SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share www.change.org/p/save-geogr...

This week: Deep Disillusionment with Stewart Lee. Does what it says in the title. And then some. #StrongMessageHere www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Proud to share our first project output in Estonian! 🇪🇪 Our Roosa Rytkönen presents this poster today at the "Habitat restoration and conservation" conference in Saaremaa, Estonia, organized by key national experts and the State Forest Management Centre, RMK. Excited for feedback! @leverhulme.ac.uk

On peat restoration, the govt's new Carbon Budget Delivery Plan states that the "main delivery vehicle" will be ELMs, especially Landscape Recovery. Unfortunately, the govt has refused to publish maps of existing Landscape Recovery projects; how much peat do they cover?! www.gov.uk/government/p...

AI is all about stealing

I made my students a little “book” (just using Google slides) to show them how you all answered my question about how you take notes for research. Just to show the variety.

"In the end, generative AI might be a blip in tech history, over-promising and under-delivering until finally the cash runs out. But it seems it’s arrived just in time to shove universities over a cliff edge they’d already walked themselves up to." defector.com/higher-eds-r...

It's the official publication day for ETHANOL: A HEMISPHERIC HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE OF BIOFUELS. Want to know why the US turns 40 percent of the corn crop into fuel? How the US and Brazil became the world's two largest ethanol producers? Tom Rogers and I have answers. www.oupress.com/978080619601...

Updating my LEGO White House

I sat in the British Library reading League of Empire Loyalists, BNP & National Front literature for my book and even they claimed to promote *voluntary* repatriation. Forcible deportation was always the ghost behind those ideas, but it’s amazing that UK politicians don’t even bother to hide it.

"There’s still time to disenchant AI, provincialize it, make it uncompelling and uncool." Large Language Muddle www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

It's Electric Wind publication day!💨 Join @dudleymarianna.bsky.social for the launch of her new book, online and at @bookhaus.bsky.social. Details on the MUP Events page🎟️👇 A cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain from the industrial revolution to the present. Electric Wind is out now💡

A scandal so long-running that it predates Brexit. ‘Little lungs are paying’: 1.6m claimants head to high court as carmakers finally face punishment for Dieselgate www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

In the newest addition to 𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘴, Pollyanna Rhee portrays the perennial wheatgrass Kernza, challenging its promise of endless abundance and environmental responsibility: seeingthewoods.org/2025/10/08/f... #perennials #wheat #envhum #envhist #planetaryhealth @parhee.bsky.social

Coming soon💨 How has energy shaped a nation? Electric Wind by @DudleyMarianna.bsky.social is a cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain, from the industrial revolution to the aftermath of war, through energy crises and the changing politics of the late twentieth century💡 Pre-order now!

Shoreline demos: The contested place of the public in a marine carbon removal trial New paper in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space with @a-laurie-waller.bsky.social, Emily Cox and myself Read one of our major outputs from @co2rehub.bsky.social here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

It's time for some visuals!!! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 has a cover. Out this fall with @cambridgeup.bsky.social #envhist #skystorians #PeatSky #energysky

Pat Brodie and I have a book coming out in October. Really hoping it can be useful for analysing the imperialist political ecology of big tech and the energy transition. Big thanks to @kaiheron.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social, Anne Pasek (and others) for their generous words and engagement.

Words are magic

Carbon removal support is tempered by concerns over whether biological methods are worth it New @co2rehub.bsky.social paper in Communications Earth & Environment with Emily Cox, @a-laurie-waller.bsky.social, @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social and myself Read open access here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

We have a great line-up for these two @rgsibg.bsky.social sessions this afternoon, on the politics of carbon in land management and restoration! Please join @kargkama.bsky.social, @annakspeaking.bsky.social and me over in the Alan Walters Building, Room 111, from 14.40 until the end of the day!

Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

Pls sign and share this open letter to the Bristol VC, against the School of Humanities's decision to withdraw the BA in English Literature and Community Engagement (ELCE): the only part-time, flexible undergraduate degree programme available at the University forms.gle/SbyhXPSJgQTc...

I have gotten our @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talks for September & October posted! Always on Mondays at 16:00 (4pm) Central European time. For details see: newnatures.org/greenhouse/

This paper identifies “informational justice” as a fourth tenet of Environmental Justice, distinct from distributional, procedural and recognitional forms of justice. It identifies trusted information as foundational although under-acknowledged in the literature. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Lovely to see this new paper out in Local Environment. Congratulations to @bristoluni.bsky.social MSc Environmental Policy and Management alumna Faith Terry-Doyle on seeing her dissertation research – on trust in community energy projects - through to publication! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Aesthetic responses to the climate crisis are politically paralyzing and historically inaccurate. Our podcast of the week calls for a “climate counter-aesthetics” that foregrounds planning and collective action. With @annakornbluh.bsky.social on @futurehistories.bsky.social buff.ly/tVj0oqE

As part of the series of launch events for Drifting North I'm doing a double-header at the Bookhaus in Bristol with Marianna Dudley. I think her cover is even better than mine. www.bookhausbristol.com/events/#e133...

Peatscapes will be at #INTECOL2025 this coming week in Tartu, Estonia 🇪🇪! Our Roosa Rytkönen opens the socio-economic panels with KEYNOTE "Seeing the bog from the trees: Social science agenda for the study of forestry drained #peatlands". Monday 11:15, please drop by! intecolwetlands2025.ee #geo #STS

The Long Heat, the book by Andreas Malm and I on carbon removal and geoengineering, will be released by @versobooks.bsky.social in October. It's available now for pre-ordering: www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

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 👇

can’t read the NYT piece about historians using AI to write history which is pretty great actually because I DONT WANT TO

This year’s academic marking season is coming to a close. Assignments used to sing in different voices: some in clarity, originality, creativity, some chaos. Gen AI has layered on an ‘academic autotune’ removing many enjoyable aspects of engaging with authentic student work. #highered #AI #marking

So happy to see our first Peatscapes paper out! Thanks to our amazing team @peatscapes.bsky.social, to our research collaborators, and to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding. Open access! #geography #STS #politicalecology #peatland #restoration

🌎 New paper published in Progress in Environmental Geography 🌎 'Carbon futures in the mire? Knowledge controversies in European peatland restoration and remaking' by James Palmer, Kärg Kama, Roosa Rytkönen & Aneurin Merrill-Glover journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @peatscapes.bsky.social

🔥 New paper published in Progress in Environmental Geography 🔥 'Raising the #temperature: A critical geographical perspective on #heat' by Caitlin Robinson journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Pat Brodie and I have a book coming out in September w/ @brisunipress.bsky.social Started with data centres and energy and turned into a story about monopoly tech, empire and Ireland's (under)development in the capitalist world system.

Great to see our first paper emerging from the @peatscapes.bsky.social project. Now available open access, in @progenvgeog.bsky.social. Huge thanks to everyone in the Peatscapes team – @kargkama.bsky.social, Roosa Rytkönen and Nye Merrill-Glover – and of course to @leverhulme.ac.uk!

Really excited to see our first 'Peatscapes' journal article out today in @progenvgeog.bsky.social! Carbon futures in the mire? Knowledge controversies in European peatland restoration and remaking Open Access link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #geography #sts #peat #restoration

Just under one week left to apply!

Job alert 📣 Here in Bristol we are advertising for a 13-month fixed-term Lecturer in Environmental Policy, starting this September. Application deadline is May 14th, full details in link. Please get in touch if you're interested! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Are you interested in boldly reimagining how we can finance #naturerecovery at scale, beyond mainstream market mechanisms? We are advertising a one-year postdoctoral researcher at @naturerecovery.bsky.social at Oxford. Closing date April 30th tinyurl.com/muebaf86 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

🚨 New Job Opportunity at @ucl.ac.uk Geography 🚨 We're looking for a Lecturer in Environmental Governance to join our team! 📅 Closing Date: 5th May 2025 🔗 Apply Now: tinyurl.com/ucl-eg #GeographyJobs #UCLGeography #EnvironmentalGovernance #TeachingOpportunity #AcademicCareer

JOB ALERT! Deadline 19.05 Tenure Track Assistant/Associate Prof position, environmental social scientist or humanities scholar, Oulu University, in our superb project SAFIRE. Great joining package, relocation support, fantastic team. Contact me with questions oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/what:job/job...

Carbon removal beyond the trees Our new paper in Communications Earth & Environment on how the popularity of tree planting is harming other approaches to carbon removal rdcu.be/ef97T

Triple book launch for myself, @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social, and @hannahcharnock.bsky.social! Thanks to @lauratisdall.bsky.social for chairing. Please do join if you're interested in social and cultural approaches to young people's lives and leisure spaces. 12 June, 12-1, tinyurl.com/mryazrew

There is a website, so it must be real: "Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia’s Fossil Economy", an #envhist of peat in imperial & Soviet Russia, will drop in September in Studies in Environment & History @cambridgeup.bsky.social #energysky 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...

Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic. This is truly shocking read. The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

Final CfP RGS-IBG 2025: deadline on Friday! 🌍 Carbon Creations and Creative Carbons 🌎 We seek papers on carbon farming, afforestation, peatland restoration & related work in #STS #geography 📩 @annakspeaking.bsky.social @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social @kargkama.bsky.social docs.google.com/document/d/1...