Ángeles Picone
@mapicone.bsky.social
Historian of #Latam #SpatialHistory #EnvHist #Borderlands #Nations #DH #Mapping #Infrastructure #Conservation Made in #Patagonia (she/her)
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Ángeles Picone
@mapicone.bsky.social
· Feb 11
My baby is here 🥰
Thank you @catehodorowicz.bsky.social and the amazing @uncpress.bsky.social team 💙
#LandscapingPatagonia #FirstBook #LatamHist #EnvHist #Chile #Argentina 🗃️🌿
Thank you @catehodorowicz.bsky.social and the amazing @uncpress.bsky.social team 💙
#LandscapingPatagonia #FirstBook #LatamHist #EnvHist #Chile #Argentina 🗃️🌿
Happy Publication Day to #LandscapingPatagonia! 🎉
Get 40% off when you order through @uncpress.bsky.social using code 01AUTHOR40
The ebook is available through @bookshop-org.bsky.social
🗃🌿 #Academicsky #LatamHist #Skystorians #history #envhum #envhist #spatialhist #chile #argentina #borderlands
Get 40% off when you order through @uncpress.bsky.social using code 01AUTHOR40
The ebook is available through @bookshop-org.bsky.social
🗃🌿 #Academicsky #LatamHist #Skystorians #history #envhum #envhist #spatialhist #chile #argentina #borderlands
Some more Latin Americanist fun. Great to see @mapicone.bsky.social 's fabulous work at the Exhibition Hall. And here with Kari Zimmerman, co-author-- with @sharikadcrawford.bsky.social--of Understanding and Teaching Latin America. Check it out at the U-Wisc booth! @clahistorians.bsky.social #AHA26
January 10, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Can't miss this! #AHA26
Excited to share strategies for teaching Latin America in World History! Kari Zimmerman, co-ed. of this fabulous work, chairs our 1:30 panel. I've a co-authored chapter in the book & will get to see it "live" at #AHA26 @clahistorians.bsky.social @thewha.bsky.social uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/U/Unde...
Understanding and Teaching Modern Latin America
uwpress.wisc.edu
January 9, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Can't miss this! #AHA26
If you see at the #AHA26, say hi! I am very distracted.
Tomorrow: @clahistorians.bsky.social Borderlands Section 8:30am 🌅
Sunday: Panel on environment and infrastructure in Latin America
#EnvHist #LatamHist
Tomorrow: @clahistorians.bsky.social Borderlands Section 8:30am 🌅
Sunday: Panel on environment and infrastructure in Latin America
#EnvHist #LatamHist
January 9, 2026 at 2:32 AM
If you see at the #AHA26, say hi! I am very distracted.
Tomorrow: @clahistorians.bsky.social Borderlands Section 8:30am 🌅
Sunday: Panel on environment and infrastructure in Latin America
#EnvHist #LatamHist
Tomorrow: @clahistorians.bsky.social Borderlands Section 8:30am 🌅
Sunday: Panel on environment and infrastructure in Latin America
#EnvHist #LatamHist
This.
People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
January 3, 2026 at 6:18 PM
This.
I had the pleasure of reading Changes in the Landscape edited by Jennifer French to review for @hahr21.bsky.social .
Its chapters engaged with #Latam literary production through the lens of #ecocriticism
#skytorians #academicsky 🗃️ 🌱 #literarysky
read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article...
Its chapters engaged with #Latam literary production through the lens of #ecocriticism
#skytorians #academicsky 🗃️ 🌱 #literarysky
read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article...
Changes in the Landscape: Humans and Nature in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
read.dukeupress.edu
December 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I had the pleasure of reading Changes in the Landscape edited by Jennifer French to review for @hahr21.bsky.social .
Its chapters engaged with #Latam literary production through the lens of #ecocriticism
#skytorians #academicsky 🗃️ 🌱 #literarysky
read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article...
Its chapters engaged with #Latam literary production through the lens of #ecocriticism
#skytorians #academicsky 🗃️ 🌱 #literarysky
read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article...
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Blueskystorians or whatever we call you, I need help.
I'm trying to come up with a list of US Military History books for my students to pick one from, but I don't really follow mid to late 20th century military scholarship 😬😬
This is my list please add/rip to shreds?
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I'm trying to come up with a list of US Military History books for my students to pick one from, but I don't really follow mid to late 20th century military scholarship 😬😬
This is my list please add/rip to shreds?
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
MH booklist
Colonial North America and Revolution Wayne Lee, The Cutting-Off Way: Indigenous Warfare in Eastern North America, 1500-1800, 300 pages Vaughn Scribner, Under Alien Skies: Environment, Suffering, and ...
docs.google.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Blueskystorians or whatever we call you, I need help.
I'm trying to come up with a list of US Military History books for my students to pick one from, but I don't really follow mid to late 20th century military scholarship 😬😬
This is my list please add/rip to shreds?
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I'm trying to come up with a list of US Military History books for my students to pick one from, but I don't really follow mid to late 20th century military scholarship 😬😬
This is my list please add/rip to shreds?
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I recently read Liza Grandia study on the use of maize in southern Mexico and northern Guatemala as a form of resisting extractive capitalism.
New book review:
Picone on Grandia, Liza: _Kernels of Resistance: Maize, Food Sovereignty, and Collective Power_. University of Washington Press, 2024. Published by H-Environment.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20135327
Picone on Grandia, Liza: _Kernels of Resistance: Maize, Food Sovereignty, and Collective Power_. University of Washington Press, 2024. Published by H-Environment.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20135327
Grandia, Liza. Kernels of Resistance: Maize, Food Sovereignty, and Collective Power. : University of Washington Press, 2024. 400 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 9780295753300. Reviewed by María de los Ángeles Picone (Boston College) Published on H-Environment (December, 2025) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
networks.h-net.org
December 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I recently read Liza Grandia study on the use of maize in southern Mexico and northern Guatemala as a form of resisting extractive capitalism.
Maybe @nytimes.com should stop outsourcing proofreading to AI.
(Today is Monday, the search did not drag into Tuesday because Tuesday is tomorrow).
(Today is Monday, the search did not drag into Tuesday because Tuesday is tomorrow).
December 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Maybe @nytimes.com should stop outsourcing proofreading to AI.
(Today is Monday, the search did not drag into Tuesday because Tuesday is tomorrow).
(Today is Monday, the search did not drag into Tuesday because Tuesday is tomorrow).
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#CFP: "The Ocean of Life. Humanities and the Ocean"
International seminar, 3 July 2026, University of the Ryukus, Japan.
Deadline for submissions: 19 December 2025
Info: international-seminar-ocean.my.canva.site
#envhum #envhist #ecolit #bluehumanities
International seminar, 3 July 2026, University of the Ryukus, Japan.
Deadline for submissions: 19 December 2025
Info: international-seminar-ocean.my.canva.site
#envhum #envhist #ecolit #bluehumanities
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM
#CFP: "The Ocean of Life. Humanities and the Ocean"
International seminar, 3 July 2026, University of the Ryukus, Japan.
Deadline for submissions: 19 December 2025
Info: international-seminar-ocean.my.canva.site
#envhum #envhist #ecolit #bluehumanities
International seminar, 3 July 2026, University of the Ryukus, Japan.
Deadline for submissions: 19 December 2025
Info: international-seminar-ocean.my.canva.site
#envhum #envhist #ecolit #bluehumanities
#HappyFirday #skystorians!
Does any one use #Obsidian for taking notes of *archival docs*?
I've seen folks use it to organize writing/historiographical notes, but not sure how to use for arch research. For ref, I use #onenote for research, grouping notes by archive.
#academicsky #notetaking TIA
Does any one use #Obsidian for taking notes of *archival docs*?
I've seen folks use it to organize writing/historiographical notes, but not sure how to use for arch research. For ref, I use #onenote for research, grouping notes by archive.
#academicsky #notetaking TIA
November 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
#HappyFirday #skystorians!
Does any one use #Obsidian for taking notes of *archival docs*?
I've seen folks use it to organize writing/historiographical notes, but not sure how to use for arch research. For ref, I use #onenote for research, grouping notes by archive.
#academicsky #notetaking TIA
Does any one use #Obsidian for taking notes of *archival docs*?
I've seen folks use it to organize writing/historiographical notes, but not sure how to use for arch research. For ref, I use #onenote for research, grouping notes by archive.
#academicsky #notetaking TIA
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There are now 183 videos of our Greenhouse #envhum book talks available to view via our Vimeo showcase. This includes our most recent talks.
You can also listen to the audio-only podcast, which is slightly behind with 154 episodes available: newnatures.org/greenhouse/f...
You can also listen to the audio-only podcast, which is slightly behind with 154 episodes available: newnatures.org/greenhouse/f...
Greenhouse Environmental Humanities Book Talks
Book talks with authors of recent books in environmental humanities, with the authors in discussion with Dolly Jørgensen and Finn Arne Jørgensen, University of Stavanger, Norway. The book talks are he...
vimeo.com
October 26, 2025 at 9:53 AM
There are now 183 videos of our Greenhouse #envhum book talks available to view via our Vimeo showcase. This includes our most recent talks.
You can also listen to the audio-only podcast, which is slightly behind with 154 episodes available: newnatures.org/greenhouse/f...
You can also listen to the audio-only podcast, which is slightly behind with 154 episodes available: newnatures.org/greenhouse/f...
Reposted by Ángeles Picone
The Trump administration had high hopes that its compact would be accepted by every university. Alas, it appears that every university rejected the administration except for its safety school. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...
The Dismal Application Record of the Trump Compact
The Trump administration hoped to get accepted by some prestigious universities. It didn't work out well.
open.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The Trump administration had high hopes that its compact would be accepted by every university. Alas, it appears that every university rejected the administration except for its safety school. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...
What a generous review from Magadalena Gil. I appreciate her engagement with my work and the important questions she raises for the period that follows my study.
#academicsky 🗃 🌿 #envhist #spatialhistory #latamhist
#academicsky 🗃 🌿 #envhist #spatialhistory #latamhist
New book review:
Gil on Picone, María de los Ángeles: _Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina_. University of North Carolina Press, 2025. Published by H-Environment.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20128159
Gil on Picone, María de los Ángeles: _Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina_. University of North Carolina Press, 2025. Published by H-Environment.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20128159
Picone, María de los Ángeles. Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina. : University of North Carolina Press, 2025. 328 pp. $32.95 (paper), ISBN 9781469686141. Reviewed by Magdalena Gil (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile) Published on H-Environment (October, 2025) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
networks.h-net.org
October 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
What a generous review from Magadalena Gil. I appreciate her engagement with my work and the important questions she raises for the period that follows my study.
#academicsky 🗃 🌿 #envhist #spatialhistory #latamhist
#academicsky 🗃 🌿 #envhist #spatialhistory #latamhist
I can’t tell you good this is. El Chavo del 8 and its heritage belong in US American TV. More of this!
youtu.be/LXKSNb2CdWY?...
youtu.be/LXKSNb2CdWY?...
El Chavo Del Ocho (English Version) - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
youtu.be
October 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I can’t tell you good this is. El Chavo del 8 and its heritage belong in US American TV. More of this!
youtu.be/LXKSNb2CdWY?...
youtu.be/LXKSNb2CdWY?...
