40 years after they helped discover #Titanic, two WHOI engineers reflect on the legacy of deep-sea exploration. 👉Read the full story: go.whoi.edu/titanic-legacy

Inspired by Indian ice stupas, Chilean engineers are creating artificial towers of ice to preserve winter precipitation for the spring and summer months, ensuring a steadier water supply for people and agriculture. Read more from María de los Ángeles Orfila. ⬇️

Irish Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton’s silver tea service up for sale www.irishtimes.com/life-style/f...

I've been managing BHL's #Bluesky account for 4 months now. It's an honour to share such beautiful & significant content, particularly at this critical time. BHL's future is uncertain, but hopeful. Follow along @biodivlibrary.bsky.social & on the #BHLblog: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/tag/transition

I have a new book coming out this autumn via @mitpress.bsky.social ...details at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348... #HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️

I love coming across blue plaques as I wander about, and I’ve just spotted this one on the side of the Torbay Hotel.

In his latest blog post on the Frankland Family Archive, John Rylands archivist James Peters talks about Sir Edward Frankland's time analysing London waters, and how he indirectly paved the way for the public control of London’s water. Blog: ow.ly/9n3k50WYNVG

Check out @kaibosworth.bsky.social's review of John Hultgren's "The Smoke and the Spoils: Anti-Environmentalism and Class Struggle in the United States," published in 2025 by @mitpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Ooooooo! timeandtidewatches.com/nivada-grenc...

Check out Paul G. Nauert's review of "Sustainable Capitalism: Essential Work for the Anthropocene," edited by Inara Scott, published in 2024 by @uofupress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #sustainability #capitalism www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Full house tonight at South Street Seaport Museum for talks on queer polar and maritime history with @tchotchke.bsky.social @evamolinaflores.bsky.social and Seth Stein LeJacq! ❄️⚓️🌈

There is still time to review a book this Fall semester! Check out some of the awesome new titles that I have available for review. Pass it on! #envhist #envhum #energy #aghist #ecocrit #conservation #sustatinability #envtech #water #naturewriting docs.google.com/document/d/1...

My review of Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge: The Franklin Family, Indigenous Intermediaries, and the Politics of Truth was published in JACNZS. Highly recommend this book for #Franklin history and #polarexploration history fans! acnzsn.org/wp-content/u...

"This carefully curated book…blends the joys of youthful exploration with grown-up work. Consider it a philosophical travelogue of the shoreline landscapes of the Great Lakes."

Check out Eric Sentell's review of "Rhetorical Climatology: By A Reading Group," published in 2023 by Michigan State University Press; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #ecocrit #climate www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Remember to join the Consortium for History of Science's #oceanhist group today 1-2:30 CT, to discuss Kamil Ahsan's chapter "The Reef in the Oilfield: Petroleum Geology, and Oil Fetishism in Post-War British Honduras (1950-1990)" #histsci #envhit #energy www.chstm.org/group/histor...

Check out Amahia Mallea's review of Karen Lutsky & Sean Burkholder's "Five Bay Landscapes: Curious Explorations of the Great Lakes Basin," published in 2022 by @upittpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #water www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

The journal Earth Science History, which I edited earlier in my career, has an issue out on the discovery of the Megalosaurus

When cave science emerged in the early 20th century, early speleological communities became entangled in right-wing nationalism. Cave explorers became nationalist symbols, as "conquerors" of an underground world. #histsci 🗃️ daily.jstor.org/underground-...

Check out Gregory LeDonne's review of Donna L. Erickson's "Rooted at the Edge: Ranching Where the Old West and New West Collide," published in 2025 by @univnebpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhum #envhist #aghist www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

#CFP: "Cold altitudes: knowledge, imagination, and experiences of mountain ice" (May 11-12, 2026, Switzerland). Deadline: 31.10.2025 Info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ... #envhist #envhum #hstm #ecolit

🏆 Joint Winner of the BSHS Exhibiting Excellence Prize 2024 (Large Exhibition): Breaking Ground @ Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Exploring fossils, palaeontology networks, and the hidden contributions of women, labourers and miners in 19th-century science. Learn more below 🧵

Can anyone recommend any secondary literature on the history of psychology or "madness" in the long 19th century? #histsci #histmed #STS #histSTM

In which I beg archaeologists to sign up for the fall semester of Skype a Scientist, because we're getting buried in requests for your area of expertise. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🎨 Apply by 29 Sept 2025 for a £10,000 Artist Residency at Mount Stewart, Co. Down! Part of the Historic Houses, Global Crossroads research, the 6-week residency (May–June 2026) invites artists to explore global plant networks & reimagine the site’s ecological legacy🌿See link in thread.

Check out Kate Brown's review of @emilystrasser.bsky.social's "Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History," published in 2024 by University Press of Kentucky; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #energy #nuclear www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

NSF: The vessel [US Antarctic research vessel NB Palmer] is planned to be returned to the operator after a final cruise in October 2025.   www.nsf.gov/geo/opp/upda... @carlosmoffat.com

Check out Samantha Senda-Cook's review of Kyle Boggs's "Recreational Colonialism and the Rhetorical Landscapes of the Outdoors," published in 2025 by @ohiostatepress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #outdoors www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

All I'm saying is that there's HEAPS of fodder for scholarly work about the pre-1970 history of Canadian ornithology and ornithologists. Who were they? Where did they go? Who did they work with? Did they collect? Where are their collections?

Check out Victoria McKeller-Peoples's review Michael O. Johnston's "The Social Construction of a Cultural Spectacle: Floatzilla," published in 2023 by Lexington Books; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #water www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Check out Erica Price's review of @scrawford.bsky.social's "Charleston: Race, Water, and the Coming Storm," published in 2023 by Pegasus Books; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #water www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

News in the history of molecular biology. The Science History Institute in Philadelphia has acquired a huge archive of correspondence and other scientific material from the pioneers of molecular biology (Franklin, Klug, Perutz, Delbrück etc, with items from Crick and Watson, too). 1/n

Check out Amy Megowan's review of Jared Orsi's "Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis: Recovering the Lost History and Culture of Quitobaquito," published in 2023 by @oupress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

My department is hiring an assistant professor of environmental behavioral sciences. The research area is open but we are particularly interested in people with research on collective action or computational social sciences. Happy to answer questions about the Doerr School or the department.

From Joe Martin (@randomjetship.bsky.social) and @physicstoday.bsky.social Early in the Eisenhower admin, pressure over a study of a commercial battery additive led to the firing of the Nat'l Bureau of Standards director. The scientific community rallied and got him reinstated. Different times.

Check out Allen MacDuffie's review of Cates Baldridge's "Plowswords: Literature and the Agricultural Trap from Shakespeare to Coetzee," published in 2024 by @uvapress.bsky.social #envhum #evhist #aghit #ecocrit www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

We're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

New on H-Sci-Med-Tech: Check out Oliver Lucier (@yale.edu)‬’s review of Fiona Williamson‬ (Singapore Management Uni‬versity)’s book _Imperial Weather: Meteorology, Science, & the Environment in Colonial Malaya_ pub 2025 ‪@upittpress.bsky.social‬ #HSTM Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social

Check out Zachary Crouch's review of @firescar.bsky.social's "The Jemez Mountains: A Cultural and Natural History," published in 2025 by @unmpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Check out Benjamin Prostine's review of Alan Marshall's "Sheeplands: How Sheep Shaped Wales and the World," published in 2024 by ‪@calonbooks.bsky.social‬; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #aghist #envhum #animalhist 🐏 www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

The European “discovery” of the beach is a reminder that human ideas about nature have changed over time — with real consequences for the environment and the world. #envhist #seaside #tourism #senseofplace www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inve...

Check out Ian Parker Heath's review of Ellen Wohl's "Following the Bend: How to Read a River and Understand Its Nature," published in 2025 by @princetonupress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #STS #naturewriting #water www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Check out Dagomar Degroot's review of Pierre Sokolsky's "The Clock in the Sun: How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star," published in 2024 by @columbiaup.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #histsci www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Things getting a bit 'meta' in the heritage masculinity space as celebrity explorers the Turner Twins replicate a replica clothing project... www.port.ac.uk/news-events-... @peterhhansen.bsky.social @sarahmpicks.bsky.social @waymarks.bsky.social @jasewilson.bsky.social @7mmrope.bsky.social

The Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University invites applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the area of “Science, Technology, and Governance.” #HPS #STS #PhilJobs academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30301

Calling all grad students, independent scholars, librarians, museum pros, academics … ✔️this list of available 📚 & DM me to review your pick for H-SciMedTech! tinyurl.com/yzkcp9fa #HSTM #HPS #STS #HistSci #PhilSci #HistTech #HistMed #RHM #LitMed #MedSocio #MedAnthro #MediaStudies #InfoStudies

Check out Akua Banful's review of William E. Connolly's " Stormy Weather: Pagan Cosmologies, Christian Times, Climate Wreckage," published in 2024 by @fordhampress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #envphil #ecocrit #climate www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

NEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY. We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration. I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.