Dr. Penelope K Hardy
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Dr. Penelope K Hardy
@pkhardy.bsky.social
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Historian of science, technology, & medicine, especially tech of ocean science. Associate professor of history. Book review editor for H-Sci-Med-Tech & H-Oceans. She/her/hers.
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Dr. Penelope K Hardy @pkhardy.bsky.social · Nov 2
Calling all grad students, independent scholars, librarians, museum pros, academics …

✔️this list of available 📚 & DM me to review your pick for H-SciMedTech!

tinyurl.com/yzkcp9fa

#HSTM #HPS #STS #HistSci #PhilSci #HistTech #HistMed #RHM #LitMed #MedSocio #MedAnthro #MediaStudies #InfoStudies
H-SciMedTech Books for Review
Below are the books currently available for review with H-SciMedTech. Interested in reviewing one? Message Penelope Hardy @pkhardy on Twitter or @pkhardy.bsky.social, or send an email to phardy@uwlax...
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marcsdionne.bsky.social
James Watson died yesterday. He was a bad man with many bad ideas. We owe a debt of gratitude to the unknown hero who uploaded this picture of him to Wikipedia.
A picture of James Watson notable for its resemblance to Bozo the clown.
November 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
November 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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farsouthhistory.bsky.social
Check out Alexandra Maertens's review of @christian-s-warren.bsky.social's "Starved for Light: The Long Shadow of Rickets and Vitamin D Deficiency," published in 2024 by @uchicagopress.bsky.social; review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #envhealth
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November 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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ramya.bsky.social
Many thanks to @pkhardy.bsky.social for her patience and grace as I meandered (bad pun I know)! Cracker of a book and channel!

Thank you for the opportunity! @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social
 Dr. Penelope K Hardy @pkhardy.bsky.social · 6d
🌊🌊🌊 New on H-Oceans 🌊🌊🌊

Check out @ramya.bsky.social (Grand Valley State Uni)’s review of @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social (Western Michigan Uni)’s book _The Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History _, pub 2024 @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
🌊🌊🌊 New on H-Oceans 🌊🌊🌊

Check out @ramya.bsky.social (Grand Valley State Uni)’s review of @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social (Western Michigan Uni)’s book _The Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History _, pub 2024 @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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drhonor.bsky.social
Scholarship on early American Jewish History? Give me your titles. Asking for a student. I'm out of my depth here.
November 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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richterscale.bsky.social
All right stop: you know that I'm confident
Oz is back with my eternal monument
Trunkless legs standing up so vastly
Rollin' on my foes like I'm Rick Astley
Think that you're Mighty? Yo, I don't care
Look on my works, and despair
unenthusiast.com Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 7d
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my works, is it worth it? I put my thang down, flip it and reverse it.
Ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gnaht ym tup i
Ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gnaht ym tup i
richterscale.bsky.social Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 7d
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works, my works, my works, my lovely mighty works.
November 3, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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nolauren.bsky.social
Thank you Zef Segal for this review! “a meticulously curated critical tool kit. The sheer variation of its contributions—natural language processing, GIS, generative AI, network analysis—is impressive, but the book’s true value lies in its persistent, unifying demand for critical self-reflection.”
 Dr. Penelope K Hardy @pkhardy.bsky.social · 7d
New on H-Sci-Med-Tech:

Check out Zef Segal( @batescollege.bsky.social)’s review of @nolauren.bsky.social, @dmimno.bsky.social, & Jessica Marie Johnson’s edited vol. _Computational Humanities_, pub 2024 @uminnpress.bsky.social

Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
November 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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dmimno.bsky.social
"Computational Humanities is far more than a collection of essays; it is a meticulously curated critical tool kit."

This is exactly what we were going for! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
November 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
New on H-Sci-Med-Tech:

Check out Zef Segal( @batescollege.bsky.social)’s review of @nolauren.bsky.social, @dmimno.bsky.social, & Jessica Marie Johnson’s edited vol. _Computational Humanities_, pub 2024 @uminnpress.bsky.social

Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
November 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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spyhistorian.bsky.social
A question for #intelhistorians but #historians more generally. What do you want from a short textbook?
November 2, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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docrevan.bsky.social
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Did I announce “WE GOT A FIRST TIME VOTER HERE!” as I walked into the polling place with my 18yo daughter, prompting a roomful of election workers to clap and cheer?
a man with glasses and a beard is making a face .
ALT: a man with glasses and a beard is making a face .
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November 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
New on H-Sci-Med-Tech:

Check out Timothy Sim (@cam.ac.uk)’s review of R. Edward Freeman & Andrew Sell’s book _Defeating Dengue: A Multistakeholder Approach to Problem Solving_, pub 2024 @columbiaup.bsky.social

Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
October 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
New on H-Sci-Med-Tech:

Check out Christopher McCracken (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)’s review of Anne E. Greene’s book _Writing Science in Plain English, 2nd ed._, pub 2025 @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
October 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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simongerman600.bsky.social
Food safety improved massively when we all gained access to a fridge. One way of measuring this is the steep decline of stomach cancer rates. Give your fridge a hug the next time you are in the kitchen.
October 29, 2025 at 12:05 PM
🌊🌊🌊 New on H-Oceans 🌊🌊🌊

Check out Sabrina Schettino (U of Eastern Piedmont)’s review of James Beattie, Ryan Tucker Jones, & Edward Dallam Melillo’s edited volume _Migrant Ecologies: Environmental Histories of the Pacific World_, pub 2023 @ U of Hawai'i Press

Review avail @hnetreviews.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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drruth.bsky.social
Guess what? COVID mRNA vaccines don't just protect against COVID.

COVID mRNA vaccines also cause cancers to become sensitive to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). buff.ly/GEfJ5Zl

Let's fund more mRNA research!

#medsky #oncsky 🛟😷🧪
complicated diagram with red cancer cells, green T cells, and other immune cells in purple (dendritic cells). Shows mRNA vaccine priming immunity for checkpoint inhibitors.
October 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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silverlightzoi.bsky.social
rubella was SO around in the 60s that Gallaudet (probably the number one deaf/hoh university in the world)’s enrollment more than doubled between 1982 and 1985 www.nytimes.com/1985/01/06/e...
Gallaudet and the National Technical Institute, the two Congressionally established, accredited colleges for the deaf, have by far absorbed the largest number of rubella victims. In 1982 Gallaudet enrolled 300 new students, of whom fewer than 10 were rubella-deafened. This year, with the rubella bulge in full force, 707 new students were enrolled, 244 with a rubella history. National Technical experienced a similar increase in enrollment, and an even higher rubella etiology, 49 percent, for its first year with the bulge.
October 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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rmdean.bsky.social
This is actually super easy and a lot of fun. The kids are excited and surprisingly knowledgeable. Please volunteer if you can! 🏺
sarahmackattack.bsky.social Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 18d
Heyyyy we desperately need more archaeologists to volunteer to answer questions from students via video chat through @skypeascientist.bsky.social.

We have 80 unmatched teams. We’ve already matched 650 😵‍💫

If you know any archaeologists, please send them here www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
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October 24, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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clasticdetritus.bsky.social
I was recently interviewed by @drlauraguertin.bsky.social as part of her 'Tales from the Deep' series focused on the people involved in scientific ocean drilling ⚒️🧪⛴️ –– lots of great stories from many others there to check out
archive.storycorps.org/interviews/i...
“I kept asking all these questions like, How do we know that? The other scientists [would respond] - Yeah, how do we know that?”
Virginia Tech sedimentologist Brian Romans knows how scientific ocean drilling can be a particularly good mechanism or vehicle for pivoting in a career – that’s because he has many examples to share a...
archive.storycorps.org
October 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
New @ H-Sci-Med-Tech:

Check out @njcornish.bsky.social (@unisouthampton.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @rbgkew.bsky.social )’s on @edwinrose.bsky.social (@hpsleeds.bsky.social‬)’s _Reading the World: British Practice of Natural History, 1760-1820_, @upittpress.bsky.social 2025

@hnetreviews.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
🌊🌊🌊 New on H-Oceans 🌊🌊🌊

Check out Carolina Cuadrado (@ucm.es)’s review of @oliveheffernan.bsky.social's book _The High Seas: Greed, Power & the Battle for the Unclaimed Ocean_, pub 2024 @greystonebooks.bsky.social

‬ Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
October 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Hi, friends! Today is my uni's big fund-raising pitch, and if you're so inclined, might I suggest a donation to our chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, which I advise? It will help first gen students afford the national dues, and provide honor cords for their graduation. Thanks for considering!
One Day for UWL 2025
It's time for our 6th annual Giving Day! Support an area of campus you are passionate about and celebrate the impact of philanthropy!
uwlgivingday.uwlax.edu
October 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM