Austrian professors in the Humanities + Social Sciences: Want to come to the @wirthinstitute.bsky.social + @ualberta.bsky.social a as a Visiting Professor? Apply! Here's more information: oead.at/en/news/arti... Application materials here: grants.at/en/ Please share!

Tales of Militant Chemistry is one of @sciencenews.bsky.social’s 10 favorite books of 2025! @ucpress.bsky.social

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It was an absolute delight to be on the Cultures of Energy podcast. I’m grateful to @dominicboyer.bsky.social and @cymene.bsky.social for reading the book so thoughtfully, and for talking silvichemicals, film flames and fumes, radiation lakes, transformation, and more…. @ucpress.bsky.social

In 1956 the US flew hundreds of spy balloons over the USSR. They carried specialized Kodak cameras and film to record everything they flew over. The USSR shot most of them down. In 1959, the USSR sent Luna 3 to photograph the dark side of the moon - and just used American film from the balloons.

Hell, who wasn't.

Did you know Kodak was a military contractor? grist.org/accountabili...

“The history of this material comes through poison gas, and it comes through the atomic bomb, and it comes through all of these materials that are really part of the history of the 20th and now 21st century.” #envhist

I’m thrilled to see Tales of Militant Chemistry discussed in @grist.org; thank you to @hurwitz.bsky.social for talking with me about Kodak-branded streetwear, the circular economy, and the chemical currents that make film’s military histories environmental histories. @ucpress.bsky.social

CFP for upcoming special issue of @amianet.bsky.social's THE MOVING IMAGE journal! Topic: "Videotape in the Archive,” guest editors: @danerdman.bsky.social, Adam Charles Hart, Helena Shaskevich. Proposal deadline: March 31, 2026. amianet.org/resources/mo...

It’s that time of year friends! Thanks to @erinbartram.bsky.social and our friends at @contingent-mag.bsky.social, Laura and I are putting together a list of 2025 articles & books by contingent & indie lit critters. DM, reply, email me @ suny press. And spread the word!!

We are also currently hiring a curatorial fellow to work with the papers of Rosalind Franklin and others in the History of Molecular Biology Collection! This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits: www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...

Kodak was deeply involved in the Manhattan Project wat

“The Tennessee Eastman (as in: Kodak) Corp came to operate the Y-12 uranium separation plant, not because the company knew anything about separating uranium, but because it was very good at mass chemical production… It was uranium separated at Y-12 that was used in the bomb dropped in Hiroshima.”

TODAY: @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social in conversation with Alice Lovejoy, on Kodak's strange and largely unknown foray into the war machine. "This is one of the bigger ironies in the book, a question about safety—whose safety matters?" flaminghydra.com/gadget-works...

Tales of Militant Chemistry, a fascinating new book, jets from the forests of East Tennessee, where Kodak-linked chemists worked on the atomic bomb, to the film capitals of Europe and back to the environmental hazards they left. New author Q&A with @alicelovejoy.bsky.social at Flaming Hydra:

So many thanks to @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social for taking the time to talk with me about Tales of Militant Chemistry @flaminghydra.com. @ucpress.bsky.social

Mamdani!!!

Chicago friends: this Friday, October 24th (4:00 pm), I'll be at Seminary Co-op bookstore, where I'm looking forward to talking with the brilliant Anne Eakin Moss about Tales of Militant Chemistry. Please join us!

Tomorrow!

“Love Letter in Cuneiform is a novel that challenges and exceeds the norms of a multigenerational family saga at every opportunity. […] its unique energy is sustained in translation with Zucker’s careful, and at times creative, attention to the subtleties and playfulness of Zmeškal’s language.”

🚨🚨 @utaustin.bsky.social is working to eliminate its Black studies, Latin studies, and gender studies depts -- utterly reneging on its mission and depriving students of the full educational opportunities they deserve. Please--scholars AND publishers--share & write to UT leaders. #SaveUT

Thank you to annademming.bsky.social for this incredibly thoughtful review of Tales of Militant Chemistry!

Just listened to @alicelovejoy.bsky.social on this podcast and her new book sounds brilliant (and very close to my interests) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

RIP the great filmmaker and teacher Jill Godmilow, one of the all-time originals. vimeo.com/jillgodmilow

Friends in Providence! Next Thursday, 9/18, I’ll be in town to talk about Tales of Militant Chemistry at the Brown Bookstore, where I’m honored to be in conversation with filmmaker Leslie Thornton. Please join us if you can!

Under 30 minutes until I am live with @alicelovejoy.bsky.social on my YouTube channel. Please join us in the live chat!

film and media studies friends, we are hiring! we are an inclusive + supportive program, one hour from philly and nyc. position starts end of january; review starts october 17. please spread the word and reach out w/ questions. provost.lafayette.edu/2026-27-film...

Twin Cities friends! Please join me for the Mpls launch of Tales of Militant Chemistry on 9/14 at 3:00 pm, at the wonderful @boneshakerbooks.bsky.social. I'll be in conversation with photographer Paul Shambroom. Details & registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/minneapoli... @ucpress.bsky.social

It was an honor to discuss Tales of Militant Chemistry with Sasha Lilley on ‪@kpfa.org‬’s extraordinary Against the Grain. Listen to our conversation here: kpfa.org/episode/agai... @ucpress.bsky.social

Such a huge loss. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/b...

BTW. Identities and motives of shooters don't matter. They serve two purposes. 1. To distract from action on gun violence. 2. To spread the shooter's messages, increase notoriety, and encourage copycat shooters. Do not fall into the identity conversation trap. This is about guns, nothing else.

AWC ‪solicits your story about the impacts of the Trump Administration on Archives and Archival Workers. Have the dismantling of IMLS, NEH, NPS, & other govt agencies affected you and your institution? Share your story and read submitted stories awefund.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/t....

The best kind of pub day notification. So many thanks to @kerriarsenault.bsky.social, who shaped this book in pivotal ways. @ucpress.bsky.social @sciencehistory.org

This is wonderful! Thank you, jackelhai.bsky.social.

Tales of Militant Chemistry making its way into the world, chez @tanyagoldman.bsky.social! 💚

A week (!) away from publication, such a thrill to see Tales of Militant Chemistry in Publishers Weekly www.publishersweekly.com/9780520402935 @ucpress.bsky.social

It’s happening! + @jirianger.bsky.social CFP for FMH: Feminist Archaeologies of Desktop media is here 🔥 Looking for written articles as well as video essays Send us your abstracts by October 28, 2025! 🫶 Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity 🫡

Today starts the new fellowship year and I am absolutely delighted to announce the 2025-26 class of Beckman Center Fellows at @sciencehistory.org!!

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

🎉Time to stock up on summer reads!🎉 The @uminnpress.bsky.social has a sale through 7/1. Unlock $10 paperbacks PRESS WIDE when you choose at least 3 & apply code MN93820 at checkout. Where does one even start? We've put together a heady list of summer reads here: www.upress.umn.edu/stock-up-on-...

As a film and media historian, I’m horrified/fascinated to watch the right wing propaganda war turning up to 11. As a human, I’m more interested to observe how so many people just ignore it. Screens vs everyday life battle, in part. 📺 🌱 (inadequate)

They did announce it. And now published the Call for Proposals. Present your stuff in the marvelous theater next April. Propose by Oct. wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...

Announced! “Excluded Media,” the 2025 RMP Media Aesthetics summer institute is now accepting apps. July 21-25 at Northwestern, 5 days of workshops/talks/screenings with Genevieve Yue, Michael B. Gillespie, Kartik Nair & Cait McKinney. Please Share! Info: cgcc.soc.northwestern.edu/rhetoric-med...

Very cool: New KODAK FILM ❤️ in 16mm and 35mm format (….well...sort of… 😜🤣)

With @jirianger.bsky.social ~ The program of MFF 2025 is out! This is the third year that audiovisual essays will be screened on the big screen at the Marienbad Film Festival (from June 12–15). The first block explores media gestures.

👀 Watch government transparency in action—frame by frame. We just launched a live feed from the microfiche digitization lab! 📽️ Real-time scanning of government documents & records for Democracy's Library. ⤵️

Word is spreading about our amazing Central European History Convention in Vienna July 17-19, with 55 panels, keynotes by Peter Haslinger + Tara Zahra, roundtables/ reception in honor of Pieter Judson, research lab, poster presentations, + book stalls! Share widely! www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

Grant Wythoff's (Princeton) long awaited book "A User's Guide to the Age of Tech" is up and ready to order. The book looks at how ubiquitous technologies become integrated into daily life. This one's bound to receive a lot of attention.

If you're free @ 5pm ET today, pls join us for a hour of catharsis (I think 🤷‍♀️): the joy of aesthetic analysis spiked with mockery, lamentation of pervasive stupidity + slop, a 🎉 of bureaucracy's role in sustaining democracy, and 🤔 means of furnishing resistance www.eventbrite.com/e/dr-shannon...