@saumyapandey.bsky.social
I am a PhD researcher working on sediments of the Himalayan riverine systems.
Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
Assistant Prof job in history of science (related to water?) at Madison. Strong program, nice town (aside from winter)
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69456
Exactly a year ago, Ellen Wohl, @parriblue.bsky.social and I spent two days in Providence thinking about #rivers and how we conceptualize them & live with them. Hereβs the result of history and fluvial geomorphology teaming up. #envhist
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
We're delighted to announce a new book, forthcoming in March: 'Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for the Environmental Humanities', edited by Emily Brownell; now open for pre-orders. More information: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhum #envhist #soil
05.11.2025 20:46 β π 36 π 13 π¬ 1 π 0
How did socialist projects of making antibiotics and building atom bombs amount to the primitive accumulation of "scientific capital" in the People's Republic?
ποΈ Tuesday, November 11
π₯ 10:30β11:45 am Eastern Time
π Over Zoom
Register: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
#histstm #histsci #sts π§ͺ
#ArticleSnapshotπΈ: Vera Keller's "Entangling Knowledge and Ignorance" examines Alain Corbin's Terra Incognita: A History of Ignorance in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (2021).
Read it #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...
Good, clear article that allows me to propose once again one of my fave mantras:
If you think mitigation politics is hard, you havenβt thought enough about the toxicity of adaptation politics
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Spread the word about this brand new Masters in Public Environmental Humanities with me and The Greenhouse crew in Norway.
For those outside of EU, registration is in second half of November, so donβt miss it!
*New Review Article*: After Coasts: Cartography,Desiccation, and Dwelling in Amphibious Worlds
#openaccess 1/6
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Always absolutely mind blowing how much of the deficit & national debt is framed around not wanting to incur costs for the future generations but our gerontocracy would rather incur trillions of climate debt than spend a nickel on cutting carbon.
30.10.2025 18:49 β π 64 π 12 π¬ 0 π 1
Now listening to the 4th Annual Alchemy Lecture:
Soundβat the Interregnum.
First alchemist is Glen Coulthard, Yellowknives Dene, Prof. First Nations and Indigenous Studies and Political Science
listening: noisescapes of mining, air traffic and urban expansion on Yellowknife land
#YUAlchemy
The 2020 coastal land use map of Great Nicobar showed coral reefs hugging its shores. In the 2021 version, the reefs vanished from the coast and reappeared in the middle of the sea.
Experts told Vaishnavi Rathore they doubt the mapβs authenticity.
scroll.in/article/1087...
Article in the Norwegian newspaper for higher education on AI and the Anthropic settlement includes some quotes from me.
One point I make is that it is unacceptable that universities are buying into AI tools even though the tools have been built so unethically.
www.khrono.no/akademikere-...
Hehehehe
22.10.2025 11:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I'll be hosting an online event on encountering extinction in the archives with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social as part of The National Archives' Research Routes series.
Come along to hear about researching animal histories in the archive!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/extinction...
Today we have "People, Stones, and Japanese Canadian Politics of Nature" by Jane Komori
This post highlights Komori's recent @radhistreview.bsky.social article.
niche-canada.org/2025/10/16/j...
#envhist #cdnhist #japanesecanadian #japanese #bchistory
Social scientists have been arguing for decades that race and gender cannot be viewed through the teleological lens of progress, and never in my lifetime has that been more clear and important to understand than now.
10.10.2025 04:38 β π 92 π 21 π¬ 6 π 0
How did Korean firms like Hanjin carry containerization from Vietnamβs Cam Ranh & Qui Nhon to Busan, transforming ports & unsettling U.S. contractors like Lusteveco? π’
John DiMoia @ Harvard #STinAsia, Tue Oct 14, 10:30 ET
Zoom registration: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
#histstm #histtech π§ͺ
Thu, Oct 9 β Lunch Seminar: Erling AgΓΈy β Early Modern Chinese Approaches to the Weather
How did people live with climate change during the Little Ice Age?
AgΓΈy takes us to 17th-century China to explore local understandings of weather, calamity, and resilience.
π www.hf.uio.no/.../lunch-se...
Author holding copy of book
Page with birds on left, text on right
Double page spread with a photo of diorama
Chapter 3 Cursed treasures on left, lion on right
Itβs real!!
I just got my first copy of Ghosts Behind Glass and it is beautiful. You all really need to order your copies. You will not regret it. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Starting my online course Β«Nature & Nation: An Environmental History of Norway Since 1850Β» today. The timing could have been better since things are ridiculously busy, but Iβm still excited about this opportunity! #envhist
06.10.2025 05:54 β π 41 π 8 π¬ 2 π 0This upcoming symposium at CAS in Oslo on "Radical Reuse: Aesthetics, Scale, and Limits", organized by Ingrid Halland and Kjetil Fallan, looks fantastic. I'll be there! #envhum #envhist
04.10.2025 05:40 β π 18 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0
The histories featured on South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories were informed by archival research which took place across the UK. Discover these histories by visiting your local archive: southasianbritain.org/useful-archi...
#SouthAsianBritain @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social
Super interesting
30.09.2025 13:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
It was a pleasure to interview Thea Riofrancos for The Nation about her important and very well written new book: βExtraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalismβ: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
23.09.2025 10:57 β π 20 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0
π¨Don't miss our workshop "Political Economies of Mining in the Early Modern World" @univie.ac.at organised by @eclaaire.bsky.social and @gbba.bsky.social.
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25β26 September 2025
!Please register!
π Program & info: bit.ly/4pslQfs
#Scarce #histsci #histeco #mining
A photograph showing the 3D print of the Minecraft model of Peace River - a cross section of the geological formation of this site in different shades of grey and white to show the layers beneath the surface of the earth.
π»New in Geo!π’οΈ
'Minecraft's territory: Alberta's oil sands, settler knowledge infrastructure & digital geographies' by @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social
This paper traces how the data used for a Minecraft extension are tied to broader extractive networks of knowledge production.
doi.org/10.1002/geo2...
New article out! About labour environmentalism and birdwatching, among other things
15.09.2025 13:09 β π 7 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0Energy historians: the Hagley Museum and Library is hosting "The Power of Energy" conference on October 30-31. It's an online conference and registration is now open. This will be a great chance to hear some exciting new research. Hope to see you there (virtually)
www.hagley.org/research/con...
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