Yesterday, an interdisciplinary workshop in Oslo on environmental temporalities, where I was invited alongside Kyrre Kverndokk from Uni Bergen. We brainstormed eight brilliant PhD projects, struggled with anachronistic methodologies and concepts, and agreed not to start any more academic papers

Some PhD projects make headlines in the NYT: @lunduniversity.bsky.social

We're delighted to announce publication of 'Nordic Climate Histories' (Dominik Collet et al. eds), an essay collection exploring how the people of the Nordic countries have confronted challenges from climatic variability down the centuries: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #climatehistory #

Has anybody here tested Google Deep Minds’s Aeneas, advertised as „the first artificial intelligence (AI) model for contextualizing ancient inscriptions”? deepmind.google/discover/blo...

ICYMI: "The podcast works as environmental history by reflecting on the relationships between women and landscapes, thinking about embodied experiences of ski touring and jumping." - @cjdrury.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/07/10/r... #envhist #sporthistory #cdnhist #wmshist #skiing

Today in Lucerne, the 7th Swiss Historical Days begin, a triennial conference under the theme “(In)visibility.” I had the pleasure of presenting in a panel on multispecies history with @isabelleschuerch.bsky.social & Camille Schneiter, organized and moderated by @smschober.bsky.social. Full room! 🙌🏻🙏🏻

Long story short, gen AI can waste everybody’s time or, in some cases, accelerate learning. More often, though, it accelerates the consumption of HigherEd products, that is, increasingly commodified Uni courses. Focusing on the process is the solution. I agree. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Interesting article in NYT taking the pulse of American historians on gen AI www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...

Open PhD position in History of Science and Technology at EPFL www.epfl.ch/labs/lhst/la...

Brilliant talk today in Oslo by Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social on the multispecies history of early modern wigs, organised by KLIMER and the @uio-oceh.bsky.social OCEH Multispecies Landscapes Lab!👌🏻

Caran d'Ache for scribbling insights, Gruyère for fueling them—strong conference opening in Fribourg!

New on Bluesky! We’re OCEH - a research hub at the University of Oslo @uio.no, exploring climate, nature & culture through the humanities. Follow for research highlights, events, reading tips & snapshots from the OCEH Lab. 📸 OCEH Lab hf.uio.no/oceh #ClimateCrisis #EnvironmentalHumanities #envhum

Living in a stack of four exceptional care-centered reads right now. Rare to find this much brilliance in one pile. ▪️The Bloomsbury Handbook of Care Ethics, ed. by M.Carter ▪️J.Davis, D.Pontille, The Care of Things: Ethics and Politics of Maintenance ▪️J.Shulevitz, The Sabbath World ▪️C.McCann, Twist

Heading to Fribourg🇨🇭in mid-May for a phenomenal seminar on time and writing in early modern almanacs, organised by Vitus Huber. Another chance to revisit my PhD dissertation (2018), where I first developed and introduced archaeology of care as an interpretative method.

Reading Chaim Grade's "Sons and Daughters," just published by @aaknopf.bsky.social in Yiddish-to-English translation. “Last great Yiddish novel”? Definitely great, hopefully not last in Yiddish.

PhD workshop this Autumn on environmental temporalities in a historical context, guest-led by Kyrre Kverndokk and me at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo. External candidates welcome but no travel funding provided. Register by June 15 2025 ⤵️

Essential read right now - Dwarkesh Patel & Gavin Leech, The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI.

Le Roy Ladurie in 1968: 'The historian of tomorrow will be a programmer or he will cease to exist.' With advancing AI, I believe the opposite is true. We're entering an era where radically human, affective, embodied, and contextual understanding becomes more vital than ever.

University of Oslo elects its new rector with an all-women slate of candidates. Everyone votes, ranking choices 1-2-3, with comprehensive policy materials readily available. It was a pleasure to cast my vote today. Academic democracy in action ​ www.uio.no/om/aktuelt/a...

Very cool Postdoc position in Copenhagen, in an interdisciplinary project “Home in Crisis” employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...

“As food insecurity grows globally, foresight planning for sustainable food systems has become critical. Here we argue that history—through detailed data, case studies and methodologies—can profoundly enhance the robustness of scenario planning.” Great stuff. #EnvHist www.nature.com/articles/s41...

💥The ESEH is looking for the venue for the 2027 conference! Consider bringing our community to your city in a couple of years' time. Check the call and get in touch with us if you want to know more. eseh.org/call-for-app... Deadline for application: 31 March #envhist

At the new Polish History Museum in Warsaw, discussing how to teach history for climate education with Marcin Napiórkowski, Adam Izdebski, Zuzanna Karcz, and an inquisitive & direct audience. Happy to visit this emerging institution that has a good chance to reshape our collective self-knowledge.

🗓️ Rare 1536 calendar recently donated to National Library of Poland, written by Cracow Academy astrology prof Michal z Wislicy & printed by Szarffenberg. Features woodcuts of King Sigismund I & labours of the months. Salvaged from bookbinding waste, now digitised ➡️ polona.pl/preview/2cb1...

E-mail from MA student I co-supervise: 'I choose to increase your percentage of supervision to 30%, since I value your feedback.' Me: thank you for recognizing my potential sir

Plot twist: I'm benefiting from trickle-down economics... by collecting post-election X escapees on BlueSky like rare Pokémon.

Yass! A paper that dismantles the "science vs activism" dichotomy in climate research. Values & scientific integrity aren't mutually exclusive. Bookmark this for the next "stick to the science" debate. 🔗 shorturl.at/3fLWU @katharinehayhoe.com @lydiamessling.bsky.social @christelvaneck.bsky.social

📚 Environmental History Enthusiasts! Looking for envhist works with microhistorical traits: focus on small-scale subjects, deep dive into limited sources, connecting local stories to broader contexts, highlighting agency, challenging grand narratives, exploring exceptional normal. 📮Recommendations?

🧠Intriguing workshop on VR in education by UZH Digital Society Initiative! As a cultural anthropologist & historian, I'm skeptical: does VR truly enable 'embodied' learning or just create high-tech historical fictions? Fascinating to explore #EdTech #VR #digitalhistory

New thematic issue of the ZETT Magazine of the Zurich University of the Arts, focused on Care. Interestingly, in the German text care is not expressed as Sorge, but as Zuwendung.

Hello from day 1 of the Nordic Climate History conference, taking place at the Botanical Garden in Oslo, with talks about medieval climate fiction, architectural adaptations to the Little Ice Age, and sunscreen pollution on Svalbard, among others.

A 3-year doctoral position available in Oslo for those who want to study early modern printing priviledges 🎓📚

My new podcast, 'Careful Thinking', in which I explore ideas about care, in conversation with researchers, writers and practitioners at the cutting edge of thinking about care, can be found here, or wherever you get your podcasts: careful-thinking.captivate.fm

Guest Lecturer in History, but on a cruise ship. Unpaid. Bringing along a „travel companion who can also bring something to the enrichment program” is a plus. Duties? Host tables, deliver destination-based lectures, accompany guests to shore excursions, make „scenic commentaries where fitting.”

Not for the faint hearted? Read Moshfegh's 'Lapvona' over Easter, enticed by Zurbaran's Agnus Dei on the cover. Now questioning if environmental history has numbed me to the grim of natural disasters and their aftermath, as I didn't find it 'grotesque' or 'shocking' as warned by abhorred reviewers.

Excellent episode of The Ezra Klein Show about the current state of AI from an educator’s perspective.

Feeling like a proper early modernist having finally visited (and presented at) the HAB library in Wolfenbüttel. Danke schön für die Einladung, @dbellingradt.bsky.social #schreibkalender

A 3,5-year postdoc on Early Modern Art and Climatic Resources at UiO:

Terrific job opportunity at UiO: