Robert Suits
@robertsuits.bsky.social
Asst Prof/Lecturer in environmental history at University College London. Researching climate, energy, capitalism, and labo(u)r; author of The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants (Princeton University Press, 2026). Also novelist, musician.
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Really looking forward to presenting 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 next Monday at UCL/SSEES! Thanks to @vkulikov.bsky.social for the initiative and to @eglerin.bsky.social & @robertsuits.bsky.social for agreeing to discuss my work. Join us if you happen to be in London
@uclssees.bsky.social
@uclssees.bsky.social
What happens if we tell the history of the planetary emergency from the margins? Join us for this event with @kbruisch.bsky.social, Eglė Rindzevičiūtė and @robertsuits.bsky.social to find out more.
🗓️ 17 November at 6.15pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/zYgWn4s
@universitypress.cambridge.org
🗓️ 17 November at 6.15pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/zYgWn4s
@universitypress.cambridge.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Really looking forward to presenting 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 next Monday at UCL/SSEES! Thanks to @vkulikov.bsky.social for the initiative and to @eglerin.bsky.social & @robertsuits.bsky.social for agreeing to discuss my work. Join us if you happen to be in London
@uclssees.bsky.social
@uclssees.bsky.social
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What happens if we tell the history of the planetary emergency from the margins? Join us for this event with @kbruisch.bsky.social, Eglė Rindzevičiūtė and @robertsuits.bsky.social to find out more.
🗓️ 17 November at 6.15pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/zYgWn4s
@universitypress.cambridge.org
🗓️ 17 November at 6.15pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/zYgWn4s
@universitypress.cambridge.org
November 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
What happens if we tell the history of the planetary emergency from the margins? Join us for this event with @kbruisch.bsky.social, Eglė Rindzevičiūtė and @robertsuits.bsky.social to find out more.
🗓️ 17 November at 6.15pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/zYgWn4s
@universitypress.cambridge.org
🗓️ 17 November at 6.15pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/zYgWn4s
@universitypress.cambridge.org
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Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
November 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
Don't see a way out of this apart from the strict legal regulation of all generative "AI". Everything needs to be labeled, the use of the likeness of real people (alive or dead) without their express consent needs to be libel (even in a labeled video), and the fines need to be ruinous.
November 1, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Don't see a way out of this apart from the strict legal regulation of all generative "AI". Everything needs to be labeled, the use of the likeness of real people (alive or dead) without their express consent needs to be libel (even in a labeled video), and the fines need to be ruinous.
This is a really excellent analysis of not just the pressures and dilemmas around LLMs in publishing but also the larger political economy of "AI".
We need a critique of AI in academic publishing. Following my decision not to sign an AI addendum to my contract with Cambridge University Press, I wrote this short essay which is now out in the Dublin Review of Books.
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drb.ie/move-over-fo...
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drb.ie/move-over-fo...
Move over for AI - DRB
Katja Bruisch writes: I recently completed a scholarly monograph – an environmental, economic and energy history of peat in imperial and Soviet Russia. After years of thinking and writing, I approache...
drb.ie
October 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM
This is a really excellent analysis of not just the pressures and dilemmas around LLMs in publishing but also the larger political economy of "AI".
Whichever country or countries choose to tack against the wind of anti-immigrant sentiment will be huge winners economically, let alone morally.
October 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Whichever country or countries choose to tack against the wind of anti-immigrant sentiment will be huge winners economically, let alone morally.
What are your favorite long reads from the last few weeks? Any topic, any outlet, as long as they're thoughtful/interesting! (Bonus points if free.)
October 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
What are your favorite long reads from the last few weeks? Any topic, any outlet, as long as they're thoughtful/interesting! (Bonus points if free.)
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Whatever strategy you’re about to suggest, we’ve thought about it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments
ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments Because this document has escaped containment, a couple points of explanation. I wrote this for myself and a few colleagues as we work out how to handle...
docs.google.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Whatever strategy you’re about to suggest, we’ve thought about it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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In what is now the United States people have been speaking Spanish for about 100 years longer than they have been speaking English.
a woman claps her hands in front of a sign that says " claps in spanish "
Alt: a woman claps her hands in front of a sign that says " claps in spanish "
media.tenor.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
In what is now the United States people have been speaking Spanish for about 100 years longer than they have been speaking English.
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Please join us for this event to hear more about @kbruisch.bsky.social's new book 'Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia’s Fossil Economy' (@universitypress.cambridge.org).
Discussants: Eglė Rindzevičiūtė and @robertsuits.bsky.social.
🗓️ 17 November at 6.15pm
➡️ buff.ly/zYgWn4s
Discussants: Eglė Rindzevičiūtė and @robertsuits.bsky.social.
🗓️ 17 November at 6.15pm
➡️ buff.ly/zYgWn4s
October 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Please join us for this event to hear more about @kbruisch.bsky.social's new book 'Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia’s Fossil Economy' (@universitypress.cambridge.org).
Discussants: Eglė Rindzevičiūtė and @robertsuits.bsky.social.
🗓️ 17 November at 6.15pm
➡️ buff.ly/zYgWn4s
Discussants: Eglė Rindzevičiūtė and @robertsuits.bsky.social.
