Tomorrow, if you can make it. Kearney Public Library.

On "wishful worries" and other myths of technology (“When someone says ‘algorithm,’ start searching for the people.”) @dcbrock.bsky.social's 2019 essay is worth a re-read lareviewofbooks.org/article/our-...

We need an additional "I might be a robot" button for websites.

I am running a course on the Histories of Energy Transitions this spring, starting 2 March! The course is fully online and asynchronous and it is open to students at ECIU universities as well as anyone enrolled at Norwegian universities. #energyhistory For more information, see below ⤵

We have an online information meeting about our new Masters in Public Environmental Humanities program TODAY (Jan 27) at 14:00 Central European time. If you are interested in finding out more, register to attend the meeting (near bottom of this page): www.uis.no/en/studies/t... #envhist #envhum

Coming up in about 20 min! Hope to see many of you there for the live talk and discussion.

I will be sharing some of my latest research on the history of shelterbelts and conservation in the Great Plains on Februrary 11 (12pm) at Kearney Public Library. And, I'll bring some items to showcase too! Everyone is welcome. Hope to see you.

I have completed one of my favorite LEGO builds of all time: The U.S.S. Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) with accompanying Onizuka Shuttlecraft! Star Trek: The Next Generation is my favorite crew. Boldly Go! @finnarne.me @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social

"A wonderfully readable look at the interface between book history & computer history." — @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social In "README," historian @patrickmccray.bsky.socials uses the oldest literary technology—books—to explain how computers became popular. Available now: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...

Just sent back corrected proofs for ‘Outdoor Singing in Modern Britain: A Sensory & Emotional History’ 🥳 Huge thanks to my excellent co-writer @draflint.bsky.social for making this fun as well as incredibly rewarding. Merry Christmas to us! 🥂🎄 www.cambridge.org/core/element...

A must read on the history of chemical plant protection in Norway. More brilliant scholarship from Dr. Hilde Røsstad. #envhum ##envhist ##histsci www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I found a life-changing treasure at Bluestem Books in Lincoln today: A first edition, first printing of "Silent Spring" signed by Rachel Carson!Her writing and advocacy for the environment has always guided me. And now to have such a rare artifact in my personal library is a powerful gift.

First Lego build of the winter season. Hot chocolate stand with special friends Mr. Yeti and R2-D2 to help with cheer.

Creative Human > Generative A.I.

Have been thinking a lot about this hard season we are all living through: Do not wait to tell someone that you love them or delay the gratitude you have for who they are and how they live. Go now with all haste. We need each other more than ever.

I repaired my 1989 Gameboy! It's alive!

One of my life hopes since childhood was to see the northern lights in person. Tonight they found me.

Apply now for a free week-long PhD course on Energy Humanities organized by the Greenhouse and the project Energy Lives! project run by @melinabuns.bsky.social Takes place in Stavanger, Norway, 1-5 December 2025 www.uis.no/en/research/... #envhum #envhist #energy

Humanities are the heart. We must protect and promote them. They are not dispensable. From 2013:

Take Note. Please support your local humanities council however you can. This is urgent. Humanities are essential to you, me, and us.

I will be speaking at this NDSU Libraries event on research based on my current monograph project as well as a new project inspired by what I found in NDSU Archives during the trip. Honored for this support from the Gunlogson Award and to join other scholars in this celebration.

"We cannot understand the problems that concern us in this, our particular moment of time, unless we first understand our environment and the forces that have made us what we are, physically and mentally." -- Rachel Carson, Introduction in "Good Reading," 1956. #envhist #envhum #histsci

I'm beyond honored to receive the University of Nebraska at Kearney's Pratt-Heins Award for Teaching. I dedicate this award to our students. You give me hope and perspective. I'm less without you. I'll be here for each of you, every step.

Humanities helps us find love in this moment of no love.

Really excited to get a copy of this book which I think is the first in our series on Environment, Health & Wellbeing at Michigan State University Press. Great mix of chapters from academics & activists. More info here: msupress.org/978161186528...

I'm thinking we all need to rethink the urgent embrace of this stuff: www.wosu.org/2025-07-29/s...

news.prairiepublic.org/podcast/main... #envhist #envhum #histsci

Farewell Fargo, but I'll be back! Had one of the most productive and delightful research trips this week. Many thanks to Tom Isern and Suzzanne Kelley for their hospitality and kindness throughout. I'm so grateful for Institute for Regional Studies research support. #Ndsu #envhist #envhum #histsci

Excited to continue my adventures in the NDSU Archives today! The Institute for Regional Studies collections and archival records have revealed much. And I got to use this cool "Light Box" to look at slides of early postwar contour farming and shelterbelts! #envhist #envhum #histsci #Ndsu

I will be spending the week researching at NDSU Archives thanks to the Institute for Regional Studies Gunlogson Fund support for the Vulnerable Harvests manuscript. Today, I found some epic singletrack at the Lions Conservancy Nature Park. #envhist #envhum #histsci

1st stop in last round of research for the Vulnerable Harvests manuscript! #envhist #envhum #histsci

Streetcar with bicycle racks, 1898

Turkey on a bridge for the AM ride

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 👇

Never hold back love and kindness. People need to know more than you know.

Had to adventure out on this nice summer day with Rowdy. New tires are lightning fast (for an MTB). Dr. Crash Mode Activated!

Preorder now!! Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums Coming out with @uchicagopress.bsky.social in October 2025. Only $20 in paperback for a full color book with 80 pictures of dead things. It’s beautiful! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

"All you fascists bound to lose," Woody Guthrie, 1944. youtu.be/nIOHXYDaT-s?...

@finnarne.me and @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social New summer Lego creation: Shuttle Enterprise with Boeing Shuttle Carrier.

The Agricultural History Society has a really cool digital space to publish short essays on perspectives on the rural and agricultural past. The most recent is a really compelling piece by Hanna Lipsey. You can check out her essay and a variety of others on the AHS Short Blog.

A most exciting Agricultural History Society meeting in St. Paul! Amazing time to see friends and hear about compelling new scholarship.

Chemical Lands has made it to paperback!