🔔 Admissions are open for the M.Phil in Environmental History at Trinity College Dublin. Come and join us - or recommend our course to your students! #envhist #skystorians More info here 👇 www.tcd.ie/courses/post...

How is AI *really* impacting jobs? Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an: -8% drop in all jobs postings -~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs -22% drop in journalism jobs

🔔 Admissions are open for the M.Phil in Environmental History at Trinity College Dublin. Come and join us - or recommend our course to your students! #envhist #skystorians More info here 👇 www.tcd.ie/courses/post...

Since 1990, the emissions share of the richest 1% has increased by 13%, and the richest 0.1% has grown by 32%, while the poorest 50% has decreased by 3%. policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/cl...

Really looking forward to presenting 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 next Monday at UCL/SSEES! Thanks to @vkulikov.bsky.social for the initiative and to @eglerin.bsky.social & @robertsuits.bsky.social for agreeing to discuss my work. Join us if you happen to be in London @uclssees.bsky.social

In der neuen APuZ geht es um #Wachstum und #Wohlstand, #Degrowth, #GreenGrowth und #Ungleichheit - mit Texten von Werner Plumpe, Julia Braun, @lukasscholle.bsky.social, Ulrike Herrmann, Niko Paech sowie @cmohren.bsky.social und @moritzoder.bsky.social: www.bpb.de/apuz/wachstu...

Congratulations to Anne O’Donnell, winner of the Ed A Hewett Book Prize for Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution with Princeton University Press. #ASEEESPrizes See all winners: buff.ly/qNk3PSU @princetonupress.bsky.social

We need a critique of AI in academic publishing. Following my decision not to sign an AI addendum to my contract with Cambridge University Press, I wrote this short essay which is now out in the Dublin Review of Books. 👇 drb.ie/move-over-fo...

Peat on air! I got to talk with Sean and Rusana from the @euraknot.bsky.social about my book 🔥 Burning Swamps 🔥. Thanks for having me! #envhist

Please join us for this event to hear more about @kbruisch.bsky.social's new book 'Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia’s Fossil Economy' (@universitypress.cambridge.org). Discussants: Eglė Rindzevičiūtė and @robertsuits.bsky.social. 🗓️ 17 November at 6.15pm ➡️ buff.ly/zYgWn4s

For the last few months I've been going through public documents, permits, and satellite images to track the largest data centers in the US. Today I published the first story about what I've learned. 🧵 www.distilled.earth/p/these-data...

10 days left to apply for this course! Many amazing scholars will contribute to this course, including @untamed.bsky.social, @dudleymarianna.bsky.social, Abigail Harrison Moore, Alice Owen, and @andersriel.bsky.social! #envhist #energyhistory #envhum

Fellowships for doctoral candidates or postdoctoral researchers from Poland or Ukraine for a stay of up to six months in Halle. 👇 www.aleksander-brueckner-zentrum.org/forschung/au...

It sure is! Thanks to everyone who helped me make this book. I'm reminiscing today about field trips to Orkney, Shetland & the Outer Hebrides, islands which swept me up in their windy history, and offered new perspectives on 'national' narratives & global challenges. (And plotting ways to return!)

We are hiring! Prospective PhD students in environmental history, history of science, history of technology and STS interested in the climate and environmental impacts of AI look here. Please share in your networks. #envhist #histsci #AI #anthropcoene

From the current issue: “Dams and the Deep Earth: The 1967 Koyna Earthquake and Human Agency in the Anthropocene” by Elizabeth Chatterjee and Sachaet Pandey-Geeta Mantraraj (University of Chicago) doi.org/10.1093/past...

Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

Three excellent readings on electricity from this week's "Energy & Power in the Modern World" - case studies from Latin America, Africa & Asia which complicate narratives based on Western cases.💡⚡ Students also liked the texts for the different ways in which they present a historical argument 👇

Dear colleagues, we drafted an open letter to the conference of German federal ministers of education asking for a reform of the Privatdozentur, that stage in a German academic's career where your work is not paid - a situation that can easily extend over years.

Three excellent readings on electricity from this week's "Energy & Power in the Modern World" - case studies from Latin America, Africa & Asia which complicate narratives based on Western cases.💡⚡ Students also liked the texts for the different ways in which they present a historical argument 👇

It's the official publication day for ETHANOL: A HEMISPHERIC HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE OF BIOFUELS. Want to know why the US turns 40 percent of the corn crop into fuel? How the US and Brazil became the world's two largest ethanol producers? Tom Rogers and I have answers. www.oupress.com/978080619601...

