Simone Schleper 🟥
@moneschleper.bsky.social
Environmental historian, science scholar @Maastricht University, twin mom of three
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Who could have seen this coming?
Carbon capture was never the plan, it was the comfort blanket: “Don’t worry, we’ll fix it later".
A story to delay real cuts while drilling rolls on.
When the industry feels powerful & secure, the fairy tale goes back on the shelf.
Carbon capture was never the plan, it was the comfort blanket: “Don’t worry, we’ll fix it later".
A story to delay real cuts while drilling rolls on.
When the industry feels powerful & secure, the fairy tale goes back on the shelf.
Equinor pulling back CCS spending until market improves
Norwegian company is a CCS pioneer but markets are developing slower than expected
www.upstreamonline.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:44 AM
Who could have seen this coming?
Carbon capture was never the plan, it was the comfort blanket: “Don’t worry, we’ll fix it later".
A story to delay real cuts while drilling rolls on.
When the industry feels powerful & secure, the fairy tale goes back on the shelf.
Carbon capture was never the plan, it was the comfort blanket: “Don’t worry, we’ll fix it later".
A story to delay real cuts while drilling rolls on.
When the industry feels powerful & secure, the fairy tale goes back on the shelf.
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vorzugsweise nachgewiesen durch eine abgeschlossene Promotion. Bewerbungsfrist: 27.02.2026.
👉 Details: www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/stellenaussc...
#envirotech #envhist #histtech #histsci #envhum #sts
👉 Details: www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/stellenaussc...
#envirotech #envhist #histtech #histsci #envhum #sts
Stellenausschreibung I-550/25: Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in mit Lehrverpflichtung – Stellenausschreibungen der Technischen Universität Berlin
www.jobs.tu-berlin.de
February 11, 2026 at 1:50 PM
vorzugsweise nachgewiesen durch eine abgeschlossene Promotion. Bewerbungsfrist: 27.02.2026.
👉 Details: www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/stellenaussc...
#envirotech #envhist #histtech #histsci #envhum #sts
👉 Details: www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/stellenaussc...
#envirotech #envhist #histtech #histsci #envhum #sts
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📢 Spannende Stelle an der TU Berlin: Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in (E13, 100 %) im Berlin #Anthropocene Lab! Gesucht wird eine Person mit vertieften Kenntnissen der Forschungslandschaft und -debatten zum #Anthropozän in Umwelt- und Technikgeschichte, Env. Humanities, STS oder angrenzenden Bereichen, ...
February 11, 2026 at 1:50 PM
📢 Spannende Stelle an der TU Berlin: Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in (E13, 100 %) im Berlin #Anthropocene Lab! Gesucht wird eine Person mit vertieften Kenntnissen der Forschungslandschaft und -debatten zum #Anthropozän in Umwelt- und Technikgeschichte, Env. Humanities, STS oder angrenzenden Bereichen, ...
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Call for Contributions to a Sourcebook for Histories of Weather & Weathering teleskopos.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/c...
Full details linked and here teleskopos.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
It will be edited by me, @lottaleiwo.bsky.social and Tamara Culkins. Please share! #histSTM #envhist 🗃️📜
Full details linked and here teleskopos.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
It will be edited by me, @lottaleiwo.bsky.social and Tamara Culkins. Please share! #histSTM #envhist 🗃️📜
Call for Contributions: Histories of Weather & Weathering
Call for Contributions: A Sourcebook for Histories of Weather and Weathering (working title) Editors: Rebekah Higgitt, Tamara Caulkins and Lotta Leiwo We invite contributions to this planned open a…
teleskopos.wordpress.com
February 6, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Call for Contributions to a Sourcebook for Histories of Weather & Weathering teleskopos.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/c...
Full details linked and here teleskopos.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
It will be edited by me, @lottaleiwo.bsky.social and Tamara Culkins. Please share! #histSTM #envhist 🗃️📜
Full details linked and here teleskopos.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
It will be edited by me, @lottaleiwo.bsky.social and Tamara Culkins. Please share! #histSTM #envhist 🗃️📜
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I love watching the winter Olympics, but winter sports are an environmental catastrophe. So this article chimed with me. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
House of ice on a warming planet: Italy’s turn for the Olympics winter mirage
There will be twists, flips and turns to savour in a Games whose financial and environmental costs nonetheless continue to spiral out of control
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:52 PM
I love watching the winter Olympics, but winter sports are an environmental catastrophe. So this article chimed with me. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
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That suppressed report, a thread abt secrecy, military assessments, climate change and so forth.
New Conversation piece -
"A UK climate security report backed by the intelligence services was quietly buried – a pattern we’ve seen many times before"
theconversation.com/a-uk-climate...
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New Conversation piece -
"A UK climate security report backed by the intelligence services was quietly buried – a pattern we’ve seen many times before"
theconversation.com/a-uk-climate...
