saying "no one tests for botulism so we had no idea" in a canned/processed product is like saying "no one tests for trichinosis" in meat. These people are not serious

reading about byheart recalls i'm irritated that i wrote this in *2022*: recalled.substack.com/p/yes-were-s...

reading about byheart recalls i'm irritated that i wrote this in *2022*: recalled.substack.com/p/yes-were-s...

“keep politics out of kids movies” disney in 1973:

anyway it's wild to me that effectively all federally funded academic research in the u.s. has been either halted or irredeemably slowed and we're just like, "welp 🤷‍♀️"

OMG! My first look at “Canal Dreamers” as a physical book is in a viral TikTok! Go @sonyabonczek.bsky.social and @uncpress.bsky.social! So excited to get my paws on the real thing when I get home from #shear2025.

olipop vintage cola tastes like how they would have made coca cola during the great depression, or maybe with wartime shortages. 10/10 drink of the summer for 2025

We've gotten a ton of fascinating submissions so far from people who research the past outside of the discipline of history, but we're looking for more! Share widely to help us get this project off the ground.

olipop vintage cola tastes like how they would have made coca cola during the great depression, or maybe with wartime shortages. 10/10 drink of the summer for 2025

just paid $30 to see some people dress as cardboard robots and pretend to fight each other two weeks from now, this is the level of "despondent and also incredibly silly" i am at

climate scientists will be like THE GOVERNMENT DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT WEATHER and then link to this storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/0c8f...

frances kelsey would like a word

The President’s budget proposes devastating cuts to NOAA, which helps everyone understand and prepare for extreme weather. NOAA was also in the middle of developing new flood maps for neighborhoods. bsky.app/profile/cost...

As just one example, the early-retired science officer at NWS San Antonio was one of the very best in the business, and the most knowledgeable about flash flooding and its impacts

Still amazed at how many experts and such working in the ag/food space in OECD countries do not take seriously food sovereignty for Indigenous people and people in the global South in general.

explaining how to approach a lit review earlier made me realize that if i have a religious affiliation it might be "zotero"

Dolly offers an incredibly generous summary of some hidden curriculum elements of this posting - I hope they get many amazing applications

Important news for the #envhist crowd: We are hiring an Associate Professor of Environmental History! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Application deadline is August 7. Some tips for those interested from abroad in thread 👇

I put together a 4-page doc for those wary of the rush to integrate in K-12 schools (though much applies beyond). Four of the main arguments for teachers using AI tools & introducing kids to AI as early as kindergarten are addressed with rebuttals linked to sources.

Yet more on the birth rate panic. Again, fascinating that the people telling us we need to breed more to make more workers are some of the same folks who want to kick out all the immigrants and are some of the same folks telling us AI is going to wipe out a bunch of jobs.

i have once again spent too much money on aperol spritzes

it has been [ 0 ] days since i talked about catalytic converters

Just an update, apparently the language on their website was just about parking? I'm still wearing my tinfoil hat and keeping a closer eye on what's happening at NARA though.

OH MY GOD when did Chicago Manual of Style stop requiring publisher location in citations??? I just yelled "WHAT??!" out loud in my living room and my wife was very let down by what elicited that reaction.

anyway here's "the ugliest statue in DC," a memorial to the temperance movement.

if you're a grad student and a tenured faculty member tries to convince you not to panic about the situation with Archives II, that you can just pivot and do digital humanities or whatever, you have my permission to throw a book at them and then you might want to find a new advisor

Holy fucking shit

This is a really important and troubling finding. The seafood in which these genes were found was bought at retail in the Atlanta area. Shrimp farmed abroad is a known bad actor for antibiotic use, and the particular antibiotic at play here is a truly last-resort drug.

can confirm, Cuyahoga River is not on fire.

well, that hasn't made picking the correct religion any easier, has it

The least surprising results imaginable. In the words of @madisoncondon.bsky.social: "under a climate changed future, the future will not look like the past, and there is no reason to expect that these relationships between historic temperatures and economic output will hold."

it is hard to convey in words how bad the bloodbath has been for professionals working in the "not evil" sectors

This is the front page of my hometown paper. This was a place where I had to be registered Republican just to vote in primary elections because no Democrats were running as late as 2006. The fact that protests happened here, in this place, more than anything else, gives me hope in this dark time.

It would be like if someone went 'AI is going to change the work of theologians. They will no longer have to think about holy texts'.

GOING TO THE ARCHIVE IS THE ONLY BIT OF BEING A HISTORIANS THAT MOST HISTORIANS ACTUALLY ENJOY

Even on climate stuff, what they're doing is really, really unpopular!

everything is very bad but @alisonespach.bsky.social 's the wedding people is very good. going forward anytime someone asks me why i left academia / whether i would consider going back, i will be handing them a copy of that book.

I continue to be amazed that, despite everything that’s gone on of late, no one has asked for the data from the 1968 BASR survey of faculty and students about the crisis at Columbia ropercenter.cornell.edu/ipoll/study/...

Wanna come save science with us? 🚨WE ARE HIRING🚨 Details below!

we went to torchy's tacos before a Slowdive show in raleigh, and my partner pointed out some older hipster-looking people at a nearby table and went "ha, they look like they're fans of slowdive." it was the band.

This would make a good course thesis. Kupperman, Jamestown Project Dalzell, Enterprising Elite Beckert, The Monied Metropolis Moreton, To Serve God and Walmart Elmore, Country Capitalism: How Corporations from the American South Remade Our Economy and the Planet Gaps to fill but this has legs

Pouring one out for my admin law textbook from 2018. At this point it's totally useless

How the Washoe Tribe built a business to sustain a firewood bank that helps elders heat their homes. grist.org/indigenous/h... #Firewood #Indigenous #WashoeTribe #Environment #Wood #Business

Seeing our posters in the wild is making me so happy 🥹 This project was a collab btw 4 artists (Amy Schwartz, @franzanth.bsky.social @zillahsmith.bsky.social and @invertebabe.bsky.social) & 3 scientists (@jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social @mikefeigin.bsky.social & me) Get ‘em squidfacts.bigcartel.com

My ongoing request: If your NSF or NIH grant was terminated--whether at Harvard or elsewhere--please report it here. NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h... NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h... Our trackers are actively used in lawsuits and are often the only record that terminations ever occurred.

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

these are the important questions

Closer look at the recent record high global mean temperature over land areas (where we live) during the month of April... A clear climate change signal that impacts us all. Data provided by www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...

Humanists: