Eline D. Tabak
Biodiversity, culture & the environment | postdoc @ Oulu, Fi | #envhum PhD from Bristol & Bath Spa, UK | exploring biodiversity (loss) through seeds & insect decline | storying & care 🌱🐝 🏳️🌈 (she/her)
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakA new issue of Plant Perspectives will be out next month - right on time for spring 🌸
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakHoeveel gif zit er in uw stoelgang? Onderzoeksjournalist Dirk de Bekker (34) schrok zich alvast een hoedje: ondanks zijn biologische dieet bleek zijn staal vol pesticiden te zitten. In zijn boek Het pesticidenparadijs legt De Bekker bloot dat er niet meer aan bestrijdingsmiddelen en pfas te ...
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakThe CFP deadline for our upcoming workshop on 'unwanted non-human life', broadly conceived, here at York has been extended a couple of weeks. Do send in an application if it appeals to you, we've already got a great pair of keynotes lined up!
- Reposted by Eline D. Tabak“Having the university here was a big part of the city’s feeling of youthfulness, and the idea that you can be here and learn and grow.” What happens when a city loses its university? (A question that will soon be answered in several other places across the UK, sadly…)
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakMA Food Studies opportunity - 5 scholarships 2026/27: @crpr-exeter.bsky.social & @exeter.ac.uk are offering a fee reduction of £5000 to 5 full time students. Programme led by @crpr-exeter.bsky.social Co-Director and @exeterfood.bsky.social lead Prof. Harry West www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakI hate to tap the sign but again: this is all made to make in-person education and access to knowledge transfer a preserve of the elite. Human education for the few, bots for the many.
- We want to make sure tutoring isn't the preserve of a lucky few, but accessible to every child who needs it. AI can help us do that. Safe, personalised, one-to-one learning support to help every child achieve and thrive. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakImmune dysfunction from repeated COVID infections is not helping
- It's Burns Night, a good reason to quickly read through my poetry handout for my ecocriticism seminar Last year I decided Fatimah Ashgar's poem 'I don't know what will kill us first' should be on it. It's a poem about hope with a brutal title & I love the quick ref to Prince, especially now
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakMyself and @jdroberts.bsky.social made a podcast!!!! Introducing a short series ‘Edges of Extinction’. Recorded at the Helix Suite at the University of Leeds!
- We are thrilled to present our new podcast, 'Edges of Extinction'! In our first episode Diane Nelson and @sicilyfiennes.bsky.social talk to @katatrepsis.bsky.social about insect extinctions, what these mean for the world, and how they can be averted extinctionstudiesleeds.podbean.com/e/edges-of-e...
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakCfP: Attuning to More-than-human Seas: Negotiating Multispecies Justice in the Anthropocene Ocean 🌊🦐🐳🪸🦈🐠🌊 Please share! @rgsibg.bsky.social @rgs-agwg.bsky.social @marsocsci.bsky.social @marineconservation.bsky.social
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakAI can crunch data. It can’t replace scientists. Real discovery still depends on human judgment, creativity and collaboration. buff.ly/g48SKCW
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- Reposted by Eline D. TabakLooking for any STS/Env Hum folks working on biological invasion, conservations, and multispecies violence! With this combined panel, Luiza and I planned one sesh for 1. presentations and 2. ecology-humanities tandem workshop. We hope for (lots of✨) space for interdisciplinary discussion!
- CfP: Reimagining futures with #InvasiveSpecies through #STS Organized by @katiekung.bsky.social and I for the @easst.bsky.social conference, the panel welcomes contributions from different backgrounds dealing with any spp deemed invasive. More about it here: nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakCfP: Reimagining futures with #InvasiveSpecies through #STS Organized by @katiekung.bsky.social and I for the @easst.bsky.social conference, the panel welcomes contributions from different backgrounds dealing with any spp deemed invasive. More about it here: nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakNormaal staan de geweldige stukken van @mathijsbouman.nl achter een betaalmuur van het FD maar dit keer kon ik de verleiding niet weer staan om hem helemaal met jullie te delen. Bron van inspiratie wat de EU allemaal kan doen tegen Trump!
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakAre you a PhD-level #wildlife ecologist committed to research and education for #biodiversity and nature restoration? Our group at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social has a #vacancy for an assistant professor! Deadline for applications is February 19. Please spread the word. www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakWe are now accepting proposals from scholars interested in applying for the EU's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships program in 2026. This is a great program for early career (<8 yrs from PhD) scholars to be with @greenhouseuis.net for 2 years on own project. www.uis.no/en/research/...
