#bc of the ecological changes

[navysealt4t]

guys do i take 2 ap classes this year. it would be ap music theory and ap lang & comp

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[exopelagic]

this election feels so hollow even though it’s likely ostensibly gonna be a good outcome. labour really just sucks fucking ass rn huh

[in-mutual-weirdness]

A tidbit I learned from my disease ecology class back in college - ticks have seasons.

Major caveat that what I learned is specific to the Northeastern US and Lyme disease. Please go look up information on your local ticks and their diseases!

The way that the tick life cycle works, they have 3 main life stages where they're crawling around the place, and therefore 3 points in the year at which they're actively feeding. First is larvae, when they've just hatched from their egg, then nymph, then adult, which is when they're breeding. Because ticks acquire Lyme disease by feeding on animals that carry bacteria for it, larvae can't transfer it because they've never fed before. However, nymphs and adults *can*.

The ticks grab a single host animal, feed until they're fully engorged, and then rebury themselves to hibernate until the next life stage.

Here's the rough life cycle - nymphs show up in Spring and Summer (peak May-Aug), before molting and becoming adults, returning to feed again in the Fall (Oct-Nov). These summer and fall activity peaks are when you most need to be on the lookout, especially for the nymphs. They are most likely to cause disease because they're in the sweet spot of "small and hard to see" and "is likely to have the disease". So be extra vigilant about checking and keeping your skin covered during then.

For people outside the northeast US, highly recommend looking up public health information on ticks and outdoor safety generally. State/Province organizations will have the most up-to-date and personally relevant information, as will environmental research centers. I learned this stuff from a professor who studied Lyme disease for a living, and who worked with state health agencies to help track the spread of ticks and disease from year to year. Go find your maps and seasonal guides, like the one for Germany.

I'm trying to write a post about tick safety and avoiding tick bites, but a lot of the info on websites is like "Avoid going in the woods, in plants, and where there are wild animals" and "Activities like hiking and gardening can put you at risk" and I'm like thanks! This is worthless!

As ticks and tick borne illnesses are expanding their range, I think it's important for people to be educated about these things, and I think it's especially important to give people actual advice on how to protect themselves instead of telling them to just...avoid the natural world

Rough draft version of Tick Advice:

Ticks don't jump down on you from trees, they get on you when you brush against grass, brush, bushes etc.

Ticks get brought to an area when they get done feeding from an animal and fall off them. In the USA, the main tick-bringing animal is deer, but I've seen plenty ticks on feral cats and songbirds.

Ticks get killed when they dry out so drier areas with more sunlight are less favorable to ticks.

The above is useful for figuring out whether an area is likely to have lots of ticks, and how vigilant you have to be in that area.

Wear light-colored, long pants outside. Tuck your pants into your socks, and tuck your shirt into the waist of your pants. Invest in light, breathable fabrics idc

IMMEDIATELY change out of your outside clothes when you come back from a tick-prone area, wash them, and dry them on high heat to kill any ticks that might be stuck on.

Shower and check yourself for ticks after coming inside. Hair, armpits, and nether regions in particular. You can use a handheld mirror or rely on touch; an attached tick will feel like a bump kinda like a scab

While you're outside, you can just periodically check for ticks by running your hands down your legs and checking visually to see if anything is crawling on your clothes. Light colors make them easy to spot, and they don't move fast.

Combing through each others' hair to check for creepy crawly critters is a time-honored primate ritual and is not weird. When hiking, bring a friend who will have your back when you feel something on your neck and need to know if it's sweat or a tick

If you're careful, you can usually catch ticks before they bite you, but if one does bite you, it's not the end of the world. Since tickborne diseases are different regionally i suspect this advice will differ based on where you are, but the important thing is remove the tick with tweezers (DON'T use butter, a lit match, or anything that kills the tick while it's still attached, please) and contact a doctor to see what to watch for. Most illnesses you can catch from ticks are easily treatable if you recognize them when symptoms first appear

