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Charlotte Leib
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PhD@Yale writing an #envhist of the NJ Meadowlands centered on intersection of the organic & fossil economies. Trained in landscape, energy, early Am.& US history, w/ broader interests in histories of tech, climate, capitalism, inequality charlotteleib.com
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As #UHA2025LA kicks off, I’m happy to share here my most recent piece on the Metropole, on an understudied topic in #urbanhistory #envhist —how different lighting tech’s have affected birds & humans over the centuries & what we can do about it.

It’s a dual exposé & call to action Check it out here:
An energetic #flower to carry you thru the #wintersolstice
and onward,
to spring.
December 5, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Proud to say, my former PhD student Jack Bouchard, now at Rutgers University, has published an outstanding new work in Atlantic history: *Terra Nova: Food, Water, and Work in an Early Atlantic World*, with Yale University Press. Congratulations, Jack!

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
December 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Disparu il y a quarante ans, Fernand Braudel a profondément marqué les sciences sociales en forgeant des concepts durables pour penser le capitalisme. Son œuvre continue d'éclairer les mutations de l'économie, ses rythmes, ses espaces et ses rapports de force.
L'économie d'après Braudel
Disparu il y a quarante ans, Fernand Braudel a profondément marqué les sciences sociales en forgeant des concepts durables pour penser le capitalisme. Son œuvre continue d'éclairer les mutations de l'économie, ses rythmes, ses espaces et ses rapports de force.
laviedesidees.fr
November 28, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Going to have to go see this one, as it's right around the corner in #Hartford...
Louis Anquetin (1861-1932)
Avenue de Clichy, five o'clock in the evening- 1887
Hartford Wadsworth Atheneum
December 4, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Ooof, my listening age is 78. I think Vivaldi is throwing off the average! Can't just be all the 60's music on my wakeup playlist Surely not! 🤣 #spotifywrapped
December 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Record-breaking 75-year-old mother #bird prepares to nest.
Wisdom has been laying #eggs since the Eisenhower Administration. #Albatross #WorldsOldestBreedingBird #Bird

Link for more info, #photos & video: www.popsci.com/environment/...
December 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Full moon skies 🌝
December 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Took a half day off today to frolic in the snow. Not complaining! #snow #Catskills #mountaintime
December 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Recent sidewalk encounters:
An errant stove.
An ice box.

It just so happens I’m writing about both things currently in my dissertation…

Yes, you heard it right: stoves and ice! 🧊 Both important understudied topics in 19th century American #envhist and #energyhistory 🔥
November 26, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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"This sets off a feedback loop, in which the cold, fresh water released by that melt interacts with the warm, salty water to intensify the spinning of the underwater storm, causing even more melting"

#Antarctica
Undersea ‘storms’ are melting the ‘doomsday’ glacier’s ice shelf
Spinning vortices of water trapped under the Thwaites glacier ice shelf account for 20 per cent of the ice melt. They’re expected to get worse as the world warms
www.newscientist.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:32 AM
What a “road diet” and renovating for safe, pedestrian and cyclist friendly streets looks like… with Willie Wright’s “Right on for Darkness”’ as soundtrack 😀🎶🎸 #roaddiet #safestreets #NewHaven #righton
November 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
🚨🌳🌎
“A ‘Forest COP’ with no commitment on forests is a very bad joke.” — Juan Carlos Monterrey Gómez
November 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Oh so you don’t want generative AI? Nice inbox you got there be a shame if something was to happen to it (cracks knuckles)
November 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Straight up evil is correct. And losing the automatic separating of your inbox into primary, promotions, social, and forums is infuriating.
November 22, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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CFP: The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife 2026: Futurecasting, Futurekeeping: New Englanders Imagine Worlds to Come. June 26–27, Deerfield, Massachusetts. dublin-seminar.org/2026-call-fo...
2026 Call for Papers
The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife (founded in 1976) is pleased to announce the subject of its 2026 gathering, Futurecasting, Futurekeeping: New Englanders Imagine Worlds to Come, to …
dublin-seminar.org
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Final fall blooms in #NewHaven this week.

Found this calendula in my writing break round-the-block walk thriving in a stone and concrete microclimate
🍃🍂🌨️

11.21.25 #fall #flowers
November 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Very good to see progress on this important project, which is designed to link dense suburban New Jersey cities.
November 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Well, you'd have to wait a while for delivery, but you can preorder my book at 40% off with free domestic shipping with promo code WINTER25! #TransformingNight 🌃🌌💡
#LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Night #Darkness #LightJustice

uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
November 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Here’s to the beauty of pink-hued sunsets after a dreary day…closing research tabs…reading 19th-c, weather diaries, and meeting a major writing deadline (still in process…!) Going to be some late nights upcoming. Wish me luck.
November 18, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Wild. We always say on the podcast that owning a car is required for effective full enfranchisement in most places of the USA because we are such a car-dependent society, but this is...next level. They say it like it's disqualifying for office.
WaPo editorial board launches a disgusting car-brained attack on Seattle's new mayor Katie Wilson.
"Who is Wilson? She does not own a car"

It's so bad you need to read it, so a gift link: wapo.st/4r2peP3
November 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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CFP: Environments and Societies at the Crossroads: Socio-Environmental Justice in Europe and the Americas in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Workshop at UC Berkeley www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...
Event – GHI Washington
www.ghi-dc.org
November 16, 2025 at 7:42 AM
...And just as I read about an entire 🧊 #ice warehouse getting struck by ⚡lightning and as I write about 19th c. #climatechange there's lightning & thunder, in November ⛈️

Favorite convo. today: talking with an Italian library security staff about how ice is so...American.

Dickens thought so, too.
November 16, 2025 at 1:31 AM