Check out Alexandra Maertens's review of @christian-s-warren.bsky.social's "Starved for Light: The Long Shadow of Rickets and Vitamin D Deficiency," published in 2024 by @uchicagopress.bsky.social; review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #envhealth www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Many thanks to @pkhardy.bsky.social for her patience and grace as I meandered (bad pun I know)! Cracker of a book and channel! Thank you for the opportunity! @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social

🌊🌊🌊 New on H-Oceans 🌊🌊🌊 Check out @ramya.bsky.social (Grand Valley State Uni)’s review of @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social (Western Michigan Uni)’s book _The Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History _, pub 2024 @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social

Scholarship on early American Jewish History? Give me your titles. Asking for a student. I'm out of my depth here.

All right stop: you know that I'm confident Oz is back with my eternal monument Trunkless legs standing up so vastly Rollin' on my foes like I'm Rick Astley Think that you're Mighty? Yo, I don't care Look on my works, and despair

Thank you Zef Segal for this review! “a meticulously curated critical tool kit. The sheer variation of its contributions—natural language processing, GIS, generative AI, network analysis—is impressive, but the book’s true value lies in its persistent, unifying demand for critical self-reflection.”

"Computational Humanities is far more than a collection of essays; it is a meticulously curated critical tool kit." This is exactly what we were going for! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...

New on H-Sci-Med-Tech: Check out Zef Segal( @batescollege.bsky.social)’s review of @nolauren.bsky.social, @dmimno.bsky.social, & Jessica Marie Johnson’s edited vol. _Computational Humanities_, pub 2024 @uminnpress.bsky.social Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

A question for #intelhistorians but #historians more generally. What do you want from a short textbook?

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

Did I announce “WE GOT A FIRST TIME VOTER HERE!” as I walked into the polling place with my 18yo daughter, prompting a roomful of election workers to clap and cheer?

New on H-Sci-Med-Tech: Check out Timothy Sim (@cam.ac.uk)’s review of R. Edward Freeman & Andrew Sell’s book _Defeating Dengue: A Multistakeholder Approach to Problem Solving_, pub 2024 @columbiaup.bsky.social Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

New on H-Sci-Med-Tech: Check out Christopher McCracken (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)’s review of Anne E. Greene’s book _Writing Science in Plain English, 2nd ed._, pub 2025 @uchicagopress.bsky.social Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Food safety improved massively when we all gained access to a fridge. One way of measuring this is the steep decline of stomach cancer rates. Give your fridge a hug the next time you are in the kitchen.

🌊🌊🌊 New on H-Oceans 🌊🌊🌊 Check out Sabrina Schettino (U of Eastern Piedmont)’s review of James Beattie, Ryan Tucker Jones, & Edward Dallam Melillo’s edited volume _Migrant Ecologies: Environmental Histories of the Pacific World_, pub 2023 @ U of Hawai'i Press Review avail @hnetreviews.bsky.social

Guess what? COVID mRNA vaccines don't just protect against COVID. COVID mRNA vaccines also cause cancers to become sensitive to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). buff.ly/GEfJ5Zl Let's fund more mRNA research! #medsky #oncsky 🛟😷🧪

rubella was SO around in the 60s that Gallaudet (probably the number one deaf/hoh university in the world)’s enrollment more than doubled between 1982 and 1985 www.nytimes.com/1985/01/06/e...

This is actually super easy and a lot of fun. The kids are excited and surprisingly knowledgeable. Please volunteer if you can! 🏺

I was recently interviewed by @drlauraguertin.bsky.social as part of her 'Tales from the Deep' series focused on the people involved in scientific ocean drilling ⚒️🧪⛴️ –– lots of great stories from many others there to check out archive.storycorps.org/interviews/i...

New @ H-Sci-Med-Tech: Check out @njcornish.bsky.social (@unisouthampton.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @rbgkew.bsky.social )’s on @edwinrose.bsky.social (@hpsleeds.bsky.social‬)’s _Reading the World: British Practice of Natural History, 1760-1820_, @upittpress.bsky.social 2025 @hnetreviews.bsky.social

🌊🌊🌊 New on H-Oceans 🌊🌊🌊 Check out Carolina Cuadrado (@ucm.es)’s review of @oliveheffernan.bsky.social's book _The High Seas: Greed, Power & the Battle for the Unclaimed Ocean_, pub 2024 @greystonebooks.bsky.social ‬ Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Hi, friends! Today is my uni's big fund-raising pitch, and if you're so inclined, might I suggest a donation to our chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, which I advise? It will help first gen students afford the national dues, and provide honor cords for their graduation. Thanks for considering!

New on H-Sci-Med-Tech: Check out @neurojo.bsky.social (University of the Witwatersrand)’s review of Min W. Jung (KAIST)’s book _A Brain for Innovation: The Neuroscience of Imagination & Abstract Thinking_, pub 2024 @columbiaup.bsky.social Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social

2026/2027 Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at the University of Edinburgh. global.ed.ac.uk/mastercard-f... #Africa #healthcare #sustainability #africascholarships

Introducing The Dark Frontier. The deep sea is one of humanity's last frontiers. For most of our history it has been a remote realm shrouded in obscurity. Marine microbiologist and deep-sea explorer Jeffrey Marlow plunges us into the ocean's depths. Out April 2026. linktr.ee/TheDarkFrontier

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

✨Call for Proposals for the 2029 World Congress Venue✨ ICEHO is now calling for proposals from parties from any part of the globe interested in hosting the conference, preferably in July or August of 2029. More info: www.iceho.org/wceh #envhist #envhum #envstudies

Reminder: the Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences (Springer, 2024), ed. by Elena Aronova, @hallucigenia.bsky.social & Marco Tamborini, is #OpenAccess. Download the PDF here: link.springer.com/referencewor... #histsci #HPS

New on H-Sci-Med-Tech: Check out Edward Gillin (@ucl.ac.uk)’s review of @richardtaws.bsky.social (@uclhistoryofart.bsky.social)’s book _Time Machines: Telegraphic Images in Nineteenth-Century France_, pub 2025 @mitpress.bsky.social Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes. Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

Papa Smurf wears a Phrygian cap, most often associated with the French Revolution, indicating Smurf Village had a monarchy it has since overthrown. This makes Papa Smurf, de facto head of state post-revolution, akin to Robespierre. In this essay I will —

Check out Jack Bouchard's review of "Oceanic Japan: The Archipelago in Pacific and Global History," edited by Stefan Huebner, Nadin Heé, Ian J. Miller, and William M. Tsutsui, published in 2024 by University of Hawai'i Press; now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

I am please to announce that this is the 1000th review that I have facilitated for H-Environment! Thank you so much to all of the reviewers who make this position such a pleasure! #envhist #envhum #ecrocrit #envphil #aghist #oceanhist #conservation #sustainability #plantstudies #animalhist #energy 🏞️

My colleague Jack Bouchard's book Terra Nova is out today! It's about early 16th-century mariners and the seasonal fishery around present-day Newfoundland, and its place within the Atlantic World. I cannot wait to read it yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

🌊🌊🌊 New on H-Oceans 🌊🌊🌊 Check out Katherine McNally (@yale.edu)’s review of André Tavares (University of Porto)’s book _Architecture Follows Fish: An Amphibious History of the North Atlantic_, pub 2022 @mitpress.bsky.social #oceans‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ ‬‬ Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social

Sent this q to VICTORIA, but also figure I should ask here — does anyone know of scholarship on strategies that advertisers (e.g. of fraudulent or illegal goods or services) used to evade surveillence, esp in Victorian Britain? Or strategies that advertisers used to track responses to ads in +

Also hey if any of y'all have Baltimore-based/-related USCT stories or tidbits of info, pleeeeease send them my way! I'm determined to do a Black Baltimore in the Civil War tour someday

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

my wife is a Cal fan and apparently this week they’re putting a “59” on their football helmets to honor the 59 Nobel laureates tied to Cal in order to flex on Duke this is maybe my favorite dunk anyone has ever done on Duke

Another call for sources: I'm reporting on pediatric Covid vaccine access. If you've had trouble finding pediatric doses in stock, or if your child was turned away, I'd love to hear from you: [email protected]. Thanks to those who replied to my pregnancy callout; that story will be out soon.

Check out Sharon Kingsland's review of Elizabeth Lawson's "Moss and Lichen," published in 2024 by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #histsci #planthist www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

RIP Jane Goodall — she forever transformed what it means to do fieldwork. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Historian of science John van Wyhe (not on BlueSky) asks: Can anyone decipher this charity that Darwin supported in 1872? "Dr [illeg] Jackson subscription charity" #histsci #HPS

If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)? Hoover FDR Truman Eisenhower JFK LBJ Ford Carter And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏

Unless and until you have at least one cat in your household you will never realize how often the phrase “obligate carnivore” comes out of your mouth. “Stop stealing Cheez-It’s, Charley! You’re an obligate carnivore!” “Get your paw out of my son’s oatmeal, Chessie! You’re an obligate carnivore!”

🌊🌊🌊 New on H-Oceans 🌊🌊🌊 Check out Derek Lee Nelson’s review of Ryan P. Kelly, Terrie Klinger, & John J. Meyer’s book _Between the Tides in Washington and Oregon: Exploring Beaches & Tidepools_, pub 2022 ‪@uwapress.uw.edu #oceans‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ ‬‬ Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video