I willl start 2026 with a brief visit to Oslo. Come by if you have time. www.sv.uio.no/tik/english/...

The moon was big today.

Great news to start off 2026: Audio versions of all episodes of the Greenhouse #envhum book talks -- that's 188 episodes! -- are now available for you to listen to. Audio feed you can subscribe to: newnatures.org/greenhouse/f... (also available via many standard podcast listening services)

There’s much to think about here - the Norwegian National Library is releasing a large language model trained on their vast collection of Norwegian-language texts, for free, next year.

The Greenhouse Library and the hallway outside wrapped up like a Christmas present. If all goes to plan, we’ll get a new and non-leaky roof in January. And if it doesn’t to go according to plan … October?

The Christmas book pile is ambitious, but very very promising. And I have new reading/computer glasses that I need to test out properly, anything else would not take my workplace health and safety seriously.

More like, "All done for the year!" Please don't send any more emails until January, I have worked hard for this.

Today: «Litterære reiser til underlege øyar». At our colleague Magne Drangeid’s professor promotion lecture.

If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Me har utlyst ei fast fyrsteamanuensisstilling i historie på UiS! Vår nye kollega skal kome med kompetanse på moderne norsk og internasjonal historie, og her da særleg med politiske og økonomiske perspektivar. Søknadsfristen er 14. januar 2026 Del gjerne! www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...

Finally this absolute beauty from @skeuomorphpress.org made it across the pond. The texture of the paper, the quality of the print, the colors, the weight, the smell - not to mention the content by @ursulakleguin.com - it’s a real inspiration.

Today: taught the last history master student seminar of the year with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social , talking about how to write with and about theory and method.

«Have we ever considered the potato as a gift, an aesthetic, a mood?»

"New cross-Nordic research project on forest cultural heritage" - the official press release and announcement for ROOTS, @wrigleyca.bsky.social's new Nordforsk-funded #envhum project on forest cultural heritage.

What does Gen AI mean for the work of the historian and the value of historical experience, skills and craft? 'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social. New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2

Today: Teams meeting, Nasjonalbiblioteket meeting, old friend meeting. All good meetings, in different ways, but wow, I’m ready for a few weeks without meetings.

I heard @historiamagoria.bsky.social talk about this research at #eseh2025 this summer, wonderful to see a post on it before the holidays! #envhist

The ICOHTEC Annual Conference 2026 in Alexandroupolis, Greece now has a website: icohtec2026.hs.duth.gr Please have a look at the CfP and other details, and submit your abstracts. Submissions open on 15 December 2025. Deadline: 31 January 2026 #histstm #histtech #histmed #envhist #envhum #histsci

Korleis er det eigentleg å vere ung forskar i Noreg i dag? Saman med @forsker.bsky.social gjennomfører AYF ei nasjonal undersøking for å kartlegge karriereutsiktar, arbeidsvilkår, publiseringspress og psykososial helse blant forskarar under 45 år. akademietforyngreforskere.no/delta-i-unde...

Today: soon arriving in Oslo on the night train. Will speak at the book launch of Anna Grasskamp’s fascinating edited volume (Re)made in China later today. In the meantime, meeting a very old friend of mine for photographs. There will also be coffee and books, I’m sure.

Mitt institutt ved UiS søker en førsteamanuensis i historie innenfor moderne norsk og internasjonal historie, med særlig vekt på politiske og økonomiske perspektiver. Må kunne skandinavisk. www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...

CREATUREly walking and gathering over the past two days. 🌲🪨 Meir i vente i 2026, så om du er i Stavanger så hald auge med nettsiden vår eller ta kontakt: www.uis.no/en/research/...

First day of our Walking & Writing workshop featured two sessions with Helena Hunter and Petra Lilja, lots of creative and sensory work, and walks in the forest by campus.

For our last #envhum book talk of 2025, Nathan Hensley will discuss his book Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse (UChicago Press, 2025) Monday Dec 8th. Join us for live talk at 16:00 CET / 10:00 Eastern. Details here: newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

Today: planning our rapidly approaching Walking & Writing workshop. The second day was an empty container for some kind of processing of the first day's activities. I was stuck - but I just took a nap and woke up with the concept! Thanks, brain - good to have you back. www.uis.no/en/research/...

