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Mark Stoll
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Environmental historian, author of Profit: An Environmental History (2023) and Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism (2015). https://www.markstoll.net/ Professor at @texastechuniv.bsky.social
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robertgro5.bsky.social
Are you an early-career environmental historian or interested in the challenges aspiring environmental historians face? Join our panel discussion with
@askehn.bsky.social @kathiescharf.bsky.social @tidetales.bsky.social and @wilkohardenberg.bsky.social et al., hosted by @eseh.bsky.social #envhist
November 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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sadiahqureshi.bsky.social
Some history of science jobs to share.

An assistant professorship in Environmental History at the Uni of Warwick, FT, open-ended/Permanent, £46-57k, deadline 5 Jan. I know some great people in that department, including historians of science.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
November 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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cajunblue.bsky.social
🏥🚨🏥 Healthcare workers: Patient’s rights are being violated. A lot of people are adverse to standing up to “authority,” but we have codes of ethics - each of our professions do. Rise up! 1/2
November 23, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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zacklabe.com
Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *2nd* lowest on record (JAXA data)

• about 770,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,390,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 2,010,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,530,000 km² below the 1980s mean

More zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
Line graph time series of 2025's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2024. 2025 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between October and January by looking at the decadal average line positions.
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
markstoll.bsky.social
Wouldn't it be ironic if the debris turned out to be from the satellite that China blew up several years ago?
www.scientificamerican.com/article/chin...
China to Launch Rescue Shenzhou-22 Spacecraft for Stranded Astronauts
The Shenzhou-22 spacecraft is set to launch November 25
www.scientificamerican.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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vbivar.bsky.social
Happy to have written about plastic for @thepolycrisis.bsky.social. Thanks to @70sbachchan.bsky.social for sourcing the excellent graphics. And thanks to @rebecca-altman.bsky.social and @anjakrieger.bsky.social for being my go-to's on all-things plastic.

www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
Plastic Planet | Venus Bivar
Stalled negotiations and accelerating accumulation in the global petrochemicals industry
www.phenomenalworld.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
markstoll.bsky.social
Here's an all-too-common scenario today: #ClimateChange + corruption = disaster. Or substitute political inertia or powerful vested interests or whatever for "corruption." #drought #aquifers #environment #climate
www.scientificamerican.com/article/iran...
Iran’s Capital Is Moving. The Reason Is an Ecological Catastrophe
The decision to move Iran’s capital is partly driven by climate change, but experts say decades of human error and action are also to blame
www.scientificamerican.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
markstoll.bsky.social
#Climatechange is still worsening, but not as fast as without the #ParisAccords. A fascinating article on the progress we have made. This is not to say that we don't have far to go, but sometimes you can get the feeling that nothing is being done. #environment #energy @sciam.bsky.social
5 Charts Show Climate Progress as Paris Agreement Turns 10
The 2015 Paris Agreement forged a path for the world to stave off the worst climate change scenarios. Here’s where we stand 10 years later
www.scientificamerican.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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tinaadcock.bsky.social
JOB: Assistant Professor in #envhist, University of Warwick, applications due 5 January 2026. Looks like an awesome position! warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
November 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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kbruisch.bsky.social
🔔 Admissions are open for the M.Phil in Environmental History at Trinity College Dublin. Come and join us - or recommend our course to your students! #envhist #skystorians

More info here 👇
www.tcd.ie/courses/post...
Screenshot of the admissions website of the Environmental History M.Phil at Trinity College Dublin
November 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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iceho.bsky.social
We have update our interactive map for 𝐄𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐀𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝! It is still a work in progress, so please help us expand and diversify the map by suggesting more institutions, hubs, and associations. Browse the map here: www.iceho.org/eh-map
#EnvHist
November 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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jackjenkins.me
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
“Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois State Police during a protest against immigration actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska”
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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iansociologo.bsky.social
If you haven't joined your local AAUP, now is a great time to do so.
veenadubal.bsky.social Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 12d
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!

We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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markstoll.bsky.social
Upcoming event! #capitalism #environment #consumerism #climatecrisis
Science by the Glass: Mark Stoll, "The Problem of Capitalism and the Environment," No. 17, 6pm, Nashwell Cafe, Ave. K, Lubbock, TX
November 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
markstoll.bsky.social
Upcoming event! #capitalism #environment #consumerism #climatecrisis
Science by the Glass: Mark Stoll, "The Problem of Capitalism and the Environment," No. 17, 6pm, Nashwell Cafe, Ave. K, Lubbock, TX
November 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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carsoncenter.bsky.social
Three days left to apply for an internship with us, starting on 15 January or 1 February and running for three months.

Full call: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_rcc/jo...

#rccjobs #internship #callforapplications #envhum #envhist #editing #socialmedia #library #books #cataloguing
November 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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farsouthhistory.bsky.social
Check out Ty Priest's review of Daniela Russ & Thomas Turnbull's "Energy's History: Toward a Global Canon," published in 2025 by @stanfordpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #energy #envtech
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
www.h-net.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
Do you enjoy the effort our editors and contributors make to contextualize current events with #envhist?

Consider sending $20 to our fundraising campaign to help us keep doing this work: fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...

#envhum #cdnhist #histgeog
November 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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jessicamdewitt.bsky.social
Happy to announce that I am joining the the Environmental Humanities journal editorial team as an Associate Editor.

read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...

#envhum #envhist
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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evangowan.bsky.social
It is pretty interesting to read some of the commentary on future sea level rise from the 1950s. This was from a symposium held in the Netherlands in 1954, before many of the aspects of climate change were fully understood, including Milankovich theory and CO₂ changes. #ClimateChange #SeaLevelChange
Commentary by Mr Bennema: Dr. Pannekoek (Geolog. Survey) quotes some conclusions from Ahlmann's 1952 lecture in Washington. There are some indications that the climatic optimum in the Arctic of the past decades has passed its culmination point. This does not necessarily mean that a general glacier advance and lowering of the sealevel may be expected in the near future, the relation between climate and glacier regime being rather complex. Though some glaciers are advancing now, the majority are still retreating, and the sea-level is still rising. Prof. Florschiitz (Leiden) also mentions the continuing glacier retreat in the Eastern Alps, whereas Prof. Bakker quotes the impression of Swiss, German and Austrian glaciologists, that the maximum of glacier retreat is now past. Mr. van Weelden (B.P.M.) calls attention to Sir Edward Bullard's opinion about a deviation of the Gulf Stream towards the East by the accumula- tion of morainic material on the ridge in the Northern Atlantic, extending from Scotland to Greenland, which caused Greenland to become colder and Scandinavia warmer. Prof. Rutten (Utrecht) mentions rhythmic glacier variations in Iceland similar to those known in Greenland, and presenting a periodicity like that mentioned by Mr. Bennema. He thinks that the observations on the absence of glacier retreat in Antarctica are no reason for optimism. They only show that the recent rise of sealevel is entirely due to ice melting in the Northern hemisphere, and that, if Antarctic ice should also start retreating, the situation would be worse. There are, however, some other factors, possibly influencing climatic and sealevel changes, the study of which is recommended. They are: (1) a new calculation of the extension of Milankovitch' curve into the future, as was done by Gamow; (too much text for alt text, sorry)
November 8, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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charlescmann.bsky.social
Just remembering that Dick Cheney secretly intervened in a dispute over the Klamath River in 2001--and caused the biggest fish die-off in US history, with ~77,000 fully grown adult salmon piled on the banks of the river.
Dead salmon line the banks of the Klamath River on Sept 28, 2002. Source: https://phys.org/news/2015-08-biologists-salmon-klamath-river.html
November 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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markstoll.bsky.social
Check out this interview with Robert Rowland of @jobyaviation.bsky.social who explains the incredible innovation of the charging system of this electric VTOL aircraft! What an amazing machine the #JobyAviation S4 is!
youtu.be/fCxg_blSwgw?...
#eVTOL #electric #aircraft #renewables #energy
Aviation charging innovators: Joby Aviation with Robert Rowland
YouTube video by SkyZeroAviation
youtu.be
October 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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katharinehayhoe.com
If you take the time to read the whole Gates memo (which I did), the bulk of the content was mostly solid and encouraging. Really!

It was the FRAME that was off--very off, from the first line.

And when your framing is off, then how you make decisions and set priorities is off. THAT'S the problem.
My quote from an Axios interview, stating that: People often think of climate change as a separate bucket at the end of a long row of other buckets of problems we're trying to fix that are wrong in the world," Hayhoe told Axios. This includes poverty, disease and access to clean water. "Climate change is not a separate bucket," Hayhoe said. "The reason we care about climate change is that it's the hole in every bucket."
October 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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rachelsalvidge.bsky.social
Exclusive: mercury from fillings, belched out of crematoria, is getting into our rivers and fish. More than 98% of fish & mussels tested in English waters contain mercury above proposed EU limits. 43 countries have banned it. Why not here you might ask...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Toxin levels in fish lead to calls for UK-wide ban on mercury dental fillings
Exclusive: More than 98% of fish and mussels tested in English waters contain mercury above EU safety limits
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
markstoll.bsky.social
Check out this interview with Robert Rowland of @jobyaviation.bsky.social who explains the incredible innovation of the charging system of this electric VTOL aircraft! What an amazing machine the #JobyAviation S4 is!
youtu.be/fCxg_blSwgw?...
#eVTOL #electric #aircraft #renewables #energy
Aviation charging innovators: Joby Aviation with Robert Rowland
YouTube video by SkyZeroAviation
youtu.be
October 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM