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Multispecies Mutualisms - Join Our Research Team! We’re hiring 4 Postdoctoral Research Associates (PDRAs) In this video, members of the team share insights into four exciting PDRA opportunities currently available. If you are ready to take the next s...

A rare thing: *four* three-year hums/soc-sci posts in animal studies, on the Multispecies Mutualisms project at UoSheffield - with @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social, me, Robert McKay and Alasdair Cochrane; see here for a video explainer: digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...

Unsere neue Studie: die Erderwärmung hat sich ab 2015 erheblich beschleunigt. Die rote Kurve zeigt 10-Jahres-Trends, um je 1 Jahr versetzt; der letzte ist 2015-2024.
Die blaue Kurve zeigt den Trend vor und nach dem objektiv bestimmten change point.
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If you understand the implications of this, I don’t know how you’re not terrified for our kids.

📢 New out!

Simone Schleper @moneschleper.bsky.social traces the origins of corporate environmentalism and flexible interpretations of sustainable development to the 1970s.

#globalenvironmentalgovernance #privatesettings #economichumanism #counterculture

Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

Are you interested in organizing the 2026 ESEH Summer School in Environmental History? ESEH offers advisory and financial support to the selected proposal. Consider submitting a proposal by 15 March 2026!
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🌿 The Environmental History Today Series continues in February with Russia
🗣️ Anna Mazanik and Andrei Vinogradov present their books
📅 Date: 26 February 2026 (Thu), 14:00–16:00 (CET)
📍 Format: Online
ℹ️ Details on how to take part are below 👇
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#EnvHist #Envhum

Feb 26, 1981 - Science writer warns readers about the greenhouse in the Guardian…. - All Our Yesterdays Forty two years ago, on this day, February 26, 1981,  science writer John Gribbin had a long detailed piece in the Guardian about the state of the art of climate science, and the geopolitical implicat...

45 years ago today, the guardian lays out climate facts

allouryesterdays.info/2023/02/25/f...

Zooming in on the environmental imaginaries developed by Maurice Strong, Hanne Marstrand, and others in their network I discuss their #economichumanism that integrated elements of deep ecology and techno-optimist approaches, alongside a reimagining of corporate roles in international politics.

And here finally my contribution to this conversation doi.org/10.1017/S174... in @globalhistjnl.bsky.social. I trace the origins of #corporateenvironmentalism to heterogeneous, private #governance networks in the 1970s that served as alternatives to official UN settings. Also, great title, yes?

York History Department - Academic Jobs Uncover the past to define the future. We are seeking research-led historians to join our world-class, collaborative community. Discover career-defining opportunities within one of the UK’s most disti...

Permanent post in the history of the Middle East after 1800 at York!

Plus three fixed term posts

1) Medieval History 1100-1450

2) Modern China

3) Britain/Public History

A new climate movement takes shape These fossil fuel protests started in Los Angeles and have spread across the country.

On Tuesday, climate activists rallied at 10 stadiums across the U.S., from Los Angeles to St. Louis to Philadelphia.

It was the first national day of protest against fossil fuel sponsorships in American sports. I doubt it will be the last.

My story: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/climate-pr...

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Equinor pulling back CCS spending until market improves Norwegian company is a CCS pioneer but markets are developing slower than expected

Who could have seen this coming?

Carbon capture was never the plan, it was the comfort blanket: “Don’t worry, we’ll fix it later".

A story to delay real cuts while drilling rolls on.

When the industry feels powerful & secure, the fairy tale goes back on the shelf.

vorzugsweise nachgewiesen durch eine abgeschlossene Promotion. Bewerbungsfrist: 27.02.2026.
👉 Details: www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/stellenaussc...

#envirotech #envhist #histtech #histsci #envhum #sts

📢 Spannende Stelle an der TU Berlin: Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in (E13, 100 %) im Berlin #Anthropocene Lab! Gesucht wird eine Person mit vertieften Kenntnissen der Forschungslandschaft und -debatten zum #Anthropozän in Umwelt- und Technikgeschichte, Env. Humanities, STS oder angrenzenden Bereichen, ...

Call for Contributions: Histories of Weather & Weathering Call for Contributions: A Sourcebook for Histories of Weather and Weathering (working title) Editors: Rebekah Higgitt, Tamara Caulkins and Lotta Leiwo We invite contributions to this planned open a…

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 🗃️📜

House of ice on a warming planet: Italy’s turn for the Olympics winter mirage There will be twists, flips and turns to savour in a Games whose financial and environmental costs nonetheless continue to spiral out of control

I love watching the winter Olympics, but winter sports are an environmental catastrophe. So this article chimed with me. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

A UK climate security report backed by the intelligence services was quietly buried – a pattern we’ve seen many times before Governments have been warned about climate change for 70 years. They’re still suppressing the worst news.

That suppressed report, a thread abt secrecy, military assessments, climate change and so forth.

New Conversation piece -

"A UK climate security report backed by the intelligence services was quietly buried – a pattern we’ve seen many times before"

theconversation.com/a-uk-climate...

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Quite important if you are relying on Google Books for teaching or research. Short-term snag or is it a hack? Just searched for 10 titles to no effect. #Skystorians

The optimist vs pessimist divide in #climate debates isn’t usually about the data.

It’s about how the same graphs are read, what people emphasise, what they discount, and how they interpret pace and stakes.

Here’s what I mean 🧵👇

From The Christian Science Monitor 1983

YouTube video by Global Weirding with Katharine Hayhoe Climate vs Weather | Global Weirding

It's cold outside and snowy, too! Is climate change a hoax?

Not at all. Winter still brings cold weather even as the planet warms.

In fact, warmer oceans + a rapidly warming Arctic can even increase the intensity of winter storms and heavy snowfall.

That's why I call it Global Weirding!

I will suggest it at the next meeting, but I can’t promise ;)

The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
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Have a look #histsci #historyofknowledge people !

From Chance Encounters to Fresh Insights: Serendipity at Work in Historical Research Christine Keiner on how a chance find in Panama inspired her latest research on the unrealised “Panatomic Canal”.

And finally: Christine Keiner writes about how a chance find in Panama inspired her research on the so-called "Panatomic Canal" 👇

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The Devil is in the Details: Fantastic Schemes and the Quiet Champions of Urban Infrastructure Keith Pluymers on the quiet heroes working to keep Philadelphia’s streets free of floods and filth in the eighteenth century.

Next: Keith Pluymers writes about the quiet heroes who helped keep Philadelphia’s streets free of floods and filth in the eighteenth century 👇

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What Makes a Project Good or Bad? Lessons from Early Eighteenth-Century Germany Anyone who has ever written an academic project proposal will recognise the demands in this early 18th-century German work, writes Kelly J. Whitmer.

Then: @whitmerkelly.bsky.social reflects on the ubiquitous category of the "project" in today's world, and what we can learn from attitudes in 18th-century Germany 👇

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