When you come for “mineral substances as fertilizers” and stay for Soviet dinosaurs

Du bist Dissertant*in, arbeitest an einem wirtschafts-, sozial- oder umwelthistorischen Thema, wirst an einer österreichischen Uni (zweit)betreut und möchtest erste Ergebnisse präsentieren und dich vernetzen? Dann solltest du dich für den 2-tägigen Workshop in Salzburg bewerben! #envhist

"Bruisch’s book stands as a model of thoughtful, methodologically sophisticated historical writing—one that would serve both undergraduate and graduate students especially well as an example of how history can and should be written." So delighted! Wanna bring 🔥 Burning Swamps 🔥 into your classroom?

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

Iva Lučić’s and my introduction to our Timber Colonialism special issue with the Journal of Historical Geography went online today: “Thinking through forests: Colonialism, capitalism, and the global timber trade” #envhist authors.elsevier.com/a/1n8X2_6yx5...

Anyway, to learn more FUN HOBO FACTS, check out my book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

I hear critical positions towards so-called «artificial intelligence» nowadays framed more and more as «rejectionism», and this is especially formulated as a critique of the left. The argument often goes something like this: Rather than seeing the potentials of AI, the left merely rejects it 1/

AI companies are writing their own constitutions. Meanwhile, a shared vocabulary for contesting algorithmic power has been traveling across red and blue states, from legislatures to civil society. New from me in @science.org: "A Civic Grammar for AI Rights" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵

Published version: www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/volume-162-p...

Wow - these are right up my alley! Not one, but TWO new articles by Anna Sokolova on labour, gender and rural settlement in the Soviet forestry industry 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... h/t @maartenp.bsky.social

Very interesting report. History is still a real blind spot in this research landscape ... but it's slowly changing 😉.

This is how it looks: the splendid future of 20th c. Irish environmental history! Earlier this month, we celebrated the graduation of Dr Gabriel Coleman & Dr Lily Toomey. It was such a privilege to supervise these two brilliant minds. Watch out for their work! /1 (image posted with permission)

Two brilliant opportunities on a fascinating project: The 101st kilometre: Soviet marginalization, migration, memory, and mapping. 1st a Research Associate at Oxford www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRE941/p... 📢 1/2

[email protected] has put out a call for new content and review editors (volunteer positions). More info for interested women, trans, and/or non-binary early career scholars here! #envhist envhistnow.com/2026/04/23/c...

New episode of the @ktbberlin.bsky.social podcast CRITIQUE OF AI - featuring @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social @annanosthoff.bsky.social @bildoperationen.bsky.social @mttpsq.bsky.social and introduced with @robin-c.bsky.social criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/podcast/p...

Am Sonntag jährt sich zum 40. Mal die Atomkatastrophe von #Tschernobyl. Die neue APuZ lädt zum Auffrischen und Vertiefen ein, mit Beiträgen von T. Kasperski, K. Gestwa, @verowendland.bsky.social, M. Hinterleitner und @lkinvectivity.bsky.social. www.bpb.de/shop/zeitschriften/apuz/tschernobyl-2026/

I have a meeting scheduled for next week with some amazing high school students who sought me out to assist them in their movement to resist AI in their school. It's happening, folks!

couldn‘t help thinking that this is so much smaller than the space it occupied in my head. there’s a relief in the objectification of thought: however troubling or obsessive, every idea can take the form of a handy, well-folded paperback.

1 yr ago I wrote a massive thread on @iea.org huge AI / energy report. WELL it's one year later and they've released an update, but notably, there is no chatbot. Well....I'm going to read it anyway, and you're all going to get spammed with notes :) that's means a NEW ULTRATHREAD 🧵

Adam Hanieh FT Weekend Essay! “The Gulf’s ammonia exports are especially important for markets outside N. America & western Europe. In 2024, for instance, Saudi Arabia, Oman & Qatar together supplied more than three-quarters of India’s ammonia imports and 30 % of Morocco’s.”

A first look: My take on the history of criminal justice and the procuracy under (and after) Stalin The Disciplined Dictatorship: The Soviet Procuracy from Stalin to Khrushchev, 1938—1956 forthcoming with Oxford University Press Expected September 2026. More soon.

On advance access: "Begging and lower-class giving in late Imperial Russia" by Felix Cowan (@utoronto.ca) and Sarah Badcock (@uonhumanities.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

🚨#History Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in the History of Capitalism. 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students! See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word... 👇👇👇 warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre...

Das Klima der Philosophie. Die ökologische Krise als Herausforderung für die Philosophie- und Ideengeschichte Herausgegeben von Melanie Sehgal und Martin Mulsow Erscheinungstermin: 13.10.2026 www.suhrkamp.de/buch/das-kli...

