Saumya Pandey
@saumyapandey.bsky.social
I am a PhD researcher working on sediments of the Himalayan riverine systems.
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Saumya Pandey
@saumyapandey.bsky.social
· Nov 21
“Too Much” Sand, Not Water: A Geostory of Himalayan Riverine Sediments as “Problem”
| Cultural Anthropology
journal.culanth.org
my essay, ‘too much’ sand, is out in cultural anthropology. it traces the river engineering origins of the extraction discourse and connects the long history of Himalayan erosion to contemporary debates about geological instability and the politics of sand crisis. journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...
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The fundamental problem of our age is that 20th c writers created all this brilliant dystopian science fiction and we read/watched it and understood it to be a warning for undesirable futures and the techbros saw it and thought “ooh humans could be turned into food!”
November 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The fundamental problem of our age is that 20th c writers created all this brilliant dystopian science fiction and we read/watched it and understood it to be a warning for undesirable futures and the techbros saw it and thought “ooh humans could be turned into food!”
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Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
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Assistant Prof job in history of science (related to water?) at Madison. Strong program, nice town (aside from winter)
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69456
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69456
Professor of History | H-Net Job Guide
jobs.h-net.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Assistant Prof job in history of science (related to water?) at Madison. Strong program, nice town (aside from winter)
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69456
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69456
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Exactly a year ago, Ellen Wohl, @parriblue.bsky.social and I spent two days in Providence thinking about #rivers and how we conceptualize them & live with them. Here’s the result of history and fluvial geomorphology teaming up. #envhist
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Rivers are messy: Beyond the water bias in research and management
This article reviews current trends in interdisciplinary river research to argue that a “water bias” or tendency consider rivers as synonymous with water can hinder our understanding of rivers and con...
doi.org
November 6, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Exactly a year ago, Ellen Wohl, @parriblue.bsky.social and I spent two days in Providence thinking about #rivers and how we conceptualize them & live with them. Here’s the result of history and fluvial geomorphology teaming up. #envhist
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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We're delighted to announce a new book, forthcoming in March: 'Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for the Environmental Humanities', edited by Emily Brownell; now open for pre-orders. More information: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhum #envhist #soil
November 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
We're delighted to announce a new book, forthcoming in March: 'Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for the Environmental Humanities', edited by Emily Brownell; now open for pre-orders. More information: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhum #envhist #soil
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How did socialist projects of making antibiotics and building atom bombs amount to the primitive accumulation of "scientific capital" in the People's Republic?
🗓️ Tuesday, November 11
🕥 10:30–11:45 am Eastern Time
📍 Over Zoom
Register: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
#histstm #histsci #sts 🧪
🗓️ Tuesday, November 11
🕥 10:30–11:45 am Eastern Time
📍 Over Zoom
Register: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
#histstm #histsci #sts 🧪
November 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
How did socialist projects of making antibiotics and building atom bombs amount to the primitive accumulation of "scientific capital" in the People's Republic?
🗓️ Tuesday, November 11
🕥 10:30–11:45 am Eastern Time
📍 Over Zoom
Register: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
#histstm #histsci #sts 🧪
🗓️ Tuesday, November 11
🕥 10:30–11:45 am Eastern Time
📍 Over Zoom
Register: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
#histstm #histsci #sts 🧪
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#ArticleSnapshot📸: Vera Keller's "Entangling Knowledge and Ignorance" examines Alain Corbin's Terra Incognita: A History of Ignorance in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (2021).
Read it #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...
Read it #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...
ENTANGLING KNOWLEDGE AND IGNORANCE
This review essays situates Alain Corbin's Terra Incognita: A History of Ignorance in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries within current discussions of knowledge and ignorance related to intellec...
doi.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
#ArticleSnapshot📸: Vera Keller's "Entangling Knowledge and Ignorance" examines Alain Corbin's Terra Incognita: A History of Ignorance in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (2021).
Read it #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...
Read it #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...
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Good, clear article that allows me to propose once again one of my fave mantras:
If you think mitigation politics is hard, you haven’t thought enough about the toxicity of adaptation politics
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If you think mitigation politics is hard, you haven’t thought enough about the toxicity of adaptation politics
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Who decides how we adapt to climate change? | Leah Aronowsky
The question is not whether we will reshape our institutions to manage climate impacts, but how
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Good, clear article that allows me to propose once again one of my fave mantras:
If you think mitigation politics is hard, you haven’t thought enough about the toxicity of adaptation politics
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If you think mitigation politics is hard, you haven’t thought enough about the toxicity of adaptation politics
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Spread the word about this brand new Masters in Public Environmental Humanities with me and The Greenhouse crew in Norway.
For those outside of EU, registration is in second half of November, so don’t miss it!
For those outside of EU, registration is in second half of November, so don’t miss it!
The Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English.
Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues!
Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues!
Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
November 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Spread the word about this brand new Masters in Public Environmental Humanities with me and The Greenhouse crew in Norway.
For those outside of EU, registration is in second half of November, so don’t miss it!
For those outside of EU, registration is in second half of November, so don’t miss it!
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*New Review Article*: After Coasts: Cartography,Desiccation, and Dwelling in Amphibious Worlds
#openaccess 1/6
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
#openaccess 1/6
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
After Coasts: Cartography, Desiccation, and Dwelling in Amphibious Worlds
As cities and nation-states design massive coastal development projects, I show in this review how these projects require and produce emptied and flattened surfaces necessary for the workings of colon...
www.annualreviews.org
November 3, 2025 at 9:40 AM
*New Review Article*: After Coasts: Cartography,Desiccation, and Dwelling in Amphibious Worlds
#openaccess 1/6
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
#openaccess 1/6
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Always absolutely mind blowing how much of the deficit & national debt is framed around not wanting to incur costs for the future generations but our gerontocracy would rather incur trillions of climate debt than spend a nickel on cutting carbon.
The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.
October 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Always absolutely mind blowing how much of the deficit & national debt is framed around not wanting to incur costs for the future generations but our gerontocracy would rather incur trillions of climate debt than spend a nickel on cutting carbon.
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Now listening to the 4th Annual Alchemy Lecture:
Sound—at the Interregnum.
First alchemist is Glen Coulthard, Yellowknives Dene, Prof. First Nations and Indigenous Studies and Political Science
listening: noisescapes of mining, air traffic and urban expansion on Yellowknife land
#YUAlchemy
Sound—at the Interregnum.
First alchemist is Glen Coulthard, Yellowknives Dene, Prof. First Nations and Indigenous Studies and Political Science
listening: noisescapes of mining, air traffic and urban expansion on Yellowknife land
#YUAlchemy
The 2025 Alchemy Lecture: Sound—at the Interregnum
YouTube video by York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Now listening to the 4th Annual Alchemy Lecture:
Sound—at the Interregnum.
First alchemist is Glen Coulthard, Yellowknives Dene, Prof. First Nations and Indigenous Studies and Political Science
listening: noisescapes of mining, air traffic and urban expansion on Yellowknife land
#YUAlchemy
Sound—at the Interregnum.
First alchemist is Glen Coulthard, Yellowknives Dene, Prof. First Nations and Indigenous Studies and Political Science
listening: noisescapes of mining, air traffic and urban expansion on Yellowknife land
#YUAlchemy
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The 2020 coastal land use map of Great Nicobar showed coral reefs hugging its shores. In the 2021 version, the reefs vanished from the coast and reappeared in the middle of the sea.
Experts told Vaishnavi Rathore they doubt the map’s authenticity.
scroll.in/article/1087...
Experts told Vaishnavi Rathore they doubt the map’s authenticity.
scroll.in/article/1087...
October 23, 2025 at 6:19 AM
The 2020 coastal land use map of Great Nicobar showed coral reefs hugging its shores. In the 2021 version, the reefs vanished from the coast and reappeared in the middle of the sea.
Experts told Vaishnavi Rathore they doubt the map’s authenticity.
scroll.in/article/1087...
Experts told Vaishnavi Rathore they doubt the map’s authenticity.
scroll.in/article/1087...
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Article in the Norwegian newspaper for higher education on AI and the Anthropic settlement includes some quotes from me.
One point I make is that it is unacceptable that universities are buying into AI tools even though the tools have been built so unethically.
www.khrono.no/akademikere-...
One point I make is that it is unacceptable that universities are buying into AI tools even though the tools have been built so unethically.
www.khrono.no/akademikere-...
Akademikere i Norge kan ha krav på 30.000 kroner etter forlik i USA
En rekke akademikere i Norge dukker opp på listen over forfattere med bøker som er omfattet av forliket mellom amerikanske forfatterorganisasjoner og selskapet Anthropic. Finner du din bok der, har du...
www.khrono.no
October 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Article in the Norwegian newspaper for higher education on AI and the Anthropic settlement includes some quotes from me.
One point I make is that it is unacceptable that universities are buying into AI tools even though the tools have been built so unethically.
www.khrono.no/akademikere-...
One point I make is that it is unacceptable that universities are buying into AI tools even though the tools have been built so unethically.
www.khrono.no/akademikere-...
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I'll be hosting an online event on encountering extinction in the archives with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social as part of The National Archives' Research Routes series.
Come along to hear about researching animal histories in the archive!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/extinction...
Come along to hear about researching animal histories in the archive!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/extinction...
Extinction and hope: Navigating animal encounters in the archive
What hope can be found in encounters with animals in archival documents?
www.eventbrite.co.uk
September 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I'll be hosting an online event on encountering extinction in the archives with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social as part of The National Archives' Research Routes series.
Come along to hear about researching animal histories in the archive!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/extinction...
Come along to hear about researching animal histories in the archive!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/extinction...
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Today we have "People, Stones, and Japanese Canadian Politics of Nature" by Jane Komori
This post highlights Komori's recent @radhistreview.bsky.social article.
niche-canada.org/2025/10/16/j...
#envhist #cdnhist #japanesecanadian #japanese #bchistory
This post highlights Komori's recent @radhistreview.bsky.social article.
niche-canada.org/2025/10/16/j...
#envhist #cdnhist #japanesecanadian #japanese #bchistory
People, Stones, and Japanese Canadian Politics of Nature
Jane Komori explores Japanese Canadian rock gardens, revealing diasporic visions of nature shaped by migration, incarceration, and resilience.
niche-canada.org
October 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Today we have "People, Stones, and Japanese Canadian Politics of Nature" by Jane Komori
This post highlights Komori's recent @radhistreview.bsky.social article.
niche-canada.org/2025/10/16/j...
#envhist #cdnhist #japanesecanadian #japanese #bchistory
This post highlights Komori's recent @radhistreview.bsky.social article.
niche-canada.org/2025/10/16/j...
#envhist #cdnhist #japanesecanadian #japanese #bchistory
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Social scientists have been arguing for decades that race and gender cannot be viewed through the teleological lens of progress, and never in my lifetime has that been more clear and important to understand than now.
October 10, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Social scientists have been arguing for decades that race and gender cannot be viewed through the teleological lens of progress, and never in my lifetime has that been more clear and important to understand than now.
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How did Korean firms like Hanjin carry containerization from Vietnam’s Cam Ranh & Qui Nhon to Busan, transforming ports & unsettling U.S. contractors like Lusteveco? 🚢
John DiMoia @ Harvard #STinAsia, Tue Oct 14, 10:30 ET
Zoom registration: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
#histstm #histtech 🧪
John DiMoia @ Harvard #STinAsia, Tue Oct 14, 10:30 ET
Zoom registration: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
#histstm #histtech 🧪
October 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM
How did Korean firms like Hanjin carry containerization from Vietnam’s Cam Ranh & Qui Nhon to Busan, transforming ports & unsettling U.S. contractors like Lusteveco? 🚢
John DiMoia @ Harvard #STinAsia, Tue Oct 14, 10:30 ET
Zoom registration: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
#histstm #histtech 🧪
John DiMoia @ Harvard #STinAsia, Tue Oct 14, 10:30 ET
Zoom registration: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
#histstm #histtech 🧪
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Thu, Oct 9 — Lunch Seminar: Erling Agøy — Early Modern Chinese Approaches to the Weather
How did people live with climate change during the Little Ice Age?
