'Strikingly, 73% of all respondents expressed views aligned with “agrowth” or “degrowth” positions, with the former being the most popular.' Yeah, most people will like #Sufficiency also in politics theconversation.com/idea-of-gree...

Final Cultures of Energy pod for 2025. A Year in Review episode featuring some serious AI slop. See you in 2026 everyone!! cenhs.libsyn.com/245-2025-yea...

New ep of Cultures of Energy! We talk to Jean-Baptiste Fressoz about whether the history of energy is about transitions or accumulations. tinyurl.com/yc2bz6cy @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social PS next month is our 10th anniversary. Send a note!

At Rice we are hiring a Post-Doc in Public History and a Post-MFA (or PhD) in Creative Writing to work on a Sawyer Seminar, “Writing History, Righting Democracy.” Links to both positions in comments. Please share with your networks!

New ep of Cultures of Energy! We talk to Jean-Baptiste Fressoz about whether the history of energy is about transitions or accumulations. tinyurl.com/yc2bz6cy @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social PS next month is our 10th anniversary. Send a note!

And please see ggcl.rice.edu for the most recent chapter of the same project…

New Cultures of Energy pod! We talk about the entanglement of oil, labor and intimacy in the Caribbean with Chelsea Schields. Everything you ever wanted to know about petrosexuality but were afraid to ask! tinyurl.com/4pstevda @cymene.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social

For those coming to the AAA meetings in NOLA this week, come and see our monsters!

From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

Believe it or not Houston will soon be home to the largest 3d printed housing development in the world. It’s low income housing built to last for centuries instead of decades in one of Houston’s economically disadvantaged areas. Here’s a robot starting to make a house #ZuriGardens

It was an absolute delight to be on the Cultures of Energy podcast. I’m grateful to @dominicboyer.bsky.social and @cymene.bsky.social for reading the book so thoughtfully, and for talking silvichemicals, film flames and fumes, radiation lakes, transformation, and more…. @ucpress.bsky.social

New Cultures of Energy pod! Talking to Javiera Barandiarán about living minerals, rights of nature and the aftermath of the attempt to create a new Chilean constitution. Please listen and share! tinyurl.com/2v2r7w9m @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social

Coming soon to New Orleans!!

Wow I wonder who pushed this initiative

Honoring the dead for Halloween and Day of the Dead… yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/the-...

New Cultures of Energy pod on film, plastics, warfare, radiation and more. Plus did you know Rayon is made from wood? That & more marvels revealed in our chat with @alicelovejoy.bsky.social about her brilliant new book tinyurl.com/5fv6mc4f @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social

The US govt doubling down on fossil fuels undermines even their own AI ambitions. Meanwhile EV sales in China went from ~5% of the market to nearly 50% IN JUST FIVE YEARS. "Electrotech" (as some are now calling it) is the global future. A full overview report in the first comment below...

36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters. Jfc.

Dear NOLA friends and AAA folk, @metafactory.bsky.social & I have curated an exhibition, "Spectral Remix" @ Merchant House (1150 Magazine St) from Wednesday Nov 19th through to Saturday Nov 22. Please drop by & spread the word to those who might find this interesting... www.spectralremix.org

Shameful and ridiculous thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/20/h...

#NoKings Houston

#NoKings Cincinnati

New episode of Cultures of Energy ! What if we could create a new kind of "carbon bank" to incentivize drawing down CO2 to store it safely long term? Gustav Peebles + Ben Luzzatto tell us how. tinyurl.com/2meynbme @cymene.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social

dear friends living in Georgia -- you've got a really important election coming up with a chance to take more democratic control over your power system. please listen to this podcast with all the details.. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p... thanks!! D

Fireside chat with Mette High and Vinnie Ialenti on nuclear energy in just a few hours time! @energy-ethics.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/mette-...

If it feels like your electricity bill has been going up, it has been. Thank you, AI!

That rarest of sightings this year - a tenure track academic job! www.schooljobs.com/careers/rama...

It was such a pleasure to talked with @dominicboyer.bsky.social and @cymene.bsky.social how on this Cultures of Energy podcast :)

New episode of the Cultures of Energy pod! We welcome Sean Field of @energy-ethics.bsky.social to talk about his new book Carbon Capital on the moral landscape of oil investing. A most provocative read! tinyurl.com/bdf2n82s @cymene.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Cascades of Un/Becoming: How Blackouts Impact Transitional Electropolitics" by Declan Kuch and @dominicboyer.bsky.social Dominic Boyer #blackouts #climatechange #electricity #energopolitics #energytransition #storms journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast! Hannah Knox joins us to talk about the challenges climate change has posed to the concepts and methods of governing a city. Case in point: Manchester! tinyurl.com/3yax7euh @cymene.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social

Workers over billionaires! Mission Dolores Park

New episode of the Cultures of Energy pod! We talk about wildfires ecologies, poetry and symbiosis, and the importance of walking slowly. Plus @cymene.bsky.social is back! cenhs.libsyn.com/237-the-cany...

"The world of tomorrow will be unrecognizable to those of us alive today, just as the world we live in today would have been unrecognizable to our ancestors." lithub.com/embracing-et...

Just a friendly reminder of how amazing your brain is. The original hyper efficient energy/information infrastructure… Human Brains Beat AI by 225,000 Times in Energy Efficiency medium.com/write-a-cata...

Can ethical pessimism save us from narcissistic optimism? We talk with @royscranton.bsky.social about his provocative new book Impasse from @stanfordpress.bsky.social - plus a live tape of our first time in an automated vehicle. tinyurl.com/mr2j5say

‘Global Glacier Casualty List’ honors ice giants that are melting away yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/08/glob...

had another frustrating AI-bot-"chat" experience this morning thx to T-Mobile. another entity (possibly AI possibly human) followed up by email. at which point i had to comment "AI is good at doing things confidently yet incorrectly. apologies if you are also an AI bot but you need to hear it."

this 1000%

The most jarring thing about the capitulation of American universities is that I used to think they’re defenders of free speech (tenure and all) but it turns out they’re just real estate and patent-generation empires scrapping their way through an amoral administration for narrow advantage.

Had a great chat with @dominicboyer.bsky.social about forever chemicals for the Cultures of Energy podcast. Take a listen! #GreenSky #EnergySky open.spotify.com/episode/6rIH...

New episode of the Cultures of Energy pod focused on forever chemicals. Not the cheeriest topic but a really important one in terms of thinking about chemical burdens, environmental racism, justice and much more. Plus you're going to want to change your dental floss. Listen on! tinyurl.com/3uedhb3v

Who was it that said switching to LNG would increase energy security? Oh yeah, the LNG lobby. The EU now finds itself being blackmailed by Qatar - in addition to the US - over energy supplies if it doesn't weaken environmental protections. Expect more deregulation 😖 www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Opted out! The long game of AI is to automate intellectual labor and make folks like us even more expendable than we already are. They can steal if they want but I’m not loading the guns of the firing squad

This is an excellent conversation!

New episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast. We talk with old friend Imre Szeman about his new book Futures of the Sun and why energy transition is too often the story of failed states. tinyurl.com/5n6bp8b6 @cymene.bsky.social @imreszeman.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social