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Charlotte Leib
@charlotte-leib.bsky.social
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PhD@Yale writing an #envhist of the NJ Meadowlands centered on intersection of the organic & fossil economies. Trained in landscape, energy, early Am.& US history, w/ broader interests in histories of tech, climate, capitalism, inequality charlotteleib.com
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Charlotte Leib @charlotte-leib.bsky.social · Oct 9
As #UHA2025LA kicks off, I’m happy to share here my most recent piece on the Metropole, on an understudied topic in #urbanhistory #envhist —how different lighting tech’s have affected birds & humans over the centuries & what we can do about it.

It’s a dual exposé & call to action Check it out here:
charlotte-leib.bsky.social
An energetic #flower to carry you thru the #wintersolstice
and onward,
to spring.
Purple, light pink yellowy-white dahlia backlit by evening sunlight against green leaves and shadows. Photo taken at the Botanic Garden in Sweden, August 21, 2025
December 5, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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marcusrediker.bsky.social
Proud to say, my former PhD student Jack Bouchard, now at Rutgers University, has published an outstanding new work in Atlantic history: *Terra Nova: Food, Water, and Work in an Early Atlantic World*, with Yale University Press. Congratulations, Jack!

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
December 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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laviedesidees.bsky.social
Disparu il y a quarante ans, Fernand Braudel a profondément marqué les sciences sociales en forgeant des concepts durables pour penser le capitalisme. Son œuvre continue d'éclairer les mutations de l'économie, ses rythmes, ses espaces et ses rapports de force.
L'économie d'après Braudel
Disparu il y a quarante ans, Fernand Braudel a profondément marqué les sciences sociales en forgeant des concepts durables pour penser le capitalisme. Son œuvre continue d'éclairer les mutations de l'économie, ses rythmes, ses espaces et ses rapports de force.
laviedesidees.fr
November 28, 2025 at 7:28 AM
charlotte-leib.bsky.social
Going to have to go see this one, as it's right around the corner in #Hartford...
charlespiroth.bsky.social ᴄʜᴀʀʟᴇʏ★ᴘɪʀᴏᴛʜ @charlespiroth.bsky.social · 8d
Louis Anquetin (1861-1932)
Avenue de Clichy, five o'clock in the evening- 1887
Hartford Wadsworth Atheneum
December 4, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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charlotte-leib.bsky.social
Ooof, my listening age is 78. I think Vivaldi is throwing off the average! Can't just be all the 60's music on my wakeup playlist Surely not! 🤣 #spotifywrapped
Graphic from Spotify reads "Your listening age 78 / Since you were into music from the Early 60s. You're an old soul." Slide reads: "Your top artists: Max Richter, Emile Mosseri, Antonio Vivaldi; sped up + slowed; Jamie xx" Minutes Listened: 21,701. Top Genre: Neoclassical. Top artists... Top songs...
December 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social
Record-breaking 75-year-old mother #bird prepares to nest.
Wisdom has been laying #eggs since the Eisenhower Administration. #Albatross #WorldsOldestBreedingBird #Bird

Link for more info, #photos & video: www.popsci.com/environment/...
December 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
charlotte-leib.bsky.social
Full moon skies 🌝
December 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
charlotte-leib.bsky.social
Took a half day off today to frolic in the snow. Not complaining! #snow #Catskills #mountaintime
Dried underbrush covered in white snow with a snowy forest scene in the background Garden statue / birdbath in the snow. The child-like grey statue holds up a bird bath filled with snow against a brown wall outdoors.
December 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
charlotte-leib.bsky.social
Recent sidewalk encounters:
An errant stove.
An ice box.

It just so happens I’m writing about both things currently in my dissertation…

Yes, you heard it right: stoves and ice! 🧊 Both important understudied topics in 19th century American #envhist and #energyhistory 🔥
Large metal ice box labeled in blue letters “ICE” next to a bike rack and a brick building / wine shop. A used stainless steel stove and oven on a street. There’s a building with windows in the back and the image of the street is reflected in them. You can see the photographer taking a photo of the stove with her iPhone. It is winter and the sun and shadows are crisp.
November 26, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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janeijking.com
@svenbeckert.bsky.social’s new global history of capitalism — looks great👇 www.penguin.co.uk/books/295668...
Capitalism
No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively as capitalism. It structures how we live and work, how we think about ourselves and others, how we organise our politics. Sven Beckert situat...
www.penguin.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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thierryaaron.bsky.social
"This sets off a feedback loop, in which the cold, fresh water released by that melt interacts with the warm, salty water to intensify the spinning of the underwater storm, causing even more melting"

