Gregory T Cushman

While we're here, let's also stop with the discourse of "chilling" speech. These are tyrannical violations and seizures, not problems with the national or university thermostat.

I wish my university colleagues would cease referring to 'academic freedom' during our fight against tyranny. We are fighting for our **constitutional freedoms**--for universal human rights--the same rights and freedoms belonging to everyone--not for special rights unique to our station or guild.

...McCullough

Meanwhile, the USA's National Endowment for the Humanities is only accepting proposals on "American History"--and you can bet projects on Hawaii or environment dont really count

YES! And this is all the more true for documents that arent in English. That said, I sure am glad there are so many things available digitally, as our annual US$1000 research travel budget doesnt go very far. So much for "R1"

Ecologies of Resilience: The Many Colonizations of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), c. 1200–present Abstract. The history of Rapa Nui has often been told as a cautionary tale meant to reflect on the destructive tendencies of our own civilization, but it l

Today at @stsucl.bsky.social #histsci Reading Group we discussed @guanoguy.bsky.social et al ‘Ecologies of Resistance: the Many Colonizations of Rapa Nui’, AHR, 2024, doi.org/10.1093/ahr/... & @farsouthhistory.bsky.social ‘Shaky Claims’, Isis, 2024, doi.org/10.1086/733152 (ht Jordan Goodman)

Great point, although with the tiny travel budgets at my Uni, I and many others can't dream of going.

Punx Phil is correct less frequently than a coin flip (~40%), so this actually bodes well for warmth

Interesting! Part of this is driven by warmer climates and earlier NH growing seasons. The big El Niños of 1997-98 and 2002-03 helped tip the atmosphere into a new temporal regime.

You can always check out a rare piece of incunabula from your library for joy reading

For the record, climatologist-epidemiologist-activist-historians don't get much attention either. I'll be surprised if my repost gets single-digit likes in this lonely social media desert.

Or you could fund 100,000,000 NEH proposals

You might want to look up Pres. James Buchanan's craptastic accomplishments in 1860-61.

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I rediscovered an elaborate scientific archive abruptly abandoned in 1973 on a guano island off Peru, population: 1 man, 1 dog, 25 vultures, and 200 guano birds. ("I hear there are books out there") It had records of spraying organopesticides worse than DDT on the birds to "save" them from parasites

Moreover, they are intent on pushing their neighbors off the beam. This should be the next season in Squid Game

These AI plutocrats are teetering over a deadly abyss, to which they seem oblivious. And they'd like to replace half the world's workforce with automatons. In a way, the image is spot on. Time Person of the Year has often been a dubious honor.

The second version in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City shows JDR next to a microscopic image of the bacteria that causes syphilis and a gringo industrial worker at the controls

JD Rockefeller demolished Diego Rivera's mural Man Controller of the Universe in Rockefeller Center because Rivera refused to remove a portrait of Lenin from the half of the painting devoted to workers' struggle and contributions.

I remember your FB post some months back identifying the locale of this slag sample. The site is obviously compromised by a host of modern activities.

Maybe Amrith deals with this earlier in the book, but this idea was already alive, potent, and explicit regarding the deadly gold fields of Hispañola 1493-1520 and poisonous airs of the silver and mercury mines of Peru 1540-present. England didnt invent these discourses.

Let's be fiscally honest and recognize that little to none of this football revenue reaches the rest of the university, and that practically all schools heavily subsidize their football and athletic programs from other university revenue. I have budget sheets.

Great post! That estimate of pinniped biomass is woefully wrong, though. Overlooking calamitous overhunting of Pacific seals and sea lions from circa 1800-1960 followed by pressures from intense Engraulid fishing.

The Ecuador joke falls flat. The USA invaded the Galapagos and beach city Salinas to set up bases early in 1942, then asked for the country's permission after the fact. Ecuador was bullied into becoming an "ally" within weeks of Pearl Harbor.

After a Mysterious Death, a Family’s Quest for Answers Leads to a Tick

For further reading about Texas Lone Star BBQ disease: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/n...

close-up photo of lone star tick with "eye" on its back, with caption

New disease alert! The gods of irony were working overtime when they created a potentially deadly allergy to Texas BBQ caused by the Lone Star tick. The Evil Eye of Texas is upon you.

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The Latrines at Housesteads Roman Fort (Vercovicium) in Great Britain. They included wooden seats along the sides, set over a deep channel. A smaller channel in the centre of the building was used for washing sponges.
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All I see is plasticized foil wrappers. Nothing edible except legs. Also NOT FLUSHIBLE

Cant wait for the part in the stable when Grylls starts eating ectoparasitic insects out of the manger and off the ox and the ass to survive.

Mike Davis's Late Victorian Holocausts is an engaging and provocative read--but breeze through the parts explaining El Niño, he didnt recognize La Niña, the climate chronologies are a mess, but the interpretation still stands up, I think.