Our European Service Module solar arrays in orbit🌞 With these solar wings extended, Europe is now powering Artemis II ⚡

Not all of it is from NASA: worth pointing out that the part of the Orion spaceship that supplies electricity, propulsion, thermal control, air and water, is the European Service Module (ESM), designed and built by the European Space Agency (ESA).

Nice visualization of the projected trajectory of Artemis II. Very different from the Apollo missions, all of which actually entered orbit around the Moon. Artemis II, on the other hand, will be circumlunar, i.e., slingshot around the Moon and return to Earth. youtube.com/shorts/vQPif...

Shirt for the day. #thereplacements #replacements #themats #mats

Upcoming book of essays: 'Backlash: The Global Rise of the Radical Right' edited by Don Kalb and Walden Bello: www.plutobooks.com/product/back...

A top job for someone - Associate Professor of History, University of Toronto: looking for an economic historian of the Soviet Union and successor states

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

I’m in Kansas City for #ASEH2026. I co-edit a history of technology book series for Johns Hopkins University Press. We are always looking for titles that intersect with environmental history. If you have a project, let me know and let’s talk 🙂

Officially on the @berghahnbooks.bsky.social website: "Antarctic Materialities," which I co-edited with Ximena Senatore, featuring chapters by @medievalpenguin.bsky.social, @fwinckel.bsky.social, @sarahmpicks.bsky.social and more! #histsci #envhist #polar www.berghahnbooks.com/title/McCahe...

It was a real pleasure to guest edit the second volume of the Special Issue on Global Economic History, and an even greater pleasure to see it published and share it here, open access! 👇

Interesting launch coming up soon out of Russia. The first Soyuz-5, a drastic departure from the rocket's historic lineage, is looking at a launch potentially on March 27th. This launch will also feature the most powerful liquid rocket engine ever flown, the RD-171MV.

Olga Nechaeva in the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social on the reception to 'Heated Rivalry' in Russia: "..when queer intimacy is routinely silenced, a story that gives equal voice to desire and sincerity can be quietly transformative.." lareviewofbooks.org/article/heat... #heatedrivalry

They made them take down the videos because they would cause "reputational damage" to people like this young man, Nathan Cavanuagh, so definitely don't post this all over the internet with the name Nathan Cavanaugh attached, or this guy might suffer reputational damage. This guy, Nathan Cavanaugh.

Jews are targeted in shuls & online. Brown & Black people are abducted and sent to concentration camps. Muslims are openly targeted by politicians. Activists & journalists are targeted by the FBI. Trans & queer people are being outlawed. We are in this together. This is why solidarity matters.

An incredible cover has landed for an incredible book - Philippa Hetherington's "Circulating Subjects: Sex Work and Migration in Russia, 1885–1935." More on how to pre-order a copy of her "riveting" and "radical" @cornellupress.bsky.social book here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

But you know, cool rockets and Mars trips and Starship launch windows and awesome space guy vibes

Seeing ppl circulate projects whose NEH grants were canceled by DOGE reaffirms my argument about AI as a permission structure. Some grants were canceled w/o a “no” from the generated summary. DOGE had a mandate to slash humanities funding & AI gave them the veneer of a rationale for their actions.

There are much more terrible things going on in the world, but here are more details of the 2 dimwitted twerps working for that stupid fuck Elon Musk, who used ChatGPT (yes) to terminate last year's NEH research grants (including mine), causing so much havoc: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

A judge just tossed out Columbia University's disciplinary actions against 22 students over the 2024 Hamilton Hall occupation, finding the school relied on sealed arrest records and held individuals responsible for group actions, violating its own rules. iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/Documen...

ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE My home department at Uppsala University is advertising an endowed professorship in the history of science. This is the best position in the field in Sweden, and probably in all of Scandinavia. Apply before 30 April 2026. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Putin whitewashes the horrors of Stalinist forced labor camps by closing the Gulag History Museum in Moscow & replacing w/ one focused solely on Nazi crimes against the Soviets (which yes, there were), but memorializing one & effacing the other is an utter travesty. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/w...