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Dept of History, University of Liverpool - Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships
Interested candidates should identify a potential mentor in the dept & submit an Expression of Interest by 3 Nov. Come & work with me &/or my colleagues! Details here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a... #skystorians 🗃️
Interested candidates should identify a potential mentor in the dept & submit an Expression of Interest by 3 Nov. Come & work with me &/or my colleagues! Details here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a... #skystorians 🗃️
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships | Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences | University of Liverpool
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships application support.
www.liverpool.ac.uk
September 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Dept of History, University of Liverpool - Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships
Interested candidates should identify a potential mentor in the dept & submit an Expression of Interest by 3 Nov. Come & work with me &/or my colleagues! Details here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a... #skystorians 🗃️
Interested candidates should identify a potential mentor in the dept & submit an Expression of Interest by 3 Nov. Come & work with me &/or my colleagues! Details here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a... #skystorians 🗃️
Tips for fellow #MSWord users:
1) To prevent word from copying format: preferences/general/disable "include formatted text in clipboard"
2) To go back to old comments: prefs/gral/disable "enable modern comments"
#YouAreWelcome #Academicsky #Writing 🗃️
1) To prevent word from copying format: preferences/general/disable "include formatted text in clipboard"
2) To go back to old comments: prefs/gral/disable "enable modern comments"
#YouAreWelcome #Academicsky #Writing 🗃️
September 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Tips for fellow #MSWord users:
1) To prevent word from copying format: preferences/general/disable "include formatted text in clipboard"
2) To go back to old comments: prefs/gral/disable "enable modern comments"
#YouAreWelcome #Academicsky #Writing 🗃️
1) To prevent word from copying format: preferences/general/disable "include formatted text in clipboard"
2) To go back to old comments: prefs/gral/disable "enable modern comments"
#YouAreWelcome #Academicsky #Writing 🗃️
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#MondayNetwork - a regular appeal to any #skystorians with intersecting interests: food /nutrition, surviving climate change, environmental determinism, race science, exploration, acclimatisation & physiology, cit sci, Indigenous knowledge, & related topics to say hi or share link to your work! 🗃️
September 29, 2025 at 7:25 AM
#MondayNetwork - a regular appeal to any #skystorians with intersecting interests: food /nutrition, surviving climate change, environmental determinism, race science, exploration, acclimatisation & physiology, cit sci, Indigenous knowledge, & related topics to say hi or share link to your work! 🗃️
Reposted by Ángeles Picone
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
- @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
Applicants Sought for Editor of Environmental History
The American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society seek applicants to serve as Editor(s) and a new institutional home for the journal Environmental History for a five-year t...
niche-canada.org
September 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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
- @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
Academia.edu has been really helpful in connecting with scholars in South America. There is where I found their latest research.
It's really sad that the change of terms of use, which includes new AI features, forced me to delete my account.
#Colegas, estoy acá y en LinkedIn.
#academicSky 🗃️
It's really sad that the change of terms of use, which includes new AI features, forced me to delete my account.
#Colegas, estoy acá y en LinkedIn.
#academicSky 🗃️
Academia.edu - Find Research Papers, Topics, Researchers
Academia.edu is the platform to share, find, and explore 50 Million research papers. Join us to accelerate your research needs & academic interests.
Academia.edu
September 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Academia.edu has been really helpful in connecting with scholars in South America. There is where I found their latest research.
It's really sad that the change of terms of use, which includes new AI features, forced me to delete my account.
#Colegas, estoy acá y en LinkedIn.
#academicSky 🗃️
It's really sad that the change of terms of use, which includes new AI features, forced me to delete my account.
#Colegas, estoy acá y en LinkedIn.
#academicSky 🗃️
What a cool thing! Can I take courses if I already graduated? 🤓
I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities!
Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.
Applications are welcome until 24 October.
#envhum #envhist #energyhistory
Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.
Applications are welcome until 24 October.
