Yesterday The Guardian published a long read on mass timber skyscrapers. Three years ago Sarah Knuth and I published an academic analysis of this trend, identifying the key characteristics of this trend, and what is obscured in visions for an urban timber future.

The flat-pack skyscraper: how wood can shape the cities of the future

The long read: Our buildings are monuments to extraction and extreme emissions. But what if we turned from destructive concrete to timber?

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Here's an AHRC-funded PhD project I'm involved with on 'Walking the Energy Transition'. Come and work with me, Jo Vergunst and Jen Clarke in Aberdeen and investigate walking, heritage, art and landscape on the North Sea coast. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

NHT-DFA: Walking the energy transition: art, anthropology and heritage at the North Sea coast at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - NHT-DFA: Walking the energy transition: art, anthropology and heritage at the North Sea coast at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

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Sounds like an interesting PhD project at Lund university: the role of finance in shaping (dis)orderly energy transitions. With @bvanveelen.bsky.social and @amyjanzwood.bsky.social. Fully funded! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

PhD in Sustainability science

Department: Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) The Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) is an institute hosting research and education to address sustaina

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play the FT's chart game - how well do you know what happened since Brexit? as.ft.com/r/102554df-5...

Draw your own chart game: how well do you know Brexit?

Test your knowledge on what has happened in the 10 years since the UK voted to leave the EU

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Are you a young academic working on climate and feel ready for a move? We are recruiting two Assistant/Associate Professors @granthamicl.bsky.social at Imperial College London @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social (1/6)

📣 Call for Applications — TRAJECTS PhD 2026 Do you have a research proposal aligned with Just Transition & Sustainability? This could be your opportunity 👇

🛢️New in Geo🛢️ 'Mental oil spills: Visualising petroleumscapes to uncover petro-hegemony in Stavanger, Norway' by Bjørk Tørnqvist & @bvanveelen.bsky.social This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Mapping Climate Change Perceptions'. doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky

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

Great looking job and very useful application advice for those unfamiliar with Nordic academia!

Dolly Jørgensen@dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · last yr.

Important news for the #envhist crowd: We are hiring an Associate Professor of Environmental History! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Application deadline is August 7. Some tips for those interested from abroad in thread 👇

This also reminds me of the guardian article about Curtis Yarvin in December

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social · 2y ago

I wrote about Musk and this bureaucratic coup as plainly as I could. There's reporting in here & the particulars are overwhelming but what's happening is so clear: He's not trying to run the federal govt like a software company He's trying to turn it into a political weapon. (gift link)

The provincial government in Alberta has (once again) lifted the moratorium on coal mining . They previously did this in 2020, before reinstating it the following year. I discuss this in the second part of this recently published paper, exploring coal's lingering promise doi.org/10.1080/0964...

It feels somewhat frivolous to post this with everything going on in the world, but nonetheless I feel very fortunate to be back at @uvic.bsky.social, spending the next two months reading, writing, and connecting with some of my favourite Canadian energy scholars.

We have posted two tenured positions as assistant professor in #Anthropocene history at our centre, please help share widely: www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/... www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/... One is in #envhist and one is in history of science.

Workshop / Call for papers Green Jobs: Exploring labour within shifting energy regimes Lund University, June 3-5 2025 Deadlines: - Abstract submission: 25 January - Acceptance notification: early February - Paper submission (5-7000 words): 23 May We'll pay for your food and accommodation :).

We can’t understand the geography of capitalism in our present moment without seeing how these old industries overlap with the new. "Two Towns" features an interactive map showing how ex-industrial towns were not “left behind” but actively made into havens for low-paid work.

In one of my courses students read books about alternative economic ideas/models (e.g. @katearonoff.bsky.social, @kateraworth.bsky.social, @mazzucatom.bsky.social) and analyse how they can address sustainability challenges. I would love to include more non-European/N.American books. Any suggestions?

This news article exemplifies perfectly what Sarah Knuth and I wrote about in a paper earlier this year: How the push for timber relies on a mix of nostalgic and technofuturist visions while overly simplifying the supposed carbon benefits of these new developments.

A 'crazy town looking to go fossil free': Sweden's wooden city that was green before Greta

Nearly a decade before Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was even born, Växjö set itself on a path to a new vision of green urban living.

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For the Swedish speakers: one of my research projects, Changing Places of Work, is featured in the latest Forte magasin. The report (and project) explores what the transition towards fossil-free steel making means for old industrial towns. forte.se/wp-content/u...

Come work with me and the amazing team at The Center for Environment, Community, & Equity at AU! We're hiring a postdoc to work on our project studying civic engagement and activism around climate in the US. The fellow will also help oversee our new DataCorps Program. for details:

We have a Call for Papers out on ‘Green capital landing' in the journal Finance and Space. The SI highlights how carbon finance actors and instruments enable, or impede, capital to land in specific (green) territories. The deadline for abstracts is 10 January. More info: bit.ly/RFAS1.