Jacob Darwin Hamblin

@jdhamblin.bsky.social

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History professor. Science, environment, war, world affairs.
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Making the Unseen Visible: https://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/making-unseen-visible

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Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · 7d

I will deliver this year's Sarton Lecture at the 2026 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. I'm deeply honored to be selected. The title of my remarks: "America's Cold War Science Experiment." February 14, 2026.

meetings.aaas.org

Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · 12d

Add another to the long history of playing with the burden of proof for veterans' cancer, from Agent Orange to radiation effects and other chemical exposures. This time male breast cancer www.propublica.org/article/vete...

Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage

A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...

www.propublica.org

Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · Mar 18

Hey, she's inspiring, what can we say? Was glad to participate in this roundtable on @juliairwin.bsky.social 's book!

Julia Irwin @juliairwin.bsky.social · Mar 12

And if you're interested in knowing what Taylor Swift has to say about the history and politics of U.S. humanitarian aid... you'll find the answer on pp. 14-16 of the roundtable.

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Julia Irwin @juliairwin.bsky.social · Mar 12

And if you're interested in knowing what Taylor Swift has to say about the history and politics of U.S. humanitarian aid... you'll find the answer on pp. 14-16 of the roundtable.

Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · Feb 28

Every other nuclear-aspirant is watching Ukraine today and saying "mental note: never give up your nukes." Amidst everything else, we might be watching the utter breakdown of the nonproliferation regime today

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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · Feb 25

See Raina Bhagat's review of "Making the Unseen Visible: Science and the Contested Histories of Radiation Exposure," edited by @jdhamblin.bsky.social & @atomiclinda.bsky.social, published in 2023 by @osupress.bsky.social; review @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

www.h-net.org

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Manik @manik.bsky.social · Feb 16

yoinked this image from Twitter, then ordered my copy

join me

One day, when it's safe,
when there's no personal
downside to calling a
thing what it is, when it's
too late to hold anyone
accountable, everyone
will have always been
against this
Omar El Akkad

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Feb 14

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · Feb 13

If they change the name of Botany Bay, the botanists are gonna be PISSED

Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · Feb 13

Not the Onion www.politico.eu/article/dona...

Danish MEP slams ‘absurd’ proposal to rename Greenland ‘Red, White and Blueland’

Member of Congress said the U.S. will “proudly welcome” Greenlanders to “join the freest nation to ever exist.”

www.politico.eu

Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · Feb 11

just cruised over to google maps and I see that they have caved

Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · Mar 21

As I wrap up my history of technology course this week, this pic is perfect

Matt @differentmatt.bsky.social · Mar 15

Now THAT'S some fucking ART.

Look, landscapes and geometric studies and reclining nudes are great, but our present moment calls for more giant boulders dropped on the avatars of late-stage capitalism.

Del - Martian Observer @martian-observer.art · Mar 15

A Mexican artist has used cranes to drop a nine-ton sculpture of an Olmec head onto a Tesla 3
uk.news.yahoo.com/mexican-arti...

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Matt @differentmatt.bsky.social · Mar 15

Del - Martian Observer @martian-observer.art · Mar 15

A Mexican artist has used cranes to drop a nine-ton sculpture of an Olmec head onto a Tesla 3
uk.news.yahoo.com/mexican-arti...

Mexican artist crushes Tesla under giant stone head

A giant stone head resembling an ancient Indigenous sculpture sits on top of a crushed Tesla car."Look what I do to your lousy car with this wonderful head.

uk.news.yahoo.com

Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · Mar 4

Such a great title! Looking forward to reading it!

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Mar 4

Breaking News: France voted to explicitly enshrine access to abortion in its Constitution, making it the first country in the world to do so. The impulse for the change was the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022.
www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/w...

French lawmakers are gathered at the Palace of Versailles. A headline reads: "France Is First Country To Make Abortion a Constitutional Right." Photo by Thomas Padilla/Associated Press.

Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · Mar 1

My review of Sarah Scoles, Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons, in Science mag. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · Jan 31

thanks for commissioning the review, Daniella!

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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · Jan 23

I wrote an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times last year for the non-changing of the Doomsday Clock, and the difficulty of treating climate change with the same countdown metaphor. As it didn't change this year, either, I think it is still appropriate?

www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Opinion: Nuclear threats? Climate change? What catastrophe will lead to doomsday?

The famous Doomsday Clock moved recently — a reminder that the potential disasters we face don't happen overnight.

www.latimes.com

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ICEHO @iceho.bsky.social · Dec 9

The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History is now available!

This volume was edited by Emily O'Gorman, @wsanmartin.bsky.social, Mark Carey, and @wildpasts.bsky.social.

Truly a special moment in the international environmental history community!

www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

#envhist

The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History

The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History presents a cutting-edge overview of the dynamic and ever-expanding field of environmental history. It addresses recent transformations in the field and ...

www.routledge.com

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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences @hsnatsci.bsky.social · Nov 25

As we think about the place of history of science on the web (and celebrate our first official post here), let's look at a great paper from the archives. David K. Hecht's 2011 article about Rachel Carson, "nonscientific attributes were central in legitimating Carson as a public scientist."

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Roonie the Rabbit @rooniecomics.bsky.social · Nov 24

It totally counts. #comics #animalcomic #fear #skink rooniecomics.com/com...

SKINK (thinking): Today, I'm going to talk to people. | SKINK (thinking): Or maybe... one person. | A pause while a skink vibrates with anxiety. | SKINK (thinking): Talking to myself counts.

Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · Nov 24

I was curious, I clicked, 404 not found, just fyi!

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · Nov 22

Three years ago, the United States officially withdrew from the 1992 Open Skies Treaty, having given notice of its intentions on May 22, 2020, citing spurious Russian “violations” as the reason. In less than four years, Donald Trump and his unilateralist wrecking crew abandoned …

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Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social · Nov 21

NEW! I might have alarmed Catherine McNeur with my enthusiasm, because I love her work so much -- including her new MISCHIEVOUS CREATURES. In this ep, I asked how she writes beautifully about place and learned this book resulted from multiple archival surprises. 🗃️ draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...

Smiling woman with blond curly hair against a backdrop of greenery. Text reads: Episode 36, Catherine McNeur.

Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · Nov 20

If you are interested in climate change, and also global security, and aren’t yet following the debates about small modular reactors, you probably should. #nuclear #climate thebulletin.org/2023/11/a-sm...

A small modular reactor’s demise calls for big change in Energy Department policy

NuScale Power Corp., which is developing America’s flagship small modular reactor, has lost its only firm utility customer, even though the US Energy Department had already given NuScale hundreds of...

thebulletin.org

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Kim Andrews @kqandrews.bsky.social · Nov 17

Also Anne Boyer:

The first page of Anne Boyer’s essay “No,” which appears as the first piece of her 2018 essay collection “A Handbook of Disappointed Fate.”

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Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social · Nov 16

Please read and circulate this editorial by editors of the journal History and Technology, Amy Slaton and and Tiago Saraiva, which fully vindicates my STS (UCL) colleague Jenny Bulstrode and her paper 'Black metallurgists and the making of the industrial revolution'

doi.org/10.1080/0734...

doi.org

Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · Nov 14

It lives! Anyone interested in nuclear humanities, nuclear colonialism, radiation effects, the history of all things atomic, and putting scholarship into conversation with advocacy, will find something to read in this volume. Just got my hands on my copy. #sts #histsci #envhist #nuclear

Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · Nov 9

a local Portland tip for fellow historians of science: if you enjoy baked goods and wouldn't mind a stroll, Ken's Artisan Bakery is about a mile from the conference hotel. #HSS2023 #HSS23 #histsci

Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · Nov 8

Looking forward to commenting on this panel on environmental silence, organized by @alixhui.bsky.social on Sunday at this weekend's History of Science Society annual meeting in Portland. #histsci

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