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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 27/07/2026

I say this with nothing but love in my heart for the fatherland but can you imagine any other country looking at wildfires and thinking "quick, get a philosopher on the line"

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Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment @granthamicl.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Drought in Europe: Extreme heat evaporating continent’s water supplies Record-breaking summer heat is supercharging drought across Europe, baking soils and evaporating water supplies, according to new research by @wwattribution.bsky.social 🧵 buff.ly/5iN0MR2

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

What they don't teach you about heatwaves: It's not just heat. It's: • Your crops dying • Your river drying (Rhine is low again, disrupting shipping) • Your lungs burning from wildfire smoke • Your power grid collapsing It's everything at once.

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David Tomkins 🦋 @davidctomkins.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Every so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of the most important parts of the Earth's climate system. #climatecrisis #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-gra...

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The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News

Every so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. This graph is one of them. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of the most ...

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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Europe's worst heatwave so far, in terms of heat stress measures and temperatures - brought to you by fossil fuels. New @wwattribution.bsky.social study showing how such deadly heat became possible in only a few decades. www.worldweatherattribution.org/fossil-fuel-...

A map of Europes with dots for all 854 cities analysed, pink dots for the cities that broke humid heat records, grey dots elsewhere. Pink dots conentrated over Southern UK, Germany, Poland and Benelux.

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Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment @granthamicl.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

As the UK Met Office issues a red heat alert for the UK this Wednesday and Thursday, is it increasingly clear extreme heat is affecting people and communities. 🗣️ Our research shows that around two-thirds (68%) of people are worried about heatwaves and hot weather in the UK 🧵

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Anna Bocking-Welch on public health discourse and public expectations around mothering in the heat – a fascinating lens onto attitudes towards maternal responsibility and intergenerational change.

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Chris Pearson @chrisjpearson.bsky.social discusses British narratives on summer – sun as fun (‘sun worship’) & sun as a problem (exhaustion for workers, challenges for care homes). Heat needs be understood as a cultural & bodily experience.

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Erika Hanna @erikahanna.bsky.social discusses the impact of weather on Ireland’s urban temporalities and mobilities. Rain and moisture slow down function of cities by damaging clocks (clocktowers) and making roadworks more difficult.

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Jacob Fredrickson on what heatwaves as analytic frame can offer historians of sex & sexuality. Public responses to heatwaves – obsession with young women’s bodies & ‘hot blood’ metaphor – are revealing of mid-century heterosexual culture. Heatwave as a leisure event reveals family sociability.

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Brilliant panel on cultural histories of climate #MBS2026. Papers highlight the potential of focusing on the weather for exploring the environmental, material, embodied, discursive and their intersections.

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Research@LivUni @livuniresearch.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

🌡️ Original Ideas Podcast 15. Heatwaves 🎙️ @liverpooluni.bsky.social's @chrisjpearson.bsky.social and @abiedoubleyou.bsky.social of @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social discuss heatwaves 🏙️ History, community, public health, policy.. 👉 www.liverpool.ac.uk/research/ori...

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.

ALTMAN: "WE SEE A FUTURE WHERE INTELLIGENCE IS A UTILITY, LIKE ELECTRICITY OR WATER, AND PEOPLE BUY IT FROM US ON A METER.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 21/05/2026

The Society's President and Council have released the following statement on the proposed closure of undergraduate degrees at the University of Hertfordshire, in #History and the wider humanities bit.ly/4dmV5oO This comes at a time of further bad news from Essex and Nottingham #Skystorians

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History and the humanities at the University of Hertfordshire – a statement from the Royal Historical Society - RHS

Even for those familiar with bleak times, this has been a particularly bad few weeks in UK higher education. Confirmed job losses at the University of Essex were followed by further bad news from Hert...

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Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment @granthamicl.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

“While adaptation is a vital piece of the puzzle, we can’t simply adapt ourselves out of this problem", says @frediotto.bsky.social in @theguardian.com. This follows @thecccuk.bsky.social's report, which warns climate change is undermining the UK’s security & prosperity 🧵 buff.ly/bDV5vYC

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Britain must think like a hot country – otherwise inequalities will only grow

The government must act to redress the unequal impact of climate change, or risk rising temperatures making disparities worse

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Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Please help spread the news far and wide! We have a new, full-time, permanent Lecturer in Global History of Science job @stsucl.bsky.social Don't be fooled by the application of deadline of only 9 June 2026. This is an open search #histsci #skystorians www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 23/03/2026

We're hiring! 🌿 The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger invites applications for a 3-year postdoc in Environmental History. See thread for more details. #envhist #envhum

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Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental History (297163) | University of Stavanger

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental History (297163), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Monday, April 20, 2026

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Rob Dale @robdale.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

My colleagues Annie Tindley and @drhick.bsky.social have funding 📣 for a Collaborative Doctoral Award with Museums Northern Ireland for a PhD on "Reawakening the Living Landscape: Integrating Heritage and Sustainability at the Ulster Folk Museum" - www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/study/hi... Deadline 20 April.

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Postgraduate Funding

Find out about postgraduate funding opportunities within the School of History, Classics and Archaeology.

