Makes me think about Riley O’Neil, who was killed a few weeks ago in Chicago. Just horrible.

This morning a driver struck and killed Louisa Gag, a biking advocate and transportation planner. Gag had coauthored a Vision Zero Action plan: visionzeronetwork.org/wp-content/u...

Glasgow is hiring a lecturer in medieval history (c.800-1500) on an open-ended basis. We are a lovely bunch in the medieval area, would be great to have a new colleague! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSF052/l...

🚨 JOB KLAXON #skystorians #envhist #envhums Cover for some of my teaching next year - 0.5 FTE at University of Liverpool. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSE899/l...

Pleased to share my review of @csschmitt.bsky.social's fabulous book, The Predatory Sea. Go read it!

Out of curiosity, does anyone know how to access the Archivio Privato Fieschi (Genoa)? Luca Lo Basso cites it, but there's no clear trace of it anywhere... It seems like a fairly interesting merchant archive from the late seventeenth/early eighteenth-century. #skystorians

The Friends of the Turnbull Library offers an annual research grant of up to $20,000 available to scholars whose research involves use of the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library. The closing date for 2027 applications is Friday 2 October 2026. turnbullfriends.org.nz/research-gra...

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS KLAXON! 📢 Proposals for papers are invited on the subject of ‘Legal Use of Print in Early Modern Europe’ to be presented at the combined 19th USTC/St Andrews Book History & 3rd COMLAWEU conference in St Andrews Deadline: 1 December 2026 #CfP #bookhistory #twitterstorians #USTC27

I'm re-re-posting this significant article: "The open-source archive now contains more than 500,000 digitized photographs, identification papers, diaries, maps, films, and letters, many of which were collected directly from Palestinian families and might otherwise have been lost forever."

Finally submitted to University of Alabama Press! Thank you so much, @klracine.bsky.social, for the patience and support along the way!

🚨Job! 🚨 Open-rank, tenure-track position in pre-1800 history of medicine at Johns Hopkins #histmed #histstm apply.interfolio.com/182469?fbcli...

It’s here! Publication day for my @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social @catholicismsem.bsky.social book. Click here for disgruntled ministers, canny bookwomen, and a world of Catholic print that was more complex and multiconfessional than you could have ever imagined. boydellandbrewer.com/book/print-a...

Hey everyone! I edited a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Literature on the “Fin de Fin de Siècle”. Check it out!

Our 2026 Supplement (#18) "Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850" Edited by @hsmurphy.bsky.social (@kingshistory.bsky.social @cemskcl.bsky.social) Has now been published by @academic.oup.com academic.oup.com/past/issue/2...

My article “The Transformation of Smallpox Inoculation in the Early Modern Atlantic World” is open access thanks to funding from Swarthmore. I’m very excited this is now out in the world! doi.org/10.1093/past...

I am so delighted and honored to be a part of this Past & Present Supplement, “Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850.” It was a pleasure and so enriching to work with @hsmurphy.bsky.social and the editors at @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/past...

"Thinking through forests: Colonialism, capitalism, and the global timber trade". Iva Lučić and I are excited to share the special issue on Timber Colonialism. #envhist @nichecanada.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

Our official guide to help you write a public comment on the OMB-2026-0034 is here: zurl.co/XgyzA Submit your comment and take additional actions here: zurl.co/RiDuv #StandUpForScience #OMB #Vought #SaveScience #FundScience

Can submit public comments here: www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...

“It would dismantle the US science ecosystem – but also all federal discretionary grants,” says Dr. Delawalla, founder & CEO of SUFS. Read the article on our fight against the OMB proposal here 👉 zurl.co/M0n0e Then take action here 👉 zurl.co/Wsd6x

501(c)3s. Non-Profit Organizations. This artivle os for you. #OMB afj.org/article/fede...

The attack on Democracy continues… #OMB www.aau.edu/newsroom/lea...

This livestream was recorded, as always, so you can watch it now in case you missed it due to the schedule shift. I ended up discussing not only upcoming fire weather threat, but also the disastrous new proposed OMB rules for federal grants and also the record Europe heatwave.

OMB proposed new rules that would let political appointees, not scientists, decide which research gets funded in the U.S. But we can stop this if enough people share why peer-reviewed science is important to them. We made it easy for you to tell your story. The deadline to submit is July 13th.

Trump's OMB proposes changes that could adversely impact US science. Please consider adding a comment: acs.quorum.us/campaign/164... The DEADLINE to submit is Monday, JULY 13 at 11:59PM ET. contrast: George W's OMB calculated the cost:benefit of all federal rules: the Clean Air Act won by a mile!

🚨Proposed OMB regulations could affect federal research funding, international collaborations, publication costs, and more. GSA is urging you to submit public comments by July 13. Learn what's at stake and how to make your voice heard: buff.ly/A2IT1gL

🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, the clock is ticking. There are only 20 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Visit the link in our bio to take action!

Join Stand Up For Science for their rapid response hour on how to write effective public comments on the proposed OMB rule this Friday from 2-3pm. Use the link below to register and come ask questions and share resources! urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

Are you struggling to parse through the 412 pg proposal from OMB that has the scientific community talking? Join me NEXT WEEK w/ @elizabethginexi.bsky.social @nejm.org & @aaas.org for @healthjournalism.org webinar unpacking the proposal & how 🫵 can report on it healthjournalism.org/event/white-...

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter. There are parts of this proposal that will destroy the legacy of advanced science in the US. This set of OMB regulations will have us fall behind every other scientifically incline country. Write a letter here: actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

Here is @defendpublichealth.bsky.social’s statement on the new OMB rule that takes scientific funding decisions away from experts and hands them to political appointees. Please have a look to learn more about how you can help.

FWIW, I will add my own voice to those decrying this latest action by politicians to strangle scientific freedom--and the economic innovation that goes along with it. Comment here: www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...

Hey, Friends! We've got 3 weeks to submit comments to the Federal Register opposing horrible OMB rules allowing political appointees to terminate US scientific & medical research. Resources in this thread make it EASY to write your letter. I also drafted letters for busy friends & family to submit 🧵

It's easy to comment on the bad OMB rules by July 13! Elizabeth Ginexi, a former NIH PO, offers her submitted Comment and supplement here: elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/my-public-.... In the first line, she shows how to include the Section number and the Docket Number (Docket OMB-2026-0034) 2/

It's easy to comment on the bad OMB rules by July 13! The American Physical Society summarized the proposed changes. Clicking the “comment” button and answering a few questions generates a letter citing relevant sections, which is needed for an effective comment. See www.aps.org/initiatives/.... 3/

It's easy to comment on the bad OMB rules by July 13! The Stand Up for Science Foundation produced webpages on “How to talk to anyone about OMB-2026-0034” (www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...) and a “Guide to Writing Public Comments” (www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...) 4/

It's easy to comment on the bad OMB rules by July 13! The Planetary Society has a full list of the proposed changes here: dashboards.planetary.org/rules-change/ 5/

Logging on to learn more about the proposed OMB changes that will DRASTICALLY impact science as we know it in this country. Make your voice heard. Open comment by July 13, submit to regulations.gov, Docket OMB-2026-0034 This coffee should be alcohol 😡

#CFP Porous Worlds: Histories, Environments, and Material Relations at the Surface-Subsurface Interface (Bergen, October 28-29, 2026), due September 1. Workshop explores relationship between surface and subsurface w/ keynote by @gabriellehecht.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #extractivism #histstm

reading about south asian farm workers losing their teeth in their twenties — because the climate has gotten so hot their bodies cant produce the proper saliva to keep their enamel — has me seeing red today

Hebrew Curator at the British Library (2-year fixed term) Wonderful opportunity for a scholar of #Hebrew and Jewish #bookhistory to spend 2 years in the Promised Land of the @britishlibrary.bsky.social with its invaluable collection. Deadline: 12 July. ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_web...

The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.

So deeply happy & proud that The Story of Birds has soared onto the Sunday Times bestseller list in the UK during its first week of publication!!! Getting books onto bestseller lists is a total crapshoot. But it's clear to me there are two main reasons why it's happened here:

The July 2026 special issue of the Journal of Chinese History featuring 9 contributions on the history of Chinese food culture and 25 book reviews covering various aspects of Chinese history across time is now online. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Duke Lemur Center founder, civil rights activist, dies in NC ““To my dismay,” [Prof. Peter Klopfer] told The N&O in 2004, “I think I’m cited more often in legal texts than in biology texts.” RIP.

Ridiculously excited for Holly Stephens, whose EMPIRE BY ASSOCIATION, will be out in September, on the economic history of rural Korea under Japanese colonialism, now with a vibrant new cover by @yalepress.bsky.social Just about every history book starts with one of two openers, either

No freedom of speech, but you would have some great colleagues at this TT position in Latin American History at Angelo State networks.h-net.org/jobs/70072/a...