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Prof_Hyman
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available for pre-order: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/cultural-heritage-resilience-of-the-great-dismal-swamp-9780761892021/
✍🏽 my academic book titled, "Pest Control: Birds, Black Folk,& the History of Environmental Consciousness in the US South" LSU Press
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Prof_Hyman @profhyman.bsky.social · Jul 18
Blurbs are in! I am eternally grateful to Dr. J. Drew Lanham, Dr. Andrea Roberts, and Dr. Ed Baptist!!
My book is out on October 2, 2025 from Bloomsbury Academic.
#newauthors #writers
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landguyminor.bsky.social
Bowing out gracefully. Fading perennials in the garden.
#bnwmacro #blueskyartshow #small #photography #digitalart
#asymmetry #monochrome #bloomscrolling #hardeninh #autumn
November 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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miririnmiri.bsky.social
PEARL.
(ok I'm definitely getting the Midsommar one if it's not sold out by payday)
November 22, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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septimusbrown.com
Today I am manifesting a kinder and more loving world ❤️💙
November 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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uvapress.bsky.social
We are here at #AARSBL25 ! Come visit our booth, browse our books, and chat with an editor!

Check out our virtual exhibit: www.upress.virginia.edu/exhibits/AAR...

Use conference promo code <10AAR25> for 40% off select books through the end of the month!

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@aarweb.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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littlebadger.bsky.social
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
“Prohibited words and concepts: Equity, diversity, & inclusion; anti-racism; Bias; Critical race theory; implicit bias; oppression; intersectionality; prohibited discriminatory practices; racial privilege; promoting stereotypes based on personal identity characteristics.”
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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anuradhasarup.bsky.social
Talking of #waders here's a Eurasian spoonbill claiming it's place knowing you'll ignore the Black-headed Gulls photobombing it's moment of glory. But then how can you not when it has that hairdo?

#BirdOfTheDay #Italy #birds #crazyhairdos
November 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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alxnelson.bsky.social
A closeup of a tricolored heron's head. #birds
November 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
Today is the annual Trans Day of Remembrance, keeping alive the memory of folks hate killed. @thetransfemininereview.com's guide to preserve our work+history has ways all can fight literal erasure (esp. this section on practical steps you can take, eg request yr library buy books by trans authors)
The Trans Literature Preservation Project: A Practical Guide to Resisting Censorship
Project 2025 wants to criminalize trans literature. Here’s a game plan for keeping our stories alive.
thetransfemininereview.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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foeus.bsky.social
HUGE NEWS! Insect-eating bird populations in France appear to be making a tentative recovery after a ban on bee-killing neonic pesticides!

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
France’s birds start to show signs of recovery after bee-harming pesticide ban
Analysis shows small hike in populations of insect-eating species after 2018 ruling, but full recovery may take decades
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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mrcwarwick.bsky.social
Call for papers #CFP

Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health and Welfare in Britain and Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present

18 June 2026: 1 day conference + NUM archive exhibition

Submit abstracts / express interest at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

Deadline: 25 Jan 2026
Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health and Welfare in Britain and Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present When and where: University of Warwick, Coventry, on Thursday 18 June 2026. Conference summary: This free one day conference aims to bring together researchers from higher education, community and campaign groups to explore the history of health and welfare in Britain’s coal mining industry. Held jointly by the University of Warwick's Centre for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology, and Modern Records Centre, the event will run alongside an exhibition which will explore some of the themes covered by the speakers through the National Union of Mineworkers' archives. We welcome contributions from new and established researchers, working inside and outside higher education. Confirmed participants include: - Jörg Arnold (University of Augsburg / Institute for Contemporary History Munich - Berlin), author of The British Miner in the Age of DeIndustrialization - Keith Gildart (University of Wolverhampton), Principal Investigator on research project On Behalf of the People: Work, Community and Class in the British Coal Industry 1947-1994 and former miner - Quentin Outram (University of Leeds), Secretary of the Society for the Study of Labour History and co-editor of Coal in Victorian Britain Conference themes: Subjects that could be addressed include but are not limited to: The human cost of coal, including: - Mining disasters, their contemporary impacts and later memorialisation. - Industrial accidents, industrial diseases and workers’ compensation. - Mine safety and the improvement of conditions. - Mining and mental health. Industrial health and welfare, including: - Pre-nationalisation provision in and beyond the colliery. - National Coal Board provision, including the NCB Medical Service, housing and the Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation. - Trade union campaigns and benefit schemes. - Sport and social provision as mining welfare. Coal and community, including: - Environmental impact. - Mining families and the intergenerational effects of the mining industry. - Impacts of the industry with particular reference to gender, race and ethnicity. - Coalfield communities after coal: the effects of deindustrialisation. Submission guidelines We wish to make space for dialogue between academic and community-based researchers, and welcome involvement from mining heritage and local history groups / researchers from former coalfield communities. We welcome and encourage alternative presentational styles. Possible formats for contributions could include: - 15-20 minute papers. - 5 minute lightning papers (for example showcasing a particular object or archival source, or highlighting a particular place, event, individual or experience). - Round table discussions. - Posters or displays. Submission deadline: 25 January 2026. Limited funding for travel support will be available, with priority given to early career researchers or participants who cannot draw upon institutional funding. For additional enquiries, please contact the conference organisers at archives@warwick.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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boydellandbrewer.bsky.social
Birds in Medieval English Poetry, by Michael J. Warren, is a study of birds and their metamorphoses as treated in a wide range of medieval poetry, from the Anglo-Saxons to Chaucer and Gower. Use BB050 at the checkout to save 50%. Ends 30 Nov 2025. buff.ly/sxiRZDM #medievalsky @drmjwarren.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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amockingbird.bsky.social
I walked into my dad’s room and was greeted like this.
A brown tabby Manx cat lying on her back, belly up, legs splayed, green eyes bright and wide.
November 20, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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simplyskye.bsky.social
@schumer.senate.gov — Everyone said, hold the line on the Govt funding for the subsidies, and you whipped 8 Dem votes from reps who weren’t up for reelection anyway—

The failure is yours - we need new leadership
senschumer & 26m Trump said yesterday that he would never sign an extension of the ACA enhanced premium tax credits. In the middle of one of the most stressful open enrollment periods ever, Trump tells the American people to drop dead.
November 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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njbbari3.bsky.social
I read articles from all over the world every day.

Nowhere is being as…

…destructive

as the US…

when it comes to public health.

Nowhere that I have found… in 50 languages.
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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muellershewrote.com
BREAKING: The FBI trainee that was fired for displaying a Pride Flag is SUING the government, saying his removal was illegal www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
An F.B.I. Trainee Hung a Pride Flag Near His Desk. He Says He Was Fired for It.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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hollygroganart.bsky.social
My drawing of the Juvenile Northern Wheatear at Bull Island. Coloured Pencils on paper
November 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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astrokatie.com
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
profhyman.bsky.social
I’ll never stop fighting for birds
November 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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dorothyjberry.bsky.social
I'm headed to the England and Scotland in two weeks for two weeks!

Giving the closing keynote at the Fantastic Futures conference @britishlibrary.bsky.social & then next week the Centre for Data, Culture, and Society annual lecture @ U of Edinburgh.

Also bringing books for sale, trade, or barter!
November 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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jamellebouie.net
one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)
gregsargent.bsky.social Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d
Trump's corrupt scheme to rig 2026 is suddenly falling apart:

*Court strikes down Texas GOP gerrymander
*Indiana GOP lacks votes to redraw map
*Big Dem win in Virginia could give Ds more seats

On the pod, DLCC head Heather Williams is informative on what's next:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
Trump’s Plot to Rig 2026 Is Falling Apart, and Boy Is He Mad About It
As the Trump-GOP scheme to gerrymander the midterms suddenly faces big new setbacks, a Democratic operative who’s leading in these fights explains why the battle isn’t over—and what must happen now.
newrepublic.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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rgsibg.bsky.social
Today we’re celebrating #GISDay2025 🌎

Our Geovisualisations page showcases amazing examples of how geographers are presenting complex data in innovative ways 💡👇

Discover the visuals and the stories behind them 🔗https://www.rgs.org/about-us/what-is-geography/geovisualisation
November 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
profhyman.bsky.social
Madness rules the land time to go see my birds✌🏾
November 19, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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iannlou.bsky.social
40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.
Calvin & Hobbes walking along a tree trunk laid across a river as a bridge.
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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cormacscoast.bsky.social
Slow gentle waves from the sea and soft pastel colours in an overcast sky.
County Clare, Ireland.
November 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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histparl.bsky.social
On 25 November, Dr Natalie Garrett will be speaking at the next IHR Parliaments, Politics & People Seminar, where they will be presenting on Jane, duchess of Gordon and the Romanticisation of Scottish Identity in London, c.1780-1812.

Find out more and how to attend below:
‘The Tartan Rage’: Fashion, High Society, and Scottish Identity in Eighteenth-Century London - The History of Parliament
The Tartan rage has at length reached Paris,’ declared the World in June 1787. Demand for tartan fabric and accessories had swept British high society earlier that year, with the Gazetteer and New…
historyofparliament.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM