Robert Suits

Would love for just one day to feel like those organizations I pay to stick up for my profession would ever actually stick up for my profession.

FAMOUSLY nothing has gone wrong for companies that replace their customer service reps with these bots and then have to honor the promises they make

if there's one thing I love about books, it's having a bespoke narrative that literally no one else has read, will read, or will ever touch, so I get to talk about it excitedly with precisely no one ever

like would you really want the error machine translating for two presidents of nuclear powers who are on the phone???

honestly, this is almost an exact list of who generative AI is *least* equipped to displace at the moment -- jobs which require the ability to discern fact from fiction, a physical presence, the ability to craft satisfying narratives, or where a simple mistake can be a *big* deal.

This Day in Labor History: August 4, 1942. The United States and Mexico made an agreement to deliver contract Mexican labor to American farmers in order to serve as cheap replacement labor during World War II. Let's talk the Bracero Program and Americans' hatred of Mexicans except for cheap labor.

Feels like regulatory uncertainty will mean no source of energy is a particularly safe investment in the US for the next decade, at least.

Maybe a half gallon of blackberries in a container, just like wow

Two environmental historians go for a short walk in London...

One week left to apply for this great #envhist job with us in Norway.

The renewable energy revolution is a feat of technology | Rebecca Solnit An energy revolution is underway in this century, though most people have not noticed it

An energy revolution is underway in this century, though it’s unfolded in ways slow enough and technical enough for most people not to notice (and I assume it’s nowhere near finished). It is astonishing – a powerful solution to the climate crisis... [Wrote it a while ago; came out yesterday.]

One week left to apply for this tenured #envhist job!

I'm very much looking forward to it! what an important topic!!

Manchester University Press - Electric wind Electric wind - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Electric wind by Marianna Dudley

I was excited to find out that my book is available for pre-order! One for anyone interested in energy, climate, and the history of Britain. Thanks to MUP for making it pretty and affordable 🫶 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/

Exciting news! A new publication by ‪@hibbertsalex.bsky.social, @islayshelbourne.bsky.social @thenickpepper.bsky.social @alexworsfold.bsky.social @robertsuits.bsky.social @jdroberts.bsky.social (amongst others) which developed from our first workshop back in 2025. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Yes! Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Professor are roughly equivalent to Assistant/Associate/Full.

Germany in particular seems completely inscrutable and, from what I hear, not worth it (it's an even more broken academy than Anglophone places in some important ways). Always happy to help with the UK as best I can!

Of course the norms/expectations for applying in other academias are different, so it's good to chat with someone from the area in all cases!

jobs.ac.uk for the UK (as was said already -- also will have some international adverts, particularly for Aus/NZ/Singapore), universityaffairs.ca for Canada (there aren't many as a rule), and times higher ed for global stuff.

I am assuming that subsequently American and UK media would learn precisely zero new names, and, if they referenced the region at all, would continue to name-check Orban even if he were decades out of office or indeed dead.

what.

Is that... a single tutorial?

Thanks for the link, and well done!

Putting together an 'additional readings' list for an introductory survey of environmental history. Any suggestions for absolutely essential (or indeed absolutely delightful) pieces?

(feel free to self-promote!)

I've forgotten how much I love the Carey and the Mittman. Other suggestions are wonderful; thank you!!

Oooh... A few gems here that I hadn't thought of. Love the Braudel and Laudurie recs.

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It's on there, and you should be! Thanks!

Putting together an 'additional readings' list for an introductory survey of environmental history. Any suggestions for absolutely essential (or indeed absolutely delightful) pieces?

(feel free to self-promote!)

A roundtable on the future of environmental history as a subfield from early career scholars (with a small contribution from me). What is the place of scale? Of interdisciplinarity?

Thanks especially to @hibbertsalex.bsky.social for organising and editing.
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