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakMy employer expects me to bring in £150,000 in research funding every year so the collapse of the funding model is my responsibility to solve.
- Incredible article which points out that it often collectively costs more to apply for scarce research funding than the funds awarded to the successful proposals. What an absurd system we've built in the service of efficiency and competition. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakI’ve done some catalogue searching and am fairly confident in saying that 5/10 titles in this list do not exist (1, 2, 4, 5 and 7). Sloppy, unacceptable, and a real kick in the guts to real authors with real books they’d love people to buy and read!
- My love for lit started withJane Austen and I’m super gay so heck yeah I want this 💜🌈
- Using the last of my brain available for this year to go through the proofs of a chapter I wrote... many moons ago. Am doubting myself now: have there always been this many mistakes in this particular chapter or were they introduced by many rounds of editing and whatnot?
- Not unrelated - this is how I look and feel this week
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakCfP! 🎉 germanic.osu.edu/umwelt/junio... The Umwelt Center invites submissions for its 2026 Junior Scholars Workshop, open to untenured professors, advanced graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and independent scholars working in the fields of Germanic Studies and Environmental Humanities. 1/3
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakNew Special Section in Area: 'Gender and Rewilding' guest edited by Nadia Bartolini Featuring contributions from @kimjward.bsky.social, @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social, @sarahmay1.bsky.social & others Read the full #OpenAccess collection here ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakMerriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakFraming GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.
- There's a HE strike in the Netherlands today. I'm not in Holland so can't join the demo, but I will be spending my afternoon in Munich meeting friends and taking a last walk before I'm off to Erlangen. #WOinActie woinactie.blogspot.com/2025/12/prog...
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakSAVE THE DATE: You're invited to an evening of trees and people 🌳 @catherinpersing.bsky.social and I will talk about "Making Kin with Trees. A Cultural Poetics of Interspecies Care". Join us online on 22 January, 2026 - 7pm-8pm Register here: eveeno.com/116407009 and share widely 💚
- We have a cover! 🪶
- www.bloomsbury.com/uk/unsettlin... No cover yet, but there's a web page. Incredibly pleased to be part of this important - and affordable! - volume on extinction studies. Pre-order now because I promise it will be good
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakThe Greenhouse Christmas tree is now 120% better thanks to this new ornament. You can make your own! www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/dam/jcr:a46f...
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- Where’s the authentic wonder? Jokes aside this is terrifying. The death of creativity and thinking. (Alt text in my other repost.)
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakSkinner’s Rat in new, far more terrifying, form.
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakWhy is biodiversity collapsing globally, but thriving on Indigenous lands? 🌱🧪 Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer points to a striking pattern in global biodiversity reports: Indigenous territories are defying the widespread ecological decline.
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakPlease share widely - new editor opportunity at The GJ ⬇️
- 📢New Editor sought📢 We are seeking to appoint a Physical Geography Editor to The Geographical Journal. The GJ publishes work which engages with public issues and policy-relevant agendas. 🗓️Deadline: 7 January 2026 For more information, please see this page: www.rgs.org/about-us/our...
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakThe November 2025 issue of Environmental Humanities is out now! Check it out for all the lastest #envhum scholarship read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta... Cover image: A Marshall Islands navigation chart collected by Thomas William Smillie in 1899. Smithsonian Institution Archives.
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakUniversities: - Stop offering workshops on how to use ChatGPT to write papers - stop using DeepL to translate your websites or make it sound useful for our research - stop pretending AI usage is inevitable. I don‘t want to work for institutions who can‘t employ critical thinking to new tech.
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakI'm thrilled to share that "Poetry in the Digital Age: An Interdisciplinary Handbook" is out! It brings together a range of perspectives on poetry parameters, formats, practices, debates & more – and is available in open access via the link below: @poetryda.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakExcited to share my first PhD paper which was based on my fieldwork at @thebotanics.bsky.social and just published on @geoopenaccess.bsky.social yesterday! 🌺
- PhD work by @mingcan-rong.bsky.social on the colonial legacy of cultivating scientific authority through the lens of Rhododendron @thebotanics.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/geo2...
- AI/LLM haters unite!
