Historian of science and environment | finishing a book on watery Earth histories 1550-1800 | researching a new one on uranium and energy futures in the 1970s-80s | Postdoc @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social | PhD from @uva.nl
Mathijs Boom
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En nog een vacature voor een promotieplaats bij collega @maartjegelder.bsky.social aan @uvahumanities.bsky.social maar deze gaat over gender en protest in de 16de eeuwse Noordelijke #Nederlanden
werkenbij.uva.nl/vacatures/pr...
#medievalsky #twitterstorians #earlymodernsky
Heroic nautilus of the centre of the title page of this edition of Johann Jakob Scheuchzer's Herbarium Diluvianum. One of the all-time great book titles, that. In fact there's nothing about this I don't like.
Same. HUGE gap between experts & everyone else.
This was already expert consensus 2 years ago.
Now? Trump's horrible & evil war have wrecked the perception of oil & gas as stable and cheap in the decade when solar, wind, batteries, EVs are SURGING worldwide www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/daw...
Two possibly interesting PhD positions on "submerged" and "extractive dependencies" in the context of project titled "Power, Knowledge, and Servitude at Sea" in Bonn: www.idos-research.de/en/stellen-p... and www.idos-research.de/en/about-us/...
You can get to a high-warming world without high emissions
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That's the part of this week's "RCP 8.5 is implausible" discussion that's getting missed.
A short thread on why the relief is premature 🧵
Fascinating. One day, I’ll be a historian of peat and peatlands.
Meanwhile the California grid now boasts the equivalent of 12 nuclear power plants worth of batteries -- the total cost of which was, I suspect, less than a single nuclear plant.
<p>Binnen het project <em>Women and Popular Protest in the Low Countries</em> zoeken we twee promovendi die de opstandige traditie en politieke acties van vrouwen in de laatmiddeleeuwse en vroegmodern...
Global peatland experts share their top 50 research needs. Many of these are obvious (better mapping) and many should be obvious (centre local and indigenous communities), but some might surprise you (there is a lot that we do not know about what the microbes in peat are up to).
Peatlands store more carbon than the world's forests yet fundamental questions remain unanswered. Today we publish 50 priority research questions, identified by 467 participants from 54 countries #PeatQuest #Peatlands
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
This is really grim. Imagine a different world. @tninstitute.bsky.social
Albert Pinto
Mathijs Boom
Dr. Aaron Thierry
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Richard Fallon
Mario Damen
An expert in the state’s energy grid explains how the state is faring amid federal cuts.
Peatlands store more carbon than the world's forests yet fundamental questions remain unanswered. Today we publish 50 priority research questions, identified by 467 participants from 54 countries #PeatQuest #Peatlands
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
David Roberts
Peatlands store more carbon than the world's forests yet fundamental questions remain unanswered. Today we publish 50 priority research questions, identified by 467 participants from 54 countries #PeatQuest #Peatlands
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Rage Against the Miocene
Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪
honestly haven't felt this hopeful about climate in a *while*