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A UK climate security report backed by the intelligence services was quietly buried – a pattern we’ve seen many times before
Governments have been warned about climate change for 70 years. They’re still suppressing the worst news.
theconversation.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:01 PM
That suppressed report, a thread abt secrecy, military assessments, climate change and so forth.
New Conversation piece -
"A UK climate security report backed by the intelligence services was quietly buried – a pattern we’ve seen many times before"
theconversation.com/a-uk-climate...
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New Conversation piece -
"A UK climate security report backed by the intelligence services was quietly buried – a pattern we’ve seen many times before"
theconversation.com/a-uk-climate...
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Quite important if you are relying on Google Books for teaching or research. Short-term snag or is it a hack? Just searched for 10 titles to no effect. #Skystorians
@thomasgermain.bsky.social Are you aware that Google Books has effectively stopped working - the material is still there, but all search functions no longer seem to work, making fresh access impossible. Can't find any reportage on this but it seems a major story with huge implications..
February 3, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Quite important if you are relying on Google Books for teaching or research. Short-term snag or is it a hack? Just searched for 10 titles to no effect. #Skystorians
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The optimist vs pessimist divide in #climate debates isn’t usually about the data.
It’s about how the same graphs are read, what people emphasise, what they discount, and how they interpret pace and stakes.
Here’s what I mean 🧵👇
It’s about how the same graphs are read, what people emphasise, what they discount, and how they interpret pace and stakes.
Here’s what I mean 🧵👇
January 30, 2026 at 8:06 AM
The optimist vs pessimist divide in #climate debates isn’t usually about the data.
It’s about how the same graphs are read, what people emphasise, what they discount, and how they interpret pace and stakes.
Here’s what I mean 🧵👇
It’s about how the same graphs are read, what people emphasise, what they discount, and how they interpret pace and stakes.
Here’s what I mean 🧵👇
From The Christian Science Monitor 1983
January 29, 2026 at 1:18 PM
From The Christian Science Monitor 1983
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It's cold outside and snowy, too! Is climate change a hoax?
Not at all. Winter still brings cold weather even as the planet warms.
In fact, warmer oceans + a rapidly warming Arctic can even increase the intensity of winter storms and heavy snowfall.
That's why I call it Global Weirding!
Not at all. Winter still brings cold weather even as the planet warms.
In fact, warmer oceans + a rapidly warming Arctic can even increase the intensity of winter storms and heavy snowfall.
That's why I call it Global Weirding!
Climate vs Weather | Global Weirding
YouTube video by Global Weirding with Katharine Hayhoe
www.youtube.com
January 25, 2026 at 8:41 PM
It's cold outside and snowy, too! Is climate change a hoax?
Not at all. Winter still brings cold weather even as the planet warms.
In fact, warmer oceans + a rapidly warming Arctic can even increase the intensity of winter storms and heavy snowfall.
That's why I call it Global Weirding!
Not at all. Winter still brings cold weather even as the planet warms.
In fact, warmer oceans + a rapidly warming Arctic can even increase the intensity of winter storms and heavy snowfall.
That's why I call it Global Weirding!
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Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot
It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:18 AM
Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Look at this little beauty...
January 23, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Look at this little beauty...
Have a look #histsci #historyofknowledge people !
The JHoK 2025 special issue "Knowledge and Power: Projecting the Modern World" is now out in full!
The issue is accompanied by the seven blog posts, where authors reflect on their articles and share a behind-the-scenes look at the research process.
📖 Happy reading!
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The issue is accompanied by the seven blog posts, where authors reflect on their articles and share a behind-the-scenes look at the research process.
📖 Happy reading!
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January 22, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Have a look #histsci #historyofknowledge people !
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And finally: Christine Keiner writes about how a chance find in Panama inspired her research on the so-called "Panatomic Canal" 👇
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From Chance Encounters to Fresh Insights: Serendipity at Work in Historical Research
Christine Keiner on how a chance find in Panama inspired her latest research on the unrealised “Panatomic Canal”.
blog.journalhistoryknowledge.org
January 19, 2026 at 11:08 AM
And finally: Christine Keiner writes about how a chance find in Panama inspired her research on the so-called "Panatomic Canal" 👇
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Next: Keith Pluymers writes about the quiet heroes who helped keep Philadelphia’s streets free of floods and filth in the eighteenth century 👇
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The Devil is in the Details: Fantastic Schemes and the Quiet Champions of Urban Infrastructure
Keith Pluymers on the quiet heroes working to keep Philadelphia’s streets free of floods and filth in the eighteenth century.
blog.journalhistoryknowledge.org
January 19, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Next: Keith Pluymers writes about the quiet heroes who helped keep Philadelphia’s streets free of floods and filth in the eighteenth century 👇
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Then: @whitmerkelly.bsky.social reflects on the ubiquitous category of the "project" in today's world, and what we can learn from attitudes in 18th-century Germany 👇
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What Makes a Project Good or Bad? Lessons from Early Eighteenth-Century Germany
Anyone who has ever written an academic project proposal will recognise the demands in this early 18th-century German work, writes Kelly J. Whitmer.
blog.journalhistoryknowledge.org
January 19, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Then: @whitmerkelly.bsky.social reflects on the ubiquitous category of the "project" in today's world, and what we can learn from attitudes in 18th-century Germany 👇
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Also: @williamcavert.bsky.social discusses "improvement" literature and the economy versus the people in 18th-century England 👇
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The Economy versus the People in Eighteenth-Century England
When did discussions of “the economy” begin, and why? William Cavert takes us to 18th-century England to explore the “improvement” literature of the time.
blog.journalhistoryknowledge.org
January 19, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Also: @williamcavert.bsky.social discusses "improvement" literature and the economy versus the people in 18th-century England 👇
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Next: Vera Keller writes about Great Designs, the paper power of projects and the vintage paperweight on her desk 👇
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The Paper Power of Projects: Great Designs and Making America “Great” Again
Like the vintage paperweight that sits on her desk, historiographical “Great Designs” are entombed in the amber of a particular moment, writes Vera Keller.
blog.journalhistoryknowledge.org
January 19, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Next: Vera Keller writes about Great Designs, the paper power of projects and the vintage paperweight on her desk 👇
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First up: guest editors Vera Keller, @tedmccormick.bsky.social & @whitmerkelly.bsky.social reflect on their chosen cover image for the special issue 👇
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Hatching Schemes in The School of Projects
The guest editors of 2025’s special issue on projects in the history of knowledge explore what an early 19th-century print tells us about the enduring features of projecting.
blog.journalhistoryknowledge.org
January 19, 2026 at 11:08 AM
First up: guest editors Vera Keller, @tedmccormick.bsky.social & @whitmerkelly.bsky.social reflect on their chosen cover image for the special issue 👇
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Also: Meagan Wierda tells us how the COVID-19 pandemic led her to a revealing nineteenth-century pamphlet 👇
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Echoes of Anti-Black Projects Across Time
Meagan Wierda on how the sudden closure of archives during the COVID-19 pandemic led her to a revealing nineteenth-century pamphlet.
blog.journalhistoryknowledge.org
January 19, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Also: Meagan Wierda tells us how the COVID-19 pandemic led her to a revealing nineteenth-century pamphlet 👇
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The JHoK 2025 special issue "Knowledge and Power: Projecting the Modern World" is now out in full!
The issue is accompanied by the seven blog posts, where authors reflect on their articles and share a behind-the-scenes look at the research process.
📖 Happy reading!
1/8
The issue is accompanied by the seven blog posts, where authors reflect on their articles and share a behind-the-scenes look at the research process.
📖 Happy reading!
1/8
January 19, 2026 at 11:08 AM
The JHoK 2025 special issue "Knowledge and Power: Projecting the Modern World" is now out in full!
The issue is accompanied by the seven blog posts, where authors reflect on their articles and share a behind-the-scenes look at the research process.
📖 Happy reading!
1/8
The issue is accompanied by the seven blog posts, where authors reflect on their articles and share a behind-the-scenes look at the research process.
📖 Happy reading!
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Favorite student evaluation of the year so far:
"most of the lectures were actually relevant and/or interesting"
I take that as a win 🥰 #studentevals
"most of the lectures were actually relevant and/or interesting"
I take that as a win 🥰 #studentevals
January 13, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Favorite student evaluation of the year so far:
"most of the lectures were actually relevant and/or interesting"
I take that as a win 🥰 #studentevals
"most of the lectures were actually relevant and/or interesting"
I take that as a win 🥰 #studentevals
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📣 We are pleased to announce the selection of the 2027 Special Issue, "The Making of Colonial Knowledge and its Afterlives in Dutch Universities", with guest editors Larissa Schulte Nordholt and Ligia Giay.
📚 Have a peek at the Issue's abstract: journalhistoryknowledge.org/announcement....
📚 Have a peek at the Issue's abstract: journalhistoryknowledge.org/announcement....
Selection of 2027 Special Issue
| Journal for the History of Knowledge
journalhistoryknowledge.org
January 9, 2026 at 12:27 PM
📣 We are pleased to announce the selection of the 2027 Special Issue, "The Making of Colonial Knowledge and its Afterlives in Dutch Universities", with guest editors Larissa Schulte Nordholt and Ligia Giay.
📚 Have a peek at the Issue's abstract: journalhistoryknowledge.org/announcement....
📚 Have a peek at the Issue's abstract: journalhistoryknowledge.org/announcement....
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ICYMI a summary of a recent chapter. read in combo w/ this 👇chapter (access it by downloading the entire OA volume) by @odinnmelsted.bsky.social + past & forthcoming work by @moneschleper.bsky.social to grasp what I'm calling the "Philanthropocene" ...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
January 8, 2026 at 12:54 PM
ICYMI a summary of a recent chapter. read in combo w/ this 👇chapter (access it by downloading the entire OA volume) by @odinnmelsted.bsky.social + past & forthcoming work by @moneschleper.bsky.social to grasp what I'm calling the "Philanthropocene" ...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...