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Robert Groß
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Human ecologist by training, environmental and energy historian by doing @univie.ac.at‬

URL: https://robertgross.org/
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Cover reveal for my book, Transforming Night: The History and Science of Light Pollution (University of Washington Press, forthcoming July 2026). Cover is a photograph of Hong Kong at night with trees in immediate foreground, bright urban nightscape, and skyglow bleeding into black-ish night.
November 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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the reason I am taking part in an event titled "Early Career Scholars in Environmental History: Panel Discussion and Book Presentation" is that I wrote a piece for the book that is being presented: "Umwelt–Technik-Wissen: Verflechtungen vom 18.
Jahrhundert bis heute" (Transcript, 2025). It is in […]
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November 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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I'll be talking (briefly) about the #envhist of knowledge at the next ESEH Environmental History Today webinar on December 10

https://hcommons.social/@eseh/115606794178275094
ESEH (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image The Environmental History Today Series continues on December 10 at 16:00 CET with "Early Career Scholars in Environmental History: Panel Discussion and Book Presentation" Full details are available at: http://eseh.org/envhistoday-webinars/environmental-history-today-webinars-2025/ #envhist #DACH #histodons #histodonDE
hcommons.social
November 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
robertgro5.bsky.social
Are you an early-career environmental historian or interested in the challenges aspiring environmental historians face? Join our panel discussion with
@askehn.bsky.social @kathiescharf.bsky.social @tidetales.bsky.social and @wilkohardenberg.bsky.social et al., hosted by @eseh.bsky.social #envhist
November 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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elangthaler.bsky.social
"Das Anthropozän als Ereignis" - das ist Thema der Konferenz der Doctoral School PhilKult der @univie.ac.at am 27. und 28.11.2025 in Wien. Ich darf am ersten Tag um 18 h eine Keynote geben (Livestream: univienna.zoom.us/j/6457951400...). Ich freue mich auf die Diskussion!

#anthropocene #soyfacts
November 24, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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hsozkultservice.bsky.social
Job: 0,65 Doktorand:in (w/m/d) "Auto(im)mobile Infrastructures in West Germany and Western Europe in the Great Acceleration" (Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung (IRS), Erkner)

https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-158960

Erkner, 01.02.2026-31.01.2029, Leibniz-Institut für …
www.hsozkult.de
November 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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mmeiske.bsky.social
"Umwelt - Technik - Wissen" - Ein großartiges Gemeinschafts- und Verflechtungsprojekt mit jungen Autor:innen aus der ganzen DACH-Region! Herzlichen Dank an alle Beteiligten und viel Spaß bei der Lektüre (Open Access)! #envhist #histtech #histsci #envirotech www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
Umwelt – Technik – Wissen
Junge Forschung aus der Umweltgeschichte: warum Umwelt, Technik und Wissen als Triebfedern der Gesellschaft gelten.
www.transcript-verlag.de
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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kthlibrary.bsky.social
A #booktip for a cold november weekend:
"The nuclear-water nexus" edited by @perhogselius.bsky.social and @siegfriedevens.bsky.social

In the book 25 authors investigate how access to water has shaped the atomic age in fundamental ways.

Published as #Openaccess at @mitpress.bsky.social
The Nuclear-Water Nexus
An edited collection that takes a deep dive into the complex interactions between nuclear energy and water.Splitting atoms is a water-intensive business. T
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November 21, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
We want you to study with us!
Our masters program in Public Environmental Humanities starts Fall 2026. This is a very special program that brings together research with taking research into public sphere.

Next online info session: Thurs 21 Nov 14.00 CET

www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
#envhum
Poster about the Masters in Environmental Humanities at Univ of Stavanger Our 2-year masters program in beautiful Stavanger, Norway, invites you to study today's environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history. Key aspects: • Combine critical thinking with hands-on engagement • Work across humanities fields • Put learning into action through an internship • Taught entirely in English • Free tuition for students from EU/EEA/Switzerland and affordable for others If you believe community-engaged humanities can help build a more sustainable future, this is the place to start. GET MORE INFO & APPLY FOR FALL 2026 Questions? Email PEH@uis.no
November 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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scarcerc.bsky.social
✨For our second talk in this semester’s colloquium series, @mininghistory.bsky.social will present “Mining the Past: What is the role of historians in the mining industry?”⛏️📜

📅 Date: November 24, 2025

⏰ Time: 3:00–4:30 PM CET

Learn more and register: bit.ly/MiningThePast

#histSci
Mining the Past: What is the role of historians in the mining industry?
SCARCE Colloquium Speaker: Duncan Money (Independent scholar) University of Vienna Hybrid Event
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November 17, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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hsozkult.bsky.social
CFP: Environments and Societies at the Crossroads

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158732

Berkeley, 16.11.2026-17.11.2026, Pacific Office at UC Berkeley, German Historical Institute Washington, Bewerbungsschluss: 16.01.2026
www.hsozkult.de
November 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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paolocrosetto.bsky.social
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.

It's *scientific publishing*.

We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...

