Wenn man die Arbeitszeit erhöht und parallel die Pflegestufe 1 streichen will, ist das Ziel übrigens recht offensichtlich, dass Frauen wieder in traditionelle Rollenverhältnisse gedrängt werden sollen.

BOOK LAUNCH: Edinburgh, 24th September. @florianurban.bsky.social and I will be discussing our new book quantifying the energy cost of architecture through history. Do come! The following night we're speaking about it in Glasgow, so see you at whichever suits. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bookshopla...

A sign for my presentation on lunar colonialism next week, but how to read the sign remains open to interpretation…

📅 10 September 📍 Lisbon Panel organized by Feng Schöneweiß (4A_Lab, KHI Florenz) and De-nin Lee (Emerson College) at the European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology (EAAA) fourth biennial conference, University of Lisbon, Portugal. ➡️ t1p.de/3fphz

De-nin Lee (Emerson College) and I have organized a panel for the European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology (EAAA) conference in Lisbon on 10 Sep. 2025. Here’s our panel abstract and list of presentations, please do get in touch if you’re interested!! www.khi.fi.it/en/aktuelles...

Pleased to announce that my paper "Sacred ordinariness: event, cultural codes, and the politics of a COVID pandemic icon" (on symbolic politics around the death and mourning of Dr. Li Wenliang, an "icon of ordinariness") was published in AJCS. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

For anyone in the environmental humanities thinking about biodiversity and habitability, be sure to read this excellent new article by @julianordblad.bsky.social.

Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.

If you use my textbook, Introduction to Modern Climate Change, I've updated chapter 13. That chapter reviews the history of climate science and politics and ends in the printed book in early 2021. The update covers the 2021-2025 period. drive.google.com/fil...

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Kew Gardens’ Palm House and Waterlily House will undergo a £50 million renovation to reduce CO₂ emissions (those two are currently 20% of Kew's CO₂ emissions). The project involves replacing gas boilers with heat pumps, upgrading glass panes for energy efficiency, and restoring the iconic structure.

CONF: Art and Conflict in Times of Climate Change (Berlin, 17-18 Jul 25) https://arthist.net/archive/49669

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 👇

Human-Plant Entanglement: Thinking with Plants in the Anthropocene is a new book edited by Ratul Nandi, Jagannath Basu & Jayjit Sarkar that includes 11 essays. This Critical Plant Studies collection "redefines the boundaries of phytocentric scholarship" brill.com/display/titl...

We 💜 it here & want to thank so many of you for following us! To celebrate, we’re raffling off 5 books. To enter: 📌 like + repost 💬 tell us which book you want (see terms in 🧵) Check out our books from De Gruyter Brill (www.degruyterbrill.com) for inspiration.

“Unsere Geschichte ist eure Beute” (Our history is your booty) - graffiti below Humboldt Forum.

What Will Photography Be? An Invitation to Speculate We are interested in ideas about photography’s future roles in social, artistic, scientific, and everyday realms. Applications are due on July 31st, 2025. For the full call, please have a look here: cloud.folkwang-uni.de/s/2zMFsW2WoZ...

Mandatory reading for anybody in German academia: #ichbinHanna #WissZeitVG

I use Otter.ai to transcribe interviews. It offers summary transcripts from my conversations with sources. I have found the best way to pull together insights from multiple interviews is not through AI, but to take a walk outside with my dog and avoid looking at my phone.

Warum stand dieses Geld denn nicht vorher zur Verfügung für all die Forschenden, die schon hier sind? Warum kommt es erst jetzt darauf an, attraktive Jobs (mit längeren Vertragslaufzeiten) zu schaffen? Wer sind "the best and the brightest"? Bitte nicht antworten, ich muss im Bad die Wand anbrüllen.

Very excited about two Kew Gardens exhibitions on empire & botanical art this October: – Flora Indica: recovering lost histories of Indian botanical art, curated by Henry Noltie & Sita Reddy. – New work by The Singh Twins: Botanical Tales & Seeds of Empire. www.kew.org/about-us/pre...

A Nazi-era provenance scandal has led to the resignation of Bernhard Maaz, head of the Bavarian State Painting Collections. A report found 200 flagged works were concealed. Munich prosecutors are investigating, and reforms for transparency are underway. buff.ly/BJA3Skf

Historical work is best done in a context of free exchange across the globe. The AHA has compiled resources that might help individuals and departments navigate difficult international situations, especially regarding travel and academic freedom. 🗃️

In der Promotion fand ich Schreiben oft quälend, hab mit jeder Formulierung gekämpft & gehadert. Das hat sich inzwischen zum Glück verändert — v.a. durch Schreibkollaborationen, die das Zutrauen in mein Schreiben gestärkt haben, & durch Routine. Was ich daraus gelernt hab: Heute in #ArbeitInDerWiss!

stoked to share the latest book in the @cornellupress.bsky.social Environments of East Asia series, this one from my colleague Jon Pitt (with whom, naturally, I grow a veggie garden) Botanical Imagination: Rethinking Plants in Modern Japan www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... Open-access!

Historiker:innen für ein demokratische Gesellschaft Macht mit! hist4dem.de/positionspap...

📣ATTENTION POSTDOCS 📣 The Department Weddigen is seeking to appoint Scientific Assistants to the Director. 🔗 Full call and application instructions: www.biblhertz.it/de/opportuni... ⏳Deadline: May 11, 2025

#IchBinHanna Looking for an apartment. Many housing ads prefer tenants with a stable (unbefristete) work contracts. Some say this explicitly. Now look at us, people with a PhD in late 30s, with only 1- or 2-year contracts or fellowships or shorter. Even harder when you’re foreigners.

Kevin Young, der Direktor des Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture wird unbefristet beurlaubt #kulturundpolitik news.artnet.com/art-world/di...

"Our new research shows previous forecasts of how such warming will affect the global economy have been far too optimistic. It adds to other recent evidence suggesting the economic impacts of #climate change has been badly underestimated" theconversation.com/global-warmi...

The New College of Florida has fired a Chinese language professor under a state law that restricts Florida’s public universities from hiring individuals they deem to be from “countries of concern”.3/29/25 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Just come across this really useful list on the links between natural history and empire, featuring moi as ‘essential reading’. Perfect if you’re interested in museums or science more broadly too. Also ideal for passing to students as a starting point. daily.jstor.org/natural-hist...

Yesterday I gave a talk on my book manuscript to conclude my term as Albert-Ottenbacher-Fellow for Provenance Research at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich. We had a small but insightful audience on site, who gave me really good feedback and inspiring suggestions. Grateful for this!

My new essay "This Prompt Contains Prohibited Words" is now out in the International Journal for Digitial Art History. Thanks to @harald-klinke.de and the team. #digitalhumanities dahj.org/article/this...

Energy's History challenges abstract and universalizing conceptions of energy's history-making capacities. Each of the twelve essays in this collection presents, analyzes, and contextualizes a primary source. #ReadUP www.sup.org/books/politi... @ueberdruss.bsky.social

Ecocrit question...I see the word "entanglement" come up a lot lately. It makes sense even without context, but I'm curious if this is a concept with a traceable history? Does all talk of components of ecosystems as 'entangled' refer back to the same source? Feel like I'm missing something...

Check out @fengschoeneweiss.bsky.social's review of the 3rd edition of Patricia Buckley Ebrey's "The Cambridge Illustrated History of China," published in 2023 by @cambridgeup.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #china www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Schrödingers Postdoc - ein Thread. #ACertainDegreeOfFlexibility #95vsWissZeitVG Schrödingers Postdoc ist eigenständig genug, um für die eigene Finanzierung verantwortlich gemacht zu werden - zugleich ist sie_er weisungsgebunden & erhält Arbeitsaufträge von Vorgesetzten. (1/9)

Yea, adding to that are the multiple languages to learn, the short-term contracts to connect, and real-life discrimination and aggression one has to face (as non-white academics). And way more than what can be written here.

I spent almost 2 hours painstakingly copying the orbits of all 128 Saturnian moons from the announcement MPEC and reformatting them for visualization... Behold, here are the orbits of ALL 128 MOONS OF SATURN. This isn't just a moon system—it's a literal asteroid belt around Saturn! 🧪🔭☄️

A fascinating database for studying the histories of knowledge production and intellectual life. Interesting to see are also the refused applications in the database.

Forderungen von #IchBinHanna an neue Bundesregierung: 1️⃣ Postdocs raus aus #WissZeitVG 2️⃣ #Befristungshöchstquote 3️⃣ Flexible Personalkategorien neben Profs 4️⃣ Departmentstrukturen 5️⃣ mind. 4 J. Vertragslaufzeit für Promotion 6️⃣ Exzellenz- & Großteil d. DFG-Mittel in Grundfinanzierung #HannaWählt2025

Science is for everyone. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

For those interested in using network analysis for historical research, there is a new volume called "Modern China in Flux," edited by Christian Henriot, now available from De Gruyter. It is open access! Link below: www.degruyter.com/document/doi... #sinology #china #enpchina

Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.

Stip: 4 Postdoctoral Fellowships "Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe" (Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin) http://www.hsozkult.de/grant/id/stip-142708 Berlin, 01.10.2024-31.07.2025, Forum Transregionale Studien, Bewerbungsschluss: 08.04.2024

Bedenkenswerte Einschätzungen aus dem Spiegel-Interview mit dem Yale-Historiker Timothy Snyder www.spiegel.de/geschichte/u... (+)

Fingers crossed for the people injured in the terror attack in Munich. I walk by that cross almost every time I go to my institute. This morning I slept too long, because of several 4-hour train rides in the past days. Can’t imagine if I passed by there 30 minutes earlier…

Great source of images from the history of science now available in public domain #histsci 🐡 pdimagearchive.org