Fredrik Albritton Jonsson

@fredrikjonsson.bsky.social

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Historian at the University of Chicago. Co-editor of The Journal of Modern History. New projects: Pandora's Box: The First Fossil Fuel Economy (Princeton UP, 2027). And with Moritz von Brescius, The Long Acceleration 1500-1950. .. more

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Fredrik Albritton Jonsson is a historian at the University of Chicago. He is the Author of Enlightenment's Frontier: The Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism and the coauthor of Green Victorians: The Simple Life in John Ruskin's Lake District. He currently serves as the co-editor of The Journal of Modern History. .. more

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Fredrik Albritton Jonsson @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social · Aug 13

With @mbrescius.bsky.social I am very happy to announce the launch of a major new project in #Anthropocene history. The Long Acceleration brings together more than 20 scholars to consider the planetary emergency. Many thanks to Moritz and the Institute for European Global Studies for hosting us.

Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Nick Pearce, Robin Celikates , and 6 more Jonathan Portes, Nick Pearce, Robin Celikates, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Catherine J. Frieman, Charles T. Mathewes, Aviel Roshwald, Annette Yoshiko Reed, François Guesnet

Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 4d

Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin

La date du 16 juin avait été dans un premier temps pressentie pour son entrée au Panthéon, mais la cérémonie a dû être décalée de quelques jours en raison du G7 à Evian-les-Bains.

www.lemonde.fr

Reposted by Mel Bartley, Nancy Knowlton, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson , and 1 more Mel Bartley, Nancy Knowlton, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Georg Weizsäcker

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 5d

Industrial heat is one of the hardest parts of the energy transition.

This sand battery is now delivering fossil-free heat for industry, storing renewable electricity as high-temperature heat and releasing it when needed. Simple idea, big impact.

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Dolly Jørgensen, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson

Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 7d

Call for Contributions to a Sourcebook for Histories of Weather & Weathering teleskopos.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/c...
Full details linked and here teleskopos.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
It will be edited by me, @lottaleiwo.bsky.social and Tamara Culkins. Please share! #histSTM #envhist 🗃️📜

Call for Contributions: Histories of Weather & Weathering

Call for Contributions: A Sourcebook for Histories of Weather and Weathering (working title) Editors: Rebekah Higgitt, Tamara Caulkins and Lotta Leiwo We invite contributions to this planned open a…

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Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Margot C. Finn, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson , and 1 more Lesley A. Hall, Margot C. Finn, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Farah Mendlesohn

HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social · 7d

Our conference #cfp is now live! This year's conference, "Embodied Histories: Body, Mind and Experience" will take place on 17th July 2026 at University of Birmingham!

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HistoryLab 20th Anniversary Annual Conference 2026 — Call for Papers

Embodied Histories: Body, Mind, and Experience

17th July 2026 | Hybrid Conference, in-person at University of Birmingham, Staff House, Grand Central Room

The human body is both a biological reality and a cultural construct. It is a site of meaning, experience, and power. From rituals of health and healing to practices of regulation, discipline, and display, bodies have both shaped and been shaped by their historical contexts.
We invite papers that place the body and lived experience at the centre of historical inquiry, engaging with themes such as medicine, disability, gender, the senses, and the emotions. We welcome contributions that explore how bodies and experiences have been represented, regulated, or performed, and how these processes intersect with broader questions of identity, power, culture, and society across periods and regions.

This conference also marks the 20th anniversary of HistoryLab. Since its founding, HistoryLab has provided a national platform for postgraduate and early career historians to share ideas, foster collaboration, and build community. We invite participants to join us in celebrating this milestone year.

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, David Edgerton, Margot C. Finn , and 5 more Lesley A. Hall, David Edgerton, Margot C. Finn, Dolly Jørgensen, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Kevin O’Sullivan, Katrina Navickas, Renaud Morieux

Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social · 7d

CALL FOR PAPERS - Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn'.

A two-day workshop organised by @maxlong.bsky.social and myself at Lincoln College, Oxford, 16-17 September. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May.

Details in poster below, please share.

This two-day workshop will explore several questions. How can environmental history complement or offer alternatives to existing historiographical narratives and periodisations in British history? What new actors, events, or phenomena might come to the fore? How should it foster engagements with places beyond its national borders or with other disciplines? Is environmental history different from longstanding traditions of ‘landscape’ or ‘urban’ histories of Britain? What contributions can historians make to environmental advocacy and policymaking? And how might a focus on the environment reshape teaching in British history?

To take part, participants should submit a 300 word proposal for a short ‘position paper’ (approx. 2500 words) that will be pre-circulated at the workshop. These position papers will address the place of environmental approaches and themes within modern British history (1800 to the present) from the perspective of the participant’s own research. Participants will orally summarise their papers at the workshop. The event is free to attend and includes lunch and refreshments.

Submissions are welcomed across a range of perspectives and topics, including but not limited to: energy, extraction, non-human actors, pollution, toxicity, rural and urban landscapes, everyday environmental histories (including how they are shaped by class, gender, and race), imperialism and decolonisation, ‘green’ policy, activism, and the political economy of the natural world.

Please send proposals and a one-paragraph biography in a single PDF to andrew.seaton@manchester.ac.uk by 15 May 2026. Please also direct enquiries to this address.

This event is organised by Dr. Max Long (Oxford) and Dr. Andrew Seaton (Manchester).

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Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay @mdtremblay.bsky.social · 7d

The new issue of EJHET contains in-depth reviews of the new translation of Marx’s Capital, the Correspondance of Saint-Simon, as well as a book by Plouviez on French debates on inheritance in the 19th century, and one by Mbeki on Kalecki @thomaslalevee.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/rejh20/3...

The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought

Special Issue on ESHET 2024 Conference Graz. Volume 32, Issue 6 of The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought

www.tandfonline.com

Reposted by Tony R. ‎Walker, Jingfeng Xiao, Jeremy T. Kerr , and 1 more Tony R. ‎Walker, Jingfeng Xiao, Jeremy T. Kerr, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson

Peter Head @peterheadcbe.bsky.social · 9d

This research paper is the first time that a tipping point of a switch from a carbon sink to a carbon emission source in tropical rainforests has been identified clearly – not just for one year but for the last 20 years. Cause is a change in the local climate. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Australian tropical rainforest trees switch in world first from carbon sink to emissions source

Researchers say carbon emissions change in Queensland tropical rainforests may have global climate implications

www.theguardian.com

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 11d

You thought it was just Carney in Beijing this January?

The West wants an 'outside option' from US bullying....
"new world order" is about building the material basis of their sovereignty: ppl's wellbeing, energy, tech & the future
@katemac.bsky.social & I:
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social · 13d

Yes, they work beautifully for an undergraduate seminar-style course focused on close reading of classic texts. Baker's volume is especially good but the medieval selections also teach really well

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social · 13d

We still use them in the History of European Civ to this day...

Reposted by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Matthias Schmelzer, Béatrice Cointe

Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 13d

A few of us got together for a forum on degrowth in
@envirohistory.bsky.social. Here is my bit: "It's the Economy Stupid." And check out the entries from
@fredrikjonsson.bsky.social, @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social, and

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

It’s the Economy, Stupid | Environmental History: Vol 31, No 1

www.journals.uchicago.edu

Reposted by Charles West, Lesley A. Hall, Laurie Johnson , and 2 more Charles West, Lesley A. Hall, Laurie Johnson, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Frederik Dhondt

Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 14d

An open letter to @theguardian.com about their article last week about the Crown’s Silence, requesting that the Black scholar of Caribbean heritage who did the years of archival research behind this claim, and published it in 1979, Roger Norman Buckley, be acknowledged as the source of this reveal:

OPEN LETTER TO THE GUARDIAN
Dear Editors,
We write in reference to a recent article published in the UK online edition of The Guardian on Friday, 23 January 2026, which carried the following misleading headline: "British crown was world's largest buyer of enslaved people by 1807, book reveals."
The article in question, by Chris Osuh, showcases a new book by Dr. Brooke Newman, The Crown's
Silence: The Hidden History of Slavery and the British Monarchy (Harper Collins, 2026). But Newman's book is not the original source of that claim. That claim derives from earlier scholarship, the painstaking archival work of a Black historian of Caribbean heritage: the late Roger Norman Buckley.
It is unfortunate that the silencing of his original scholarship appears in the profiling of a book advertised as uncovering silences. While it is great to see public attention brought to the history of the Crown's involvement in slavery through the new book and its profiling in The Guardian, the headline compromises The Guardian's efforts to address the legacies of slavery generally and its own institutional links when it extracts and reframes earlier work by a Black scholar as a revelation new to this book.
The relevant passage in The Crown's Silence draws on original scholarship by Roger Norman
Buckley in Slaves in Red Coats: The British West India Regiments, 1795-1815 (1979). Dr. Brooke Newman repeats Buckley's figures, which she cites (referencing page 55 of Buckley's book, see attached) while changing his "British government" to "Crown." She then converts his careful "perhaps the largest individual buyer" to a more conclusive claim, changing his "British government" to "king" but without citing Buckley for that claim which is on page 56 of his book (see attached) and which, uncited in Newman's book, is the Guardian headline.
There is room for popular histories that rely largely on the secondary scholarship of other historians. But other historians have not been silent.

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 15d

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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Ian R. Pearsall @ianrpearsall.bsky.social · 16d

'Cross Tracks (across a cold landscape)'
Charcoal & Oil Paint Sketch

Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 17d

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

Following the killing of AFGE Member Alex Pretti and the subsequent slanderous rhetoric that followed from top Trump administration officials, AFGE National President Everett Kelley issued the following statement:

“Yesterday, AFGE brought together labor and faith leaders from Minneapolis and across the nation to mourn our fallen brother from Local 3669, Alex Pretti. We honored his life and legacy and lifted up his family, his friends, his union, Minneapolis, and our nation in prayer.

“Today, we demand accountability.

“In the immediate aftermath of Alex’s killing, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem betrayed the public trust by slandering the good name of our union brother and calling him a “domestic terrorist.” Alex Pretti was a patriotic ICU nurse at a VA hospital who devoted his life to serving America’s veterans. That claim was reckless, defamatory, and unsupported by the facts. Noem was preceded in this false statement by Stephen Miller, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, who is also the architect of the chaotic and failed immigration policy in Minnesota.

“Our demand is clear: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was responsible for carrying out the policy that led to Alex’s needless killing, and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of that policy, must resign immediately. If they refuse, President Trump must dismiss them.

taylr @taylordahlin.com · 17d

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18d

“They are using the mechanism of armed officers with masks who are killing citizens to create disruption so they can use more force to eliminate the possibility they could be removed from office and suffer criminal sanctions for the crimes they are now committing”

Reposted by Ben H. Ansell, Jan W. Mueller, Will Jennings , and 6 more Ben H. Ansell, Jan W. Mueller, Will Jennings, Bonnie Honig, Duncan Bell, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Michael Evans, Colin Woodard

Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 18d

On the weakness of state terror: once ppl internalize the regime's lawless brutality, that they are no safer in their homes than in the streets (& vice versa), and that their unwavering defiance is what confounds & disempowers the regime, they also realize they have nothing to lose but their fear.

Dumb Megan @dmbmeg.bsky.social · 18d

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

Reposted by David Brady, Sanford F. Schram, Scott A. Imberman , and 6 more David Brady, Sanford F. Schram, Scott A. Imberman, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Federico Finchelstein, Susan Strasser, Kate Jackson, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Kristina McElheran

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18d

Dems should introduce legislation now defunding ICE and CBP operations in Minnesota, so they have to leave the state. One sentence bill. Demand an immediate vote. Maybe refuse to vote for cloture on any funding bills (or other bills) until a vote. Make the GOP Congress break w/ Trump or own it all.

Reposted by Silvia Secchi, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson

D'Argento Alexandro @dargentoalexandro.bsky.social · 19d

Camera in hand.

Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 19d

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

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Veronika Meduna @veronikameduna.bsky.social · 27d

Today, the high seas treaty becomes law - the first legally binding ocean governance instrument that covers the international waters outside of any country's national jurisdiction, more than 80 countries have now ratified share.google/JVG19PNv0eNQ...

A Landmark 'High Seas Treaty' Has Arrived. Here's Why It's a Big Deal.

The United Nations Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement (BBNJA) – nicknamed the 'High Seas Treaty' – comes into force on January 17, a massive milestone in efforts to conserve marine li...

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Alison Anastasio @aeastasio.bsky.social · Jan 11

palate cleanser: read about curious nerds, slow science, and the Chicago slag barrens among gorgeous photos in the golden hour at #MarianByrnesPark.

#WildCalumet #GreatNearby

mag.uchicago.edu/science-medi...

The beauty of slag

Maybe it’s not just a brownfield or a wastescape. Maybe it’s a novel ecosystem.

mag.uchicago.edu

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social · Dec 28

Post-growth perspective gaining traction among climate policy specialists theconversation.com/idea-of-gree...

Idea of green growth losing traction among climate policy researchers, survey of nearly 800 academics reveals

According to a survey of almost 800 climate researchers, 73% are sceptical of the idea of green growth. Instead, approaches such as agrowth and degrowth are gaining ground.

theconversation.com

Reposted by Dustin Mulvaney, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson

Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · Dec 26

"Swaths of the Permian Basin appear to be on the verge of geological malfunction."

An unfolding disaster, shielded by centrist pundits who tell us to "support America's oil & gas industry."

Here's an idea: The oil & gas industry should support America, not wreck our land, air, & water.

America’s Biggest Oil Field Is Turning Into a Pressure Cooker

Drillers’ injection of wastewater is creating mayhem across the Permian Basin, raising concern about the future of fossil-fuel production there.

www.wsj.com

Reposted by Graeme Warren, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Dec 24

Letter to the editor, December 2010

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

A letter to the London Review of Books magazine, reading:

'I recently told the following joke to a rather unreceptive audience and was advised that it was ‘more of a London Review of Books sort of joke’. So I humbly offer it to you.

Q: What do you call Santa’s little helpers?
A: Subordinate clauses.

Jerry Beere'

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social · Dec 22

I am finding a high rate of errors and hallucinations. Trust in AI only seems possible if we double check it constantly, which makes me wonder what the bloody point is.

Reposted by Elizabeth Stevenson, Dolly Jørgensen, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson

Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social · Dec 22

Here's a 🧵 on how I came to write the article I'm working on right now, and you can decide for yourself whether AI was ever going to go in this direction:

Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · Dec 21

What historians (and other scholars do) is create knowledge. We should use that phrase more and talk about what it means. I think we don't, and it's part of why AI enthusiasts are confused when we don't readily agree that our work can be replicated/replaced by their products.

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social · Dec 19

Me too. Excellent in every way

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social · Dec 19

Congrats Holly! Looking forward to reading it. Mine is also finally on the way with Princeton

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