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Edward Guimont
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Historian, focus on science, colonialism, and pseudoscience. Co-author of When the Stars are Right: H. P. Lovecraft and Astronomy (Hippocampus Press, 2023) Be on the lookout for The Power of the Flat Earth Idea, out soonish from Palgrave Macmillan
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Edward Guimont @eguimont.bsky.social · Nov 15
The stars are right for you to buy, or ask your local library to purchase, a copy of When the Stars are Right: H. P. Lovecraft and Astronomy from the friendly shipping shoggoths of Hippocampus Press!
A photograph of Ladd Observatory with a nebula background.
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Alison Laurence @dinostalgia.bsky.social · 3d
A call for 🦕🦖🦣 contributors! With Victor Monnin, I'm editing a collection about extinct animal parks—it's a field guide, of sorts, that turns a critical eye on places real, imagined, and yet to be. Find the full CFP for LANDS OF THE LOST here: tinyurl.com/dinoparks #PaleoSky #HistSci #EnvHist #STS
A promotional image for an edited collection called "Lands of the Lost: A Field Guide to Dinosaur Parks Physical, Fictional, and for the Future." The collection editors Dr. Victor Monnin & Dr. Alison Laurence are putting out a call for contributions. Abstracts are due January 10, 2026 to dinoparkfieldguide@gmail.com. Find the full call at: https://tinyurl.com/dinoparks The background image is of the outdated-but-adored Iguanodon models at Crystal Palace Park.
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Edward Guimont @eguimont.bsky.social · 3d
In honor of today’s holiday in the US, I present an article I wrote for @eclasproject.bsky.social on how Columbus came to be seen as the one who disproved the Flat Earth:

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Flat-out stupid
Questions for discussion
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Edward Guimont @eguimont.bsky.social · 4d
French remake of the Secret Mall Apartment in Providence.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 8d
When the Soviet Union fell, Russians lost their sense of past and future at once. Collective hallucinations flourished in the void.

In the United States, our reality is now disintegrating in a similar way.
When a Superpower Declines, Shared Reality Dissolves
When the Soviet Union fell, Russians lost their sense of past and future at once. Collective hallucinations flourished in the void. In the United States, our reality is now disintegrating in a similar way.
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Edward Guimont @eguimont.bsky.social · 10d
Forget Dr. Zaius... Dr. Fauci is the real ape in our politics if you ask me!!!
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Edward Guimont @eguimont.bsky.social · 16d
Page, a former member of the Robertson Panel, was at this time director of Van Vleck Observatory at Wesleyan University. Van Vleck was founded by two astronomers from Ladd who knew young H. P. Lovecraft. Page also drove Erwin Rommel's car: underctskies.wordpress.com/2016/02/18/t...
The Most Interesting Man of the Van Vleck Observatory
He doesn’t always drink beer, but when he does, he drinks his own. One of the difficulties of dealing with the types of archival material that rest in a historic observatory is that, while we have …
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Edward Guimont @eguimont.bsky.social · 16d
From Journal of UFO History Vol. 1 No. 3 (Jul/Aug 2004). The man in the goatee between Fuller and McDonald is Richard C. Hoagland, of Space Shuttle Enterprise, Face on Mars, and Hale-Bopp fame.
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AP Strange @apstrange.bsky.social · 18d
This week, I had a wild chat with Dr Jerrold Coe about the weirdness of paperback forteana in the 50s, 60s, and 70s- the pulpy madness of recycled stories, crazy cover art, and myth making for fun and profit.
Coe writes about these titles on his blog, Paperbacks 🧵

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Collecting Old Weird Paperbacks with Jerrold Coe
Podcast Episode · The AP Strange Show · 09/28/2025 · 1h 32m
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Britain and the World @batw.bsky.social · Sep 13
🚨THIS IS NOT A DRILL🚨
#batw2026 is celebrating two decades over two weeks!

Join us online 18-19 April 2026 or in person in Boston 24-25 April 2026!

Check out and share the CFP. You won’t want to miss it! britainandtheworld.org/2026-20-year...
2026 - 20 Years of BATW Events Page — Britain and the World
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Roberto Baldwin @strngwys.bsky.social · Sep 5
Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Sep 3
Dogs are getting vaccinated less and rabies rates are rising, in part because 37% of Americans think vaccines will give their dogs... pawtism.

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Worries about vaccination rates in dogs As rabies seems to be spreading more in wildlife, veterinarians are especially worried about vaccine hesitancy spreading among pet owners, a dangerous trend that could lead to more dogs — and their owners — becoming infected. A 2023 study published in the journal Vaccine found in a nationally representative sample of Americans that nearly 40% believed canine vaccines were unsafe and 37% believed that vaccines could lead their dogs to develop cognitive issues, such as autism.
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Edward Guimont @eguimont.bsky.social · Aug 27
How have I not known until now that Richard C. Hoagland was a member of NICAP?
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Edward Guimont @eguimont.bsky.social · Aug 26
Have to give credit, this is the one thing I thought he wouldn’t be able to control his base’s response to.
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Edward Guimont @eguimont.bsky.social · Aug 26
Beginning the journey of reading through the APRO Bulletin for a project related to the history of ufology for next year’s plate.
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Edward Guimont @eguimont.bsky.social · Aug 26
This was over 20 years ago now but my memory was no, which is partly what made it so shocking, it seemed to come from a very serious place as opposed to any kind of humor (which wouldn't have been off from a comedian in the early 200s), which made it even more at odds with his public persona.
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Edward Guimont @eguimont.bsky.social · Aug 26
The most shocking bit to me wasn't just the homophobia but that it seemed to be informed by Christian conservatism and a belief that all gays were going to Hell, which seemed so strange a belief for someone like Nelson to have, as opposed to the general homophobia of the era.
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Edward Guimont @eguimont.bsky.social · Aug 26
My college's nerd club put on a small convention every year and we'd typically get a local celeb to attend. Around the time Nelson gave that interview of his politics, we were able to get him as the guest, and everyone was shocked when he made truly homophobic comments to a gay student.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · Aug 24
Words/phrases Democrats should never use:

* bipartisan
* my Republican friends
* real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans)
* yea (when voting on Republican bills)
* distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did)
* woke (in derogatory sense)
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Edward Guimont @eguimont.bsky.social · Aug 24
I hope the second weekly episode is called RePosting Through It.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · Aug 22
Okay I guess I can see why this new logo is controversial
The Cracker Barrel logo featuring their new slogan “White people are devils created by the great scientist Yakub”
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Jason Colavito @jasoncolavito.bsky.social · Aug 21
My new piece for @newrepublic.com looks at the super-weird origins of the Right's hatred of the Smithsonian, tying in the Enola Gay, Bible Giants, the History Channel, and racism. newrepublic.com/article/1992...
The Super-Weird Origins of the Right’s Hatred of the Smithsonian
The Trump administration has stepped up its antagonism of America’s treasured museums. But conservative antipathy toward the institution began long ago—with the bones of Bible giants.
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Edward Guimont @eguimont.bsky.social · Aug 20
I live in Fall River, and she's still everywhere here (as is the Borden name - my apartment building was originally a factory owned by her cousin). The new owners of her house have made themselves rather unwelcome in the community due to their litigiousness over people using the name "Lizzie."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Aug 12
the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
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Carlos Spoerhase @spoerhase.bsky.social · Aug 8
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Edward Guimont @eguimont.bsky.social · Aug 5
I started my first book, paused it to do an entirely separate book, and am now finishing my first (now second) book. So I basically dodged the first/second book conundrum. For third book, thinking of something that combines Noah's Ark, the Titanic, Nessie, time travel, and psychic monkeys.