Getting the boys together for this Austria-Spain matchup

So good! A $24 million increase from last year's arts budget. Including a $10 million emergency fund for organizations.

On the long American tradition of buying sovereignty, Greenland, colonialism, an AI penguin, and the grimy history of the president’s grandfather in the far north www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Only way to get through this heat with a bored, arthritic dog: sunset swims.

REJOICE FOR BEST COMPETITION OF THE YEAR NOMINATE YOUR BUGS www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I swear you can respond to an email saying "I can meet literally any time this week EXCEPT Thurs at 11AM" and they'll say great, see you at Thurs at 11AM. Hitting it hard this week with folks suddenly wanting to meet exactly when I said I'm traveling. Why? And no I don't want calendly.

Another great job! TT Assoc. or Full Prof. in Pre-Modern History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Great program, great salary, (sizeable) app due Aug 31. #histSTM #histsci #histmed apply.interfolio.com/182469

There’s a permanent modern British history post going at Manchester 🎉Come and join a great department and please share with anyone who might be interested. (Don’t let the short deadline put you off). #skystorians 🗃️

These AI generated flowers might seem obviously fake but thousands of people are falling for it and buying these seeds on Amazon, Etsy, and Ebay www.404media.co/scammers-sel...

fbaldassarriphilo.wordpress.com/cfp-rsa-2027... Giancarla Periti and mine cfp for @rsaorg.bsky.social #RSA2027 #RSAPhila27 on #CraftingNature, we welcome contributions that address the production, cultivation and uses of veg materials, and the artistic and scientific knowledge #histsci #arthist🌱

Their goal is to institutionalize & legitimize the fascist turn, not unlike the earlier "viewpoint diversity" initiative that was designed to permanently embed discredited fascist & theocratic ideas in the university.

“If the application contains one of the 235 disfavoured terms, it is classified as ‘not clean’.”

I’ve spent more than a year reporting on how the fossil fuel industry has infiltrated academia over the last 30 years, shaping fundamental paradigms on how to address climate change. My first story in the new @propublica.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social series, “Carbon Captured”, is out today.

It's taking me about 500 years to get through the 166 page HSS program, but good lord EVERYONE is going to be there this year. Like every single person I have ever known. Edinburgh is going to be lit. #hss2026

Summer so far (dogs, hiking, swimming, taxidermy, slow mornings, falling in love with the world of lures).

Projects in line for funding include the much-anticipated Spring Garden Connector.

“Come over here,” I yelled to Will, the hip American photographer who’d accompanied me. “I’ve found an iguana poly­cule.” He sighed with satisfaction. “It’s like I never left Brooklyn.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Call for abstracts for Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine extended to June 26! Hosted by Johns Hopkins this year, this is a great opp for grad students to workshop their research, practice giving talks + meet others in the field. The JAS's are great. jashistofmed.wordpress.com

JOB POSTING 📜📚 The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University seeks a research (reference) librarian: yale.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/external_car...

If you're an anthropologist of science/tech in the Boston area and want to teach an intro-level class at Tufts on the same this fall, well you're in luck: apply.interfolio.com/188534

I was reminded today that this nascent project has already inspired some ✨ research: local librarians, botanists, and photographers are conducting a Flora Survey of the Library Field: libraryfield.org/fieldnotes/f...

I talked — at length! — with Julian Lucas of the New Yorker and this is what happened: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I am so unbelievably depressed, broke, and tired that I can’t even come up with a good response to the reflecting pool, women apparently hating men, or the newest AI / university shit. Please just put me out of my misery. Old Yeller style. Let’s all reread Old Yeller.

Happy birthday to #botanist Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919-2010), 🧪👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci renown algae expert, celebrated seaweed cook, devoted teacher and mentor, expert on Hawaiian ethnobotany, the first Indigenous Hawaiian woman to earn a doctorate in science and the first woman or person of colour to become 🧵

I was Very Into the Borrowers as a child and now I’m horrified / fascinated by those stories of people living inside of walls / am convinced someone lives inside of my walls so

I’m sorry, no. This is not the guy who did the reflecting pool. No. Come on. We’re just putting a hat on a hat here. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

Getting your National Endowment for the Humanities grant reinstated? Tell us about your amazing projects and we'll share your hard work here!

Finally, a piece on Bad Bunny + botany / environment / empire! This whole @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social Botanical Imaginations series is fantastic, and this is no exception. edgeeffects.net/bad-bunny/

I'm obviously going for Vampire + Moss.

Fellowships especially for graduate students!

Parade. Thursday. Manhattan.

Imagine you live in New York City and you’re not that into sports and you have to walk your dog now.

greate daye to be a scaffoldinge enthusiaste

Exciting to see the eleven library workers who were laid off from Western Illinois University (WIU) last year reinstated to their jobs! Yet another higher ed union win. 📚 www.ift-aft.org/post/arbitra...

I hate to say it, but after 2 years in CT I've become a person who is Friends With My Neighbors. We talk every day, do each other favors, borrow things from each other, watch each other's dogs, drop by for drinks. Yesterday a Neighbor Friend offered to grab something from Costco for me. Bizarre

"There are well over thirty-two different words for field in Irish... To someone whose ancestors have been cultivating the ground, growing grain + tending cattle for over 4000 years, and who has built up the soil over centuries by hauling seaweed from the shore..., they look very different."

Our Mid-Year Fundraiser is launched! https://publicdomainreview.org/support If you like what we do, and want to see it continue, then please do lend your support. Available to donors, our themed postcard packs: upcoming theme on... SOIL. (Shown here a past pack, themed on Light)

My paper on Agnes Arber and her understanding of teleology is now part of the topical collection "Histories, Cultures, and Practices of the Botanical Sciences": link.springer.com/collections/... The collection is still open for submissions, so #plant people: hand in your manuscripts! #HPBio #HistSci

When I tell you I have these dates blocked off in my calendar because my dumb ass would dedicate exactly that week to full text searching BHL for writing deadlines…mark em down, folks!

She's straightforwardly saying schools’ federal funds are at risk unless they reduce their Black student population to something Trump is more comfortable with By design, the safest way for schools to avoid suspicion is to not admit Black students at all ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

“…the report is the most comprehensive analysis yet of the Empire State Trail, which was completed in 2020 after a major state investment connected existing trail segments into a continuous route stretching from New York City to Canada and from Albany to Buffalo.”

This could be a good sign - that #NEH needs more staff (no kidding) as they prepare to reinstate grants - but also note that these positions are being advertised as GS-7-9 - paying $30k+ less than in the past. To do the same work as those of us who were fired. Think that through for a moment.

🌿 Available for preorder - Thinking With Plants + Fungi: Interdisciplinary Explorations of Ecology, Mind, and the More-than-Human World! With a chapter by me on moss, piousness + resurrection in 19thC botany...🌿 www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

The Metro NY Library Council is hiring a Library Field Ranger for our Library Field experimental outdoor library in Westchester County!

JOB ALERT: Early Career Fellow in Covid Commemoration Oral Histories (21 months, The British Library) ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_web...

🪶 Thank god I have friends who wake me up with texts searching for where a particular early-20thC bird collection from the Yukon ended up because I really needed an excuse to not finish writing my article + chapter today. 🪶

Generals / comps exams at Princeton were obviously traumatic and terrible, but when I tell you I had to pull minor details of the 1830 Cuvier-Geoffroy debate out of my ass yesterday while working on an article and remembered, like, every specific detail, citation, and where my notes on it lived. 📚

Everybody collectively pray that I get like, a year's worth of writing done today.