Our paper 'Thriving in the Darkness: Rethinking Ability through the Animal Lens' is now on YouTube! @ahrcpress @Drandyflack @WouldAlice.

RT @WouldAlice: My review of @SniffThePastDog fabulous Dogopolis is out in @CultSocHistory today. An important exemplar of the ways in whic….

We're very excited to be running this Environmental Humanities Summer School in June-July. Crossing different scales, and taking diverse approaches, we'll explore how the humanities can help us understand and engage with the environment. Share widely!.

RT @WouldAlice: A fab talk by @Drandyflack about ��Anthropocene Nights.’ We’re at Earth Sensations in Aarhus, thinking about all things sens….

Our article on the changing night, animal senses and the 'nocturnal problem' is out in The Conversation. Includes cameos from hedgehogs, bats, and the wonderfully named Night Parrot.

It can be downloaded from our website. Do share widely, and pass it on to any teachers who might be interested!.

This was a collaborative effort and we couldn't have done it without the fantastic naturalist and learning consultant @eddrewitt + Louisa Aldridge and the fab graphic design skills of Clare Challice.

We have made a Key Stage 2 educational resource called 'Wild Senses'! It's about nocturnal animal senses, the history of the investigation of those senses, diverse sensory experiences, and the urgency of nocturnal conservation. Check it out here:

Tomorrow we have the last (for the moment) of our sensory workshops. In these we work with participants to think about other than visual ways in which humans and animals experience the world + do some art/ creative making at the same time. Here are some examples.

RT @WildPasts_: Night ride. Darkness means I need to rely on her judgement. Horses have excellent night vision, and on a moonlit or starry….

'In the ocean’s shadowy twilight zone, between 600 and 800 metres beneath the surface, there are fish that gaze upwards through their transparent heads with eyes like mesmerising emerald orbs.'

A pic from the @UoBrisCEH field trip. The brecon beacons were the first international dark-sky reserve in Wales. This helps protect nocturnal lives + the darkness means 'on a clear night you can see just about everything from anywhere' (Ordnance Survey) 🌟✨🪐

Have a peek at this chapter on emotions + environmental history by @Drandyflack and @DollyJorgensen.

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A piccy from our Dark Ecologies event last month for @FestofNature with @birdtwitchr and @CalebParkin (Kathy, I promise that my listening face just looks grumpy - I was very much enjoying!) Photo by @AniaShrimpton

'To see is a very diverse phenomenon'. Have a listen to @Drandyflack pondering the history of the night, barn owl screeches, our idealisation of 'pure' darkness, light pollution, and what it means to be crepuscular. By @HunterCharlton3 for BBC Radio 4 .

RT @gfitzgerald111: This is really wonderful research on sensory, disability, and animal studies and is well worth your time to watch! Plu….

Thank you to all who came and shared their questions and super helpful feedback at the zoom workshop a few weeks ago. This is (ahem) a re-recording without the little wifi glitch

We explore the concept of 'ability' and ask how an animal historical approach might expand + deepen our understanding of the idea. We draw on environmental history, disability studies + sensory history approaches. Bats, hedgehogs, moles and dark-adapted fish also lend a hand.