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Andrew Burchell @andrewburchell.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

If you know any Medical Humanities PhDs, Uppsala CMH is offering a visiting researcher scheme during the autumn (up to 6 months from August 2026). International applicants (i.e. outside of Sweden) most definitely welcome. As they say in Swedish: sprid gärna! www.uu.se/centrum/medi...

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Call for applications: Visiting PhD-student positions in Medical Humanities, Uppsala University – Centrum för medicinsk humaniora – Uppsala universitet

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Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

This is such an exciting project! Do pass on to anyone you think might be interested.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

more courage than every sniveling university president in the US combined

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows.

I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.

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The Rocket Knight @sparkster2600.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Reposting this with alt text. Delete your Twitter. Now.

For You "Elon Saved Free Speech" White Knight Assholes: Read the New Terms of Service
Released Today

X just updated their Terms of Service effective January 15, 2026.

Here's what you agreed to:

AI TRAINING RIGHTS GRAB: Everything you post becomes training data for their Al models. Every thought, opinion, creative work. You're building their models for free. No compensation. No opt out.

PERPETUAL CONTENT LICENSE: They get a worldwide, royalty-free license to use, copy, modify, and distribute your content "for any purpose" in "any media now known or later developed." Forever. They can sell it. Give it to governments. Anything.

FORCED JURISDICTION: All disputes must be filed in Tarrant County, Texas. You waive the right to join class actions. If they wrong millions of users, you sue alone in THEIR court.

ARBITRARY TERMINATION: They can delete your account "for any other reason or no reason at our convenience." Years of content, connections, reputation. Gone. Zero due process.

$15,000 LIQUIDATED DAMAGES: Access more than 1 million posts in 24 hours and you owe $15,000. Per million. Journalists and researchers investigating the platform face financial ruin.

GOVERNMENT DISCLOSURE: They reserve the right to hand your DMs, drafts, and entire history to governments based on what they
"reasonably believe" is necessary.

ANTI-JAILBREAK CLAUSE: Testing their Al systems, exposing censorship mechanisms, or security research is now explicitly a Terms violation. They added "prompt engineering or injection" to prohibited conduct.

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Francis Taylor @frankietaylor317.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

It's been a pleasure being on the great organising team at York and Northumbria for next year's NEHN meeting - a collaborative worksop on the many histories of 'unwanted life'. Do see the CFP below, and send in a submission if it appeals!

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

📣 Applications are open for our 2026-27 Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellowship scheme! The scheme supports professionals and researchers from health or voluntary and community sectors to develop research within the medical humanities. Apply by 30 Jan:

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Practice Research Fellowship Scheme

Announcing our Medical Humanities In Practice Research Fellowship Scheme

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Chris Pearson @chrisjpearson.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Collared is out in paperback today! 🐶🐾

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 02/10/2025

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

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Submit a Claim

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Kerri Arsenault @kerriarsenault.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Hey there. Today we launch @g-ehr.bsky.social - an open-access, digital publication of the American Society for Environmental History and dedicated to publishing work that explores topics connecting the environmental present with its past. Let me know if you have questions! @aseh.bsky.social

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Melting Metropolis @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

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

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

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Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

If you would like to review my book for a publication, get in touch! The book is a history of wind energy and I’m trying to get it out to as wide an audience as possible. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/

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Manchester University Press - Electric wind

Electric wind - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Electric wind by Marianna Dudley

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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

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...

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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...

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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

About 1500 of the approx. 2300 people that will have lost their lives across 12 European cities last week would still live, if it wasn't for our burning of oil, coal and gas. If we care about the right to life, we need to stop burning fossil fuels. www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

bar chart showing deaths associate with extreme heat with and without climate change in 12 European cities

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Melting Metropolis @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

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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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Important news for the #envhist crowd: We are hiring an Associate Professor of Environmental History! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Application deadline is August 7. Some tips for those interested from abroad in thread 👇

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Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801) | University of Stavanger

Job title: Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Thursday, August 7, 2025

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Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Delighted to see this finally announced! Liverpool-led AHRC Doctoral Focal Awards Funding loads of Environmental/Medical Humanities PhDs with CHASE, @livunienglish.bsky.social, & lots of collaborators!!!

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Chris Pearson @chrisjpearson.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

How to turn off AI on Google searches. Took me 30secs 🙏🏻🥳

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Richard C. Keller, PhD @richardckeller.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Heat waves everywhere in the global north this week, so time for a thread on heat humanities research. Humanities scholars are exceptionally good at analyzing intersections of race, class, gender, and labor to highlight social vulnerabilities to meteorological disasters.

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Melting Metropolis @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

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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Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

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 · 14/05/2025

☀️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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Dr Lena Ferriday @lenaferriday.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Historians, please sign!

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Katherine Arnold @arnoldke.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

We are excited to announce that @liverpooluni.bsky.social will host the next big @ihr.bsky.social workshop - IHR@Liverpool! The topic is 'Difficult Histories' ✨ This is geared toward PGRs + early career folks & there are bursaries available! Sign-up + more info ➡️ www.history.ac.uk/events/ihrli...

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IHR@Liverpool: Difficult Histories

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