This is the 183rd post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared among Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week.
Here are the top articles among environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (August 24, 2020 – August 30, 2020):
Monday: “The ecological and evolutionary consequences of systemic racism in urban environments” by Christopher J. Schell et.al., Science
Tuesday: “The Things I Tell Myself When I’m Writing About Nature” by Helen Macdonald, LitHub
Wednesday: “Why Ecocide Should Now Be Considered An International Crime Against Humanity” by Oliver G. Alvar, Cultura Colectiva
Thursday: “Sports come to a halt: NBA, WNBA, MLB, MLS postpone games as players protest Jacob Blake shooting” by Ben Gollivar, The Washington Post
Friday: “In 1958 Mao Zedong ordered all the sparrows to be killed because they ate too much grain” by Goran Blazeski, The Vintage News
Saturday: “Associate Professor – Black Feminist Histories and Thought,” University of Toronto
Sunday: “It is not Hans Sloane who has been erased from history, but his slaves” by David Olusoga, The Guardian
Top Words
1. Scholar
2. urban
3. environmental
4. cities
5. social
6. ecological
7. neighborhoods
8. Urban
9. diversity
10. species
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