What happens if we tell the history of the planetary emergency from the margins? Join us for this event with @kbruisch.bsky.social, Eglė Rindzevičiūtė and @robertsuits.bsky.social to find out more. 🗓️ 17 November at 6.15pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ buff.ly/zYgWn4s @universitypress.cambridge.org

Good morning. I don't know who did this, but I love you.

Don't see a way out of this apart from the strict legal regulation of all generative "AI". Everything needs to be labeled, the use of the likeness of real people (alive or dead) without their express consent needs to be libel (even in a labeled video), and the fines need to be ruinous.

This is a really excellent analysis of not just the pressures and dilemmas around LLMs in publishing but also the larger political economy of "AI".

Whichever country or countries choose to tack against the wind of anti-immigrant sentiment will be huge winners economically, let alone morally.

What are your favorite long reads from the last few weeks? Any topic, any outlet, as long as they're thoughtful/interesting! (Bonus points if free.)

Whatever strategy you’re about to suggest, we’ve thought about it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

In what is now the United States people have been speaking Spanish for about 100 years longer than they have been speaking English.

Please join us for this event to hear more about @kbruisch.bsky.social's new book 'Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia’s Fossil Economy' (@universitypress.cambridge.org). Discussants: Eglė Rindzevičiūtė and @robertsuits.bsky.social. 🗓️ 17 November at 6.15pm ➡️ buff.ly/zYgWn4s

question answered, incidentally

Did "hand grenades" used to mean something else? Or was this fairly normal mixed used building in 1895 South Side Chicago packing a *lot* of heat?

137 meter to 200 meter tall tastless statues with lots of mass? Gonna have quite low seismic resonance frequencies. Consider them "temporary art installations."

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

I'm determined to be a useful member of the Digital Scholarship committee for the WHA this year, so I need help: what cool new-ish digital humanities projects related to Western US history do you know about?

Repeating this plea for the evening crowd. Don't let me embarrass myself again this year.

So great to see my new book How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic, published OA @hopkinspress.bsky.social next May, has got a cover! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

We're hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in Dept of Environmental Studies at University of Colorado Boulder with expertise in energy & environmental policy, and emphases on sustainability & decarbonization. The job ad is here, apply by the Nov 14 deadline! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Energy History People, see this great opportunity: PhD Course in Energy Humanities, 1–5 Dec @greenhouseuis.net. Apply by 24 Oct! #envhum #envhist #energyhistory #energistories

Coal is a fuel used almost exclusively in electricity generation, which is going out of business almost exclusively because it cannot compete with cheap fracked natural gas.

For those in London on 17 Nov 2025: please join us for a book talk at @uclssees.bsky.social. @eglerin.bsky.social and @robertsuits.bsky.social have read the book and will share their comments. Register here: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

A nice job has opened in my department at Cambridge: Assistant Prof. in US History since 1920. Please share widely! No references letters required up front. Applications close 27 Oct. 2025.🗃️ www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5 #envhist #energysky

It is incredible how this government is so intent on dismantling one of our only working industries in service of a con.

Amongst pro-migration voters - i.e. Labour's base last year and the easiest votes to recover in future - support for this policy is...0%. Nil. Nada. Zip. Zero. Goals don't come more open than this. Labour should be attacking this proposal at every opportunity.

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.