#medievaltwitter #fungi crossover post: all citations I can find to a story about Vladimir Monomakh treating lip cancer or tumor with #chaga (I. obliquus) dead end at Perevedentseva 2013, who says the story "is well known." Is this in the Primary Chronicle?

THE COUP AND THE PALM TREES will be out in the world in October (@UGAPress) and is now available for preorder. It interrogates the Honduran 2009 coup through an exploration of the country’s spatiotemporal trajectory of agrarian change since the 1930s. ugapress.org/book/978082036…

Fieldwork with #fungus

🎙️UPCOMING TWITTER SPACE: Palm Oil Perspectives Join us for #PalmOilAwarenessWeek as Josie Phillips, Abdul Samba Brima & Pauline von Hellermann 🌳🌴🌹🌻🌍 discuss the history, anthropological perspectives & lived experiences of #palmoil. 📅 21 July, 12:00PM (BST) Set your reminder: x.com/i/spaces/1ZkJz…

Love to see my employer on this list 🫠

Jonathan Robins Jonathan Robins, author of OIL PALM, spoke with American Prestige about the history of oil palm cultivation, uses of the oil itself, its role in the story of global capitalism, commodity fetishization, and more. americanprestigepod.com/p/another-oil-…

Thrilled to announce Kerri Arsenault will be this year's NATIONAL DIGITAL NEWSPAPER MTG PLENARY SPEAKER. Pls join us virtually for this conversation on the importance of #openaccess #historical #newspapers to understand the #environmental crisis. Register: loc.zoomgov.com/webinar/regist…

Picking Stories, Selling Chaga: How History Helped Make Chaga a Superfood dlvr.it/Svly1L

My debut piece for NiCHE looks at how history helps turn the world's ugliest fungus #chaga into a commodified "superfood" niche-canada.org/2023/09/07/pic…

"Picking Stories, Selling Chaga: How History Helped Make Chaga a Superfood" by Jonathan Robins is the fifth post in our Environmental Histories of Foraging series, edited by Nicole Miller. niche-canada.org/2023/09/07/pic… #envhist #foraging #chaga #foodstudies

The Forest’s Gold: The Appearance of Chanterelles in Swedish History dlvr.it/SwQmfM

I should have gone out the day this article dropped! Loads of #chanterelles but only fit for bug food today

Casual historical illiteracy in the service of political outrage in my junk mail folder (hard right student org continues to send me email because a long-gone student messed up their address). Tea at 2s/lb, so 12.5% tax, and we know the "tea party" wasn't about the tax anyway...

With apologies to Andreas Malm, I wrote about interspecies entanglements in five recent works of labor history and environmental studies for International Labor and Working-Class History, including books by Alex Blanchette, Jonathan Robins, Thea Riofrancos, Ryan Tucker Jones, Sharika D. Crawford.

when those 'world history' writers get to the section about Africa 🤦🏾‍♂️

Looking for submissions and book reviewers for Agricultural History, the journal of the @AgHistorySoc. We're especially in need of reviewers--grad students, this can be great way to get connected w/the journal and gain experience in academic publishing... aghistorysociety.org/the-journal