This is a great short piece. We ought to have more of these conversations when we teach writing (in absolutely any discipline). #composition 🗃️ #amwriting #writing open.substack.com/pub/post/p/a...

Can’t find this word “tenses” used this way in OED. Suggestions? “… it is only the sea man… who must be favoured with the indulgence of a child in his moods, and punished as a brute in his tenses.” Lionel Yexley, Our Fighting Sea Men, London 1911 page 28 🗃️ @drbibliomane.bsky.social

The special issue of Eighteenth Century Studies on Coasts is now out - glad to be part of it with some thoughts about coasts and gardens in c18 Ireland #BlueHumanities #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies 🌊 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889

I'm thrilled to see that the special issue of ECS, "Eighteenth-Century Coasts," is finally out today! Check out my essay on coral, and many other fantastic contributions: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889

The special issue of Eighteenth Century Studies on coasts is now out! If you click on the link and scroll down a bit, the very eclectic table of contents is visible. Pleased to be a part of this. #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies 🗃️ muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889

Actually holding a physical copy of Craft of Historical Research, what a joy! Very much the book I wish I’d had as a student, so happy to see it out in the world. 🗃️ You can find it as an affordable paperback or eBook.

Male Yellow-bellied Seedeater (Sporophila nigricollis) in Jardín, Colombia last week. #hiking #senderismo #nature #photography 🪶

Congratulations! Tagging #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies 🗃️

Green Jay (“Inca Jay” variety) at Gulupa Ecolodge, Jardín, Colombia yesterday. #nature #photography 🪶

Oilbird at Reserva Los Guácharos, Jardín yesterday. You descend into a canyon and cross a wire-and-plank bridge to see them. #Colombia #hiking 🪶 #nature #photography

Sometimes you go looking for nature, and sometimes nature comes looking for you 😆 I just sat in the boat with my iPhone 11 and kept filming. #nature #photography #whales

Currently looking at the page proofs for Fall 2025 special issue of Eighteenth-Century Studies on "eighteenth century coasts." Thanks again to @dominikhhh.bsky.social @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social @tarquinhh.bsky.social who helped me with suggestions about the #envhist of climate. #CoastalHistory 🗃️

You just never know what the field marks will be for a new species, I noticed this male pattern baldness 😆 while photographing the heck out of this pair of birds in the rainforest only to later learn that Merlin cites this “black yarmulke” as definitive for a Whooping Motmot. 🪶 #nature #panama

Aracari, aracarier, aracariest! Wish I could credit my wilderness skills for this embarrassment of riches here, but it’s actually right on the property of the AirBnB where I’m staying, Gamboa has a bunch of excellent and affordable ones for birders. #panama #nature 🪶

This morning in Gamboa. #hiking #nature #photography #panama 🪶

ICYM—I wrote the book I wish I’d had as a student. 🗃️ Really nice to see reasonable prices for it, for example now available on Kindle for just $16, or rent it for a month for more like $7. www.amazon.com/dp/B0DR832YL...

Watching Frieren with subtitles. As a beginner Japanese learner, it’s very in keeping with the vibe of the show that the words I’ve picked up from it are なぜ (“why?”) and the ambiguous そうか (“… I see” or “maybe”). @smilodonna.bsky.social

The many moods of an American Pygmy Kingfisher, seen at Metropolitano Nature Park, Panama City with @stacebird.bsky.social 🪶 #nature #photography #Panama

“Who you callin’ fluffy?” Hook-billed Kite seen with @stacebird.bsky.social at Panama City’s Metropolitano Nature Park. 🪶 #nature #photography #panama

Snail Kites (Rostrhamus sociabilis) at Lake Gatún yesterday. We saw quite a few, they were common in this location and happy to pose for me!🪶 #Panama #nature #photography

A tiny Bananaquit in a coconut palm, also a squirrel came along. Lazy birding from a hammock is a new thing for me, but I could get used to this. 🪶 #Panama #nature #photography

Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher (Terenotrychus erythurus) yesterday with @stacebird.bsky.social 🪶 #panama #nature #hiking

Out roaming the forest with @stacebird.bsky.social yesterday. Here’s a Black-chested Jay (Cyanocorax affines). Range is confined to Panama and some little corners of adjoining countries. 🪶 #hiking #nature #Panama #photography

Yellow-headed Caracara spotted with Bocas Biodiversity Tours @stacebird.bsky.social yesterday. There were several in the trees! 🪶 #panama #nature #photography

Also tagging #coastalstudies . You might know some people who’d be a good fit for this project funded and based in Germany, @smilodonna.bsky.social

The Hand is a stop-motion masterpiece -- and one of the very best animated films. Director Jiří Trnka made it as a protest, attacking the dictatorship that used him as its pawn. But the film has more layers than many realize, as we discover: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/revisiting...

So many opportunities out there for ordinary people, young and old, degree-in-hand or otherwise, that I could hardly have imagined as a child. Such as this one! "Help preserve the past by transcribing handwritten letters and diaries at Newberry Digital Collections!" 🗃️ #libraries #archives

Rufous-tailed hummingbird (Amazilia tzacatl) today in Bocas de Toro. 🪶 #nature #photography #panama

📣 now out in paperback 📚 Small Things in the Eighteenth Century: The Personal and Political Value of the Miniature, co-edited by yours truly and the amazing Beth Fowkes Tobin from @cambridgeup.bsky.social

Crimson-fronted parakeet (Psittacara finschi), Bocas de Toro. 🪶 #nature #photography #panama

Charming little Substack post about what we share when we teach, and what we learn. #TimelineCleanse open.substack.com/pub/lynnsteg...

My mother took me to see Fritz Lang’s M, showing at a local college when I was maybe 12. It was only 50 years old then; now re-watching tonight as the film pushes its 100th anniversary. Recently restored—seemingly the versions I’ve seen were pretty rough and flawed. 🎞️

Worn out from a day’s hiking, and waiting for my ride back down the mountain, but Finca Lérida wasn’t done with me yet—Central America’s smallest hummingbird (Selasphorus Scintilla, Scintillant Hummingbird) dropped by to say hello. This was a female or immature male. 🪶 #nature #photography #panama

A book for someone you know (?) who’s about to go on Study Abroad, or is considering it soon. We take for granted that young people know what to do with the experience but it’s a set of skills you pick up, refine, and reflect upon. #StudyAbroad www.doane.edu/news-and-eve...

Scarlet-Thighed Dacnis in Boquete, Panama today. Tiny and hyperactive, I assumed it was a Euphonia. 🪶 #nature #photography

I'm wearing a shirt that says "Ceard a d'ith Jaws dá Dhinnéar? Duine duine duine" and the barista asked what my shirt said, and then actually thought this very niche #Gailege joke was funny. So I'm gonna ride this high for the rest of the week

Climbed the Pianista trail this morning. Daunting from a cardio point of view with an 1,850 foot ascent, but I guess I am now an “intermediate” hiker instead of just a beginner! #Panama #hiking #nature #photography

Gray-headed Chachalaca (Ortalis cinereiceps) interrupted my breakfast with its loud calls, continued for a long time. Not typical of them, maybe this one was separated from its flock and getting worried? 🪶 #nature #photography #Panama

I like this little fella #art #watercolor #painting

Three life list birds in quick succession in this same cecropia tree. I knew it was a favorite of sloths, but apparently it’s a superstar food source for many species. Didn’t get a photo of the male Elegant Euphonia 😭 but here’s the Red-Crowned Woodpecker. 🪶 #nature #photography #Panama

Flame Colored Tanager today, a new one for me. 🪶 #nature #photography #Panama

Sometimes context is nice—here’s a Tufted Flycatcher from yesterday, paired with a scene from the hiking trail where I saw it. That’s a Mexican Elm estimated at 1,000 years old. 🪶 #nature #photography #Panama

Resplendent Quetzal today in Boquete, Panama. Not easy to see. Second photo includes a little circle I drew, the bird is right there but it does blend in unless there is direct sunlight on it! #nature #birding #photography

Hadn’t heard of this poem, or the controversy. Link at the end to its LRB page, seemingly no paywall and although it’s a long poem, it’s worth it. #poetry #booksky www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

Wildlife tracking tips. Thank you Patrons! www.patreon.com/c/birdandmoon

okay hive mind, what’s the name of the historian who won a MacArthur Award a while back for his work on bureaucracy and information management in seventeenth-century France? 🗃️

🗃️The Spring 2025 Special Issue on Global Histories of Menstruation and Menopause is out! Check it out here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54321 More detailed info. in the next few days.

Also tagging this (and the replies) #postdoc #ECRchat and #PhDchat . Well aware that academic publishing isn’t always like this, and it can be the opposite of this, but it’s good to take a moment to celebrate when the system works as it should.

We don’t acknowledge nice things (positive moments) often enough on social media, but today I am left with a warm fuzzy feeling as a peer reviewer, seeing an author really use my feedback, and witnessing the big improvement in the revised article. #AcWri 🗃️

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