Mathijs Boom
@mathijsboom.bsky.social
Historian of science and environment | finishing a book on watery Earth histories 1600-1800 and starting one on anti-nuclear movements and planetary futures in the 1970s-80s | Postdoc @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social | PhD from @uva.nl
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5 more days to get your submissions in on the topic “Critical Minerals and Media Technologies.” We can't wait to read your submissions!
@mediaenviron.bsky.social @gustavelester.bsky.social
@mediaenviron.bsky.social @gustavelester.bsky.social
**CALL FOR PAPERS** It’s been a hot minute! We are seeking proposals for another new stream on “Critical Minerals and Media Technologies,” edited by @siobhanangus.bsky.social and @gustavelester.bsky.social. The deadline for submissions is November 15, 2025. mediaenviron.org/post/3478-ca...
Call For Papers: Critical Minerals and Media Technologies | Published by Media+Environment
We invite contributions for a forthcoming stream of the UC Press open access journal Media+Environment entitled “Critical Minerals and Media Technologies,” edited by Siobhan Angus and Gustave Lester.
mediaenviron.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
5 more days to get your submissions in on the topic “Critical Minerals and Media Technologies.” We can't wait to read your submissions!
@mediaenviron.bsky.social @gustavelester.bsky.social
@mediaenviron.bsky.social @gustavelester.bsky.social
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Here's a look at the extent of the "warmth" across the #Arctic in October. This map uses my normal anomaly scaling for each month, but it clearly doesn't work for something this extreme.
Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds...
Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds...
November 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Here's a look at the extent of the "warmth" across the #Arctic in October. This map uses my normal anomaly scaling for each month, but it clearly doesn't work for something this extreme.
Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds...
Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds...
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On the glorious Congo peatlands and their "underground forests".
“It’s not the storms,” he said. “It’s the ditches. A single trench can flip a healthy peat forest into a carbon source within a few seasons.”
www.fossewaytreeservices.co.uk/11-11-2025/1...
“It’s not the storms,” he said. “It’s the ditches. A single trench can flip a healthy peat forest into a carbon source within a few seasons.”
www.fossewaytreeservices.co.uk/11-11-2025/1...
Scientists confirm a massive underground forest beneath the Congo basin
Yet after years of boots in the mud, drones and satellites scanning through cloud, and cores of dark soil hoisted from the swamp like old scrolls,
www.fossewaytreeservices.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 6:27 AM
On the glorious Congo peatlands and their "underground forests".
“It’s not the storms,” he said. “It’s the ditches. A single trench can flip a healthy peat forest into a carbon source within a few seasons.”
www.fossewaytreeservices.co.uk/11-11-2025/1...
“It’s not the storms,” he said. “It’s the ditches. A single trench can flip a healthy peat forest into a carbon source within a few seasons.”
www.fossewaytreeservices.co.uk/11-11-2025/1...
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To all concerned with climate finance! In my article published in @climate-policy.bsky.social, I find that overlooking the influence of banks’ types of equity on sustainable lending narrows the scope of analysis and limits the tools available to reach Paris-aligned portfolios. See abstract for more!
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
To all concerned with climate finance! In my article published in @climate-policy.bsky.social, I find that overlooking the influence of banks’ types of equity on sustainable lending narrows the scope of analysis and limits the tools available to reach Paris-aligned portfolios. See abstract for more!
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I cannot believe that I didn't know Namibia's first president Sam Nujoma wrote a masters' thesis about copper mining in Southern Africa after retiring from politics!
November 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I cannot believe that I didn't know Namibia's first president Sam Nujoma wrote a masters' thesis about copper mining in Southern Africa after retiring from politics!
Sunrise like this improves even the most agro-industrial farmland.
November 5, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Sunrise like this improves even the most agro-industrial farmland.
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Met plezier neem ik vandaag het stokje over: Suze Zijlstra, universitair docent publieksgeschiedenis van het slavernijverleden aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam, onderzoeksconservator bij Het Scheepvaartmuseum, en auteur van 'De Voormoeders. Een verborgen Nederlands-Indische familiegeschiedenis'.
November 3, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Met plezier neem ik vandaag het stokje over: Suze Zijlstra, universitair docent publieksgeschiedenis van het slavernijverleden aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam, onderzoeksconservator bij Het Scheepvaartmuseum, en auteur van 'De Voormoeders. Een verborgen Nederlands-Indische familiegeschiedenis'.
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Apply now for a free week-long PhD course on Energy Humanities organized by the Greenhouse and the project Energy Lives! project run by @melinabuns.bsky.social
Takes place in Stavanger, Norway, 1-5 December 2025
www.uis.no/en/research/...
