Are you from an 🇪🇺 country or 🇳🇴🇮🇸🇨🇭 interested in studying how humanities can help communicate and address environmental issues? Registration is open now for our Master in Public Environmental Humanities! Free tuition for our 2 year program in Stavanger, Norway. www.uis.no/en/studies/t...

Saying it again: "clean nuclear future" is an oxymoron. www.zocalopublicsquare.org/our-clean-nu...

Online tomorrow Monday, 16 February 2026: Greenhouse book talk with Kip Hutchins @songsforhorses.com on A Song for the Horses: Musical Heritage for More-than-Human Futures in Mongolia (University of Arizona Press, 2025) at 16:00 CET / 10:00 EST. newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

Happy Valentine’s Day, from us to you. Tag your exes. Xoxox

Thanks, past me, for writing “send emails” on my todo list. I have no idea what I was referring to specifically, but I have indeed sent some emails, so I can check that off. Good to have achieved something.

1/2 Excited to announce our Call for Abstracts for the next Ghosts of Empire in the North Sea workshop, hosted by colleagues at the University of Copenhagen August 20-21, 2026 This year, we also welcome work that looks beyond the North Sea. nors.ku.dk/english/cale...

Our Winter Olympics & Their Environments series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social and M. Blake Butler, begins today with "The High-Energy Afterlives of Lillehammer’s Olympic Cabins" by @finnarne.me niche-canada.org/2026/02/09/t... #envhist #olympics #energyhistory #sporthistory

I might not care one bit about watching the winter olympics, but I have a new #envhist #energyhistory piece out in @nichecanada.bsky.social on how the 1994 Lillehammer Olympic media village built on Norwegian cabin traditions - and transformed them after the games. niche-canada.org/2026/02/09/t...

The extended deadline for #ICOHTEC2026 is fast approaching. Submit your abstracts before 28 February. See: icohtec2026.hs.duth.gr for more details. #histtech #histstm #envhist #envhum

Some colleagues in my old department in Trondheim are recruiting a PhD candidate in Gender Studies and/or STS on the "Imagining Positive Energy Futures" project. 3 years, fully funded. Norway's a good place to do a PhD and Trondheim's a nice place to live!

Call for Contributions to a Sourcebook for Histories of Weather & Weathering teleskopos.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/c... Full details linked and here teleskopos.wordpress.com/wp-content/u... It will be edited by me, @lottaleiwo.bsky.social and Tamara Culkins. Please share! #histSTM #envhist 🗃️📜

Are you in UK and want to hear about my book Ghosts Behind Glass? 3 public talks in Feb: Cambridge Museum of Zoology, 11 Feb www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk/events/talk-... M Shed Bristol, 12 Feb  www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/m-s... Oxford NatHist Museum, 13 Feb www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/dead-a...

February at the @greenhouseuis.net is packed with fantastic academic and social events for and by the #envhum community, starting with a book talk today at 4 pm, as always online, and a perfect way to close the first work day of a week with. 🌿

Came across this album in London and of course had to get it - «warm earth music for plants… and the people who love them». Pretty cheesy, but our plants are happy!

I am running a course on the Histories of Energy Transitions this spring, starting 2 March! The course is fully online and asynchronous and it is open to students at ECIU universities as well as anyone enrolled at Norwegian universities. #energyhistory For more information, see below ⤵

The research guide on Environmental History that I wrote for The National Archives, UK is now live! Includes research advice and resources on colonial environments, pollution, agriculture, and animal histories. Available here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-yo... #envhist #envhum

Join us online for Chris Jones discussing his book The Invention of Infinite Growth: How Economists Came to Believe a Dangerous Delusion (Univ of Chicago Press, 2025) in the Greenhouse #envhum #book talk series tomorrow (Monday, 2 February 2026), 16:00 CET / 10:00 EST.

A recent cartoon for @newscientist.com. p.s. my new book of science cartoons, ‘Physics for Cats’ is out now. Links at www.tomgauld.com

"History teaches, but it has no pupils." Antonio Gramsci, 1919. 🗃️

A good crowd at the Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social celebration lecture with our co-director Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social tonight. www.uis.no/en/research/... #envhum #envhist

We have an online information meeting about our new Masters in Public Environmental Humanities program TODAY (Jan 27) at 14:00 Central European time. If you are interested in finding out more, register to attend the meeting (near bottom of this page): www.uis.no/en/studies/t... #envhist #envhum

A reminder about our online free book talk with @kbruisch.bsky.social tomorrow! Join us to hear about Burning Swamps. #envhist #envhum

First time in ages at Hå Gamle Prestegård to see their new exhibitions. I particularly liked Helene Espedal-Selvåg’s «Common Sky» installation. www.hagamleprestegard.no/Kalender/Cal...

This is harassment. Though to be fair, my screenshots do fill the entire desktop of my 32" office monitor and a large chunk of the vertical 27" monitor next to it... Probably time for my semi-annual cleanup soon.

Looking for any STS/Env Hum folks working on biological invasion, conservations, and multispecies violence! With this combined panel, Luiza and I planned one sesh for 1. presentations and 2. ecology-humanities tandem workshop. We hope for (lots of✨) space for interdisciplinary discussion!

Yesss. Finding gold in the archive documents today!

Join us for the first online #envhum book talk of 2026! For those in North America, start time is 10am eastern.

Our 1st #envhum #book talk of 2026 is on Monday, 19 Jan, 16:00 CET/15:00 GMT. Join us to hear Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social discuss her book A Circumpolar Landscape: Art and Environment in Scandinavia and North America, 1890-1930. All are welcome! newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

Today: Procrastinating and avoiding important admin tasks by doing actual research and writing. Not quite sure that's how it's supposed to work, but I'll take it!

We are now accepting proposals from scholars interested in applying for the EU's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships program in 2026. This is a great program for early career (<8 yrs from PhD) scholars to be with @greenhouseuis.net for 2 years on own project. www.uis.no/en/research/...

The deadline to submit an abstract/proposal for #ICOHTEC2026 has been extended to 28 February 2026. Please see icohtec2026.hs.duth.gr for more details. #histtech #histstm #envhist #envhum #museum #museumstudies #heritagestudies

Join us for the first online Greenhouse #envhum book talk of the year with @issygapp.bsky.social on Monday 19 January at 16:00/4pm CET. Info on attending here: newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

Kom på festførelesing med @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social! 28. januar inviterer @greenhouseuis.net til ei open førelesing på @unistavanger.bsky.social for å feire at Dolly har blitt tildelt Gad Rausings Prisen 2025. Det er ope for alle. Meir info og påmelding ⤵ www.uis.no/en/research/...

I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...

Join the European Society for Environmental History! We are our members, and with a modest yearly fee (25 or 10 €) you will contribute to the community and our next conference. And there are benefits! You can also help by spreading the word! Read more here: eseh.org/membership/h... #EnvHist #EnvHum

NEWS 📣 The CUP Element @draflint.bsky.social & I wrote on 'Outdoor Singing in Modern Britain: A Sensory and Emotional History' has been published & free to download here. Thanks to editorial team incl @boddice.bsky.social, reviewers and all who commented on WIP 🙏 www.cambridge.org/core/element...

The @greenhouseuis.net is slowly awaking from hibernation and is starting off the year with book talks by @issygapp.bsky.social and @kbruisch.bsky.social (as always online and open to all) and a special event to celebrate the Gad Rausing Prize 2025 awarded to @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social! #envhum

Oh yeah, I was shortlisted for this grant.

If you've been thinking of buying Electric Wind, now would be a very good time - it's only £11.40 in the MUP sale!

DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL 16 JANAURY ! #histstm #histtech

We have an exciting lineup of @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talks for the spring. Mark your calendars now to join the talks live at 4pm Central European time on Mondays. All are welcome. Here's what we have set for the first 5 talks. 👇

Today: back to work after a much-needed holiday. There’s writing to be done. Little travel planned for this semester and my teaching load is light.

Supermoon Rising.

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.