Just a few days to go until our #BASEES2026 panel on the "Hidden Pillars of the Soviet Economy," featuring Tamar Qeburia on Georgian manganese, @alexoberlaender.bsky.social on the shabashniki & yours truly on good old peat. Comments by @jeremymorris.bsky.social Join us on Friday, 10 April at 4:45

Leprechaun alarm ☘️

We're hiring! 🌿 The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger invites applications for a 3-year postdoc in Environmental History. See thread for more details. #envhist #envhum

thought it would be a good time to share my syllabus on the global history of petrostates. turned out to be more topical than I could have imagined!

Recently published in @jcultecon.bsky.social: @vkluzik.bsky.social on the genealogy of the concept of "carrying capacity" and how it was seized and shaped by both ecologists and economists. Must read for anyone interested in the links between population and the environment. doi.org/10.1080/1753...

Towards a new Fressoz debate. Here is a🧵of reviews. www.penguin.co.uk/books/464145...

I am delighted that the special issue ‘Socialist Humanitarianism in the Twentieth Century’ has now been published in the Journal of Contemporary History. This special issue was a joy to edit and brings together a dream team of contributors. I'll post the contributions in this thread...

Critical thinking is under serious threat from large language models/AI. Uni administrators are too prone to accept tech hype! (plus it can be wrong, steals IP, has devasting environment/energy impacts). @jessicacalarco.com made a great one-pager I share with students (plus effective model of comms)

Happy to share a new paper with @awitschas.bsky.social & @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social. We introduce AI resignation as a form of subjectivity that hollows out young people’s self-efficacy and, as an affective formation, sustains power in digital capitalism. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A new episode of Future Histories! This time I talk to Cédric Durand (@cedricdurand.bsky.social) about ecological planning, institutional utopias, and the idea of bifurcation. Full episode here: www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo... #FutureHistories #Podcast

👇Call for Abstracts for a workshop on 'The Whole and its Sum: The Communication of Energy Knowledge in Contemporary History' at ZZF Potsdam with Rüdiger Graf and Marco Bianchini, 3-4 December 2026 www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

I thoroughly enjoyed talking about 🔥 Burning Swamps 🔥 with Jan Zofka @gwzo.bsky.social in Leipzig earlier this year. Thanks to @recentglobe.bsky.social for including me into the excellent Druckfrisch series. You can now watch our conversation online 👉 recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/globebook #envhist

I thoroughly enjoyed talking about 🔥 Burning Swamps 🔥 with Jan Zofka @gwzo.bsky.social in Leipzig earlier this year. Thanks to @recentglobe.bsky.social for including me into the excellent Druckfrisch series. You can now watch our conversation online 👉 recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/globebook #envhist

New #EnvHum book! Read Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for the Environmental Humanities by Emily Brownell for free on our Environment & Society Portal. This is sure to come in handy for lecturers in the field.

Mentions several times that we need to protect digital infrastructure from extreme weather but nowhere that the expansion of resource-hungry digital infrastructure is part of the problem ...

🌿 The Environmental History Today Series continues in February with Russia 🗣️ Anna Mazanik and Andrei Vinogradov present their books 📅 Date: 26 February 2026 (Thu), 14:00–16:00 (CET) 📍 Format: Online ℹ️ Details on how to take part are below 👇 eseh.org/envhistoday-... #EnvHist #Envhum

Kafka and Dr Karma are my absolute favorites among the various versions of my first name in student emails. Time to retire.

I have a whole week on energy and extraction planned for H-Environment Reviews! #envhist #envhum #extraction #mining 🔋🪫🛢️🪨

The broad beans in our allotment are raising their heads ... time to pre-order Kate Brown's new book "Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present and Future of the Self-Provisioning City." Out next week: wwnorton.com/books/978132... #newbookalert #envhist

We need to electrify society to reduce emissions, but how we undertake that transition really matters. This week @triofrancos.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss all the mining needed to go “green” and how that’s playing out across the world. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/315_...

2 new ahead-of-print articles live now! In 'The Fugitive Steppe', Jackie Erlon-Baurjan examines how Russian imperial ambitions to transform the Kazakh steppe between 1840 and 1914 were shaped by and in turn reshaped understandings of climate. doi.org/10.3828/whpe... 🗃️ #envhist

On advance access: "Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928" by Simeon Koole (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) and @benmechen.bsky.social (@uclhistory.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

Wow. What an incredible find!!! This one here is perfect for my upcoming class on Soviet environmentalism - "Global ecological problems" from 1987 produced for Soviet 10th graders

Preparing a lecture thinking the visual literature review should be recognized as a genre

A few of us got together for a forum on degrowth in @envirohistory.bsky.social. Here is my bit: "It's the Economy Stupid." And check out the entries from @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social, @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social, and www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...