[email protected] has put out a call for new content and review editors (volunteer positions). More info for interested women, trans, and/or non-binary early career scholars here! #envhist envhistnow.com/2026/04/23/c...

Debates about the importance of the humanities versus the natural sciences in education are nothing new, writes @isakhammar.bsky.social — though the dominant view in early 19th-century Europe might come as a surprise to us today. ✍️ One from the JHoK Blog archive (2021)

#CFP Female Networks of Knowledge: Natural History between Private and Public Spaces (Vienna, November 19-20, 2026), due May 30. Conference explores how women shaped scientific knowledge via networks that crossed the domestic, social, and institutional from early modern to 19th c. #envhist #histstm

More on the closure of the Parks Canada Library @juliedabrusin.bsky.social #cdnhist #envhist www.journaldemontreal.com/2026/04/18/l...

Off to #STSNL #sts @utwente.bsky.social

↙️⬇️↘️ August 2027 #histknow #histstm #histsci

📆 are you interested in working with a team on understanding animal-human interactions and health? There is just under one week left to apply for these post doc roles. 🐦‍⬛🐄🐴🐕‍🦺

April 7, 1980 – C02 problem is most important issue…”another decade will slip by” warns Wally Broecker to Senator Tsongas allouryesterdays.info/2022/04/07/a...

Katharina Reiche hat Scholz & Friends (u.a. "Mit Gas geht’s“ Greenwashing Kampagne für Gas-Lobby "Zukunft Gas") und FGS Global (KKR Tochter, PR für die COP Dubai bzw. Gastgeber VAE) für Kommunikation beauftragt. Wir Steuerzahler finanzieren jetzt also das PR-Lobbying der fossilen Industrie mit! 😵

Hey #skystorians! In case you are working on the history of horses directly or indirectly, or know someone who is: Check out my CfP for a session for the @esshc.bsky.social in Lyon 2027. Link to PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/1HRab...

5/ In the 1960s, natural sinks absorbed ~two thirds of our emissions. Today they absorb barely half. The sink is growing, but not keeping pace. So more of every tonne of fossil fuel burned now stays in the atmosphere, and that share is still rising.

#Skystorians: What are your favorite papers and books that discuss working with historical life writing?

First @jhokjournal.bsky.social article of 2026 by Anne Eriksen! #histknow #histsci #envhist

Two 3-year postdoctoral research positions available at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid to study the history of wild rubber production in the Amazon rainforest and Congo basin; apply by April 24th, 2026: #HistSTM

Forgot to include the project & application website 🙄, it's here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422012 #HistSTM

My graphic novel Mrs. Orwell, illustrated by the great @elrevel.bsky.social, is finally out in the world. The story has been a decade in the making, one of many projects, like Gaslit Nation, that came out of the making of Mr. Jones. Grateful to share it with you all us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Award - Intimate Energies: How Do Museum Collections Help Us See Unrecognised Actors in the History and Future of Energy?- University of Leeds - School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRB080/a... #skystorians 🗃️

We’re welcoming applicants for a fully funded history PhD project researching the first 100 years of the UK's Public Record Office, ahead of its bicentenary in 2038. Find out more and apply here by Friday 8 May: phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2475... (1/2)

A lucrative four-year full-time PhD position in the history of ideas with focus on psychiatry at Uppsala University is now open for applications. Deadline 30.04.2026. #histmed www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...

📚CALL FOR PROPOSALS: The Journal for the History of Knowledge is now receiving proposals for the Special Issue 2028. The submission deadline is 1 May 2026. All information is available on our website: journalhistoryknowledge.org/announcement...

Vacancy: assistant managing editor 💼 JHoK is looking for an assistant editor (0.1 fte) to start on 1 June 2026 for 6 months. Employment can be prolonged following positive evaluation and continued registration as a student. More information at: journalhistoryknowledge.org/announcement...

apparently Wikipedia has more rigorous standards than every university on the planet, university administrators, edtech enthusiasts, (certainly more than) AI bros, several prominent academic journals, and too many professors and teachers

The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada is deeply saddened by the passing of Dr. Biruté Galdikas — a renowned scientist and educator, an extraordinary conservationist, an Officer of the Order of Canada, and a tireless advocate for the orangutan. Photos: Daniela and Catalin Mitrache / JGI / OFI

Please share: we are hiring @jhokjournal.bsky.social !! Great opportunity for a humanities master’s student. Note: applicants must be based in NL… #histknow #histsci #studentjob

Great lecture from Jason W. Moore "Slaveship Earth: Capitalism’s Secret 500-Year Climate History" "The climate crisis didn’t begin with factories, smokestacks, or fossil fuels. It began with slave ships." www.youtube.com/watch?v=lykF... #envhist #climhist #anthropocene

Come work with me and the rest of the wonderful @greenhouseuis.net community! #envhist #envhum

I don't "feel" my work has been stolen. I know it. This kind of language use by the NYT is part of the problem. Framing it as some kind of emotional woo woo instead of a clear copyright breach...

“Methane emissions cause 25% of global heating today.” “It is really maddening,” said Cara Horowitz at UCLA…if you upgraded the infrastructure a little bit, did good housekeeping, you could solve a really important part of the problem.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

speld.nl/2026/03/12/w... Got to love them @speld.nl

📣Deadline: 31 March 2026 Are you a PGR/ECR working in environmental humanities? Join us at Chichester University for a friendly and stimulating conference! @asle-us.bsky.social @easlce.bsky.social

Registration for our new Masters in Public Environmental Humanities is still open for Nordic students (either citizens or did bachelors in a Nordic country). Please pass along this great tuition-free study opportunity! www.uis.no/en/studies/t... #envhum #envhist #ecocrit

Please share: we are hiring @jhokjournal.bsky.social !! Great opportunity for a humanities master’s student. Note: applicants must be based in NL… #histknow #histsci #studentjob

RIP Paul Ehrlich, influential environmentalist and author of The Population Bomb. #envhist #environmentalism #population memoritree.com/memorial/pau...

Please help spread the word #medievalsky! Funded PhD position on medieval literary and artistic representations of disability as part of a Vidi project I will be leading that is funded by the Dutch Research Council: www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3592...

This should be the biggest weather and climate news on your radar today. You can send an email today to say why dismantling NCAR is a bad idea for everyone: [email protected]

I am old enough to remember the vitriol directed at random humanities scholars' work complaining about the totalizing tendencies of capitalism to corrupt, colonize, or co-opt everything. I also lived long enough to read long term coverage of the literal attempt to privatize thinking in the newspaper

The additional cost of ONE fossil fuel price spike on the scale of 2022 = the ENTIRE COST of Net Zero by 2050. We get precisely nothing in return for the first cost, and a whole new, more secure and cheaper energy system from the second one. #NoBrainer www.theccc.org.uk/2026/03/11/c...

Today's #histSTM lunchtime read: The table of contents from **A Historian’s Handbook for Saving the World: Responding to the Global Climate Emergency**, an incredible anthology edited by @alixhui.bsky.social & @emilypawley.bsky.social, which will be published later this year by @mitpress.bsky.social

"Achieving the UK’s net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a single oil shock and bring health and economic benefits while insulating the country against future costs, the government’s climate advisers have forecast." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

POST-DOC! 3-year job in history of political thought / visual culture / art history Department of Politics & International Studies University of Cambridge @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54724/

A rare thing: *four* three-year hums/soc-sci posts in animal studies, on the Multispecies Mutualisms project at UoSheffield - with @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social, me, Robert McKay and Alasdair Cochrane; see here for a video explainer: digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...

Unsere neue Studie: die Erderwärmung hat sich ab 2015 erheblich beschleunigt. Die rote Kurve zeigt 10-Jahres-Trends, um je 1 Jahr versetzt; der letzte ist 2015-2024. Die blaue Kurve zeigt den Trend vor und nach dem objektiv bestimmten change point. 👉 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

If you understand the implications of this, I don’t know how you’re not terrified for our kids.

📢 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...