready for a more fulfilling life? Then Being Carried Away By Owls might be right for you!
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Are you doing #interdisciplinary, #participatory or #policy engaged research on #environment #biodiversity #sustainability? How about learning from past experience rather than starting from scratch! Stoked to see this on our @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social research with @britishlibrary.bsky.social
Publication day! My book Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Britain is out now. 20% discount code KEHO2026. www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...
Delighted to receive ‘This is Running’ in the mail today. A celebration of a book! Also delighted to receive a mention for ‘Running’ in the further reading section. 👟⚡️🦄 @dukepress.bsky.social
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Damn. The "ResistDance" from The First Amendment Troop is incredibly moving in many ways.
15.2 Scholarship Contents
15.2 Pedagogy Contents
15.2 DH and Book Reviews
Attention ABO readers! Issue 15.2 (2025) dropped earlier this month. Content screenshots below with individual article abstracts to follow. Thanks for reading!
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Thank you!
I've read parts of it many years ago--lots gender fluidity if I recall correctly. Thank you for your help!!
Another query, though-that seems really odd to be the background for a watercolor painting by a woman, given the content. Did it have any association at all with science? Or museums? or marine ecology? Stone did this painting for Lever & no other image in the collection has a text, literally at all.
Hmmm any advice on how to find that? ECCO doesn't include non-English language texts and neither does ESTC.
The Amsterdam publication info is very helpful--I had been thinking it was the opera because this was painted between 1781 and 1785, so I thought an early century novel seemed unlikely but Amsterdam was throwing me off.
Ohhh I didn't think of that. I had thought of the Le Sage novel but this was painted sometime between 1781-1785, so I thought the novel would be oddly outdated.
A watercolor illustration of a fossilized shell over a blue paper pamphlet.
Perhaps I will have luck here--art history/hist sci bsky, can you tell me what the text underneath the fossil is? Image is a watercolor painting by Sarah Stone.
Ooo very psyched for this!
Phd Position: Art and Soil Ecologies, Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Closes 15 March 2026
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