Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

People in 2050 would give trillions of dollars just to have the climate that we enjoy today.

more courage than every sniveling university president in the US combined

Our @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social article on keeping cool in summertime Paris, New York and London is free to read in the Journal of Social History. doi.org/10.1093/jsh/...

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

Reposting this with alt text. Delete your Twitter. Now.

It's been a pleasure being on the great organising team at York and Northumbria for next year's NEHN meeting - a collaborative worksop on the many histories of 'unwanted life'. Do see the CFP below, and send in a submission if it appeals!

📣 Applications are open for our 2026-27 Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellowship scheme! The scheme supports professionals and researchers from health or voluntary and community sectors to develop research within the medical humanities. Apply by 30 Jan:

Collared is out in paperback today! 🐶🐾

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

Hey there. Today we launch @g-ehr.bsky.social - an open-access, digital publication of the American Society for Environmental History and dedicated to publishing work that explores topics connecting the environmental present with its past. Let me know if you have questions! @aseh.bsky.social

This Climate Week NYC, read about the work of our NYC team Kara Schlichting and Daniel Cumming on the Gotham Centre blog: www.gothamcenter.org/blog/melting... [with brilliant photos from our Urban Archive collaboration]

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

Who is in charge of tackling extreme heat in New York City? Read about @queenscollegecuny.bsky.social intern Selassie Mawuko's reseach on our blog: www.meltingmetropolis.com/teamblog/nyc... #nyc #climatechange #heatwave

If you would like to review my book for a publication, get in touch! The book is a history of wind energy and I’m trying to get it out to as wide an audience as possible. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/

A 2 year postdoc research assistant job to work on the early institutional history of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, leading to the writing of a report to contribute to broader decolonising and reparative efforts. Around 40k, deadline 5 Sept 25. app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

About 1500 of the approx. 2300 people that will have lost their lives across 12 European cities last week would still live, if it wasn't for our burning of oil, coal and gas. If we care about the right to life, we need to stop burning fossil fuels. www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

Op-ed piece from team members Kara Schlichting and Selassie Mawuko: Does NYC need a heat czar? citylimits.org/opinion-its-... TLDR: yes! Essential reading in @citylimitsnews.bsky.social given the high the temperatures #NYC has experienced this summer #heatwave 📷 LoC

Important news for the #envhist crowd: We are hiring an Associate Professor of Environmental History! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Application deadline is August 7. Some tips for those interested from abroad in thread 👇

Delighted to see this finally announced! Liverpool-led AHRC Doctoral Focal Awards Funding loads of Environmental/Medical Humanities PhDs with CHASE, @livunienglish.bsky.social, & lots of collaborators!!!

How to turn off AI on Google searches. Took me 30secs 🙏🏻🥳

Heat waves everywhere in the global north this week, so time for a thread on heat humanities research. Humanities scholars are exceptionally good at analyzing intersections of race, class, gender, and labor to highlight social vulnerabilities to meteorological disasters.

We have a ☀️NEW ☀️date for Stand of the Sun - Thursday 19 June 2025. Still FREE, still at Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, TW1 3BL Reserve tickets here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/richmond-art...

A reminder of an upcoming webinar organised by ESEH UK & Ireland region on 'New Directions in Urban Climates of the Atlantic Archipelago' May 20, 2025: 13:00 – 15:00 (GMT +1) Presenters: @erikahanna.bsky.social @rebwright.bsky.social @chrisjpearson.bsky.social Zoom link eseh.org/envhistoday-...

☀️Come to a FREE Melting Metropolis event at Orleans House Gallery on #Summer #Solstice 21 June 2025: Stand of the Sun ☀️ Art, music and dance, with Bryony Ella, Bumi Thomas and Antoine Marc Booking essential: www.ticketsource.co.uk/richmond-art... #climatecrisis #londonart

Historians, please sign!

We are excited to announce that @liverpooluni.bsky.social will host the next big @ihr.bsky.social workshop - IHR@Liverpool! The topic is 'Difficult Histories' ✨ This is geared toward PGRs + early career folks & there are bursaries available! Sign-up + more info ➡️ www.history.ac.uk/events/ihrli...

Organising a conference on extinction with Duncan Wilson. We have enough funding to provide free registration, some support towards accommodation and limited bursaries for travel. CFP here, with the form to submit your abstract. We also have incredible speakers for the keynote and plenaries!

Exciting film-maker opportunity to work with Melting Metropolis

Today UK authors are protesting against Meta for stealing our work to train their AI model. Authors earn an average of £7000 per year, we are not rich, and yet a trillion dollar company decided it didn’t want to license our work fairly as it was “too expensive” Theft is not a valid alternative.

Amazing opportunity alert!

📢ACTUAL ACADEMIC JOB🚨 Tell the ECRs in your lives that we have full-time, 12-month teaching fellowship @livunienglish.bsky.social So, while the world continues to burn, they can at least be paid properly to teach books and in a friendly department that is 75% human (10% Witch; 15% miscellaneous)

*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens

Today's the day and our tails are already wagging in anticipation! 🐕🐶🐩🦮🐕‍🦺🐾 @chrisjpearson.bsky.social

Here's our response 👇 Feel free to use our answers as a template. You've got until midnight tonight! And remember, you don't need to answer every question. www.alcs.co.uk/news/alcs-su...

Next Wednesday (26/2) @chrisjpearson.bsky.social will be joining us to deliver the CEH Annual Lecture on his new book Collared: How We Made the Modern Dog. The lecture will take place in the Old Council Chamber, Wills Memorial Building, Bristol at 5-6.30pm. All welcome!

Honoured to be in such good company and excited, as ever, to be visiting the West Country!

🥳 Behold! The CEH Termcard has landed and it's packed full of exciting events -- from workshops to walkshops, lectures to moth expeditions. We're so pleased to have @chrisjpearson.bsky.social back to deliver our annual lecture on the 26 February, along with many other brilliant speakers!

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

CfP: ESEH 2025 Summer School in Environmental History Anthropocene Histories KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden August 25-28, 2025, right after #ESEH2025 Deadline: 28 February #envhist #envhum #anthropocene @eseh.bsky.social 🌿 More information👇 eseh.org/call-for-par...

“Our technology requires parasitical theft to be profitable” is a bold gambit

History, Media, Environmental Studies: Fully Funded PhD Studentship in The Discussions Around Climate Change in Wales, From The 1950s to 2016 Swansea University - History, Media, Environmental Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLC343/h...

Early-career researchers in Environmental Humanities are encouraged to apply for the @iashedinburgh.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowships, where they will join a lively and supportive community for up to 10 months: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/early-career...

It's Small Business Saturday! Buy ANY book book this weekend and you could win a £250 gift card! Every sale supports independent bookshops. Shop small, think big 📚 uk.bookshop.org/lists/win-a-...

Love the illustration - I'm a sucker for a beardy dog

This is news to me

Delighted to be reviewed alongside one of my favourite authors Andrew Michael Hurley

This was a brilliant conference (no idea what I'm doing in the photo tho!). @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social