📢 New out! Simone Schleper @moneschleper.bsky.social traces the origins of corporate environmentalism and flexible interpretations of sustainable development to the 1970s. #globalenvironmentalgovernance #privatesettings #economichumanism #counterculture Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

Are you interested in organizing the 2026 ESEH Summer School in Environmental History? ESEH offers advisory and financial support to the selected proposal. Consider submitting a proposal by 15 March 2026! eseh.org/call-for-pro... #EnvHist

🌿 The Environmental History Today Series continues in February with Russia 🗣️ Anna Mazanik and Andrei Vinogradov present their books 📅 Date: 26 February 2026 (Thu), 14:00–16:00 (CET) 📍 Format: Online ℹ️ Details on how to take part are below 👇 eseh.org/envhistoday-... #EnvHist #Envhum

45 years ago today, the guardian lays out climate facts allouryesterdays.info/2023/02/25/f...

And here finally my contribution to this conversation doi.org/10.1017/S174... in @globalhistjnl.bsky.social. I trace the origins of #corporateenvironmentalism to heterogeneous, private #governance networks in the 1970s that served as alternatives to official UN settings. Also, great title, yes?

Permanent post in the history of the Middle East after 1800 at York! Plus three fixed term posts 1) Medieval History 1100-1450 2) Modern China 3) Britain/Public History

On Tuesday, climate activists rallied at 10 stadiums across the U.S., from Los Angeles to St. Louis to Philadelphia. It was the first national day of protest against fossil fuel sponsorships in American sports. I doubt it will be the last. My story: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/climate-pr...

Who could have seen this coming? Carbon capture was never the plan, it was the comfort blanket: “Don’t worry, we’ll fix it later". A story to delay real cuts while drilling rolls on. When the industry feels powerful & secure, the fairy tale goes back on the shelf.

vorzugsweise nachgewiesen durch eine abgeschlossene Promotion. Bewerbungsfrist: 27.02.2026. 👉 Details: www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/stellenaussc... #envirotech #envhist #histtech #histsci #envhum #sts

📢 Spannende Stelle an der TU Berlin: Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in (E13, 100 %) im Berlin #Anthropocene Lab! Gesucht wird eine Person mit vertieften Kenntnissen der Forschungslandschaft und -debatten zum #Anthropozän in Umwelt- und Technikgeschichte, Env. Humanities, STS oder angrenzenden Bereichen, ...

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 🗃️📜

I love watching the winter Olympics, but winter sports are an environmental catastrophe. So this article chimed with me. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

That suppressed report, a thread abt secrecy, military assessments, climate change and so forth. New Conversation piece - "A UK climate security report backed by the intelligence services was quietly buried – a pattern we’ve seen many times before" theconversation.com/a-uk-climate... 1/n

Quite important if you are relying on Google Books for teaching or research. Short-term snag or is it a hack? Just searched for 10 titles to no effect. #Skystorians

The optimist vs pessimist divide in #climate debates isn’t usually about the data. It’s about how the same graphs are read, what people emphasise, what they discount, and how they interpret pace and stakes. Here’s what I mean 🧵👇

From The Christian Science Monitor 1983

It's cold outside and snowy, too! Is climate change a hoax? Not at all. Winter still brings cold weather even as the planet warms. In fact, warmer oceans + a rapidly warming Arctic can even increase the intensity of winter storms and heavy snowfall. That's why I call it Global Weirding!

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Look at this little beauty...

Have a look #histsci #historyofknowledge people !