#Antarctica
Undersea ‘storms’ are melting the ‘doomsday’ glacier’s ice shelf
Spinning vortices of water trapped under the Thwaites glacier ice shelf account for 20 per cent of the ice melt. They’re expected to get worse as the world warms
www.newscientist.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:32 AM
charlotte-leib.bsky.social
What a “road diet” and renovating for safe, pedestrian and cyclist friendly streets looks like… with Willie Wright’s “Right on for Darkness”’ as soundtrack 😀🎶🎸 #roaddiet #safestreets #NewHaven #righton
November 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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dazchapman.bsky.social
Grey Heron #canonwildlifephotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #nature #photography #birds #naturelovers #birdsofinstagram #birdphotography #animals #travel #bird #photooftheday #natgeo #birdwatching
November 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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“A ‘Forest COP’ with no commitment on forests is a very bad joke.” — Juan Carlos Monterrey Gómez
November 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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captainambivalent.com
Oh so you don’t want generative AI? Nice inbox you got there be a shame if something was to happen to it (cracks knuckles)
November 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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trisha-lynn.bsky.social
Straight up evil is correct. And losing the automatic separating of your inbox into primary, promotions, social, and forums is infuriating.
November 22, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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tim-waterman.co.uk
CFP: The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife 2026: Futurecasting, Futurekeeping: New Englanders Imagine Worlds to Come. June 26–27, Deerfield, Massachusetts. dublin-seminar.org/2026-call-fo...
2026 Call for Papers
The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife (founded in 1976) is pleased to announce the subject of its 2026 gathering, Futurecasting, Futurekeeping: New Englanders Imagine Worlds to Come, to …
dublin-seminar.org
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 AM
charlotte-leib.bsky.social
Final fall blooms in #NewHaven this week.

Found this calendula in my writing break round-the-block walk thriving in a stone and concrete microclimate
🍃🍂🌨️

11.21.25 #fall #flowers
Bright yellow calendula popping its head up above a gray and green background Color in a bleak near-winter scene. Flower had a green head and red band around it before yellow petals.
November 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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yonahfreemark.com
Very good to see progress on this important project, which is designed to link dense suburban New Jersey cities.
November 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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sarabpritchard.bsky.social
Well, you'd have to wait a while for delivery, but you can preorder my book at 40% off with free domestic shipping with promo code WINTER25! #TransformingNight 🌃🌌💡
#LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Night #Darkness #LightJustice

uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
November 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
charlotte-leib.bsky.social
Here’s to the beauty of pink-hued sunsets after a dreary day…closing research tabs…reading 19th-c, weather diaries, and meeting a major writing deadline (still in process…!) Going to be some late nights upcoming. Wish me luck.
Laptop computer on a desk facing a window that looks out on an urban streetscape. A cloudy pinkish-orange sunset is visible. The sky however is mostly grey. The building outside on the horizon is low lying brick and then there’s another brick building with a smokestack. The desk has a plant perched on it. The laptop shows a screen with a detail of a handwritten cursive weather diary. There are sticky notes and clips on the left of the laptop on the desk and two books on the desk to the right.
November 18, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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sgoodyear.bsky.social
Wild. We always say on the podcast that owning a car is required for effective full enfranchisement in most places of the USA because we are such a car-dependent society, but this is...next level. They say it like it's disqualifying for office.
benrosstransit.bsky.social Ben Ross @benrosstransit.bsky.social · 24d
WaPo editorial board launches a disgusting car-brained attack on Seattle's new mayor Katie Wilson.
"Who is Wilson? She does not own a car"

It's so bad you need to read it, so a gift link: wapo.st/4r2peP3
Who is Wilson? She does not own a car.
November 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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tim-waterman.co.uk
CFP: Environments and Societies at the Crossroads: Socio-Environmental Justice in Europe and the Americas in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Workshop at UC Berkeley www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...
Event – GHI Washington
www.ghi-dc.org
November 16, 2025 at 7:42 AM
charlotte-leib.bsky.social
...And just as I read about an entire 🧊 #ice warehouse getting struck by ⚡lightning and as I write about 19th c. #climatechange there's lightning & thunder, in November ⛈️

Favorite convo. today: talking with an Italian library security staff about how ice is so...American.

Dickens thought so, too.
Black and white image shows smoldering wood and half melted ice blocks, stacked up high in tall wooden bays the size of an urban streetscape. Image reads: "Courtesy William Devonmille, Bloomfield, NJ. Caption reads: "A fire on July 20, 1912, destroyed this icehouse which was located on the east shore of Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey [...] It took several weeks for the ice to melt."
November 16, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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jessicamdewitt.bsky.social
This month I feature @placesjournal.bsky.social, @urbanhistorya.bsky.social, @charlotte-leib.bsky.social, @ginastar.bsky.social, @miskoaki.bsky.social, and more!

#envhist
November 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM