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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 18h

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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Center for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 20h

Open PhD position at KTH: "AI Planetary Futures: Climate and environment in Silicon Valley's AI paradigm". Apply by Oct 23! lnkd.in/dCs8eZjb

The project analyzes the climate and environmental aspects of Silicon Valley-based general-purpose AI systems developed by Big Tech companies.

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Mathijs Boom @mathijsboom.bsky.social · 20h

There are many versions of this nuclear fuel cycle diagram, but I like this hand-drawn one with a little A-bombs being jettisoned by various nodes in the process.

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Mathijs Boom @mathijsboom.bsky.social · 1d

Volgende week dinsdagavond bij het IISG!

International Institute of Social History @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social · 1d

Het is nu ondenkbaar dat er honderdduizenden mensen de straat op gaan tegen kernenergie en -wapens, zoals in de jaren '80 gebeurde. Terwijl minstens zo actueel is. Voor iedereen die meer wil weten over de antikernenergiebeweging tot nu toe.
iisg.amsterdam/nl/events/de...
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Mathijs Boom @mathijsboom.bsky.social · 21h

This Friday, 12h, I'll talk more about the place of Urenco's enrichment facilities in Almelo and Namibian uranium in the Dutch nuclear debates of the 70s at the @uvahumanities.bsky.social's Environment & Society seminar.

Mathijs Boom @mathijsboom.bsky.social · 21h

Cool posters for what turned out to be the largest ever demonstration against nuclear facilities in the Netherlands, in March 1978. The one about Brazil's military dictatorship is creepy though, with its 'third world' imagery.

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Mathijs Boom @mathijsboom.bsky.social · 21h

Cool posters for what turned out to be the largest ever demonstration against nuclear facilities in the Netherlands, in March 1978. The one about Brazil's military dictatorship is creepy though, with its 'third world' imagery.

Mathijs Boom @mathijsboom.bsky.social · 1d

Volgende week dinsdagavond bij het IISG!

International Institute of Social History @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social · 1d

Het is nu ondenkbaar dat er honderdduizenden mensen de straat op gaan tegen kernenergie en -wapens, zoals in de jaren '80 gebeurde. Terwijl minstens zo actueel is. Voor iedereen die meer wil weten over de antikernenergiebeweging tot nu toe.
iisg.amsterdam/nl/events/de...
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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 22d

I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities!

Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.

Applications are welcome until 24 October.

#envhum #envhist #energyhistory

Poster showing a wind turbine from frog perspective. The picture is in light pink and blue nuances and announces a PhD course in energy humanities. More information can be found in this website. https://www.uis.no/en/research/collaboration/the-greenhouse-centre-for-environmental-humanities/humanities/apply-for-phd

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International Institute of Social History @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social · 1d

Het is nu ondenkbaar dat er honderdduizenden mensen de straat op gaan tegen kernenergie en -wapens, zoals in de jaren '80 gebeurde. Terwijl minstens zo actueel is. Voor iedereen die meer wil weten over de antikernenergiebeweging tot nu toe.
iisg.amsterdam/nl/events/de...
@mathijsboom.bsky.social

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Mathijs Boom @mathijsboom.bsky.social · 1d

Ubiquitous assumptions about ‘peak oil’ and shifts in energy use, in a ‘82 DHV report about Dutch energy policy and developing countries.

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Mathijs Boom @mathijsboom.bsky.social · 1d

Back to 80s energy scenarios at the Nationaal Archief where letters offer a good reminder of serious ’computing costs’. Modeling futures demanded time, energy and digital infrastructure.

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Mathijs Boom @mathijsboom.bsky.social · 2d

Not in the forms. But maybe if you contact specific libraries?

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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science @mpiwg.bsky.social · 2d

Our Institute’s Colloquium Program 2025–26 is now available online! This year we will be "Rethinking Time in the History of Science" 🕰️⌚️

📍 MPIWG & Harnack-Haus

🔗 For the full program and information on registration, please check bit.ly/42Zq98m

#HistSci #DeepTime #Anthropology #ReligiousStudies

Poster of the MPIWG Institute’s Colloquium. It features the titles of its five events below an image that shows a colorful mixture of liquids in red, orange, yellow, green, and violet.

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Mathijs Boom @mathijsboom.bsky.social · 2d

You could probably file a scan request through Worldcat. Or do you need Dutch account?

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · May 20

Western politicians love the excuse “Why should we invest in renewables when China isn’t doing anything?”
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

Well, this is what China is upto:
China installing wind & solar equivalent of 5 nuclear plants per week
globalenergymonitor.org/report/china...

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Mathijs Boom @mathijsboom.bsky.social · 3d

250.000 marching in Amsterdam, in solidarity with Gaza, and to ask our government to finally draw a f-ing line.

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David Sepkoski @hallucigenia.bsky.social · 3d

Very happy to announce that the Handbook of the Historiography of Earth and Environmental Sciences I coedited with Elena Aronova and Marco Tamborini is now available, for free (open access) via this link:
link.springer.com/referencewor...

Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences

This open access handbook assesses the historiography and the future of major themes and approaches within the history of the earth sciences.

link.springer.com

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Mathijs Boom @mathijsboom.bsky.social · 7d

Still love this Erdrich story: “A stone is a thought that the Earth develops over inhuman time.” podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/t...

Karen Russell Reads Louise Erdrich

Podcastaflevering · The New Yorker: Fiction · 01-10-2025 · 49 min.

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Mathijs Boom @mathijsboom.bsky.social · 11d

Google Books has a scan of Dawson's "Report on the Queen Charlotte Islands," there are some strewn across the internet, and some in the historical work of the geographers I mentioned.

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Mathijs Boom @mathijsboom.bsky.social · 13d

Gotta love the poster collection at @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social

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Mathijs Boom @mathijsboom.bsky.social · 13d

To be fair, this committee gave pretty serious consideration to zero-growth futures.

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Mathijs Boom @mathijsboom.bsky.social · 13d

1974 thoughts on the 'distant future' (2015) from a Dutch committee for energy research: modeling pol and soc-econ change is silly, but modeling demand for energy and raw materials is less so.

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Mathijs Boom @mathijsboom.bsky.social · 13d

Stunning indeed. Reminded Jason Grek-Martin and Bruce Braun's research ("vertical territory") on the geological survey of Haida Gwaii in 1878 by George Dawson. Dawson took ethnographic notes and simultaneously disappeared the Haida in his geological maps—irrelevant to future extractive purposes.

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Mathijs Boom @mathijsboom.bsky.social · 14d

My informed guess is that gas reserves in the province of Groningen shaped the Dutch response. Most scenarios envisioned a boost in coal (imports) for liquifaction, but mostly to save strategic domestic gas reserves. (Groningen's gas field is fascinating, but I'm not familiar with English lit on it)

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Mathijs Boom @mathijsboom.bsky.social · 14d

The most well-known effect in the case of unfolding climate breakdown is in Malm and Carton's 'Overshoot': because IPPC-models project the use of negative emissions tech, they can keep up the appearance that the world is somehow still steering clear of the worst climate outcomes.

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