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Gustav Holmberg @gustavholmberg.bsky.social · Aug 5

Bra Streckare av @perhogselius.bsky.social : www.svd.se/a/QMVyLJ/vat...

Vatten – en knapp och farlig resurs | Per Högselius

Människor behöver dricka 1–2 liter vatten om dagen, men svensken gör av med runt 200 liter. Hur ska man förstå denna överkonsumtion?

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Aske Hennelund Nielsen @askehn.bsky.social · Dec 5

Mine and Maria Rentetzi’s new article „Radium Boxes“ on the early history of the transport of radioactive materials has just been published in the Medical Research Archives journal! This one was very fun to write and I am really happy with how it turned out! #histtech #histsci #histstm #nukesky

Radium Boxes: On the Early History of the Transportation of Radioactive materials | Medical Research Archives

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · Jul 1

In "The Nuclear-Water Nexus," @perhogselius.bsky.social & Siegfried Evens bring together contributors from around the world to take a deep dive into the complex interactions between nuclear energy and water. Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255228...

"The Nuclear-Water Nexus" on a plain background. In the top half of the cover is an image of two cooling plants by a body of water. Their reflection is mirrored in the bottom half of the cover.

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Per Högselius @perhogselius.bsky.social · Apr 29

Coming soon! Stay tuned for a dark and uncomfortable tale: "Neutrality's Empire: Swedish Colonialism in the Industrial Age"
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Hogsel...
Written together with my brilliant co-authors David Nilsson and Hanna Vikström, with a bonus chapter by Karl Bruno.

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Kristoffer Ekberg @krekberg.bsky.social · Apr 14

"Med andra ord: globalt sett har inget bränsle någonsin ersatts av något annat. I stället har utnyttjandet av samtliga energikällor fortsatt att öka från 1800-talet och fram till i dag."

Riktigt sugen på Fressoz bok: More and More and More. Här diskuterad av @perhogselius.bsky.social

Kruxet med den gröna omställningen | Per Högselius

Klimataktivister, politiker, forskare och till och med oljebolagen verkar överens om en sak: vi bör eftersträva energiomställning. Men bakom föreställningen om en sådan övergång från gamla till nya en...

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · Mar 26

#EDF stake in Sizewell C new #nuclear 16.2%, UK govt 83.8%.
"EDF CEO just axed and its financial stability in question." "Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C costs ramp and timelines slip."
"Fundamental questions about the wisdom of proceeding with Sizewell C."
www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/edf-r...

EDF reduces stake in Sizewell C as boss sacked | New Civil Engineer

The UK’s flagship gigawatt-scale new nuclear projects under construction – Hinkley Point C in Somerset and Sizewell C in Suffolk – are both subject to

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Mats Widgren @matswidgren.bsky.social · Mar 25

The Kakhovka dam was like a large inland sea (photo from Smiivka/ Gammalsvenskby 2017). Bombed by the Russians on June 6th 2023. Now the UNCG report is pubilshed: Destruction of the Kakhovka Reservoir: Environmental Consequences (in Ukrainian). uncg-org-ua.translate.goog/znyshhennya-...

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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · Mar 25

Join us for the first online seminar on doing Anthropocene History with Gabrielle Dürbeck, this Thursday at 15.30.

@anthropocenekth.bsky.social
#envhist #envhum #anthropocene

www.kth.se/anthropocene...

Doing Anthropocene History #1: Natural-Cultural Memory in the Anthropocene – theoretical reflections and examples in contemporary narratives | KTH

Join us for the first session in our Doing Anthropocene History seminar series for 2025 with Gabriele Dürbeck.

www.kth.se

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Per Högselius @perhogselius.bsky.social · Mar 14

We have a cover! Our edited volume "The Nuclear-Water Nexus" will be out in July, with MIT Press. 25 brilliant authors at home in 11 countries made this possible!
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255228...

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Per Högselius @perhogselius.bsky.social · Feb 25

Spent half the day in the old reactor hall R1 at KTH, for SVT's recording of an upcoming documentary series on Swedish nuclear power. Hope that I didn't make a bigger fool of myself than necessary...

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Per Högselius @perhogselius.bsky.social · Feb 18

Deadline approaching, 21 Feb! We're hiring two assistant professors in Anthropocene History here at KTH.
www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/...

KTH | Assistant professor in in History of Science with a specialization in Anthropocene History

KTH jobs is where you search for jobs at www.kth.se.

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Per Högselius @perhogselius.bsky.social · Feb 12

Ser fram emot att hålla en liten populärvetenskaplig föreläsning på KTH imorgon torsdag kl. 12.10-12.55: Svensk teknikhistoria i ett KTH-perspektiv!
intra.kth.se/aktuellt/kal...

Svensk teknikhistoria i ett KTH-perspektiv | KTH Intranät

Med start den 13 februari 2025 erbjuds en föreläsningsserie i populärvetenskapligt format om KTH:s snart 200-åriga historia. Under sex föreläsningar erbjuds deltagarna en inblick i KTH:s historia, ark...

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · Dec 21

French #nuclear reactor joins grid after €13bn holdup and a dozen costly years of technical setbacks, 12 years behind schedule after a slew of delays and cost overruns. Cost, estimated at €3.3 billion, ballooned to over €13 billion.

www.rfi.fr/en/france/20...

France's most powerful nuclear reactor joins grid after €13bn holdup

France's flagship Flamanville nuclear reactor in Normandy was to start supplying electricity to homes on Friday when it's reconnected to the power grid after a dozen costly years of technical setbacks...

www.rfi.fr

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · Dec 17

1 PhD position (3 years) in the research project “Toxic Heritage: Socio-natural Landscapes of Extraction and Pollution in the Harz and Cornwall” at the German #mining Museum Bochum: Leibniz Research Museum for Georesources w Tina Asmussen

#envhist

👇

karriere.bergbaumuseum.de/jobposting/2...

72.2024 1 PhD position (m/f/d) for 3 years in the research project “Toxic Heritage: Socio-natural Landscapes of Extraction and Pollution in the Harz and Cornwall”

karriere.bergbaumuseum.de

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ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social · Dec 17

Don't miss our #EnvHist 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬! Here are the calls:

1. St Andrews Book Prize
eseh.org/call-eseh-20...

2. Turku Book Award
eseh.org/awards-and-g...

3. Tallinn Dissertation Prize
eseh.org/call-for-sub...

4. Bristol-Bern Prize in Public Environmental History
eseh.org/call-eseh-20...

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Per Högselius @perhogselius.bsky.social · Dec 9

My belated congratulations Robert, I saw this fantastic news just now. Will be exciting to follow this project over the next few years!

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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · Dec 9

We have posted two tenured positions as assistant professor in #Anthropocene history at our centre, please help share widely:
www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/...

www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/...
One is in #envhist and one is in history of science.

KTH | Assistant professor in Environmental History with a specialization in Anthropocene History

KTH jobs is where you search for jobs at www.kth.se.

www.kth.se

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Per Högselius @perhogselius.bsky.social · Dec 8

We have a new exciting call for a doctoral student here at KTH. The PhD position is well funded and will be linked to a project on the environmental history of Stockholm during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, led by my fabulous colleague Rob Gioielli.
www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/...

KTH | Doctoral student in History of Science, Technology and Environment

KTH jobs is where you search for jobs at www.kth.se.

www.kth.se

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Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social · Dec 7

A chapter from the recently published Chinese anthology "Law, Knowledge, and Power in the Age of Empire," providing some critical reflections on the use and analysis of historical archives in the field of Chinese (legal) history. t.cn/A6mCvA2N

方法｜陈利：“隐形档案”与史料深挖四步法

最近二三十年间, 欧美的人文社会科学研究领域中形成了一个所谓“档案转向” (archival turn) 的学术潮流。

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Honghong Tinn @honghongtinn.bsky.social · Dec 7

My book will be available for purchase on January 7, 2025. For readers with a US mailing address, below is a discount code for 30% off on publication day via Penguin Random House. (shorturl.at/wGwwo)

PUBDAY30

Please save the date! More on the discount code: shorturl.at/oXuGh
@mitpress.bsky.social

Island Tinkerers by Honghong Tinn: 9780262549387 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

How Taiwan rose to global prominence in high tech manufacturing, from computer maker to the world’s leading chip manufacturer. How did Taiwan, a former Japanese colony and the last fortress of the...

