When your mum is proper old school but there's a cake to bake

Appreciate the work we do to get environmental history and humanities into public spaces? Help us continue to do this work by supporting our November fundraising campaign! fundrazr.com/niche2025?re... #envhist #envhum #cdnhist #histgeog

Bit late to this but it's such a clever piece of AI criticism, developing a literary critique of Sam Altman's auto-metafiction story as a way to explore the grave threats to the "intellectual infrastructure" of the humanities - and HE more broadly - posed by AI lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...

Devastated to share the news that was broken to colleagues in Music (and other departments) at the University of Nottingham yesterday. This is obviously a very difficult time for us and our students. Please contact us on [email protected] if you would like to be involved.

One of my unsupported hot takes is that the loneliness crisis is caused in part by people not being bored enough. In most of my classes the students all stare at their phones until class begins. We’ve lost the precious boredom of eventually actually being bored enough to engage with others.

This is basically my explanation for everything that is wrong with everything today

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

Not difficult. Not expensive. Not untried. Your city's leaders don't even need to lead, just follow good models like this that have worked elsewhere. Sadly, this is too much to ask in many cases.

Today’s #AutumnArrivalSpotlight shines on the Starling! Forget fireworks...Autumn’s skies come alive with magnificent murmurations: vast, swirling clouds of Starlings dancing at dusk. One of nature's greatest spectacles. 😍

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.

An LLM-produced essay is tangible proof that a student doesn’t care, and yet responding to it properly requires hour upon hour of careful work. It’s asymmetrical and overwhelming.

I passed!!!!!!! But do you know what is the legal age to ride a moped? How many people sit in a jury in Scotland? Whether the police is a constitutional institution? If not then you'd have trouble becoming British. This test is no joke!!

Revising for my life in the UK test while reading the news is peak cognitive dissonance 😵‍💫

this makes me feel physically ill

Just another day of major political figures telling me (and millions of others) we should go back "home" 😑

Give our American studies social media person a raise 🤣🤣!!

I think I can now start calling myself a historian of the American West without feeling like an impostor 😅🥳

I just wanted to share some more photos from the great beach history tour led by @elsadevienne.bsky.social and alisonrosejefferson.com in Santa Monica today as part of the Urban History Association’s conference! #UHA2025LA

Echoing that thanks! A terrific tour + chance to talk more about race, recreation + landscape history not only with @elsadevienne.bsky.social, learning from her new pub * #SandRush *, but also @lawrencecphd.bsky.social, whose first book *The Frontier of Leisure* examines these themes, too! #envhist

It ended with @elsadevienne.bsky.social sharing key insights from #SandRush on the cultural & #envhist of LA's #beaches. Check out the award-winning books *Sand Rush* & *Living the California Dream* to learn more! global.oup.com/academic/pro... uk.linkedin.com/in/elsa-devi... alisonrosejefferson.com

The #UHA2025LA conference today included excellent tour of the historically #Black neighborhood of Belmar & LA's iconic #musclebeach with historians Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social & Alison Rose Jefferson. A deeply informative, engaging morning! Thank you Elsa & Alison! #LosAngeles #history

@lawrencecphd.bsky.social @elsadevienne.bsky.social and Kara Schilchting will share new work emerging from their book projects and research. See below for the program and some previews! #UHA2025LA

This morning we're featuring the *Summer in the City: Urban Heat in the Past, Present & Future* panel Head to the Roman rm from 8-9:30pm to learn about how urban historians are addressing hot topics like— #climatechange —& the interconnected histories of the body, health & leisure & climate control

Today's workday starts with counting crabs with UCLA marine biology students! 🦀🌞

2) For the same class we read Ch. 8 of Robert Paxton's classic The Anatomy of Fascism. I used his definition of fascism in my book Antifa. I love his argument that a definition of fascism "encompasses its subject no better than a snapshot encompasses a person."

Join the conversation at this year’s UHA conference with the hashtag #UHA2025LA 📑🌴🌆 We’ll “re-skeet” your panels if you promote ‘em! So get at it!

Work setup for a day

Hello from Los Angeles 🌞 where I'm giving a talk about SAND RUSH to Marlborough highschool students. Bumped into this poster which seemed apt.

There is still time to review a book this Fall semester! Check out some of the awesome new titles that I have available for review. Pass it on! #envhist #envhum #energy #aghist #ecocrit #conservation #sustatinability #envtech #water #naturewriting docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The Anthropic settlement list is up. Authors, check here to see if your books are included: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Other #transpennine commuters, do consider submitting a complaint about the change to amend tickets at this link: www.railhelp.co.uk/tpexpress/ma....

Dear @tpexpress.bsky.social, I get that you needed to update the website but why is it SO hard to amend tickets for the same journey now?? I need to re-book and ask for a refund now. It used to be SO easy. It's such a faff that I gave up instead of spending lots of money on a ticket change.

To everyone casually dropping in conversation that they've asked Chat GPT for something trivial, please read this: www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

We are thrilled to announce our new colloboration with The Metropole - @urbanhistorya.bsky.social - Urban and Environmental Dialogues Send us your proposals for this new urban #envhist series by 24 October! niche-canada.org/2025/09/29/c... #urbanhistory #urbanstudies #urban #envhum

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Excellent read for anyone interested in Indigenous histories

The power of clean energy hit the news across the U.S. last weekend as 500 events kicked off to celebrate Sun Day 🗞☀️ Thank you to local organizers for sharing the story of Sun Day and showing the HUGE support for solar and wind that continues to grow despite the challenges we face.

Ai and plastics have so much in common - yes, they can be useful in some very specific applications, but they're actually subpar in many cases (breaks/spills BS) - they are huge sources of pollution - they are marketed to us as "inevitable" - once introduced, they're impossible to get rid of

📣 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

My History colleagues and I are now on bluesky! Give us a follow for news about Northumbria University historians (and our students) :-)

Environmental activism doesn’t always have to be radical.

Don't miss Elsa Devienne's (@elsadevienne.bsky.social) fantastic double guest appearance on the Plastisphere podcast to discuss the history of beach cleanups. 🏖️ Both episodes are available now ♻️

First off, a thank you (actually, THANK YOU) to everyone who reposted today's article about John G. Hutton. Next up, some random thoughts and requests. This is abt climate catastrophe and what is to be done, so sorry, not really in the chuckle-zone. 1/n allouryesterdays.info/2025/09/22/7...

It's the 40th #WorldCleanupDay, and thousands of people will be out and about today picking trash from the shorelines. How did this huge event begin? Listen to our two-part series and meet the women who revolutionized the beach cleanups in the 1980s! soundcloud.com/plastisphere... 🎧 ✨

Second year of running a L3 France 1780-1871 course with 'character role cards' as part of the syllabus Each student gets a card in the first week with one of nine social classes/professions. I may have gone too suspenseful when setting up the new VLE though 1/2

👩 Meet Linda Maraniss ⭐ In 1986, she visited Padre Island National Seashore, in Texas. 🏖️ She expected a beach. 🤢 She found a landfill. ▶️ Listen to ep 2 of our "Early Heroines of Plastic Pollution" series to find out what happened afterwards tinyurl.com/4xsvnbv3 #InternationalCoastalCleanup