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Charlotte Leib
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PhD@Yale writing an #envhist of the NJ Meadowlands centered on intersection of the organic & fossil economies. Trained in landscape, energy, early Am.& US history, w/ broader interests in histories of tech, climate, capitalism, inequality charlotteleib.com
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Charlotte Leib @charlotte-leib.bsky.social · Oct 9
As #UHA2025LA kicks off, I’m happy to share here my most recent piece on the Metropole, on an understudied topic in #urbanhistory #envhist —how different lighting tech’s have affected birds & humans over the centuries & what we can do about it.

It’s a dual exposé & call to action Check it out here:
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@svenbeckert.bsky.social’s new global history of capitalism — looks great👇 www.penguin.co.uk/books/295668...
Capitalism
No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively as capitalism. It structures how we live and work, how we think about ourselves and others, how we organise our politics. Sven Beckert situat...
www.penguin.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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thierryaaron.bsky.social
"This sets off a feedback loop, in which the cold, fresh water released by that melt interacts with the warm, salty water to intensify the spinning of the underwater storm, causing even more melting"

#Antarctica
Undersea ‘storms’ are melting the ‘doomsday’ glacier’s ice shelf
Spinning vortices of water trapped under the Thwaites glacier ice shelf account for 20 per cent of the ice melt. They’re expected to get worse as the world warms
www.newscientist.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:32 AM
charlotte-leib.bsky.social
What a “road diet” and renovating for safe, pedestrian and cyclist friendly streets looks like… with Willie Wright’s “Right on for Darkness”’ as soundtrack 😀🎶🎸 #roaddiet #safestreets #NewHaven #righton
November 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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dazchapman.bsky.social
Grey Heron #canonwildlifephotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #nature #photography #birds #naturelovers #birdsofinstagram #birdphotography #animals #travel #bird #photooftheday #natgeo #birdwatching
November 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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“A ‘Forest COP’ with no commitment on forests is a very bad joke.” — Juan Carlos Monterrey Gómez
November 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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captainambivalent.com
Oh so you don’t want generative AI? Nice inbox you got there be a shame if something was to happen to it (cracks knuckles)
November 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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trisha-lynn.bsky.social
Straight up evil is correct. And losing the automatic separating of your inbox into primary, promotions, social, and forums is infuriating.
November 22, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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tim-waterman.co.uk
CFP: The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife 2026: Futurecasting, Futurekeeping: New Englanders Imagine Worlds to Come. June 26–27, Deerfield, Massachusetts. dublin-seminar.org/2026-call-fo...
2026 Call for Papers
The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife (founded in 1976) is pleased to announce the subject of its 2026 gathering, Futurecasting, Futurekeeping: New Englanders Imagine Worlds to Come, to …
dublin-seminar.org
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 AM
charlotte-leib.bsky.social
Final fall blooms in #NewHaven this week.

Found this calendula in my writing break round-the-block walk thriving in a stone and concrete microclimate
🍃🍂🌨️

11.21.25 #fall #flowers
Bright yellow calendula popping its head up above a gray and green background Color in a bleak near-winter scene. Flower had a green head and red band around it before yellow petals.
November 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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yonahfreemark.com
Very good to see progress on this important project, which is designed to link dense suburban New Jersey cities.
November 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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sarabpritchard.bsky.social
Well, you'd have to wait a while for delivery, but you can preorder my book at 40% off with free domestic shipping with promo code WINTER25! #TransformingNight 🌃🌌💡
#LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Night #Darkness #LightJustice

uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
November 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
charlotte-leib.bsky.social
Here’s to the beauty of pink-hued sunsets after a dreary day…closing research tabs…reading 19th-c, weather diaries, and meeting a major writing deadline (still in process…!) Going to be some late nights upcoming. Wish me luck.
Laptop computer on a desk facing a window that looks out on an urban streetscape. A cloudy pinkish-orange sunset is visible. The sky however is mostly grey. The building outside on the horizon is low lying brick and then there’s another brick building with a smokestack. The desk has a plant perched on it. The laptop shows a screen with a detail of a handwritten cursive weather diary. There are sticky notes and clips on the left of the laptop on the desk and two books on the desk to the right.
November 18, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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sgoodyear.bsky.social
Wild. We always say on the podcast that owning a car is required for effective full enfranchisement in most places of the USA because we are such a car-dependent society, but this is...next level. They say it like it's disqualifying for office.
benrosstransit.bsky.social Ben Ross @benrosstransit.bsky.social · 8d
WaPo editorial board launches a disgusting car-brained attack on Seattle's new mayor Katie Wilson.
"Who is Wilson? She does not own a car"

It's so bad you need to read it, so a gift link: wapo.st/4r2peP3
Who is Wilson? She does not own a car.
November 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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tim-waterman.co.uk
CFP: Environments and Societies at the Crossroads: Socio-Environmental Justice in Europe and the Americas in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Workshop at UC Berkeley www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...
Event – GHI Washington
www.ghi-dc.org
November 16, 2025 at 7:42 AM
charlotte-leib.bsky.social
...And just as I read about an entire 🧊 #ice warehouse getting struck by ⚡lightning and as I write about 19th c. #climatechange there's lightning & thunder, in November ⛈️

Favorite convo. today: talking with an Italian library security staff about how ice is so...American.

