Melina Antonia Buns
@melinabuns.bsky.social
international, environmental, and energy historian · associate professor at University of Stavanger and the Greenhouse Center · radioactive waste and Nordic environmental cooperation · project leader of Energy Lives! · member of the Young Academy of Norway
Pinned
Energy Lives! now -finally- also with a website!
much is planned for March and we'll write about these and other events and project updates on our blog The Current.
expect some energetic posts the next weeks and years into 2028!
#energylives #envhist #energyhistory
www.uis.no/en/research/...
much is planned for March and we'll write about these and other events and project updates on our blog The Current.
expect some energetic posts the next weeks and years into 2028!
#energylives #envhist #energyhistory
www.uis.no/en/research/...
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Early christmas gift!
December 6, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Early christmas gift!
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A fabulous week of energy humanities PhD course is over. We ended with a roundtable on the future of energy humanities followed by the students presenting The Energy Catalogue - a small publication they made during the week. Truly inspiring. Thanks again to @melinabuns.bsky.social for organizing!
December 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
A fabulous week of energy humanities PhD course is over. We ended with a roundtable on the future of energy humanities followed by the students presenting The Energy Catalogue - a small publication they made during the week. Truly inspiring. Thanks again to @melinabuns.bsky.social for organizing!
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This is the end of a very interesting PhD course on Energy Humanities organized wonderfully by @melinabuns.bsky.social
This energy catalogue with our personal reflections is a very nice object to take back home
This energy catalogue with our personal reflections is a very nice object to take back home
December 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This is the end of a very interesting PhD course on Energy Humanities organized wonderfully by @melinabuns.bsky.social
This energy catalogue with our personal reflections is a very nice object to take back home
This energy catalogue with our personal reflections is a very nice object to take back home
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Some happy news to share - our excellent colleague Charlotte Wrigley @wrigleyca.bsky.social leads one of the eight projects that was funded by the Joint Nordic-Baltic Initiative on Sustainable Futures for Forests this week! We are super proud of her! #envhum #heritage
Recognising Other Ontologies of TreeScapes: A roadmap for sustainable forest heritage futures (ROOTS)
ROOTS is an interdisciplinary humanities project that addresses the issue of forest heritage across the Nordic nations and seeks to build sustainable forest heritage futures.
www.nordforsk.org
December 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Some happy news to share - our excellent colleague Charlotte Wrigley @wrigleyca.bsky.social leads one of the eight projects that was funded by the Joint Nordic-Baltic Initiative on Sustainable Futures for Forests this week! We are super proud of her! #envhum #heritage
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Job – Tenure Track – Environmental History – BOKU University - Vienna
Apply by January 6th.
niche-canada.org/2025/12/02/j...
#envhist
Apply by January 6th.
niche-canada.org/2025/12/02/j...
#envhist
Job - Tenure Track - Environmental History - BOKU University
Tenure-track BOKU University - Vienna position seeks environmental history scholar with strong research, teaching, interdisciplinary methods, funding success, and socio-ecological expertise.
niche-canada.org
December 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Job – Tenure Track – Environmental History – BOKU University - Vienna
Apply by January 6th.
niche-canada.org/2025/12/02/j...
#envhist
Apply by January 6th.
niche-canada.org/2025/12/02/j...
