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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 9d

that is so many people, already

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 9d

More than 100,000 people were sent to hospitals due to heat stroke in Japan between May 1 and Sept. 28, according to preliminary data from the nation’s Fire and Disaster Management Agency

Japan Sees Record Number Treated for Heat Stroke in Hottest-Ever Summer

More than 100,000 people were sent to hospitals due to heat stroke in Japan between May 1 and Sept. 28, according to preliminary data from the nation’s Fire and Disaster Management Agency.

bloom.bg

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Melting Metropolis @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social · 15d

This Climate Week NYC, read about the work of our NYC team Kara Schlichting and Daniel Cumming on the Gotham Centre blog: www.gothamcenter.org/blog/melting...

[with brilliant photos from our Urban Archive collaboration]

Melting Metropolis: An Interview with Daniel Cumming and Kara Murphy Schlichting — The Gotham Center for New York City History

Melting Metropolis: An Interview with Daniel Cumming and Kara Murphy Schlichting Interviewed By Rachel Pitkin Public archives help create a record that highlights, or at least can suggest, the var...

www.gothamcenter.org

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Melting Metropolis @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social · Sep 8

NYers! Join Melting Metropolis team members Kara Schlichting and Danny Cumming at Second Sundays at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, this Sunday, 2-4pm

Full info here:

pioneerworks.org/programs/sec...

Second Sundays: September 2025

Since 2013, Pioneer Works has hosted Second Sundays, a free monthly open house. Highlighting our programs, artists-in-residence, and Red Hook community ...

pioneerworks.org

Melting Metropolis @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social · Sep 1

Who is in charge of tackling extreme heat in New York City? Read about @queenscollegecuny.bsky.social intern Selassie Mawuko's reseach on our blog:

www.meltingmetropolis.com/teamblog/nyc...

#nyc #climatechange #heatwave

NYC’s Fight Against Extreme Heat: A Citywide Effort — Melting Metropolis

www.meltingmetropolis.com

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Jenny Crane @jennycrane.bsky.social · Aug 29

ENRGHI 2025 is open for registration, and last chance to submit an abstract is 1 September.

www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

7-8 October, University of Bristol: join a 30 year tradition of connecting PGR and ECR research across geographies of health and wellbeing.

@healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social

ENRGHI conference poster on a watery background, says 'ENRGHI 2025, 7-8 October, University of Bristol; a two-day event showcasing health and wellbeing research by postgraduate and early career researchers, organised by the RGS-IBG Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Research Group. Special strand 2025: blue bodies.'

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · Aug 5

A 2 year postdoc research assistant job to work on the early institutional history of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, leading to the writing of a report to contribute to broader decolonising and reparative efforts. Around 40k, deadline 5 Sept 25.

app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

Post-Doctoral Research Associate - LSTM Decolonial History Project | Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) is seeking a Post-Doctoral Research Associate (PDRA) to support the delivery of a two-year, independent academic research project to develop a rigorous...

app.vacancy-filler.co.uk

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Queens Memory Project @queensmemory.bsky.social · Jul 30

🗃️✨ Community Archiving Happy Hour returns on Thursday, Aug. 14, at 4pm ET ✨🗃️

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Jul 31

5 September deadlines for 3 Royal Historical Society programmes: Martin Lynn Scholarship (PhD research) in African History (£1,500); Early Career Fellowships (up to £2,000) and Open Research Support (£500-1,000). #Skystorians

Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: three current programmes - RHS

The Society currently invites applications for the following three schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds — with a closing date of 5 September 2025. For further i...

royalhistsoc.org

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Jenny Crane @jennycrane.bsky.social · Jul 16

ECR 'Blue bodies' conference in Bristol, 7-8th October, @uobrisceh.bsky.social @dudleymarianna.bsky.social would love to see your students there! 🌊💦https://www.rgs.org/events/upcoming-events/embodiment-and-water

ENRGHI 2025: Embodiment and water - blue bodies

Gain constructive feedback and engage with a community of researchers who share an interest in the geographies of health, wellbeing, and impairment.

www.rgs.org

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Town and Country Planning Association @thetcpa.bsky.social · Jul 10

Climate change is creating more frequent & intense heatwaves.

🌡️ Poorly designed, insulated & ventilated properties trap heat, making them dangerous during the summer months.

🌡️ More than half of UK homes fail to meet the bedroom overheating criteria.

www.tcpa.org.uk/thermal-comf...

Thermal comfort for all homes - Town and Country Planning Association

The crisis of cold and overheated homes is not just a housing issue; it is a public health emergency. Investing in better housing today will save lives, reduce healthcare costs, and build a more resil...

www.tcpa.org.uk

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Melting Metropolis @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social · Jul 11

New Yorkers! Please share your photos and memories of summer with us via our Urban Archive digital map:

mm.urbanarchive.org/pr/mm

More info here:

www.brownstoner.com/brooklyn-lif...

#nyc #summer #history

Melting Metropolis

Summer in New York City is hot, as daily temperatures average around 80°F and heatwaves bake the city. This collection explores how New Yorkers have historicall

mm.urbanarchive.org

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Melting Metropolis @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social · Jul 9

Op-ed piece from team members Kara Schlichting and Selassie Mawuko:

Does NYC need a heat czar?

citylimits.org/opinion-its-...

TLDR: yes!

Essential reading in @citylimitsnews.bsky.social given the high the temperatures #NYC has experienced this summer

#heatwave

📷 LoC

Children escape the heat of the East Side New York by using fire hydrant as a shower bath

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · Jun 27

Yesterday I used this "AI -Free Statement" in a conference talk for the first time. Still trying to figure out the exact language.

Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.

At no point in this study did I use AI. This includes the literature review, logical organization, writing, analysis, and proofreading. I do not cite any studies that use AI, to the extent that it is possible to know.

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Richard Hayton @richardhayton.com · Jun 24

JOB: Lecturer in the Politics of Climate Change

This is a permanent post, based here in the School of Politics and International Studies at Leeds.

Application deadline 30 June, so please spread the word!

jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

@polisatleeds.bsky.social

Jobs at the University of Leeds

jobs.leeds.ac.uk

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Melting Metropolis @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social · Jun 13

We have a ☀️NEW ☀️date for Stand of the Sun - Thursday 19 June 2025.

Still FREE, still at Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, TW1 3BL

Reserve tickets here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/richmond-art...

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Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · Jun 3

Lots of Modern #UrbanHistory books available to review on everything from post-war architecture to atomic bombs.

Get in touch with Sam if you're interested 👇

Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · Jun 3

Who wants free books? These are some of the titles that we at @urbanhistory.bsky.social are looking to review. Let me know if you or a friend want one, or if you have other suggestions. First, @rebwright.bsky.social's fabulous looking history of mid century US energy regimes:

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Melting Metropolis @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social · Jun 2

FREE tickets are still available for Stand of the Sun: A solstice ritual for the melting metropolis, directed by Bryony Ella, with music from Bumi Thomas and choreography from Antoine Marc

8-9.45pm, 21 June 2025

Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, TW1 3BL

www.ticketsource.co.uk/richmond-art...

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The Climate Museum @climatemuseum.bsky.social · May 20

🎥 Open call: Films of Return by A La Luz invites film/video art on the climate crisis including ecological memory, justice & collective futures. Jurors include Climate Museum director Miranda Massie. Submit by June 15!

To learn more, visit: www.pointsofreturn.org/film

Films of Return: Filmmakers & Video Artists Face Climate Change — Points of Return

www.pointsofreturn.org

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Wellcome Trust @wellcometrust.bsky.social · May 20

Increasing temperatures can seriously affect our health, wellbeing and work.

The good news? There are things we can do about it.

Tune in to our livestream at the World Health Assembly on 21 May to learn how we can prepare and protect against extreme heat: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/4ff5ec...

A livestream of the event ‘Temperatures Rising: Preparing and Protecting for Extreme Heat’ is taking place on 21 May 08.00 BST. Join Wellcome, The Rockefeller Foundation, the Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN) and global leaders on the need to act on unprecedented and increasingly deadly extreme temperatures. Image shows a man silhouetted against the sun as he bathes on a hot summer day.

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Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social · May 15

A reminder of an upcoming webinar organised by ESEH UK & Ireland region on 'New Directions in Urban Climates of the Atlantic Archipelago'

May 20, 2025: 13:00 – 15:00 (GMT +1)

Presenters: @erikahanna.bsky.social @rebwright.bsky.social @chrisjpearson.bsky.social

Zoom link eseh.org/envhistoday-...

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Melting Metropolis @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social · May 14

☀️Come to a FREE Melting Metropolis event at Orleans House Gallery on #Summer #Solstice 21 June 2025: Stand of the Sun ☀️

Art, music and dance, with Bryony Ella, Bumi Thomas and Antoine Marc

Booking essential:

www.ticketsource.co.uk/richmond-art...

#climatecrisis #londonart

Photo of Antoine Marc and Bumi Thomas with Bryony Ella's artwork My Body is a Sundail

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Lena Ferriday @lenaferriday.bsky.social · May 1

Historians, please sign!

Chris(tyn) Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social · May 1

OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS

Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!

Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs

In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...

tinyurl.com

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Melting Metropolis @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social · Apr 14

We’re seeking a documentary filmmaker to join our Community Storytelling Partnership. Co-create with six community partner organisations and four storytellers across London and New York.

Deadline: 25/04/25

drive.google.com/file/d/1Ava6...

#FilmmakerCall #ClimateJustice #DocumentaryFilmmaker

Drawing by Elly Bazigos depicting the Melting Metropolis Communtiy Story-Telling Partnership in London and New York

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Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · Mar 25

eseh.org/call-for-sub... reminder to send your submissions for the @eseh.bsky.social Bristol-Bern Prize in Public History by 1 May!

Call for Submissions: 2025 Bristol-Bern Prize in Public Environmental History (2Bs Prize) – European Society for Environmental History

eseh.org

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Melting Metropolis @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social · Mar 21

A new Melting Metropolis opportunity!

Work with @chloeduteil.bsky.social on a graphic novel/BD on summer heat in Paris 👇

Chloé Duteil @chloeduteil.bsky.social · Mar 18

As part of my work on everyday experiences of summer heat in Paris on the project Melting Metropolis, I am looking for an illustrator with whom to create a graphic novel bringing together history, climate, and fiction. For more & French, see below ☀️

#heatwave #illustrator #climate #paris #history

Source: BNF/Gallica. Agence Rol, La chaleur à Paris, 11 juillet 1921. A young girl is filling up a bottle of water from a public drinking fountain.

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