This is important y’all. This is our chance to save the stars.

@denizcamp.bsky.social firing on all cylinders on so many titles (incl. 'Assorted Crisis Events' & 'Martian Manhunter'). Truly radical & challenging work, both in content & form. His 'The Ultimates' has put genuinely radical ideas about dissent, revolution & resistance into the superhero idiom.

The world's richest man is broadcasting eliminationist rhetoric about a tiny, vulnerable minority, and virtually no one is going to treat it as a scandal. It's just normal now.

The awesome @tombreihan.bsky.social does an excellent writeup on on of the absolute greatest albums of the early 2000s, The Knife's 'Silent Shout'

"Cohabitations": New academic series for humanities and social science scholars at University of Minnesota Press: www.upress.umn.edu/announcing-a...

"Any claims of AI solving for population scale problems must be matched against the reality of the Global South, in which young boys were applying enamel paint on the railings... with their bare hands to prepare for the arrival of Silicon Valley CEOs." www.techpolicy.press/indias-ai-im...

This is the enduring legacy of authoritarian regimes, even after their fall: the destruction of trust and social capital.

Quite likely my NEH grant (also terminated in April 2025) was one of these.

DOGE allegedly used ChatGPT to identify 1,400 NEH grants it said were DEI. Grants were terminated April 2025, according to a court filing. E.g. Film: 1873 Colfax massacre Film: first female pilots flying for U.S. military in WWII Film: “Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust"

The deafening silence of space policy people (or space journalists) on this is bizarre. He's a straight-up white supremacist, and we're still talking about "Elon's plans for Starship" or "Elon's take on space colonization" without a thought as to his core beliefs. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Nearly 60 million people (c. 50% of eligible voters) voted today in Bangladesh. Moderately hopeful. www.bbc.com/news/article...

There is increasing evidence that the atrocities committed by Russian forces during its escalation of Ukraine were a systemic effort to terrorize Ukraine and Ukrainians. www.spiegel.de/internationa... (1/2)

Sure.

Heated Rivalry exists in the universe of a romance novel. The characters we love will never die and will never be hurt in a truamatic way. We live in the real world, not a romance novel, this world is full of hate, and real people will do horrible things to people just trying to live their truth.

BREAKING: “in my 24th year of my quest to settle the planet Mars, I have just been informed of a basic fact of celestial mechanics.”

If this halftime show doesn’t make Stephen miller wade into the sea

Beautiful and moving piece by playwright Liv Pederson about ICE, Minneapolis, and the music of the greatest export from that city, the Replacements (who happen to be my favorite band of all time). (You can skip the intro in italics): theapologistzine.substack.com/p/my-neighbo...

RIP one of the greatest bassists from one of the greatest bands of all time. #television

In today's AIP History Weekly Edition, Anna Doel interviews Ankita Anirban about her interview/book project on the successful push at Bell Labs to elevate black scientists. At a time when such efforts are on the back foot, it's important to know more about these examples.

Story on new short film on French atomic testing in Algeria: "Boomerang Atomique" directed by Rachid Bouchareb and featuring archival footage of the 17 nuclear tests carried out by the French in Algerian Sahara.

#Space #NASA #Artemis From #FloridaToday: "NASA's last major test of the #Artemis2 moon rocket did not go as hoped ... As a result, the launch was pushed back to no earlier than March 6." www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/s...

Full set of reports here. Powerful, moving, eye-witness accounts

This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.

this is what i am looking forward to this weekend

What’s to become of my medieval women class now that TAMU has eliminated the women’s studies program? I don’t know. The audit of my syllabus is not done but it’ll probably be flagged because it has J Bennett’s “lesbian-like” article. Students are aware that free speech is a thing of the past in TX.

You can’t tell me we have a functioning economic system when the richest man in human history is one of the most profoundly stupid people in human history

This week, I had an incredible opportunity to gather with some of our district’s Bangladeshi community leaders to discuss issues impacting the community. I look forward to our continued collaboration in NY-14.