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Finally a clear morning again. But it’s chilly as heck! Fall is here, for sure.

Sinking into the evening with Neko Case spinning on the turntable. Looking forward to her new album coming out next month!

Sunday morning vinyl, reading books and working my way through my Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy LPs. I saw him and Matt Sweeney live on the Superwolf tour in Charlottesville back when the album came out, 20 years ago. Not my favorite of his, but still good.

Awake at ridiculous times with insomnia, reading @quintinlake.bsky.social’s The Perimeter. Fascinating project to walk the 11000 km of Britain’s coastline, illustrated with fantastic pictures of nature, culture, industry, and infrastructure in ways that really appeal to me.

Boosting my mood with one of the true masterpieces of the nineties on vinyl, Built to Spill’s Perfect From Now On. It really hits the spot today.

Bah. Disappointing grant news today. Of course, most grant proposals are rejected, also mine, so it's only to be expected. But I really believed in this one, and the international collaborations it would have enabled would have been so nice.

It’s all downhill from here, much rain forecast. I’m hiding inside, working on a text.

I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities! Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December. Applications are welcome until 24 October. #envhum #envhist #energyhistory

"Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN commission of inquiry" - in @theguardian.com today

Based on feedback from applicants, reviewers and broader research community, the ERC Scientific Council decided to make changes in the 2026–27 calls for proposal for research funding. More details from the ERC President 👉 europa.eu/!hP3WWF What’s your take on this? Tell us! 👇

Much rain ahead.

Join us online Monday 15 Sept 2025 for @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social discussing Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948 (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024) in Greenhouse #envhum book talk series at 16:00 in Norway / 15:00 in UK. newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

Saturday morning vinyl: The Breeders’ absolutely fun and fantastic Last Splash. Great energy!

Oh hey, Wish You Were Here turns 50 today! Haven’t listened to it in a very long time, but this is a good opportunity to revisit it. It’s a classic, for sure.

Today we have "Digital Translations and Playable Space: Ready, Set, Yokohama!" by @jkdahl.bsky.social This is the first article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/09/11/d... #envhist #envhum #japan

Are you following our Early-Career-Scholar network, ESEH NextGate? They organize events and support young scholars. Follow here: @esehnextgate.bsky.social #envhist #envhum

The Greenhouse Inaugural Professorial Lecture with Ingvil Hellstrand is about to begin! www.uis.no/en/research/... #envhum

Mostly a cold silver blue today.

Timely reminder.

Reading the news from Poland. I should have been in Krakow now, traveling home from the CHANSE closing conference, but it turned out I couldn’t go after all. Several from the DigiFREN project team is stuck there, including my postdoc. Hoping it’ll calm down, but travel will be chaos for a while.

No rain this morning, but it’ll return with a vengeance tonight. Today I’ll take our first-year history students (about 70 of 110 show up) to the Archaeology Museum to explore material culture and historical narratives. Should be fun!

I'll be hosting an online event on encountering extinction in the archives with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social as part of The National Archives' Research Routes series. Come along to hear about researching animal histories in the archive! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/extinction...

A blaze in the northern sky. Very rainy morning, the late summer days are over.

If anyone is interested in speaking about the impact Joy Parr’s work has had on their own research over the next couple of days, please let me know! Currently making a film about this for the upcoming #SHOT25 meeting in Luxembourg and a spot has opened up unexpectedly. #histSTM #EnvHist

One more week to get your abstracts in for EASLCE 2026 and join the orca uprising! Would love to see many of you here in Utrecht in April next year. #envhum

At my good colleague @markusmindrebo.bsky.social’s book launch at the @unistavanger.bsky.social Library today. Women, Politics, and Social Networks in the Sagas of Norwegian Kings. Congratulations on the book, Markus!

There’s a special place in hell for people who break bottles on bicycle paths. I had to stop twice to pick up glass when biking my daughter to school today. Almost got run over by two boys on rental bikes while doing it.

Good skies this morning. Of course, I forgot about the whole lunar eclipse yesterday, even though conditions here were great. 🙄🌕

For today’s sunrise, we’re doing stripes.

I think I may have found the official @greenhouseuis.net beer! Made locally here in Stavanger.

Saturday 🧿 Spinning: Nils Frahm’s Spaces. A very cool live recording.

The @easlce.bsky.social deadline for Utrecht is fast approaching and @katiekung.bsky.social and I are still looking for one paper for a panel on care & invasive species tentatively titled: “Some we love, some we hate, some we kill: why it’s so hard to care for invasive species” #ecocriticism #envhum

Tiny snail on a big journey.

Today it's time for another PhD defense - I have co-supervised Johana Montalvan Castilla, who will defend her thesis “Children in the Smart City. Disentangling Challenges and Opportunities” today. Looking forward to it!

Join us online Monday to hear Tina Adcock discussing A Cold Colonialism. As always, you are welcome to ask your own questions too! Details below.

I’ll be sharing some #envhum insights from *A Cold Colonialism* in a @greenhouseuis.net book talk next Monday, September 8th at 7 am PT / 10 am ET / 4 pm CET. Please join us! ❄️ Click below for more info, including the Zoom link ⬇️ #envhist #cdnhist newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

I've already received a few fantastic abstracts, but don't worry, there is an entire week left to send yours! #envhist #envhum #extraction 🌊🪨🪸

On the ferry to Kvitsøy, for a day full of Greenhouse discussions with friends and colleagues. Looking forward to it!

Six weeks from publication! Forgive a little book promo. I’ve got some talks lined up this autumn if you want to hear more about Electric Wind. Feel free to message me for more details.

September is here, with glimpses of sun through the rain clouds.

Coming up tomorrow (Monday Sept 1st)! It starts at 4pm in Norway / 3pm in UK, 10am Eastern in Americas. I’d love to see a big audience to kick off our fall 2025 talks.

A mega hectic week coming to a close with another classic on the record player, Band on the Run.

Join us Mon 1 Sept 2025 for @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talk with @richardfallon.bsky.social on Contesting Earth’s History in Transatlantic Literary Culture 1860-1935: Believers & Visionaries on the Borderlines of Geology & Palaeontology (Oxford UP 2025). newnatures.org/greenhouse/e... #histsci

Home to decompress a bit between the (very good) PhD defense and dinner. Just me and the dog home, so we’re listening to Radium Girls, a 2012 Japanese project themed on female factory workers who unknowingly suffered radiation poisoning while painting with glow-in-the-dark radium.

Most of my workday will be spent on Mathias Klitgård’s PhD defense. I’m the internal committee member, so my role today will be quite relaxed. While not exactly my field, I’m looking forward to the discussions!

5 days left to send your abstracts! #envhum #petrocultures #histtech #oceanhist

Sheer chaos of the best kind when I sent 70 students out in Sørmarka to locate and rephotograph six historical photos today. I loved it! An obvious lesson for them that we'll discuss next week is that historical research is not a straightforward process, but that it can be confusing as heck.

Many-layered mountains this morning. Teaching starts today, I’ll take somewhere between 50 and 110 students on a walk through the forest around campus to train their historical gaze. Logistically complicated, for sure, but I’m looking forward to it!

Tonight we’re listening to one of my finds from one of the three (!) excellent record shops I visited in Uppsala last week. Depeche Mode’s Black Celebration is sooo good.