Katja Bruisch

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🚨#History #envhist Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Environmental History.
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Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!

See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word...
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www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...

washing machine screen saying "AI Wash: Auto adapt to stains & load"

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New washing machine arrived and I finally got what "AI washing" is. Good lord, help us! 😱😂

Working Nature Working Nature offers a history of the energy economy and its representations over the 19th and 20th century.Russ argues that “Energy” is not a thing nor an ability, but a social relation to nature fo...

the most anticipated book of 2026:
bravo @ueberdruss.bsky.social !!

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AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.

“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”

Screenshot of the admissions website of the Environmental History M.Phil at Trinity College Dublin

🔔 Admissions are open for the M.Phil in Environmental History at Trinity College Dublin. Come and join us - or recommend our course to your students! #envhist #skystorians

More info here 👇
www.tcd.ie/courses/post...

What’s really going on with AI and jobs? Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?

How is AI *really* impacting jobs?

Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:

-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs

Screenshot of the admissions website of the Environmental History M.Phil at Trinity College Dublin

🔔 Admissions are open for the M.Phil in Environmental History at Trinity College Dublin. Come and join us - or recommend our course to your students! #envhist #skystorians

More info here 👇
www.tcd.ie/courses/post...

A graphic poster with a green, textured background. At the center is a black-and-white image of Earth. Above the planet, a small private jet flies around the Earth, leaving a dark, tangled trail. Across the middle of the image, bold white text on black rectangles reads “CLIMATE PLUNDER.” Below, smaller white text states, “How a powerful few are locking the world into disaster.” In the bottom-right corner, the Oxfam logo and the word “OXFAM” appear in white.

Since 1990, the emissions share of the richest 1% has increased by 13%, and the richest 0.1% has grown by 32%, while the poorest 50% has decreased by 3%.

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Really looking forward to presenting 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 next Monday at UCL/SSEES! Thanks to @vkulikov.bsky.social for the initiative and to @eglerin.bsky.social & @robertsuits.bsky.social for agreeing to discuss my work. Join us if you happen to be in London

@uclssees.bsky.social

Titelseite der APuZ 46/2025 "Wachstum"

In der neuen APuZ geht es um #Wachstum und #Wohlstand, #Degrowth, #GreenGrowth und #Ungleichheit - mit Texten von Werner Plumpe, Julia Braun, @lukasscholle.bsky.social, Ulrike Herrmann, Niko Paech sowie @cmohren.bsky.social und @moritzoder.bsky.social:

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Congratulations to Anne O’Donnell, winner of the Ed A Hewett Book Prize for Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution with Princeton University Press.
#ASEEESPrizes
See all winners: buff.ly/qNk3PSU
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Move over for AI - DRB Katja Bruisch writes: I recently completed a scholarly monograph – an environmental, economic and energy history of peat in imperial and Soviet Russia. After years of thinking and writing, I approache...

We need a critique of AI in academic publishing. Following my decision not to sign an AI addendum to my contract with Cambridge University Press, I wrote this short essay which is now out in the Dublin Review of Books.
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Peat on air! I got to talk with Sean and Rusana from the @euraknot.bsky.social about my book 🔥 Burning Swamps 🔥. Thanks for having me! #envhist

Event poster for 'Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia’s Fossil Economy' with an image of the book cover. In-person event.

Please join us for this event to hear more about @kbruisch.bsky.social's new book 'Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia’s Fossil Economy' (@universitypress.cambridge.org).

Discussants: Eglė Rindzevičiūtė and @robertsuits.bsky.social.

🗓️ 17 November at 6.15pm
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These Data Centers Are Getting Really, Really Big Gigawatt-sized data centers are becoming the new normal

For the last few months I've been going through public documents, permits, and satellite images to track the largest data centers in the US.

Today I published the first story about what I've learned.

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www.distilled.earth/p/these-data...

10 days left to apply for this course!

Many amazing scholars will contribute to this course, including @untamed.bsky.social, @dudleymarianna.bsky.social, Abigail Harrison Moore, Alice Owen, and @andersriel.bsky.social!

#envhist #energyhistory #envhum

Fellowships for doctoral candidates or postdoctoral researchers from Poland or Ukraine for a stay of up to six months in Halle. 👇

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Hurray!!!! A wonderful achievement and a gift to us all! 🥳

It sure is! Thanks to everyone who helped me make this book. I'm reminiscing today about field trips to Orkney, Shetland & the Outer Hebrides, islands which swept me up in their windy history, and offered new perspectives on 'national' narratives & global challenges. (And plotting ways to return!)

We are hiring! Prospective PhD students in environmental history, history of science, history of technology and STS interested in the climate and environmental impacts of AI look here. Please share in your networks. #envhist #histsci #AI #anthropcoene

Dams and the Deep Earth: The 1967 Koyna Earthquake and Human Agency in the Anthropocene* Abstract. On 11 December 1967, a large earthquake devastated the village of Koynanagar in Maharashtra, western India. Many blamed the new Koyna hydroelectr

From the current issue: “Dams and the Deep Earth: The 1967 Koyna Earthquake and Human Agency in the Anthropocene”

by Elizabeth Chatterjee and Sachaet Pandey-Geeta Mantraraj (University of Chicago)

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Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

Your work truly makes a difference. Thank you!

Three excellent readings on electricity from this week's "Energy & Power in the Modern World" - case studies from Latin America, Africa & Asia which complicate narratives based on Western cases.💡⚡ Students also liked the texts for the different ways in which they present a historical argument 👇

Petition unterschreiben An die Bildungsministerkonferenz: Schluss mit dem Prekariat der Privatdozent:innen!

Dear colleagues, we drafted an open letter to the conference of German federal ministers of education asking for a reform of the Privatdozentur, that stage in a German academic's career where your work is not paid - a situation that can easily extend over years.

Three excellent readings on electricity from this week's "Energy & Power in the Modern World" - case studies from Latin America, Africa & Asia which complicate narratives based on Western cases.💡⚡ Students also liked the texts for the different ways in which they present a historical argument 👇

Yes, I want to know all of this! Congratulations!!!! Looking forward to reading it. Energy history is doing great this fall.

Ethanol - University of Oklahoma Press Though ethanol, a liquid fuel made from agricultural byproducts, has generated controversy in recent years—good or bad for the environment? a big-ag boon o...

It's the official publication day for ETHANOL: A HEMISPHERIC HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE OF BIOFUELS. Want to know why the US turns 40 percent of the corn crop into fuel? How the US and Brazil became the world's two largest ethanol producers? Tom Rogers and I have answers.
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Fossil Fuel Empire: The Environment of Post-2022 Russia and the Kremlin’s Threat to Domestic and Global Stability and Sustainability - Greenpeace International A groundbreaking report created from outside Russia following a Kremlin crackdown on civil society following the 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine shows Russia is locked in a spiral toward terminal ...

Fossil Fuel Empire: The Environment of Post-2022 Russia and the Kremlin’s Threat to Domestic and Global Stability and Sustainability www.greenpeace.org/internationa...