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.

authors include @folkmagicman.bsky.social @stefcraps.com @andrealoew.bsky.social @philippther.bsky.social @guillaumblanc.bsky.social @moneschleper.bsky.social and more!

#HPS #STS 🗃️

I’m a climate scientist. Trump’s U.N. address is a fire hose of misinformation by @michaelemann.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

36 mo postdoc / research fellow position in Philosophy, History, and/or Social Studies of the Life Sciences in the STS dept. at Technical Universtiy of Munich, apps due Oct 31: #histphil #histsci #histSTM www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei...

Are you following our Early-Career-Scholar network, ESEH NextGate? They organize events and support young scholars. Follow here: @esehnextgate.bsky.social #envhist #envhum

Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s... #histSTM 🧪🗃️

Having done my time previously in geotechnical engineering and geophysics. This is my big worry about climate change. AMOC shutdown. #ClimateChange www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low likelihood, study finds - Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic impacts #climatecrisis #AMOC www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Important study!

Keynote by Gaia Giuliani #eseh2025 #hybrid: in Anthropocene maser narratives, disaster is producing the 'outthere', the place for the 'monstrous', disposable 'other', where violence and killing is legitimized. Memory and documentation of disobedience as resistance. #PoliticalEcology #envhum

#ESEH2025 #hybrid "Environmental Futures in the (Anti-)nuclear Age (Part 1): Energy and Climate Change" chaired by @michielbron.bsky.social Up first: Mathijs Boom: After 1973 "energy as a framework to understand how the world works" #energyhist #envhist

Medscape: Where Is the Medical Home for Postinfectious Illness? "COVID pandemic brought a surge of more patients with POTS & infection-associated chronic illness. What had once felt like a rare or niche diagnosis now seemed to be everywhere, impossible to ignore" www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Call for Papers – (Un)just Transitions?: Deindustrialization and the Environment @deindustrialpol.bsky.social Conference, Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada, June 18-20 2026 Proposal Deadline: October 1, 2025 niche-canada.org/2025/08/20/c... #envhist #envhum #deindustrialization

Next at #eseh2025 #hybrid: "Rethinking with Animals: Modern Fables for the Great Acceleration (1/2)" with papers by Georgina Montgomery, @emilam.bsky.social, and @rafdebont.bsky.social:

Up next at #eseh2025 #hybrid, the different world session "Colonialism, Climate Justice, and Blue Humanities"

Good morning. Up next on #ESEH2025 #hybrid the panel "Environmental Governance and Protected Areas: People, Politics, and Concepts" with papers by @astridme.bsky.social, Philipp Kuster, Daniel McDermott, and myself... I will be talking about the 'power couple' Hanne Marstrand and Maurice Strong.

Next #eseh2025 #hybrid panel "Conflicts and Co-Existence with Awkward, Unwelcomed and Unloved Animals" 🧵

@ccmmody.bsky.social @odinnmelsted.bsky.social @michielbron.bsky.social

Up next for me at @eseh.bsky.social #ESEH2025 #hybrid: "Conflicts in environmental and climate policy", panel organized by @krekberg.bsky.social and Niklas Olsen. Looking forward, but first #coffee.

#ESEH2025 began today! Don't miss the hybrid program and the Canadian content at the conference! niche-canada.org/2025/08/14/c... #envhist #cdnhist #envhum @eseh.bsky.social

Second #keynote at #ESEH2025, Stefania Barca 1/#

Ready for #ESEH2025 #hybrid

the intro & most articles for the J Energy History special issue that @moneschleper.bsky.social @odinnmelsted.bsky.social & I edited have been out for ages, but I've delaying skeeting a summary of the whole issue until all the articles were up. which they now are! 1/x stm.cairn.info/journal-of-e...

www.newscientist.com/article/2491... #MEcfs #MEscience #pwME #DecodeME

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Make sure to read @monicavasile.bsky.social's wonderful new article in Environmental Humanities - arguing we should think of reintroduction projects not as a form of 'homecoming', but as 'homemaking'. #MovingAnimals read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...

A walk down memory lane and an obligatory purchase at the CUP bookshop. #hsp #histsci

Waking up to learn that the EPA office of Research and Development, which supports environmental science and informs environmental policymaking has been eliminated. #NoWords www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...