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Lucie Rondeau du Noyer @lucienoyer.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

1/5 📢 Appel à participation : Histoire coloniale et énergie Le terme 'colonialisme énergétique' est aujourd’hui utilisé pour désigner certains mégaprojets en cours de réalisation. L’histoire de l’énergie en contexte colonial reste cependant moins explorée que celle des puissances colonisatrices.

Carte, « Domaine colonial de la France et ses productions », 1911, 120 x 92 cm, J. Forest, Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Cartes et plans, GE C-4143. Source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF

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Henk-Jan Dekker @henk-jandekker.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

🌲 New paper out: Modernizing the German forest—How a changing economy divided forestry economists, 1850-1900 We used to think of the 19th century as the age of coal, but what happened to wood and the people who managed forests when industry took off? /1 doi.org/10.1016/j.sh...

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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Check out @henk-jandekker.bsky.social's review of Gonzalo Romero Sommer's "High Voltage: Hydroelectric Development and Political Power in Peru," published in 2025 by @univnebpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envtech #energy www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

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Corinne Geering @corinnegeering.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Our book is out today! 🎉 "Cultural Landscapes of Energy" adds a historical perspective to current debates on energy transition by bringing together conflicting histories around work, habitation and leisure in landscapes impacted by energy production across Europe.

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Cultural Landscapes of Energy: Constructing Histories of Power, Prosperity, and Decline in Europe

This volume explores the contested heritage of landscapes impacted by energy production. It offers a comparative perspective across Europe on different energy resources and reveals the hidden historie...

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Henk-Jan Dekker @henk-jandekker.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Excellent new book arguing that we need to take the early modern household more seriously in order to understand the emergence of fossil-fuel based societies. An important addition to energy history scholarship #skystorians lup.be/book/fossil-...

Cover image of the book Fossil Consumerism: Energy, Ecology and Everyday Life in the Early Modern Low Countries by Wouter Saelens, showing a painting of a man and woman sitting by lamplight in an otherwise dark room.

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Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Béla Tarr, 1955-2026 🤍

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Henk-Jan Dekker @henk-jandekker.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

A few 2025 reading higlights, a year that also included a lot of Natalia Ginzburg and Han Kang. The pile for 2026 is growing but recommendations are always welcome!

A collection of books including Alexis Wright, Carpentaria; Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Herscht07769; Ana Paula Maia, On Earth As It Is Beanth; Virginia Woolf; The Waves; Jon Fosse, Vaim; Mark Haber, Reinhardt's Garden; Claire Oshetsky, Chouette.

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Lucie Rondeau du Noyer @lucienoyer.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

💼 Au 1er semestre 2026, le projet #ETRANHET du @cired.bsky.social recrute un·e stagiaire niveau Master SHS pour étudier comment les économistes ont pensé la ❓énergétique pendant la décolonisation 🇫🇷 (1946-80). 🗓️ Candidature avant le 15/01/2026 Tous les détails : www.centre-cired.fr/wp-content/u...

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Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

In Cairo cycling began as an imported recreation for the ruling class, but it soon proliferated, serving the workaday needs of everyday people. In “Nationalist Autonomy to Capitalist Modernity,” Nourhan Sherif, Ranya Ayman and Carine Khalil trace Cairo’s cycling experience. ...

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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...

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Dr. Penelope K Hardy @pkhardy.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

New on H-Sci-Med-Tech: Check out @henk-jandekker.bsky.social (Bielefeld University)’s review of David Obst’s book _ Saving Ourselves from Big Car_, pub 2025 @columbiaup.bsky.social Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

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Animesh Chatterjee @researchnotesstudio.com · 26/11/2025

ICOHTEC 2026: Call for Proposals is now open! The next Annual Meeting will take place 8–11 October 2026 at the Democritus University of Thrace (Greece), in collaboration with the Lab of Technologies, Research & Applications in Education and the Ethnological Museum of Thrace. Thread: 1/4 #histtech

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Martin Meiske @mmeiske.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

"Umwelt - Technik - Wissen" - Ein großartiges Gemeinschafts- und Verflechtungsprojekt mit jungen Autor:innen aus der ganzen DACH-Region! Herzlichen Dank an alle Beteiligten und viel Spaß bei der Lektüre (Open Access)! #envhist #histtech #histsci #envirotech www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

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Umwelt – Technik – Wissen

Junge Forschung aus der Umweltgeschichte: warum Umwelt, Technik und Wissen als Triebfedern der Gesellschaft gelten.

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Henk-Jan Dekker @henk-jandekker.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

1/ It's great to see that the new book Cycling Cities: The African Experiences has just been published! It’s a must-read for anyone interested in cycling and sustainable mobility and looks at African history through a new lens. A short thread: www.transitiestudies.nl/product/cycl...

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Cycling Cities: The African Experience - SHT

Cycling Cities: The African Experience: explores a century of urban cycling across Africa—from the rural towns of Aba and Zomba to the bustling capitals of Cairo and Cape Town, and many cities in betw...

