I say this with nothing but love in my heart for the fatherland but can you imagine any other country looking at wildfires and thinking "quick, get a philosopher on the line"
Chris Pearson
@chrisjpearson.bsky.social
Environmental Historian | Dogs | Climate | Books Author of Collared: How We Made the Modern Dog (Profile 2024) and Dogopolis (Chicago 2024)
Drought in Europe: Extreme heat evaporating continent’s water supplies Record-breaking summer heat is supercharging drought across Europe, baking soils and evaporating water supplies, according to new research by @wwattribution.bsky.social 🧵 buff.ly/5iN0MR2
What they don't teach you about heatwaves: It's not just heat. It's: • Your crops dying • Your river drying (Rhine is low again, disrupting shipping) • Your lungs burning from wildfire smoke • Your power grid collapsing It's everything at once.
Every so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of the most important parts of the Earth's climate system. #climatecrisis #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-gra...
The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News
Every so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. This graph is one of them. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of the most ...
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🚨 JOB KLAXON #skystorians #envhist #envhums Cover for some of my teaching next year - 0.5 FTE at University of Liverpool. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSE899/l...
Lecturer in Environmental History (Teaching & Scholarship) (0.5 FTE)- Grade 7 at University of Liverpool
Apply now for the Lecturer in Environmental History (Teaching & Scholarship) (0.5 FTE)- Grade 7 role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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Europe's worst heatwave so far, in terms of heat stress measures and temperatures - brought to you by fossil fuels. New @wwattribution.bsky.social study showing how such deadly heat became possible in only a few decades. www.worldweatherattribution.org/fossil-fuel-...
As the UK Met Office issues a red heat alert for the UK this Wednesday and Thursday, is it increasingly clear extreme heat is affecting people and communities. 🗣️ Our research shows that around two-thirds (68%) of people are worried about heatwaves and hot weather in the UK 🧵
@liverpooluni.bsky.social's latest Original Ideas podcast discusses challenges of and solutions to heatwaves 🌇 Including @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social researchers @chrisjpearson.bsky.social @abiedoubleyou.bsky.social @chloeduteil.bsky.social 👉 news.liverpool.ac.uk/2026/06/05/l...
Latest Original Ideas podcast discusses challenges of and solutions to heatwaves - University of Liverpool News
Latest Original Ideas podcast discusses challenges of and solutions to heatwaves
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Anna Bocking-Welch on public health discourse and public expectations around mothering in the heat – a fascinating lens onto attitudes towards maternal responsibility and intergenerational change.
Chris Pearson @chrisjpearson.bsky.social discusses British narratives on summer – sun as fun (‘sun worship’) & sun as a problem (exhaustion for workers, challenges for care homes). Heat needs be understood as a cultural & bodily experience.
Erika Hanna @erikahanna.bsky.social discusses the impact of weather on Ireland’s urban temporalities and mobilities. Rain and moisture slow down function of cities by damaging clocks (clocktowers) and making roadworks more difficult.
Jacob Fredrickson on what heatwaves as analytic frame can offer historians of sex & sexuality. Public responses to heatwaves – obsession with young women’s bodies & ‘hot blood’ metaphor – are revealing of mid-century heterosexual culture. Heatwave as a leisure event reveals family sociability.
Brilliant panel on cultural histories of climate #MBS2026. Papers highlight the potential of focusing on the weather for exploring the environmental, material, embodied, discursive and their intersections.
🌡️ Original Ideas Podcast 15. Heatwaves 🎙️ @liverpooluni.bsky.social's @chrisjpearson.bsky.social and @abiedoubleyou.bsky.social of @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social discuss heatwaves 🏙️ History, community, public health, policy.. 👉 www.liverpool.ac.uk/research/ori...
They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.
The Society's President and Council have released the following statement on the proposed closure of undergraduate degrees at the University of Hertfordshire, in #History and the wider humanities bit.ly/4dmV5oO This comes at a time of further bad news from Essex and Nottingham #Skystorians
History and the humanities at the University of Hertfordshire – a statement from the Royal Historical Society - RHS
Even for those familiar with bleak times, this has been a particularly bad few weeks in UK higher education. Confirmed job losses at the University of Essex were followed by further bad news from Hert...
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“While adaptation is a vital piece of the puzzle, we can’t simply adapt ourselves out of this problem", says @frediotto.bsky.social in @theguardian.com. This follows @thecccuk.bsky.social's report, which warns climate change is undermining the UK’s security & prosperity 🧵 buff.ly/bDV5vYC
Britain must think like a hot country – otherwise inequalities will only grow
The government must act to redress the unequal impact of climate change, or risk rising temperatures making disparities worse
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Please help spread the news far and wide! We have a new, full-time, permanent Lecturer in Global History of Science job @stsucl.bsky.social Don't be fooled by the application of deadline of only 9 June 2026. This is an open search #histsci #skystorians www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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We're hiring! 🌿 The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger invites applications for a 3-year postdoc in Environmental History. See thread for more details. #envhist #envhum
Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental History (297163) | University of Stavanger
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental History (297163), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Monday, April 20, 2026
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My colleagues Annie Tindley and @drhick.bsky.social have funding 📣 for a Collaborative Doctoral Award with Museums Northern Ireland for a PhD on "Reawakening the Living Landscape: Integrating Heritage and Sustainability at the Ulster Folk Museum" - www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/study/hi... Deadline 20 April.
Postgraduate Funding
Find out about postgraduate funding opportunities within the School of History, Classics and Archaeology.
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If you know any Medical Humanities PhDs, Uppsala CMH is offering a visiting researcher scheme during the autumn (up to 6 months from August 2026). International applicants (i.e. outside of Sweden) most definitely welcome. As they say in Swedish: sprid gärna! www.uu.se/centrum/medi...
Call for applications: Visiting PhD-student positions in Medical Humanities, Uppsala University – Centrum för medicinsk humaniora – Uppsala universitet
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This is such an exciting project! Do pass on to anyone you think might be interested.
Rob Dale@robdale.bsky.social · 6mo agoMy colleagues Annie Tindley and @drhick.bsky.social have funding 📣 for a Collaborative Doctoral Award with Museums Northern Ireland for a PhD on "Reawakening the Living Landscape: Integrating Heritage and Sustainability at the Ulster Folk Museum" - www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/study/hi... Deadline 20 April.
People in 2050 would give trillions of dollars just to have the climate that we enjoy today.
Number of people living in extreme heat to double by 2050 if 2C rise occurs, study finds
Scientists expect 41% of the projected global population to face the extremes, with ‘no part of the world’ immune
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more courage than every sniveling university president in the US combined
Dumb Megan@dmbmeg.bsky.social · 8mo agoThis administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
Our @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social article on keeping cool in summertime Paris, New York and London is free to read in the Journal of Social History. doi.org/10.1093/jsh/...
Sensing Heat, Finding Cool: The Search for Water in Summertime Paris, New York, and London, 1880–1930
Abstract. At the turn of the twentieth century, Paris, New York, and London were epicenters of urban modernity, but these cities and their inhabitants were
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It's been a pleasure being on the great organising team at York and Northumbria for next year's NEHN meeting - a collaborative worksop on the many histories of 'unwanted life'. Do see the CFP below, and send in a submission if it appeals!
