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Mark Stoll
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Environmental historian, author of Profit: An Environmental History (2023) and Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism (2015). https://www.markstoll.net/ Professor at @texastechuniv.bsky.social
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tinaadcock.bsky.social
JOB: Assistant Professor in #envhist, University of Warwick, applications due 5 January 2026. Looks like an awesome position! warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
November 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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kbruisch.bsky.social
🔔 Admissions are open for the M.Phil in Environmental History at Trinity College Dublin. Come and join us - or recommend our course to your students! #envhist #skystorians

More info here 👇
www.tcd.ie/courses/post...
Screenshot of the admissions website of the Environmental History M.Phil at Trinity College Dublin
November 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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iceho.bsky.social
We have update our interactive map for 𝐄𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐀𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝! It is still a work in progress, so please help us expand and diversify the map by suggesting more institutions, hubs, and associations. Browse the map here: www.iceho.org/eh-map
#EnvHist
November 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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jackjenkins.me
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
“Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois State Police during a protest against immigration actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska”
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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iansociologo.bsky.social
If you haven't joined your local AAUP, now is a great time to do so.
veenadubal.bsky.social Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!

We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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markstoll.bsky.social
Upcoming event! #capitalism #environment #consumerism #climatecrisis
Science by the Glass: Mark Stoll, "The Problem of Capitalism and the Environment," No. 17, 6pm, Nashwell Cafe, Ave. K, Lubbock, TX
November 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
markstoll.bsky.social
Upcoming event! #capitalism #environment #consumerism #climatecrisis
Science by the Glass: Mark Stoll, "The Problem of Capitalism and the Environment," No. 17, 6pm, Nashwell Cafe, Ave. K, Lubbock, TX
November 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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carsoncenter.bsky.social
Three days left to apply for an internship with us, starting on 15 January or 1 February and running for three months.

Full call: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_rcc/jo...

#rccjobs #internship #callforapplications #envhum #envhist #editing #socialmedia #library #books #cataloguing
November 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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farsouthhistory.bsky.social
Check out Ty Priest's review of Daniela Russ & Thomas Turnbull's "Energy's History: Toward a Global Canon," published in 2025 by @stanfordpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #energy #envtech
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
www.h-net.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
Do you enjoy the effort our editors and contributors make to contextualize current events with #envhist?

Consider sending $20 to our fundraising campaign to help us keep doing this work: fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...

#envhum #cdnhist #histgeog
November 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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jessicamdewitt.bsky.social
Happy to announce that I am joining the the Environmental Humanities journal editorial team as an Associate Editor.

read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...

#envhum #envhist
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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evangowan.bsky.social
It is pretty interesting to read some of the commentary on future sea level rise from the 1950s. This was from a symposium held in the Netherlands in 1954, before many of the aspects of climate change were fully understood, including Milankovich theory and CO₂ changes. #ClimateChange #SeaLevelChange
Commentary by Mr Bennema: Dr. Pannekoek (Geolog. Survey) quotes some conclusions from Ahlmann's 1952 lecture in Washington. There are some indications that the climatic optimum in the Arctic of the past decades has passed its culmination point. This does not necessarily mean that a general glacier advance and lowering of the sealevel may be expected in the near future, the relation between climate and glacier regime being rather complex. Though some glaciers are advancing now, the majority are still retreating, and the sea-level is still rising. Prof. Florschiitz (Leiden) also mentions the continuing glacier retreat in the Eastern Alps, whereas Prof. Bakker quotes the impression of Swiss, German and Austrian glaciologists, that the maximum of glacier retreat is now past. Mr. van Weelden (B.P.M.) calls attention to Sir Edward Bullard's opinion about a deviation of the Gulf Stream towards the East by the accumula- tion of morainic material on the ridge in the Northern Atlantic, extending from Scotland to Greenland, which caused Greenland to become colder and Scandinavia warmer. Prof. Rutten (Utrecht) mentions rhythmic glacier variations in Iceland similar to those known in Greenland, and presenting a periodicity like that mentioned by Mr. Bennema. He thinks that the observations on the absence of glacier retreat in Antarctica are no reason for optimism. They only show that the recent rise of sealevel is entirely due to ice melting in the Northern hemisphere, and that, if Antarctic ice should also start retreating, the situation would be worse. There are, however, some other factors, possibly influencing climatic and sealevel changes, the study of which is recommended. They are: (1) a new calculation of the extension of Milankovitch' curve into the future, as was done by Gamow; (too much text for alt text, sorry)
November 8, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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charlescmann.bsky.social
Just remembering that Dick Cheney secretly intervened in a dispute over the Klamath River in 2001--and caused the biggest fish die-off in US history, with ~77,000 fully grown adult salmon piled on the banks of the river.
Dead salmon line the banks of the Klamath River on Sept 28, 2002. Source: https://phys.org/news/2015-08-biologists-salmon-klamath-river.html
November 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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markstoll.bsky.social
Check out this interview with Robert Rowland of @jobyaviation.bsky.social who explains the incredible innovation of the charging system of this electric VTOL aircraft! What an amazing machine the #JobyAviation S4 is!
youtu.be/fCxg_blSwgw?...
#eVTOL #electric #aircraft #renewables #energy
Aviation charging innovators: Joby Aviation with Robert Rowland
YouTube video by SkyZeroAviation
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October 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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katharinehayhoe.com
If you take the time to read the whole Gates memo (which I did), the bulk of the content was mostly solid and encouraging. Really!

It was the FRAME that was off--very off, from the first line.

And when your framing is off, then how you make decisions and set priorities is off. THAT'S the problem.
My quote from an Axios interview, stating that: People often think of climate change as a separate bucket at the end of a long row of other buckets of problems we're trying to fix that are wrong in the world," Hayhoe told Axios. This includes poverty, disease and access to clean water. "Climate change is not a separate bucket," Hayhoe said. "The reason we care about climate change is that it's the hole in every bucket."
October 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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rachelsalvidge.bsky.social
Exclusive: mercury from fillings, belched out of crematoria, is getting into our rivers and fish. More than 98% of fish & mussels tested in English waters contain mercury above proposed EU limits. 43 countries have banned it. Why not here you might ask...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Toxin levels in fish lead to calls for UK-wide ban on mercury dental fillings
Exclusive: More than 98% of fish and mussels tested in English waters contain mercury above EU safety limits
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
markstoll.bsky.social
Check out this interview with Robert Rowland of @jobyaviation.bsky.social who explains the incredible innovation of the charging system of this electric VTOL aircraft! What an amazing machine the #JobyAviation S4 is!
youtu.be/fCxg_blSwgw?...
#eVTOL #electric #aircraft #renewables #energy
Aviation charging innovators: Joby Aviation with Robert Rowland
YouTube video by SkyZeroAviation
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October 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
markstoll.bsky.social
Lubbock No Kings rally today
October 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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aaup.org
The snake is growing.

✊🏽✊🏻✊🏿✊🏾✊🏼

Vanderbilt, Texas, AZ…now’s the time.

The world is watching.

The resistance is here.

#NoLoyaltyOaths
#NoKings
#DefendHigherEd
JOIN OR DIE cartoon snake now featuring segments for MIT, PENN, UVA, Brown, Dartmouth and USC. Not colored in because they have not said no to Trump‘s loyalty oath (yet): AZ, Texas, Vanderbilt.
October 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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rableforwesttexas.bsky.social
KYLE RABLE AND FAMILY TO SUPPORT LOCAL FEDERAL WORKERS’ FOOD DRIVE IN BIG SPRING

Follow the link below to read more on what KLBK had to say on Kyle Rable supporting his community through this government shutdown.

www.everythinglubbock.com/news/latest/...
www.everythinglubbock.com
October 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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billmckibben.bsky.social
You could plausibly say the No Kings movement started in Lexington in 1775, so it was a great pleasure to be on the Battle Green today with thousands upon thousands of good people unafraid of the fight ahead
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I returned to the site of the original "No Kings" protest
A letter from Lexington’s Battle Green.
www.motherjones.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
markstoll.bsky.social
#NoKings protest in #Lubbock #Texas!
www.lubbockonline.com/picture-gall...
Hundreds gather at Lubbock No Kings protest
A few hundred people gathered for a No Kings protest Saturday near Citizens Tower in downtown Lubbock.
www.lubbockonline.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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prosanitate.bsky.social
24 October in Leiden: Guy Geltner will be presenting "(Under)mining Preindustrial Europe: Ecology, Society and Culture, 1180-1550 CE" as part of the seminar series Medieval and Early Modern History.

#medieval #earlymodern #mininghistory #envhist #ecology

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History October 2025
The Research Seminars Medieval and Early Modern History are informal and intended to foster discussion.
www.universiteitleiden.nl
October 13, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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dinostalgia.bsky.social
A call for 🦕🦖🦣 contributors! With Victor Monnin, I'm editing a collection about extinct animal parks—it's a field guide, of sorts, that turns a critical eye on places real, imagined, and yet to be. Find the full CFP for LANDS OF THE LOST here: tinyurl.com/dinoparks #PaleoSky #HistSci #EnvHist #STS
A promotional image for an edited collection called "Lands of the Lost: A Field Guide to Dinosaur Parks Physical, Fictional, and for the Future." The collection editors Dr. Victor Monnin & Dr. Alison Laurence are putting out a call for contributions. Abstracts are due January 10, 2026 to dinoparkfieldguide@gmail.com. Find the full call at: https://tinyurl.com/dinoparks The background image is of the outdated-but-adored Iguanodon models at Crystal Palace Park.
October 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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dagomardegroot.bsky.social
"Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean," my new book, is out in two weeks! To introduce the book - why I wrote it, the evidence I used, the methods I developed, and why it all matters - I filmed six short videos. Here's the first! (1/3) #EnvHist #Space #Astronomy #History www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8o1...
Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean: Origins
YouTube video by Dagomar Degroot
www.youtube.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM