Giacomo Parrinello
@parriblue.bsky.social
Environmental historian & associate prof. at Sciences Po Paris. First book on #disasters (https://shorturl.at/cXZBh) now writing on #rivers & growth in the Po Valley of Italy. All things #water & #climate, #envhist news, & adventures in daily life.
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🌊 River people: a #rivers feed is up and running! bsky.app/profile/did:...
It draws on a "River people" list that combines +++starting packs on rivers but filters only posts with "rivers" or "#rivers" in the text.
In other words: posts from many river communities all in one place! Thx for sharing
It draws on a "River people" list that combines +++starting packs on rivers but filters only posts with "rivers" or "#rivers" in the text.
In other words: posts from many river communities all in one place! Thx for sharing
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I’m glad to share that my MarieCurie Fellowship at the Centre d'Histoire de Sciences Po has officially started
The project “FluidBorder. Sharing the Lower Danube During the Cold War” investigates the complex relationship between Romania and Bulgaria along their shared Danube frontier.
The project “FluidBorder. Sharing the Lower Danube During the Cold War” investigates the complex relationship between Romania and Bulgaria along their shared Danube frontier.
November 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I’m glad to share that my MarieCurie Fellowship at the Centre d'Histoire de Sciences Po has officially started
The project “FluidBorder. Sharing the Lower Danube During the Cold War” investigates the complex relationship between Romania and Bulgaria along their shared Danube frontier.
The project “FluidBorder. Sharing the Lower Danube During the Cold War” investigates the complex relationship between Romania and Bulgaria along their shared Danube frontier.
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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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Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy.
"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."
"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."
March 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy.
"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."
"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."
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🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
February 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
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Alors que plus d’un quart de la population française est exposé au risque d’inondation par débordement des cours d’eau, plusieurs communes se sont lancées dans des projets qui fonctionnent (élargissement des lits des rivières, forages de voies sous la ville...) www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
Inondations : comment, en France, des villes ont réussi à mieux se protéger
Alors que plus d’un quart de la population française est exposé au risque d’inondation par débordement des cours d’eau, plusieurs communes se sont lancées dans des projets qui ont fait leurs preuves, ...
www.lemonde.fr
February 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Alors que plus d’un quart de la population française est exposé au risque d’inondation par débordement des cours d’eau, plusieurs communes se sont lancées dans des projets qui fonctionnent (élargissement des lits des rivières, forages de voies sous la ville...) www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
It's hard to pay attention to anything else than the epoch-making, unprecedented crisis of democracy in the United States, and what it might foretell about Europe. And makes it difficult to post about anything else...
February 7, 2025 at 9:02 AM
It's hard to pay attention to anything else than the epoch-making, unprecedented crisis of democracy in the United States, and what it might foretell about Europe. And makes it difficult to post about anything else...
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We live in the ✨ world of tomorrow ✨
January 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
We live in the ✨ world of tomorrow ✨
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#AAC J'ai la joie d'organiser avec Yaël Gagnepain une journée d'étude sur "les accaparements de l'eau au XIXe siècle" le 11 juin prochain. Les propositions sont à envoyer jusqu'au 1er mars. Vous retrouverez l'appel à communication sur le site du RUCHE : leruche.hypotheses.org/8326 #waterhistory
AAC – JE : Les accaparements de l’eau au XIXe siècle
Une journée d’étude sur “Les accaparements de l’eau au XIXe siècle” est organisée à l’ENS (Paris) par Emilie Pasquier et Yaël Gagnepain le 11 juin 2025. L’appel à communication peut être téléchargé ic...
leruche.hypotheses.org
January 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
#AAC J'ai la joie d'organiser avec Yaël Gagnepain une journée d'étude sur "les accaparements de l'eau au XIXe siècle" le 11 juin prochain. Les propositions sont à envoyer jusqu'au 1er mars. Vous retrouverez l'appel à communication sur le site du RUCHE : leruche.hypotheses.org/8326 #waterhistory
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#callforpapers I am pleased to organize, together with Yaël Gagnepain, a workshop on "Water Grabbing in the 19th Century" on June 11th 2025. Proposals should be submitted by March 1st. More information here: ihmc.ens.psl.eu/accaparement... #waterhistory #envhist 💧
[AAC] Les accaparements de l’eau au xixe siècle - IHMC
Journée d'études organisée le 11 Juin 2024 à l'ENS-PSL (salle du CERES – E045, 24 rue Lhomond Paris 5e) Date limite d'envoi : 1er mars 2024
ihmc.ens.psl.eu
January 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
#callforpapers I am pleased to organize, together with Yaël Gagnepain, a workshop on "Water Grabbing in the 19th Century" on June 11th 2025. Proposals should be submitted by March 1st. More information here: ihmc.ens.psl.eu/accaparement... #waterhistory #envhist 💧
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There are vast, complex worlds in every cubic centimeter of freshwater streams. From a new book project on stream and smaller environments. #rivers #streams #ecology #microbiology #biologyteacher
January 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
There are vast, complex worlds in every cubic centimeter of freshwater streams. From a new book project on stream and smaller environments. #rivers #streams #ecology #microbiology #biologyteacher
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A complex view, but then so is the reality. Recent research on stream ecosystems shows that trout and other top stream predators get as much as 50% of their summer and autumn food from terrestrial insects that blunder into streams. #rivers #streams #freshwater #ecology
January 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A complex view, but then so is the reality. Recent research on stream ecosystems shows that trout and other top stream predators get as much as 50% of their summer and autumn food from terrestrial insects that blunder into streams. #rivers #streams #freshwater #ecology
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Genuine q. for #rivers & #water folks in the social sciences: is there a (sub)field focusing on rivers in your discipline?
Is there a river sociology, a river political science, or a river anthropology?
There is definitely a river history, with published states of the art, that's why I ask.
Is there a river sociology, a river political science, or a river anthropology?
There is definitely a river history, with published states of the art, that's why I ask.
January 9, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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But considering the last ten years, I would say that we are going in the direction of an anthropology of rivers. Coincidentally, Henk Driessen wrote a chapter about that ('Towards an Ethnography of Rivers').
January 9, 2025 at 9:55 AM
But considering the last ten years, I would say that we are going in the direction of an anthropology of rivers. Coincidentally, Henk Driessen wrote a chapter about that ('Towards an Ethnography of Rivers').
Genuine q. for #rivers & #water folks in the social sciences: is there a (sub)field focusing on rivers in your discipline?
Is there a river sociology, a river political science, or a river anthropology?
There is definitely a river history, with published states of the art, that's why I ask.
Is there a river sociology, a river political science, or a river anthropology?
There is definitely a river history, with published states of the art, that's why I ask.
January 9, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Thanks to my brother, I am starting ‘25 by re-reading Dante’s Inferno, (last read for Italian Lit exam in ‘02! 😱)
It’s really incredible. And in this time of triumphing evil, Dante’s (a)moral landscape reads so timely.
You can easily place so many present-day characters in his inferno!
It’s really incredible. And in this time of triumphing evil, Dante’s (a)moral landscape reads so timely.
You can easily place so many present-day characters in his inferno!
January 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Thanks to my brother, I am starting ‘25 by re-reading Dante’s Inferno, (last read for Italian Lit exam in ‘02! 😱)
It’s really incredible. And in this time of triumphing evil, Dante’s (a)moral landscape reads so timely.
You can easily place so many present-day characters in his inferno!
It’s really incredible. And in this time of triumphing evil, Dante’s (a)moral landscape reads so timely.
You can easily place so many present-day characters in his inferno!
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Isn't it crazy how much the Mississippi River has changed in the last two centuries? Check out this graphic on sediment dynamics. #rivers
January 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Isn't it crazy how much the Mississippi River has changed in the last two centuries? Check out this graphic on sediment dynamics. #rivers
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The Eco Jurisprudence monitor is a fascinating & hopeful resource: an interactive database of Earth-centred legal initiatives (eg river-rights) as their number & consequences grow & grow.
Cartography as imagining otherwise; a glimpse of a geography of hope.
Here: ecojurisprudence.org/dashboard/?m...
Cartography as imagining otherwise; a glimpse of a geography of hope.
Here: ecojurisprudence.org/dashboard/?m...
January 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The Eco Jurisprudence monitor is a fascinating & hopeful resource: an interactive database of Earth-centred legal initiatives (eg river-rights) as their number & consequences grow & grow.
Cartography as imagining otherwise; a glimpse of a geography of hope.
Here: ecojurisprudence.org/dashboard/?m...
Cartography as imagining otherwise; a glimpse of a geography of hope.
Here: ecojurisprudence.org/dashboard/?m...
