I have a new article out in Environment and History on Deutsche Bank's role in reshaping the geography of water in Ottoman Anatolia. #envhist
Water’s Worth: Reconsidering Deutsche Bank’s 1907 Konya Plain Irrigation Project | Environment and History www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
Why on earth is Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie rate R???? It has some swear words and one split second scene where someone gets shot and that's all. What are we doing here?
The saddest thing about Meta's incredibly large investment in AI politics and lobbying is they are also-rans in actual artificial intelligence.
Literally cannot stress enough that if I, a climate scientist, were running a scam it would be a lot more fun than this
LFG!
💚💙💚🏈🏈💚💙💚
#Hawks
“The problem is that we have accelerated into a consuming and exclusive narrative about science in the national interest.”
Some day I’ll stop sharing my v personal perspective on how devastating humanities has in fact devastated science. Not today.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/26/d...
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
Book cover for GeoHibernica: sunset above stone circle.
#Writing and #Research 2025: currently reviewing "GeoHibernica - The Irish #Landscapes, Peoples and Cultures by Paul Lyle 2025 @livunipress.bsky.social - for The Niche @britishecologicalsociety.org #booksky #envhist #Ireland #Hibernia #environment #geology #art #heritage #academicsky #library
Mosaic of archival images: Bundles of paper secured by thin pink ribbon and twine; geological map; sea anemone; fungal fruiting body
#Writing and #Research 2025: Using National #Library of #Wales collections to identify and assess the early University of #Wales postgraduate ecological studies and evolving methods utilised. #historyofscience #envhist #ecology #biology #archives #MSc #PhD #innovation #sciart
Cultural Critique 129 cover featuring the journal title running off the edges of the cover. The C's are written in red. The special issue title "Mourning Without End" and issue information appear below on a red background.
Cover for Buildings & Landscapes 32.2 with the journal's title arranged vertically and horizontally in a plus shape. Qilou shophouses in Chikan, Guangdong Province, China are shown underneath.
Cover for Environment, Space, Place 16.2. The journal's title is written on a blue background. A diagonal line cuts between the words "Environment" and "Space."
Three recent journal issues:
-@culturalcritique.bsky.social 129, feat.
@breu.bsky.social @hennefem.bsky.social
-Buildings & Landscapes 32.2
-Environment, Space, Place 16.2 via @iasesp.bsky.social feat. @trepping.bsky.social @seandlawrence.bsky.social
All on @projectmuse.bsky.social
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#CFP: "Cattle Commodification in Global History: Capitalism, Science and Empire". International Workshop, Ghent University, 3-5 June 2026.
Deadline for abstracts: 23 January 2026
Info: cattlefrontiers.eu/workshop-cat...
#envhum #envhist #agriculture #environment #hstm #histsci
ESEH Vice-President Sandra Swart and former ESEH President Marco Armiero have written a great summary of our last conference in Uppsala, Sweden!
#envhist @wildpasts.bsky.social
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
A picture of a donkey from an early modern book. There's a title at the top "Von dem Esel", below that is the donkey itself (depicted as looking at the reader with a rather...self-satisfied expression). Beneath the donkey picture is the description: "Asinus. Esel."
Some life tips from a 16th century book on animals:
1: Goats are crafty and if you aren't careful, they'll con you.
2: If you're mean to cows & oxen, then they'll inflict their revenge when you least expect it.
3: Be nice to donkeys: They have to put up with us...and they never have a day off.
In The Campus Crisis Toolkit @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social connects speculative finance with speculative fiction and I want to embroider this line: "Budgets are moral documents, and new budgets tell a story of changing morals." 🔥🔥🔥
Lots of respect for @seandlawrence.bsky.social honesty about his confusion and naivete about how the university works and what counts as normal, as a new professor right out of grad school. It's why I run this class the way I do. Ethical collaboration requires understanding complex univ systems.
The @seandlawrence.bsky.social chapter pairs so well with the anonymous chapter on WVU Facts. What does it look like to essentially do advocacy work from the stance of a historian doing oral history, by doing a project through the front door? How does that differ from underground exposé work?
Concept, programme and abstracts for a workshop this week, part of my project on the environmental context of #railways and #infrastructure in western and central #India in the late nineteenth century.
#envhist
📷: #coal transport in Jharkhand, 2008 lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
The #Plastic Bag: From a Mundane Swedish Innovation to the World’s Oceans | Environment and History #envhist #pollution #environment #history @livunipress.bsky.social www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
Very cool!
#zooarchaeology #EnvHist 🗃️
I don’t write the headlines but I do like this one (post-Slaughter argument roundtable for @nytimes.com with @stevevladeck.bsky.social & @williambaude.bsky.social)
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.
Remember when Cory Booker proposed it and it was 'communism' and it was 'communism' and Thomas Piketty proposed it and it was 'communism' and Jon Stewart proposed it and it was 'communism'
and Trump proposed it and it's an 'Australian-style retirement program'?
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/e...
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
A bit about Ollie's human. I am a Professor of Modern European History with a focus on German history. With the rise of fascism in this country, I started a blog.
trepaddock.wordpress.com
The Economics of Optimism. Great article by @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social - have a read... #EconSky
New experimental Phenakisto score for Lucius J. Henderson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1912).
#experimentalmusic #instrumentalmusic #filmscore #silentfilm #horrorfilm #silentfilmscore #drjekyllandmrhyde #silentmovie #horrormovies #robertlouisstevenson
youtu.be/6MgryPVoQOo
Screengrab with urban plants.
🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌳🐝 Urban plants prefer to live alongside rich people! Result of surveys from around the world. #BUC2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Today we have "Board Appeal: Curating Environmental Game Collections for the Public" by Sherri Sheu
This is the fourth article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/10/17/b...
#envhist #envhum #games
