I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities! Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December. Applications are welcome until 24 October. #envhum #envhist #energyhistory

@usofdisaster.bsky.social at the @hazcenter.bsky.social workshop!

Democracy is alive!!

In case you don't know her work, be sure to catch the Disasterology newsletter by @samlmontano.bsky.social

Education for Disaster Justice--open access article available now! Please read, share, and send me feedback--always looking for new Disaster Haggyo ideas!

Buffalo Creek was a foundational event in disaster studies thanks to Kai Erikson's research. If only every disaster had a Kai Erikson we would live in a safer world today. www.nytimes.com/1977/02/20/a...

Disaster as policy option.

When we say disasters aren’t natural this . . .

Seattle folks: I'm giving a (free) public lecture Feb 24, where I'll explain what our team's decade of research on online rumors & disinformation reveals about the once-alternative media ecosystem that is driving the rise of right wing populism around the world. www.washington.edu/facultystaff...

psst . . . Slow Disaster podcast is coming soon . . .

TONIGHT! 7pm eastern time. Join an open forum on Disaster Research & Emergency Management hosted by DRJ. www.disasterresearchersforjustice.com It's a chance to talk about shared concerns among disaster researchers+emergency managers. Meeting link available upon request. @samlmontano.bsky.social

Trump's NIH policy is a $2 billion chainsaw to the Massachusetts economy. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/10/b...

🚨We’ll be having a Disaster Researchers for Justice meeting Thursday to discuss *gestures around*. Practitioners, journalists, students, and others who do disaster work are also welcome to join. Message Scott for info. #GreySky

Please join: Open Forum on Emergency Management in America. Thursday evening at 7pm eastern time--hosted by Disaster Researchers for Justice. Respond to this post and I will send meeting details. Hope to see many people there. @samlmontano.bsky.social @katestarbird.bsky.social @revkin.bsky.social

We are delighted to announce the publication of volume 1, issue 2 of the Journal of Disaster Studies, published by @pennpress.bsky.social! This issue includes a wide array of articles and other scholarly content (see the TOC in the thread below), all in open access: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54211

The historians will remain.

Democracy in action, Franklin, MA. Town hall with @repauchincloss.bsky.social. People ran to the mics.

NEW article alert from @jds-disasters.bsky.social: "Trust, Traffic, & Contemporary Evacuation Barriers in Hurricane Ida" by Jennifer Trivedi, Sarah DeYoung, Prosper Anyidoho, Maria Porada, Tricia Wachtendorf, Rachel Davidson, Linda Nozick. @danielaldrich.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

Now more than ever you need it . . . Get your fresh disaster research! Journal of Disaster Studies Issue 2 is now live and open access. Please read and share. research! @jds-disasters.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/journal/886

Next week I will hold an online open forum for people who want to talk about FEMA and the future of emergency management in the USA. I know organization is happening at many levels. Contact me if you are interested. @samlmontano.bsky.social @danielaldrich.bsky.social @katestarbird.bsky.social

FEMA disappearing will impact every community in America. Suicidal move. And totally predictable.

And when a major disaster inevitably occurs . . .

"Can [memorials] accommodate what can't be fully remembered or known bc of the absence of evidence or... silences in the archives? Perhaps one way to address these absences, as... Mabel O. Wilson will explore, is thru diff modes of provisional mark making, materialities, + sensorial experiences."

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In 2022, @clintsmithiii.bsky.social visited Holocaust monuments across Germany to see how the country memorializes the sins of its history—and what America can learn about atonement. theatln.tc/yofyQRA4

Thinking about how when I asked the FEMA leadership panel at the IAEM conference in November what they recommended state and local emergency management agencies should do to prepare for the potential loss of FEMA funding I was dismissed out of hand.

As we watch ongoing shocks around the world, please join us for an open-to-the-public talk on #disaster risk reduction on Thursday February 6th at 6:00 pm at @Northeastern in Renaissance Park 909.

When people are trapped and minutes count, research shows it is family, friends and neighbors who are already on the scene and are most likely to save lives. It’s often everyday citizens who also take on immediate tasks such as debris removal. theconversation.com/amid-la-fire...

I don’t think anyone outside emergency management understands how small state emergency management agencies are…

Come to my "final lecture" as a professor at the #Hiroshima Peace Insittute on Thursday Feb 6th. Title: "Legacy Sites: Traces of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Cold War in the United States" #NukeSky #HistSTM #EnvHum Details in the link: www.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp/news/c000747...

Feels like a good time to share an excerpt from a feature I wrote on the history of FEMA & the US disaster response system: myworldsonfire.beehiiv.com/p/sorriest-b...

Terrific profile of the recently passed Garth Hudson. In the words of Ronnie Hawkins: “He heard all sorts of weird sounds in his head, and he played like the Phantom of the Opera." www.newyorker.com/culture/post...

Want to know more about the ways that a poorly-funded emergency management bureaucracy leaves people to suffer? Outstanding new research in the @jds-disasters.bsky.social by Erin R. Eldridge and Amanda J. Reinke. @samlmontano.bsky.social @danielaldrich.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

Please join the vibrant JDS community!

People hear me: Steve Earle isn't rewriting any song titles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQl2...

RIP Garth Hudson. A legend. I listen to his saxophone solo riffing off Robbie Robertson on "It Makes No Difference" all the time and it always brings me joy.

RIP David Lynch. I grew up with Twin Peaks and only discovered Eraserhead as an adult. It all changed me. Thanks David.

My book has been published on January 7, 2025. Below is a NEW 30% off discount code for readers with a US mailing address, via Penguin Random House. (shorturl.at/wGwwo) MITP30 The promotion code will last for a few more days! More on the discount code: shorturl.at/oXuGh @mitpress.bsky.social

As some leaders are invoking resilience and bouncing back in the midst of the LA Fires I want to re-up this piece by me and @kschmutina.bsky.social from a bit back

The horrible temporality of the LA Fires is provoking an ongoing national conversation. It is lasting longer than a hurricane landfall or mass shooting. Much of the conversation is ill-informed & partisan, but conversation is happening. People are seeing the images, thinking "what if it was me?"

This will be outstanding, check the list of instructors!

There’s gotta be a better way to think about city budgets than “massive waste on firefighting” in the rainy season and “incompetant cuts to firefighting budget” when there are fires.

I am so concerned for the people in harm's way who are having trouble getting timely and accurate news about the LA wildfires.

Announcing a new article: "Education for Disaster Justice: The Disaster Haggyo in South Korea"--please read it to learn about the Disaster Haggyo, and participate in a future program! So proud of my student co-authors! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I miss Mike Davis.

Reading up on Greenland politics wasn't on my to-do list for 2025, but now . . .

Hello #AHA25, if you want to meet and talk about submitting work/reviewing for the Journal of Disaster Studies, please get in touch!

Many of us in disaster studies have been talking like this for a while. Success for disaster studies would be to render the term "disaster" meaningless, at least if it isn't moored to deep social critique.

Come work with me! globalvoices.org/2024/12/20/g...

That’s a terrific idea and a great lineup.

Yoon found out.