[homo-house]

hey uh so I haven't seen anyone talking about this here yet, but

the amazon river, like the biggest river in the fucking world, in the middle of the amazon fucking rainforest, is currently going through its worst drought since the records began 121 years ago

picture from Folha PE

there's a lot going on but I haven't seen much international buzz around this like there was when the forest was on fire (maybe because it's harder to shift the narrative to blame brazil exclusively as if the rest of the world didn't have fault in this) so I wanted to bring this to tumblr's attention

I don't know too many details as I live in the other side of the country and we are suffering from the exact opposite (at least three cyclones this year, honestly have stopped counting - it's unusual for us to get hit by even one - floods, landslides, we have a death toll, people are losing everything to the water), but like, I as a brazilian have literally never seen pictures of the river like this before. every single city in the amazonas state is in a state of emergency as of november 1st.

pictures by Adriano Liziero (ig: geopanoramas)

we are used to seeing images of rio negro and solimões, the two main amazon river affluents, in all their grandiose and beauty and seeing these pictures is really fucking chilling. some of our news outlets are saying the solimões has turned to a sand desert... can you imagine this watery sight turning into a desert in the span of a year?

while down south we are seeing amounts of rain and hailstorms the likes of which our infrastructure is simply not built to deal with, up north people who have built everything around the river are at a loss of what to do.

the houses there that are built to float are just on the ground, people who depend on fishing for a living have to walk kilometers to find any fish that are still alive at all, the biodiversity there is at risk, and on an economic level it's hard to grasp how people from the northern states are getting by at all - the main means of transport for ANYTHING in that region is via the river water. this will impact the region for months to come. it doesnt make a lot of sense to build a lot of roads bc it's just better to use the waterway system, everything is built around or floats on the river after all. and like, the water level is so incomprehensibly low the boats are just STUCK. people are having a hard time getting from one place to another - keep in mind the widest parts of the river are over 10 km apart!!

this shit is really serious and i am trying not to think about it because we have a different kind of problem to worry about down south but it's really terrifying when I stop to think about it. you already know the climate crisis is real and the effects are beyond preventable now (we're past global warming, get used to calling it "global boiling"). we'll be switching strategies to damage control from now on and like, this is what it's come to.

I don't like to be alarmist but it's hard not to be alarmed. I'm sorry that I can't end this post with very clear intructions on how people overseas can help, there really isn't much to do except hope the water level rises soon, maybe pray if you believe in something. in that regard we just have to keep pressing for change at a global level; local conditions only would not, COULD NOT be causing this - the amazon river is a CONTINENTAL body of water, it spans across multiple countries. so my advice is spread the word, let your representatives know that you're worried and you want change towards sustainability, degrowth and reduced carbon emissions, support your local NGOs, maybe join a cause, I don't know? I recommend reading on ecological and feminist economics though

however, I know you can help the affected riverine families by donating to organizations dedicated to helping the region. keep in mind a single US dollar, pound or euro is worth over 5x more in our currency so anything you donate at all will certainly help those affected.

FAS - Sustainable Amazon Fundation

Idesam - Sustainable Developent and Preservation Institute of Amazonas

Greenpeace Brasil - I know Greenpeace isn't the best but they're one of the few options I can think of that have a bridge to the international world and they are helping directly

There are a lot of other smaller/local NGOs but I'm not sure how you could donate to them from overseas, I'll leave some of them here anyway:

Projeto Gari

Caritás Brasileira

If you know any other organizations please link them, I'll be sure to reblog though my reach isn't a lot

thank you so much for reading this to the end, don't feel obligated to share but please do if you can! even if you just read up to here it means a lot to me that someone out there knows

also as an afterthought, I wanted to expand on why I think this hasn't made big news yet: because unlike the case of the 2020 forest fires, other countries have to hold themselves accountable when looking at this situation. while in 2020 it was easier to pretend the fires were all our fault and people were talking about taking the amazon away from us like they wouldn't do much worse. global superpowers have no more forests to speak of so I guess they've been eyeing what latin america still has. so like this bit of the post is just to say if you're thinking of saying anything of the sort, maybe think of what your own country has done to contribute to this instead of blaming brazil exclusively and saying the amazon should be protected by force or whatever

[allthecanadianpolitics]

what are your thoughts on the "reflood sumas lake" thing? i know it would drastically change BC and would be the end to a lot of peoples livelihoods, not to mention the massive amt of food production that happens on that land, but idk. its not supposed to be farmland. a lake used to be there, and is clearly supposed to still be there. the idea has largely been dismissed as 'not gonna happen' but i think it should be very genuinely considered. its been 100 years of holding it back, i highly doubt therell be another 100 years of it. especially with pumpstation and flood dyke money being denied. we just cant afford to keep it from reforming.

As fertile as the land is, its not wise to fight against nature.

Building populated areas on floodplains, in the paths of other natural disasters isn't a wise move long term, especially with how weather systems will become more and more severe due to climate change. People are going to have to make big decisions about coastal cities, cities in the paths of hurricanes, tornados and earthquakes too.

This area used to be the traditional lands of the local first nations as well, not farming. That should be considered:

"Chief Dalton Silver, Sumas First Nation said “For the Semá:th people, the lake represented life and livelihood. In 1924, the lake was drained in an instance of land theft, decimating an ecology that supported a rich and diverse Indigenous food system and replacing it with a settler food system."

[in-mutual-weirdness]

Fear ecology is also at the heart of things like the Yellowstone wolves. Yes, they cut down on deer grazing in fields and riverbanks because they reduced the total number of deer, but *also* part of the deal is that they scared off the deer who were still around. The live ones spent less time hanging out in open, exposed areas and therefore those spots got grazed less.

I was trying to understand the whole idea of "fear ecology", where presence of predators = a ton of behavioural and psychological changes in prey animals, even if they're not hunting (so for example, a non-hunting outdoor cat lowers foraging + reproductive success among mice) and it seemed extreme until the next day when I realized thats just me when my boss is in at work.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

as a lifelong dinosaur enthusiast who moved towards interest in ecology in recent years what you said about paleontology being very holistic is very interesting to me. can you list, like, some examples of how that is? and if you think the same could be said of ecology as a field? especially if ecology n evobio share the disproving capitalistic ideology thing

all three are 100%

capitalism operates on a misunderstanding of nature and has an implicitly impossible objective

"infinite growth" in a universe with finite resources is not possible. the end.

and one thing we see throughout the fossil record, and in modern ecology, is how the limitation of resources leads to major changes, thus demonstrating that said limitation exists

furthermore, none really make money. the people who buy dinosaur crap are not that many. the fossils don't lead to profitable technologies or franchises (I'm excluding fossil fuels from this conversation, which are the Exception, but every inherently anticapitalist field has *some* Exception) and most paleontologists are ridiculously broke, and even our top paleontologists don't really get far beyond 100k in terms of salary (which is depressingly low compared to other academics in geology and biology)

it also demonstrates the interconnectedness of all life and how our history is the history of the world, not just the history of humans or even mammals

how much our evolution isn't just dependent on our genetics, but on our ecology, the things that live with us and shape us through life

disproving bioessentialism, the inherent assumption of many other destructive ideologies such as racism and transphobia

how even the rocks have importance far beyond what we give them as they are the primary recorders of our planet's history

how small humans are and how little right we have to bleed the planet dry like we're currently doing

and how, like all species that specialize too quickly and too largely, we are careening towards our own destruction in the process of the planet needing to heal.

I hope that last sentence isn't true, but the fact that we know this at all is thanks to paleontology and environmental science.

All of these fields poke back against the capitalistic, white-supremacist world. So it's hard to get into them, it's hard to stay in them, and it's hard to make a living in them.

Ftr, this is why I study paleoecology specifically, but I think paleoecology should be in common parlance as equivalent to brain surgery or rocket science bc I think I'm breaking my brain

[transmutationisms]

thoughts on veganism? i find it pretty complicated considering how many leftists view the ethical + environmental complications while knowing i will never be vegan bc Eating Disorder.

i mean i don't think those two positions are actually in tension though. like, anybody with serious communist political commitments understands that individual consumption patterns are not the same as a political movement for systemic change—there is value in trying to collectively reduce meat consumption, & for some people a vegan consumption pattern is just the only ethical response to the issues of interspecies justice that animal product consumption raises. but people who are serious about both communism and veganism are not asking you to endanger yourself by following dietary rules that are unsafe for you, nor do they think that the entire animal agriculture industry would collapse if only you as an individual would agree to do so. if food justice is something you care about i think there are much broader conversations and political movements to get involved with here, which ultimately aim to provide all people with sufficient food that is produced in ways that don't cause massive ecological damage or needless animal suffering. a just and sustainable food system will probably never be able to provide people with the amount of meat / dairy that, eg, usamericans are accustomed to eating, and plant foods definitely do need to become more reliably available, affordable, sustainably produced, &c. but like, i'm talking here about massive fundamental changes to the entire system of growing, processing, and distributing food; these are questions of political import that you can absolutely care about & be involved in even if, in present circumstances, eschewing all animal products is not practicable for you.

[ultravioart]

Also reading the lore, Anubis was created to be in charge of ecological balance. With ALL the crap ow's humanity was doing, it can be inferred Anubis was forced to sacrifice entire species for humanity's survival. When humanity kept squandering healthy change, Anubis did what it was programmed to do: keep earth's ecological systems in balance. The biggest threat WAS humanity. Declassified stated after yet another round of global conservation talks that went no where, Anubis' monitoring team was taken out by limiting the air vents. (<We don't know what caused the ventilation shut down to occur. Could have been Anubis, could have been an outside actor aiming to sabotage Anubis.)

Then Anubis went 'rogue'

^ But I don't think Anubis went "rogue" -- Anubis was doing exactly what it was programmed to do. Balance the ecological systems of earth. And if there was any non human species causing a mass extinction event like humanity was doing, anubis would prune it. Logically, it HAD to have pruned species before.

Bc of what Anubis did, it implies ow humanity was statistically likely to end up killing earth, so Anubis determined it was worth the risk of causing some eco damage vs complete eco destruction if humanity kept it's course.

But Anubis lost, and now earth is severely damaged PLUS it doesn't have a god ai to oversee the entire systems PLUS the ecopoints have become more and more disjointed, with unsettling new weather anomalies and seemingly energy spikes out if no where (it's confirmed anubis had created secret omniums like in the east China sea, so I guess that there are more secret omniums, one could be in antarctica to match the unsual readings Mei discussed in the PVE codex.)

All this to say, by technicalities... #AnubisWasRight lmafo. Yet ow portrays Anubis as 'rogue' but like. Humanity made a stupidly designed tool, and was punished for hubris.

But then we look at how Ramattra disagrees with Anubis. And I find that really fascinating. We know it's in part of Ramattra disagreeing with how Anubis sent omnics to thier demise, but that's hindsight for the Awakening. So what could it be? ...I genuinely think Ramattra disagrees with the purposeful extinction of humanity. Ramattra is fighting humanity, yes, but only for omnic liberation from humanity's oppression.

I think his view is that trusting humanity as a species is dangerous bc humanity is not a hivemind like omnics can be. Humans cannot unilaterally organize, which causes violence and no assured generational safety. And omnics NEED assured safety throughout the generations bc if one human generation grants omnics liberation, only for the 3rd human generation to deny it again? Omnics are FINITE. They can't afford humanity's wishy washy organization when it comes to omnic's right to exist. Ramattra admires ant colonies: an ant colony is a super organism. He admires the things they build together, and how they cooperate when threatened.