#envhist
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Beautiful views on our tour of local energy infrastructure today. We were so lucky with the #Stavanger weather! #envhum
December 3, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Beautiful views on our tour of local energy infrastructure today. We were so lucky with the #Stavanger weather! #envhum
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Took Electric Wind to meet some electric wind ⚡️ I’m out in Norway teaching on an energy humanities PhD course and we went to a wind farm today ☺️ @manchesterup.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Took Electric Wind to meet some electric wind ⚡️ I’m out in Norway teaching on an energy humanities PhD course and we went to a wind farm today ☺️ @manchesterup.bsky.social
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My battery is pretty low after an energy-intensive day, but it has been so great to be back in Stavanger with a room full of bright minds and critical ideas! Looking forward to more tomorrow. Thanks to @melinabuns.bsky.social for organising! #EnvHum
Wonderful energy in the room at the first day of our week-long PhD course on Energy Humanities, organized by @melinabuns.bsky.social. We had a great session by @untamed.bsky.social on criminal energy. #envhist #envhum
December 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
My battery is pretty low after an energy-intensive day, but it has been so great to be back in Stavanger with a room full of bright minds and critical ideas! Looking forward to more tomorrow. Thanks to @melinabuns.bsky.social for organising! #EnvHum
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I have written some reflections on the #energylives fieldwork week we had in Finland in October, for The Current, our project blog. www.uis.no/en/the-curre... #envhist #envhum #energy
November 28, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I have written some reflections on the #energylives fieldwork week we had in Finland in October, for The Current, our project blog. www.uis.no/en/the-curre... #envhist #envhum #energy
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Wonderful energy in the room at the first day of our week-long PhD course on Energy Humanities, organized by @melinabuns.bsky.social. We had a great session by @untamed.bsky.social on criminal energy. #envhist #envhum
December 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Wonderful energy in the room at the first day of our week-long PhD course on Energy Humanities, organized by @melinabuns.bsky.social. We had a great session by @untamed.bsky.social on criminal energy. #envhist #envhum
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Excited to start off the @greenhouseuis.net PhD course on Energy Humanities, organized by @melinabuns.bsky.social & co-funded by her NordForsk project Energy Lives!
December 1, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Excited to start off the @greenhouseuis.net PhD course on Energy Humanities, organized by @melinabuns.bsky.social & co-funded by her NordForsk project Energy Lives!
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📢 We are hiring! Tenure-track position in environmental history with a focus on long-term socio-ecological research. Exciting opportunity for post-docs working at the interface of environmental history & sustainability sciences. Deadline Jan 6, please spread far and wide! boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...
boku.ac.at
November 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
📢 We are hiring! Tenure-track position in environmental history with a focus on long-term socio-ecological research. Exciting opportunity for post-docs working at the interface of environmental history & sustainability sciences. Deadline Jan 6, please spread far and wide! boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...
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Interested in a tenure track position to work with us in environmental history at SEC and BOKU University in Vienna? Deadline to apply is Jan, 6 next year, details here: boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...
boku.ac.at
November 27, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Interested in a tenure track position to work with us in environmental history at SEC and BOKU University in Vienna? Deadline to apply is Jan, 6 next year, details here: boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...
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Nå har boka fått et fantastisk omslag, designet av Øystein Vidnes!
November 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Nå har boka fått et fantastisk omslag, designet av Øystein Vidnes!
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We want you to study with us!
Our masters program in Public Environmental Humanities starts Fall 2026. This is a very special program that brings together research with taking research into public sphere.
Next online info session: Thurs 21 Nov 14.00 CET
www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
#envhum
Our masters program in Public Environmental Humanities starts Fall 2026. This is a very special program that brings together research with taking research into public sphere.
Next online info session: Thurs 21 Nov 14.00 CET
www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
#envhum
November 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
We want you to study with us!
Our masters program in Public Environmental Humanities starts Fall 2026. This is a very special program that brings together research with taking research into public sphere.
Next online info session: Thurs 21 Nov 14.00 CET
www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
#envhum
Our masters program in Public Environmental Humanities starts Fall 2026. This is a very special program that brings together research with taking research into public sphere.
Next online info session: Thurs 21 Nov 14.00 CET
www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
#envhum
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My colleague Marie-Theres Fojuth has advertised a fully funded 3-year PhD Fellowship in Museum Education @unistavanger.bsky.social with the «Into the Fjords: Blue Museums as Arenas of Learning about Vulnerable Ecosystems (FJORDS)» project. Perfect for Scandinavian-speaking #envhum #envhist people!
PhD Fellowship in Museum Education (288983) | University of Stavanger
Job title: PhD Fellowship in Museum Education (288983), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Sunday, January 4, 2026
www.jobbnorge.no
November 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
My colleague Marie-Theres Fojuth has advertised a fully funded 3-year PhD Fellowship in Museum Education @unistavanger.bsky.social with the «Into the Fjords: Blue Museums as Arenas of Learning about Vulnerable Ecosystems (FJORDS)» project. Perfect for Scandinavian-speaking #envhum #envhist people!
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Our absolute pleasure to host this wonderful two-day British Academy-funded workshop on extraction and extractivism last week. Thank you @melinabuns.bsky.social 🙏💫
such wonderful two days with fantastic scholars! thank you to everyone who engaged in discussions about extraction, extractivism, and beyond!
thank you to the @britishacademy.bsky.social for making this workshop possible and to @uobrisceh.bsky.social for hosting it.
