Jacob Darwin Hamblin
@jdhamblin.bsky.social
History professor. Science, environment, war, world affairs.
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Making the Unseen Visible: https://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/making-unseen-visible
jacobdarwinhamblin.com
Making the Unseen Visible: https://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/making-unseen-visible
I will deliver this year's Sarton Lecture at the 2026 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. I'm deeply honored to be selected. The title of my remarks: "America's Cold War Science Experiment." February 14, 2026.
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November 4, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I will deliver this year's Sarton Lecture at the 2026 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. I'm deeply honored to be selected. The title of my remarks: "America's Cold War Science Experiment." February 14, 2026.
Add another to the long history of playing with the burden of proof for veterans' cancer, from Agent Orange to radiation effects and other chemical exposures. This time male breast cancer www.propublica.org/article/vete...
Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage
A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...
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October 30, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Add another to the long history of playing with the burden of proof for veterans' cancer, from Agent Orange to radiation effects and other chemical exposures. This time male breast cancer www.propublica.org/article/vete...
Hey, she's inspiring, what can we say? Was glad to participate in this roundtable on @juliairwin.bsky.social 's book!
And if you're interested in knowing what Taylor Swift has to say about the history and politics of U.S. humanitarian aid... you'll find the answer on pp. 14-16 of the roundtable.
March 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Hey, she's inspiring, what can we say? Was glad to participate in this roundtable on @juliairwin.bsky.social 's book!
Every other nuclear-aspirant is watching Ukraine today and saying "mental note: never give up your nukes." Amidst everything else, we might be watching the utter breakdown of the nonproliferation regime today
February 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Every other nuclear-aspirant is watching Ukraine today and saying "mental note: never give up your nukes." Amidst everything else, we might be watching the utter breakdown of the nonproliferation regime today
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See Raina Bhagat's review of "Making the Unseen Visible: Science and the Contested Histories of Radiation Exposure," edited by @jdhamblin.bsky.social & @atomiclinda.bsky.social, published in 2023 by @osupress.bsky.social; review @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum
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February 25, 2025 at 6:08 AM
See Raina Bhagat's review of "Making the Unseen Visible: Science and the Contested Histories of Radiation Exposure," edited by @jdhamblin.bsky.social & @atomiclinda.bsky.social, published in 2023 by @osupress.bsky.social; review @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum
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yoinked this image from Twitter, then ordered my copy
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February 16, 2025 at 3:13 AM
yoinked this image from Twitter, then ordered my copy
join me
join me
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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
February 14, 2025 at 4:25 AM
One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
If they change the name of Botany Bay, the botanists are gonna be PISSED
February 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
If they change the name of Botany Bay, the botanists are gonna be PISSED
Not the Onion www.politico.eu/article/dona...
Danish MEP slams ‘absurd’ proposal to rename Greenland ‘Red, White and Blueland’
Member of Congress said the U.S. will “proudly welcome” Greenlanders to “join the freest nation to ever exist.”
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February 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Not the Onion www.politico.eu/article/dona...
just cruised over to google maps and I see that they have caved
February 11, 2025 at 4:05 AM
just cruised over to google maps and I see that they have caved
As I wrap up my history of technology course this week, this pic is perfect
Now THAT'S some fucking ART.
Look, landscapes and geometric studies and reclining nudes are great, but our present moment calls for more giant boulders dropped on the avatars of late-stage capitalism.
Look, landscapes and geometric studies and reclining nudes are great, but our present moment calls for more giant boulders dropped on the avatars of late-stage capitalism.
A Mexican artist has used cranes to drop a nine-ton sculpture of an Olmec head onto a Tesla 3
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March 21, 2024 at 3:11 PM
As I wrap up my history of technology course this week, this pic is perfect
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Breaking News: France voted to explicitly enshrine access to abortion in its Constitution, making it the first country in the world to do so. The impulse for the change was the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022.
www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/w...
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March 4, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Breaking News: France voted to explicitly enshrine access to abortion in its Constitution, making it the first country in the world to do so. The impulse for the change was the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022.
www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/w...
www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/w...
My review of Sarah Scoles, Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons, in Science mag. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
March 1, 2024 at 4:58 PM
My review of Sarah Scoles, Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons, in Science mag. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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I wrote an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times last year for the non-changing of the Doomsday Clock, and the difficulty of treating climate change with the same countdown metaphor. As it didn't change this year, either, I think it is still appropriate?
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Opinion: Nuclear threats? Climate change? What catastrophe will lead to doomsday?
The famous Doomsday Clock moved recently — a reminder that the potential disasters we face don't happen overnight.
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January 23, 2024 at 3:40 PM
I wrote an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times last year for the non-changing of the Doomsday Clock, and the difficulty of treating climate change with the same countdown metaphor. As it didn't change this year, either, I think it is still appropriate?
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History is now available!
This volume was edited by Emily O'Gorman, @wsanmartin.bsky.social, Mark Carey, and @wildpasts.bsky.social.
Truly a special moment in the international environmental history community!
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
#envhist
This volume was edited by Emily O'Gorman, @wsanmartin.bsky.social, Mark Carey, and @wildpasts.bsky.social.
Truly a special moment in the international environmental history community!
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
#envhist
The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History
The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History presents a cutting-edge overview of the dynamic and ever-expanding field of environmental history. It addresses recent transformations in the field and ...
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December 9, 2023 at 9:27 PM
The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History is now available!
This volume was edited by Emily O'Gorman, @wsanmartin.bsky.social, Mark Carey, and @wildpasts.bsky.social.
Truly a special moment in the international environmental history community!
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
#envhist
This volume was edited by Emily O'Gorman, @wsanmartin.bsky.social, Mark Carey, and @wildpasts.bsky.social.
Truly a special moment in the international environmental history community!
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
#envhist
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It totally counts. #comics #animalcomic #fear #skink rooniecomics.com/com...
November 24, 2023 at 5:00 PM
It totally counts. #comics #animalcomic #fear #skink rooniecomics.com/com...
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NEW! I might have alarmed Catherine McNeur with my enthusiasm, because I love her work so much -- including her new MISCHIEVOUS CREATURES. In this ep, I asked how she writes beautifully about place and learned this book resulted from multiple archival surprises. 🗃️ draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...
November 21, 2023 at 4:06 PM
NEW! I might have alarmed Catherine McNeur with my enthusiasm, because I love her work so much -- including her new MISCHIEVOUS CREATURES. In this ep, I asked how she writes beautifully about place and learned this book resulted from multiple archival surprises. 🗃️ draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...
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As we think about the place of history of science on the web (and celebrate our first official post here), let's look at a great paper from the archives. David K. Hecht's 2011 article about Rachel Carson, "nonscientific attributes were central in legitimating Carson as a public scientist."
November 25, 2023 at 1:36 PM
As we think about the place of history of science on the web (and celebrate our first official post here), let's look at a great paper from the archives. David K. Hecht's 2011 article about Rachel Carson, "nonscientific attributes were central in legitimating Carson as a public scientist."
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Three years ago, the United States officially withdrew from the 1992 Open Skies Treaty, having given notice of its intentions on May 22, 2020, citing spurious Russian “violations” as the reason. In less than four years, Donald Trump and his unilateralist wrecking crew abandoned …
November 22, 2023 at 3:48 PM
Three years ago, the United States officially withdrew from the 1992 Open Skies Treaty, having given notice of its intentions on May 22, 2020, citing spurious Russian “violations” as the reason. In less than four years, Donald Trump and his unilateralist wrecking crew abandoned …
If you are interested in climate change, and also global security, and aren’t yet following the debates about small modular reactors, you probably should. #nuclear #climate thebulletin.org/2023/11/a-sm...
A small modular reactor’s demise calls for big change in Energy Department policy
NuScale Power Corp., which is developing America’s flagship small modular reactor, has lost its only firm utility customer, even though the US Energy Department had already given NuScale hundreds of...
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November 20, 2023 at 3:37 PM
If you are interested in climate change, and also global security, and aren’t yet following the debates about small modular reactors, you probably should. #nuclear #climate thebulletin.org/2023/11/a-sm...
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Please read and circulate this editorial by editors of the journal History and Technology, Amy Slaton and and Tiago Saraiva, which fully vindicates my STS (UCL) colleague Jenny Bulstrode and her paper 'Black metallurgists and the making of the industrial revolution'
doi.org/10.1080/0734...
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doi.org
November 16, 2023 at 1:42 PM
Please read and circulate this editorial by editors of the journal History and Technology, Amy Slaton and and Tiago Saraiva, which fully vindicates my STS (UCL) colleague Jenny Bulstrode and her paper 'Black metallurgists and the making of the industrial revolution'
doi.org/10.1080/0734...
doi.org/10.1080/0734...
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It lives! Anyone interested in nuclear humanities, nuclear colonialism, radiation effects, the history of all things atomic, and putting scholarship into conversation with advocacy, will find something to read in this volume. Just got my hands on my copy. #sts #histsci #envhist #nuclear
November 14, 2023 at 9:02 PM
Looking forward to commenting on this panel on environmental silence, organized by @alixhui.bsky.social on Sunday at this weekend's History of Science Society annual meeting in Portland. #histsci
November 8, 2023 at 4:59 AM
Looking forward to commenting on this panel on environmental silence, organized by @alixhui.bsky.social on Sunday at this weekend's History of Science Society annual meeting in Portland. #histsci