🗓️ 17 November at 6.15pm
➡️ buff.ly/zYgWn4s
question answered, incidentally
October 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
question answered, incidentally
Did "hand grenades" used to mean something else? Or was this fairly normal mixed used building in 1895 South Side Chicago packing a *lot* of heat?
October 18, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Did "hand grenades" used to mean something else? Or was this fairly normal mixed used building in 1895 South Side Chicago packing a *lot* of heat?
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137 meter to 200 meter tall tastless statues with lots of mass?
Gonna have quite low seismic resonance frequencies.
Consider them "temporary art installations."
Gonna have quite low seismic resonance frequencies.
Consider them "temporary art installations."
Conservative-leaning tech investors are racing to build a new American colossus, and they want something much, much bigger than the Statue of Liberty. Meet the new monuments men of the tech right and their plans for statue-maxing:
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
America’s Tech Right Is Obsessed With Building Giant Statues
With proposals for a 450-foot statue of Prometheus on Alcatraz and a 650-foot George Washington, MAGA adherents are racing to build America’s largest statue.
www.bloomberg.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
137 meter to 200 meter tall tastless statues with lots of mass?
Gonna have quite low seismic resonance frequencies.
Consider them "temporary art installations."
Gonna have quite low seismic resonance frequencies.
Consider them "temporary art installations."
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If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
October 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
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I'm determined to be a useful member of the Digital Scholarship committee for the WHA this year, so I need help: what cool new-ish digital humanities projects related to Western US history do you know about?
October 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I'm determined to be a useful member of the Digital Scholarship committee for the WHA this year, so I need help: what cool new-ish digital humanities projects related to Western US history do you know about?
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Repeating this plea for the evening crowd. Don't let me embarrass myself again this year.
I'm determined to be a useful member of the Digital Scholarship committee for the WHA this year, so I need help: what cool new-ish digital humanities projects related to Western US history do you know about?
October 16, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Repeating this plea for the evening crowd. Don't let me embarrass myself again this year.
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So great to see my new book How Plague Got Rats:
Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic, published OA @hopkinspress.bsky.social next May, has got a cover! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic, published OA @hopkinspress.bsky.social next May, has got a cover! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
October 14, 2025 at 11:43 AM
So great to see my new book How Plague Got Rats:
Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic, published OA @hopkinspress.bsky.social next May, has got a cover! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic, published OA @hopkinspress.bsky.social next May, has got a cover! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
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We're hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in Dept of Environmental Studies at University of Colorado Boulder with expertise in energy & environmental policy, and emphases on sustainability & decarbonization. The job ad is here, apply by the Nov 14 deadline! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies
jobs.colorado.edu
October 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
We're hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in Dept of Environmental Studies at University of Colorado Boulder with expertise in energy & environmental policy, and emphases on sustainability & decarbonization. The job ad is here, apply by the Nov 14 deadline! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
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Energy History People, see this great opportunity: PhD Course in Energy Humanities, 1–5 Dec @greenhouseuis.net. Apply by 24 Oct!
#envhum #envhist #energyhistory #energistories
#envhum #envhist #energyhistory #energistories
I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities!
Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.
Applications are welcome until 24 October.
#envhum #envhist #energyhistory
Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.
Applications are welcome until 24 October.
#envhum #envhist #energyhistory
October 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Energy History People, see this great opportunity: PhD Course in Energy Humanities, 1–5 Dec @greenhouseuis.net. Apply by 24 Oct!
#envhum #envhist #energyhistory #energistories
#envhum #envhist #energyhistory #energistories
Coal is a fuel used almost exclusively in electricity generation, which is going out of business almost exclusively because it cannot compete with cheap fracked natural gas.
September 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Coal is a fuel used almost exclusively in electricity generation, which is going out of business almost exclusively because it cannot compete with cheap fracked natural gas.
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For those in London on 17 Nov 2025: please join us for a book talk at @uclssees.bsky.social. @eglerin.bsky.social and @robertsuits.bsky.social have read the book and will share their comments. Register here: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia’s Fossil Economy
A Rethinking Eastern Europe and Eurasia seminar with Katja Bruisch, Eglė Rindzevičiūtė and Robert Suits
www.ucl.ac.uk
September 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
For those in London on 17 Nov 2025: please join us for a book talk at @uclssees.bsky.social. @eglerin.bsky.social and @robertsuits.bsky.social have read the book and will share their comments. Register here: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
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Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
September 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
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A nice job has opened in my department at Cambridge: Assistant Prof. in US History since 1920.
Please share widely!
No references letters required up front. Applications close 27 Oct. 2025.🗃️
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Please share widely!
No references letters required up front. Applications close 27 Oct. 2025.🗃️
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor, History of the United States since 1920
The Faculty of History is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in post-1920 U.S. political history and/or the history of the United States in the World since 1920, beginning 1 October, 2026. The
www.cam.ac.uk
September 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
A nice job has opened in my department at Cambridge: Assistant Prof. in US History since 1920.
Please share widely!
No references letters required up front. Applications close 27 Oct. 2025.🗃️
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Please share widely!
No references letters required up front. Applications close 27 Oct. 2025.🗃️
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
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📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5
#envhist #energysky
#envhist #energysky
September 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM
📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5
#envhist #energysky
#envhist #energysky
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It is incredible how this government is so intent on dismantling one of our only working industries in service of a con.
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
It is incredible how this government is so intent on dismantling one of our only working industries in service of a con.