I think this is why Ramattra is fine with individual "helpful humans" but not humanity as a whole bc humanity isn't a superorganism. I'm not sure where OW is going with Ramattra, but having Ramattra default like Bastion did with Anubis coding, and become the very thing Ram was terrified of becoming is a really wild take, doomed by the narrative fr. Narratively it's nature vs nurture question but uh... omnics are not organic? Omnics are so ingrained to 'nature'(omnic coding and anubis coding) it can be hard to seperate thier nature even with Aurora's gift of free will. So imo it becomes awkward to portray a "nature vs nurture" question with omnics, bc it implies nature(omnic: coding. organic: genetics) is the true influence. Bastion only became "safe" after Torb removed Bastion's anubis coding. So. Erm.

All this to say, well. Depending on what subjugator helmets do (we know removing a helmet incorrectly causes the subjugated omnic to die :( but what does it do exactly? It's SO ODD that Null Sector targets omnics, but then leaves the subjugated bodies lying around? I really hope it's not actually memory wiping or making omnics brain dead...) Ramattra might ALSO be technically a #RamattraWasRight.

If Ramattra is aiming to preserve as many conciousness of omnics as possible with the helmets, or possibly trying to create a new awakening to solve the finite generation issue. Well. Can you blame him? He will fight for omnic's right to exist, and doesn't aim to cause the extinction of humanity, but IF humanity does go extinct, well. Anubis technically deemed ow humanity on track with destroying all of earth. I think that's Ramattra's logic?

Sorry for rambles, and NO I DO NOT THINK HUMANITY SHOULD GO EXTINCT IN OVERWATCH LOL. But if u could save all life on earth if u prune one species, I think it's logical for robots in ow to choose to sacrifice one species to save earth's future LOL. And I think Ramattra is fully in his rights to defend omnics from extinction with violence because omnics cannot reproduce and ARE facing violence. Ramattra can either sit back and watch omnics go extinct, or step up and fight for survival (ow writes Ram as hasty and unprepared which.... imo is too human/ooc but ig that creates conflict but also like. Wtf he is litterally a commander robot why would he be incompetently hasty).

[sgtmickeyslaughter]

Weekly Tag Wednesday! Hi everyone!

thanks for tagging me +hey lovelies @creepkinginc @lingy910y @energievie and @spookygingerr

Name: gigi 🐇

When is your birthday: August 23rd

Where do you call home? Brooklyn baby! i think after 7 years i can call myself a new yorker, right? probably not

How many pets do you have? None!

What do you do for work? I'm an architect but I recently quit my shitty job so I'm currently self unemployed doing freelance work and looking for a new firm which is a pretty fun way to spend the summer tbh.

also im applying to a bunch of random design related jobs that seem interesting 'cause why not, and one of the exciting ones was designing book covers for a publishing house here in nyc which would be super fun bc i already kind of do that as a hobby right here with all of you!

Do you believe in aliens? in a sense

Do you believe in ghosts? no but stick me in a dark old place by myself and watch my tune change on a dime

Favorite subject in school? art/history/english/physics/statistics (i loved school)

What are you currently reading? braiding sweetgrass by robin wall kimmerer! its amazing and i think everyone should read it and investigate their relationship with ecology but nonfiction takes so long for me to read im ready to close it, appreciate it, and then eat a fiction novel whole in a grotesque act of laziness

What are you currently watching? i just finished rewatching the bear to prepare for season three tonight!

What kind of laptop do you have (+ describe it to me): macbook pro, looks brand new bc im very careful with it after it replaced my college studio laptop that went though hell and back

What kind of phone do you have (+ describe it to me): iphone with a plain pink silicone case

No-show socks, ankle socks, or crew socks? ankle and cute crew socks i hate no show socks

What kind of headphones do you use? airpod max noise canceling i love them so much

How do you consume caffeine? coffee, matcha, and recently iced teas

And finally, what are you wearing today? a denim skirt i have had since i was literally 14 bc i'm the slow fashion final boss, a white cotton spaghetti strap blouse with a blue scarf holding my hair back and im barefoot rn bc im at home but i was wearing white fila sneakers (with ankle socks)

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[reasonsforhope]

Good Climate News: Headline Roundup April 1st through April 15th, 2023

Contrary to what you might expect, there's actually way more good climate news stories than I have time to post about individually. (Especially now that my health is better and I'm back to working more!) Which itself is fantastic news!

Some stories are big, some are small, but they all add up. All over the world, people are doing far more than we realize to help save the planet - and ourselves.

I'm posting this is mid-May bc I've gotten really behind on news posts, but trust me, there will be more roundups coming. And this is SO FAR from all the good climate news in April 2023. I may do weekly roundups in the future.

So, without further ado, some reasons to have hope, all from just April of 2023:

^Article date: 4/15/23

^Article date: 4/14/23. And to clarify, the cleanup will NOT be temporary, they are building infrastructure and changing laws for the long term.

^Article date: 4/13/23

^Article date: 4/12/23

^Article date: 4/10/23

^Article date: 4/12/23

^Article date: 4/11/23

^Article date: 4/8/23

^Article date: 4/5/23

More roundup posts to come!

[the-lonelyshepherd]

fifteen questions for fifteen friends :) tagged by @staghunters tyty

Are you named after anyone?

nope. actually my name got changed like right before i was born bc it was too similar to another relatives 😭

When was the last time you cried?

sometime like.. a week and a half ago

Do you have kids?

no im like 12.9 years old.

What sports do you play/have played?

hmmm i’ve done swim i also skated for a bit but stopped. planning to start skating again :)

Do you use sarcasm?

sometimes but i’m not great at it imo

What's the first thing you notice about a person?

Also gonna say vibes. if we want smtn different id say shoes. i think i can tell a lot abt someone by their shoes

What's your eye color?

grey blue green yayy

Scary movies or happy endings?

honestly depends on the mood but i just want like. a satisfying ending. wether that be happy or sad

Where were you born?

wouldn’t you like to know

Any talents?

i play music i draw and i know a concerning amount of things about fish

Do you have any pets?

yes… one dog one cuban tree frog and the current aquarium count is 1 betta fish, 7 white cloud mountain minnows, 5 golden white cloud mountain minnows, ~15 red neocaridina shrimp and an unknown amount of pest snails and other various aquatic crawly things. gonna get a lot more fish soon tho once i stock the big tank :)

How tall are you?

uhh a little above average for my age. taller than prev by quite a bit lol. 

Favorite subject at school?

i like art ofc but like. big on biology and also really liked human geography. also very much an ela kid.

Dream job?

oooogh this is hard i feel like there’s a lot of very different things i could have fun with. something in biology/ecology with lots of field work and travel could be cool i love going places and seeing animals and learning about them. but the main one would maybe be like… a really good filmmaker or showrunner. like that people really like and appreciate my work. i just like to tell stories :)

okay i’m going to. man up and actually tag people. if i don’t tag you it’s nothing personal 🙏🙏 i am stupid

@jackienatist @antlerslayer @frog4278 @imsososolesbian @blackbloodedisabel @chrometheraptor @avianreptiles @lynxfrost13 @rippedpatches @mamadore @fleshdyke @starstaiined @suprecorp @garf-lover96 @longlost-soul

[personwholoveschocolate]

oh! if we're talking about Nimona's comic-to-movie changes

i do have one that crosses my mind every now and then when i watch movie and this change is a tone down of Balister's science-nerd side bc

while yes movie Balister still made himself a whole mechanic ARM. i mean wow man. but in the comic he was like a real full-ass scientist. just watch

Lab Safety

Ecology

my man made a non-lethal poison to mess up institute's plans and then made a cure for it. why are you so cool. oh and

They went to a science expo

and made a science friend

and yea i do understand why is that. why Bal wasn't that of a scientist. comic Balister was like 'The Biggest Name in Supervillainy' and movie Balister wasn't exacly a villain at all so it makes sence. (but i stiiiillll adore bal's scientist side. i. i love scientists.)

[just-your-average-cryptid]

correct me if I’m wrong but I feel like an aspect of cultural Christianity that doesn’t get discussed a lot is how the mutually exclusive human/animal dichotomy does so much harm to people’s understanding of ecology

because, like. it seems obvious, to me at least, that humans are also animals, part of our ecosystem, necessary to its function. indigenous people in the americas created food forests that supported them and local wildlife with incredible productivity. in its native range, kudzu was controlled and turned into fabric (? might be remembering that wrong.) humans didn’t just pop into existence and start destroying everything, we had our niche(s) and our adaptations just like everything else.

and yet so many people seem to think that humans going extinct immediately is the best outcome for the world, that nature means “unsullied by Dirty Humans,” that we have no place in the ecosystem except protecting it or breaking it. like we are outside observers to a great machine, one that will crumble if we get too close.

and yeah, I know most religions make a distinction between humans and animals for obvious reasons, but Christianity is the one that seems to drive the people saying “let’s kill everything we can’t use bc god said we’re Special and outrank every other living thing”

and that idea, that humans are so different from nature and that if we’re not subjugating or destroying it we must exclude ourselves from it, is worryingly prevalent in a lot of online climate change/conservation spaces. it feels like a reaction to the above sentiment, and it’s less horror-inducing to me but still very bad.

you are also an animal! you are the product of millions of years of evolution, same as the whales and the falcons and the newts!

destruction is not your nature, creation is. art, clothes, food, communities. we build, we learn, we tell stories and leave marks in caves to say we were here

do not be convinced by those in power that their atrocities are your nature and legacy! look around you. we make little wooden houses for birds to nest in. we smile at small children. we cry because an animal is so tiny.

you are a part of the ecosystem. we can create a better world together. it’s kind of what we do.

we create, and we share it with others.

[historysideblog]

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The Tudors - University of Roehampton London

The Americas 🪶🦙🛖

History of Slavery in the British Caribbean - University of Glasgow

Indigeneity as a Global Concept - University of Newcastle

Indigenous Canada - University of Alberta

Indigenous Religions & Ecology - Yale

Asia 🏯🛕

Contemporary India - University of Melbourne

Introduction to Korean Philosophy - Sung Kyun Kwan University

Japanese Culture Through Rare Books - University of Keio

Sino-Japanese Interactions Through Rare Books - University of Keio

The History and Culture of Chinese Silk - University for the Creative Arts

Travelling Books: History in Europe and Japan - University of Keio

Other

A Global History of Sex and Gender: Bodies and Power in the Modern World - University of Glasgow

A History of Royal Fashion - University of Glasgow

Anarchy in the UK: A History of Punk from 1976-78 - University of Reading

Biodiversity, Guardianship, and the Natural History of New Zealand: A Museum Perspective - Te Papa

Empire: the Controversies of British Imperialism - University of Exeter

Great South Land: Introducing Australian History - University of Newcastle

Indigeneity as a Global Concept - University of Newcastle

New Zealand History, Culture and Conflict: A Museum Perspective - Te Papa

Organising an Empire: The Assyrian Way - LMU Munich

Plagues, Witches, and War: The Worlds of Historical Fiction - University of Virginia

Russian History: from Lenin to Putin - University of California Santa Cruz

Linguistics 🗣️

Introduction to Comparative Indo-European Linguistics - University of Leiden - Coursera version

Miracles of Human Language: An Introduction to Linguistics - University of Leiden

Archeology 💀

Archeoastronomy - University of Milan

Archaeology and the Battle of Dunbar 1650 - Durham University

Archaeology: from Dig to Lab and Beyond - University of Reading

Archeology: Recovering the Humankind's Past and Saving the Universal Heritage - Sapienza University of Rome

Change of Era: The Origins of Christian Culture through the Lens of Archaeology - University of Padova

Endangered Archaeology: Using Remote Sensing to Protect Cultural Heritage - Universities of Durham, Leicester & Oxford

Enlightening the Dark Ages: Early Medieval Archaeology in Italy - University of Padova

Exploring Stone Age Archaeology: The Mysteries of Star Carr - University of York

Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology - Durham University

Roman Art and Archeology - University of Arizona

The Changing Landscape of Ancient Rome. Archeology and History of Palatine Hill - Sapienza University of Rome