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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 9m

Sadly I do not. Heading up to the airport after the last session on Saturday, sleeping there to get on a very, very early flight home.

Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 44m

Too bad, always nice to hang out with you! Though I guess we saw each other in Uppsala not very long ago. And yes, it's in the south, right up against the French border.

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 3h

Sad that you’re not here! I can (well, will) really only go when it’s in Europe now, and this year I had to bring my daughter to make it work.

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 5h

Is turnip carving really a thing in Norway? I have never seen it here.

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Scout Blum @scoutblum.bsky.social · 20h

A print and play game about diversity in games I designed for the Playing Inside series!

NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 1d

Check out this game that @scoutblum.bsky.social designed for our Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social!!

Diverse Environments Rules: A Card Game about Diversity in Environmentally-Themed Board Games

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Diverse Environments Rules: A Card Game about Diversity in Environmentally-Themed Board Games

In Diverse Environments, you will work to create a diverse selection of eight games for your syllabus. You’ve got colleagues working on the same thing, though, and you don’t want to duplicate their ef...

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 6h

Krasznahorkai, eh? I have one book by him on the shelf, guess I should read it now.

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 6h

“The history of this material comes through poison gas, and it comes through the atomic bomb, and it comes through all of these materials that are really part of the history of the 20th and now 21st century.” #envhist

Grist @grist.org · 6h

Buoyed by a retro revival, Kodak’s dark environmental past is coming to light.

A snapshot of Kodak's history includes cameras, military contracts, and a legacy of environmental damage in the communities it is a part of.

grist.org/accountabili...

#Environment #Nature #Photography #Military

Buoyed by a retro revival, Kodak's dark environmental past is coming to light

A snapshot of Kodak’s long history includes cameras, military contracts, and decades of pollution and environmental degradation.

grist.org

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 6h

And there was much rejoicing.

Apple Find Me update screenshot. «You’ve reunited with the little grey suitcase»

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 9h

Touring the absolutely gorgeous University of Luxembourg Belval campus area for #shot2025.

Steel mill. Tall furnace. Lots of people and a bus.

Weird building facade. Red building in the background

Old industrial facility, different shapes

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Jonas Fossli Gjersø @jonasgjerso.bsky.social · 13h

📅 Save the date!

The University of Stavanger, invites you to a symposium entitled:

Freedom of Expression in Times of Genocide

🗓 Wed. Nov 12, 5–7:30 pm | Sølvberget, Stavanger & online

Speakers include: Sindre Bangstad, Raz Segal, Zoé Samudzi, Maha Abdallah & Martin Shaw

More details to follow.

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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 19h

Soooooo much this. We have to lean on each other.

Joel Mathis @joelmathis.bsky.social · 19h

Everybody is struggling.

Be kind. To them. To yourself.

And them be kind some more.

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Environmental History Now @envhistnow.bsky.social · 1d

Latest piece out today from Adrienne Brown; a safety briefing for research in #envhist #envhum envhistnow.com/2025/10/07/p...

Pre-Flight Safety Briefing: Researching the Environment in the U.S. without Being Detained at the Border

It is a turbulent time to be an international scholar in the United States: So before you embark on your next trip to the U.S., let’s make sure you are ready for take-off.

envhistnow.com

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 19h

Merle! Good to see you, this is wonderful news - congratulations!

Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 1d

Yeah, I used to write letters. Nowadays it’s just emails and messages. We need to bring it back. Like vinyl records but for distance communication.

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 1d

They seem to take them seriously, yes!

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 1d

Stamp art in my hotel. Looking forward to exploring the Belval campus tomorrow - once Luxembourg’s largest steelworks, now a university campus. Our #energylives session will make use of the site, sending people out on sensory energy walks.

Poster with enlarged postal stamp motive of industrial facility, steelworks. Quite sublime for those of us who are into that sort of thing (I am!)

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 1d

If any #histtech colleagues are in Esch-Sur-Alzette for #shot2025 and would like to grab dinner and/or a drink tonight, let me know!

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 1d

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...

Two Funded Doctoral Positions: Project on Nuclear Decommissioning - Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society - LMU Munich

www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 1d

I have arrived in Luxembourg for #SHOT2025. My bag has not. And some other small disasters along the way, but we shall manage.

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 2d

When everything else fails, I can always go as my todo list. It’s a real eldritch horror.

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 2d

I'm me again.

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 2d

CfP for the 2026 Tensions of Europe Conference is out!

Theme: The meaning of the past in sustainable futures
When: 8-10 July 2026
Where: Eindhoven, NL

Deadline: 4 January 2026

#histstm #historyoftechnology #envhist

Entire call and information ⤵

www.tensionsofeurope.eu/2025/10/02/c...

Call for Papers: The 12th Tensions of Europe Conference, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 8-10 July, 2026

» Call for Papers: The 12th Tensions of Europe Conference, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 8-10 July, 2026 | Research network on history, technology and Europe

www.tensionsofeurope.eu

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 2d

It is rather humbling to clean up (quite good) autogenerated captions on recorded lectures and be confronted with all your, uh, verbal tics.

Screenshot of video with person speaking and captions that end with «uh».

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 3d

I guess I'm just going as an invalid handle for Halloween this year.

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 3d

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...

Double page spread with a photo of diorama

Chapter 3 Cursed treasures on left, lion on right

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