Half-day of home office work after campus meetings in the morning, tweaking text and writing project summaries for a major grant proposal. All while listening to vinyl records such as this beauty - Low’s Things We Lost in the Fire. The weekend is almost here.

Do you think it's cool that we prioritize making environmental scholarship accessible and open-access?! Consider sending $20 our way so that we can keep doing this work! fundrazr.com/niche2025?re... #envhist #cdnhist #envhum #envstudies #histgeog

What could possibly go wrong?

Sent our field guide to historical rephotography to the printer two minutes before I had to leave work. Such fun to illustrate it with collage! But heckin' lot of work too. Still, really pleased with the result. Hope the print comes out well! #digifren #envhist #envhum

On 16 November, we are organizing a rephotography walk in Sørmarka to mark the approaching end of the #DigiFREN project and to launch a package of educational materials on historical rephotography. All are welcome! #envhist #envhum #photography www.uis.no/en/research/...

We’re ready for the first event of the #CREATURE research group - «Art vs. Science: dueling methodologies in the classroom». Charlotte Wrigley @wrigleyca.bsky.social and Allen Jones are running the show today. With Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein as an honorary member!

“I do understand: you want permission... You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it.” anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

This morning I’m giving a talk on sustainable development and green transitions to 150-200 social science and humanities high school teachers from all over Rogaland. My key message: All environmental problems are cultural problems. Will use several #envhum examples from @greenhouseuis.net.

Spread the word about this brand new Masters in Public Environmental Humanities with me and The Greenhouse crew in Norway. For those outside of EU, registration is in second half of November, so don’t miss it!

This is why you should use sunscreen, folks. The display copy of Silver Linings at the Stavanger Art Museum has a distinctly different color profile than the other copies.

So happy to see our «miljøfortellinger fra Japan» risograph publication in the Climate Emergency Reading Room at the Stavanger Art Museum. @melinabuns.bsky.social and Benjamin Hickethier did a fantastic job on this one.

New Master in Public Environmental Humanities - @greenhouseuis.net 2-year masters program for students who want to study today’s environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history Info sessions on November 11 & 21 niche-canada.org/2025/11/01/n... #envhum #envhist #envstudies

The Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English. Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues! Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...

Exhausted & energized after four days of fieldwork with the excellent #energylives team in Finland. What does it mean to be neighbors with oil refineries, nuclear power plants, and shipping harbors in Porvoo, Loviisa, and Naantali? Blog post coming to The Current, stay tuned

"Ghosts Behind Glass offers valuable insights into humanity’s grappling with our own hand in irrevocable loss, but the delight of the book is much simpler: as Jørgensen globetrots, we experience the museums and extinct species she visits through her enchanted gaze." lit.newcity.com/2025/10/30/s...

Time for Finnish smoke sauna. I’m about to be very cold and very hot, back and forth, for a few hours. What a way to start a week of #energylives fieldwork!

There are now 183 videos of our Greenhouse #envhum book talks available to view via our Vimeo showcase. This includes our most recent talks. You can also listen to the audio-only podcast, which is slightly behind with 154 episodes available: newnatures.org/greenhouse/f...

Winter time is here. I’m one of the seemingly rare people who like the time change, both in the spring and in the fall.

TGIF with 150 new bird cards for Wingspan waiting for me in the mailbox. Just finished the most intense student assignment feedback period of my entire career. I failed almost all of them and had to give good instructions on how to improve the assignment to pass. In essence: read the instructions.

A few months ago, in order to stay in touch with academic research while I found my footing, I started helping former colleagues and some students with small research and editing tasks. These side projects reminded me how much I enjoy dealing with complex ideas.

The 2025-26 schedule for the Lancaster-Manchester & @n8cir.bsky.social Environmental #DH Seminar is up! Next: @ehameeteman.bsky.social on Nov 12 (online) Details: www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even... #envhist #envhum #skystorians @dsilu.bsky.social @lscholz.bsky.social

‘Low-Carbon Histories for Zero-Carbon Futures’ is out today @jofhistgeog.bsky.social - a collective case for thinking historically about energy. doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

Article in the Norwegian newspaper for higher education on AI and the Anthropic settlement includes some quotes from me. One point I make is that it is unacceptable that universities are buying into AI tools even though the tools have been built so unethically. www.khrono.no/akademikere-...

