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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 4h

Soooooo much this. We have to lean on each other.

Joel Mathis @joelmathis.bsky.social · 4h

Everybody is struggling.

Be kind. To them. To yourself.

And them be kind some more.

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Environmental History Now @envhistnow.bsky.social · 14h

Latest piece out today from Adrienne Brown; a safety briefing for research in #envhist #envhum envhistnow.com/2025/10/07/p...

Pre-Flight Safety Briefing: Researching the Environment in the U.S. without Being Detained at the Border

It is a turbulent time to be an international scholar in the United States: So before you embark on your next trip to the U.S., let’s make sure you are ready for take-off.

envhistnow.com

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 4h

Merle! Good to see you, this is wonderful news - congratulations!

Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 10h

Yeah, I used to write letters. Nowadays it’s just emails and messages. We need to bring it back. Like vinyl records but for distance communication.

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 11h

They seem to take them seriously, yes!

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 11h

Stamp art in my hotel. Looking forward to exploring the Belval campus tomorrow - once Luxembourg’s largest steelworks, now a university campus. Our #energylives session will make use of the site, sending people out on sensory energy walks.

Poster with enlarged postal stamp motive of industrial facility, steelworks. Quite sublime for those of us who are into that sort of thing (I am!)

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 15h

If any #histtech colleagues are in Esch-Sur-Alzette for #shot2025 and would like to grab dinner and/or a drink tonight, let me know!

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

2 doctoral positions on the '(Dis)Empowered Communities: A Comparative Study of Decommissioning Nuclear Sites' project led by Davide Orsini at the @carsoncenter.bsky.social

Deadline: 30 November

#histtech #envhist #energyhistory #nuclearhistory

www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_rcc/jo...

Two Funded Doctoral Positions: Project on Nuclear Decommissioning - Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society - LMU Munich

www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 17h

I have arrived in Luxembourg for #SHOT2025. My bag has not. And some other small disasters along the way, but we shall manage.

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 1d

When everything else fails, I can always go as my todo list. It’s a real eldritch horror.

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 1d

I'm me again.

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 1d

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...

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

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 1d

It is rather humbling to clean up (quite good) autogenerated captions on recorded lectures and be confronted with all your, uh, verbal tics.

Screenshot of video with person speaking and captions that end with «uh».

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 2d

I guess I'm just going as an invalid handle for Halloween this year.

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2d

It’s real!!
I just got my first copy of Ghosts Behind Glass and it is beautiful. You all really need to order your copies. You will not regret it. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Double page spread with a photo of diorama

Chapter 3 Cursed treasures on left, lion on right

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 2d

'What does it mean to become energy literate?'

Read @sros.bsky.social reflections on her time at E-WERK Luckenwalde published on the #energylives project blog. ⤵

#envhum #energyhistory #nordforsk

www.uis.no/en/the-curre...

Learning to read energy: reflections from a summer residency at E-WERK Luckenwalde

Suzanne Ros, PhD Candidate at the University of Stavanger / Energy Lives Project, reflects on her experience of her summer residency at E-WERK, Luckenwalde, Germany.

www.uis.no

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 3d

Also quite annoyed at the «Invalid Handle» notice on my account. It is valid, it validates just fine in the settings, it has not expired, nothing has changed from my side, and it’s all set up through @bsky.app’s own service. I have asked @support.bsky.team to look at it. Grrr.

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 3d

Starting my online course «Nature & Nation: An Environmental History of Norway Since 1850» today. The timing could have been better since things are ridiculously busy, but I’m still excited about this opportunity! #envhist

Nature & Nation: An Environmental History of Norway Since 1850

Nature & Nation is an environmental history of Norway since 1850. Through five thematic modules, you will learn about the history of modern Norway seen through the lens of environmental interactions a...

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 3d

Yeah, we stayed in Lansallos, so not far away. Super nice old stone house in a small village. Could walk to the beach. Very quiet at night.

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 3d

I did find myself dreaming about a few weeks of writing retreat somewhere in Cornwall…

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 3d

Didn’t try that yet, maybe next time!

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 3d

Good beer, pasties, cheese, scones, beaches, ruins, National Trust properties, bookshops, telegraph cables, amazingly crazy one-lane farm roads, etc. Loved it.

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 3d

We saw lots of things in Cornwall, including clay! It was a great week, would love to come back for more.

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 3d

Very nice, I actually bought her book in a lovely little bookshop in Fowey this summer!

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 5d

This upcoming symposium at CAS in Oslo on "Radical Reuse: Aesthetics, Scale, and Limits", organized by Ingrid Halland and Kjetil Fallan, looks fantastic. I'll be there! #envhum #envhist

Radical Reuse: Aesthetics, Scale, and Limits | CAS

Provisional Programme (subject to change) 09:00Welcome by Ingrid Halland (Associate Professor at University of Bergen, NO)Part I – Aesthetics (histories) 09:30-09:50Grace Lees-Maffei (Professor of Des...

cas-nor.no

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