Happening tomorrow at KTH!

Stockholm: we are so happy to bring @naomioreskes.bsky.social Oreskes to you! Don’t miss the chance today hear her speak about the hard truths of climate change we must confront

@apasek.bsky.social @anthropocenekth.bsky.social

Stockholm: Join us April 1st for a seminar on AI before the ruins! Anne Pasek, visiting us from Trent University where she is associate professor, will dive into what might happen to the massive rollout of datacentres when the AI bubble bursts www.kth.se/anthropocene...

Mysteriet som sticker ut: ”Det ser konstigt ut” Sverige rapporterar tre gånger större kolupptag i jorden, jämfört med Finland. HAPARANDA/TORNEÅ. Vi står med den ena foten i Sverige och den andra i Finland. Un

Finlands skogsmark tar knappt upp någon kol längre. Sveriges däremot har plötsligt ökat kraftigt.
Kolupptaget i marken som Sverige registrerar i sin klimatrapportering till FN sticker ut i Europa.
"Om siffran stämmer är den anmärkningsvärd".
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/e7...

”AI-utvecklingens energikostnad är ohållbar” | Forskning & Framsteg Trycket att snabbt implementera AI växer på alla fronter. Storbritanniens tidigare finansminister George Osborne, numera anställd av Open AI, varnade exempelvis nyligen vid årets AI-toppmöte …

De generella AI-modeller som används dagligen har en oacceptabel miljökostnad. Vi måste börja använda AI mer ändamålsenligt, skriver forskaren Adam Wickberg. ⬇️

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”AI-utvecklingens energikostnad är ohållbar” | Forskning & Framsteg Trycket att snabbt implementera AI växer på alla fronter. Storbritanniens tidigare finansminister George Osborne, numera anställd av Open AI, varnade exempelvis nyligen vid årets AI-toppmöte …

Måste alla använda mer AI? Borde vi kanske prata om vad vi vill uppnå med en generell ökad användning av Silicon Valleys generativa AI? Skriver i @fof.se & framsteg om AI-accelerationens baksida.

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Greta och Alexandra: En avstickare till Karlaplan!

Greta och jag var på Östermalm och pratade med folk. Läs gärna på bloggen!

The article is part of a special issue on the “Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modelling” edited by @adamwickberg.bsky.social from @anthropocenekth.bsky.social and Tom Turnbull from @mpiwg.bsky.social

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How does earth system modelling limit what stories about planetary change can be told? And can the lens of the Plantationocene help us answer this question?

That’s what I am asking in a new paper in The Anthropocene Review

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Reckoning with Everything. The Becoming-Environmental of Computing › meson press Computation must and has always had to “reckon with everything.” This volume brings together contributions that seek to describe the environmentality of computation based on selected settings.

New chapter on ocean digitalization and governance out in volume edited by Bernhard Siegert, alongside great essays by Jussi Parikka, Geoffrey Bowker, @ranjodhdhaliwal.com @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social and others

meson.press/books/reckon...

if AI is so amazing, why can’t its supporters point to one real actual benefit to society it offers?

Reckoning with Everything. The Becoming-Environmental of Computing › meson press Computation must and has always had to “reckon with everything.” This volume brings together contributions that seek to describe the environmentality of computation based on selected settings.

Happy to see this volume on environmental computation out where I contribute a chapter on ocean digitalization and governance, alongside great essays by Jussi Parikka, @ranjodhdhaliwal.com Geoffrey Bowker and others

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what do we talk about when we talk about energy? my answer features (among many others) adorno, bogdanov, and the austrian communist wilhelm frank, who experimented with national exergy balances in the 1950s. out april 2026.

We're recruiting 2 PhD candidates in human geography here in Uppsala, one position focused on urban/housing issues and one in political ecology.

Please spread the word/repost etc. Being a PhD student in Sweden is a good gig.

Rentier capitalism, technofascism and the destruction of the common This paper critically examines the emerging discourse on technofeudalism. While mainstream narratives celebrate technological advancement driven by American tech giants, proponents of the technofeu...

My new article "Rentier capitalism, technofascism and the destruction of the common" now published in Area Development and Policy (open access)!!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

When you see the cold numbers -- 8% cuts in emissions needed per year, every year, from now -- it's clear that even 2° is a fantasy

(Emissions only fell 5% during covid, when much of the world economy shut down)

Stockholm, join us on Thursday at the centre for Anthropocene history for a dissection and deep dive into the concept of crisis and its role in shapingh our response to climate and environment with @holgersen.bsky.social

We are hiring! Prospective PhD students in environmental history, history of science, history of technology and STS interested in the climate and environmental impacts of AI look here. Please share in your networks. #envhist #histsci #AI #anthropcoene

Our workshop Infrastructures In, Of, and For the Anthropocene has wrapped! Thanks to everyone who participated!
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We're now preparing for a second Autumn workshop, Futures Beyond Transition: Perspectives from the Energy Humanities shorturl.at/kO4EI
(Flamenco image: James Bridle)

Pollutting now and cleaning up later is not a viable strategy: Direct Air Capture (DAC) is hitting a hard reality check.

Costs are falling much slower than anticipated, casting doubts on the nascent technique’s role in tackling climate change.

Co-environing the ocean and climate: The Argo program - Susanna Lidström, Adam Wickberg, 2025 The Argo program is an international scientific network that coordinates an array of autonomous floats that roam (primarily) the upper 2000 meters of the ice-fr...

Our paper on the Argo program and how the ocean became understood through the lense of climate modelling is out now in Environment and Planning E! #envhist #histofsci 🌊

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Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

”Scientists have warned previously that Amoc collapse must be avoided ’at all costs’. It would shift the tropical rainfall belt on which many millions of people rely to grow their food, plunge western Europe into extreme cold winters and summer droughts, and add 50cm to already rising sea levels.”

I am thrilled to announce that I will be collaborating with Adam Wickberg and the brilliant group at KTH's Centre of Excellence for Anthropocene History this fall as a visiting scholar. So, if you are in proximity to Stockholm between September 1st and December 1st and want to hang out: HMU

Digital twins of the ocean: Wet environing media and marine futures - Adam Wickberg, Susanna Lidström, 2025 The EU’s Digital Twin of the Ocean (DTO) is presented as a coherent, high-resolution, multi-dimensional, multi-variable and near real-time representation of the...

Our paper on digital twins of the ocean is out now in this great special issue of New Media & Society, alongside contributions from Jussi Parikka, Rob Kitchin,Geoffrey Bowker among others. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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#envhist #bluehumanities #envhum

Grattis till nytt spännande jobb Alexandra, låter som en plattform som behövs idag!

Slide projected on the wall below a painted ceiling. The slide shows a dark circle with the text « Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modelling, Ca’ Foscari, NICHE, Venice », with a red banner reading « Toward a radical Earth system science », an pink banner reading « WEDDING EDITION!! » and two flying seagulls (because, in Venice, the seagulls are well-fed and .assertive.)

On my way back from Venice where I had a great time at the Historical Epistemolgies of Planetary Modelling organised by Tom Turnbull & @adamwickberg.bsky.social, with an altogether great crew. Unfortunately, missed the wedding.

WORKSHOP | Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modelling III - Unive seminario/lezione

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

Great opportunity for prospective PhDs to join my colleague Henrik Ernstson at KTH and partly in Singapore to work on dredging

www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/...

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Other articles from the same issue include Drew Pendergrass:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Sverker Sörlin: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Christoph Rosol: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Forthcoming are Sabine Höhler. Aisha Kadiri and yours truly w Tom Turnbull