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November 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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kbruisch.bsky.social
🔔 Admissions are open for the M.Phil in Environmental History at Trinity College Dublin. Come and join us - or recommend our course to your students! #envhist #skystorians

More info here 👇
www.tcd.ie/courses/post...
Screenshot of the admissions website of the Environmental History M.Phil at Trinity College Dublin
November 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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danbrockington.bsky.social
Profits from scientific publishing are eye-watering, costing us billions. In ‘The Drain of Scientific Publishing’ (arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820), (building on ‘The Strain of Scientific Publishing’ doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00327) we show how it is harmful – and unnecessary.
The Drain of Scientific Publishing
The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and ...
arxiv.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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krekberg.bsky.social
Nordic scholars. Join us at NESS, Submit your abstracts on climate obstruction here

@cssn.org
@carsoncenter.bsky.social
@environmentalpol.bsky.social
krekberg.bsky.social Kristoffer Ekberg @krekberg.bsky.social · Oct 24
Next year, Tero Toivanen and I are organizing a workshop for the Nordic Environmental Social Science conference on questions of how we understand climate obstruction / opposition! Submit your idea to the workshop 14 over here:
Workshops - Uppsala University
www.uu.se
November 7, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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kaltenbrunnera.bsky.social
Ein Lieblingsprojekt (wieder) online. www.arbeiterzeitung.at Mehr als 200.000 Zeitungsseiten von 1945 - 1989 digital offen. Mit Volltextsuche von Politik bis Sport. Von 2004 bis 2021 gab es 2 Millionen Recherche-Cases. (Leider) weiterhin die einzige derartige zeitgeschichtliche Primärquelle.
Startseite | Archiv der Arbeiter-Zeitung
www.arbeiterzeitung.at
November 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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carsoncenter.bsky.social
To what extent did the unveiling of gas leaks “scale up” a Romanian technical problem into an EU environmental issue? Read the latest 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢 article by Ariane Desroches-Touchain to find out! #envhum #envhist
Making Methane Visible: From Local Leaks to EU Regulation
To what extent did the unveiling of gas leaks “scale up” a Romanian technical problem into an EU environmental issue?
www.environmentandsociety.org
November 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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botstiberinstitute.bsky.social
The Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies is now accepting grant proposals up to $25,000 for research and projects that promote an understanding of the historic relationship between the United States and Austria.

Deadline: March 31, 2026

botstiberbiaas.org/grants/resea...
Research & Project Grants | The Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies
The BIAAS seeks grant proposals for research or projects aimed at promoting an understanding of the historic relationship between the United States and Austria, including Habsburg Austria.
botstiberbiaas.org
October 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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haushoferl.bsky.social
This one’s for you writers - for November, a colleague and I are organizing short (30min) online morning writing sessions- just a quick (5min) writing prompt/warmup and then 20 min free writing time. From Mon-Thu 8.30-9 am CET (sorry US/Canada friends!). Message if you’d like to join. #AcWriMo
kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter .
Alt: kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter .
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November 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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The Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English.

Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues!

Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
Poster for Masters in Public Environmental Humanities. Our 2-year masters program in beautiful Stavanger, Norway, invites you to study today's environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history. Key aspects: • Combine critical thinking with hands-on engagement • Work across humanities fields • Put learning into action through an internship • Taught entirely in English • Free tuition for students from EU/EEA/Switzerland and affordable for others If you believe community-engaged humanities can help build a more sustainable future, this is the place to start. GET MORE INFO & APPLY FOR FALL 2026 Questions? Email PEH@uis.no
October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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for my seminar "Cultures of the Environment" I am working towards student spending a session mapping an #environment of their choice, as a way to kickstart discussion about selective #representation and #mapping as #environing. Does anybody have suggestions for a reading to assign to students […]
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November 2, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Passend zur nahenden Saisoneröffnung durften die großartige Edith Hessenberger und ich ein wenig über unsere Forschung zum alpinen Wintertourismus plaudern: //topos.orf.at/truestories-macpherson100?didomiConfig.notice.enable=false
Die Beschleunigung des Alpentourismus - ORF Topos
Nach 1945 begann der Tourismus in den Alpen zu boomen und wurde identitätsstiftend für Österreich. Während viele Bergregionen zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts mit Armut und Abwanderung zu kämpfen hatten...
topos.orf.at
November 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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elisabeth-piller.bsky.social
I m advertising a PhD position as part of our ERC project BLOCKADE. The PhD cand. should focus on myth/narratives of the hunger blockade in Germany, Austria in the era of the World Wars. 4 years of funding, wonderful team, amazing city (evidence attached)! Pls share! www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...
October 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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levkeharders.bsky.social
Great #JobOffer in #History at #UniInnsbruck in the ASTRA-Projekt “Provincializing #Coloniality. A Global History of Twentieth Century Tyrol”. One #PostDoc position and two doctoral postitions. Deadline is November 25, 2025:
www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...
1 Postdoc + 2x 0,75 Dissertationsstellen "Provincializing Coloniality. A Global History of Twentieth Century Tyrol" (Univ. Innsbruck)
1 Postdoc + 2 Doc Stellen im Forschungsprojekt "Provincializing Coloniality. A Global History of Twentieth Century Tyrol" (Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Universität Innsbruck)
www.hsozkult.de
October 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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conteurohistory.bsky.social
📣 New Voices continues with a blog from Rosie Charles, @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social.

Rosie's blog explores superphosphate manufacturing by the British and French empires, charting the impact of fertiliser production on imperial expansion and agricultural practices.

www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
Empire in the Soil: Superphosphate and the British and French Imperial Manufacture, 1914-1937 « History# « Cambridge Core Blog
The history of European imperial agriculture has often been told through the lens of technological innovation, such as the development of the agricultural automotive industry or the application of adv...
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October 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM