• Erasing the extinct: the hunt for Caribbean monk seals and museum collection practices 

      Jørgensen, Dolly (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-12)
      The Caribbean monk seal (Monachus tropicalis), the only seal species native to Central America, was declared extinct in 2008, with the last confirmed sighting in 1952. This species historically had a broad range throughout ...
    • Extinction and the End of Futures 

      Jørgensen, Dolly (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-06)
      Extinction, in biological terms, is the end of an evolutionary line, a potential future cutoff.It involves a transition between the historical past in which a species was biologically alive and a future in which it isn’t, ...
    • Going deep: Excavation, collaboration and imagination at the Kola Superdeep Borehole 

      Wrigley, Charlotte Alexandra (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      On the Kola Peninsula in the Russian Arctic lies an innocuous iron disc about the size of a dinner plate. If one were to prise this disc open, they would find the remains of the world’s deepest vertical hole. Reaching a ...
    • Teaching History on the Scale of the Anthropocene: Three Ethical Challenges 

      Retz, Tyson (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The Anthropocene strikes at the heart of the principle that making moral judgements involves a rich understanding of historical context. This article elaborates three subsequent challenges for history educators. First, ...