Rocío Gomez
@historyrocio.bsky.social
Historian of Latin America + Historian of the Environment 🍃, Science and Medicine 🧪💉, and Extraction ⛏️.
Also, cheese consumer, cyclist, dog expert, and linocut novice on the side.
https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9780803290891/
Also, cheese consumer, cyclist, dog expert, and linocut novice on the side.
https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9780803290891/
Job posting: Univ of Oxford, Associate Professorship of Latin American politics, deadline November 24.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ236/a...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ236/a...
Associate Professorship in the Politics of Latin America at University of Oxford
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Associate Professorship in the Politics of Latin America at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Job posting: Univ of Oxford, Associate Professorship of Latin American politics, deadline November 24.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ236/a...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ236/a...
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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:
Mary Rizzo on the role of museums in not only historical storytelling, but taking a stand:
No Going Back
Mary Rizzo examines how four LA historical and cultural institutions mobilize history and practice solidarity in the fight against immigration raids and deportations.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
October 14, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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:
Mary Rizzo on the role of museums in not only historical storytelling, but taking a stand:
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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
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
November 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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
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
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Book history—>diplomacy
Claudia Sheinbaum confirmó que México aceptará el traslado temporal del Códice Azcatitlán desde la Biblioteca Nacional de Francia, mientras que el Códice Boturini será exhibido en París.
Anunció que el próximo año se renovará el tratado comercial con Europa. www.animalpolitico.com/politica/she...
Anunció que el próximo año se renovará el tratado comercial con Europa. www.animalpolitico.com/politica/she...
Sheinbaum y Macron fortalecen relación bilateral: México y Francia reactivan Consejo Estratégico y acuerdan intercambio de códices
www.animalpolitico.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Book history—>diplomacy
From cartoon artist "pantspants":
October 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
From cartoon artist "pantspants":
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Fitting advert in the airport in Zambia's biggest mining region:
October 30, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Fitting advert in the airport in Zambia's biggest mining region:
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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.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.
www.propublica.org
October 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
Je pense avoir déjà vu ce film....🍿🍿🍿🍿
Ah. Rendez-vous dans 28 jours pour voir si on est toujours vivants
BREAKING | Truck hauling monkeys carrying hepatitis C, herpes and Covid overturns in Mississippi
October 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Je pense avoir déjà vu ce film....🍿🍿🍿🍿
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I was a tiny child when I was introduced to the joys of bad cinema, I always like to dip my toes back in
a black and white photo of a monster wearing a helmet with a hole in it .
ALT: a black and white photo of a monster wearing a helmet with a hole in it .
media.tenor.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I was a tiny child when I was introduced to the joys of bad cinema, I always like to dip my toes back in
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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
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Women in Mexico step up to protect ancient Aztec farms and save a vanishing ecosystem
In Mexico, traditionally women did not inherit chinampas, island farms first built by the Aztecs thousands of years ago.
buff.ly
October 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Not one for conspiracy theories but this one is funny until it is not ...
October 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Not one for conspiracy theories but this one is funny until it is not ...
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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.
Watchdog report says American e-waste is causing a 'hidden tsunami' in Southeast Asia
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.
bit.ly
October 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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.
October 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
One good thing about today: reading @raulpachecovega.bsky.social's work on urban wastewater governance in Latin America.
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The Louvre thieves caught on camera!
October 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The Louvre thieves caught on camera!
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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...
Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’
Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...
www.volkskrant.nl
October 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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...
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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/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM5T3CxW/
PROFESSORS RESPONSE @lia #anatomy #ai #fyp #chatgpt #anatomyandphysiology
TikTok video by lia
www.tiktok.com
October 18, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM5T3CxW/
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This meme made me laugh.
October 16, 2025 at 1:08 AM
This meme made me laugh.
Meanwhile...
www.nwaonline.com/news/2025/oc...
www.nwaonline.com/news/2025/oc...
University of Arkansas begins rolling out Ten Commandments displays to comply with state law | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
FAYETTEVILLE -- The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville began the process of displaying Ten Commandments posters across campus this week.
www.nwaonline.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Meanwhile...
www.nwaonline.com/news/2025/oc...
www.nwaonline.com/news/2025/oc...
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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/...
October 16, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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/...
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A longer article dedicated to #IEWD written by Anwesha Borthakur and published in 𝘋𝘰𝘸𝘯𝘛𝘰𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩 is now available online: www.downtoearth.org.in/waste/intern...
October 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A longer article dedicated to #IEWD written by Anwesha Borthakur and published in 𝘋𝘰𝘸𝘯𝘛𝘰𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩 is now available online: www.downtoearth.org.in/waste/intern...
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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.
For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.
Reposts welcomed.
Reposts welcomed.
Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...
Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research
observer.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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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?
October 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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?
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“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...
Coal Miners With Black Lung Say They Are ‘Cast Aside to Die’ Under Trump
www.nytimes.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
“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...
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New blog post: geology is all around, everywhere and for everyone.
Geologizing on the bus: The 18 line
Most of my geologizing around Oakland is on foot, with the help of the Citymapper phone app and all manner of public transit, which I’ve praised before. In fact, I’ve written a whole co…
oaklandgeology.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
New blog post: geology is all around, everywhere and for everyone.
First meeting of the CHSTM #Minescapes group!
So, many mining nerds!
So, many mining nerds!
a man in a white tank top and blue pants is holding a hammer
ALT: a man in a white tank top and blue pants is holding a hammer
media.tenor.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
First meeting of the CHSTM #Minescapes group!
So, many mining nerds!
So, many mining nerds!