#envhum #envhist #energyhistory
September 16, 2025 at 12:42 PM
What a cool thing! Can I take courses if I already graduated? 🤓
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🌳 Indigenous land and health
Analysis of 20 years of Amazon data shows Indigenous Territories can lower fire-related disease risks and shape zoonotic disease patterns, depending on forest cover and legal status.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
#SciComm #IndigenousKnowledges 🧪
Analysis of 20 years of Amazon data shows Indigenous Territories can lower fire-related disease risks and shape zoonotic disease patterns, depending on forest cover and legal status.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
#SciComm #IndigenousKnowledges 🧪
Indigenous Territories can safeguard human health depending on the landscape structure and legal status - Communications Earth & Environment
Indigenous territory extent in the Amazon biome can reduce the incidence of fire-related and zoonotic/vector-borne diseases, but only in certain contexts, according to an analysis of disease incidence...
www.nature.com
September 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
🌳 Indigenous land and health
Analysis of 20 years of Amazon data shows Indigenous Territories can lower fire-related disease risks and shape zoonotic disease patterns, depending on forest cover and legal status.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
#SciComm #IndigenousKnowledges 🧪
Analysis of 20 years of Amazon data shows Indigenous Territories can lower fire-related disease risks and shape zoonotic disease patterns, depending on forest cover and legal status.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
#SciComm #IndigenousKnowledges 🧪
What are you doing and why is it not watching this? It's a beautiful celebration of our humanity, what brings us together, and how we can uplift each other.
www.disneyplus.com/play/dff376e...
www.disneyplus.com/play/dff376e...
Watch Grace for the World | Disney+
WORLD MEETING ON HUMAN FRATERNITY: Icons and light unite the world in music, hope and humanity during this once-in-history gathering.
www.disneyplus.com
September 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
What are you doing and why is it not watching this? It's a beautiful celebration of our humanity, what brings us together, and how we can uplift each other.
www.disneyplus.com/play/dff376e...
www.disneyplus.com/play/dff376e...
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a brilliant thread on the invisible drainage infrastructure underneath farmland in northern Germany calling us to read the land as a product of history 👇
Obwohl ich es ja weiß, bin ich immer wieder schockiert, dass wirklich fast alle verdammten Senken in der Agrarlandschaft an die #Entwässerung angeschlossen sind.
Hier 👇 n Beispiel.
(und das sind nur die gewidmeten Gräben & Rohrleitungen, d.h. die ungewidmeten + Drainagen sind da nicht mal drin.😐)
Hier 👇 n Beispiel.
(und das sind nur die gewidmeten Gräben & Rohrleitungen, d.h. die ungewidmeten + Drainagen sind da nicht mal drin.😐)
September 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I did a short version of this activity with sophomore majors and was excellent!
A great ice-breaker to jump right into the historian's work.
#FirstDay #AcademicSky #skytorians 🗃️
A great ice-breaker to jump right into the historian's work.
#FirstDay #AcademicSky #skytorians 🗃️
Historians - as you think about the new semester, consider this first-day exercise as a way to get conversation going about what historians *actually* do, and the context within which we do it. catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...
Making the First Day Matter – Cate Denial
catherinedenial.org
August 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I did a short version of this activity with sophomore majors and was excellent!
A great ice-breaker to jump right into the historian's work.
#FirstDay #AcademicSky #skytorians 🗃️
A great ice-breaker to jump right into the historian's work.
#FirstDay #AcademicSky #skytorians 🗃️
🌊🔬 🌊🔬 The Schmidt Ocean Institute’s exploration of the Mar del Plata Canyon reminds us of the thrill of discovery. Whether in archives or ocean depths, research reshapes how we see the world.
📖⚓️ tinyurl.com/3hvsp5ju
#ResearchMatters #OceanScience #latamhist 🌿
📖⚓️ tinyurl.com/3hvsp5ju
#ResearchMatters #OceanScience #latamhist 🌿
Underwater Oases of the Mar Del Plata Canyon | 4K ROV Highlights
YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean
youtu.be
August 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
🌊🔬 🌊🔬 The Schmidt Ocean Institute’s exploration of the Mar del Plata Canyon reminds us of the thrill of discovery. Whether in archives or ocean depths, research reshapes how we see the world.
📖⚓️ tinyurl.com/3hvsp5ju
#ResearchMatters #OceanScience #latamhist 🌿
📖⚓️ tinyurl.com/3hvsp5ju
#ResearchMatters #OceanScience #latamhist 🌿