Marina Del Cassio
@mdelcassio.bsky.social
Environmental lawyer turned wildfire historian. Long 19th century American West. Environmental, cultural, legal, indigenous history. PhD student at Stanford, JD from Harvard Law.
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Disaster fires invite photo ops from politicians. One of my favorites: Richard Nixon, then between jobs, in shirt and tie, standing on a shake-shingle roof, holding a garden hose, staring vapidly - somewhere, while smoke rises in the background from the Bel Air-Brentwood conflagration in 1961.
January 12, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Disaster fires invite photo ops from politicians. One of my favorites: Richard Nixon, then between jobs, in shirt and tie, standing on a shake-shingle roof, holding a garden hose, staring vapidly - somewhere, while smoke rises in the background from the Bel Air-Brentwood conflagration in 1961.
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A dangerous wildfire in Southern California has impacted parts of Malibu. Structures have been impacted, and Pepperdine University was under a shelter-in-place order (which has since been lifted). The fire is 2,200 acres as of this morning. #FranklinFire
December 10, 2024 at 4:05 PM
A dangerous wildfire in Southern California has impacted parts of Malibu. Structures have been impacted, and Pepperdine University was under a shelter-in-place order (which has since been lifted). The fire is 2,200 acres as of this morning. #FranklinFire
You know Australia has taken over Disney when you get out the reindeer stuffed animal and your 3yo calls it a kangaroo
December 10, 2024 at 4:02 AM
You know Australia has taken over Disney when you get out the reindeer stuffed animal and your 3yo calls it a kangaroo
When finishing a paper is an exercise in deleting all the highlighted notes telling you what the paper still needed that you never did
November 16, 2024 at 2:21 AM
When finishing a paper is an exercise in deleting all the highlighted notes telling you what the paper still needed that you never did
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Please circulate this great opportunity to do a PhD at Kew Gardens and the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity at York! The student will look at the history of marginalised individuals who made knowledge about fungi in the early 20th century.
LCAB PhD studentships - Currently recruiting
Women and biodiversity: gender and the making of the Kew Fungarium, 1900-1950
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October 18, 2024 at 10:18 AM
Please circulate this great opportunity to do a PhD at Kew Gardens and the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity at York! The student will look at the history of marginalised individuals who made knowledge about fungi in the early 20th century.
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@sarannmcd.bsky.social on one of those times it would have been useful for researchers working on the past to include historians.
WEIRD Science – AHA
An argument for including historians on interdisciplinary research teams.
www.historians.org
November 15, 2024 at 1:13 PM
@sarannmcd.bsky.social on one of those times it would have been useful for researchers working on the past to include historians.
Māori MPs in New Zealand perform a haka in response to new right wing government’s Treaty Principles Bill proposing to reinterpret (gut) the founding treaty between the Māori and the British. Amazing.
November 14, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Māori MPs in New Zealand perform a haka in response to new right wing government’s Treaty Principles Bill proposing to reinterpret (gut) the founding treaty between the Māori and the British. Amazing.
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NEW: Webcams captured an apocalyptic-like scene in California's Central Valley as a haboob/dust storm moved through Monday afternoon. #CAwx
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November 12, 2024 at 12:41 AM
NEW: Webcams captured an apocalyptic-like scene in California's Central Valley as a haboob/dust storm moved through Monday afternoon. #CAwx
www.sfchronicle.com/weather/arti...
www.sfchronicle.com/weather/arti...
Reinforcing my decision to pursue a history PhD, Karen Tani's HLR Foreword draws on some of the key insights of the historical profession to expose the Supreme Court's meta choices: what cases to hear, what narratives to foreground, and whom to ignore.
harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
Curation, Narration, Erasure: Power and Possibility at the U.S. Supreme
Introduction “Dead, dead, dead.”Transcript of Oral Argument at 19, Acheson Hotels, LLC v. Laufer, 144 S. Ct. 18 (2023) (No. 22-429) (statement of Kagan, J.), htt
harvardlawreview.org
November 11, 2024 at 10:12 PM
Reinforcing my decision to pursue a history PhD, Karen Tani's HLR Foreword draws on some of the key insights of the historical profession to expose the Supreme Court's meta choices: what cases to hear, what narratives to foreground, and whom to ignore.
harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
Introduce yourself with some jobs you've done apart from what you do now:
* Environmental law attorney
* Deckhand on a sailing research vessel
* Researcher of weird plankton for a NASA project
* Sales associate at a fancy baby boutique
* Lifeguard at my hometown aquatic center
* Environmental law attorney
* Deckhand on a sailing research vessel
* Researcher of weird plankton for a NASA project
* Sales associate at a fancy baby boutique
* Lifeguard at my hometown aquatic center
Introduce yourself with some jobs you've done apart from what you do now:
* Camp counselor and canoe trip leader because Katharine is my twin / all Canadians do this job it's like the draft
* Folded clothes at Gap
* Transcribed research tapes from a psychology lab
* Carbon accounting
* Camp counselor and canoe trip leader because Katharine is my twin / all Canadians do this job it's like the draft
* Folded clothes at Gap
* Transcribed research tapes from a psychology lab
* Carbon accounting
Introduce yourself with some jobs you've done apart from what you do now:
* counseled at camp and led canoe trips
* sorted invoices
* operated a 16" telescope
* ran experiments on a dye laser
(the latter sounds highly skilled but I was an undergraduate student and absolutely terrible at it)
* counseled at camp and led canoe trips
* sorted invoices
* operated a 16" telescope
* ran experiments on a dye laser
(the latter sounds highly skilled but I was an undergraduate student and absolutely terrible at it)
November 11, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Introduce yourself with some jobs you've done apart from what you do now:
* Environmental law attorney
* Deckhand on a sailing research vessel
* Researcher of weird plankton for a NASA project
* Sales associate at a fancy baby boutique
* Lifeguard at my hometown aquatic center
* Environmental law attorney
* Deckhand on a sailing research vessel
* Researcher of weird plankton for a NASA project
* Sales associate at a fancy baby boutique
* Lifeguard at my hometown aquatic center
There's something I really love about a bird's eye view of California from the ocean looking in. A lot of 19th century railroad advertising maps used this approach. Bonus points for noticing the lake on this 1893 map that has since disappeared.
November 10, 2024 at 5:46 PM
There's something I really love about a bird's eye view of California from the ocean looking in. A lot of 19th century railroad advertising maps used this approach. Bonus points for noticing the lake on this 1893 map that has since disappeared.
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We just maxed out the Environmental History Starter Pack! This means you can follow 150 environmental historians and #envhist institutions by clicking a button. We would happily create a second pack. Let us know if you want to be in it!
November 8, 2024 at 10:52 AM
We just maxed out the Environmental History Starter Pack! This means you can follow 150 environmental historians and #envhist institutions by clicking a button. We would happily create a second pack. Let us know if you want to be in it!
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I've started a starter pack for academics and organizations focused on the #19th century! I'm sure I have missed many, many people (I was trying to get this started quickly) — comment below if you want to be added.
go.bsky.app/6ZkJ592
go.bsky.app/6ZkJ592
November 8, 2024 at 2:11 PM
I've started a starter pack for academics and organizations focused on the #19th century! I'm sure I have missed many, many people (I was trying to get this started quickly) — comment below if you want to be added.
go.bsky.app/6ZkJ592
go.bsky.app/6ZkJ592
Experimental starter post here. For your viewing pleasure and/or horror: some 19th century primary sources illustrating conflagrations in California and the American West
November 8, 2024 at 6:13 PM
Experimental starter post here. For your viewing pleasure and/or horror: some 19th century primary sources illustrating conflagrations in California and the American West