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Alina Bykova

@alinabykova.bsky.social
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PhD at Stanford & Editor in Chief at The Arctic Institute | formerly HRW, NUPI, CERES Munk, Toronto Star and TMU Journalism | Writing on #Arctic + #Soviet #envhist | From Одеса 🇺🇦 | she/her

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Alina Bykova @alinabykova.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
My latest Substack article is up, just in time for NATO’s 77th birthday next week. I write about Arctic history and politics, come follow along! open.substack.com/pub/thearcti...
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NATO: An Arctic alliance from day one
Arctic security has never been a peripheral issue for NATO
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Alina Bykova @alinabykova.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Dear friends, I’ve started a Substack about Arctic affairs, academia, and my adventures in researching Svalbard. Give it a read! open.substack.com/pub/thearcti...
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Arctic research in liminal spaces
An ode to Svalbard
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North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network @naadsn-rdsnaa.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Happy Monday! We hope you're ready to dive into a new book edited by Andreas Osthagen and Andreas Raspotnik: The Nordic States, NATO and the EU in Arctic Security. It's open-access, so there's no reason not to download it for your winter holiday reading. www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/the...
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The Nordic States, NATO and the EU in Arctic Security
This timely book explores the nuances of the Nordic states’ approach to security in the Arctic and their relationships with NATO and the EU. Challenging generalisations of the Arctic as peaceful and s...
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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about − by dumping debris into the thriving midwater zone
A planned mining method to gather critical minerals from the seafloor would create sediment plumes higher up in the water column where many creatures live.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 24/03/2025
What happened when the editor of @theatlantic.com was included on Mike Walz's group chat www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
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North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network @naadsn-rdsnaa.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Surely you're in Bodø for High North Dialogue! We're looking forward to the panel on Arctic security with@rasmusleander.bsky.social, Andreas Osthagen, & @alinabykova.bsky.social and the Arctic Geopolitics Pubinar at 18:00 on 25 March! www.highnorthdialogue.no/program/high...
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High North Dialogue 2025: Read The Preliminary Program
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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
We need two people to step up into this editorial role. It has been incredibly fulfilling for me to have been co-editor for 5+ years, but now it’s time for us to let another team shape the field.
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Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 03/03/2025
Read this by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk: “Russia does not care whether there is war or peace — it seeks the destruction of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. It will gleefully pocket every concession from the Trump administration and then continue fighting.” on.ft.com/4bn2uSs
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Negotiations over Ukraine are missing a human dimension
Ukrainians want peace more than anyone else. But we demand real peace
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Edward Alexander @gwandaii.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
My friend @arctictroy.bsky.social with some timely analysis...
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Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The American Meteorological Society steps up: #weather #Climate #NOAA blog.ametsoc.org/tag/ams-stat...
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
#BlackHistoryMonth Reading "What does it mean to paint slavery iconography onto a pair of walrus tusks, and what is at stake in considering the Arctic as a landscape connected to Black enslavement?" - Bart Pushaw niche-canada.org/2022/09/01/f... #envhist #arthistory #arctic
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Fugitive Ivories, or, Enslavement and the Walrus
What is at stake in considering the Arctic as a landscape connected to Black enslavement?
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High North News @highnorthnews.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Congratulations are in order! #Arctic #highnorthcenter #Arcticjobs
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Andreas Raspotnik (42) New Director for High North Center
Raspotnik will take over as director from April 1.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 24/02/2025
Putin planned to take Kyiv in three days, but he couldn't take Kyiv in three years. The only way Putin wins now—the only way he finally succeeds in destroying Ukraine’s sovereignty—is by persuading Ukraine’s allies to abandon Ukraine. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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Putin’s Three Years of Humiliation
The Russian president can’t win his war against Ukraine unless he persuades its allies to betray it.
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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Ukraine Fact Sheet - February 21, 2025: isw.pub/UkraineFacts...
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Marc Lanteigne (林晏) @marclanteigne.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
www.routledge.com/Routledge-Ha... Happy to have been part of this project, and it's getting more timely given geopolitics in the #Arctic right now.
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Routledge Handbook of Arctic Security
The Routledge Handbook of Arctic Security offers a comprehensive examination of security in the region, encompassing both state-based and militarized notions of security, as well as broader security p...
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 18/02/2025
⚡️'Massive demolition site' — Trump claims Ukraine in ruins while pressing Zelensky to hold elections. Trump alleged without evidence that Zelensky holds a "4% approval rating" in Ukraine and blamed his leadership for "allow(ing) the war to go on."
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'Massive demolition site' — Trump claims Ukraine in ruins while pressing Zelensky to hold elections
Trump alleged without evidence that Zelensky holds a "4% approval rating" in Ukraine and blamed his leadership, not Putin, for "allow(ing) the war to go on."
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 19/02/2025
⚡️ Russian strike on Odesa injures 4, causes massive power outages. A children's clinic, a kindergarten, high-rise buildings, and cars were damaged in the attack, according to Governor Oleh Kiper.
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Russian strike on Odesa injures 4, causes massive power outages
A children's clinic, a kindergarten, high-rise buildings, and cars were damaged in the attack, according to Governor Oleh Kiper.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 17/02/2025
The @telegraphnews.bsky.social says it has the document Zelensky was asked to sign www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
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Revealed: Trump’s confidential plan to put Ukraine in a stranglehold
Panic in Kyiv as US president demands higher share of GDP than Germany’s First World War reparations
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
If you are a scholar interested in writing about the legacy of an aspect of American science that has an environmental connection in relation to current cuts being made in the US government, check out our contributor guidelines and get in touch. niche-canada.org/guidelines-f... #histsci #envhist
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Guidelines for Contributors
Learn how to submit blog pieces, announcements, and other material to be published on the NiCHE website.
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Optimist: Glass half full Pessimist: Glass half empty Reviewer: I wanted a jug PhD student: I hate the glass, the water, and myself
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
New NiCHE Series CFP! Call for Submissions – Finding Humour in the Environmental History of the Climate Crisis Get your 100-300 word proposals in to Nuala Caomhanach by March 1st! niche-canada.org/2025/02/06/c... #envhist #envhum #climatecrisis
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Call for Submissions - Finding Humour in the Environmental History of the Climate Crisis
This NiCHE call for papers is inspired by Nicole Seymours Bad Environmentalism, who asks us to rethink the environmental movement's reputation for doom and gloom.
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Marisol❄️Maddox @marisolmaddox.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
“As the tundra continues to thaw and the flow of submarine groundwater ratchets up, Demir said that the outflow of carbon from shore to sea could effectively make ocean surface waters a carbon source to the atmosphere.” #Arctic phys.org/news/2025-01...
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Groundwater in the Arctic is delivering more carbon into the ocean than was previously known
A relatively small amount of groundwater trickling through Alaska's tundra is releasing huge quantities of carbon into the ocean, where it can contribute to climate change, according to new research o...
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Odesa 💔
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Ingrid A. Medby @ingridagnete.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Today is the day, my book "Arctic State Identity: Geography, History, and Geopolitical Relations" is *officially* published! 🙀🙌 Available from @manchesterup.bsky.social: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526153906/ #Arctic #Geopolitics #ArcticIdentity
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Manchester University Press - Arctic state identity
Arctic state identity - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Arctic state identity by Dr Ingrid A. Medby
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
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White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
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Marc Lanteigne (林晏) @marclanteigne.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
www.scmp.com/news/china/m... Commented this week on how great power geopolitics may be factoring into the current controversy over US- #Greenland relations.
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Greenland in cold glare of superpowers as US, China and Russia make moves
Observers doubt the new US president will buy the world’s largest island but his interest underlines its strategic importance.
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Further reading: "The Interconnected Nature of Food Security and Food Sovereignty" - By Gabrielle Goldhar with Niisaachewan Anishinaabe Nation niche-canada.org/2020/05/22/t... #food #foodsovereignty #indigenous
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The Interconnected Nature of Food Security and Food Sovereignty
Research focused on crop restoration, cultural revitalization, and treaty living. Researchers who believe in collaboration and knowledge sharing. Learn more about the Manomin Research Project. ...
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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · 14/01/2025
This is a huge tranche of material. Remember: the secret police unwittingly compile early drafts of social history. There's plenty to be gleaned from these files for culture history, the history of sexuality, histories of immigrant lives, and so on.
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The Arctic Institute @arcticinstitute.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
TAI just published 3 commentaries on #Greenland 🇬🇱! ⤵️ ❄️ 🔗 TAI’s Romain Chuffart and Rachel Lorna Johnstone: www.thearcticinstitute.org/trump-sparks... 🔗 TAI’s Pavel Devyatkin: www.thearcticinstitute.org/uncertainty-... 🔗 TAI’s Andreas Østhagen: www.thearcticinstitute.org/trumps-green...
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John Vaillant @johnvaillant.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
My latest for the @theguardian.com: "These fires are a reckoning that begins with the question: Are fossil fuels liberating us, or holding us hostage?" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #lafires
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We built our world with fire. Now heat is destroying our lives | John Vaillant
We fell in love with the power and speed that fossil fuels brought us. But the price being paid in California, and around the world, has become too high
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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 09/01/2025
as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6” of snow and I’m praying for the TX power grid, a reminder: we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now. the climate crisis is here, all around us
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Minerals @imperialminerals.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Happy New Year from the Minerals team! The podcast recording for our second online roundtable on extraction and racial capitalism is now available: imperialminerals.ie/podcasts/ Featuring: Danielle Kinsey, Rebecca Macklin & Nick McGee and chaired by Gigi Tang. Have a listen—it's great! 👇
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Imperial Minerals — Podcasts
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Marisol❄️Maddox @marisolmaddox.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
BBC news did a great segment on the climate link to this extreme fire event, just before I came on to talk about Greenland. It's important to normalize discussions of climate change as a non-partisan reality of our world so we can reduce risk and build a better future.
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series now has 165 recorded episodes! newnatures.org/greenhouse/ Yes, you read that right: one hundred sixty-five hours of amazing scholarship in #envhum #envhist #ecocrit & more. Feel free to use our videos in courses as well as watching yourself.
Greenhouse Environmental Humanities book talks hosted by Dolly & Finn Arne Jørgensen. Background is a purple flower and green grass.
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Elana Wilson Rowe @elanawilsonrowe.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
#Arctic governance and security starter pack just updated with @alinabykova.bsky.social, @peterrmartin.bsky.social @emilisleifur.bsky.social. A great list already and lots of interesting accounts and posts! Let me know who else on Bluesky I am missing on PM or comment!
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
We suggest The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators: How to Teach in a Burning World - niche-canada.org/2024/06/13/n... #climatechange #climatejustice #teaching
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New Book - The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators: How to Teach in a Burning World
How can educators help students imagine thriving in a climate-changed world?
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Nathalia Capellini @nacapellini.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
For those in Paris , don’t miss out this great #envhist conversation at Sciences Po with @parriblue.bsky.social , @antoineacker.bsky.social and others !
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
New open access book by Elena Kochetkova: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮: 𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘥, 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘵 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘌𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺. Read it on our Environment & Society Portal! #EnvHist
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The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology
Full text of Elena Kochetkova’s The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology, a book on the relationship between nature and humans under state soc...
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ICEHO @iceho.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
#EnvHist PhD opportunity in Stockholm at the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory! Read more here: www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/... @robgioielli.bsky.social #EnvHum
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
#ArcticScienceMonth Government Suppression of Science: From Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump, a series of Republican administrations suppressed or altered scientific studies concerning the Arctic Refuge. niche-canada.org/2022/12/09/d... #envhist #histsci #arctic
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Defending the Arctic Refuge: Introducing a Public History Website
The new Defending the Arctic Wildlife Refuge website makes many of the book's sources available to the public.
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 05/01/2024
Honored to be one of the 3 women highlighted, and the portraits are stunning !!! www.hcn.org/issues/56.1/...
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How 3 Indigenous women are leading the way on climate change
These experts bring knowledge and justice to the climate conversation.
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Faculty of Science and Technology at University of Gothenburg @naturvetenskap.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
The sea ice in the #Arctic has become so thin that we could already see the first day without sea ice by 2030, according to a new study led by @clnhz.bsky.social from the University of Gothenburg and @seaiceclimate.bsky.social from @cuboulder.bsky.social. shorturl.at/RJd4E #climatechange
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Risk of a day without sea ice in the Arctic within years
The climate warms fastest in the Arctic. The sea ice there has become so thin that we could already see the first day without sea ice by 2030, according to a new study led by researchers from the Univ...
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