Lucas Mueller @lumu.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Two timely talks are coming up in the "Avalanches" project. Tom Özden-Schilling speaks about the fate of forestry research when public funding is cut. Mike Hulme asks whether the global temperature makes for a good indicator for the state of Planet Earth. Join! More at avalanche.hypotheses.org/gel 000
Lucas Mueller @lumu.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Well, it is just as important as all the other businesses decorating themselves with bright yellow wooden planks! Have the planks become a mark to signal importance - to whom? 010
Reposted by Lucas MuellerJuliet J. Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social · 03/06/2026The G7 will be organized in Evian 🇫🇷 but the🇨🇭city of Geneva has the main local airport & will (mostly unwillingly) host most of the demos. I've planned a few days of visual fieldwork as the international border passage points will be closed in many places from 12-18 June. Flashback to Covid lockdown? 141
Lucas Mueller @lumu.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Looking forward to presenting and discussing my research on hazard zones @unibe.ch on May 19! Feel free to join in person or online ❄️🏔️ 000
Lucas Mueller @lumu.bsky.social · 27/04/2026There are still a few more days to send us your abstract 🏔️ 010
Reposted by Lucas MuellerSabine Pitteloud @sabinepitteloud.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Avec Janick Schaufelbuehl, nos co-éditons ce numéro de la revue Relations internationales sur la Diplomatie environnementale! A faire circuler et au plaisir de recevoir vos propositions! 042
Lucas Mueller @lumu.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Danielle Inkpen (Mt Allison University) and I are organizing a conference on "Mountains, Danger, and Endangerment" on 12-13 November 2026 in Geneva (CH). Here's the CfP: avalanche.hypotheses.org/cfp-2026 Repost and circulate and submit! See you in Geneva!avalanche.hypotheses.orgCfP: Mountains, Danger, and Endangerment, 12-13 November 2026, Geneva (CH)Danger and endangerment have long been central to the experiences, knowledges, and governance of mountain environments. One of the most influential framing accounts of mountain history tells how in th... 054
Lucas Mueller @lumu.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Digitalization Is the Answer…But What Is the Question? If you are interested in thinking together through making use of this magnificent collection as a source of critical historical research and engaging outreach - please reach out to me! 132
Lucas Mueller @lumu.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Le même exercice chaque année: le conseil fédéral annonce un déficit pour justifier les coupes budgetaires de la science et des programmes pour une bonne vie civile et associative - afin il y a un excédent: www.rts.ch/info/suisse/... Les cantons font pareil: www.uss.ch/themes/econo...rts.chLa Confédération affiche finalement un excédent de 300 millions pour 2025 | RTSL'exercice comptable 2025 se clôt finalement dans les chiffres noirs. La Confédération affiche un excédent de 300 millions alors qu'elle prévoyait un déficit de 800 millions. Le résultat est donc meil... 000
Lucas Mueller @lumu.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Very much looking forward to deepen and open up the discussion about "Expert Multiplicity and Scientific Authority in the Anthropocene" at our Roundtable with Jessica Wang, Sabine Clarke, David Demortain, and Etienne Benson at #HSS2026 #eshs2026 in July in Edinburgh: hssonline.org/page/Edinbur...hssonline.org2026 HSS Annual Meeting - History of Science Society 010
Lucas Mueller @lumu.bsky.social · 16/02/2026The zones reflect as much a political choice about protection and property rights as actual natural dangers. Living and building in a blue zone may mean following evacuation orders in moments of exceptional danger, like this morning. 000
Lucas Mueller @lumu.bsky.social · 16/02/2026In 1959, a SLF engineer first proposed these two types of zones - A/red with a building ban, and B/blue with a special building code -to resolve the dilemma between state guaranteed natural hazard protection and land/real estate interests in a country that carries out public votes on building zones. 100
Lucas Mueller @lumu.bsky.social · 16/02/2026This morning, the municipality of Orsière ordered around 50 people to evacuate their houses in the blue and red hazard zones, as an addition 80cm of fresh snow are expected, and the Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche (SLF) set the danger of avalanches to the category of 4+ 100
Lucas Mueller @lumu.bsky.social · 12/02/2026The red avalanche can also be found on the national avalanche map from 1907, just one year before it contributed to a catastrophe in Goppenstein (1908). It makes it into the news every few years, interrupting traffic. Avalanches have a history, shaping the Alpine landscape deep into the valleys. 010
Lucas Mueller @lumu.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Avalanches were often named after the mountains from which they descend (Rothenberg). Its path gave name to the valley, Rothlaui, that is depicted on the Siegfried map of 1913, just after the railway tunnel was opened. 100
Lucas Mueller @lumu.bsky.social · 12/02/2026It did so next to the gallery of Rotloiwi, which we can first see on the map of 1977. The toponym (red avalanche) suggests that this isn't a new phenomenon. 100
Lucas Mueller @lumu.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Today, an avalanche cut off railway and road to the Lötschental. www.lenouvelliste.ch/valais/haut-...lenouvelliste.chAvalanche: le Lötschental coupé du traficUne avalanche a coupé l’entrée du Lötschental, peu après le tunnel routier du Lötschberg. Le trafic est interrompu au moins jusqu’au début de la soirée. 130
Reposted by Lucas MuellerSabine Pitteloud @sabinepitteloud.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Davos gave us globalism and now offers a front-row seat to its collapse. With Grace Ballor, we examine both its historical momentum and weaknesses. academic.oup.com/ser/advance-... In an issue on the post-neoliberal order by @quinnslobodian.com @llchristyll.bsky.social @akentikelenis.bsky.social 13419
Reposted by Lucas MuellerSonja van Wichelen @sonjavw.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Applications open for Ischia Summer School! Confirmed faculty: Daryn Lehoux (Queen’s), Dániel Margócsy (Cambridge), He Bian (Princeton), Patrick Anthony (Uppsala), Alison Bashford (UNSW), Hannah Landecker (UCLA), Edna Suárez-Díaz (UNAM), Sabina Leonelli (TUM) #STS #HPS ischiasummerschool.orgischiasummerschool.orgAbout the school - Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life SciencesIschia 2013 Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences: About the summer school. 1148
Lucas Mueller @lumu.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Great program for HSSuisse25 this Friday in Lucerne! See you there! hssuisse.ch/meetings/202...hssuisse.chHSSUISSE - History of Science Switzerland 021
Lucas Mueller @lumu.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Looking forward to Anna Ahlers "Demystifying China’s Authoritarian Environmentalism - and Its Local and Global Nuances" on 8 December 2025, 17h15, at Uni Mail, M1170. Public talk - join if you are in Geneva! 010
Lucas Mueller @lumu.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Next week! Join for David Jones's talk about urban air pollution this Wednesday, as the autumnal fog sits upon Geneva and the Swiss plateau 🌫️ 021
Reposted by Lucas MuellerCédric Durand @cedricdurand.bsky.social · 13/10/2025L’approche néo-schumpeterienne de Philippe Aghion a largement inspiré les politiques économiques en Europe depuis le tournant des années 2000. Et singulièrement celle d’Emmanuel Macron 1/ 411774
Reposted by Lucas MuellerSignal @signal.org · 03/10/2025We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...signal.org 4039252365
Lucas Mueller @lumu.bsky.social · 07/10/202525/11 FR "Contested Danger: Avalanches, Knowledge, Politics, and Land in Switzerland" www.unifr.ch/geo/humangeo... 11/12 GE "La géographie des trois chiens du Grand Saint Bernard: l’animal de travail, le chien de race, et le chien d’avalanche, dans le territoire Suisse" www.unige.ch/sciences-soc... 021
Lucas Mueller @lumu.bsky.social · 07/10/2025If you want to hear more about avalanches (and avalanche dogs 🐶 ), you have three opportunities in three languages across Switzerland this: 21/10, Chur, "Lawinen und soziale Ordnung. Graubünden als Labor des Umgangs mit Naturgefahren, 1867–1972," historia-gr.ch/veranstaltun... 120
Lucas Mueller @lumu.bsky.social · 06/10/20258/12 – Anna Ahlers (MPIWG, Berlin): "Demystifying China’s Authoritarian Environmentalism - and Its Local and Global Nuances," 17h15 The series is part of the SNSF-project "Avalanches." More here avalanche.hypotheses.org/gel 010
Lucas Mueller @lumu.bsky.social · 06/10/2025We have two great talks coming up in the Geneva Environmental Lecture series this term. 22/10 – David S. Jones (Harvard): "Particulate Matters: How PM2.5 Became a Cause of Death, and a Matter of Concern," 17h15, E712, Bd. Carl-Vogt 66 120
Reposted by Lucas MuellerBruno J. Strasser @brunostrasser.bsky.social · 21/08/20251/12 - In our book, The Mask, we show 58 striking images. Remember those depictions of plague doctors wearing a beaked mask? Such visual elements were common in the 17th C and were always satirical. Here is one by F. Bertelli, from Il Carnevale Italiano…1642 (The Met, NY). tinyurl.com/uvzjs9py 294
Lucas Mueller @lumu.bsky.social · 13/08/2025So far, no polls have been published, and it seems unlikely that the referendum will succeed. However, the super-rich are spooked. www.ft.com/content/1ca8...ft.comInheritance tax referendum spooks Swiss super-richBankers and lawyers warn of exodus ahead of public vote on 50 per cent rate for the very wealthy 000
Lucas Mueller @lumu.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Switzerland will vote in late November on a popular initiative to impose a 50% tax on inheritance and donations above 50 million. The initiative, lanced by the JUSO, proposes to use the funds for socially just measures for climate protection. zukunft-initiative.ch/fr/zukunft-initiative.chIPALes ultra-riches détruisent notre avenir avec leurs jets privés, leurs super-yachts et leurs investissements de plusieurs milliards nuisibles au climat. En quelques heures, elles et ils sont… 110
Lucas Mueller @lumu.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Submit your proposal for a presentation at HSSuisse25 in Lucerne (5 December) till 15 August! Going into its 6th year, this workshop serves as an informal, respectful, and constructive environment to present new and old projects and think through them together. More on hssuisse.ch/meetings/202...hssuisse.chHSSUISSE - History of Science Switzerland 000
Reposted by Lucas MuellerBruno J. Strasser @brunostrasser.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Our book is out! The surprising history of masks worn by plague doctors, factory workers, trench soldier, hospital nurses, and the rest of us. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.socuial 414337
Reposted by Lucas Muellerdehes.bsky.social @dehes.bsky.social · 04/07/2025More information about the conference's content and program: 1114
Reposted by Lucas MuellerFlurin Condrau @fcondrau.bsky.social · 24/06/2025"The Mask" by @brunostrasser.bsky.social and #thomasschlich is out today. I have listened to talks and seen some papers and cannot wait to read this. 05515
Reposted by Lucas MuellerDiplomatic History @diplomatichistory.bsky.social · 21/06/2025We look forward to seeing the conversations that come out of this exciting forum! 021
Reposted by Lucas MuellerDiplomatic History @diplomatichistory.bsky.social · 21/06/2025The rest of the research articles in the issue are part of a special forum on the planetary age Lucas Mueller (@lumu.bsky.social) and Simone M. Müller compiled a great set of articles and wrote the introduction, which is available in open access academic.oup.com/dh/article/4...academic.oup.comVisions of the One Planet: The Planetary Age in International and Environmental History“We know that you don’t have the power to stop a transaction, but for goodness’ sake, we are all on the same planet.”- Congressional Representative John Co 163
Lucas Mueller @lumu.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Our Forum "Visions of the Planet" is now published in Diplomatic History (49.3) - and you can find all articles in one place: academic.oup.com/dh/issue/49/3academic.oup.comVolume 49 Issue 3 | Diplomatic History | Oxford AcademicThe official journal of Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Examines issues relating to U.S. diplomacy, foreign relations, and security issues from the colonial period to the present... 052
Lucas Mueller @lumu.bsky.social · 10/06/2025New day, new archive. Let's see how the Swiss planners thought about avalanches and other natural dangers - and what they did about it. 120
Reposted by Lucas Muellerdehes.bsky.social @dehes.bsky.social · 03/06/2025The doctoral summer school of conflict in the history of capitalism continues today with a keynote by Vanessa Ogle @vanessahistory.bsky.social. Full program: www.unige.ch/sciences-soc... 021
Lucas Mueller @lumu.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Sadly, a deeply flawed effort. The European institutions and universities don't create more stable tt positions. The grant-based schemes do not replicate the employment structures that made US universities and their researchers 'excellent', (and which also have been withered away in the US). 110
Lucas Mueller @lumu.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Tonight! Join for Mark Carey's talk about icebergs - not icons of climate change but a problem for commerce! 011
Lucas Mueller @lumu.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Our introduction, w/ @smueller.bsky.social, about the planetary age in environmental and international history is online! Check out the Forum articles by Perrin Selcer, Andrea Westermann, Liesbeth van de Grift & @smacekura.bsky.social Let's begin the debate about the visions of the one planet 🌍academic.oup.comVisions of the One Planet: The Planetary Age in International and Environmental History“We know that you don’t have the power to stop a transaction, but for goodness’ sake, we are all on the same planet.”- Congressional Representative John Co 0135
Reposted by Lucas MuellerPeter van Dam @phvandam.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Can activists change businesses? In this special issue, an inspiring group of colleagues explores attempts to do so, and discuss the opportunities and limitations these historical cases bring to the fore. Thanks to all of them, and to @sabinepitteloud.bsky.social for the great teamwork! 133
Lucas Mueller @lumu.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Save the date for the next talk in the "Geneva Environmental Lecture" series! On 8 May, Mark Carey (Oregon) will speak on the very mundane history of icebergs 🧊 More on avalanche.hypotheses.org/gel 021