#envhum
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thank you to the @britishacademy.bsky.social for making this workshop possible and to @uobrisceh.bsky.social for hosting it.
#envhum
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Day one of the Extractive Natures/Natures of Extraction workshop, organised by @melinabuns.bsky.social as part of her @britishacademy.bsky.social fellowship here at Bristol @uobrisceh.bsky.social . Great papers that spanned resource extraction from medieval Europe to modern day Australia
November 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Our absolute pleasure to host this wonderful two-day British Academy-funded workshop on extraction and extractivism last week. Thank you @melinabuns.bsky.social 🙏💫
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The Norwegian event announcement is here.
Fotografisk vandring i Sørmarka – gjenfotografering og historisk refleksjon
Bli med DigiFren prosjektet på søndagsstur i Sørmarka.
www.uis.no
November 6, 2025 at 8:31 AM
The Norwegian event announcement is here.
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Happy to announce that I am joining the the Environmental Humanities journal editorial team as an Associate Editor.
read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...
#envhum #envhist
read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...
#envhum #envhist
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Happy to announce that I am joining the the Environmental Humanities journal editorial team as an Associate Editor.
read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...
#envhum #envhist
read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...
#envhum #envhist
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Nearly a week into our annual November fundraising campaign, and we are 24% of the way there!
We would love to see some more of our readers coming in with smaller donations! You can donate as little as $20 CAD ($14.25 USD, $12.30 euro).
fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...
#envhist #envhum #cdnhist
We would love to see some more of our readers coming in with smaller donations! You can donate as little as $20 CAD ($14.25 USD, $12.30 euro).
fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...
#envhist #envhum #cdnhist
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Nearly a week into our annual November fundraising campaign, and we are 24% of the way there!
We would love to see some more of our readers coming in with smaller donations! You can donate as little as $20 CAD ($14.25 USD, $12.30 euro).
fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...
#envhist #envhum #cdnhist
We would love to see some more of our readers coming in with smaller donations! You can donate as little as $20 CAD ($14.25 USD, $12.30 euro).
fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...
#envhist #envhum #cdnhist
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Support our fundraising campaign! Keep #envhist & #envhum vibrant and accessible in Canada and beyond!
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Help NiCHE Write the Next Chapter of Environmental History: 2025 Campaign
The Network in Canadian History and Environment is a not-for-profit public history organization dedicated to the dissemination of environmental history research in Canada and building a network of res...
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November 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Support our fundraising campaign! Keep #envhist & #envhum vibrant and accessible in Canada and beyond!
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such wonderful two days with fantastic scholars! thank you to everyone who engaged in discussions about extraction, extractivism, and beyond!
thank you to the @britishacademy.bsky.social for making this workshop possible and to @uobrisceh.bsky.social for hosting it.
#envhum
🪨 🌊 🌿
thank you to the @britishacademy.bsky.social for making this workshop possible and to @uobrisceh.bsky.social for hosting it.
#envhum
🪨 🌊 🌿
Day one of the Extractive Natures/Natures of Extraction workshop, organised by @melinabuns.bsky.social as part of her @britishacademy.bsky.social fellowship here at Bristol @uobrisceh.bsky.social . Great papers that spanned resource extraction from medieval Europe to modern day Australia
November 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
such wonderful two days with fantastic scholars! thank you to everyone who engaged in discussions about extraction, extractivism, and beyond!
thank you to the @britishacademy.bsky.social for making this workshop possible and to @uobrisceh.bsky.social for hosting it.
#envhum
🪨 🌊 🌿
thank you to the @britishacademy.bsky.social for making this workshop possible and to @uobrisceh.bsky.social for hosting it.
#envhum
🪨 🌊 🌿
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The Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English.
Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues!
Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues!
Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English.
Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues!
Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues!
Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
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We’re ready for the first event of the #CREATURE research group - «Art vs. Science: dueling methodologies in the classroom». Charlotte Wrigley @wrigleyca.bsky.social and Allen Jones are running the show today. With Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein as an honorary member!
November 5, 2025 at 9:16 AM
We’re ready for the first event of the #CREATURE research group - «Art vs. Science: dueling methodologies in the classroom». Charlotte Wrigley @wrigleyca.bsky.social and Allen Jones are running the show today. With Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein as an honorary member!