Excited for the upcoming @aseh.bsky.social conference! It's in Kansas City. It's better than a magic lantern show!

I have a chapter in this volume: "Portable Penguins? On the History of Penguin Eggs"

Join us online on Monday 23 March for @brycchancarey.bsky.social discussing The Unnatural Trade: Slavery, Abolition, and Environmental Writing, 1650-1807 (Yale UP 2024) in @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talk series. Starts 4pm CET, 3pm GMT, 10am EST newnatures.org/greenhouse/e... #ecocrit

Spring is the season of GERMINATION and we’re ready for new ideas to take root. 🌱 Submit your work now for our Spring issue! We’re looking for fresh perspectives and research that helps new conversations grow. Our spring deadline is March 31st for peer reviewed research. g-ehr.com/submit/

60 undergraduate writing responses on the Columbian Exchange and food history. Some of them really are excellent, but my eyes are crossing.

Update from experimental class--students do NOT read directions. It is frustrating. But I have noticed a shift in my feedback away from mechanics towards talking more about the medieval world. So that's a win.

I might actually have a problem. I'm sitting in panera working and they are playing an Adele song that I admittedly have not heard because I'm a cultural heathen, and I REALLY thought the line was “should I give up or should I just keep chasing penguins”

And William Dampier may be the first written account of Galapagos penguins, from a 1684 visit on the ship "Buccaneer's Delight".

About one week into my experimental class and the jury is definitely still out.

I have real sympathy for college students right now. It is so hard for me to focus on grading and class prep with *everything* right now. But onward we must, somehow.

I have an essay on penguin eggs in this forthcoming book edited by @farsouthhistory.bsky.social and Ximena Senatore www.berghahnbooks.com/title/McCahe...

🎉 Huge news for BHL: The Field Museum is taking over the hosting of BHL’s website, servers & infrastructure, ensuring long-term stability and access for its 63+ million pages of open biodiversity literature. Learn more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/tran... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL 🌍 📚 🧪

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Anyway, if you want more people being people but in a bad sense (I guess kind of like this), my podcast episode of @americanmedieval.bsky.social is up, I had the best time talking to Matt about my work: pca.st/c5go3lb1

I had a very exhausting but important week. Lots of academic hosting, which brings me joy but wears me out. So today I have stayed home to watch the Olympics, grade papers, and just be still.

MN you are heroes

Summer jobs: NASA History Internship. "The NASA History Office is offering internships at several NASA centers this summer. Be sure to submit your application before the deadline on February 27." 🔭 #History #HistSTM #STS #Internship

This is giving “Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane”

Had a very full week. Watching the Olympics now, rooting for my cousin Molly Solomon who is the executive producer for NBC's Olympic coverage: www.nytimes.com/athletic/701...

Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

Just encountered an 1829 description of Deception Island, "as horrid, dreary and wretched a place as the imagination can conceive" with "myriads of millions of penguins."

Every Democratic member of Congress should be on a plane to Minneapolis right now to join the people protesting in the streets. Federal elected officials should physically place themselves between the public and these dangerous thugs sent to terrorize this American city.

Needing a bit of a reminder that sometimes things do get better

We owe an incredible debt to the Minnesotans who are on the streets protesting and documenting what is happening.

We must stop funding DHS.

BREAKING: Trump’s thugs just shot and killed a man in Minneapolis. Eyewitnesses are describing it as an execution. We cannot keep living like this and people can’t keep dying like this. Stop funding DHS. Impeach Kristi Noem. Hold these agents accountable.

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

On the execution in Minnesota: Obviously, the individuals involved should be held accountable. But responsibility goes to the top of ICE and CBP, and DHS. Their appropriations come up next week in the senate. Not a cent for DHS without pulling ICE and CBP off the streets, in MN and everywhere else.

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

Star Tribune is reporting this as well now, multiple shots in the chest.

MPLS please be safe. ICE leave my former city.

Prof friends: Looking for help--I am experimenting with a course in which "All assignments will be graded credit/no credit. You either will have done acceptable, college-level work and independent authentic thinking or not." What words/phrases would you all use to define college-level work?

o. m. g.

Minnesotans are bad ass when it matters

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

talked to a few people who seemed surprised by this, but it's very matter of fact at least in my networks. it's an occupation. it's not especially subtle about it. there are surely other networks with other ways of seeing it, but I can only speak for mine.

I am experimenting with a class and today I built almost 100 canvas assignments. Ugh.

Europe should host a shadow World Cup

this was a good one! (well, they're all good ones...) please have a listen and share widely. #medievalsky

“Those were alarms, you just didn’t want to listen,” is very good.

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

This is how the occupation is going

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents just launched flash bang grenades at protesters in front of federal building in Minneapolis—causing massive explosions. "It's terrorizing, this isn't the America I served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy," tearful protester tells us. WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️

little taste of our recent episode with @medievalpenguin.bsky.social. enjoy! youtube.com/shorts/L_rbk...