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Sonja Boon @storiedselves.bsky.social · Dec 6

NEW BLOG POST (I'm on a roll this week, but there probably won't be another for several weeks, now): beached; or playing with water and rocks.

www.storiedselves.ca/blog/8020ez8...

#erosion #tides

beached — storied selves

I started my writing residency week deep in the ocean, writing shipwrecks and coordinates, fathoms deep. But now, after five days of wandering and dreaming and thinking and writing, I’m beached, thi...

www.storiedselves.ca

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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · Dec 6

ECOCIDE IS OFFICIALLY DEAD!!! The latest issue of the American Historical Review includes our massive article on Easter Island. It's part of a special issue on Histories of Resilience, with several articles focused on environmental history, Indigenous peoples, and the Global South. #envhist #histsci

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Per Högselius @perhogselius.bsky.social · Dec 5

Spotted today in a Stockholm suburb!

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Per Högselius @perhogselius.bsky.social · Dec 5

Very nice piece on a surprising topic: pre-WWII transports of radioactive materials! Give us more of this, Aske!

Aske Hennelund Nielsen @askehn.bsky.social · Dec 5

Mine and Maria Rentetzi’s new article „Radium Boxes“ on the early history of the transport of radioactive materials has just been published in the Medical Research Archives journal! This one was very fun to write and I am really happy with how it turned out! #histtech #histsci #histstm #nukesky

Radium Boxes: On the Early History of the Transportation of Radioactive materials | Medical Research Archives

doi.org

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Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social · Dec 5

I have spent a day or so updating and fixing broken links on this list of archives of post-war UK scientists and engineers

If you know of more, let me know and I will add them

blogs.ucl.ac.uk/sts-observat...

UK archives of post-war science and engineering – notes towards a list | UCL STS Observatory

UCL Homepage

blogs.ucl.ac.uk

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"I hear the jury's still out on science" @robgioielli.bsky.social · Nov 19

Excited that Timothy Mitchell will be joining us at the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory in a few weeks! Register to join us if you are in Stockholm.
www.kth.se/ehl/ehl-even...

Stockholm Archipelago Lecture Series

The Archipelago Lecture Series has been a flagship event, inauguring every year the EHL’s public academic activities. Inspired by the variety of the islands making up the Stockholm Archipelago, the EH...

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Katie Ritson @untamed.bsky.social · Dec 4

New special issue on the sea in #Scandinavian literature! 🌊 Edited by me & Frederike Felcht. The landing page is in German, but about half of the contributions are in English. www.nordeuropaforum.de #Litwiss #envhum It's open access, so you can plunge right in...

Photo of the view out to sea from a rocky island in Norway.

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · Dec 4

Here's another interesting open-access book: 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯–𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 by Carina Keskitalo. Read it and many other titles on our Environment & Society Portal. #envhum #envhist

Frontier Thinking and Human–Nature Relations: We Were Never Western

Combining historical, social and regulative analysis, this book builds a critique of “frontier thinking” as it continues to form our assumptions about social and environmental organisation.

www.environmentandsociety.org

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Jim Clifford @jimclifford.bsky.social · Dec 3

Listening to How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr. I’m learning a lot as I don’t read enough American global history.

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · Dec 3

New open access book by Elena Kochetkova: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮: 𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘥, 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘵 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘌𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺. Read it on our Environment & Society Portal! #EnvHist

The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology

Full text of Elena Kochetkova’s The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology, a book on the relationship between nature and humans under state soc...

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