Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin

Industrial heat is one of the hardest parts of the energy transition. This sand battery is now delivering fossil-free heat for industry, storing renewable electricity as high-temperature heat and releasing it when needed. Simple idea, big impact.

CALL FOR PAPERS - Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn'. A two-day workshop organised by @maxlong.bsky.social and myself at Lincoln College, Oxford, 16-17 September. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May. Details in poster below, please share.

Our conference #cfp is now live! This year's conference, "Embodied Histories: Body, Mind and Experience" will take place on 17th July 2026 at University of Birmingham! Keep on reading to find out more...(1/9)

Call for Contributions to a Sourcebook for Histories of Weather & Weathering teleskopos.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/c... Full details linked and here teleskopos.wordpress.com/wp-content/u... It will be edited by me, @lottaleiwo.bsky.social and Tamara Culkins. Please share! #histSTM #envhist 🗃️📜

The new issue of EJHET contains in-depth reviews of the new translation of Marx’s Capital, the Correspondance of Saint-Simon, as well as a book by Plouviez on French debates on inheritance in the 19th century, and one by Mbeki on Kalecki @thomaslalevee.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/rejh20/3...

This research paper is the first time that a tipping point of a switch from a carbon sink to a carbon emission source in tropical rainforests has been identified clearly – not just for one year but for the last 20 years. Cause is a change in the local climate. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

You thought it was just Carney in Beijing this January? The West wants an 'outside option' from US bullying.... "new world order" is about building the material basis of their sovereignty: ppl's wellbeing, energy, tech & the future @katemac.bsky.social & I: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...

'Cross Tracks (across a cold landscape)' Charcoal & Oil Paint Sketch

A few of us got together for a forum on degrowth in @envirohistory.bsky.social. Here is my bit: "It's the Economy Stupid." And check out the entries from @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social, @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social, and www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

An open letter to @theguardian.com about their article last week about the Crown’s Silence, requesting that the Black scholar of Caribbean heritage who did the years of archival research behind this claim, and published it in 1979, Roger Norman Buckley, be acknowledged as the source of this reveal:

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

“They are using the mechanism of armed officers with masks who are killing citizens to create disruption so they can use more force to eliminate the possibility they could be removed from office and suffer criminal sanctions for the crimes they are now committing”

On the weakness of state terror: once ppl internalize the regime's lawless brutality, that they are no safer in their homes than in the streets (& vice versa), and that their unwavering defiance is what confounds & disempowers the regime, they also realize they have nothing to lose but their fear.

palate cleanser: read about curious nerds, slow science, and the Chicago slag barrens among gorgeous photos in the golden hour at #MarianByrnesPark. #WildCalumet #GreatNearby mag.uchicago.edu/science-medi...

Dems should introduce legislation now defunding ICE and CBP operations in Minnesota, so they have to leave the state. One sentence bill. Demand an immediate vote. Maybe refuse to vote for cloture on any funding bills (or other bills) until a vote. Make the GOP Congress break w/ Trump or own it all.

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

The term martyr means “witness.” The man was murdered for bearing witness, literally bearing it, not arms but a camera. Murdered for seeing.

Today, the high seas treaty becomes law - the first legally binding ocean governance instrument that covers the international waters outside of any country's national jurisdiction, more than 80 countries have now ratified share.google/JVG19PNv0eNQ...

Post-growth perspective gaining traction among climate policy specialists theconversation.com/idea-of-gree...

"Swaths of the Permian Basin appear to be on the verge of geological malfunction." An unfolding disaster, shielded by centrist pundits who tell us to "support America's oil & gas industry." Here's an idea: The oil & gas industry should support America, not wreck our land, air, & water.

Letter to the editor, December 2010 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

A historic turning point for clean heating in Europe: For the first time, in the first half of 2025 sales of heat pumps in Germany have surpassed those of gas boilers. This is a big milestone, demonstrating that the transition away from fossil fuels in our buildings is not just a future ambition.

Here's a 🧵 on how I came to write the article I'm working on right now, and you can decide for yourself whether AI was ever going to go in this direction:

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.

The Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University is now accepting applications for the 2026-27 Visiting Scholars program. For a complete description of the program and how to apply, please visit the Center website: hope.econ.duke.edu Come join us!

Hooray! The British Library has just released a beta version of its rebuilt Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue: searcharchives.bl.uk 2,619 hits for 'petition' in Western Manuscripts, texts in English, in case you're curious. 🗃️

#ornithology ebird.org/news/ebirdin...

Favorite recent or classic readings on the history of environmental movements, 19th and 20th C? This is for a senior seminar, US and Europe as geographical focus #envhist

The Clements Center for Southwest Studies invites fellowship applications for the 2026-2027 academic year. For more info and to apply: www.smu.edu/dedman/resea... If you're interested of have questions, feel free to contact me directly.

Last chance to register for our webinar on the Earth Rover Program, starting at 14.00 GMT. Intro by the brilliant Kate Raworth, then explanations of the concept and the science by some of our scientists and technicians. Register to obtain link. Hope to see you there us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Energy transitions can happen faster than we think: In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels. In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

📢 We are hiring! Tenure-track position in environmental history with a focus on long-term socio-ecological research. Exciting opportunity for post-docs working at the interface of environmental history & sustainability sciences. Deadline Jan 6, please spread far and wide! boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...

I'm no Luddite - far from it - but the ways in which in this development has been spoken of seem blind to, or completely uninterested in, what cannot be machine read and searched for: the pounce, sweat marks, soot, or wax; the non-semantic yet semiotically rich substrate that OCR strips away.

This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals

For @diagrammes.bsky.social, I had a conversation with @naomioreskes.bsky.social on the history of denial from the Cold War to the present climate crisis, on agnotology, on Trump 2.0 and much more. Link to full interview including many portraits and historical sketches (French and English) ⬇️

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

Happy to have written about plastic for @thepolycrisis.bsky.social. Thanks to @70sbachchan.bsky.social for sourcing the excellent graphics. And thanks to @rebecca-altman.bsky.social and @anjakrieger.bsky.social for being my go-to's on all-things plastic. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...

Best readings on historical disasters? Any time period, and though my eventual focus will be the US, glad to hear suggestions about other places, too.

Dawn is breaking

JOB Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400, University of Cambridge www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see Like the US economy Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters. Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗

There's just a day to go until @manchesterup.bsky.social publish my latest book Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London. I thought I should explain a bit about where the book came from. 1/15

“what happens if we also reconnect with the mule? What can mules teach us about the black history of land and violence in the United States?” A terrific piece of #envhist on mules, labor, and how “empire doesn’t always win” from @roguechieftan.bsky.social www.sciencehistory.org/stories/maga...