Miten vaikeaa voi olla löytää Suomesta metsää? Yllättävän, jos etsii yhtenäistä, luonnontilaista metsäaluetta. Mutta sellaisen läpi toimittaja Anna Ruohonen halusi vaeltaa. Tämä on 71 360 metriä metsää -sarjan ensimmäinen osa. www.longplay.fi/lyhyet/71-36...

Kids today should not be deprived of the experience of spending their pocket money on import DVDs because they're desperate to see more films with that one actor they've got a crush on.

Listening to an adaptation of Charles Dickens' The Chimes on the radio. In theory, this is about as conventional a choice of holiday programming as you can get. Yet, in 2025, its politics feel unabashedly radical in a way that is not particularly flattering of where we are right now as a society.

2025 in films! 🧵 Picking best film of the year is both easier and more difficult this year because, for various reasons, I haven't been to the cinema as much as usual. Pick of the (small) bunch was almost certainly Rungano Nyoni's 'On Becoming a Guinea Fowl'.

2025 in films! 🧵 Picking best film of the year is both easier and more difficult this year because, for various reasons, I haven't been to the cinema as much as usual. Pick of the (small) bunch was almost certainly Rungano Nyoni's 'On Becoming a Guinea Fowl'.

I have belatedly been made aware that cult Japanese drone/metal/noise band Boris have released a rendition of Last Christmas??? Happy Holidays everyone!

I have belatedly been made aware that cult Japanese drone/metal/noise band Boris have released a rendition of Last Christmas??? Happy Holidays everyone!

🚨 Nyt on nimet paperissa eli kirjaa pukkaa! Kollega @juhahaavisto.bsky.social'n kanssa kirjoittamani kirja suomalaisen metsänhoidon 🌲 historiasta ilmestyy vuonna 2027 Siltalan kustantamana. 🥳🎉 Markkinointikampanja alkaa nyt!

I see one the reviewers of my article snuck in their report just before logging off for the year but hey, happy holidays, it's a good one! Let's deal with it at some point in 2026.

🚨 Ending the year on the happy news that the publishing contract for our trade book on the history of Finnish forestry 🌲 has been signed! 🥳🎉 I'm writing it with my good colleague/friend/sometime nemesis @juhahaavisto.bsky.social, coming out in 2027 with Siltala Publishing.

Viimein julkista, että uudella tietokirjalla on nyt allekirjoitettu kustannussopimus. Hyvän kollegan Mikko Toivasen @mtoiv.bsky.social kanssa kirjoitetaan suomalaisen metsänhoidon historiasta. Tästä se lähtee.

🚨 Nyt on nimet paperissa eli kirjaa pukkaa! Kollega @juhahaavisto.bsky.social'n kanssa kirjoittamani kirja suomalaisen metsänhoidon 🌲 historiasta ilmestyy vuonna 2027 Siltalan kustantamana. 🥳🎉 Markkinointikampanja alkaa nyt!

🚨 Ending the year on the happy news that the publishing contract for our trade book on the history of Finnish forestry 🌲 has been signed! 🥳🎉 I'm writing it with my good colleague/friend/sometime nemesis @juhahaavisto.bsky.social, coming out in 2027 with Siltala Publishing.

Havainto tästä Liisa Vuonokari-Bomströmin hyvästä blogikirjoituksesta. Kansallisarkiston uuden strategian visualisointi näyttäisi olevan tekoälyllä tuotettu, mutta onko sen sisältökin? Mitään kovin järkevää progressiota en noista nuolista löydä.

As a sometime LRT contributor (long story) and a general public broadcasting fan, this sort of thing is concerning. And happening all over, including in Finland.

The @contingent-mag.bsky.social ’s book list 2025 is now published and it includes e.g. @mtoiv.bsky.social ’s ”Empire, Tourism, and Colonial Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka” and Brian Harnetty’s ”Noisy Memory: Recording Sound, Performing Archives” to name 2/39 🤩

"New cross-Nordic research project on forest cultural heritage" - the official press release and announcement for ROOTS, @wrigleyca.bsky.social's new Nordforsk-funded #envhum project on forest cultural heritage.

As of today I've got essays out in the current print issues of the two biggest culture magazines in Finland, so I've officially made it as a public intellectual. Which is great! All that money will really come in handy when academia eventually decides to ditch me.

Pleased to share that I've been awarded an NWO XS grant for "Terraforming from Above: Digital Methods for Colonial Aerial Photography" Between 1920-1949, Dutch pilots systematically photographed Indonesia from above, creating an unprecedented aerial archive of the colonial landscape.

Tämä suomalaisen metsähistorian kolonialistisia ulottuvuuksia perkaava esseeni löytyy nyt myös @voima.fi -lehden tuoreimmasta printtinumerosta. Juuri sopivasti joulun lukutuokiohin!

Hey so yeah it's in Finnish but I'm really quite proud of this essay, which was published this week. It's about the collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), about "running amok", and about the uses and abuses of the concept of rationality in times of crisis.

Uusin Nuoren Voiman numero on nyt kaupoissa! Mukana myös tämä esseeni, jossa kirjoitan Atlantin virtausjärjestelmästä, amokjuoksijoista ja järkipuheesta nykypolitiikassa.

Hey so yeah it's in Finnish but I'm really quite proud of this essay, which was published this week. It's about the collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), about "running amok", and about the uses and abuses of the concept of rationality in times of crisis.

My article on non-human animals in the midst of the growing and modernizing forestry sector is just published. It is open-access and readily readable via the link: faravid.journal.fi/article/view...

Uusin Nuoren Voiman numero on nyt kaupoissa! Mukana myös tämä esseeni, jossa kirjoitan Atlantin virtausjärjestelmästä, amokjuoksijoista ja järkipuheesta nykypolitiikassa.

Holiday spirit has evaporated. Trying to stay positive. 1 like = 1 attempt to summarize a classic Mythos story in a single skeet

Shades of this absolute gem from the Hikayat Abdullah (1843):

Glad to see my article about race and censuses in 19th-c Buenos Aires published by @socscihistory.bsky.social. I see it as demographic evidence of structural racism, but it contradicts the widespread view of underenumeration doi.org/10.1017/ssh....

Album of the year for me, app or no app: A Danger to Ourselves by Lucrecia Dalt. lucreciadalt.bandcamp.com/album/a-dang...

Album of the year for me, app or no app: A Danger to Ourselves by Lucrecia Dalt. lucreciadalt.bandcamp.com/album/a-dang...

Only now learning that Arthur Conan Doyle apparently felt detective stories were beneath him and wanted to make his name with grand historical novels.

After a good time last year, I've decided to pick another bundle of ETA Hoffmann stories for Christmas reading this time around. Enjoyment enhanced by the fact that I'm actually getting most of the German by now.

After a good time last year, I've decided to pick another bundle of ETA Hoffmann stories for Christmas reading this time around. Enjoyment enhanced by the fact that I'm actually getting most of the German by now.

Including yours truly and a whole lot of great work by others:

„A sad fiasco“, my book on colonial concentration camps, has been released in paperback today. If you want to know what characterized these deadly institutions; whether colonial powers copied this technique from each other; and whether they are connected to later Nazi camps, consider taking a look.

Sehän on taas joulukuu ja aika Luonnonmetsät Sápmin perinteisen, ensimmäistä kertaa ilmestyvän, luonnonmetsäjoulukalenterin! Luukku 1: Aloitellaan pienestä, mutta ah niin kauniista palasesta luonnontilaista ikimetsää Kaitamojärven eteläpuolella. Tältä metsä voi (ja sen pitäisi) näyttää.

Just finished a five-part radio adaptation of Le Guin's Left Hand of Darkness and, with the caveat that I don't know how faithful it was to the original, was surprised by how small a role the gender themes play in it? Enjoyed it all the same, but maybe prefer The Dispossessed overall.

The articles for "Who Belongs in the Empire" have now been published together as a special issue in Itinerario alongside the highly relevant special issue "Hidden Economies of Slavery." Check out both open-access collections now!

Favourite type of feedback on project plans: "maybe here you could say what you will find in the archives?"

Why were heads hunted in the Enlightenment? Who hunted heads, and where did they 'acquire' them? It’s a complicated history. @lindaaburnett.bsky.social and I tell some of it in our new book. We'll tell more of it in our next! You can read a little about it here: yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/11/20/h...

The first output of my global forestry project is now out, in the form of this essay I wrote for the Finnish magazine Voima. It's about Finland, Indonesia and networks of colonial expertise. An academic, English-language article is currently in peer review, and much more in the works!

I know the world's moved past irony by this stage but the COP30 conference venue is literally on fire.

Metsistä puhutaan nyt paljon, niin kuin pitääkin, ja siksi onkin korkea aika laittaa myös suomalainen metsähistoria oikeaan globaaliin viitekehykseensä. Työstän aiheesta parhaillaan kirjaa, mistä maistiaisiksi tämä @voima.fi -lehteen kirjoittamani essee. Saa mielellään jakaa!

Olipas todella hyvä essee suomalaisen metsäteollisuuden historiasta. Löytyy alta. Herätti myös merkittävää kiinnostusta Mikon tulevaa kirjaa kohtaan.

Metsistä puhutaan nyt paljon, niin kuin pitääkin, ja siksi onkin korkea aika laittaa myös suomalainen metsähistoria oikeaan globaaliin viitekehykseensä. Työstän aiheesta parhaillaan kirjaa, mistä maistiaisiksi tämä @voima.fi -lehteen kirjoittamani essee. Saa mielellään jakaa!

Miksi valtion metsien suojeleminen on niin vaikeaa? Lajikato etenee vääjäämättä, eikä Metsähallitus ole päässyt tavoitteisiinsa yli 20 vuodessa. Näyttää siltä, että raaka-aineen tuottaminen teollisuudelle on vienyt voiton luonnonhoidosta. Lue koko juttu: voima.fi/artikkeli/20...

Katsos. Olispa kätevää, jos joku olisi sattunut juuri hiljattain kirjoittamaan pitkän jutun, jossa pohditaan, onko nykymallisesta metsäteollisuudesta Suomessa yhä elättäjäksi. (Kissa ja kissan häntä ja mitä näitä nyt oli)

Ah, this looks like a good #envhist job for someone a bit more inclined to move to the UK than I am at the present moment.

Would like to see an environmental/cultural historian write something about how phone cameras have changed the (social) experience of aurora.

Seeing excitement for the announced Paris-Berlin European Sleeper connection and sure, any connection is better than no connection, but to date my experiences with that company have been, uh, a bit patchy.