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Now available for pre-order - The Long Heat by Wim Carton and Andreas Malm "If you still believe or hope that climate catastrophe can be averted through technological rather than political change, I urge you to read this book." - Sally Rooney

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Great to see Elena Kochetkova's thought-provoking "The Green Power of Socialism" discussed in this H-Environment roundtable featuring contributions by Julia Ault, Tatiana Kasperski, Péter Szabó & Katja Doose and Elena's response 👇 networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

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The oil and uranium industries always have been intertwined. Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte published my new article on the shared history of uranium and oil geophysics in German, French and Canadian seemingly depleted boreholes. You can read the article (Open Access) here:

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Rare good news delivered from the US, although personal. It's printed and will be available from 1 July ugapress.org/book/9780820...

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Finally an occasion to show this photo. These women travelled hundreds of km every year to extract peat for Soviet power plants. The work helped them alleviate some of the poverty of their villages, but their bodily needs were neglected as they functioned as a pool of cheap labour for the economy

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New Publication: Exploring Chernobyl’s Connection to Dnieper Hydropower Today my article "Joining the Dnieper Cascade. An Envirotechnical Water-History of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, 1927-1986" was published online in the journal Water History. I am really happy that this was possible. You…

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I refused to sign an AI addendum to my contract with CUP. Officially started my career as a Luddite, I suppose.

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In a serious blow to scholars, the Russian authorities have outlawed the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) as an "undesirable organization." The designation poses legal risks for the organization's 3,200 members when researching in Russia. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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I'm biased, but this report is a must-read for anyone looking to understand the state of AI in 2025. It explains how AI is entrenching power for big tech and the oligarch class, speeding deregulation, dislodging human expertise and threatening workers—and how there's still time to refuse all that.

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Happy #WorldPeatlandsDay! Let's talk more about peatlands as places of human history. This is Radovitsky Mokh, a Soviet peat extraction site in central Russia. The images show the geometry of drainage canals & extraction fields and the partial return of water after the end of extraction #envhist

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"Wondering how corporations turned the rural landscape into a poisonous cesspool? Read this book." — Deborah Fitzgerald In "Titans of Industrial Agriculture," @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social‬ explains how a handful of agribusiness titans have dominated the farm inputs sector: bit.ly/45xM094

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Looking forward to this online workshop, organized by Johanna Conterio (Oslo), to prepare an edited volume on ecologies of health and disease in Eurasia. #envhist www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english...

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Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

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Marx im Anthropozän ist erschienen! www.dtv.de/buch/marx-im...

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Save the date for the last (but very exciting) ESEH online seminar in environmental history of the 2024–2025 season, "Hooked: A History of the Black Sea in Six Animals," with Taylor Zajicek and Constantin Ardeleanu. Register here: forms.gle/pyjgCXSWJcdk... #envhist

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This episode resonated. I've been struck there has been no collective pushback against AI in HE. Universities normalize AI in research while asking lecturers to police students. Linking students' AI use to scarce resources is spot on IMO & I liked how they deconstructed the inevitability myth

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'Energy Workers in Transition' is my new essay for Regeneration journal. It uses oral histories with British electricity, nuclear and oil workers to understand how they conceptualise transformations to work in the energy economy since the 1950s. Read🔽

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Returning from a few days away, I found our allotment in such beauty last night. 💚💚💚 #myhappyplace

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Today, Tehran, Pyongyang, and Beijing are key backers of Russia’s war of expansion. But they share a deeper history: under the last tsar, Iran, China, and Korea themselves fell prey to its colonial appetite. My latest for @newlinesmag.bsky.social on Russia’s imperial record in the Global South.

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All set up now in the new exhibition space of the Lullymore Heritage & Discovery Park. Come for the RePEAT exhibition, stay to look at some former peat extraction technology, bog cotton and rewetting-in-progress. Our exhibition will be there until 30 May. #peatsky

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Coming soon! Stay tuned for a dark and uncomfortable tale: "Neutrality's Empire: Swedish Colonialism in the Industrial Age" www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Hogsel... Written together with my brilliant co-authors David Nilsson and Hanna Vikström, with a bonus chapter by Karl Bruno.

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All set up now in the new exhibition space of the Lullymore Heritage & Discovery Park. Come for the RePEAT exhibition, stay to look at some former peat extraction technology, bog cotton and rewetting-in-progress. Our exhibition will be there until 30 May. #peatsky

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for those in Europe, you can now order "Ecocide in Ukraine" with a 40% discount, just use the code DTS40 when ordering at @politybooks.bsky.social with huge thanks to Serhii Plokhii, Luke Harding, Svitlana Matviyenko, Philippe Sands, Maria Popova, Lisa Brady, and Emma Hakala for their kind words 🌿

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[Reminder] We're hiring! 👨‍🎓👩‍🎓 1-year post-doc in economics and/or history of economic thought to work on energy issues. #ETRANHET, CNRS, @cired.bsky.social (Paris). Application deadline: May 15, 2025. LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/antmis... CNRS Job portal: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

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Another permanent job going in Ireland, this time in European History at DCU History Department. It seems like a lovely department and you'd be joining a great community of scholars in the Dublin area and across the island. my.corehr.com/pls/dcurecru...

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(1/n) My new (edited) book is out! 'Cosmic Fragments: Dislocation and Discontent in the Global Space Age.' Out from @upittpress.bsky.social, the book has 18 scholars weigh in on aspects of space, esp deleterious phenomena, that rarely get foregrounded in celebratory narratives. Most critically..

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Pat Brodie and I have a book coming out in September w/ @brisunipress.bsky.social Started with data centres and energy and turned into a story about monopoly tech, empire and Ireland's (under)development in the capitalist world system.

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Our RePEAT exhibition is about to start travelling. If you missed it in Dublin while it was on in the @nlireland.bsky.social, you can soon see it in Lullymore!

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For #EnvironmentalHistoryWeek, we're spotlighting our series ENVIRONMENT IN HISTORY: International Perspectives (includes #OpenAccess), published in association with ESEH (@eseh.bsky.social) and RCC (@carsoncenter.bsky.social)! Browse: bit.ly/4ldTpzK #academicsky #envhist #envhum

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In the fourth event in our Eurasian Environments series, the Eurasian Knot spoke to Susanne Wengle and Natalia Mamonova about Ukraine’s past and present place in the global food system, the impact of the war, and the prospects of renewal and recovery. patreon.com/posts/ukraine-in-food-127152899

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It's time for some visuals!!! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 has a cover. Out this fall with @cambridgeup.bsky.social #envhist #skystorians #PeatSky #energysky

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The Department of History at Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social is seeking a historian specializing in the 19th-century Europe. Come and join us! Please see below for details.

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PhD Opportunity in Global History Join our team at ETH Zurich for the SNSF-funded project Engineering Empire. 4 years, fully funded. Applicants from marginalized groups are particularly welcome. More details:

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📢 📢📢 Come to Dublin and join us!!! My Department is looking for an Assistant Professor in Nineteenth-Century European History. This is a specific purpose contract to replace an IRC grant holder. #skystorians @historytcd.bsky.social For more information, see here 👇 my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...

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Stephan Rindlisbacher. Borders in Red: Managing Diversity in the Early Soviet Union. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2025. ISBN: 978-1-5017-8053-0.

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In 1981 the TsK KPSS authorized the start of an alternative renewable energy development program in the USSR. Benjamin Beuerle explores the motivations behind this endeavor, its primary directions and regions, its results, and its fate post-1991. OA! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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