Dr. des. Jonatan Palmblad
@palmblad.bsky.social
Project Coordinator & Lecturer, Rachel Carson Center Environmental humanist interested in human–environment interaction and the role that cognition, ideas, and technology play therein. Researcher, lecturer, editor. Website: https://palmbl.ad
📢 #ESEH is raising funds for 2027 Travel Grants to support early-career researchers, grad students, independent scholars & those from lower-income countries presenting at the 14th ESEH Conf. in Salzburg, 6–10 Sept 2027. Donate now ➡️ www.betterplace.org/en/projects/... #envhist @eseh.bsky.social
Our latest issue is out! Unlike previous issues, which are planned around diversity in topics, this is a thematic issue looking forward toward the future of environmental research.
Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society@carsoncenter.bsky.social · 2w agoWe are excited to announce the release of a special issue of 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘭 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸, titled “Imagining Environmental Futures.” Read the issue for free at springs-rcc.org. #envhum #envhist #publications #RCCSprings #specialissue #future
I am glad to be back in lovely Santa Fe, Argentina, for another research stay at the National University of the Littoral with the Speak4Nature project. While here, I will work on the oft-neglected tension between social justice and ecological justice.
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This Friday we are organizing a Speak4Nature webinar together with the National University of the Littoral, Argentina, and the Loisachbündnis. You are all welcome to join! Link: unl-edu-ar.zoom.us/launch/jc/81... ID de reunión: 810 6535 6994 Código de acceso: 962675 #EnvHum #EnvJust
The call for ESEH 2027 is out! Submit your proposal by 15 October. We offer standard formats like panel sessions, individual papers, book presentations, and posters, but also repeat our creative Different World Sessions! Read more here: eseh.org/cfp-14th-bie... #EnvHist #EnvHum
We in ESEH Nextgate wrote a short piece on our new theme: Craft and Creativity
ESEH NEXTGATe@esehnextgate.bsky.social · 4w agoWe just published a Notepad in the journal Environment and History! Learn about our new vision for early-career researchers in environmental history and the environmental humanities in "NEXTGATe Evolves: Toward Craft and Creativity." #envhist #envhum
🚨 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
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New open-access book by RCC alumna Anna Antonova! Download it on our Environment & Society Profile. #envhum @asantonova.bsky.social
A Discipline of Hope Environmental Humanities in a Time of Crisis
Excerpt from Confronting Water Insecurity: Global Institutions and the Transformation of Water Science, Policy, and Practice by Roberto L. Lenton.
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We in ICEHO decided to support a Mexican grassroots initiative to compensate somewhat for environmental impact of the World Congress of Environmental History in 2024. My colleague Micheline Cariño has now written about what this initiative achieved.
ICEHO@iceho.bsky.social · 2mo agoEnvironmental conferences have an environmental cost, and ICEHO therefore decided to support a grassroots initiative in the wake of the World Congress of #EnvHist. Read board member Micheline Cariño's new piece on what Las Guardianas de Conchalito in Mexico did with our financial support. #envhum
Tomorrow's International Colloquium features political theorist and green political economist John Barry, environmental historian Cindy Ott, and philosopher of science Elli D. Vartziotis. All are welcome! More info here: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_... #envhist #envhum
PhD position in the history of ideas at my old department in Gothenburg!
Dolly Jørgensen@dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2mo agoPhD student position in History of Ideas & Science, Gothenberg University, Sweden. 4 year paid position. Environment is one of the possible areas to research. web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103... #envhist
This is such a good example of what architecture has become to many people: surface, façade, visual aesthetics from the outside. It also shows how hollow much conservative politics is, and sadly it is easy to mobilize people with an appeal to the "classical" and "traditional"--even when fake.
We in ESEH NEXTGATe are organizing a workshop this month. Come join us!
ESEH NEXTGATe@esehnextgate.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew academic zine workshop! Are you tired of the traditional forms of publication? Learn about how to (and why you should) make your own publications in our free workshop. Register here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/how-to-mak... #envhist #envhum
In tomorrow's Tuesday colloquium, Gabrielle Tabares Fagundez, Ufuk Özdağ, Leticia Albuquerque, and Ivo Wallimann-Helmer will discuss nonhuman legal status in Brazil, Switzerland, and Turkey. Event page: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_... #rccevents #envhum #rightsfornature #munich
New open-access book: The Organism–Environment Pairing: A Historical and Philosophical Reappraisal, by @alejandrofabregastejeda.com. Download it via our Environment & Society Portal! #envhist #histsci #envphil
The Organism–Environment Pairing: A Historical and Philosophical Reappraisal
In this first systematic book-length examination of the organism-environment relationship in the life sciences, Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda addresses a crucial gap in our understanding of a foundational...
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ICYMI: This essay by @palmblad.bsky.social is the first in a series co-published by @whitehorsepress.bsky.social & ICEHO in which emerging environmental history scholars respond to essays by foundational environmental historians... #envhist Read the full essay: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/03/24/i...
Our colleagues at the Rachel Carson Center have contributed with a new deliverable for our project: The Cultural Roots of Ecological Justice. Read it to learn about the history ecological justice, its perils, and how to reconcile it with social justice. ec.europa.eu/research/par... #envhum #envhist
My @speak4nature.bsky.social colleagues at the Federal University of Santa Catarina have written a short piece on the local community's attempt at giving rights to the lagoon of Florianópolis. I've visited the beautiful lagoon twice and hope that their class action lawsuit will help saving it!
Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society@carsoncenter.bsky.social · 3mo agoIn 2021, a disaster in Florianópolis, Brazil, prompted a lawsuit that might have far-reaching effects on environmental law. Read this new Arcadia article by José Rubens Morato Leite, Isabel Pinheiro de Paula Couto, Iasna Chaves Viana, and Marcos José de Abreu to learn more. #envhist #speak4nature
I just republished my short essay "In the Scale of a Human Being" from 2020, on how the "Anthropocene" is out of scale for the "anthropos" after which it is named. Originally published by the Canadian Centre for Architecture. palmbl.ad/2026/04/09/i...
Today marks exactly 2 years since I submitted my PhD dissertation. Since it passed, it is now open access as required for public-funded research in France. Feel free to DL, send, cite, enjoy bits and pieces of almost 10 years of thinking about smell! Link: research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publicati...
What a joy to finally share the cover of The Organism–Environment Pairing (@mitpress.bsky.social)! The 📗 will be out on May 12 📆! I look forward to the conversations it sparks among scientists, philosophers & historians! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #evosky #histsci #philsci #philsky #booksky 🌱🐋
What is an environment, really? I reflect upon this in my latest essay, in which I write about my own path toward #EnvHist and the #EnvHum. This is also a commentary on Sverker Sörlin's great piece in the latest Global Environment. Turns out we have had similar but different environments!
The White Horse Press@whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe've co-published a new blog post with ICEHO; J. Palmblad responds to S. Sörlin’s ‘Staying Open – Shaping Environmental History in Sweden’, from 'Global Environment' Feb 2026: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/03/24/i... @iceho.bsky.social @palmblad.bsky.social @globalenvironment.bsky.social #envhist
This month I feature @harrissolomon.bsky.social, @jacobinoire.bsky.social, @publicbooks.bsky.social, @motherjones.com, @palmblad.bsky.social, @carsoncenter.bsky.social, @dagomardegroot.bsky.social, @sciencepolitics.bsky.social, @aptninvestigates.bsky.social, and more! #envhist
NiCHE Canada@nichecanada.bsky.social · 5mo agoOur editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, is back with her picks for environmental history worth reading (and watching) from February! niche-canada.org/2026/03/19/e... #envhist
Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, is back with her picks for environmental history worth reading (and watching) from February! niche-canada.org/2026/03/19/e... #envhist
#EnvHist Worth Reading: February 2026
Find WWII munitions dumps, the collapse of ocean currents, and suburban garden wars in the latest list of environmental history worth reading from Jessica DeWitt.
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I now have a website: palmbl.ad. This is where I will gather publications, information, and occasional reflections.
This film was such a privilege to make. Please take a look! #EnvHist #histSTM
NiCHE Canada@nichecanada.bsky.social · 5mo agoIn "The Extraordinary Meaning of Everyday Life: Joy Parr’s Pioneering Vision in the History of Technology", @historiamagoria.bsky.social introduces a new tribute film that she recently released. niche-canada.org/2026/03/06/t... #envhist #histtech #cdnhist #genderhistory #history