- Bending the curve at the ‘Towards Impactful Biodiversity Research’ symposium, organised by the the Life & Planet research community
- Keynote Frederike Praasterink on food system transitions
- Academia not doing well in Holland
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakThe Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English. Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues! Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
- Makes me happy mine was only an A4 😂
- Reposted by Eline D. Tabak💯👇 I tell students this all the time. We. Need. All. The. Things. Write what you want about climate change and mass extinction. Whatever moves you. Climate art should be varied and serve many roles. We do not need to gatekeep it.
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakNew from 404 Media: AI generated history videos are flooding YouTube, and drowning out real history. "It’s worrying to me just for humanity. It’s not good for the state of knowledge in the world. It makes me worry for the future." www.404media.co/ai-generated...
- Ondanks dat ik nu in Nederland ben heb ik vorige week al gestemd als geregistreerd kiezer in het buitenland. Op de @pvdd-eerstekamer.bsky.social - voor natuur- én mensenrechten. 🌿🌈
- Ik stem al jaren PvdD, en dit jaar weer met onze leefwereld en de toekomst van vrouwen- en lhbti-rechten in gedachten. En natuurlijk omdat Esther Ouwehand keer op keer opkomt voor Palestina. 🍉
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakNieuw Onderzoek | De PVV doet niet alleen weinig bij debatten en draagt nauwelijks bij aan nieuwe wetgeving, maar laat van alle grote fracties ook het vaakst verstek gaan bij ‘Kamertaken’: corvee-werkzaamheden, die de Tweede Kamer draaiende houden: www.platform-investico.nl/onderzoeken/...
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakA portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakPrime Minister Dick Schoof called fresh elections following the first collapse of his government, which would go on to fall a second time within a few months.
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakThis year’s Food Justice Film Festival has an incredible lineup of award-winning films: - Farming While Black - Tea Creek - LA Foodways - Feeding Change ⭐️ Watch free Oct 23-26🌎 Sign up: foodjusticefilmfestival.com And don’t forget the Food X newsletter: www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/pop...
- “Partij voor de Dieren (PvdD), GroenLinks-PvdA en Volt zijn de enige partijen die nergens rood scoren en dus geen enkel voorstel doen dat in strijd met de rechtsstaat beoordeeld wordt.” ✅ www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakCall for panels now open until 31 Oct 2025. We invite you to join us for EASST’s Biennial Conference, to be held in Krakow, Poland easst.net/conference/e...
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- Reposted by Eline D. TabakDank en veel succes aan iedereen die vandaag De Rode Lijn trekt in Amsterdam! (Dit oude reuma lijf kan helaas niet meelopen.)
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakOngeveer 11.000 statushouders krijgen jaarlijks voorrang op een huurwoning en ongeveer 100.000 tot 200.000 expats krijgen voorrang op een huurwoning dankzij de expatregeling, die het leven in de grote steden volstrekt onbetaalbaar heeft gemaakt, maar daar hoor je onze Volendamse nepregent niet over.
- Another update: I’m a guest researcher at Utrecht University’s faculty of geosciences/copernicus institute for the autumn and winter period. Very grateful to my host for having me and a gorgeous botanic garden right next to my new office 🌳 (plenty of time for coffees, too, if people are around)
- www.bloomsbury.com/uk/unsettlin... No cover yet, but there's a web page. Incredibly pleased to be part of this important - and affordable! - volume on extinction studies. Pre-order now because I promise it will be good
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakThe latest issue is out: Tree Cultures and the Arboreal Humanities, guest edited by @rbgkew.bsky.social's Caroline Cornish & Christina Hourigan Featuring research articles on arboreal biographies, poetics of place, resistance & more; poetry, and book reviews 🌲🌳 🔗: www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakHello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakI'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakThe journal is co-presenting an online event with Oak Spring Garden Foundation on 8th October – 'Plants, Memory belonging' Join us for some wonderful research on plants by writers, artists, and academics Register here: www.osgf.org/programs-and... #envhist #envhum #PlantStudies
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakAre you following our Early-Career-Scholar network, ESEH NextGate? They organize events and support young scholars. Follow here: @esehnextgate.bsky.social #envhist #envhum
- Reposted by Eline D. TabakAny narratives/rhetorics on invasive species management/eradication/marketing folks want to share their projects? (and thanks Hal Herzog for the title😁)
