Finn Arne Jørgensen
@finnarne.me
Professor of Environmental History at University of Stavanger, Norway. Co-director of the Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities. Photographer, author, boardgamer. More at finnarne.net. Portrait photo: Kristin Aafløy Opdan.
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I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts.
open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us
what happens when AI automates "normal science"?
open.substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:38 PM
I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts.
open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
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Join the European Society for Environmental History! We are our members, and with a modest yearly fee (25 or 10 €) you will contribute to the community and our next conference. And there are benefits! You can also help by spreading the word! Read more here:
eseh.org/membership/h...
#EnvHist #EnvHum
eseh.org/membership/h...
#EnvHist #EnvHum
January 12, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Join the European Society for Environmental History! We are our members, and with a modest yearly fee (25 or 10 €) you will contribute to the community and our next conference. And there are benefits! You can also help by spreading the word! Read more here:
eseh.org/membership/h...
#EnvHist #EnvHum
eseh.org/membership/h...
#EnvHist #EnvHum
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NEWS 📣 The CUP Element @draflint.bsky.social & I wrote on 'Outdoor Singing in Modern Britain: A Sensory and Emotional History' has been published & free to download here. Thanks to editorial team incl @boddice.bsky.social, reviewers and all who commented on WIP 🙏 www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Outdoor Singing in Modern Britain
Cambridge Core - History of Ideas and Intellectual History - Outdoor Singing in Modern Britain
www.cambridge.org
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 AM
NEWS 📣 The CUP Element @draflint.bsky.social & I wrote on 'Outdoor Singing in Modern Britain: A Sensory and Emotional History' has been published & free to download here. Thanks to editorial team incl @boddice.bsky.social, reviewers and all who commented on WIP 🙏 www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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The @greenhouseuis.net is slowly awaking from hibernation and is starting off the year with book talks by @issygapp.bsky.social and @kbruisch.bsky.social (as always online and open to all) and a special event to celebrate the Gad Rausing Prize 2025 awarded to @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social!
#envhum
#envhum
January 12, 2026 at 9:09 AM
The @greenhouseuis.net is slowly awaking from hibernation and is starting off the year with book talks by @issygapp.bsky.social and @kbruisch.bsky.social (as always online and open to all) and a special event to celebrate the Gad Rausing Prize 2025 awarded to @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social!
#envhum
#envhum
Oh yeah, I was shortlisted for this grant.
Delighted to have received a grant from a submerging writers foundation, which supports mid-career authors while they age, procrastinate and feel their early promise ebb away. Grants like this are essential to the production of unmarketable work of limited appeal.
January 8, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Oh yeah, I was shortlisted for this grant.
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If you've been thinking of buying Electric Wind, now would be a very good time - it's only £11.40 in the MUP sale!
HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎉
To celebrate the start of a new year, we are currently offering 40% OFF EVERY SINGLE BOOK on our website, until 31st January 2026.
Head to our website (link in bio) to shop now.
#booksky
To celebrate the start of a new year, we are currently offering 40% OFF EVERY SINGLE BOOK on our website, until 31st January 2026.
Head to our website (link in bio) to shop now.
#booksky
January 6, 2026 at 10:23 AM
If you've been thinking of buying Electric Wind, now would be a very good time - it's only £11.40 in the MUP sale!
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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...
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
January 5, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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We have an exciting lineup of @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talks for the spring. Mark your calendars now to join the talks live at 4pm Central European time on Mondays. All are welcome.
Here's what we have set for the first 5 talks.
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Here's what we have set for the first 5 talks.
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January 5, 2026 at 9:05 AM
We have an exciting lineup of @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talks for the spring. Mark your calendars now to join the talks live at 4pm Central European time on Mondays. All are welcome.
Here's what we have set for the first 5 talks.
👇
Here's what we have set for the first 5 talks.
👇
Today: back to work after a much-needed holiday. There’s writing to be done. Little travel planned for this semester and my teaching load is light.
January 5, 2026 at 7:31 AM
Today: back to work after a much-needed holiday. There’s writing to be done. Little travel planned for this semester and my teaching load is light.
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I willl start 2026 with a brief visit to Oslo. Come by if you have time. www.sv.uio.no/tik/english/...
Network gathering: Ghosts of Empire in the North Sea
- TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture
The Oil & Society network is happy to announce a visit from the University of Stavanger's research collective Ghosts of Empire in the North Sea. Three researchers will present their work on the North ...
www.sv.uio.no
January 2, 2026 at 1:09 PM
I willl start 2026 with a brief visit to Oslo. Come by if you have time. www.sv.uio.no/tik/english/...
The moon was big today.
January 2, 2026 at 4:13 PM
The moon was big today.
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Great news to start off 2026: Audio versions of all episodes of the Greenhouse #envhum book talks -- that's 188 episodes! -- are now available for you to listen to.
Audio feed you can subscribe to: newnatures.org/greenhouse/f...
(also available via many standard podcast listening services)
Audio feed you can subscribe to: newnatures.org/greenhouse/f...
(also available via many standard podcast listening services)
January 1, 2026 at 8:41 AM
Great news to start off 2026: Audio versions of all episodes of the Greenhouse #envhum book talks -- that's 188 episodes! -- are now available for you to listen to.
Audio feed you can subscribe to: newnatures.org/greenhouse/f...
(also available via many standard podcast listening services)
Audio feed you can subscribe to: newnatures.org/greenhouse/f...
(also available via many standard podcast listening services)
There’s much to think about here - the Norwegian National Library is releasing a large language model trained on their vast collection of Norwegian-language texts, for free, next year.
Hylgråt på avskjedsfest: – Vi har klart å få til noe som er helt unikt i verden - Altinget
Aslak Sira Myhre trodde det var en spøk da en kulturminister fra Høyre ville ha han som nasjonalbibliotekar. Nå slutter han like før Nasjonalbiblioteket lanserer en verdensnyhet.
www.altinget.no
December 30, 2025 at 6:51 PM
There’s much to think about here - the Norwegian National Library is releasing a large language model trained on their vast collection of Norwegian-language texts, for free, next year.
The Greenhouse Library and the hallway outside wrapped up like a Christmas present. If all goes to plan, we’ll get a new and non-leaky roof in January. And if it doesn’t to go according to plan … October?
December 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The Greenhouse Library and the hallway outside wrapped up like a Christmas present. If all goes to plan, we’ll get a new and non-leaky roof in January. And if it doesn’t to go according to plan … October?
The Christmas book pile is ambitious, but very very promising. And I have new reading/computer glasses that I need to test out properly, anything else would not take my workplace health and safety seriously.
December 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The Christmas book pile is ambitious, but very very promising. And I have new reading/computer glasses that I need to test out properly, anything else would not take my workplace health and safety seriously.
More like, "All done for the year!" Please don't send any more emails until January, I have worked hard for this.
December 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
More like, "All done for the year!" Please don't send any more emails until January, I have worked hard for this.
Today: «Litterære reiser til underlege øyar». At our colleague Magne Drangeid’s professor promotion lecture.
December 16, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Today: «Litterære reiser til underlege øyar». At our colleague Magne Drangeid’s professor promotion lecture.
If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.
December 16, 2025 at 6:11 AM
If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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Me har utlyst ei fast fyrsteamanuensisstilling i historie på UiS!
Vår nye kollega skal kome med kompetanse på moderne norsk og internasjonal historie, og her da særleg med politiske og økonomiske perspektivar.
Søknadsfristen er 14. januar 2026
Del gjerne!
www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...
Vår nye kollega skal kome med kompetanse på moderne norsk og internasjonal historie, og her da særleg med politiske og økonomiske perspektivar.
Søknadsfristen er 14. januar 2026
Del gjerne!
www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...
Førsteamanuensis i historie (290149) | Universitetet i Stavanger
Stillingstittel: Førsteamanuensis i historie (290149), Arbeidsgiver: Universitetet i Stavanger, Søknadsfrist: onsdag 14. januar 2026
www.jobbnorge.no
December 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Me har utlyst ei fast fyrsteamanuensisstilling i historie på UiS!
Vår nye kollega skal kome med kompetanse på moderne norsk og internasjonal historie, og her da særleg med politiske og økonomiske perspektivar.
Søknadsfristen er 14. januar 2026
Del gjerne!
www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...
Vår nye kollega skal kome med kompetanse på moderne norsk og internasjonal historie, og her da særleg med politiske og økonomiske perspektivar.
Søknadsfristen er 14. januar 2026
Del gjerne!
www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...
Finally this absolute beauty from @skeuomorphpress.org made it across the pond. The texture of the paper, the quality of the print, the colors, the weight, the smell - not to mention the content by @ursulakleguin.com - it’s a real inspiration.
December 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Finally this absolute beauty from @skeuomorphpress.org made it across the pond. The texture of the paper, the quality of the print, the colors, the weight, the smell - not to mention the content by @ursulakleguin.com - it’s a real inspiration.
Today: taught the last history master student seminar of the year with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social , talking about how to write with and about theory and method.
December 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Today: taught the last history master student seminar of the year with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social , talking about how to write with and about theory and method.
«Have we ever considered the potato as a gift, an aesthetic, a mood?»
A potato is for life, not just for Christmas | Emma Beddington
Yes, we love our roasties – but have we really explored the spud’s potential as a gift, an aesthetic, a mood, asks Guardian columnist Emma Beddington
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
«Have we ever considered the potato as a gift, an aesthetic, a mood?»