Fossil Fuel Empire: The Environment of Post-2022 Russia and the Kremlin’s Threat to Domestic and Global Stability and Sustainability www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

This new study in Nature provides a comprehensive update to the "doughnut" framework.

@corinnegeering.bsky.social, @immorebitschek.bsky.social‬‬‬ und Timm Schönfelder im aktuellen Heft 4/2024: Introduction to the Special Issue. Resources in Use: Visions and Practices in Late Imperial Russia and the Early Soviet Union #JahrbücherJGO doi.org/10.25162/jgo...

And today is that day ✨ Today we start a new journey with the launch of Germinate! @g-ehr.bsky.social is an open-access, digital publication of the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH)

What is at stake when we write Environmental History? And what is the right story? I used texts by Ted Steinberg, Stefania Barca & Erik Loomis' review of Sunil Amrith's "The Burning Earth" to discuss these questions with our M.Phil students last week. Can only recommend! #envhist

Some of you will know that I recently got funding for a project on Nitrogen in society. I am here making my application accessible for others who are thinking about applying for funding—plus some background on the funding programme and a few tips. wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/more-and-l...

For those in London on 17 Nov 2025: please join us for a book talk at @uclssees.bsky.social. @eglerin.bsky.social and @robertsuits.bsky.social have read the book and will share their comments. Register here: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

10yo is right to ask why my book is some 110 Euros more expensive than the new Diary of a Wimpy Kid. I can’t get my head around this either, but I just received a discount code valid until 30 September. Use BRUISCHK25 to get 20% off. Greg’s next adventure will still be cheaper, I fear👇

Today is publication day! EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...

📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5 #envhist #energysky

📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5 #envhist #energysky

The War-driven Environmental Destruction in Ukraine: Naming, Understanding, Witnessing Part of the international series “Rethinking Ukraine’s Environment: War, Ecocide, and Beyond” Thursday – 9 October 2025 – Zoom niche-canada.org/2025/09/23/o... #envhist #envhum #ukraine #ecocide

Gen AI has been trained and developed in ways that no university research ethics committee would approve. And yet as academics we supposedly need training in how to use it ‘ethically’…

Exciting list of speakers presenting in our Environmental History Research Seminar this term. If you happen to be in Dublin, come along. We'll meet on Mondays at 1 PM in the Trinity Long Room Hub #envhist Thanks to @tlrhub.bsky.social for hosting us! @historytcd.bsky.social 👇

This technology is so clearly designed to profit off cheating and struggling students--its insidious. And yet universities keep announcing how they're allowing this company into its midst, to exploit and incapacitate our students even more

Thrilled to have this piece up on Dublin Review of Books today drb.ie/tcds-forgott... it brings together my own family history and the work we are doing as part of the Trinity Colonial Legacies project.

a brilliant thread on the invisible drainage infrastructure underneath farmland in northern Germany calling us to read the land as a product of history 👇

“A lot of academic research on AI currently is also funded by the AI industry, which creates the risk of distorting scientific knowledge, similar to how we’ve seen happen in the past.”

CFP: "The Greyzone of the Green Transition – Environmental Inequalities in Central and Eastern Europe." International conference in Romania, May 2026. Keynotes by Stefania Barca, Erik Swyngedouw, and Andrej Grubačić. #envhist #envhum

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Very much looking forward to reading this.... "In tech we trust: A history of technophilia in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) climate mitigation expertise" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

It was good to co-author alongside @clarekelly.bsky.social & Caitríona Leahy & with the input from Harun Šiljak & Norah Campbell. We are clearly not the only ones thinking like this, both within Trinity & beyond, so let's build community to #resistAI www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Something I didn't get to say yesterday: We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.

This week we check-in with frequent EK guest Brian Milakovsky to learn about the destruction of forests in Ukraine. How has the war accelerated the destruction of eastern Ukraine’s ecology, and what does this mean for the future? patreon.com/posts/deforestation-of-137412305

excited to share the call for the workshop EXTRACTIVE NATURES / NATURES OF EXTRACTION happening at @uobrisceh.bsky.social on 6-7 Nov 2025, 
made possible by the @britishacademy.bsky.social deadline: 10 September! full call below ⤵ #envhist #envhum

ESEH 2027, “Environmental History Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries,” will take place on 6–10 September in beautiful Salzburg, Austria! #ESEH2025 #ESEH2027 #envhist #envhum @mknoll.bsky.social