Job posting: Univ of Oxford, Associate Professorship of Latin American politics, deadline November 24. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ236/a...

Latinx communities across the USA have been targeted by ICE. This summer, four LA historical and cultural institutions spoke out in solidarity, amongst silence in the museum sector. Mary Rizzo on the role of museums in not only historical storytelling, but taking a stand:

Oil regulators claim Oklahoma's wastewater incidents are under control. But our reporting with @readfrontier.bsky.social shows the state is still dealing with dozens of instances of toxic waste spewing out of the ground, one of which killed about two dozen cows in Sept. 🔗 https://propub.li/4oWsppu

Book history—>diplomacy

From cartoon artist "pantspants":

Fitting advert in the airport in Zambia's biggest mining region:

NEW: Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma. Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.

Je pense avoir déjà vu ce film....🍿🍿🍿🍿

I was a tiny child when I was introduced to the joys of bad cinema, I always like to dip my toes back in

Women farmers in Xochimilco and San Gregorio are restoring chinampas (high-yield island farms) using canal-mud fertiliser, biofilters and invasive-fish barriers. The program has certified 16 producers and buffers floods, cools the city and shelters the axolotl. buff.ly/0gIJjxl #ShareGoodNewsToo

Not one for conspiracy theories but this one is funny until it is not ...

A report by an environmental group says millions of tons of discarded U.S. electronics are being shipped overseas each month — much of it to Southeast Asian countries not prepared to safely handle hazardous waste.

One good thing about today: reading @raulpachecovega.bsky.social's work on urban wastewater governance in Latin America. <jeremiah johnson gif>

The Louvre thieves caught on camera!

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

This woman is in a nursing program & the entire textbook for her anatomy class is wrong because it was written by a professor who used chatgpt to generate the images & possibly the text. She complained to the prof, then the university— they’ve done NOTHING about it. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM5T3CxW/

This meme made me laugh.

Meanwhile... www.nwaonline.com/news/2025/oc...

New visual story: Bird migration is one of nature’s greatest spectacles — and scientists are uncovering extraordinary insights into how new threats are reshaping these epic journeys. Follow the remarkable travels of three birds as they fly across the planet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A longer article dedicated to #IEWD written by Anwesha Borthakur and published in 𝘋𝘰𝘸𝘯𝘛𝘰𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩 is now available online: www.downtoearth.org.in/waste/intern...

Cross posting this to alert colleagues in #scicomm #sts #envhums #scipol about alarming developments at the BBC Written Archive. So many fundamental studies in these areas have drawn on this resource; it would be disastrous to lose access to it.

Meet the Vaquita. This is how I close lecture. By presenting an animal with only 20 or so individuals left in the Gulf of California. Facing extinction. What should the commercial interests be doing? What should the governments be doing? Are they doing enough?

“The coal miners have supplied this country with electricity, and now they’re just cast aside to die.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/c...

New blog post: geology is all around, everywhere and for everyone.

First meeting of the CHSTM #Minescapes group! So, many mining nerds!

“But ever since a noisy cryptocurrency facility moved in about half a mile away in 2023, he said their rocking chairs have mostly sat empty. Other nearby residents also say they don’t spend much time outside anymore because of what many call “that roar.””

We are hiring! Prospective PhD students in environmental history, history of science, history of technology and STS interested in the climate and environmental impacts of AI look here. Please share in your networks. #envhist #histsci #AI #anthropcoene

Thankful to all of you posting about #SHOT2025, especially @bhgross144.bsky.social. It's a welcome remedy to my FOMO. (Belval campus giving echoes of Zollverein!)

For Hispanic Heritage Month, Adriana Minor looks at Mexican physicist Manuel Sandoval Vallarta's career at MIT, where he strove to build scientific relations between the US and Latin America. He returned to Mexico during WW2 when asked to abandon that work to focus only on teaching duties. #HPS

The Royal Game of Ur is the world’s oldest playable boardgame! Played by Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia about 4,500 years ago! It is a two-player race game, the rules of which have been deciphered from a cuneiform tablet. Game from the Royal Cemetery of Ur. 📷 British Museum #Archaeology

It's the official publication day for ETHANOL: A HEMISPHERIC HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE OF BIOFUELS. Want to know why the US turns 40 percent of the corn crop into fuel? How the US and Brazil became the world's two largest ethanol producers? Tom Rogers and I have answers. www.oupress.com/978080619601...

35 years ago today, Congress passed H.R. 2372, the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, providing limited, one-time payments of $50,000-$100,000 to some people sickened by atmospheric nuclear testing in Nevada from 1951-62, or mining, milling, or transporting uranium ore. www.justice.gov/civil/reca

Men complain about loneliness but have they even tried serving us boozy cheese sauce in the parlor with one of these babies? We used to be a proper country.

Pouring on the rarebit in DREAM OF A RAREBIT FIEND (1906), live action adaptation of the Winsor McCay comic. The chafing dish cheese sauce was wildly popular but director Edwin S Porter's decision to feature multiple beer bottles in shot gives added context to our hero's bizarre dreams.

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

Beisbol ex-voto reminiscent of Roseboro incident. Does this ref. a known game incident?? (I searched the named players but came up short; also, it's from 2020 or prior.) @sabrpictorial.bsky.social @bballhist.bsky.social @ckamka.bsky.social @adarowski.bsky.social @buckweaver.bsky.social ‬

A tremendous loss and forever an inspiration...

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Deadline approaching! Are you organising a #histmed conference or workshop in 2026? Applications for SSHM Conference funding awards close 1 October. sshm.org/conference-f...

We are thrilled to announce our new colloboration with The Metropole - @urbanhistorya.bsky.social - Urban and Environmental Dialogues Send us your proposals for this new urban #envhist series by 24 October! niche-canada.org/2025/09/29/c... #urbanhistory #urbanstudies #urban #envhum

Applicants Sought for Editor of Environmental History - @envirohistory.bsky.social @aseh.bsky.social & @foresthistory.bsky.social seek applicants to serve as Editor(s) and a new institutional home for the journal Environmental History for a 5-year term. niche-canada.org/2025/09/27/a... #envhist

This is not without historical precedent! Henry Ward was a US meteorite hunter (among other things) who salivated at the thought of confiscating Mexican meteorites in the early 20th.

Happy to announce that my poem "Perish and Live Forever," which first appeared in MEXICANS ON THE MOON, has just won the @sfpoetry.bsky.social 's Dwarf Star Award for poetry. This award is for best micro poem of 10 lines or less. Many thanks to members who voted. It is a big honor. Much love!

Both radioactive green sklodowskite & jet black phantom mannardite looking like a welter of spiders in glass look ready for spooky season. Both are named for scientists (Marie Skłodowdka-Curie & Dr. George William Mannard, Canadian exploration geologist for whom my Dad worked). 🤔 #MinCup25

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Abigail Echo-Hawk, a preeminent Native American public health expert, discusses RSV, “data genocide” and positive change driven by Indigenous storytelling

Today is publication day! EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...