Join us! We are the International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations and we hope to expand our reach and representation in 2026. We consist of ssociations, networks, centers, institutions, publishers, and journals. Check out the page below to see our current members. #EnvHist

This is pretext. Trump’s been obsessed w/wind turbines for decades, which began after Scotland put some in near his golf course. He sued the govt & lost, which is why he claims they cause cancer, mental illness in whales, bird extinctions, etc. Welcome to the 19th century. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Logging off now for Christmas. Wishing everyone a peaceful break, and if you need a last-minute present idea for a hard-to-buy-for relative then allow me to suggest Electric Wind - it's got technology, nature, weather, travel, and history. V readable! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/978152618296...

And for the longer history see James Vernon’s great piece in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social academic.oup.com/past/article...

Had a blast with Marco remembering how much fun we had with @eseh.bsky.social and some of you get sneaky mentions!

My response to anything over the next two weeks

i'm fascinated by how much people love and are amazed by chat gpt saying "nice catch!" and "great observation!" because i personally find the condescension and obsequiousness the most skin-crawling thing about how LLMs "talk"

Have I got a book for you!!! (no but seriously, one of my main arguments is that history of energy = history of Scotland, Wales, NI, and other marginalised places - hi, Cornwall - over a default 'England')

The treatment of the Filton24, and the hunger strikers in particular, is astonishingly cruel and unjust. One young man I know is in jail pending trial in *2027*. The mental toll on the accused and their families is despicable.

endlessly annoying how US academic profile pages don't let you see publication lists, but do let you (inadvertently) download someone's whole cv

📣You have just under a month to send in your proposal for our 2026 Social History Society Conference - where we will be celebrating out 50th anniversary! 👉Find out more here: socialhistory.org.uk/conference/s...

This is fascinating

We look forward to meeting in Salzburg in 2027! Original photo by Marina Ahammer Unsplash, unsplash.com/photos/city-... #EnvHist

Damn what do you think

#FrogFriday 🐸: J. Martin Pollock “I AM AT THE ZOO BRING ME A FLY.” 1923 Lithograph in colours, backed on linen, 40 x 25 in. (102 x 64 cm) London Underground / London Zoo www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5...

Eight people who took action in solidarity with Palestine have been on hunger strike since 2 November in protest at their prolonged pre-trial imprisonment, censorship of communications and alleged mistreatment in custody. Five have now been hospitalised. David Lammy must respond.

For more than 2 years, police in Berlin - encouraged by city and national politicians - have systematically used excessive violence in an attempt to beat the Palestine solidarity movement into silence. I wrote about this phenomenon for the @lrb.co.uk

When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!

For avoidance of confusion, that’s just about all academic staff, excluding Heads of Dept and- of course - Senior Management Team.

Thanks once again to the Times Higher for reminding us all - hundreds of job losses and the evisceration of entire disciplines later - who the real victim is in all of this.

the final stop on the Electric Wind book tour 2025! Couldn't have picked a better place: Glasgow is where the book begins.

Tomorrow I'm hosting a talk by @dudleymarianna.bsky.social on her new book, Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain, for the Economic and Social History seminar series at Glasgow University. It starts at 11am in 42 Bute Gardens (formerly the Adam Smith Building), room 717. All welcome.

Join us on Monday 15 Dec at 5 pm for Svitlana Matviyenko’s talk, Ecologies of War, exploring how environments become targets and tools in the war against Ukraine. A collaboration with the Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities, the Trinity Centre for Resistance Studies, and @tlrhub.bsky.social

Employer: please embed sustainability into your teaching Employer: here’s a list of cool ways to use AI

Oh OK

People who have dual nationality know the direction of travel on this - it's been building. First you didn't need to prove it (noone's business!), then you had to send off your other passport when you renew your British one. The discourse has been framing DNs as somehow lesser citizens for a while.

This is really underscoring my interdisciplinarity and I'm not mad about it :)

Two FREE Sociology events this Thursday!🎤 At @manchester.ac.uk, author @scarletharris.bsky.social will be discussing her new book on what is, and isn't, being done to tackle Islamophobia in Britain. At @glasgow.ac.uk, join @dudleymarianna.bsky.social to chat all things wind power.

look when he’s right he’s right

In "Atomic Bombshells," Isabelle Held examines the effects of military-industrial science and the emergence of synthetic materials such as nylon, silicone, and foams on the female body. Read the intro for free on our site! buff.ly/Ee58UOa

Had a fab week in Stavanger teaching on the Energy Humanities PhD course organised (expertly) by @melinabuns.bsky.social . The students were curious, thoughtful and willing to think beyond their comfort zones. It was energising!

Compare and contrast RTE: Irelands participation remains unconscionable given the appalling loss of lives in Gaza, the humanitarian crisis there & the targeting and killing of journalists BBC: we need to be inclusive

Historians on hiring, tenure, and promotion committees should be cautious about relying on Google Scholar, and we need to fight against others using it to assess us. I just noticed three citations to my articles in an American Historical Review article by Jo Guldi, and none show up in my profile.

AI is a climate issue. AI is a climate crisis.

I was just saying this yesterday to @drdaveobrien.bsky.social

Please come! Glasgow became an important thread in my book, almost a character in its own right. I can’t wait to give this talk!

I regret to inform you that I am going to start promoting my book on here. I do not regret to inform you that the press has given it a stunning cover. The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants -- out next summer with Princeton University Press. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Teaching with this today for 1st time. We argue for moving beyond 'transition', & thinking temporally about energy. 'Low carbon' = usefully & intentionally relates to high carbon, the dominant paradigm for energy developments- a linguistic, imaginative, & historical spectre. doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

Terrible news on the grapevine today that after their brutal "spill and fill" exercise, Macquarie University has announced which academic staff members no longer have a position. Devastating for the people who've lost their jobs. Dreadful for those who've been spared (for now). Awful for everyone 💔

nasty tactic, wheeling out this threat over the Christmas period. Shame on @sheffielduni.bsky.social

❓Question please for #Skystorians - has anyone come across examples of people being baptised in punch bowls in 17th and 18th-century England? We've found one in a will ... 🗃️

Took Electric Wind to meet some electric wind ⚡️ I’m out in Norway teaching on an energy humanities PhD course and we went to a wind farm today ☺️ @manchesterup.bsky.social

trying to think of good UK-Based Nature Phenomena. so far I got: - starling murmurations in Somerset - bluefin tuna jumping in Cornwall - salmon jumping in NE England what else. more ideas pls. ideally ones which aren't jumping fish

So kid, in your heart you want to study humanities but you worry about your job prospects? Let’s play a game. On the latest data, who is more likely to be unemployed after 15 months after graduation. The English Lit grad or the Maths grad? WRONG!

Please help us spread the call for proposals for the 2029 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲. So far the congress has taken place in Denmark, Portugal, Brazil, and Finland. Where in the world will we meet next time? #envhist @aseh.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social

Iconic

from an Inuit song originally translated into Danish by Knud Rasmussen — English version by Autumn Richardson, Heart of Winter (Xylem Books, 2018)

best summary I've read of COP, noting the increasing militarisation of the event - to protect fossil fuel interests.

the budget should be a publicly published document with footnotes and everyone — government MPs, opposition MPs, academics and journalists — should have to read the whole thing before commenting on it!!!!