@liverpooluni.bsky.social's latest Original Ideas podcast discusses challenges of and solutions to heatwaves 🌇
Including @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social researchers
@chrisjpearson.bsky.social @abiedoubleyou.bsky.social @chloeduteil.bsky.social
👉 news.liverpool.ac.uk/2026/06/05/l...
🌇🌡️Temperatures are on the rise again today, so take a look at how people dealt with old timey heatwaves, with @chloeduteil.bsky.social, Jon Winder and the @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social team. 🌞
#PhewWotAScorcher
Ever wondered how urbanites in the past have tried to keep cool in the summer using water? Our article has answers! ⛲️👇
Our @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social article on keeping cool in summertime Paris, New York and London is free to read in the Journal of Social History. doi.org/10.1093/jsh/...
It dives into the fascinating world of seaweeds and examines their role in the making of political cultures and identities in coastal Brittany in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It also features the striking M. Mével, pictured above, who used seaweeds as his very means of protest!
I am beyond thrilled to announce that my first solo article has just come out in French History!
The article can be accessed in open access using the link below: doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...
Bravo to my fantastic co-panellists Fabian Zimmer, Damiana Salm, Rebecca Wright, and Hannah Elizabeth for their engaging research & to Anna-Katharina Wöbse for chairing
#ESEH2025 also involved seaweeding with artist Julia Lohmann from the Department of Seaweed!
How London, Paris and New York coped in the heatwaves of the past 🌇
@liverpooluni.bsky.social and @livunihss.bsky.social @chloeduteil.bsky.social and @drjonwinder.bsky.social co-write for @theconversation.com with Daniel Cumming, Queens College @cuny.edu
👉 theconversation.com/how-london-p...
And it’s a wrap on #ESEH2025!
What an honour to have been part of the panel “From the Inside Out: The Environmental and Health Implications of Regulating the Indoor Environment” featuring dusty, hot, and cold homes across the 19th and 20th centuries in Germany, France and Britain