Bra Streckare av @perhogselius.bsky.social : www.svd.se/a/QMVyLJ/vat...

In "The Nuclear-Water Nexus," @perhogselius.bsky.social & Siegfried Evens bring together contributors from around the world to take a deep dive into the complex interactions between nuclear energy and water. Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255228...

Coming soon! Stay tuned for a dark and uncomfortable tale: "Neutrality's Empire: Swedish Colonialism in the Industrial Age" www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Hogsel... Written together with my brilliant co-authors David Nilsson and Hanna Vikström, with a bonus chapter by Karl Bruno.

"Med andra ord: globalt sett har inget bränsle någonsin ersatts av något annat. I stället har utnyttjandet av samtliga energikällor fortsatt att öka från 1800-talet och fram till i dag." Riktigt sugen på Fressoz bok: More and More and More. Här diskuterad av @perhogselius.bsky.social

#EDF stake in Sizewell C new #nuclear 16.2%, UK govt 83.8%. "EDF CEO just axed and its financial stability in question." "Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C costs ramp and timelines slip." "Fundamental questions about the wisdom of proceeding with Sizewell C." www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/edf-r...

Join us for the first online seminar on doing Anthropocene History with Gabrielle Dürbeck, this Thursday at 15.30. @anthropocenekth.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #anthropocene www.kth.se/anthropocene...

The Kakhovka dam was like a large inland sea (photo from Smiivka/ Gammalsvenskby 2017). Bombed by the Russians on June 6th 2023. Now the UNCG report is pubilshed: Destruction of the Kakhovka Reservoir: Environmental Consequences (in Ukrainian). uncg-org-ua.translate.goog/znyshhennya-...

We have a cover! Our edited volume "The Nuclear-Water Nexus" will be out in July, with MIT Press. 25 brilliant authors at home in 11 countries made this possible! mitpress.mit.edu/978026255228...

Spent half the day in the old reactor hall R1 at KTH, for SVT's recording of an upcoming documentary series on Swedish nuclear power. Hope that I didn't make a bigger fool of myself than necessary...

Deadline approaching, 21 Feb! We're hiring two assistant professors in Anthropocene History here at KTH. www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/...

Ser fram emot att hålla en liten populärvetenskaplig föreläsning på KTH imorgon torsdag kl. 12.10-12.55: Svensk teknikhistoria i ett KTH-perspektiv! intra.kth.se/aktuellt/kal...

French #nuclear reactor joins grid after €13bn holdup and a dozen costly years of technical setbacks, 12 years behind schedule after a slew of delays and cost overruns. Cost, estimated at €3.3 billion, ballooned to over €13 billion. www.rfi.fr/en/france/20...

Don't miss our #EnvHist 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬! Here are the calls: 1. St Andrews Book Prize eseh.org/call-eseh-20... 2. Turku Book Award eseh.org/awards-and-g... 3. Tallinn Dissertation Prize eseh.org/call-for-sub... 4. Bristol-Bern Prize in Public Environmental History eseh.org/call-eseh-20...

1 PhD position (3 years) in the research project “Toxic Heritage: Socio-natural Landscapes of Extraction and Pollution in the Harz and Cornwall” at the German #mining Museum Bochum: Leibniz Research Museum for Georesources w Tina Asmussen #envhist 👇 karriere.bergbaumuseum.de/jobposting/2...

We have posted two tenured positions as assistant professor in #Anthropocene history at our centre, please help share widely: www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/... www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/... One is in #envhist and one is in history of science.

We have a new exciting call for a doctoral student here at KTH. The PhD position is well funded and will be linked to a project on the environmental history of Stockholm during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, led by my fabulous colleague Rob Gioielli. www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/...

NEW BLOG POST (I'm on a roll this week, but there probably won't be another for several weeks, now): beached; or playing with water and rocks. www.storiedselves.ca/blog/8020ez8... #erosion #tides

ECOCIDE IS OFFICIALLY DEAD!!! The latest issue of the American Historical Review includes our massive article on Easter Island. It's part of a special issue on Histories of Resilience, with several articles focused on environmental history, Indigenous peoples, and the Global South. #envhist #histsci

My book will be available for purchase on January 7, 2025. For readers with a US mailing address, below is a discount code for 30% off on publication day via Penguin Random House. (shorturl.at/wGwwo) PUBDAY30 Please save the date! More on the discount code: shorturl.at/oXuGh @mitpress.bsky.social

A chapter from the recently published Chinese anthology "Law, Knowledge, and Power in the Age of Empire," providing some critical reflections on the use and analysis of historical archives in the field of Chinese (legal) history. t.cn/A6mCvA2N ​​​

Spotted today in a Stockholm suburb!

Very nice piece on a surprising topic: pre-WWII transports of radioactive materials! Give us more of this, Aske!

I have spent a day or so updating and fixing broken links on this list of archives of post-war UK scientists and engineers If you know of more, let me know and I will add them blogs.ucl.ac.uk/sts-observat...

New open access book by Elena Kochetkova: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮: 𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘥, 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘵 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘌𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺. Read it on our Environment & Society Portal! #EnvHist

Save the date for our next ESEH online seminar in #envhist, with an exciting talk by Anna Sokolova on foraging berries and mushrooms in Soviet forests! On December 10, 16:00 CET, register here to get the link and please invite others who might be interested: forms.gle/y5bbY9GgnmnN...

Listening to How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr. I’m learning a lot as I don’t read enough American global history.

I am pleased to share the spring 2025 lineup of the Harvard Science and Technology in Asia online seminar series! These talks take place over Zoom and are open to all. Hope you will be able to join us. scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia #histstm #histsci #histtech #histmed #sts #envhist 🧪

Here's another interesting open-access book: 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯–𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 by Carina Keskitalo. Read it and many other titles on our Environment & Society Portal. #envhum #envhist

New special issue on the sea in #Scandinavian literature! 🌊 Edited by me & Frederike Felcht. The landing page is in German, but about half of the contributions are in English. www.nordeuropaforum.de #Litwiss #envhum It's open access, so you can plunge right in...

Don’t miss this if you’re in Stockholm next week! #envhist