Agøy takes us to 17th-century China to explore local understandings of weather, calamity, and resilience.
🔗 www.hf.uio.no/.../lunch-se...
How did people live with climate change during the Little Ice Age?
Agøy takes us to 17th-century China to explore local understandings of weather, calamity, and resilience.
🔗 www.hf.uio.no/.../lunch-se...
www.hf.uio.no
October 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Thu, Oct 9 — Lunch Seminar: Erling Agøy — Early Modern Chinese Approaches to the Weather
How did people live with climate change during the Little Ice Age?
Agøy takes us to 17th-century China to explore local understandings of weather, calamity, and resilience.
🔗 www.hf.uio.no/.../lunch-se...
How did people live with climate change during the Little Ice Age?
Agøy takes us to 17th-century China to explore local understandings of weather, calamity, and resilience.
🔗 www.hf.uio.no/.../lunch-se...
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It’s real!!
I just got my first copy of Ghosts Behind Glass and it is beautiful. You all really need to order your copies. You will not regret it. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
I just got my first copy of Ghosts Behind Glass and it is beautiful. You all really need to order your copies. You will not regret it. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
October 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
It’s real!!
I just got my first copy of Ghosts Behind Glass and it is beautiful. You all really need to order your copies. You will not regret it. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
I just got my first copy of Ghosts Behind Glass and it is beautiful. You all really need to order your copies. You will not regret it. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Starting my online course «Nature & Nation: An Environmental History of Norway Since 1850» today. The timing could have been better since things are ridiculously busy, but I’m still excited about this opportunity! #envhist
Nature & Nation: An Environmental History of Norway Since 1850
Nature & Nation is an environmental history of Norway since 1850. Through five thematic modules, you will learn about the history of modern Norway seen through the lens of environmental interactions a...
engage.eciu.eu
October 6, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Starting my online course «Nature & Nation: An Environmental History of Norway Since 1850» today. The timing could have been better since things are ridiculously busy, but I’m still excited about this opportunity! #envhist
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This upcoming symposium at CAS in Oslo on "Radical Reuse: Aesthetics, Scale, and Limits", organized by Ingrid Halland and Kjetil Fallan, looks fantastic. I'll be there! #envhum #envhist
Radical Reuse: Aesthetics, Scale, and Limits | CAS
Provisional Programme (subject to change) 09:00Welcome by Ingrid Halland (Associate Professor at University of Bergen, NO)Part I – Aesthetics (histories) 09:30-09:50Grace Lees-Maffei (Professor of Des...
cas-nor.no
October 4, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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The histories featured on South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories were informed by archival research which took place across the UK. Discover these histories by visiting your local archive: southasianbritain.org/useful-archi...
#SouthAsianBritain @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social
#SouthAsianBritain @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social
Useful archives — South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories
southasianbritain.org
September 30, 2025 at 8:15 AM
The histories featured on South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories were informed by archival research which took place across the UK. Discover these histories by visiting your local archive: southasianbritain.org/useful-archi...
#SouthAsianBritain @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social
#SouthAsianBritain @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social
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It was a pleasure to interview Thea Riofrancos for The Nation about her important and very well written new book: “Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism”: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
The Problem of Green Capitalism
A conversation with Thea Riofrancos about her new book Extraction and the hidden cost and obscured history of the capitalist push to monetize the energy transition.
www.thenation.com
September 23, 2025 at 10:57 AM
It was a pleasure to interview Thea Riofrancos for The Nation about her important and very well written new book: “Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism”: www.thenation.com/article/cult...