This week’s research talk is with Carl Zimring (Pratt Institute/CAS Oslo), who will talk about «Ecodesigning Sustainable Products?», the project he’s working on this fall as a guest researcher at CAS. #envhist #envhum

The journal Environmental Humanities is still looking for midcareer/senior #envhum scholars interested in becoming a co-editor-in-chief from January 2026. You can apply as an individual and we'll find an appropriate co-editor match for you. See environmentalhumanities.org

«The loss of friction deprives people of something crucial» - what happens when you have creativity without craft.

Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.

Today at 3pm BST/4pm CEST, all welcome!

I opened up Module 2 of my Nature & Nation online course today. The course is a short overview of the environmental history of Norway. Over the next two weeks, students will explore the rise of sustainability discourse, from resource management to moral vision to institutionalized bureaucracy.

The mornings are getting darker and darker, but there’s still some good light before sunrise.

Trying out the new edition of Parks, one of our favorite games.

Listening to Susan Schuppli’s Ice Records, which @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social brought home from The Wellcome earlier this week. Very cool. Pun intended. susanschuppli.com/ICE-RECORDS-1

Today we have "Board Appeal: Curating Environmental Game Collections for the Public" by Sherri Sheu This is the fourth article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/10/17/b... #envhist #envhum #games

A very enjoyable evening.

As #UHA2025LA kicks off, I’m happy to share here my most recent piece on the Metropole, on an understudied topic in #urbanhistory #envhist —how different lighting tech’s have affected birds & humans over the centuries & what we can do about it. It’s a dual exposé & call to action Check it out here:

The @greenhouseuis.net - Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities invites applicants to attend a week-long PhD course on Energy Humanities, at the University of Stavanger, 1-5 Dec 2025 The course is open to applicants from both within and outside of Norway. niche-canada.org/2025/10/15/a...

Apply now for a free week-long PhD course on Energy Humanities organized by the Greenhouse and the project Energy Lives! project run by @melinabuns.bsky.social Takes place in Stavanger, Norway, 1-5 December 2025 www.uis.no/en/research/... #envhum #envhist #energy

We had a fun couple of hours prototyping the field guide on historical rephotography that we’re making for the #digifren project, drawing on postdoc Malin’s high school training in arts and design and the Layers of Time collage workshop I attended with Yannick Lowery in Philly last October.

After eight months (!), the @greenhouseuis.net Library wall that was opened up for repairs has been closed again! Time to find space on the shelves for these new (mostly) #envhum #envhist publications.

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

How does prospective mining on the Moon mirror prior forms of extractivism on Earth? In July, I visited the Blåfjell and Tellnes Mines near #MagmaGeopark in Southwest Norway to collect video materials and talk with local experts about mining heritage.

It was a pleasure to review this wonderful collection for the latest issue of Technology and Culture. Thanks to all the authors for their contributions and to @finnarne.me @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social for drawing such an interesting group of scholars together! muse.jhu.edu/issue/55712

many #energylives members at #SHOT2025 in Luxembourg last week! #histstm #envhum #energyhistory

Enormous moon rising over Ryfylke right now.

My friend and former colleague Anna Foka is recruiting a PhD student in Information Studies, AI and Digital Humanities - she told me she would love someone with an #envhist background here.

More-than-human hotels.

We took a really nice sensory walk around the Belval campus today, on a gorgeous fall day. Thanks to all who came! #shot2025 #energylives

Last day of #shot2025! I must admit that I’ve developed a slight case of campus envy while here in Belval.

At the «The Extraordinary Meaning of Ordinary Life: Joy Parr's Pioneering Vision in the History of Technology» lunchtime session at #shot2025. Francesca Bray introducing us to Joy before Sedona Micale shows us the film on Joy that she edited and produced.

I have to say, the #shot2025 program is designed as if bodies didn’t exist. No space between sessions, no time to eat, sessions can’t start on time because the rooms are still full of people from previous sessions still going on, overtime.