En nog een vacature voor een promotieplaats bij collega @maartjegelder.bsky.social aan @uvahumanities.bsky.social maar deze gaat over gender en protest in de 16de eeuwse Noordelijke #Nederlanden werkenbij.uva.nl/vacatures/pr... #medievalsky #twitterstorians #earlymodernsky

Heroic nautilus of the centre of the title page of this edition of Johann Jakob Scheuchzer's Herbarium Diluvianum. One of the all-time great book titles, that. In fact there's nothing about this I don't like.

This is really grim. Imagine a different world. @tninstitute.bsky.social

Same. HUGE gap between experts & everyone else. This was already expert consensus 2 years ago. Now? Trump's horrible & evil war have wrecked the perception of oil & gas as stable and cheap in the decade when solar, wind, batteries, EVs are SURGING worldwide www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/daw...

Two possibly interesting PhD positions on "submerged" and "extractive dependencies" in the context of project titled "Power, Knowledge, and Servitude at Sea" in Bonn: www.idos-research.de/en/stellen-p... and www.idos-research.de/en/about-us/...

You can get to a high-warming world without high emissions . That's the part of this week's "RCP 8.5 is implausible" discussion that's getting missed. A short thread on why the relief is premature 🧵

Meanwhile the California grid now boasts the equivalent of 12 nuclear power plants worth of batteries -- the total cost of which was, I suspect, less than a single nuclear plant.

Fascinating. One day, I’ll be a historian of peat and peatlands.

Peatlands store more carbon than the world's forests yet fundamental questions remain unanswered. Today we publish 50 priority research questions, identified by 467 participants from 54 countries #PeatQuest #Peatlands www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Global peatland experts share their top 50 research needs. Many of these are obvious (better mapping) and many should be obvious (centre local and indigenous communities), but some might surprise you (there is a lot that we do not know about what the microbes in peat are up to).

Genuine, history-making stuff. A watershed.

This is a critical point: *today*, even in countries that don’t introduce policies & measures to support it, consumers can unilaterally enact electrification and demand destruction

Written about a year ago

Currently 431-432 ppm

A reminder of where we stand. Source: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

In March 1651, a dike breach wreaked havoc just outside the walls of Amsterdam, inundating a whole polder. The damage was so spectacular that artists flocked to the site, documenting the disaster and its aftermath in sketches, oil paintings, and engravings. These by J. Asselijn and W. Schellinks 1/

This looks like an interesting project! www.uni.lu/en/jobs/doct...

The #AMOC by 2100 will thus be so weak (~8 Sv) that it is very likely on the way to full shutdown, as our study last year showed: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... In my view, this now makes a full #AMOC shutdown more likely than not. Definitely not a low likelihood risk, as we used to think.

Worth following!

Vol. 1, no. 6 of the CO2 Newsletter, Aug-Sep 1980, is now downloadable. Founded by American geologist William Barbat, each issue was 8 pages of excerpts from recent reports, editorials and deeply researched articles. Pls comment on/share this thread! 1/9

Vacancy for a three-year post-doc position at the Universiteit van Amsterdam! This postdoc position, part of the European Research Council (ERC)-sponsored 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐀𝐃𝐄 project, seeks to understand the long legacies of blockades on the post-war order.

Sounds like the stuff of an 18th-century luna-theological argument for the existence of a divine architect.

We're hiring! 🌿 The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger invites applications for a 3-year postdoc in Environmental History. See thread for more details. #envhist #envhum

Six days left to apply for this very cool #envhist postdoc with us here @greenhouseuis.net - it's a great opportunity to join a vibrant and active research environment with much support for career development and a good community.

The Wayback Machine archive is, like Wikipedia, one of the last corners of the internet that hasn't been killed by greed & slop. That ... may not last long.

The stupidest tool from the box. Keeps demand and prices artificially high, costs billions, and largely ends up with households that don't need support. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️🤦

“The “methodological blind spot” that she and Minderhoud have uncovered went undetected for so long in part because geoid estimates are most accurate in Europe and the eastern seaboard of North America, where the majority of published researchers are based.” e360.yale.edu/features/sea...

Hoi Nederland. Jetten en de rechtse horde kunnen wel met vlaggetjes wapperen maar zonder radicaal klimaatbeleid is het enkel demagogie

Probably going to have to flesh out the traditional dismissal of Great Man Theory in first-year historiography lectures now it turns out that two to three deranged geriatrics actually can slingshot the entire planet into the sun

Keep finding these remarkable discussions of Holland's geomorphology in antiquarian works like Hadrianus Junius' 'Batavia' of 1588: "many are persuaded of this: that our ancestors took too little care of their own affairs when they shut out—by opposing embankments and dikes—the mud ...

Fascinating 1627 painting, in the style of Jan van Goyen, depicting the excavation (and antiquarian finds) of the Roman ruins of 'Brittenburg' on the Dutch coast: odd contrast between the naturalist style of the landscape and the illustrative quality of the antiquarian finds.

Ahead of new print alert! You can now read @mathijsboom.bsky.social and Jip van Besouw's "Rising Seas, Sinking Lands: Reckoning with Local and Global Sea Level in the Early Modern Netherlands" from the January 2026 issue. #envhist #envhum www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Early career historians (< 3 year post PhD) of science, art and ideas: the Dr. C. Louise Thijssen-Schoute Foundation awards one three-month visiting fellowship annually, hosted by our department @huygensknaw.bsky.social. Deadline for the 2027 fellowship is 15 May: www.huygens.knaw.nl/en/open-call...

Finally out in Environmental History! In this article with Jip van Besouw, we explore notions of global sea level rise from the vantage of the 18th-century Dutch Republic. Here are a few of our finds. 1/8 doi.org/10.1086/738533

Gister een draadje over Galileo, vandaag de polders. Na mijn promotie in 2020 ben ik qua onderzoek best een andere weg ingeslagen. Met 2 beurzen kon ik 3 jaar naar het buitenland (Los Angeles en Cambridge) om daar nieuw onderzoek op te zetten, naar 17e eeuwse inpolderingsprojecten dus.

From the current issue: “The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument” by @lscholz.bsky.social (@manchester.ac.uk) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

Action group 0.7: ‘To @d66.nl, if you break your promise to retract the budget cuts, you will lose the votes of students and academics forever.’

For anyone interested in earthy, environmental and knowledge histories, I can recommend following the SCARCE project in Vienna: they put up and interesting colloquium series this semester.

Het succes van protest is deel van mijn historische onderzoek, maar in het recente verleden was er geen succesvollere Nederlandse beweging dan Kick Out Zwarte Piet. Waanzinnig sterk om vandaag, na 15 jaar strijd en successen, te stoppen. Veel bewondering voor Afriyie en consorten.

"Het is een democratische absurditeit die we ondertussen bijna normaal zijn gaan vinden: een demissionaire regering die nauwelijks een zesde van de Tweede Kamer vertegenwoordigt, maar die wel doorgaat met beslissingen die diep ingrijpen in de toekomst van ons land. [..]" www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Generations of Navajo miners were sent underground to extract uranium for America’s weapons and energy programs. Many were never told the risks. Many never made it out alive. New from @sarahlazare.bsky.social in partnership with @workdaymagazine.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/they...

Thrilled to see the Dutch citizens' assembly on climate come to a conclusion. Results will be presented coming Monday! Another test for this democratic tool in the face of accelerating catastrophe.

Peter Brannen on where this COP (and its sordid predecessors) have left the Earth system: not as bad as predicted earlier, but apocalyptic still. www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

Post-COP reminder: climate scenarios are useful sci-fi. There are uncertainties about the impacts of policies, actual climate sensitivity, and the feedbacks in Earth's carbon cycle. Among other things.

My week at @historicivertellen.bsky.social has come to an end. For anyone reading Dutch, I spun this long thread, highlighting some of the most interesting finds from my dissertation research.

Wish I could attend this one!

✨For our second talk in this semester’s colloquium series, @mininghistory.bsky.social will present “Mining the Past: What is the role of historians in the mining industry?”⛏️📜 📅 Date: November 24, 2025 ⏰ Time: 3:00–4:30 PM CET Learn more and register: bit.ly/MiningThePast #histSci

Hopeful sci-fi?

Voor vanmiddag lees ik met collega's 'Chaos in the Heavens' van Jean-Baptiste Fressoz en Fabien Locher, waarin ze de vergeten geschiedenis klimaatdebat van grofweg 1492 tot midden 20ste eeuw reconstrueren. Goed moment om even door andere klimaatboeken te bladeren.

Het duurde vrij lang voordat stoomgemalen een grote rol kregen in de Nederlandse waterhuishouding, maar met de kennis van nu—iets met kolenverbranding en zeespiegelstijging—krijgen zulke plaatjes een hele andere betekenis.