Sarah Pickman
@sarahmpicks.bsky.social
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Historian of exploration, extreme environments, material culture + outdoor gear. Hist. sci & med PhD, editor at Endeavour, History of Anthropology Review, and Global Maritime History. I unpack packing. She/her. www.sarahmpickman.com
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I have a bunch of new followers (yay!) so I’m going to do some shameless promotion and tell you that I’m Associate Editor at the history and philosophy of science journal Endeavour. I would love to hear your pitches! www.sciencedirect.com/journal/ende...
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Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed
While Vought traces the “leftwing revolution” back a hundred years, to the progressive era, there is no question that the election of Barack Obama was a radicalizing moment for him and many key thinkers on the radical Right - as were the multiracial protests in the summer of 2020.
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The head of the Explorer's Club saw Hamish a few weeks before he died and BEGGED him not to go, telling him "You will die. The Operator is insane." It was pure ego and horror.
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NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:
ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.
Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.
www.thehandbasket.co
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If you can’t teach them empathy, teach them consequences.
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This weekend, three men in Evanston hugged their families goodbye to look for work at Home Depot but were attacked by ICE before they could return home.

Two were abducted, one is petrified of leaving the home.

If you’re able, please help us support our neighbors: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
Donate to Stand With the Families Left Behind After Evanston ICE Raid, organized by Michele Hays
If you are on social media and live near Evanston, IL, you ma… Michele Hays needs your support for Stand With the Families Left Behind After Evanston ICE Raid
www.gofundme.com
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There are no press releases during the shutdown, making it difficult to find this kind of news.
But the AK Air/Army National Guards, and the USCG, are conducting SAR operations. The flooding is in remote areas, and affecting primarily small villages, it appears.

taskandpurpose.com/news/alaska-...
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Universities: We can't afford cost of living adjustments for faculty and staff, we have budget problems.

Also universities: Our football coach lost three games so we will pay him $50 million to go away
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I would not have known about this had it not been for local indigenous folk there posting here.
NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
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At this point if you’re trying to start shit with menswear guy you clearly just have a humiliation kink and are a glutton for punishment
Oh honey what is you doing
Antitrust fetishist Matt Stoller picking a fight with Derek dieworkwear
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I don’t understand why we need a “Columbus Day” when this country celebrates incompetent white men failing up and taking what isn’t theirs all year round.
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Throwing this into the #skystorians feed - chance to win what is sure to be an excellent book.
To mark the release of my new book, When Fitness Went Global: The Rise of Physical Culture in the Nineteenth Century (Bloomsbury, 2025), I’m giving away a copy.

To enter:
💪 Repost
🌍 Comment with your favorite strength tradition

I’ll pick a winner next week.

#StrengthHeritage #SportHistory
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When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But when I became grown, I put away childish things. Then when I became a bit more grown, I rebought those same childish things from a vintage reseller and kinda don’t know how to feel about it
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"We’re operationalizing our old corridors—taking ancient trade routes our elders told us about and articulating them in a modern context."

Indigenous nations plan tariff-free trade corridor across US-Canada border.

From our friends at @nationalobserver.com:
Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border
“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."
www.motherjones.com
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From the Editorial Board:

Neuroscientists have found that when people read, their brains don’t just process words — they simulate the story world.
By contrast, social media rarely demands such deep simulation.
Editorial: A society that stops reading stops thinking
Daily reading for pleasure in the U.S. has fallen more than 40% over the past 20 years — roughly 3% per year, according to researchers at the University of Florida and University College London.
trib.al
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#Archaeology is about people.

People like the #Gravettian hunter who, 30,000 years ago in southern Moravia, lost or dropped his pouch containing a well-used tool kit of stone blades and points, (including partially broken pieces he could've let go a lot earlier):

🏺 archaeology.org/news/2025/09...
News - Personal Toolkit of Ice Age Hunter Recovered - Archaeology Magazine
MORAVIA, CZECH REPUBLIC—Thousands of years ago, an Ice Age hunter set down a small pouch […]
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Yeah that makes sense now that I think about it and the people I know who have taught at NYU. He may even have been adjuncting at CUNY at the same time, we just don’t know! (I’m from the same hometown as Larson btw-he’s one of our local heroes)
It definitely seems like he’s an adjunct. Explains why he has to live in an unheated loft with his friend who makes mediocre video art