Please apply for our position, exciting professorship in development economics, ends on 22.4. 2026 @univie.ac.at

#Skystorians, Job Alert! 🥳

Am @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social sind 5 unbefristete (!) Stellen zum Aufbau unserer neuen Abteilung "Zeitgeschichte Transfer" zu besetzen. 4 Stellen in München, 1 Stelle in Berlin. Ihr wollt unser Team verstärken? Bewirbt euch, wir freuen uns! 😊

Start: 1. Januar 2027

Get a free copy of Oil Beach (see below)!

For more insights into the book, you can watch/listen to the recording our Greenhouse #envhum book talk conversation with Christina about it here:

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Here's something good for early career scholars in history and area studies! Submissions close in a week! Tell your frens!
#academicsky 🗃 #histsci #earlymodern #ancient #medieval

Dear #envhist community, I will be presenting my draft paper “Wind and Site Engineers, 'behind the turbines' 1971-1999" at the CHSTM Energy History Working Group on April 10th. Feel free to join and/or contact me cc @eseh.bsky.social @leruche.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social

CfP: Global Histories of Hair, c. 1500–2026 (Lucerne, Oct 8–10, 2026)🚨🗃️

We’re organizing an interdisciplinary conference on global histories, cultures, and legacies of hair.
Researchers from all relevant fields and early-career scholars are encouraged to apply. All costs are covered.
📆 May 15, 2026

A picture of the devastated city of Napier in the wake of the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake.

🚨 CFP: Disastrous Pasts And Sustainable Futures. Urban disasters and resilience in historical and social scientific perspectives.

🗓️ 29-30 June 2026

An interdisciplinary and international conference organised at the University of Warwick

For more details, see warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

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Announcement text: "The Institute of History at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) is recruiting 2 postdoctoral researchers for the ERC Consolidator Grant Project ‘WILDHIST – Wild Rubber in the Industrial Age: A Global History of Production’, led by Dr. David Pretel. Postdoc 1. The history of rubber production in the Amazon rainforest. Postdoc 2. The history of rubber production in the Congo Basin. For details, see the project description and objectives below. Application deadline: 24 April 2026. Starting date: 1 September 2026 (flexible). Requirements: • PhD in history, history of science, economic history or associated fields (Latin American studies, African studies, science and technology studies, anthropology, digital humanities), and a strong interest in the project. • Good command of written and spoken English and, depending on research specialisation, Portuguese, Spanish and/or French. • Be based in Madrid for the duration of the project. • Expected to publish articles, book chapters, and/or a book manuscript / edited volume. • Ability to collaborate within a team and to work independently. Benefits: • A three-year contract (full-time). • A gross salary of 43,827 EUR. • A fully equipped workspace at the Institute of History. • Funding for research-related purposes, participation in international conferences, and organisation of events. • Mentorship in applying for tenure-track and tenure positions at CSIC."

Project description text: "The Project WILDHIST aims to offer a comprehensive, multi-sited and multi-scale global history of wild rubber production during the industrial age. It investigates the hypothesis that wild rubber industries in the tropical rainforests of Africa and Latin America were key sites in the broader dynamics of industrialisation and scientific research from the early 19th century to the Second World War, forming an integral part of the era’s expanding global networks of knowledge exchange. The project moves beyond plantations to focus on wild production and smallholders’ cultivation in rainforests, emphasizing production processes rather than consumption or trade, and placing much stronger emphasis on the study of exploration, extraction, processing, transportation, experimentation, and manufacturing than has been typical of historical research on rainforest commodities. WILDHIST combines an analysis of contrasting non-plantation histories of rubber production in the Amazon, Congo Basin and so-called Maya Forest with broader histories of transnational interaction. The project rethinks and rewrites the global history of wild rubber by systematically and critically exploring a rich array of written, visual and oral sources located throughout the world. Its trans-local, interdisciplinary, comparative, digital and visual methodology will provide a comprehensive historical account of how rubber was transformed into commodities and then final goods for local, regional or global markets. Beyond academia, WILDHIST contributes to discussions about bioprospecting, sustainability and labour in rainforests. To address the challenge of writing more inclusive histories of science, technology, and industrialisation, the project also considers collective memory as represented in museums, material culture, and industrial heritage.

Two 3-year postdoctoral research positions available at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid to study the history of wild rubber production in the Amazon rainforest and Congo basin; apply by April 24th, 2026: #HistSTM

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Award - Intimate Energies: How Do Museum Collections Help Us See Unrecognised Actors in the History and Future of Energy? at University of Leeds Discover a PhD Studentship: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Award - Intimate Energies: How Do Museum Collections Help Us See Unrecognised Actors in the History and Future of Energy? Explore mo...

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Award - Intimate Energies: How Do Museum Collections Help Us See Unrecognised Actors in the History and Future of Energy?- University of Leeds - School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRB080/a... #skystorians 🗃️

Oder es hat sich einfach rumgesprochen, wie schlecht die Arbeitsbedingungen und Karriereperspektiven oft sind?

Eh, aber die ÖMV ist auch eher ein Zwerg

Das stimmt so nicht. Die großen Ölkonzerne sind in der Regel vertikal integriert und konrollieren die gesamte Wertschöpfungskette. Denk an die ÖMV. Die fördert, verarbeitet und betreibt Tankstellen.

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Die neue cache-Ausgabe "Diplomatie in Gesellschaft" widmet sich der Verwobenheit von Diplomatie und Zivilgesellschaft von den 1920er bis in die 1980er Jahre.

Neu im @intercomverlag.bsky.social, hg. von Carolin Liebisch-Gümüş & Britta-Marie Schenk.

OA & als Buch: cache.ch/diplomatiein...

📢 JOB OPENINGS at CSIC @cchscsic.bsky.social (Madrid)!

As part of my ERC project WILDHIST, the Institute of History is hiring two 3-year postdoctoral researchers in the global history of rubber.

Application deadline: 24 April 2026.

More info 👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422012

@erc.europa.eu

Auch eines meiner Highlights des diesjährigen Konferenzreigens :)

🌲 New paper out: Modernizing the German forest—How a changing economy divided forestry economists, 1850-1900

We used to think of the 19th century as the age of coal, but what happened to wood and the people who managed forests when industry took off? /1

doi.org/10.1016/j.sh...

Come work with me and the rest of the wonderful @greenhouseuis.net community! #envhist #envhum

Job: 0,7 Promotionsstelle "Wissenschafts-, Technik-, Umweltgeschichte" (St. Gallen)

https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-161246

St.Gallen, 01.06.2026-31.05.2029, Universität St.Gallen, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.04.2026 Promotionsstelle Wissenschafts-, …

This dynamic is so true.

When I was doing my first research into vulnerability to fuel price increases for transport users in the mid-2010s, the price of oil was low so a few times I was questioned about why should we even care about that, told we should focus on automated vehicles instead.

Lustig, ich dachte mir grad, igitt! 🙂

New Yugoslav Studies "Non-Conference"

If you're a Yugo-scholar based in Vienna/Austria, consider applying to the workshop and networking event of our New Yugoslav Studies Association. It will take place on May 7 at the Central European University.

events.ceu.edu/2026-05-07/n...

Glosse aus der Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung von heute: DIE ECKE Alternativen Die aktuelle Energiepreiskrise ist für viele schmerzhaft. Und doch wäre es falsch, jetzt anklagend mit dem Finger auf die Bundesregierung und andere Staatenlenker zu deuten. Schließlich kam der Schock so überraschend wie 2022, als Russland als freundlicher Öl-Dealer von nebenan wegfiel. Nun die nächste unverschuldete Misere: Wer hätte wissen können, dass aus der sympathischen Golfregion ein Kriegsschauplatz werden würde? Das sah bei den Dubai-Influencern immer so relaxed aus. Nun müssen wir eben solidarisch sein. Wäre natürlich toll, wenn es als Energielieferant Alternativen gäbe zu über Millionen Jahre gegarten Pflanzenresten, die das Weltklima auf-heizen und uns von Diktatoren in aller Welt abhängig machen. Aber die gibt es nun einmal nicht. Schade eigentlich.

Ja. Schade eigentlich.

An Avoidable Dependency? Russian Gas and German Complacency in the History of East–West Energy Relations - Neue Politische Literatur How dependent were Germany and the European Union as a whole on Russian gas, and what lines can be traced in the historical development of energy relations? These questions are at the heart of the six...

My review essay @nplreview.bsky.social
"An Avoidable Dependency? Russian Gas and German Complacency in the History of East–West Energy Relations" now as 5.000+ accesses, still counting. Thanks for the interest!
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Konf: Un/Sichtbarkeiten – Energiegeschichte zwischen Materialität, Praxis und Repräsentation

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-161165

Dortmund, 07.05.2026-09.05.2026, Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte (gtg); Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL); PITCH, Bewerbungsschluss: 26.04.2026 …

Job: 1 PhD + 2 Postdoctoral Research Positions "A Global Consensus? The Contested History of Structural Adjustment in the Age of Shock" (Univ. of Vienna)

https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-161147

Vienna, 01.09.2026-31.08.2029, University of Vienna, Bewerbungsschluss: 19.04.2026 1 PhD + 2 …

Das Buch-Cover von »Umwelt – Technik – Wissen« auf orangefarbenem Hintergrund.

Junge Forschung aus der Umweltgeschichte!  

https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7863-5/

@czumbragel.bsky.social 
@robertgro5.bsky.social 
@eikeheine.bsky.social 
@askehn.bsky.social 
@mmeiske.bsky.social 
@kawetj.bsky.social 

#Umwelt #Technik #Wissen #Geschichtswissenschaft

Wartets nur, bis ihr die Kaltfront abkriegts! (mit freundlichem Gruß aus Bregenz) :)

Trump Administration Readies Plans to Dismantle Renowned Science Lab

This should be the biggest weather and climate news on your radar today.

You can send an email today to say why dismantling NCAR is a bad idea for everyone: NSF_NCAR@nsf.gov

📢 „Un|Sichtbarkeiten – Energiegeschichte zwischen Materialität, Praxis und Repräsentation“
Jahrestagung der @gtg-histtech.bsky.social 7.-9. Mai 2026, in Zusammenarbeit mit PITCH und LWL. ➡️ Anmeldung bis spätestens 26. April unter: eveeno.com/gtg-jahresta... #histtech #envirotech #energyhistory

#envhist #envirotech #histtech