And finally: Christine Keiner writes about how a chance find in Panama inspired her research on the so-called "Panatomic Canal" 👇 8/8

Next: Keith Pluymers writes about the quiet heroes who helped keep Philadelphia’s streets free of floods and filth in the eighteenth century 👇 6/8

Then: @whitmerkelly.bsky.social reflects on the ubiquitous category of the "project" in today's world, and what we can learn from attitudes in 18th-century Germany 👇 5/8

Also: @williamcavert.bsky.social discusses "improvement" literature and the economy versus the people in 18th-century England 👇 4/8

Next: Vera Keller writes about Great Designs, the paper power of projects and the vintage paperweight on her desk 👇 3/8

First up: guest editors Vera Keller, @tedmccormick.bsky.social & @whitmerkelly.bsky.social reflect on their chosen cover image for the special issue 👇 2/8

Also: Meagan Wierda tells us how the COVID-19 pandemic led her to a revealing nineteenth-century pamphlet 👇 7/8

The JHoK 2025 special issue "Knowledge and Power: Projecting the Modern World" is now out in full! The issue is accompanied by the seven blog posts, where authors reflect on their articles and share a behind-the-scenes look at the research process. 📖 Happy reading! 1/8

Favorite student evaluation of the year so far: "most of the lectures were actually relevant and/or interesting" I take that as a win 🥰 #studentevals

📣 We are pleased to announce the selection of the 2027 Special Issue, "The Making of Colonial Knowledge and its Afterlives in Dutch Universities", with guest editors Larissa Schulte Nordholt and Ligia Giay. 📚 Have a peek at the Issue's abstract: journalhistoryknowledge.org/announcement....

ICYMI a summary of a recent chapter. read in combo w/ this 👇chapter (access it by downloading the entire OA volume) by @odinnmelsted.bsky.social + past & forthcoming work by @moneschleper.bsky.social to grasp what I'm calling the "Philanthropocene" ... www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

I'm hiring 2 postdocs on my Wellcome project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)" Department of Global Health and Social Medicine King's College 3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29 Deadline: 01/02/26 shorturl.at/KZ6Vh

JOB ALERT! 3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community. PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...

The Newsletters are heart-breaking & enraging bc it's clear that by the late 1970s many scientists knew what was coming. They – and Barbat – were not able to get enough other people to take it seriously (sound familiar?). All 18 will be released this year. 2/2 allouryesterdays.info/co2-newslett...

Triggerfinger On the Chair‘s Hiring Committee Service Deadlines Are Forever The PI Who Loved Me License to Teams A Peer Review to Kill Qualtrix of Solace Cite All No Tenure Till You Die

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Ending a turbulent year with something to look forward to. In January, I’ll be starting a new NWO-funded project on intermediaries in postwar global environmental policymaking: www.nwo.nl/en/projects/... #envhist #histsci

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

What does Gen AI mean for the work of the historian and the value of historical experience, skills and craft? 'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social. New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2

Funded PhD opportunity at King's!

Are you an early-career environmental historian or interested in the challenges aspiring environmental historians face? Join our panel discussion with @askehn.bsky.social @kathiescharf.bsky.social @tidetales.bsky.social and @wilkohardenberg.bsky.social et al., hosted by @eseh.bsky.social #envhist

What role does memory play in political decision making? Meet Dr Aline Sierp - CERiM Central and Eastern Europe Hub's expert on transnational memory and identity politics. #AcademicSky #HistorySky #PoliSky #MemoryStudies #EuropeSky #CEE

*Globalizing Wildlife*, a book edited by @vbateman.bsky.social, Tom Quick, and myself, is now available for pre-order with @uncpress.bsky.social! Using code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout, you can save 30% www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...

If you think mis- and disinformation is no big deal , read this: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@monicavasile.bsky.social :)

German study shows how far right sets agenda thanks to mainstream parties reshaping their communications to respond to what are initially fringe issues, boosting the spread of these ideas and signalling to voters that these ideas and stances were legitimate shorturl.at/OFfig

"Viele an ME/CFS Erkrankte haben keinerlei medizinische Betreuung" @sabinehermisson.bsky.social im Interview mit @ninaweber.bsky.social im @spiegel.de

GTD X Lumiere #2: FUTURE COUNCIL October 8th, 19:30 - 22:30 Join us! Your ticket includes a free drink on GTD lumiere.nl/en/specials/... @maastrichtu.bsky.social @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social

What a great great loss. And what a life and legacy.