Are you in the New Haven area and a fan of Victorian visual culture? I'm excited to introduce magic lanternist Dr. Terry Borton at the Yale School of Art on April 16 for a lantern show and lecture. Join us for this free event! yaleschoolofart.eventcalendarapp.com/an-evening-w...

Sometimes I buy a book even though I won't have time to read it because I want to make a tiny vote for, "Yes. I want this. I'll pay money for this. Please put more of this in the world." #books #reading #booksky

It's never been easy to be trans in the US...this is more true than ever today on Trans Day of Visibility. RFK Jr. et al., are actively attacking trans folks and gender affirming care. You can send a quick letter to your rep: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/153... @standupforscience.net

No Kings in Utqiaġvik (Barrow) Alaska!

The programme is now available for the British Commission for Maritime History New Researchers Conference in April at Southampton. Full details and booking here: www.maritimehistory.org.uk/new-research...

Ok step one is to make them look less delicious

Ezra Klein: I'm Ezra Klein, and today I'm joined by one of the foremost intellectual theorists of Trumpism. He is an associate editor at the Rancho Cucamonga Review of Ideas and a fellow at the Schlafly Institute of Punitive Economics. [a baked potato in a top hat]: Thanks for having me, Ezra.

The outcome looks better when you consider that Democrats had minimal leverage. trib.al/9W1OhIU They showed their base that they could hold the line, and sure enough, it was the Republicans who started panicking: Trump on Thursday said he’d sign an order to pay TSA employees.

If you're at #ASEH2026 and are curious about publishing in the journal Endeavour, come find me or send me a DM! Don't forget our "In Vivo" section, a great place for shorter pieces, articles on interesting archival finds, or quirkier history of science topics. www.sciencedirect.com/journal/ende...

New podcast! We talk to Harriet & Rob Fraser, environmental artist working collectively as SOMEWHERE NOWHERE about their place-based walking practices in #Cumbria #LakeDistrict shorturl.at/NHHjI #Poetry #Photography #Walking #Art #Placemaking @sarahmpicks.bsky.social

Are you at #ASEH2026 and want to learn more about what on earth has been happening with Greenland? 🇬🇱 Join me, @dagomardegroot.bsky.social @gfitz.bsky.social Ron Doel, and Tom Robertson this afternoon at 2:15!

Think voting doesn’t matter? 766 votes.

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BREAKING: Delta is suspending its special service desk for members of Congress until TSA is fully funded, per @ajc.com. Delta says members of Congress will now be treated like all other flying customers. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Heading off tomorrow 🤞 to Kansas City for ASEH. Who else will be there?

I hate it here.

On Thursday I will be chairing our online session on writing history aimed at a wider audience with guests Elliot Prior and Sabhbh Curran from Curtis Brown Literary Agency. All welcome - sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

So excited to see this book and its beautiful cover online! It was a fantastic project to be part of, hats off to @farsouthhistory.bsky.social and Maria Ximena Senatore for shepherding all of us!

But of course. 🤡 @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/u...

Me: oooh nice, does the mayor have a nice message about feeling lucky and the holiday parade? ::anti-colonial history drop ensues::

We gotta be able to hold complex ideas in our heads. Antisemitism is bad, it is on our campuses, and the political appointees within the federal government are uninterested in combating it.

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Is that your real name, sir?

Heading home after a quick visit to the USU Outdoor Research Archive on a Research Fellowship! So happy to have finally seen some of this amazing collection in person.

New podcast! Talking with Caroline Schaumann about Humboldtian science in the mountains - feeling, failure, and queer sensibilities + 19th C. mountaineering in print, archive and film #EnvHist #Mountaineering #Alps #Andes shorturl.at/tVj9T @calmandfearless.bsky.social @sarahmpicks.bsky.social

It's nothing compared to killing people, who can never be replaced, but these, too, are war crimes www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

@eguimont.bsky.social and I are excited to announce the latest Spotlight article for Endeavour: “Creation science as culture: South Korean antievolutionists’ international practices in four countries.” Free to read until June 30! www.sciencedirect.com/journal/ende...

#NavalHistory people! Help! Our local museum has a life raft we're trying to research. Does anyone know anything about it? It is triangular, and is stamped with a 1940 date.

Americans demand to know who they have to bomb to lower gas prices

lol wut

Anyone have any good suggestions for readings on notebooks in the history of science?

THIS is the take on LLMs and the job market. They can probably do some jobs, which will worsen millions of people's lives. But much more than that, people who don't understand your job will assume that it is worthless, even more than they already do.

A semi-regular reminder that @incsa.bsky.social's journal is open to receiving proposals for special issues. If you have an idea for a topic connected to 19thC studies in the broadest sense, do get in touch. Please share! Details 👇 in-csa.com/themed-speci...

This FOl enquiry for the Guardian has taken up a great deal of my life for the past 2 years. (1/3)

“MAGA’s fundamental shared quality is a total lack of theory of mind for other people” is a theory that keeps getting validated by reality - look at almost every decision they’ve made in the war with Iran, and how they seem constantly surprised by the unanticipated actions of other parties.

Scientists and other experts were preparing an assessment of the health of nature in the US when Trump returned to the White House. He canceled the report. The researchers went ahead and compiled it on their own. This week, they released a 868-p draft for public comment and scientific review.

Kristi Noem misattributing a paraphrase of Rudyard Kipling to George Orwell really does sum it all up huh

So we’re just going to forget all about this and never ask Trump, Leavitt or Hegseth about it again after the first day because this is totally normal so who cares.

Our half-day virtual workshop on Thursday will provide an overview of the updated Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act regulations. You'll learn the steps to take to comply. Register at tinyurl.com/2s4h3f65.

Yours truly quoted herein: www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

RHODES: “.. This was a decision made by one man with no legal basis, little public support and no coherent explanation of an endgame.” @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/o...

This week's cover @thelancet.com

Big tech alternatives! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Today's gift link. "'As everyone knows, the conflict about Greenland isn’t over yet,' she said in a speech on Thursday to Parliament that amounted to the opening of what is likely to be a quick campaign to keep her job." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/w...

Columbia says DHS entered a dorm at dawn today under false pretenses, detaining a student in violation of the law and university policy.

This, basically:

One would think that this would merit an emergency convening of all Blue state governors, Attorneys generals and Congressional representatives. It's a declaration of war on one state which means they'll do it to others too.

New podcast! Talking with @peterhhansen.bsky.social about how #mountaineering & #modernity emerged together & how the idea of the 'summit position' came to encompass concepts of sovereignty and empire from the #Alps to #Everest. shorturl.at/oI5fh @mtnresearchmri.bsky.social @mrdjournal.bsky.social