The fossil fuel industry is behind most of the climate disinformation you see and hear today. Charlie Kirk was no exception.

Please God. Can some mainstream news outlet explain properly how long and how costly the immigration process in the UK is? And that there is NO RECOURSE TO PUBLIC FUNDS the whole time. And you PAY A SURCHARGE for the NHS. And you pay your taxes.

At this point, I am extremely skilled at reading and writing extremely quickly. Most of my best work happens when I force myself to slow down.

do you work in a university/faculty/school in the UK that abolished “departments”? willing to share experiences (by DM if preferred)? RTs also appreciated

In the second millennium, many humans obsessively accumulated "money," a sort of heuristic for tracking social power. While surviving accounts are not completely clear, it seems that faster-than-expected depreciation of this social power, or "inflation," caused unrest so severe that several empi...

If this were mine I would simply never take it down, keep dressing it up. The Ides of March. St. Patty's. March Madness. Easter. Memorial Day. Flag Day. The Fourth. Labor Day.

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

***Job Opportunity*** Associate or Full Professor of History and The Wallace Stegner Chair of Western American Studies, Montana State University - Bozeman 42/ networks.h-net.org/jobs/69078/m...

Does anyone know of any (UK-based) ECRs in geography, history & archaeology working on the Little Ice Age? I'm looking for collaborators for a potential workshop! @eseh.bsky.social @northernenvhistory.bsky.social @esehnextgate.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social @greenhouseuis.net

Such a good @bankfieldbecky.bsky.social + @steveclimate.bsky.social paper here: examining how "climate pragmatism" has become a major part of the new lexicon of climate delay Also see: "climate realism" theconversation.com/politicians-...

With emissions still rising 📈 and the catastrophic consequences 🔥 becoming ever clearer, geoengineering is getting ever more tempting 🧪 But a review has concluded that the main methods proposed to save polar ice 🧊 are not doable or won't work www.newscientist.com/article/2495...

Happy to share the launch of the new, hybrid African History Seminar @ihr.bsky.social . Check out our fall program here: history.ac.uk/news-events/... If you're in London and want to present new research on Africa, get in touch!

Inadvertently, this is an incredible illustration of how (a) the infrastructure required for fossil fuel extraction is bonkers and (b) how we don't consider our oil and gas to be 'destroying nature' like wind turbines simply bc it's undersea

It remains difficult to think seriously about the medium- and long-term in one's personal life with knowledge about what the planet's environment will look like in those medium- and long-terms... The topics usually remain siloed in my head.

Ah what's wrong little buddy? Why the dirty delete? Big clever dark money think tank boy like you can almost certainly defend the position you came to based on ✨vibes✨ against a bunch of people who have actually read a book one time.

5 days left to send your abstracts! #envhum #petrocultures #histtech #oceanhist

When a large language model generates human-sounding text, it doesn’t consider the impacts of its words, because it doesn’t consider. It has no self. But we do. We can choose whether to normalize and encourage the use of these destructive platforms. I know what I choose.

"without this vaporware you will be unable to get this other piece of vaporware"

What is the significance of Indian textiles in global economic history? Co-organising a one-day workshop with Tirthankar Roy on the topic, to mark the launch of the new book ‘Textiles from Bengal’. Limited places available, book via link👇 www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...

A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI. All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work. For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...

'Fewer graduates regret going to university than is widely assumed and the public have a more favourable view of universities than people imagine, according to new research.' 1/3

Here we go: the first session of our „energy transition & energyscapes” organised by @melinabuns.bsky.social & @dudleymarianna.bsky.social . #ESEH2025 #EnergyHistory #EnvHist Really excited about this.

#eseh2025 travel survey, please fill in! 🚂⛵️✈️🛵 #envhist

but “financially better off” and “doing a job you love” aren’t synonyms. arts careers are underpaid (and that isn’t universities’ fault) but that clearly doesn’t stop people from wanting to be artists.

it is nearly impossible to convey to people how much living in the US feels like a scam compared to anywhere else in the world. pay extortionate amounts to file taxes. phone bills 3-10x higher than anywhere in Western Europe. internet bills >2x higher. companies constantly screwing you over. insane.

it is the year 2030. the way we interact with the internet has become purely oracular. you may query the various LLMs and they respond but you have no way to actually visit websites or check sources anymore. no browsers. all is mediated. things are good.

it feels like it will be genuinely impossible to describe to Youths how the internet used to be actually quite useful

With @mbrescius.bsky.social I am very happy to announce the launch of a major new project in #Anthropocene history. The Long Acceleration brings together more than 20 scholars to consider the planetary emergency. Many thanks to Moritz and the Institute for European Global Studies for hosting us.

Would love for just one day to feel like those organizations I pay to stick up for my profession would ever actually stick up for my profession.

honestly, this is almost an exact list of who generative AI is *least* equipped to displace at the moment -- jobs which require the ability to discern fact from fiction, a physical presence, the ability to craft satisfying narratives, or where a simple mistake can be a *big* deal.

This Day in Labor History: August 4, 1942. The United States and Mexico made an agreement to deliver contract Mexican labor to American farmers in order to serve as cheap replacement labor during World War II. Let's talk the Bracero Program and Americans' hatred of Mexicans except for cheap labor.

Two environmental historians go for a short walk in London...

One week left to apply for this great #envhist job with us in Norway.

An energy revolution is underway in this century, though it’s unfolded in ways slow enough and technical enough for most people not to notice (and I assume it’s nowhere near finished). It is astonishing – a powerful solution to the climate crisis... [Wrote it a while ago; came out yesterday.]

One week left to apply for this tenured #envhist job!

I was excited to find out that my book is available for pre-order! One for anyone interested in energy, climate, and the history of Britain. Thanks to MUP for making it pretty and affordable 🫶 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/

Exciting news! A new publication by ‪@hibbertsalex.bsky.social, @islayshelbourne.bsky.social @thenickpepper.bsky.social @alexworsfold.bsky.social @robertsuits.bsky.social @jdroberts.bsky.social (amongst others) which developed from our first workshop back in 2025. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Putting together an 'additional readings' list for an introductory survey of environmental history. Any suggestions for absolutely essential (or indeed absolutely delightful) pieces? (feel free to self-promote!)

Putting together an 'additional readings' list for an introductory survey of environmental history. Any suggestions for absolutely essential (or indeed absolutely delightful) pieces? (feel free to self-promote!)

A roundtable on the future of environmental history as a subfield from early career scholars (with a small contribution from me). What is the place of scale? Of interdisciplinarity? Thanks especially to @hibbertsalex.bsky.social for organising and editing. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I wrote something new for History Respawned today. It's a review of a new book about Red Dead, but it's really about academic writing and historical game studies as a field. Please read, but also know, I really really really really REALLY didn't want to write this review.

Hi historians--I'm trying to flesh out my bibliography of work on *non-state actor* violence on/in colonial frontiers/hinterlands/remote sites. Suggestions?🗃️

Great thread which reveals why the strategy that US Dems and Starmer’s labor of trying to appeal to the imaginary right wing voter that will somehow back them if they only hate on immigrants too is a reliable way to lose. Stand up for your base and mobilize them, instead of coddling fascists.

We are hiring! Fully tenured associate professorship in environmental history! We are looking for someone who can be a strong contributor to the history group, to a new #envhum related MA program (if all goes well), and to @greenhouseuis.net. #envhist

youtube commentary on AI is blowing up and that rules i love it lots of thoughtful discourse, but it frustrates me how much my primary problem with AI companies is never addressed? These are tech companies that would NOT EXIST without metric tonnes of uncompensated labor used without consent.

Having grown up in the long shadow of the (bullshit) population bomb discourse, I am having a very hard time wrapping my head around the current panic over falling birth rates given that the global population has doubled in that time. Obvs this is racist garbage, but still, the whiplash is real.

in a crowded field this has to be one of the stupidest things ive read about LLMs and it astonishes me that this quote is from a humanist, a historian! by definition, what these tools cannot do is original novel research of the kind we do in monographs! www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Important news for the #envhist crowd: We are hiring an Associate Professor of Environmental History! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Application deadline is August 7. Some tips for those interested from abroad in thread 👇