#envhum #envhist #energy
Takes place in Stavanger, Norway, 1-5 December 2025
www.uis.no/en/research/...
#envhum #envhist #energy
Apply for PhD Course on Energy Humanities
5 ECTS PhD course ‘Themes within Environmental Humanities’ to be held in Stavanger, 1-5 December 2025. This year’s thematic focus is the developing field of the Energy Humanities.
www.uis.no
October 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Apply now for a free week-long PhD course on Energy Humanities organized by the Greenhouse and the project Energy Lives! project run by @melinabuns.bsky.social
Takes place in Stavanger, Norway, 1-5 December 2025
www.uis.no/en/research/...
#envhum #envhist #energy
Takes place in Stavanger, Norway, 1-5 December 2025
www.uis.no/en/research/...
#envhum #envhist #energy
This is why everyone needs at least a mild form of climate denial to function.
I think I understand the many reasons why people believe it's not worth it to phase out fossil fuels, but I also feel exhausted and vaguely insane living my life knowing that while the world seems normal on the surface, the fossil-fuel economy is, right now, breaking the world forever.
October 20, 2025 at 6:06 AM
This is why everyone needs at least a mild form of climate denial to function.
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I found this a really illuminating thread on what demonstrations do and why they matter.
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I found this a really illuminating thread on what demonstrations do and why they matter.
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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2 doctoral positions on the '(Dis)Empowered Communities: A Comparative Study of Decommissioning Nuclear Sites' project led by Davide Orsini at the @carsoncenter.bsky.social
Deadline: 30 November
#histtech #envhist #energyhistory #nuclearhistory
www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_rcc/jo...
Deadline: 30 November
#histtech #envhist #energyhistory #nuclearhistory
www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_rcc/jo...
Two Funded Doctoral Positions: Project on Nuclear Decommissioning - Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society - LMU Munich
www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de
October 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
2 doctoral positions on the '(Dis)Empowered Communities: A Comparative Study of Decommissioning Nuclear Sites' project led by Davide Orsini at the @carsoncenter.bsky.social
Deadline: 30 November
#histtech #envhist #energyhistory #nuclearhistory
www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_rcc/jo...
Deadline: 30 November
#histtech #envhist #energyhistory #nuclearhistory
www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_rcc/jo...
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Open PhD position at KTH: "AI Planetary Futures: Climate and environment in Silicon Valley's AI paradigm". Apply by Oct 23! lnkd.in/dCs8eZjb
The project analyzes the climate and environmental aspects of Silicon Valley-based general-purpose AI systems developed by Big Tech companies.
The project analyzes the climate and environmental aspects of Silicon Valley-based general-purpose AI systems developed by Big Tech companies.
October 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Open PhD position at KTH: "AI Planetary Futures: Climate and environment in Silicon Valley's AI paradigm". Apply by Oct 23! lnkd.in/dCs8eZjb
The project analyzes the climate and environmental aspects of Silicon Valley-based general-purpose AI systems developed by Big Tech companies.
The project analyzes the climate and environmental aspects of Silicon Valley-based general-purpose AI systems developed by Big Tech companies.
There are many versions of this nuclear fuel cycle diagram, but I like this hand-drawn one with a little A-bombs being jettisoned by various nodes in the process.
October 8, 2025 at 9:38 AM
There are many versions of this nuclear fuel cycle diagram, but I like this hand-drawn one with a little A-bombs being jettisoned by various nodes in the process.
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Volgende week dinsdagavond bij het IISG!
Het is nu ondenkbaar dat er honderdduizenden mensen de straat op gaan tegen kernenergie en -wapens, zoals in de jaren '80 gebeurde. Terwijl minstens zo actueel is. Voor iedereen die meer wil weten over de antikernenergiebeweging tot nu toe.
iisg.amsterdam/nl/events/de...
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iisg.amsterdam/nl/events/de...
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October 8, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Volgende week dinsdagavond bij het IISG!
This Friday, 12h, I'll talk more about the place of Urenco's enrichment facilities in Almelo and Namibian uranium in the Dutch nuclear debates of the 70s at the @uvahumanities.bsky.social's Environment & Society seminar.
Cool posters for what turned out to be the largest ever demonstration against nuclear facilities in the Netherlands, in March 1978. The one about Brazil's military dictatorship is creepy though, with its 'third world' imagery.
October 8, 2025 at 9:34 AM
This Friday, 12h, I'll talk more about the place of Urenco's enrichment facilities in Almelo and Namibian uranium in the Dutch nuclear debates of the 70s at the @uvahumanities.bsky.social's Environment & Society seminar.
Cool posters for what turned out to be the largest ever demonstration against nuclear facilities in the Netherlands, in March 1978. The one about Brazil's military dictatorship is creepy though, with its 'third world' imagery.
October 8, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Cool posters for what turned out to be the largest ever demonstration against nuclear facilities in the Netherlands, in March 1978. The one about Brazil's military dictatorship is creepy though, with its 'third world' imagery.
Volgende week dinsdagavond bij het IISG!
Het is nu ondenkbaar dat er honderdduizenden mensen de straat op gaan tegen kernenergie en -wapens, zoals in de jaren '80 gebeurde. Terwijl minstens zo actueel is. Voor iedereen die meer wil weten over de antikernenergiebeweging tot nu toe.
iisg.amsterdam/nl/events/de...
@mathijsboom.bsky.social
iisg.amsterdam/nl/events/de...
@mathijsboom.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Volgende week dinsdagavond bij het IISG!
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I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities!
Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.
Applications are welcome until 24 October.
#envhum #envhist #energyhistory
Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.
Applications are welcome until 24 October.
#envhum #envhist #energyhistory
September 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities!
Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.
Applications are welcome until 24 October.
#envhum #envhist #energyhistory
Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.
Applications are welcome until 24 October.
#envhum #envhist #energyhistory
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Het is nu ondenkbaar dat er honderdduizenden mensen de straat op gaan tegen kernenergie en -wapens, zoals in de jaren '80 gebeurde. Terwijl minstens zo actueel is. Voor iedereen die meer wil weten over de antikernenergiebeweging tot nu toe.
iisg.amsterdam/nl/events/de...
@mathijsboom.bsky.social
iisg.amsterdam/nl/events/de...
@mathijsboom.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Het is nu ondenkbaar dat er honderdduizenden mensen de straat op gaan tegen kernenergie en -wapens, zoals in de jaren '80 gebeurde. Terwijl minstens zo actueel is. Voor iedereen die meer wil weten over de antikernenergiebeweging tot nu toe.
iisg.amsterdam/nl/events/de...
@mathijsboom.bsky.social
iisg.amsterdam/nl/events/de...
@mathijsboom.bsky.social
Ubiquitous assumptions about ‘peak oil’ and shifts in energy use, in a ‘82 DHV report about Dutch energy policy and developing countries.
October 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Ubiquitous assumptions about ‘peak oil’ and shifts in energy use, in a ‘82 DHV report about Dutch energy policy and developing countries.
Back to 80s energy scenarios at the Nationaal Archief where letters offer a good reminder of serious ’computing costs’. Modeling futures demanded time, energy and digital infrastructure.
October 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Back to 80s energy scenarios at the Nationaal Archief where letters offer a good reminder of serious ’computing costs’. Modeling futures demanded time, energy and digital infrastructure.
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Our Institute’s Colloquium Program 2025–26 is now available online! This year we will be "Rethinking Time in the History of Science" 🕰️⌚️
📍 MPIWG & Harnack-Haus
🔗 For the full program and information on registration, please check bit.ly/42Zq98m
#HistSci #DeepTime #Anthropology #ReligiousStudies
📍 MPIWG & Harnack-Haus
🔗 For the full program and information on registration, please check bit.ly/42Zq98m
#HistSci #DeepTime #Anthropology #ReligiousStudies
October 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Our Institute’s Colloquium Program 2025–26 is now available online! This year we will be "Rethinking Time in the History of Science" 🕰️⌚️
📍 MPIWG & Harnack-Haus
🔗 For the full program and information on registration, please check bit.ly/42Zq98m
#HistSci #DeepTime #Anthropology #ReligiousStudies
📍 MPIWG & Harnack-Haus
🔗 For the full program and information on registration, please check bit.ly/42Zq98m
#HistSci #DeepTime #Anthropology #ReligiousStudies
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Western politicians love the excuse “Why should we invest in renewables when China isn’t doing anything?”
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
Well, this is what China is upto:
China installing wind & solar equivalent of 5 nuclear plants per week
globalenergymonitor.org/report/china...
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
Well, this is what China is upto:
China installing wind & solar equivalent of 5 nuclear plants per week
globalenergymonitor.org/report/china...
May 20, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Western politicians love the excuse “Why should we invest in renewables when China isn’t doing anything?”
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
Well, this is what China is upto:
China installing wind & solar equivalent of 5 nuclear plants per week
globalenergymonitor.org/report/china...
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
Well, this is what China is upto:
China installing wind & solar equivalent of 5 nuclear plants per week
globalenergymonitor.org/report/china...
250.000 marching in Amsterdam, in solidarity with Gaza, and to ask our government to finally draw a f-ing line.
October 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
250.000 marching in Amsterdam, in solidarity with Gaza, and to ask our government to finally draw a f-ing line.