Was SO much fun listening to @susglickman.bsky.social on the role of history in the anxious lives of Cold War era scientists. For STS @unioncollege.bsky.social
had a wonderful time lecturing at IAS, on Wednesday at 5pm will give a related talk at union college (with @popeyed.bsky.social)
October 19, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Was SO much fun listening to @susglickman.bsky.social on the role of history in the anxious lives of Cold War era scientists. For STS @unioncollege.bsky.social
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From colonial surveys to contemporary gem rushes: how do stones become valuable across geological time? First article from my PhD, "After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan," now out in @csshjournal.bsky.social (open access!)
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core
After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan - Volume 67 Issue 3
doi.org
July 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
From colonial surveys to contemporary gem rushes: how do stones become valuable across geological time? First article from my PhD, "After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan," now out in @csshjournal.bsky.social (open access!)
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
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Hands Off My Em Dashes!
April 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Hands Off My Em Dashes!
What a tough time for us em dash lovers 😭 reading my own writings and feeling sad about what AI has done to one of my favourite punctuations :(
April 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
What a tough time for us em dash lovers 😭 reading my own writings and feeling sad about what AI has done to one of my favourite punctuations :(
Spring is here and I am still howling maybe it was not about the season… 🤔
My seasonal depression autobiography is going to be “Blue sky but no sun, and other upstate New York quirks that makes me howl into the void-that-is-the-time-warp till it is Spring”.
April 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Spring is here and I am still howling maybe it was not about the season… 🤔
Why did I check the comment section of the video on Fox News? 😭
March 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Why did I check the comment section of the video on Fox News? 😭
I complain about winter in New York and then I see the sheer gorgeousness of snow landscaping through hills.
February 11, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I complain about winter in New York and then I see the sheer gorgeousness of snow landscaping through hills.
Not my hair looking like my shoulder houses a ferret.
February 9, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Not my hair looking like my shoulder houses a ferret.
Went to a comedy roast show (meh) where AI projects get roasted by comedians and to my horror, saw actual (bad) projects by people untethered to reality. They all wanted AI chatbots to replace doctors, sales reps, rather than actually do something cool. Tech got SO BORING so quickly.
February 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Went to a comedy roast show (meh) where AI projects get roasted by comedians and to my horror, saw actual (bad) projects by people untethered to reality. They all wanted AI chatbots to replace doctors, sales reps, rather than actually do something cool. Tech got SO BORING so quickly.
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Hello friends and new followers, 'Decolonize Mosquitoes' . My recent article has been published at the History Workshop Journal. @historywo.bsky.social It proposes a conversation between environmetal history, history of science, and decolonizing methods.
academic.oup.com/hwj/article/...
academic.oup.com/hwj/article/...
Decolonize Mosquitoes: Invisible Labour, Dissent and the Re-colonial in South Asia
The minuscule, a narrow gate, opens up an entire world.1
academic.oup.com
February 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Hello friends and new followers, 'Decolonize Mosquitoes' . My recent article has been published at the History Workshop Journal. @historywo.bsky.social It proposes a conversation between environmetal history, history of science, and decolonizing methods.
academic.oup.com/hwj/article/...
academic.oup.com/hwj/article/...
Each Executive Order should at least come with a free box of anti-depressants from one’s favorite Big Pharma.
February 1, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Each Executive Order should at least come with a free box of anti-depressants from one’s favorite Big Pharma.
I want to read without my phone next to me *and then spends 30 minutes collecting passwords across multiple devices*
February 1, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I want to read without my phone next to me *and then spends 30 minutes collecting passwords across multiple devices*
This @newyorker.com “shouts and murmurs” piece by Alex Baia is so real I wanted to cry on my lifetime’s savings worth of avocado toast.
January 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
This @newyorker.com “shouts and murmurs” piece by Alex Baia is so real I wanted to cry on my lifetime’s savings worth of avocado toast.
Gaurav Mukherjee @gauravmkjee.bsky.social writes: “private disestablishment seeks to leverage the hybrid nature of charter schools to secure public funding for religious institutions while avoiding the constitutional obligations typically imposed on public entities.”
lpeproject.org/blog/america...
lpeproject.org/blog/america...
America’s First Religious Public School?
This past Friday, the Supreme Court granted cert in a case that concerns the first religious charter school in the United States. But this case is not merely about school choice or religious freedom…
lpeproject.org
January 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Gaurav Mukherjee @gauravmkjee.bsky.social writes: “private disestablishment seeks to leverage the hybrid nature of charter schools to secure public funding for religious institutions while avoiding the constitutional obligations typically imposed on public entities.”
lpeproject.org/blog/america...
lpeproject.org/blog/america...
Prepping for my technology history class while watching tech stocks nosedive and my syllabus is writing itself.
January 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Prepping for my technology history class while watching tech stocks nosedive and my syllabus is writing itself.
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On the dissection of the unclaimed bodies of the poor… Why do we not round up the bodies of the rich as well as those of the poor when they die without a will or next of kin? Why do only the wealthy need to sign consent forms for body donation?
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | How human bodies end up on dissection tables without consent
Unclaimed remains of poor people in Texas were dissected for medical research without consent.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
On the dissection of the unclaimed bodies of the poor… Why do we not round up the bodies of the rich as well as those of the poor when they die without a will or next of kin? Why do only the wealthy need to sign consent forms for body donation?
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
This image feels like someone ran their hand into my guts to punch me into remembering early days of technological trauma.
#teamVLCMediaPlayer
#teamVLCMediaPlayer
January 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
This image feels like someone ran their hand into my guts to punch me into remembering early days of technological trauma.
#teamVLCMediaPlayer
#teamVLCMediaPlayer
My seasonal depression autobiography is going to be “Blue sky but no sun, and other upstate New York quirks that makes me howl into the void-that-is-the-time-warp till it is Spring”.
December 3, 2024 at 4:41 PM
My seasonal depression autobiography is going to be “Blue sky but no sun, and other upstate New York quirks that makes me howl into the void-that-is-the-time-warp till it is Spring”.
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*cries in historian*
Still hanging on to your old diaries and teenage photos? Chuck them out – and start to live | Nell Frizzell
Still hanging on to your old diaries and teenage photos? Chuck them out – and start to live | Nell Frizzell
I’m moving house, which means coming face to face with a lifetime of mementos. I feel a burden lifting with each item I bin, donate or recycle
There is a particular sort of box that lurks in every home, full of “memorabilia” or “mementos”. Baby teeth,…
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2024 at 2:24 PM
*cries in historian*
Watched Gladiator 2. Best scene is Paul Mezcal’s thighs.
November 23, 2024 at 12:27 AM
Watched Gladiator 2. Best scene is Paul Mezcal’s thighs.
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CFP: Urban History Group Conference 2025
The Urban Commons: Rights and Citizenship in the City from the Medieval to the Modern 4th & 5th Sept. 2025, University of Leicester. urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/c...
We are back. Special sessions for New Researchers & PGs, as usual.
The Urban Commons: Rights and Citizenship in the City from the Medieval to the Modern 4th & 5th Sept. 2025, University of Leicester. urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/c...
We are back. Special sessions for New Researchers & PGs, as usual.
November 18, 2024 at 9:42 AM
CFP: Urban History Group Conference 2025
The Urban Commons: Rights and Citizenship in the City from the Medieval to the Modern 4th & 5th Sept. 2025, University of Leicester. urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/c...
We are back. Special sessions for New Researchers & PGs, as usual.
The Urban Commons: Rights and Citizenship in the City from the Medieval to the Modern 4th & 5th Sept. 2025, University of Leicester. urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/c...
We are back. Special sessions for New Researchers & PGs, as usual.
Gabby Baratier, one of our students at Union College’s History Department, has created a wonderful LGBTQ+ map of the historic district of Stockade in Schenectady. For those of you who have watched HBO’s The Gilded Age, you’ll know this neighborhood! Check it out here:
storymaps.com/stories/28f0...
storymaps.com/stories/28f0...
Mapping the LGBTQ History of the Stockade Historic District
Schenectady County Historical Society
storymaps.com
November 14, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Gabby Baratier, one of our students at Union College’s History Department, has created a wonderful LGBTQ+ map of the historic district of Stockade in Schenectady. For those of you who have watched HBO’s The Gilded Age, you’ll know this neighborhood! Check it out here:
storymaps.com/stories/28f0...
storymaps.com/stories/28f0...
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for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌
November 11, 2024 at 10:10 PM
for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