Starting the weekend with Ævestaden on vinyl and a very foresty beer brewed with birch, sweet woodruff, and stinging nettle from Rygr, a brewery just a few train stops south of here. I need to look at two texts tonight, but that can wait. I also need this.

A fabulous week of energy humanities PhD course is over. We ended with a roundtable on the future of energy humanities followed by the students presenting The Energy Catalogue - a small publication they made during the week. Truly inspiring. Thanks again to @melinabuns.bsky.social for organizing!

Some happy news to share - our excellent colleague Charlotte Wrigley @wrigleyca.bsky.social leads one of the eight projects that was funded by the Joint Nordic-Baltic Initiative on Sustainable Futures for Forests this week! We are super proud of her! #envhum #heritage

Lots of charismatic infrastructure (and wind!) on our energy humanities excursion to Måkaknuten wind farm south of Stavanger today. #envhist #envhum

day 1 is "penzeys revolution blend" and i cant stop laughing at "we have to GET RID of this lying, cheating, CORRUPT SCUMBAG PRESIDENT!! RESIST! REVOLT! REVOLUTION NOW!! good on roast poultry and carrots"

I felt exceedingly well prepared for this print-and-fold ornament thanks to our zine-making experiments last month.

Wonderful energy in the room at the first day of our week-long PhD course on Energy Humanities, organized by @melinabuns.bsky.social. We had a great session by @untamed.bsky.social on criminal energy. #envhist #envhum

Recorded the last two lectures for Nature & Nation tonight, showing how Norwegian national identity and infrastructure was built on particular climate conditions, and what happens when those climates are destabilized. Good #envhist complicates stories of climates, natures, and nations.

Looking forward to hearing Joanna Allan talk about her prize-winning book Saharan Winds: Energy Systems and Aeolian Imaginaries in Western Sahara in the @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talks tomorrow (Monday, 1 December) at 16:00 CET / 15:00 GMT. Hope you will join us for the live discussion!

Our new Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities now has an Instagram page. It’s a bit rudimentary still, but we are grateful for follows, as Meta restricts new accounts significantly. www.instagram.com/mapeh_uis #envhist #envhum

Dec 1st coming up fast! Check out our call for participants!

These handsomely crafted books make excellent Christmas presents and, being rectilinear, they are very easy to wrap

In a world of mid wizard book bigots, follow the Doctor's orders.

We are SO CLOSE to 75% of our fundraising goal. The fundraiser will end on Tuesday. Have you given yet? If not, can you send $20 our way. The average donation right now is $189, but we heartily welcome smaller donations! fundrazr.com/niche2025?re... #envhist #envhum #cdnhist #envstudies

This is a great blog of a stimulating and fun event we ran recently in Newcastle. Take a look! 👀 Thanks to @catherinemax.bsky.social for writing it up. (When I’ve made it through the vast marking piles 😅 I’ll try and do something similar from the All Footsteps perspective)

I have written some reflections on the #energylives fieldwork week we had in Finland in October, for The Current, our project blog. www.uis.no/en/the-curre... #envhist #envhum #energy

We decorated the Greenhouse Christmas tree at our weekly open lunch today. It’s a plastic tree, to signify our deep entanglements with petroculture in the Anthropocene. Also, it was really cheap at the IKEA January sale a few years ago.

Excitingly, this programme includes an IASH-National Museums Scotland Fellowship, inviting applications from people working on one of the following: 1) Cultures of Natural History 2) Collecting Video Game Heritage More details: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa... #histSTM📜

Today: seven hours on Zoom. I think I’ll take the dog out for a walk now. And then not look at my computer again.

The November 2025 issue of Environmental Humanities is out now! Check it out for all the lastest #envhum scholarship read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta... Cover image: A Marshall Islands navigation chart collected by Thomas William Smillie in 1899. Smithsonian Institution Archives.

ICOHTEC 2026: Call for Proposals is now open! The next Annual Meeting will take place 8–11 October 2026 at the Democritus University of Thrace (Greece), in collaboration with the Lab of Technologies, Research & Applications in Education and the Ethnological Museum of Thrace. Thread: 1/4 #histtech

New Masters in Public Environmental Humanities starts Fall 2026 in Stavanger. Registration for students from outside of EU is open now, with deadline Nov 30. So jump on it! Need more info? We have an online session coming up Friday, Nov 21. See 👇 www.uis.no/en/studies/t... #envhum #environment