Two timely talks are coming up in the "Avalanches" project. Tom Özden-Schilling speaks about the fate of forestry research when public funding is cut. Mike Hulme asks whether the global temperature makes for a good indicator for the state of Planet Earth. Join! More at avalanche.hypotheses.org/gel

The G7 will be organized in Evian 🇫🇷 but the🇨🇭city of Geneva has the main local airport & will (mostly unwillingly) host most of the demos. I've planned a few days of visual fieldwork as the international border passage points will be closed in many places from 12-18 June. Flashback to Covid lockdown?

Looking forward to presenting and discussing my research on hazard zones @unibe.ch on May 19! Feel free to join in person or online ❄️🏔️

There are still a few more days to send us your abstract 🏔️

Lucas Mueller@lumu.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Danielle Inkpen (Mt Allison University) and I are organizing a conference on "Mountains, Danger, and Endangerment" on 12-13 November 2026 in Geneva (CH). Here's the CfP: avalanche.hypotheses.org/cfp-2026 Repost and circulate and submit! See you in Geneva!

Avec Janick Schaufelbuehl, nos co-éditons ce numéro de la revue Relations internationales sur la Diplomatie environnementale! A faire circuler et au plaisir de recevoir vos propositions!

infoclio.ch@infoclio.bsky.social · 4mo ago

CfP: Revue Relations internationales. Diplomatie environnementale #infoclioevent

Danielle Inkpen (Mt Allison University) and I are organizing a conference on "Mountains, Danger, and Endangerment" on 12-13 November 2026 in Geneva (CH). Here's the CfP: avalanche.hypotheses.org/cfp-2026 Repost and circulate and submit! See you in Geneva!

CfP: Mountains, Danger, and Endangerment, 12-13 November 2026, Geneva (CH)

Danger and endangerment have long been central to the experiences, knowledges, and governance of mountain environments. One of the most influential framing accounts of mountain history tells how in th...

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Digitalization Is the Answer…But What Is the Question? If you are interested in thinking together through making use of this magnificent collection as a source of critical historical research and engaging outreach - please reach out to me!

WSL Umweltforschung@wslresearch.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Now online: 28,000 historical #photos from WSL & SLF's archives. Various collections show #research, #technology, and everyday life since 1902. The digitalised glass plates, slides and film negatives are available on ETH Zurich's E-Pics image platform. More: www.wsl.ch/en/news/hist... @ethz.ch

Le même exercice chaque année: le conseil fédéral annonce un déficit pour justifier les coupes budgetaires de la science et des programmes pour une bonne vie civile et associative - afin il y a un excédent: www.rts.ch/info/suisse/... Les cantons font pareil: www.uss.ch/themes/econo...

La Confédération affiche finalement un excédent de 300 millions pour 2025 | RTS

L'exercice comptable 2025 se clôt finalement dans les chiffres noirs. La Confédération affiche un excédent de 300 millions alors qu'elle prévoyait un déficit de 800 millions. Le résultat est donc meil...

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Very much looking forward to deepen and open up the discussion about "Expert Multiplicity and Scientific Authority in the Anthropocene" at our Roundtable with Jessica Wang, Sabine Clarke, David Demortain, and Etienne Benson at #HSS2026 #eshs2026 in July in Edinburgh: hssonline.org/page/Edinbur...

This morning, the municipality of Orsière ordered around 50 people to evacuate their houses in the blue and red hazard zones, as an addition 80cm of fresh snow are expected, and the Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche (SLF) set the danger of avalanches to the category of 4+

Today, an avalanche cut off railway and road to the Lötschental. www.lenouvelliste.ch/valais/haut-...

Avalanche: le Lötschental coupé du trafic

Une avalanche a coupé l’entrée du Lötschental, peu après le tunnel routier du Lötschberg. Le trafic est interrompu au moins jusqu’au début de la soirée.

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Davos gave us globalism and now offers a front-row seat to its collapse. With Grace Ballor, we examine both its historical momentum and weaknesses. academic.oup.com/ser/advance-... In an issue on the post-neoliberal order by @quinnslobodian.com @llchristyll.bsky.social @akentikelenis.bsky.social

Tonight!

Lucas Mueller@lumu.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Looking forward to Anna Ahlers "Demystifying China’s Authoritarian Environmentalism - and Its Local and Global Nuances" on 8 December 2025, 17h15, at Uni Mail, M1170. Public talk - join if you are in Geneva!

Applications open for Ischia Summer School! Confirmed faculty: Daryn Lehoux (Queen’s), Dániel Margócsy (Cambridge), He Bian (Princeton), Patrick Anthony (Uppsala), Alison Bashford (UNSW), Hannah Landecker (UCLA), Edna Suárez-Díaz (UNAM), Sabina Leonelli (TUM) #STS #HPS ischiasummerschool.org

Great program for HSSuisse25 this Friday in Lucerne! See you there! hssuisse.ch/meetings/202...

Looking forward to Anna Ahlers "Demystifying China’s Authoritarian Environmentalism - and Its Local and Global Nuances" on 8 December 2025, 17h15, at Uni Mail, M1170. Public talk - join if you are in Geneva!

Tonight!

Lucas Mueller@lumu.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Next week! Join for David Jones's talk about urban air pollution this Wednesday, as the autumnal fog sits upon Geneva and the Swiss plateau 🌫️

Next week! Join for David Jones's talk about urban air pollution this Wednesday, as the autumnal fog sits upon Geneva and the Swiss plateau 🌫️

L’approche néo-schumpeterienne de Philippe Aghion a largement inspiré les politiques économiques en Europe depuis le tournant des années 2000. Et singulièrement celle d’Emmanuel Macron 1/

Agence France-Presse@afp.com · 10mo ago

🏆 Le prix Nobel d'économie a été décerné à l'Américano-Israélien Joel Mokyr, au Français Philippe Aghion et au Canadien Peter Howitt pour leurs travaux sur l'impact des nouvelles technologies sur la croissance économique.

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

If you want to hear more about avalanches (and avalanche dogs 🐶 ), you have three opportunities in three languages across Switzerland this: 21/10, Chur, "Lawinen und soziale Ordnung. Graubünden als Labor des Umgangs mit Naturgefahren, 1867–1972," historia-gr.ch/veranstaltun...

We have two great talks coming up in the Geneva Environmental Lecture series this term. 22/10 – David S. Jones (Harvard): "Particulate Matters: How PM2.5 Became a Cause of Death, and a Matter of Concern," 17h15, E712, Bd. Carl-Vogt 66

1/12 - In our book, The Mask, we show 58 striking images. Remember those depictions of plague doctors wearing a beaked mask? Such visual elements were common in the 17th C and were always satirical. Here is one by F. Bertelli, from Il Carnevale Italiano…1642 (The Met, NY). tinyurl.com/uvzjs9py

Switzerland will vote in late November on a popular initiative to impose a 50% tax on inheritance and donations above 50 million. The initiative, lanced by the JUSO, proposes to use the funds for socially just measures for climate protection. zukunft-initiative.ch/fr/

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Les ultra-riches détruisent notre avenir avec leurs jets privés, leurs super-yachts et leurs investissements de plusieurs milliards nuisibles au climat. En quelques heures, elles et ils sont…

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Submit your proposal for a presentation at HSSuisse25 in Lucerne (5 December) till 15 August! Going into its 6th year, this workshop serves as an informal, respectful, and constructive environment to present new and old projects and think through them together. More on hssuisse.ch/meetings/202...

Our book is out! The surprising history of masks worn by plague doctors, factory workers, trench soldier, hospital nurses, and the rest of us. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.socuial

More information about the conference's content and program:

@dehes.bsky.social · last yr.

For the upcoming conference on "Ecological Planning in the Anthropocene" at the University of Geneva next September (25-26), we invite PhD candidates and early researchers to participate in the Young Scholar Forum, which will take place on the 24th September.

"The Mask" by @brunostrasser.bsky.social and #thomasschlich is out today. I have listened to talks and seen some papers and cannot wait to read this.

We look forward to seeing the conversations that come out of this exciting forum!

Lucas Mueller@lumu.bsky.social · last yr.

Our Forum "Visions of the Planet" is now published in Diplomatic History (49.3) - and you can find all articles in one place: academic.oup.com/dh/issue/49/3

The rest of the research articles in the issue are part of a special forum on the planetary age Lucas Mueller (@lumu.bsky.social‬) and Simone M. Müller compiled a great set of articles and wrote the introduction, which is available in open access academic.oup.com/dh/article/4...

Visions of the One Planet: The Planetary Age in International and Environmental History

“We know that you don’t have the power to stop a transaction, but for goodness’ sake, we are all on the same planet.”- Congressional Representative John Co

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