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Gesellschaft – Wissen – Umwelt (Bielefeld) @gwu-bielefeld.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

GWU-Member @czumbragel.bsky.social contributed to the radio feature “100 Years of Energy Transition–How Germany Almost Became Renewable Once Before” The episode explores how people once imagined a different energy future open.spotify.com/episode/3W18... #energistories #UniBielefeld #energyhistory

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Energiewende 1925 - Als Deutschland fast schon einmal erneuerbar wurde

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Henk-Jan Dekker @henk-jandekker.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

It's been almost four years since publishing my book on the history of Dutch cycling, and it's been great to see all the exciting work on global cycling history that has come out since. Such an underrated mode of transport in so many contexts, it's finally getting its due. www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

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Cycling Pathways

In an effort to fight climate change, many cities try to boost their cycling levels. They often look towards the Dutch for guidance. However, historians have only begun to uncover how and why the Neth...

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Seriously, fuck off. I say that with all due gravity.

Task Could this be
acceptable use?
Under what conditions?
Ask generative AI to identify
or summarize key points in
an article before you read it
Yes Acceptable without explicit citation
Use an AI chatbot as a
writing partner to help
generate and develop ideas
Yes Acceptable, may require explicit citation
depending on circumstances
Ask generative AI to produce
a starter bibliography
Yes Acceptable without explicit citation only if
each reference is checked and additional
databases and sources are mined
Ask generative AI to produce
a historical image for a paper
or presentation
Yes Image should be clearly marked as AI
generated and with explicit discussion as to
how the image was created. Images should
not be shared beyond the classroom

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Henk-Jan Dekker @henk-jandekker.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

The July Issue of Technology and Culture is out now, with another exciting and diverse set of book reviews, including books in Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Spanish, and Russian: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55249

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Project MUSE - Technology and Culture-Volume 66, Number 3, July 2025

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Myrthe Hilkens @myrthehilkens.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Uitstekende kop; 14 gevluchte meisjes niet welkom. Dat het maar duidelijk is waar deze mannen met vuur en woede bang voor zijn; 14 meisjes.

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

NEW EPISODE! "What Makes a City a Cycling City?" Why do some cities become places where it’s easy to bike for transportation? We talk to the researchers behind the Cycling Cities project and look at places beyond Northern Europe to find out. Follow and listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Book cover: Cycling Cities: The African Experience. Red, yellow and green overlapping lines, like a road map, with images of trees, houses, a crosswalk.

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Henk-Jan Dekker @henk-jandekker.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Interesting-looking new article on the history of motorized tricycles in Greece by Papazafeiropoulou, Tsouchlis, and Tympas. A nice case study of 'marginal mobilities' that foregrounds the role of users and the historical complexity of motorization pathways www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Marginal mobilities: three-wheeled vehicles in Greece from the 1940s to the present

The article discusses mobility in terms of sociotechnical normalization. A central hypothesis is that discipline and control are structural facets of mobility that create uneven mobilities. The art...

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Philippe Quirion @philippequirion.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

La part du vélo dans les déplacements domicile-travail a dépassé les 20% à Grenoble en 2021, contre 2% à St-Etienne. Les écarts entre villes de population semblable sont énormes, une politique volontariste sur la durée fait la différence. Chiffres fournis par Guy Bourgeois, dans la revue TIM.

Tableau indiquant la part modale du vélo dans les déplacements domicile-travail dans les villes en France

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Henk-Jan Dekker @henk-jandekker.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Er wringt toch iets als elk dubbeltje dat aan zorg of onderwijs wordt uitgegeven drie keer moet worden verantwoord terwijl we blijkbaar wel denken ergens 19 miljard voor defensie vandaan te kunnen toveren.

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Henk-Jan Dekker @henk-jandekker.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I'm happy to share that I've started a new position as postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bielefeld! I've learned a lot and had a wonderful time in the ETRANHET project @cired.bsky.social and am looking forward to continuing my research at the crossroads of energy and mobility history.

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Henk-Jan Dekker @henk-jandekker.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

The April issue of Technology and Culture is now out! As always, we put together a wide-ranging collection of 40 book reviews, this time including titles in Chinese, French, Spanish, German, and Polish. Take a look at this exciting and diverse collection of books at muse.jhu.edu/issue/54592

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Project MUSE - Technology and Culture-Volume 66, Number 2, April 2025

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daniela russ @ueberdruss.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

🚨 I am delighted to announce that Tom Turnbull’s and my volume with @stanfordpress.bsky.social is out today, featuring Jennifer Eaglin, Victor Seow, Shellen Wu, Antoine Missemer, Giuliano Garavini, Michael Dobson, Laura A. Twagira, Damilola Adebayo, Troy Vettese, Liz Chatterjee, and Rebecca Wright

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