Julia Nordblad
@julianordblad.bsky.social
Historian of environmental thought and politics at the Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University, Sweden. Views my own.
Israeli strike killed marine ecologist and conservationist Mona Khalil.
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Jeannette Eggers@jeannetteeggers.bsky.social · 3mo agoBara de två som sprutade färg döms till villkorlig dom och dagsböter. Vi övriga frikänns. Så bra, det är en seger för demonstrationsrätten. www.svt.se/nyheter/vete...
Detta i Science är oerhört. Myten – att skogsbruk trumfar bevarande av naturskogar för klimatet – tillintetgjord. Naturskogar lagrar över 70% mer kol än produktionsskogar. Skogsbruk har orsakat kolförlust större än Sveriges fossila utsläpp sen 1834. Läs @sverker.bsky.social www.dn.se/sverige/skog...
Skogsbrukets historiska kolförlust – större än alla våra fossila utsläpp
Naturskogar i Sverige lagrar betydligt mer kol än produktionsskogar, visar ny omfattande kartläggning publicerad i Science.
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My department is hiring a professor in the history of science! www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Professor in history of science - Uppsala University
Professor in history of science, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University
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We all want to move on with our lives, yet the violence continues. The killing continues. The occupation continues. The colonisation continues. More than 9,000 Palestinian hostages are still in Israeli detention. /1
Swedish police wants to deport climate scientist Davie Alcer for his legal and peaceful climate activism. This is a new level of repression. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/k0...
Polisen uppmanar: Utvisa forskaren David – ”Utgör hot”
Forskaren David Alcer frihetsberövades av polisen – eftersom han även är klimataktivist. Nu har polisen skickat en uppmaning till Migrationsverket: ”Rekommendat
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This was a very good discussion of what is wrong with ecomodernism (spoiler: you can have all the tech you want, it will not magically produce painless redistribution because the effects of property and prices will not automatically disappear in the future)! www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
How to Blow Up a Planet | Trevor Jackson
What happened to the future? When did we lose it, and what has taken its place? Political scientists have found a continual decline in visions of a shared
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Now on FirstView: Governing the Miracle? Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social discusses the consequences of planetary perspective for political thought in her review essay of Blake and Gilman’s Children of a Modest Star and Alyssa Battistoni’s Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature
Governing the Miracle | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Governing the Miracle
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We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame. tinyurl.se/crR
Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”
– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar
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I wrote an essay for @mihjournal.bsky.social on two very different books on planetary politics, each enlightening in their own way. Both contribute substantially to the discussion within the planetary turn. The piece can be found here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Governing the Miracle | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Governing the Miracle
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I have a new piece on the politics of discounting in the latest @nybooks.com, hopefully of interest to some. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
The Price of Tomorrow | Geoff Mann
The current discount rate means that the government views the long-term future of humanity as not metaphorically but literally worthless.
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EUROPEAN DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION Faculty and staff in European higher education and research declare their conscientious objection to collaborating with Israeli institutions complicit in severe violations of international law. To sign, visit uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...
VENICE: Exciting event happening on Monday and Tuesday 23-24th of June: www.unive.it/data/33113/2... 3rd HEPM workshop with a great line up of speakers including @drewpendergrass.bsky.social @beatricecointe.bsky.social @edouardmorena.bsky.social @geoffmann.bsky.social @julianordblad.bsky.social
WORKSHOP | Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modelling III - Unive
seminario/lezione
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Faculty and staff in Swedish higher education and research declare their conscientious objection to collaborate with Israeli institutions complicit in illegal occupation, apartheid, genocide, and other violations of international law. #uppsaladeclaration
"Över 700 akademiker, varav hälften från Uppsala universitet, har skrivit på en deklaration som uppmanar till bojkott av samarbeten med israeliska lärosäten." Sveriges Radio rapporterar om #uppsaladeclaration. www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/hund...
Hundratals forskare vägrar israeliskt samarbete - P4 Uppland
Över 700 akademiker, varav hälften från Uppsala universitet, har skrivit på en deklaration som uppmanar till bojkott av samarbeten med israeliska lärosäten. ...
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New article! On the early biodiversity discussion where scientists warned of genetic erosion in the wake of the green revolution, and presented visions of how the planetary environmental underpinnings of society – including evolution itself – could be governed. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Saving evolutionary time: Conflicting planetary temporalities in the genetic diversity debate, 1967–1980 - Julia Nordblad, 2025
This paper examines the temporalities at play in the issue of plant genetic resources in the 1960s and through the 1970s. The issue emerged as concerned scienti...
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Ahead of new print alert! You can now read @julianordblad.bsky.social's "The Nature of Planetary Habitability: A Conceptual History of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services" from the April 2025 issue. #envhist #envhum #biodiversity www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
The Nature of Planetary Habitability: A Conceptual History of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services | Environmental History
Abstract This essay traces the conceptual history of biodiversity and ecosystem services from the late 1970s to the early 2000s. In contrast to recent historical studies that have interpreted biodiver...
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My article is out! On how ‘ecosystem services’ went from a word for those aspects of nature that economics cannot express to a word for nature's economic value, and how concerns for planetary habitability disappeared from the environmentalist vocabulary. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
The Nature of Planetary Habitability: A Conceptual History of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services | Environmental History
Abstract This essay traces the conceptual history of biodiversity and ecosystem services from the late 1970s to the early 2000s. In contrast to recent historical studies that have interpreted biodiver...
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Two salaried 4-year PhD positions open at the Department of History of Science and Ideas in Uppsala, one in idéhistoria (intellectual/cultural history, broadly speaking), the other in history of science: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
PhD student in the history of science - Uppsala University
PhD student in the history of science, Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University
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Fellow Blueskyers! My first post is a question for the collective intelligence: are there any (preferably good) histories of the concept of resilience in ecological thought and beyond out there?