Xmas gifts! 🍊🌳
December 22, 2024 at 9:57 AM
Xmas gifts! 🍊🌳
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🎉 New Paper Alert! ✨
“Plastic as a Sediment: A universal and objective practical solution…”
Now we can assess plastic as a sediment and better understand the relationship of its physical properties with its environmental distribution! ✨It’s so exciting!✨
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“Plastic as a Sediment: A universal and objective practical solution…”
Now we can assess plastic as a sediment and better understand the relationship of its physical properties with its environmental distribution! ✨It’s so exciting!✨
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 19, 2024 at 8:14 AM
🎉 New Paper Alert! ✨
“Plastic as a Sediment: A universal and objective practical solution…”
Now we can assess plastic as a sediment and better understand the relationship of its physical properties with its environmental distribution! ✨It’s so exciting!✨
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“Plastic as a Sediment: A universal and objective practical solution…”
Now we can assess plastic as a sediment and better understand the relationship of its physical properties with its environmental distribution! ✨It’s so exciting!✨
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New Open Access book on the Brahmaputra and Yangzi rivers by a multidisciplinary team of 8.
The book focuses on the upper reaches of these rivers and combines physical and social science approaches, as well as deep and historical time scales.
It looks promising! Another one for the reading list...
The book focuses on the upper reaches of these rivers and combines physical and social science approaches, as well as deep and historical time scales.
It looks promising! Another one for the reading list...
Rivers of the Asian Highlands | From Deep Time to the Climate Crisis |
Rivers of the Asian Highlands introduces readers to the intersecting headwaters of Asia’s eight largest rivers, focusing on the upper reaches of two river
www.taylorfrancis.com
December 18, 2024 at 9:35 AM
New Open Access book on the Brahmaputra and Yangzi rivers by a multidisciplinary team of 8.
The book focuses on the upper reaches of these rivers and combines physical and social science approaches, as well as deep and historical time scales.
It looks promising! Another one for the reading list...
The book focuses on the upper reaches of these rivers and combines physical and social science approaches, as well as deep and historical time scales.
It looks promising! Another one for the reading list...
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Upcoming talk “Making, Dispossessing, and Protecting Watersheds in 20th-century Taiwan” by Dr. John Kanbayashi
More info: www.ioe.sinica.edu.tw/content/Even...
#envhist
#Taiwan
More info: www.ioe.sinica.edu.tw/content/Even...
#envhist
#Taiwan
December 16, 2024 at 1:22 PM
Upcoming talk “Making, Dispossessing, and Protecting Watersheds in 20th-century Taiwan” by Dr. John Kanbayashi
More info: www.ioe.sinica.edu.tw/content/Even...
#envhist
#Taiwan
More info: www.ioe.sinica.edu.tw/content/Even...
#envhist
#Taiwan
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Wild #river news—a global survey looking at 3 million rivers over the past 35 years shows the annual flow of water dropped in 44% of the world’s largest downstream rivers while many headwater streams grew. The impact on everything from sediment to irrigation are vast
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
More flow upstream and less flow downstream: The changing form and function of global rivers
We mapped daily streamflow from 1984 to 2018 in approximately 2.9 million rivers to assess recent changes to global river systems. We found that river outlets were dominated by significant decreases i...
www.science.org
December 14, 2024 at 8:54 AM
Wild #river news—a global survey looking at 3 million rivers over the past 35 years shows the annual flow of water dropped in 44% of the world’s largest downstream rivers while many headwater streams grew. The impact on everything from sediment to irrigation are vast
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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One for #rivers & 🏺🦣
Possible research themes include: "How archive and library collections can be used to examine changing landscapes, waterways,
climates and ecologies – including anthropogenic impacts, human-animal relations; human
geography."
Possible research themes include: "How archive and library collections can be used to examine changing landscapes, waterways,
climates and ecologies – including anthropogenic impacts, human-animal relations; human
geography."
A great four-month opportunity for post-doctoral research on sustainability and the environment at the British Library. Deadline: 7th Jan 25 🎓📖
It’s aimed at ECRs working in the arts, humanities or social sciences 🙂
www.bl.uk/more/researc...
It’s aimed at ECRs working in the arts, humanities or social sciences 🙂
www.bl.uk/more/researc...
December 12, 2024 at 8:52 AM
One for #rivers & 🏺🦣
Possible research themes include: "How archive and library collections can be used to examine changing landscapes, waterways,
climates and ecologies – including anthropogenic impacts, human-animal relations; human
geography."
Possible research themes include: "How archive and library collections can be used to examine changing landscapes, waterways,
climates and ecologies – including anthropogenic impacts, human-animal relations; human
geography."