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Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
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Historian at the University of Chicago. Co-editor of The Journal of Modern History. New book: Scarcity with Carl Wennerlind (Harvard 2023). Next: Britain's fossil transition 1760-1870 and, with Moritz von Brescius, The Long Acceleration 1500-1950. .. more

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Fredrik Albritton Jonsson is a historian at the University of Chicago. He is the Author of Enlightenment's Frontier: The Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism and the coauthor of Green Victorians: The Simple Life in John Ruskin's Lake District. He currently serves as the co-editor of The Journal of Modern History. .. more

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Fredrik Albritton Jonsson @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social · Aug 13
With @mbrescius.bsky.social I am very happy to announce the launch of a major new project in #Anthropocene history. The Long Acceleration brings together more than 20 scholars to consider the planetary emergency. Many thanks to Moritz and the Institute for European Global Studies for hosting us.

Reposted by Dustin Mulvaney, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson

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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 7h
"Swaths of the Permian Basin appear to be on the verge of geological malfunction."

An unfolding disaster, shielded by centrist pundits who tell us to "support America's oil & gas industry."

Here's an idea: The oil & gas industry should support America, not wreck our land, air, & water.
America’s Biggest Oil Field Is Turning Into a Pressure Cooker
Drillers’ injection of wastewater is creating mayhem across the Permian Basin, raising concern about the future of fossil-fuel production there.
www.wsj.com

Reposted by Graeme Warren, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 2d
Letter to the editor, December 2010

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
A letter to the London Review of Books magazine, reading: 'I recently told the following joke to a rather unreceptive audience and was advised that it was ‘more of a London Review of Books sort of joke’. So I humbly offer it to you. Q: What do you call Santa’s little helpers? A: Subordinate clauses. Jerry Beere'

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Fredrik Albritton Jonsson @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social · 4d
I am finding a high rate of errors and hallucinations. Trust in AI only seems possible if we double check it constantly, which makes me wonder what the bloody point is.

Reposted by Elizabeth Stevenson, Dolly Jørgensen, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson

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Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social · 4d
Here's a 🧵 on how I came to write the article I'm working on right now, and you can decide for yourself whether AI was ever going to go in this direction:
erinbartram.bsky.social Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 5d
What historians (and other scholars do) is create knowledge. We should use that phrase more and talk about what it means. I think we don't, and it's part of why AI enthusiasts are confused when we don't readily agree that our work can be replicated/replaced by their products.

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Fredrik Albritton Jonsson @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social · 7d
Me too. Excellent in every way

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Fredrik Albritton Jonsson @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social · 7d
Congrats Holly! Looking forward to reading it. Mine is also finally on the way with Princeton

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 9d
NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.

Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.

Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.

Unbelievable.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
www.usatoday.com

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Steven Medema @spydermed.bsky.social · 10d
The Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University is now accepting applications for the 2026-27 Visiting Scholars program.
For a complete description of the program and how to apply, please visit the Center website:

hope.econ.duke.edu

Come join us!
Front Page | Center for the History of Political Economy
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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 11d
Hooray! The British Library has just released a beta version of its rebuilt Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue: searcharchives.bl.uk

2,619 hits for 'petition' in Western Manuscripts, texts in English, in case you're curious. 🗃️
Screenshot of search for 'petition' on the BL's Archives and Manuscript catalogue

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W. P. Mueller @wpmueller.bsky.social · 11d
#ornithology
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eBirding on Christmas Bird Counts - eBird
Christmas Bird Count (CBC) season is here! For three weeks each year (14 December to 5 January), teams of birders participate in cooperative efforts to count birds and help document changes in bird po...
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Fredrik Albritton Jonsson @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social · 13d
My kind of religion. The 2006 acoustic versions are also powerful - an older man looking back at the follies of youth.

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Fredrik Albritton Jonsson @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social · 17d
My pleasure Matthew.

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Fredrik Albritton Jonsson @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social · 17d
I warmly recommend The Women Who Saved the English Countryside by @matthewjkelly.bsky.social. Through four vivid case studies we get a typology of environmental activisms, each located in a distinct ecology and landscape. My students really enjoyed thinking with this book.

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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 18d
Favorite recent or classic readings on the history of environmental movements, 19th and 20th C? This is for a senior seminar, US and Europe as geographical focus
#envhist

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Pierre Charbonnier @picharbonnier.bsky.social · 19d
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Stratégie de sécurité nationale américaine : le plan de la Maison-Blanche contre l’Europe (texte intégral) | Le Grand Continent | Pierre Charbonnier
On a beaucoup commenté la nouvelle stratégie de sécurité nationale américaine. C'est un document fondamental, qui synthétise les tendances des dernières années et la nouvelle fracture atlantique. Ret...
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Fredrik Albritton Jonsson @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social · 19d
Welcome to Chicago Tory. Very happy to hear you are joining us

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Fredrik Albritton Jonsson @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social · 20d
Fantastiskt vackert. Hade ingen aning om animationerna.

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Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social · 21d
The Clements Center for Southwest Studies invites fellowship applications for the 2026-2027 academic year.

For more info and to apply:
www.smu.edu/dedman/resea...

If you're interested of have questions, feel free to contact me directly.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21d
Last chance to register for our webinar on the Earth Rover Program, starting at 14.00 GMT. Intro by the brilliant Kate Raworth, then explanations of the concept and the science by some of our scientists and technicians. Register to obtain link. Hope to see you there
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Welcome! You are invited to join the global launch of the Earth Rover Program and the release of our inaugural report, which explores how a new scientific concept, ‘soilsmology’, is shaking up our und...
We are delighted to invite you to the global launch of the Earth Rover Program and the release of our inaugural report, ‘Soilsmology: Transforming our Understanding of Soil’, which explores how an eme...
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 25d
Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:

In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.

In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

Reposted by Tobias Kuemmerle, Dolly Jørgensen, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson , and 1 more

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Simone Gingrich @simonegingrich.bsky.social · 29d
📢 We are hiring! Tenure-track position in environmental history with a focus on long-term socio-ecological research. Exciting opportunity for post-docs working at the interface of environmental history & sustainability sciences. Deadline Jan 6, please spread far and wide! boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...
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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · Nov 26
I'm no Luddite - far from it - but the ways in which in this development has been spoken of seem blind to, or completely uninterested in, what cannot be machine read and searched for: the pounce, sweat marks, soot, or wax; the non-semantic yet semiotically rich substrate that OCR strips away.
Pounce in the gutter of an eighteenth century Quarter Session docket book Stains on the index tabs of an eighteenth century government record book, from the fingers of the clerks who consulted it. Soot from an eighteenth century Indictment Roll from the Court of King's Bench Wax Seals on a charter included in a seventeenth century Star Chamber court record.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Nov 23
This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals
a drawing of a boat heating torwads an iceberg - lower temps still collide with ice but not as badly.

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Fredrik Albritton Jonsson @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social · Nov 19
Thanks so much Andrew. Happy to send you a copy of Green Victorians Patrick. I should add that I have just finished an environmental history of the Industrial Revolution which will be out with Princeton next year.

Reposted by Juliet B. Schor, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson

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Marius Bickhardt @mbickhardt.bsky.social · Nov 19
For @diagrammes.bsky.social, I had a conversation with @naomioreskes.bsky.social on the history of denial from the Cold War to the present climate crisis, on agnotology, on Trump 2.0 and much more.

Link to full interview including many portraits and historical sketches (French and English) ⬇️

Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Naomi Klein, Marco Festa‐Bianchet , and 10 more

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · Nov 18
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.

Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Submit a Claim
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Reposted by Fabián Muniesa, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson

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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · Nov 17
Happy to have written about plastic for @thepolycrisis.bsky.social. Thanks to @70sbachchan.bsky.social for sourcing the excellent graphics. And thanks to @rebecca-altman.bsky.social and @anjakrieger.bsky.social for being my go-to's on all-things plastic.

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Plastic Planet | Venus Bivar
Stalled negotiations and accelerating accumulation in the global petrochemicals industry
www.phenomenalworld.org

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Robert Suits @robertsuits.bsky.social · Nov 14
Best readings on historical disasters? Any time period, and though my eventual focus will be the US, glad to hear suggestions about other places, too.

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · Nov 9
A historic turning point for clean heating in Europe: For the first time, in the first half of 2025 sales of heat pumps in Germany have surpassed those of gas boilers.

This is a big milestone, demonstrating that the transition away from fossil fuels in our buildings is not just a future ambition.

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Fredrik Albritton Jonsson @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social · Nov 5
Dawn is breaking
birdrespecter.bsky.social The Milk Lizard @birdrespecter.bsky.social · Nov 5
For a bit I forgot that the current political movement was won with a weak minority and is managed by annoying dorks who nobody likes who have terrible vibes. This video has 1.3 million likes and is a good reminder that better things are possible, even for those of us outside NYC. A good night!