Tina Adcock

This FOl enquiry for the Guardian has taken up a great deal of my life for the past 2 years. (1/3)

If you're an editor or journalist looking for experts who can speak knowledgeably about previous oil crises, the program from this 2024 conference has a great list.

I’ll be presenting Montreal After Dark at the @utoronto.ca on March 11, 1-3 PM (Sidney Smith 2098).

Then at @mcgill.ca on March 17, as noted here.

Very much looking forward to the conversations.

My friend
the climatologist
tells me
what worries him
is the climate.

My friend
the epidemiologist
tells me
what worries them
are infections.

My friend
the historian
tells me
what worries her
are the people
who aren’t worried.

How DARE you come into my house and look at my shelves of notebooks?!

It’s tiring that we are increasingly stuck organizing our intellectual lives around arguing for the value of having an intellectual life

A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best

Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best

Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!

Trying to stay in academia has been so demoralizing even without [waves hands]. And yet every time I log onto this website I'm met by a diverse community of scholars working in a broad range of fields, all of whom believe in and fiercely advocate for a better academy. What could be more hopeful?

I’ve had whole courses with this dynamic and it is, indeed, glorious to behold ✨

I met four members of the British royal family at two separate events on the same day in 2010.

Welp: ZERO takers on the Trump administration's first lease sale for oil and gas development in the Cook Inlet, Alaska. Bidding closed today with no bids.

The lease sale was supposed to spark new interest in oil and gas development in the region. It doesn't seem to be working.

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Christina Olsen's fonds at the Provincial Archives of Alberta offer the extremely rare prospect of a trans energy history. Materials still accruing! #envhist #envhum searchprovincialarchives.alberta.ca/christina-ol...

Can we fill the TL with suggestions of untapped archives/collections? That would be a lot of fun! I think there's quite a bit of material in the Gregory Bateson papers at UCSC Special Collections that has yet to be written about.

there are two kinds of historians: historians who need to stop reading and write, and historians who need to stop writing and read

This is a really thoughtful and thorough review of *A Cold Colonialism.* Many thanks to Heather, and to Daniella for commissioning it! #cdnhist @ubcpress.bsky.social

Featuring commentaries by Samuel Dolbee, Barbara Böck, and @vladimir-dabrowski.bsky.social, a response from the author, and an introduction by moi! Enjoy and please share widely. #envhum

Delighted to announce a new H-Environment Roundtable Review! This one features Sureshkumar Muthukumaran's *The Tropical Turn: Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean.* It's the first work of ancient #envhist reviewed in this forum! networks.h-net.org/sites/defaul...

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

I'm not unsympathetic. Except at a handful of R1s, it's not easy to be an academic these days. But what we need is a massive reorganization of the system and a reinvestment of public funds. As is often the case, this technical fix is a poor substitute for political action.

IMO, the majority of pro-AI arguments made by academics are about the economics of working in a neoliberal university. The constant call is to do more with less--less time, less funding, less peace of mind. AI promises to "solve" these problems, but I'd argue it'll actually intrench them further.

Hard to bring up the deep, ineradicable ghoulishness of so much generative AI salesmanship/futurology without sounding like a humanist [derogatory], but so be it

Someone in Stanford's finance hierarchy keeps querying what the "business purpose" of going to an archive is. Maybe if I lied and said I went there to train an AI we'd have less of a language barrier?

In case the scam here isn't obvious - Grammarly is, without permission, creating little LLM agents based on the work of academics and then claiming this is the same as their "expert opinion" - using their names and reputations for free without consent.

I just can't get over what a bullshit thievery based scam all this is and there are still actual academics doing tra la la think pieces about how we need to embrace it or be left behind, I mean, look at the state of it. Look at it. It is bad, wrong, offensive, stupid and scuzzy.

I’m proud to announce the fourth CFP for Succession IV: Queering the Environment, which I’ve edited biennially since 2020.

This year we are inviting topics related to “queer joy.”

I’ve read SO many gorgeous books by Black writers this year and last, here are my favourites, details to follow:

Higher ed programs should teach more about history/philosophy/sociology of science

For those of us in danger of going mad by too much news and too online, a possible salve could be reading more novels. What would you recommend?

I’ll start: Ian McEwan’s ‘What we can Know’ was excellent. I’m currently reading Kiran Desai’s latest which is good on modern rather than mystical India