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Petter Hellström @nphellstrom.bsky.social · 21d

EUROPEAN DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION
Faculty and staff in European higher education and research declare their conscientious objection to collaborating with Israeli institutions complicit in severe violations of international law. To sign, visit uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...

Screenshot from the website of the European Declaration

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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · Jun 20

VENICE: Exciting event happening on Monday and Tuesday 23-24th of June: www.unive.it/data/33113/2...

3rd HEPM workshop with a great line up of speakers including @drewpendergrass.bsky.social @beatricecointe.bsky.social @edouardmorena.bsky.social @geoffmann.bsky.social @julianordblad.bsky.social

WORKSHOP | Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modelling III - Unive

seminario/lezione

www.unive.it

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Petter Hellström @nphellstrom.bsky.social · May 15

Faculty and staff in Swedish higher education and research declare their conscientious objection to collaborate with Israeli institutions complicit in illegal occupation, apartheid, genocide, and other violations of international law.

#uppsaladeclaration

Uppsala Declaration of Conscientious Objection

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Petter Hellström @nphellstrom.bsky.social · May 16

"Över 700 akademiker, varav hälften från Uppsala universitet, har skrivit på en deklaration som uppmanar till bojkott av samarbeten med israeliska lärosäten."

Sveriges Radio rapporterar om #uppsaladeclaration.

www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/hund...

Hundratals forskare vägrar israeliskt samarbete - P4 Uppland

Över 700 akademiker, varav hälften från Uppsala universitet, har skrivit på en deklaration som uppmanar till bojkott av samarbeten med israeliska lärosäten. ...

www.sverigesradio.se

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Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social · May 12

New article! On the early biodiversity discussion where scientists warned of genetic erosion in the wake of the green revolution, and presented visions of how the planetary environmental underpinnings of society – including evolution itself – could be governed.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Saving evolutionary time: Conflicting planetary temporalities in the genetic diversity debate, 1967–1980 - Julia Nordblad, 2025

This paper examines the temporalities at play in the issue of plant genetic resources in the 1960s and through the 1970s. The issue emerged as concerned scienti...

journals.sagepub.com

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Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social · Apr 25

How can this be allowed to go on?
www.wfp.org/news/wfp-run...

WFP runs out of food stocks in Gaza as border crossings remain closed | World Food Programme

GAZA, Palestine – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has depleted all its food stocks for families in Gaza.

www.wfp.org

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Environmental History @envirohistory.bsky.social · Mar 25

Ahead of new print alert! You can now read @julianordblad.bsky.social's "The Nature of Planetary Habitability: A Conceptual History of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services" from the April 2025 issue. #envhist #envhum #biodiversity

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The Nature of Planetary Habitability: A Conceptual History of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services | Environmental History

Abstract This essay traces the conceptual history of biodiversity and ecosystem services from the late 1970s to the early 2000s. In contrast to recent historical studies that have interpreted biodiver...

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Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social · Mar 13

www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/KDKQ4...

University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent

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Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social · Mar 13

My article is out! On how ‘ecosystem services’ went from a word for those aspects of nature that economics cannot express to a word for nature's economic value, and how concerns for planetary habitability disappeared from the environmentalist vocabulary.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

The Nature of Planetary Habitability: A Conceptual History of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services | Environmental History

Abstract This essay traces the conceptual history of biodiversity and ecosystem services from the late 1970s to the early 2000s. In contrast to recent historical studies that have interpreted biodiver...

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social · Mar 5

It varies. There are different opportunities for postdocs (who can fore example apply for grants for their own project with the major funders), but – as in many places – too few.

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Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social · Mar 5

I had to repost this, apologies: bsky.app/profile/juli...

Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social · Mar 5

Two salaried 4-year PhD positions open at the Department of History of Science and Ideas in Uppsala, one in idéhistoria (intellectual/cultural history, broadly speaking), the other in history of science:

www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

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PhD student in the history of science - Uppsala University

PhD student in the history of science, Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University

www.uu.se

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Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social · Mar 5

(Sorry to delete the previous post, I got the links mixed up.)

Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social · Mar 5

Two salaried 4-year PhD positions open at the Department of History of Science and Ideas in Uppsala, one in idéhistoria (intellectual/cultural history, broadly speaking), the other in history of science:

www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

PhD student in the history of science - Uppsala University

PhD student in the history of science, Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University

www.uu.se

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Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social · Dec 13

Thanks!

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Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social · Dec 13

Thank you again, Béatrice!

Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social · Dec 13

Thank you!

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Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social · Dec 7

Thanks!

Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social · Dec 7

Will do, thank you!

Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social · Dec 7

Thanks!

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Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social · Dec 7

Great!

Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social · Dec 7

(I might have to write it myself then).

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Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social · Dec 5

Fellow Blueskyers! My first post is a question for the collective intelligence: are there any (preferably good) histories of the concept of resilience in ecological thought and beyond out there?

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