It's release day! Go forth, lil' book, and make your way Among the reading masses: May those whose greeting is ok Outnumber the horse's ----. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

One of the founders of the history of capitalism, seems to be foundational www.penguin.co.uk/books/295668...

The Word made Flesh is out today! I've not seen it in the flesh myself yet, but this is a happy day after many years of work. #EarlyModern #medhist #histmed #bodyhistory

My book w/@profsorelle.bsky.social will be out in January! These ideas have brewed since I interned at Queens Legal Services 20 years ago. The book is for anyone who cares about people, justice, power & democracy. Much more to share more in the coming months! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The game is he burrows under the blanket and then I pull away enough blanket so he can breathe and then he makes adorable snuffling noises.

I’m pleased to announce that my forthcoming book, _Deadly Divide_, will be out in spring 2026 with @uncpress.bsky.social with the help of my fabulous editor Cate Hodorowicz (@catehodorowicz.bsky.social).

Rahul Rao, The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire - Pluto, March 2025 www.plutobooks.com/978074535076...

Daniel Wortel-London, The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865–1981 - @uchicagopress.bsky.social, July 2025 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... (1/2)

- jacques lacan, on the subject as merely an effect of the symbolic order

Carollee Bengelsdorf's new book, Clandestinas: Women in the Cuban Revolutionary Underground, 1955-1959 is now for sale at Duke UP. Susan Meiselas curated amazing photos to accompany the testimonies of these marginalized women.

Wordsworth: welcome to the meeting of Romantic Poets. We need to set our agenda, and I am recommending clouds, flowers, or possibly clouds shaped like flowers Percy Shelley: or the severed head of a tyrant William Blake: or thicc Satan Wordsworth: or what??? Blake: I have produced a sketch-

Unclogged the drain line on the mini-split.

We're excited to present the trailer for our new Global Corridor film by director Spyros Gerousis "Contained: A new Silk Road Story" Watch here: vimeo.com/1103055839

The Modern British City - publication November 2025 - now available for pre-order from lundhumphries.com.

A very serious boy.

(New Book) Race and the Scottish Enlightenment. A Colonial History, 1750-1820 histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/09/les-... #histSTM

Grateful for the companionship of these little fellas.

Violence against other people is wrong, period, and if you're the kind of person who takes an opportunity like this to be ghoulish in public then for the love of God unfollow me, block me, let us live the rest of our lives untroubled by each other's existence.

(Parution-traduction) La Marche. Histoire d'une fascination savante (1770-1914) histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/09/la-m... #histSTM

Receiving my author’s copies of my latest book: always a wonderful feeling but this time also a bittersweet one.

Today is publication day for The Nursing Clio Reader. As I write in the preface of the book, I started Nursing Clio back when I was a second-semester grad student as part of a final project in a public humanities seminar taught by historian Matthew Countryman at UMich. 🧵

link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Merchants of Migrant Domestic Labour: Recruitment Agencies and Neoliberal Migration Governance in Southeast Asia is now available for download open access #gendersky #mitcitsky #IRsky #polisky

centrist pregnancy announcement: we have abundance in the oven 🥰

Stunning thread, worth reading to the end. How buildings are constructed, maintained, and used, for many purposes, including display.

Happy pub day to me!

Keeping up our schedule of public appearances.

Science!

My thermostat's dejected. My crockpot is tormented. But happily the microwave Is thoroughly contented.

Max got groomed today, and was not entirely cooperative OK he tried to bite the groomer. But she was very understanding and awarded him a wild animal tie.

PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏 The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes. www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...

I wrote a sonnet about giving one's life to Christ in the Cracker Barrel parking lot.

Publication Day! How was race taught to students during the Enlightenment? Our book traces how Edinburgh-trained students carried their education into colonial contexts and forged race as a central category of Enlightenment thought. #History #Enlightenment #Colonialism #YaleUniversityPress

Has anyone thought about the history of the "representative agent"? Hartley's 1992 piece and some other work puts the origins in Marshall. But this seems wrong.

You may well have come accross this but if not its the perfect riposte. Its also beautifully written. medium.com/the-hairpin/...

Isabel K. Köster, Stealing from the Gods: Temple Robbery in the Roman Imagination – University of Michigan Press, January 2026 press.umich.edu/Books/S/Stea...

Bettina Brandt & Daniel L. Purdy eds. Colonialism and Enlightenment: The Legacy of German Race Theories - Oxford University Press, November 2025 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

More signs and wonders from the evening dog walks.

Remind me what an orange moon signifies.

Of the 19th century British economists Jevons is by far the most *interesting.* Not to say he's right about stuff, but he takes risks. He's present on the page, rather than writing from a great height.

In 1st half of 2025 (2025H1), economic growth decelerated to about half its 2024H2 speed The magnitude of BLS revisions to monthly estimates of change in jobs tends to rise in recessions (shaded, other than mild 2001) Could contribute to magnitudes' rise from 0.02% of jobs to .03% #KnownFromBLS

My essay. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/04/z...

Max and Marty

Why do the jobs numbers get revised? our markets and policymakers want data NOW but employer data dribbles in over months 1st estimate is based on the 75% of employers who respond promptly Updates occur as more data rolls in: 95% response rate by final revision 1/N www.bls.gov/opub/btn/vol...

Macroeconomy Now Below "Stall Speed"? Job creation slows, dementia-addled chaos-monkey tariff risks continue, data-center construction booms with little ability to rapidly move resources into that part of the construction-investment sector, and so the… braddelong.substack.com/p/macroecono...

I don't know how you all manage, but I *never* leave the house without a critical theory.

Telling Marty he's famous across bsky.

🚨 New paper klaxon! 🚨 The History of the Panmictic Population Concept and Its Legacy in Contemporary Population Genetics Quite niche admittedly, one for the historians of evolutionary thought, and population geneticists. doi.org/10.1111/ahg....

Potato bread! Upped the hydration a little, and really pushed the bake, and got a more open crumb.

All day just to get four pages hammered out.