Dickens thought so, too.
Black and white image shows smoldering wood and half melted ice blocks, stacked up high in tall wooden bays the size of an urban streetscape. Image reads: "Courtesy William Devonmille, Bloomfield, NJ. Caption reads: "A fire on July 20, 1912, destroyed this icehouse which was located on the east shore of Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey [...] It took several weeks for the ice to melt."
November 16, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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jessicamdewitt.bsky.social
This month I feature @placesjournal.bsky.social, @urbanhistorya.bsky.social, @charlotte-leib.bsky.social, @ginastar.bsky.social, @miskoaki.bsky.social, and more!

#envhist
November 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Austrian impressionist painter Olga Wisinger-Florian,
Falling Leaves (1899)
#womensart #Autumn
Painting of a path with a figure and dog in the distant background, the path is surrounded by trees in orange and brown autumn colours and covered in leaves
November 11, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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carolannie.bsky.social
A last burst of color from the past week. Now all the leaves are brown, it's cold and cloudy and misty.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleAutumn #OurNeighborhood #Autumn
Looking up into a redbud tree in autumn is a dizzying experience, with the alternating layers of bright orange, light yellow and olive green heart shaped leaves shine against an overcast sky. Five lobed red maple leaves in shades of red, yellow and orange are wind blown onto a paver-lined pathway. The winter sun is shining at a low angle, and a wall's shadow covers some of the leaves, while others shine in the bright light, casting shadows on the pavers. An array of birch, oak and liquidumbar leaves are blown up against a tree trunk. One liquidumbar leaf, resting on top of the rest, is a striking deep magenta color. It contrasts sharply with the bright yellows and more subdued oranges of the rest of the leaves Two five-lobed maple leaves rest on top of a mossy fence post, along with a couple of maple samaras. The larger leaf on the left is turning brown but has echoes of red in the veins, and a red stem. The smaller leaf on the right is a smooth even red. The samaras are brown with streaks of red. The background fence post is gray with dark green clumps of moss and various small brown seeds caught in the clumps.
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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ryanreft.bsky.social
I was super happy to read and edit this entry in @urbanhistorya.bsky.social’s #MetropolitanConsumption theme for November. One of my favorite pieces we’ve published.
urbanhistorya.bsky.social Urban History Association (the official account) @urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 14d
For us midwestern folk, Wisconsin Dells occupies a storied place in our summer vacations, but it has come at a cost as the tourist attraction has been devouring water in the region and obscuring other worthy forms of tourism around the Dells. Matthew King's deep dive (zing!) into the Dells
How the Wisconsin Dells Turned Nature Into the Ultimate Indoor Destination
Editor’s note: This is the third installment in The Metropole’s theme for November: Metropolitan Consumption. By Matthew King On any given day, in any season or weather, the Wisconsin D…
themetropole.blog
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
charlotte-leib.bsky.social
I’m bummed I can’t see the Aurora here in New Haven like my NY & northern CT neighbors,

So I’m taking solace peering into 1841/42 weather diaries for the chapter I’m writing—where, indeed: mid-Atlantic-area observers occasionally spotted the Northern Lights 🌌

Pawling, NY earlier this evening:
Bright red, purple and green northern lights with silhouettes of bare trees either lit up by street lamps or cast against the sky. Light cloud cover. Blue hills in background.
November 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
charlotte-leib.bsky.social
Surrounded by snow flurries and sound #firstfreeze #NewHaven #Carillonneurs #bells #soundon
November 11, 2025 at 6:54 PM
charlotte-leib.bsky.social
Wondrous red, yellow, blue hues
on the New Haven Green 📸
this morning
An open space, like a quadrangle, with a bright red-leaved tree in the foreground at left, a bright yellow ginkgo middle and other trees and brick buildings in the back. Sky is brilliant fall blue and the weather is clear sunny and crisp. Their are puffs of large white billowy clouds in the blue sky above the trees.
November 7, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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claireconnolly.bsky.social
The special issue of Eighteenth Century Studies on Coasts is now out - glad to be part of it with some thoughts about coasts and gardens in c18 Ireland #BlueHumanities #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies 🌊

muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889
November 6, 2025 at 6:28 AM
charlotte-leib.bsky.social
#Frog stocks!

One of the many ways speculators tried to "improve" the value & productivity of #NJ #Meadowlands in the 19th c

I have this one filed under "frog capitalist" in my research notes 💭🐸💰

...An 1860s attempt to make the #Meadows yield more #frogs before pollution in the 1880s killed them.
A screenshot of a newspaper clipping: "The Bergen County Journal says that a capitalist of distinction recently visited that county, and on observing the vast amount of meadowland lying idle, conceived immediately the idea that this was the place for successful frog speculation. The salt meadows of Bergen county, being convenient to the New York market, where there is a steadily increasing demand for fattened frogs, he considered of immense value to the business. He has entered into negotiation for a large tract, which he will proceed to fence in and stock with frogs, for supplying the epicures and restaurants of New york and other cities. - Bergen County Journal, Daily Gazette and Republication, August 27, 1860 (Trenton, NJ) Vol. 68, Issue 205: 3. A close-up portrait of green frog situated in a watery marsh landscape. Marsh rushes surround the frog, which is set between sunlight and shadow. It looks at the camera with its large inquisitive eyes and has an upturned mouth, as if smiling. Most of its green body is underwater. Its arms are outstretched atop a spear of meadow rush. Photo in the public domain, by Jimmy K, via Pexels.
November 5, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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yonahfreemark.com
Where are we on housing policy this election evening?
—NIMBY NJ Gubernatorial candidate loses decisively.
—Mamdani, promising to pause rent increase & develop 200k affordable units, wins NYC decisively.
—All pro-housing referendums in NYC likely passed.
—Housing funding passed in Columbus & Denver.
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM