Excellent new book arguing that we need to take the early modern household more seriously in order to understand the emergence of fossil-fuel based societies. An important addition to energy history scholarship #skystorians lup.be/book/fossil-...

Holy hell, what an obituary

new publication by @odinnmelsted.bsky.social Candida Sánchez Burmester, George Roberts & me putting the Club of Rome in a more global perspective than it's usually framed: 1/x www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Béla Tarr, 1955-2026 🤍

A few 2025 reading higlights, a year that also included a lot of Natalia Ginzburg and Han Kang. The pile for 2026 is growing but recommendations are always welcome!

💼 Au 1er semestre 2026, le projet #ETRANHET du @cired.bsky.social recrute un·e stagiaire niveau Master SHS pour étudier comment les économistes ont pensé la ❓énergétique pendant la décolonisation 🇫🇷 (1946-80). 🗓️ Candidature avant le 15/01/2026 Tous les détails : www.centre-cired.fr/wp-content/u...

In Cairo cycling began as an imported recreation for the ruling class, but it soon proliferated, serving the workaday needs of everyday people. In “Nationalist Autonomy to Capitalist Modernity,” Nourhan Sherif, Ranya Ayman and Carine Khalil trace Cairo’s cycling experience. ...

An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...

New on H-Sci-Med-Tech: Check out @henk-jandekker.bsky.social (Bielefeld University)’s review of David Obst’s book _ Saving Ourselves from Big Car_, pub 2025 @columbiaup.bsky.social Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

ICOHTEC 2026: Call for Proposals is now open! The next Annual Meeting will take place 8–11 October 2026 at the Democritus University of Thrace (Greece), in collaboration with the Lab of Technologies, Research & Applications in Education and the Ethnological Museum of Thrace. Thread: 1/4 #histtech

"Umwelt - Technik - Wissen" - Ein großartiges Gemeinschafts- und Verflechtungsprojekt mit jungen Autor:innen aus der ganzen DACH-Region! Herzlichen Dank an alle Beteiligten und viel Spaß bei der Lektüre (Open Access)! #envhist #histtech #histsci #envirotech www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

1/ It's great to see that the new book Cycling Cities: The African Experiences has just been published! It’s a must-read for anyone interested in cycling and sustainable mobility and looks at African history through a new lens. A short thread: www.transitiestudies.nl/product/cycl...

GWU-Member @czumbragel.bsky.social contributed to the radio feature “100 Years of Energy Transition–How Germany Almost Became Renewable Once Before” The episode explores how people once imagined a different energy future open.spotify.com/episode/3W18... #energistories #UniBielefeld #energyhistory

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

It's been almost four years since publishing my book on the history of Dutch cycling, and it's been great to see all the exciting work on global cycling history that has come out since. Such an underrated mode of transport in so many contexts, it's finally getting its due. www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Seriously, fuck off. I say that with all due gravity.

The July Issue of Technology and Culture is out now, with another exciting and diverse set of book reviews, including books in Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Spanish, and Russian: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55249

The people of Gaza face starvation under the joint U.S.-Israeli food distribution system run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

Uitstekende kop; 14 gevluchte meisjes niet welkom. Dat het maar duidelijk is waar deze mannen met vuur en woede bang voor zijn; 14 meisjes.

NEW EPISODE! "What Makes a City a Cycling City?" Why do some cities become places where it’s easy to bike for transportation? We talk to the researchers behind the Cycling Cities project and look at places beyond Northern Europe to find out. Follow and listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Interesting-looking new article on the history of motorized tricycles in Greece by Papazafeiropoulou, Tsouchlis, and Tympas. A nice case study of 'marginal mobilities' that foregrounds the role of users and the historical complexity of motorization pathways www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

La part du vélo dans les déplacements domicile-travail a dépassé les 20% à Grenoble en 2021, contre 2% à St-Etienne. Les écarts entre villes de population semblable sont énormes, une politique volontariste sur la durée fait la différence. Chiffres fournis par Guy Bourgeois, dans la revue TIM.

Er wringt toch iets als elk dubbeltje dat aan zorg of onderwijs wordt uitgegeven drie keer moet worden verantwoord terwijl we blijkbaar wel denken ergens 19 miljard voor defensie vandaan te kunnen toveren.

I'm happy to share that I've started a new position as postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bielefeld! I've learned a lot and had a wonderful time in the ETRANHET project @cired.bsky.social and am looking forward to continuing my research at the crossroads of energy and mobility history.

The April issue of Technology and Culture is now out! As always, we put together a wide-ranging collection of 40 book reviews, this time including titles in Chinese, French, Spanish, German, and Polish. Take a look at this exciting and diverse collection of books at muse.jhu.edu/issue/54592

🚨 I am delighted to announce that Tom Turnbull’s and my volume with @stanfordpress.bsky.social is out today, featuring Jennifer Eaglin, Victor Seow, Shellen Wu, Antoine Missemer, Giuliano Garavini, Michael Dobson, Laura A. Twagira, Damilola Adebayo, Troy Vettese, Liz Chatterjee, and Rebecca Wright

Vandaag in Trouw een reflectie van @tvlaake.bsky.social en mij over wat Nederland als fietsland kan leren van Ciclovía in Colombia: www.trouw.nl/opinie/opini...

Earlier this month, Bogotá's Ciclovía marked it's 50th anniversary. In this @urbancyclinginstitute.org blog, @henk-jandekker.bsky.social and I reflect on what Bogotá tells us about cycling histories and futures: urbancyclinginstitute.org/ciclovia-at-...