(Parution) Le racisme scientifique et médical. Du XIXe siècle à nos jours histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/03/le-r... #histSTM

Just back from Fellow Travelers at the Seattle Opera, which was excellent.

When you get kicked out of the bar for humping a baby goat

Such a strange vertigo at this moment. DEI work addressed tacit, structural, unacknowledged discrimination. Usefully! And at the same time these luridly evil people were plotting it explicitly.

I would love to boost the account of @entandsoc.bsky.social, probably* the best journal of business history in the world. So if you (or your followers) are interested in business history, very broadly defined, please consider following and reposting bsky.app/profile/enta...

My bank, reassuringly

We are rawdogging Poe's Law this week. www.professorfeynman.com

What might a person read about the physical geography of London?

A little sneak peek at my discussion of the relationship between Florence Sabin, Dorothy Reed Mendenhall, and my fave, Margaret Long.

Daniele Lorenzini ed. The Foucauldian Mind - @routledgebooks.bsky.social, August 2026 www.routledge.com/The-Foucauld... Congratulations to @danlor.bsky.social for bringing this massive collection together.

In view of the discursive conditions, we're breaking out emergency dog pictures: Marty six years ago, Max three years back.

Training a pope takes 70 years of food.

This great book offers useful context for any "Rothschilds" references one might encounter in the wild. Some might mean such a reference innocently or generically, but the name "Rothschild" has long been one of the loudest dog whistles out there in far right circles. It is the ur-conspiracy theory.

Culling the personal archive. - Semiotexte 1977: bliss it was that dawn to be alive! - Grad school, UMass Amherst: I drew pictures. - Applying in 1997, for the job I just retired from: DEI isn't new! This was a required part of the app.

5 authors by whom I've read at least 5 books: Michael Bond Walter R. Brooks Tove Jansson A. A. Milne Beatrix Potter

Launching Marx back into the Sphere of Circulation as we prepare for a retirement move.

GUYS GUYS GUYS my incredible colleague, Antoine Borrut, just texted me this pic, the BOOK IS IN HAND, which means you too can have it soon! Astrology and History in Early Islam, coming out with Edinburgh!

(Call for papers) Beyond Gender: Challenging the Cis-Hetero Binary in Ancient Medicine histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/02/reme... #histmed

the chambers of my soul are all in crookedness!

Happy Free Trade Day to all who celebrate.

I now have one too! Author copy of the paperback edition of ‘Paganism Persisting’, releasing on 21 April with @uexeterpress.bsky.social and priced £24.99! www.exeterpress.co.uk/products/pag...

Max looks out briefly before ducking back under the shawl.

THE UNBOXING IS UPON US

New by Nitasha Kaul and Barry Buzan

the rise of the Macedonian empire was simply the result of stress-tested battlefield homosexuality evolving into new forms.

Wenn ich Jarausch lese, kommen bei mir als Hannes Siegrist „Schüler“ direkt Erinnerungen ans 2. Studiensemester.

Sarah Punathil ed. Lines and Passages: Reimagining Migration and Borderlands in South Asia, Routledge, March 2026 www.routledge.com/Lines-and-Pa...

Now posted ahead of print: "Conceptualizing Academic Freedom," forthcoming, Annual Review of Political Science. (Uncorrected proofs, so a few minor edits different from the version that will be published in June.) doi.org/10.1146/annu...

He needs a bath, but I can't bear to wake him.

Hi #skystorians! A freshman in my History of Animals course wants to do research on the history of service animals. I would love some recommendations for secondary sources to get her started. Anybody working at the intersection of disability history and animal history? 🗃️#animalhistory

At the vet today for routine stuff. Max got really upset when they took Marty away. (Marty OTOH was pretty chill when they took Max.)

This is outside paywall and helps explain why, contrary to POTUS’s hopes, rates may not go down when the US economy is doing well. Bottom line — Default is not his if he doesn’t understand the difference between his old and new jobs. Lots of people dont get it. www.ft.com/content/231f...

New book: Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom, by Mark Pennington amzn.to/4bjKlH9

"Smartwashing" is a lovely term. A great thread. One problem with the marketing term "AI" is it sets up this bong-hit philosophizing.

First shot: sugarcane The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times Still used to make rum of course!

The firecrackers made Marty a little anxious. He's now sitting on my spouse just in case. Max, he-who-lunges-at-buses, unfazed as always.

One way to think about this is to realize that clocks are tiny little pre Copernican astronomical models. The sun (often clearly represented as such) goes in a 24 hour orbit around the center of the model (the earth)

(Parution) Histoires de chirurgie et de chirurgiens. Errances et fulgurances histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/02/hist... #histmed

Right that the prime minister has resigned. His successor, Keir Starmer, has a very difficult inheritance.

The Work of Art in the Age of Leveraged Debt Production

Flying to London in a few months, as we retire. Moving animals turns out to be pretty complex.

We got fitted for travel crates today! They were a bit alarmed by the process at first, but our plan is to get crates early so they get used to them. In photo 3 Max explores one on his own.

Chewing more on this Chomsky business. He was a model for me in my 20s (1980s) of scholar-activism, of relentless tracking and compilation of facts, and in the case of his work on US intervention in Vietnam, or on East Timor, you have to grant some success. 1/4

Lasse Thomassen, Derrida, Deconstruction and Political Theory - @edinburghup.bsky.social, January 2026 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-derrida...

Tag yourself! I'm the little demon at the right edge, wondering why I'm always the one who has to carry the fish.

Just found my forthcoming book, 'The Drunkard in Victorian Fiction and Culture', on the Waterstones website! Pre-order it now or I should get a discount code nearer the time so e-mail me if you'd like that or if you'd like me to suggest you as a reviewer: www.waterstones.com/book/the-dru...

An Ectatomma tuberculatum ant tends to Guayaquila gracilicornis treehoppers in a Colombian cloud forest. Minca, Colombia.

Words, actions, deeds. That general sort of thing. I regret them.

Part of what's deeply upsetting about the latest Chomsky stuff is there was a time I looked up to him. He was an important Vietnam War opponent, and in the early 80s I was in his outer orbit, though I never met him, working with a Boston-area Central America research group he helped found.

As Marty chills, Max patrols the back yard.