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Simone Schleper 🟥 @moneschleper.bsky.social · 2d

How are your children fighting climate change? FUTURE COUNCIL follows a group of kids challenging leaders about climate solutions. This screening features a Roundtable Discussion with UM colleagues Léna Silberzahn and Sophie Leijdesdorff alongside climate activists young and old.

Simone Schleper 🟥 @moneschleper.bsky.social · 2d

GTD X Lumiere #2: FUTURE COUNCIL
October 8th, 19:30 - 22:30

Join us! Your ticket includes a free drink on GTD
lumiere.nl/en/specials/...
@maastrichtu.bsky.social @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social

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Simone Schleper 🟥 @moneschleper.bsky.social · 7d

What a great great loss. And what a life and legacy.

NPR @npr.org · 7d

JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91

Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

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Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social · 7d

authors include
@folkmagicman.bsky.social
@stefcraps.com
@andrealoew.bsky.social
@philippther.bsky.social
@guillaumblanc.bsky.social
@moneschleper.bsky.social
and more!

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 8d

#HPS #STS 🗃️

Elaine Ayers @eayers0.bsky.social · 8d

Job at UC-Berkeley: Asst. Prof. in Global History of Technology, apps due 10/10 (so soon). #history #histSTM #histsci #histphilsci

aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05065

Assistant Professor – Global History of Technology - Department of History

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 11d

I’m a climate scientist. Trump’s U.N. address is a fire hose of misinformation by @michaelemann.bsky.social

www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

I’m a climate scientist. Trump’s U.N. address is a fire hose of misinformation

OPINION: “What Trump is really doing is advancing a plan laid down years ago by plutocrats and polluters. And making a mockery of our country as he does so,” Michael E. Mann writes.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Simone Schleper 🟥 @moneschleper.bsky.social · 12d

@blenormand.bsky.social

Women* Write the Balkans @womenwritebalkans.bsky.social · Aug 11

We’re looking for nonfiction—of any length or form—that dives into the many meanings and manifestations of embodiment in and of the Balkans.

Send us your pitches (50–100 words) by October 1 and join us for our first-ever Virtual Open House on September 24:

www.womenwritethebalkans.com/specials

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Elaine Ayers @eayers0.bsky.social · 19d

36 mo postdoc / research fellow position in Philosophy, History, and/or Social Studies of the Life Sciences in the STS dept. at Technical Universtiy of Munich, apps due Oct 31: #histphil #histsci #histSTM

www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei...

Jobs

www.sts.sot.tum.de

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ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social · 26d

Are you following our Early-Career-Scholar network, ESEH NextGate? They organize events and support young scholars. Follow here: @esehnextgate.bsky.social
#envhist #envhum

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · Aug 30

Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s... #histSTM 🧪🗃️

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Ka81 @ka81.bsky.social · Aug 28

Having done my time previously in geotechnical engineering and geophysics. This is my big worry about climate change. AMOC shutdown. #ClimateChange

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds

Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

www.theguardian.com

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · Aug 28

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low likelihood, study finds

- Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic impacts

#climatecrisis #AMOC
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low likelihood, study finds

Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

www.theguardian.com

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · Aug 26

Important study!

Swinda Falkena @swinda.bsky.social · Aug 26

Headlining the Dutch news. In a new study my colleagues in Utrecht show there is a substantial risk that the #AMOC already starts to collapse this century. 🌊
nos.nl/nieuwsuur/co...

Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Gevreesd kantelpunt in de Golfstroom mogelijk al halverwege deze eeuw bereikt

De Golfstroom, het systeem van zeestromingen dat een cruciale rol speelt in het klimaat, stort mogelijk al vanaf halverwege deze eeuw in.

nos.nl

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Simone Schleper 🟥 @moneschleper.bsky.social · Aug 21

Keynote by Gaia Giuliani #eseh2025 #hybrid: in Anthropocene maser narratives, disaster is producing the 'outthere', the place for the 'monstrous', disposable 'other', where violence and killing is legitimized. Memory and documentation of disobedience as resistance. #PoliticalEcology #envhum

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Simone Schleper 🟥 @moneschleper.bsky.social · Aug 21

@siegfriedevens.bsky.social scattered nuclear landscape in Belgium, with little national regulation until late 1980s/1990s. Local and transborder anti-nuclear protests, interantional influences really important, but success not entirely clear in face of corporate decisions to drop nuclear plans.

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Simone Schleper 🟥 @moneschleper.bsky.social · Aug 21

Elisabetta Bini: Internationally networked, Italian anti-nuclear counter experts in the late 1970s and 1980s, not anti-tech, but alternative scientific visions, and using their scientific persona and trade union allies to contribute to larger environmental discourse e.g. at Rio

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Simone Schleper 🟥 @moneschleper.bsky.social · Aug 21

#ESEH2025 #hybrid "Environmental Futures in the (Anti-)nuclear Age (Part 1): Energy and Climate Change" chaired by @michielbron.bsky.social
Up first: Mathijs Boom: After 1973 "energy as a framework to understand how the world works" #energyhist #envhist

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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · Aug 20

Medscape: Where Is the Medical Home for Postinfectious Illness?

"COVID pandemic brought a surge of more patients with POTS & infection-associated chronic illness. What had once felt like a rare or niche diagnosis now seemed to be everywhere, impossible to ignore"

www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Where Is the Medical Home for Postinfectious Illness?

A rheumatologist calls for greater awareness among her colleagues but also emphasizes that these patients require multidisciplinary care.

www.medscape.com

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · Aug 20

Call for Papers – (Un)just Transitions?: Deindustrialization and the Environment

@deindustrialpol.bsky.social Conference, Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada, June 18-20 2026
Proposal Deadline: October 1, 2025

niche-canada.org/2025/08/20/c...

#envhist #envhum #deindustrialization

Call for Papers - (Un)just Transitions?: Deindustrialization and the Environment

The 2026 DePOT conference will explore intersections of deindustrialization and environment, focusing on transitions, justice, remediation, energy, heritage, and global perspectives.

niche-canada.org

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Simone Schleper 🟥 @moneschleper.bsky.social · Aug 20

8/# Challenging previous notions of both interchangeability, and strict distinction of settings, 'naturalizing' certain forms of behavior as present in all places, but to different degrees; parallels drawn by them to biomedical experiments on cell level ex situ.

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Simone Schleper 🟥 @moneschleper.bsky.social · Aug 20

7/# Not a shift from the zoo to the field, as one might expect, or a split between research in captivity vs in the wild. Postwar ethologists like Kurth, Walther, Kummer, etc, moving almost seemlessly between research in zoos and the field...

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Simone Schleper 🟥 @moneschleper.bsky.social · Aug 20

6/# @rafdebont.bsky.social “Narratives of Naturalness: Storying Animal Behavior in and beyond the Zoo, 1945-1975": Studying and defining "natural behavior" between the zoo and the field in postwar ethology.

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Simone Schleper 🟥 @moneschleper.bsky.social · Aug 20

5/# The increase and increasingly quantified data here can work differently here than in human sociology where the individual is lost.

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Simone Schleper 🟥 @moneschleper.bsky.social · Aug 20

4/# A type of new fables? (and for historians new archives!) to challenge human exceptionalism, naming animals, recording behavior over generations (of animals and researchers) and over time, incl. stories of friendships and rivalries, recorded around identified individuals.

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Simone Schleper 🟥 @moneschleper.bsky.social · Aug 20

3/# @emilam.bsky.social Talk Title: “Animal Epics: Crafting Generational Tales of Behavior in the Wild”: --> long-term studies on animal behavior demonstrating a change in the understanding of animals and animal behavior over time

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