"I hear the jury's still out on science"
@robgioielli.bsky.social
Environmental history/humanities, urban history, transit, strip mall restaurants, gas station fried chicken, housing, 1970s subway station design, kebab and korv stands. Not necessarily in that order. Director, KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory. VMO
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In the midst of a brutal heat wave, NYC chooses between Andrew Cuomo, who lied about causing vulnerable seniors to die in nursing homes, and Zohran Mamdani, who’s dedicated to to making NYC affordable and green for everyone.
This is what 21st century climate elections actually look like.
This is what 21st century climate elections actually look like.
June 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
In the midst of a brutal heat wave, NYC chooses between Andrew Cuomo, who lied about causing vulnerable seniors to die in nursing homes, and Zohran Mamdani, who’s dedicated to to making NYC affordable and green for everyone.
This is what 21st century climate elections actually look like.
This is what 21st century climate elections actually look like.
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Wracked with guilt because I accidentally tossed a plastic jar in the trash and not the recycling bin 🫤
A staggering 96 private jets are expected to fly in for Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s wedding – Supercar Blondie
Almost 100 private jets are expected to touchdown in Venice, Italy, this week for the wedding of billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez
supercarblondie.com
June 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Wracked with guilt because I accidentally tossed a plastic jar in the trash and not the recycling bin 🫤
@labeler.urbanism.plus listcommands
Excited to share my new article "The American Single Family Home: Towards a Social and Environmental History," which is part of this great special issue on the good life in the city, published open access with Global Environment.
The American Single-Family Home: Towards a Social and Environmental History | Global Environment
Over the course of the twentieth-century, the primary path toward the ‘good life’ in the United States involved the purchase of a single family home in the suburbs, which promised financial security, social independence and access to a healthy ...
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
June 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
@labeler.urbanism.plus listcommands
Excited to share my new article "The American Single Family Home: Towards a Social and Environmental History," which is part of this great special issue on the good life in the city, published open access with Global Environment.
The American Single-Family Home: Towards a Social and Environmental History | Global Environment
Over the course of the twentieth-century, the primary path toward the ‘good life’ in the United States involved the purchase of a single family home in the suburbs, which promised financial security, social independence and access to a healthy ...
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
June 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Excited to share my new article "The American Single Family Home: Towards a Social and Environmental History," which is part of this great special issue on the good life in the city, published open access with Global Environment.
Academia in 2025.
June 13, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Academia in 2025.
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say it again:
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university.
University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
A must read
May 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
say it again:
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
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Same for books in humanities 👇
If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully.
You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers.
Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.
You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers.
Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.
May 4, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Same for books in humanities 👇
Great point on scientist "brain drain"
That's what makes what is happening right now so terrible, you can make/import smart scientists but that is not going to help you. But it is incredibly difficult to replicate the infrastructure we spent 80 years building.
May 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Great point on scientist "brain drain"
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the classic burger king chicken sandwich — the long boy — is underrated in the fast food chicken sandwich game
April 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
the classic burger king chicken sandwich — the long boy — is underrated in the fast food chicken sandwich game
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I guess we have to pay attention to the bond market now, because global financial collapse (again)?
April 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I guess we have to pay attention to the bond market now, because global financial collapse (again)?
If you are in Pittsburgh for #aseh2025 join us Thursday for a discussion of "Beauty, Health and Permanence." An excellent line up! Keith Woodhouse, Sara Fingal, Elizabeth Browning, David Grinnell and Jon Klosinski, @paulsabin.bsky.social and @parhee.bsky.social yours truly. @aseh.bsky.social
April 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
If you are in Pittsburgh for #aseh2025 join us Thursday for a discussion of "Beauty, Health and Permanence." An excellent line up! Keith Woodhouse, Sara Fingal, Elizabeth Browning, David Grinnell and Jon Klosinski, @paulsabin.bsky.social and @parhee.bsky.social yours truly. @aseh.bsky.social
Lets all say it together now kids: "deflationary spiral"
April 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Lets all say it together now kids: "deflationary spiral"
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Waiting for the second thoughts of all the pundits who thought the Trump GOP was poised to become a worker-friendly party.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...
Trump Moves to End Federal Union Protections Across Government
An executive order signed by the president would cancel collective bargaining for hundreds of thousands of workers, the largest federal employees union said. The union was preparing legal action.
www.nytimes.com
March 28, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Waiting for the second thoughts of all the pundits who thought the Trump GOP was poised to become a worker-friendly party.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...
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I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism
March 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism
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Imagine explaining this to anyone in 2004
March 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Imagine explaining this to anyone in 2004
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Good to hear that there's some money available for researchers @eppobruins.bsky.social, because we just had a strike due to your government imposing budget cuts on us.
It's just that we're not coming from the US, we are already here.
It's just that we're not coming from the US, we are already here.
March 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Good to hear that there's some money available for researchers @eppobruins.bsky.social, because we just had a strike due to your government imposing budget cuts on us.
It's just that we're not coming from the US, we are already here.
It's just that we're not coming from the US, we are already here.
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Here’s the write up on it by the always great Inquirer
More than 425 popular campsites across Pa. are closed indefinitely due to DOGE cuts
Reservations made at impacted sites on Raystown Lake, Seven Points, Susquehannock, Nancy’s Boat-to-Shore Campgrounds, Tompkins Campground on Tioga-Hammond and Cowanesque Lakes will be refunded.
www.inquirer.com
March 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Here’s the write up on it by the always great Inquirer
It's never going to end unless people, esp. faculty and leadership, step the frick up.
US universities face choice to surrender or fight back against Trump’s ‘takeover’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... @guardian
US universities face choice to surrender or fight back against Trump’s ‘takeover’
‘Extraordinary fear’ takes hold at universities as Trump campaign threatens investigations or loss of federal funds
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2025 at 9:05 AM
It's never going to end unless people, esp. faculty and leadership, step the frick up.
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Finns vad jag vet inga planer just nu för en svensk utgåva men det går att beställa boken via akademibokhandeln i Sverige
www.akademibokhandeln.se/bok/drifting...
www.akademibokhandeln.se/bok/drifting...
Drifting North
Past and future collide in this engaging journey through climate change, fossil capitalism and the struggle for a sustainable world. Scotlands history and future are entangled with climate change and...
www.akademibokhandeln.se
March 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Finns vad jag vet inga planer just nu för en svensk utgåva men det går att beställa boken via akademibokhandeln i Sverige
www.akademibokhandeln.se/bok/drifting...
www.akademibokhandeln.se/bok/drifting...
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There are days in life that shake you.
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
March 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
There are days in life that shake you.
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but you seem to be making a point I've often thought about, which is that the founders did not have today's assault rifles in mind when they wrote the 2A.
March 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you seem to be making a point I've often thought about, which is that the founders did not have today's assault rifles in mind when they wrote the 2A.
I would encourage all historians, and anyone interested in how we can give proper voice to the marginalised, to read Thavolia Glymph's excellent AHA presidential address. It's open access! academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...
Paper Tracings in the Spectacularly Boisterous Archive of Slavery
Everybody knew what she was called, but nobody anywhere knew her name. Disremembered and unaccounted for, she cannot be lost because no one is looking for
academic.oup.com
March 18, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I would encourage all historians, and anyone interested in how we can give proper voice to the marginalised, to read Thavolia Glymph's excellent AHA presidential address. It's open access! academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...
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1. Humanities never had anywhere near as much to lose
2. STEM vs humanities was a costly and stupid sideshow
3. STEM as a template for humanities research was a bad idea, and if humanities research survives this regime, it will do so precisely to the extent that STEM models failed to take hold
2. STEM vs humanities was a costly and stupid sideshow
3. STEM as a template for humanities research was a bad idea, and if humanities research survives this regime, it will do so precisely to the extent that STEM models failed to take hold
20 years of bitching about woke humanities departments and the first thing they do is defund STEM
March 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
1. Humanities never had anywhere near as much to lose
2. STEM vs humanities was a costly and stupid sideshow
3. STEM as a template for humanities research was a bad idea, and if humanities research survives this regime, it will do so precisely to the extent that STEM models failed to take hold
2. STEM vs humanities was a costly and stupid sideshow
3. STEM as a template for humanities research was a bad idea, and if humanities research survives this regime, it will do so precisely to the extent that STEM models failed to take hold