The Alps are no longer white 🏔️🧊 And it's entirely our fault! 🏭🔥 Spectacular retreat of the Corvatsch Glacier on Piz Murtel (3,433 m asl, Engadin, CH) over the last 57 years compiled by @landervt.bsky.social !
Giacomo Parrinello
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Environmental historian & associate prof. at Sciences Po Paris. First book on #disasters (https://shorturl.at/cXZBh) now writing on #rivers & growth in the Po Valley of Italy. All things #water & #climate, #envhist news, & adventures in daily life.
Incroyable. C'est bien, comme ça on sera encore pris au dépourvu l'an prochain (voire avant). www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...
Rénovation thermique des écoles : le gouvernement ampute le plan d’urgence canicule de 40 millions d’euros
Fin juin, en pleine canicule, une enveloppe de près de 60 millions d’euros avait été annoncée par la Banque des territoires et le programme Actee, qui finance la rénovation thermique des bâtiments pub...
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This is why I immediately scroll past anything or anyone saying data center water use is minimal. How can we really know? At this point, we can’t.
Phil Jankowski@philjankowski.bsky.social · 4d agoNew: More than 70% of Texas data centers contacted in state water use inquiry did not respond. That's against the law, state official says: www.dallasnews.com/news/politic...
David Lynch’s Eraserhead has this exact kind of soundscape 😱
Abbey@abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 4d agoThis is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.
This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.
🥁 co-dirigé avec @clarisseberthezene.bsky.social 𝙐𝙣𝙚 𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙞𝙙𝙚́𝙚 𝙙𝙪 𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙚. 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙞𝙧𝙚, 𝙖𝙙𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙚𝙩 𝙙𝙚́𝙢𝙤𝙘𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙚 est à paraître le 27/08 aux @puseptentrion.bsky.social 👉 www.septentrion.com/fr/book/?GCO... / plus d'infos à suivre... 😉
Sur plusieurs kilomètres, il ne reste que des roches et des cailloux : près de la frontière franco-suisse, la rivière Doubs a disparu, manifestation la plus saisissante de la sécheresse qui touche actuellement le département du même nom, placé en "alerte renforcée". Reportage ➡️ u.afp.com/SKD7
Soon! Fall 26 in the UK Winter 26-27 in the US A book I wrote after the beginning of the Ukraine war, and that's unfortunately been vindicated by further events. Global security lies in decarbonization: in times of war, green energy means peace.
Iva Lučić’s and my introduction to our Timber Colonialism special issue with the Journal of Historical Geography went online today: “Thinking through forests: Colonialism, capitalism, and the global timber trade” #envhist authors.elsevier.com/a/1n8X2_6yx5...
Feels like a good day to say that I am writing a trade history of the Italian colonial empire, 1869-1951, tentatively called Fantasylands, under contract with John Murray (UK) & Basic Books (USA)! my focus is on the men & women who dreamed, built, resisted, lived in and dismantled the empire
OK ya'll, I did it. I sent in my final manuscript after revisions to @oupress.bsky.social. Nearly 20 years in the making. Reefs or Rubbish: A More-Than-Human Policy History of Rigs-to-Reefs coming your way soon! #envhist
Warming rivers are now a growing source of greenhouse gases: www.earth.com/news/warming...
Warming rivers are now a growing source of greenhouse gases
Rivers worldwide are warming, losing oxygen, and releasing more greenhouse gases, adding a hidden new source to global climate change.
earth.com
That's it. I've checked the very last proofs of the book and it's now off to the printers. I hope it will reach Hobsbawm fans, Hobsbawm sceptics, and anyone curious about the intellectual life of the left in the 20th century! Publication: 18 Aug (US), 4 Sept (UK) www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
This second edition is essential reading - for everyone. If there’s one book I’d recommend in environmental history, it might be this. With an introduction by @brdemuth.bsky.social! #EnvHist
Errors present in 45% of AI generated reports of news stories 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
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I am teaching exactly this class with a group of master's students, with a 2-page syllabus, and it's been an absolute blast so far, at times even moving.
Josh Shepperd@joshshepperd.bsky.social · 5mo agoWhat if we just went back to reading a bunch of books and thinking about them together, and that was the class? With syllabi no longer than three pages.
What if we just went back to reading a bunch of books and thinking about them together, and that was the class? With syllabi no longer than three pages.
being able to sit patiently with other people's thoughts, sit patiently with your own, and make both of those processes legible to someone who is not you is very valuable. if you can find a new way to do this that is fantastic news but I suspect it will at least resemble the model we've inherited
Come work with me and the rest of the wonderful @greenhouseuis.net community! #envhist #envhum
Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities@greenhouseuis.net · 6mo agoWe'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
JOB: Full Professor Political History of contemporary (post-1945) Europe, SciencesPo, France. They are open to people working on environmental politics. Application deadline 13 April 2026. www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/fil... #envhist
The Center for History @ Sciences Po is recruiting a full professor specializing in the political history of Europe after 1945. This position is open to a mid-career researcher w/ habilitation or equivalent qualifications. Please see below for more & share widely! www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/fil...
Sweet gig!
Giacomo Parrinello@parriblue.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe Center for History @ Sciences Po is recruiting a full professor specializing in the political history of Europe after 1945. This position is open to a mid-career researcher w/ habilitation or equivalent qualifications. Please see below for more & share widely! www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/fil...
The Center for History @ Sciences Po is recruiting a full professor specializing in the political history of Europe after 1945. This position is open to a mid-career researcher w/ habilitation or equivalent qualifications. Please see below for more & share widely! www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/fil...
“A.I. chatbots contain the sum of all human knowledge” is so egregiously wrong that I don’t know what to say. Chatbots have been trained on corpus of digital(ised) text - ABSOLUTELY NOT the sum of all human knowledge. Paper, experience, embodiment, oral tales all missing. These people are fools!
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 6mo agoHow does A.I. stack up against some of the world’s best human writers? Take our quiz.
Without considering the sources of claims, efforts at epistemic vigilance become play-acting. With LLMs, we don't know the sources. Excellent thread from @mjcrockett.bsky.social
M.J. Crockett@mjcrockett.bsky.social · 6mo agoI'm a cognitive scientist with an interest in epistemic vigilance, and this essay that's been going around gave me pause. I don't think it's straightforward to apply the concept of epistemic vigilance to interactions with LLMs, as this essay does. 🧵/ sbgeoaiphd.github.io/rotating_the...
Yesterday, I watched TOUKI BOUKI, a 1973 movie by pioneering Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambéty. Easily one of the very best movies I have ever watched: outstanding story, shots, acting, editing...and a good movie to pair with F.Cooper's recent piece on "decolonization."
It is so important to keep hammering in this point. People always ask me why I would have to go visit archives - why not just look at a scan? Because they haven’t been scanned! And they are never going to be! There are millions & millions of pieces of paper in every archive.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 7mo agoRight, another key thing that historians do is working with important records that have not been digitized. And the vast majority of the world’s records *have not been digitized* and thus do not exist in any format that LLMs/AI can work with.