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Isaac Land
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_The Craft of Historical Research: A Practical Guide from Start to Finish_ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). Professor Emeritus, Indiana State University. Former co-editor, Coastal Studies & Society journal.
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Isaac Land @coastalhistory.bsky.social · 28d
Actually holding a physical copy of Craft of Historical Research, what a joy! Very much the book I wish I’d had as a student, so happy to see it out in the world. 🗃️ You can find it as an affordable paperback or eBook.
Laughing academic in a sweater holding a copy of Craft of Historical Research
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This is a great short piece. We ought to have more of these conversations when we teach writing (in absolutely any discipline). #composition 🗃️ #amwriting #writing

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A brief defense of cliché
A reconsideration of the writer’s bugbear: the much-maligned cliché.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Can’t find this word “tenses” used this way in OED. Suggestions? “… it is only the sea man… who must be favoured with the indulgence of a child in his moods, and punished as a brute in his tenses.” Lionel Yexley, Our Fighting Sea Men, London 1911 page 28 🗃️
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November 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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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 🌊

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November 6, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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I'm thrilled to see that the special issue of ECS, "Eighteenth-Century Coasts," is finally out today! Check out my essay on coral, and many other fantastic contributions: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889
Project MUSE - Eighteenth-Century Studies-Volume 59, Number 1, Fall 2025
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November 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
coastalhistory.bsky.social
The special issue of Eighteenth Century Studies on coasts is now out! If you click on the link and scroll down a bit, the very eclectic table of contents is visible. Pleased to be a part of this. #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies 🗃️

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Project MUSE - Eighteenth-Century Studies-Volume 59, Number 1, Fall 2025
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November 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
coastalhistory.bsky.social
Actually holding a physical copy of Craft of Historical Research, what a joy! Very much the book I wish I’d had as a student, so happy to see it out in the world. 🗃️ You can find it as an affordable paperback or eBook.
Laughing academic in a sweater holding a copy of Craft of Historical Research
October 16, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Male Yellow-bellied Seedeater (Sporophila nigricollis) in Jardín, Colombia last week. #hiking #senderismo #nature #photography 🪶
Little bird striking a Napoleonic pose atop a shrub. The black hood contrasts with the yellow belly. Same bird, more in repose with the fluffy feathered chest very evident.
September 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Congratulations! Tagging #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies 🗃️
mgoebel.bsky.social Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · Sep 25
I am so glad and proud finally to announce the publication of our special issue @urbanhistory.bsky.social: Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities After the Global Turn. It's the result of the four-year @snsf.ch project patchworkcities.com 1/3
Patchwork Cities – Urban Ethnic Clusters in the Global South During the Age of Steam
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September 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Green Jay (“Inca Jay” variety) at Gulupa Ecolodge, Jardín, Colombia yesterday. #nature #photography 🪶
Jay gazes directly at viewer in crisp morning light, its bold color scheme matching its bold gaze. Andean foothills recede, gently rolling, into a bed of puffy clouds and blue sky. A town is nestled far below
September 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Oilbird at Reserva Los Guácharos, Jardín yesterday. You descend into a canyon and cross a wire-and-plank bridge to see them. #Colombia #hiking 🪶 #nature #photography
The Andes peaks, ringed by clouds, dissolve into inky blue and purple like a watercolor painting. Trees appear as black silhouettes in the foreground A roosting Oilbird appears to be shouting at me, but maybe its wide open mouth is just for echolocation. These nocturnal birds use it, like bats.
September 18, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Sometimes you go looking for nature, and sometimes nature comes looking for you 😆 I just sat in the boat with my iPhone 11 and kept filming. #nature #photography #whales
September 18, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Currently looking at the page proofs for Fall 2025 special issue of Eighteenth-Century Studies on "eighteenth century coasts." Thanks again to @dominikhhh.bsky.social @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social @tarquinhh.bsky.social who helped me with suggestions about the #envhist of climate. #CoastalHistory 🗃️
September 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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You just never know what the field marks will be for a new species, I noticed this male pattern baldness 😆 while photographing the heck out of this pair of birds in the rainforest only to later learn that Merlin cites this “black yarmulke” as definitive for a Whooping Motmot. 🪶 #nature #panama
Two Whooping Motmot perched close together, though facing opposite directions. Their eyes are red and fierce, the sharp contrast of cerulean blue and black makes their heads appear brilliantly painted. The same birds at a less flattering angle, the lower one’s head plumage looks damaged or mangy, but the Merlin guide says that’s how this species looks.
July 23, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Aracari, aracarier, aracariest! Wish I could credit my wilderness skills for this embarrassment of riches here, but it’s actually right on the property of the AirBnB where I’m staying, Gamboa has a bunch of excellent and affordable ones for birders. #panama #nature 🪶
No less than three Collared Aracari greet the morning from a perch high atop a mostly dead tree festooned with epiphytes and luxurious vines.
July 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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This morning in Gamboa. #hiking #nature #photography #panama 🪶
Butterfly making its escape, leaving my camera to focus only on the orange flower Slaty-tailed Trogon resplendent in turquoise and red hues. I was frantically wiping the condensation off of my camera lens—it’s very very humid here in Gamboa!
July 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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ICYM—I wrote the book I wish I’d had as a student. 🗃️ Really nice to see reasonable prices for it, for example now available on Kindle for just $16, or rent it for a month for more like $7. www.amazon.com/dp/B0DR832YL...
The Craft of Historical Research: A Practical Guide from Start to Finish
Amazon.com: The Craft of Historical Research: A Practical Guide from Start to Finish eBook : Land, Isaac: Kindle Store
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June 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Watching Frieren with subtitles. As a beginner Japanese learner, it’s very in keeping with the vibe of the show that the words I’ve picked up from it are なぜ (“why?”) and the ambiguous そうか (“… I see” or “maybe”). @smilodonna.bsky.social
June 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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The many moods of an American Pygmy Kingfisher, seen at Metropolitano Nature Park, Panama City with @stacebird.bsky.social 🪶 #nature #photography #Panama
Small puffy kingfisher with mouth wide open (not vocalizing, though). Orange belly topped with intense slaty blue wings and head Same kingfisher with mouth closed and head turned to almost directly face the camera
June 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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“Who you callin’ fluffy?” Hook-billed Kite seen with @stacebird.bsky.social at Panama City’s Metropolitano Nature Park. 🪶 #nature #photography #panama
Hook-billed Kite seen from far below, heavily ruffled feathers in the chest capped by a dark head with an indignant looking round eye and the distinctive sharp hooked beak. View of the Panama City skyline and the Pacific Ocean in far distance, framed by trees and dense foliage. This park is close to a big shopping mall and airport, and you’d never guess it.
June 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Snail Kites (Rostrhamus sociabilis) at Lake Gatún yesterday. We saw quite a few, they were common in this location and happy to pose for me!🪶 #Panama #nature #photography
Snail Kite perches, leaning slightly and gazing to the side, its pale orange talons grasping a reed. It is framed by a delicate backdrop of wispy tall grasses. Snail Kite turns its head to look directly at me as I snap the photo, its reddish, round eyes and white head ghostlike or a little comedic Juvenile (?) or female (?) snail kite shows off its elegant dappled chest, the alternating grays and whites like the ermine fur that a monarch might wear. The specialized hooked bill is very evident here.
June 1, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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A tiny Bananaquit in a coconut palm, also a squirrel came along. Lazy birding from a hammock is a new thing for me, but I could get used to this. 🪶 #Panama #nature #photography
Tiny bird (Bananquit) with a yellow belly, dark top, and vividly white facial stripe darts about the (comparatively) massive palm tree. Small, dark chocolate colored squirrel looks down at me from the same palm tree. Its yellow-orange stomach is exactly the same color as the coconuts at the moment.
May 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher (Terenotrychus erythurus) yesterday with @stacebird.bsky.social 🪶 #panama #nature #hiking
Small gray-headed flycatcher perched on a twig in dense rainforest vegetation. These birds are considered cute with their large round eyes
April 30, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Out roaming the forest with @stacebird.bsky.social yesterday. Here’s a Black-chested Jay (Cyanocorax affines). Range is confined to Panama and some little corners of adjoining countries. 🪶 #hiking #nature #Panama #photography
April 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Yellow-headed Caracara spotted with Bocas Biodiversity Tours @stacebird.bsky.social yesterday. There were several in the trees! 🪶 #panama #nature #photography
April 27, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Also tagging #coastalstudies . You might know some people who’d be a good fit for this project funded and based in Germany, @smilodonna.bsky.social
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CALL FOR ARTISTS: We are looking for 7 audio visual artists to be paired with 7 Marine scientists for an exciting new ocean art science project. More details below
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April 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM