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

In these troubled times, can ANY basketball foul truly be flagrant

Check out the UWP website for more info: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

Check out the UWP website for more info: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

Wait, is Blue Sky actually HAPPY?!?!?! I forgot we had it in us.

Wait, is Blue Sky actually HAPPY?!?!?! I forgot we had it in us.

Thousands more photos from the CCAS delegations are available in UCSD Library's Digital Collections @ucsandiego.bsky.social library.ucsd.edu/dc/collectio...

Thousands more photos from the CCAS delegations are available in UCSD Library's Digital Collections @ucsandiego.bsky.social library.ucsd.edu/dc/collectio...

Happy Halloween

Our forthcoming volume on the environmental history of China's era of high socialism has a cover. Paul Pickowicz, who took the photo when he visited China in 1971 as part of a Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars delegation, also contributed the book's epilogue.

AHA member Rustin Gates is an associate professor at Bradley University. He lives in Iowa City, Iowa, and has been a member since 2000. Read his Member Spotlight to learn how he was able to pursue his interests of historical studies and Japanese culture in his career. 🗃️

🚨We are launching the 6th edition of the NEXTGATe Writing Support Program! Are you an early career author looking for feedback on your writing in a supportive peer-group plus expert advice? You have come to the right place! For more information and how to apply, see below 👇 #envhist #envhum

Bright and early for me, but a civilized 11am on the East Coast. Looking forward to sharing and discussing the book! @uwapress.uw.edu

Bright and early for me, but a civilized 11am on the East Coast. Looking forward to sharing and discussing the book! @uwapress.uw.edu

Join me tomorrow (Monday Oct 27) to hear about Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People by @mmuscolino.bsky.social in Greenhouse #envhum book talk. Talk starts at normal time 4pm Central Europe/3pm Greenwich BUT one hour earlier for N Americans because ⏰ change: 11am Eastern/8am Pacific #envhist

As I said earlier....

Very happy to share an article that Arunabh Ghosh and I wrote for a special issue organized by Sara Lorenzini on "Dam Scientists." Much thanks to Sara for the invitation! Feel free to DM me for a copy. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

Besides the cost of flying in the VP and the waste of expensive ammo, the closure was made with very short notice. Definitely not "government for the people."

Oh, so this is why they closed a section of I-5 yesterday. 🙄

Little Simz review – hip-hop visionary radiates joy and Gallagher-level swagger

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Hot 🔥 take: To people who've studied the economic and social history of imperial China, Mokyr's writings are considerably less impressive. I'd write a whole thread, but I have too much other stuff to do today.

Hot 🔥 take: To people who've studied the economic and social history of imperial China, Mokyr's writings are considerably less impressive. I'd write a whole thread, but I have too much other stuff to do today.

Now I am listening to D'Angelo while taking care of the tasks I already had planned for the day, and I am slightly worried I'm going to buy my mom an inordinately sexy birthday present.

Every time Harrison Butker misses a kick, a feminist gets her wings

For #SquittleDay (squid and cuttlefish day!): 🦑 Bakufu Ohno (Japan, 1888-1976) #Cuttlefish (Mongo-ika), 1940 From Familiar Fishes of Nippon (Dai Nihon gyorui hanga-in) Oban, 40.3 x 28.4 cm ukiyo-e.org/image/jaodb/... #JapaneseArt #CephalopodWeek

From the current issue: “Dams and the Deep Earth: The 1967 Koyna Earthquake and Human Agency in the Anthropocene” by Elizabeth Chatterjee and Sachaet Pandey-Geeta Mantraraj (University of Chicago) doi.org/10.1093/past...

Opting out of this AI licensing agreement, which was auto sent on a weekly basis by a certain publisher, was far from simple.

It’s Sam Altman: the man who stole the rights from copyright. If he’s the future, can we go backwards? | Marina Hyde

We're delighted to announce that @williamcavert.bsky.social has been awarded the Dyos Prize for 2024! The Dyos Prize is awarded to the best article submitted to #UrbanHistory in the previous calendar year. Check out 'Industrial brewing in early modern London' here: doi.org/10.1017/S096...

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

doomscroll break

LOLed from this one. (Maybe because I'm currently trying to sell a house.)

Another great one! m.youtube.com/watch?v=snLU...

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Happy 75th Anniversary of Peanuts, everyone! Ad from Chicago Tribune 10/2/1950

More absolutely terrible news.

brb, forming an elite heist team to free The Roots.

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Twentieth-Century China Volume 50, Number 3, October 2025 tinyurl.com/38jh39xt  Contributors: Anne Reinhardt Peter Zarrow Gyatso Marnyi Ben Hales Wuyutong Yao Denise Y. Ho Andrew Morris Alan Baumler Hongshan Li

My finest work

🧵 1/3 I'm incredibly excited about my new book _Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People_, so it came as a shock when, after getting my author copies, I discovered that University of Washington Press printed the uncorrected proofs rather than the corrected proofs that I supplied them.

Green Day O'Connor

Ruin a band with Supreme Court Justice Eric Burdon & Warren

Hey journal editors: I know it's hard to find reviewers these days. Here's an idea: don't make people you've asked to review go through a three step process of setting up a complicated account in order to accept the review request.

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

Syllabi are done 10 days ahead of schedule.