New on H-Sci-Med-Tech:

Check out Edward Gillin (@ucl.ac.uk)’s review of @richardtaws.bsky.social (@uclhistoryofart.bsky.social)’s book _Time Machines: Telegraphic Images in Nineteenth-Century France_, pub 2025 @mitpress.bsky.social

Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

Papa Smurf wears a Phrygian cap, most often associated with the French Revolution, indicating Smurf Village had a monarchy it has since overthrown. This makes Papa Smurf, de facto head of state post-revolution, akin to Robespierre. In this essay I will —

Me too! I was like, cool, they can microchip those?

Check out Jack Bouchard's review of "Oceanic Japan: The Archipelago in Pacific and Global History," edited by Stefan Huebner, Nadin Heé, Ian J. Miller, and William M. Tsutsui, published in 2024 by University of Hawai'i Press; now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
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I am please to announce that this is the 1000th review that I have facilitated for H-Environment! Thank you so much to all of the reviewers who make this position such a pleasure! #envhist #envhum #ecrocrit #envphil #aghist #oceanhist #conservation #sustainability #plantstudies #animalhist #energy 🏞️

My colleague Jack Bouchard's book Terra Nova is out today! It's about early 16th-century mariners and the seasonal fishery around present-day Newfoundland, and its place within the Atlantic World. I cannot wait to read it

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Oops, _Architecture Follows Fish: An Amphibious History of the North Atlantic_, was published *2024* @mitpress.bsky.social

and you can find it here: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204910...

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Check out Katherine McNally (@yale.edu)’s review of André Tavares (University of Porto)’s book _Architecture Follows Fish: An Amphibious History of the North Atlantic_, pub 2022 @mitpress.bsky.social

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Review available
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Sent this q to VICTORIA, but also figure I should ask here — does anyone know of scholarship on strategies that advertisers (e.g. of fraudulent or illegal goods or services) used to evade surveillence, esp in Victorian Britain? Or strategies that advertisers used to track responses to ads in +

Also hey if any of y'all have Baltimore-based/-related USCT stories or tidbits of info, pleeeeease send them my way! I'm determined to do a Black Baltimore in the Civil War tour someday

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

my wife is a Cal fan and apparently this week they’re putting a “59” on their football helmets to honor the 59 Nobel laureates tied to Cal in order to flex on Duke

this is maybe my favorite dunk anyone has ever done on Duke

Another call for sources: I'm reporting on pediatric Covid vaccine access. If you've had trouble finding pediatric doses in stock, or if your child was turned away, I'd love to hear from you: [email protected].

Thanks to those who replied to my pregnancy callout; that story will be out soon.

Check out Sharon Kingsland's review of Elizabeth Lawson's "Moss and Lichen," published in 2024 by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #histsci #planthist
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RIP Jane Goodall — she forever transformed what it means to do fieldwork.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Historian of science John van Wyhe (not on BlueSky) asks:

Can anyone decipher this charity that Darwin supported in 1872?

"Dr [illeg] Jackson subscription charity"

#histsci #HPS

If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)?

Hoover
FDR
Truman
Eisenhower
JFK
LBJ
Ford
Carter

And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏

Unless and until you have at least one cat in your household you will never realize how often the phrase “obligate carnivore” comes out of your mouth. “Stop stealing Cheez-It’s, Charley! You’re an obligate carnivore!” “Get your paw out of my son’s oatmeal, Chessie! You’re an obligate carnivore!”

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Check out Derek Lee Nelson’s review of Ryan P. Kelly, Terrie Klinger, & John J. Meyer’s book _Between the Tides in Washington and Oregon: Exploring Beaches & Tidepools_, pub 2022 ‪@uwapress.uw.edu

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The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

This weekend I went to a service for a friend, a great reader and book-discusser in my bookclub.

Her colon cancer had reached stage 4 before she knew about it.

I mention it, because I once talked another friend into getting a colonoscopy and her tumor was found in time. Do it.

If there's someone doing work out there on the fringes that matters to you, please let them know, because this world is going to tell them the opposite every day.

#EnvHist folks - what are some go-to readings for narratives about conservation in the UK, especially late 19th-early 20th C.??