The British Museum has launched a long-term loans program that sent 80 Greek and Egyptian antiquities to India in “a rebranding exercise that preserves colonial power structures while pretending to dismantle them,” writes Emiline Smith.

This is a dumb take for a lot of reasons, including that military history intersects with most of...history. I teach the history of science & medicine, and we constantly talk about the ways that war shapes & shifts culture. We DO teach this, we just don't call ourselves military historians.

Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.

Worth reading through all the comments to laugh and laugh. I have many of my own stories, and fucking love being a historian.

Visited a regional branch of the National Archives, and the mss I wanted to look at were in a filing cabinet for which no one could find the key. They called a locksmith on the spot, who drilled out the cylinder to get them to me. Archivists are the best! 🗃️

Article if you’d like to read: www.sfgate.com/local/articl...

We’d like to share a remembrance for Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest serving National Park Service ranger in the country, who has passed away. Her life and work helped preserve history, expand whose stories are told, and inspire generations to come.

🧪📣 McGill University is recruiting exceptional researchers through the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs program. #McGillResearch #ImpactPlus #AcademicCareers #ResearchLeadership

The man in charge of logging each native seed in Ireland has described the project as like “Noah’s Ark” for plants – a vault for renewal after ecological disasters. Ecologist Darren Reidy has been researching, gathering and banking native seeds across Ireland since 2022. jrnl.ie/6910184

Congrats to Australia, this is really cool! report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au

Been watching collections get hit by funding cuts for years - university herbaria, local museums + historical societies losing staff, donations dwindling in this economy. It's scary to think about what'll happen to the objects, the future generations of knowledge. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/s...

Job opening in #histsci #philsci at Wageningen University: Asst. Prof. of Philosophy of Life Sciences, in a group led by Rachel Ankeny. Deadline Jan 12! www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/a...

FBI Director Patel is busy talking about his romance with his girlfriend on Katie Miller’s podcast at 6pm.

“In the faunal frenzy of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, even serious naturalists competed with fabulists like Barnum for the attention of the public.” Our latest piece in A Time Of Monsters, from Sam Moore.

One nice thing during a horrible, heartbreaking weekend - New Haven’s first snow, and a very happy dog.

Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.

Much respect to the staff of the Brown Daily Herald, working tonight to inform fellow students and the rest of the campus community. www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

As a former Brown professor, I am horrified, terrified, and heartbroken. I am holding my current and former students in my heart, while demanding change to gun laws in the US. This is sickening.

As an aside, I just noticed that if you google a font, google displays the entire results page in that font. Which is neat.

First task for end of semester: reading Mosses, Liverworts & Hornworts of the World alongside the fieldguides I study historically. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/b...

This is really important. Both in the fact of IMLS reinstating grants. (Which have been *crucial* for libraries and civic life across the country. Notably in rural areas.) And in the example that the overall stalwartness and rigor of federal district/circuit courts has made a huge difference.

Can’t believe it’s the last week of class before finals. This has been a particularly productive and exhausting semester, and I can’t wait to share new work soon. In the meantime, here’s my patient, helpful son.

Look: @thisguysucked.com is an incredible podcast, @ceaubin.com is an incredible person, and who DOESN'T want to roll into the first day of the new semester ( / the holidays) with hater gear on? Go order yours.

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

"You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. " www.wired.com/story/poems-...

They saw moss, though, and that's all that really matters.

A collection of environmental films made by Indigenous filmmakers that I've screened in Ecocinema over the years (shared today for obvious reasons): 1. It Starts with a Whisper (Shelley & Gronau Niro, 1993) vucavu.com/en/cfmdc/199...

I encountered the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center this year when doing some work on fungus + mold cultures, and this is a real shame within our longer history of American scientific research. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...

New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.

JOB: Assistant Professor, History, Corpus Christi College (Vancouver) field open 5 year appointment, renewable universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

Coming March 2026 from @yalepress.bsky.social - Sumana Roy's beautiful translations of Jagadish Chandra Bose's work on plants, whose voices he recorded through stunning technologies + vocabularies. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Just dropping this here. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/t...

"They devised a marketing plan engineered to make these alien arbors more familiar to would-be consumers...Like a real tree, the mythical Philippine mahogany needed time to grow." daily.jstor.org/the-mythical...

Actually never done so much work in my entire life

Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation laist.com/news/arts-an...

A new Isis Focus Section asks a bold question: “Is deep history white?”The issue shows how ideas of deep time emerged through European geology, empire, and the dismissal of Indigenous temporal knowledge. Deep history has long carried the imprint of a distinctly white European, extractive worldview.

Former UVA President Jim Ryan has just released a 12-page memo of his own account of his forced resignation last summer. Here’s just a bit in which Paul Manning, a member of the Board, was told by DOJ that unless Ryan departed they would “bleed UVA white.”

Calling scholars in environmental humanities, history of science, food studies, and medical humanities: we’re inviting applications for our 2026–27 Franke Postdoctoral Fellowship on Rot: Politics, Aesthetics, Regeneration. 1-year, $70K + research funds + benefits. apply.interfolio.com/172135

Can't wait for them to finally release my emails and see 100,000,000,000 requests for extensions from students.

@alexzivkovic.bsky.social is my sworn enemy for getting to go to this, incredibly jealous. This exhibit is everything.

"When the whole world is tropical, what words will we use to describe and define ourselves?...This binary between crisis and non-crisis demonstrates one of the many ways in which our classification systems fail in the face of climate breakdown" pioneerworks.org/broadcast/su...

"I want this job" part 3. Auspicious timing, and Philly is an incredible (and still relatively affordable) city.

Franklin was extra good this week so on top of his morning hikes I made him a mini dog-safe chicken pot pie and now he has a new favorite food.

TT job posting at UW Madison: History of Science with focus on water & sustainability 💧💧💧

Dream postdoc just dropped. One-year postdoc ($70K) at Yale's @yalewhc.bsky.social for the Franke Seminar in the Humanities on the incredible theme of ROT: Politics, Aesthetics, Regeneration. Taking folks from #histSTM, food studies, environmental humanities, etc. App due 12/8.

Black bulgar #fungi

If you continue taking away my punctuation towards the ends of paragraph-long Victorian sentences I am going to LOSE MY MINDDD

"Today’s Quinhagak youth will grow up with an understanding of their history that previous generations didn’t have...“Some of them have their mouths wide open when they first open a drawer,” she said. “I tell them, these are from your ancestors.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/c...