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Edward Guimont

@eguimont.bsky.social

Historian, focus on science, colonialism, and pseudoscience. Co-author of When the Stars are Right: H. P. Lovecraft and Astronomy (Hippocampus Press, 2023) Be on the lookout for The Power of the Flat Earth Idea, out soonish from Palgrave Macmillan

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While not in NYC, there's also the location of the house Sonia lived in in Elmira, NY (815 John Street) before moving to NYC, though today there are modern condos at the location.

10.02.2026 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Auchincloss is below-replacement-level. A smart guy who somehow can't think his way out of a paper bag. #mapoli

27.01.2026 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Saucers, Spooks and Kooks Saucers, Spooks, and Kooks is a journey through the lesser-known history of the UFO narrative, exploring its origins and evolution β€” a story that continues to shape how we perceive the current UFO phe...

The moment many have been waiting for has arrived as the fantastic documentary 'Saucers, Spooks, and Kooks,' based on Adam Gorightly's excellent book of the same name, is now available to rent or buy. Check it out!

saucersspooksandkooks.vhx.tv

22.01.2026 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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BoA Revival - Ep 108 - Robert Skvarla

This week on BoA: The Revival, writer Robert Skvarla joins us for an enlightening conversation about Havana Syndrome, a wild story involving the CIA and Credence Clearwater Revival, conspiracy culture, paranormal conventions, and a whole bunch more. open.spotify.com/episode/4p6T...

21.01.2026 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There's an old saying from Ron Paul - I know it's in Lenin, probably in Ron Paul - that says there are decades where weeks...uh... and there are weeks where, uh...it's happening

21.01.2026 04:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2214    πŸ” 307    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 4
black and white illustration, in the style of a Victorian periodical. A reimagining of a shot in Jurassic Park, where Alan Grant confronts the T-Rex holding a flare, next to the upturned jeep with the kids inside, and the broken fence. here, a Victorian gentleman in long coat and hat holds a lamp, illuminating our favourite Megalosaurus, and an upturned horse-drawn carriage, with two children peering out the back. a breached cast iron gate completes the scene

black and white illustration, in the style of a Victorian periodical. A reimagining of a shot in Jurassic Park, where Alan Grant confronts the T-Rex holding a flare, next to the upturned jeep with the kids inside, and the broken fence. here, a Victorian gentleman in long coat and hat holds a lamp, illuminating our favourite Megalosaurus, and an upturned horse-drawn carriage, with two children peering out the back. a breached cast iron gate completes the scene

please allow us to share one our all time fave bits of Crystal Palace Dinosaur art: β€œJurassic Park 1854”, by the amazing @jedtaylorartist.bsky.social

back then, Richard Owen wrote that Megolasaurus β€œprobably waged a deadly war against its less destructively endowed congeners and contemporaries”

10.12.2024 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 209    πŸ” 93    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3
Title section of a journal article: The Legend of Ea-Nasir: How a Babylonian
Businessman Became an Internet Meme. By Gabriel Moshenska, UCL Institute of Archaeology, UK, g.moshenska@ucl.ac.uk 
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/JCA/article/view/30204
https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.30204

Title section of a journal article: The Legend of Ea-Nasir: How a Babylonian Businessman Became an Internet Meme. By Gabriel Moshenska, UCL Institute of Archaeology, UK, g.moshenska@ucl.ac.uk https://journal.equinoxpub.com/JCA/article/view/30204 https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.30204

Just published a paper on the complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir meme, the decade-old tumblr in-joke that continues to impact the public understanding of the ancient world. Paywalled but email me if you want a copy. 🏺

15.01.2026 09:59 β€” πŸ‘ 539    πŸ” 159    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 10
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Living Pterosaurs ​NOTE

New in my library: The book chapter from 1930 that gave rise to the modern myth of living pterosaurs hiding in the American West, now public domain and published online for the first time. www.jasoncolavito.com/living-ptero...

12.01.2026 01:34 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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1950-something

08.01.2026 23:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1594    πŸ” 359    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 18
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Our upcoming research seminars in 2026 – ECLAS ECLAS holds monthly open research seminars on the intersection of science and faith.

Our first research seminar of the new term is next Thursday, when @eguimont.bsky.social will be talking about the history of Flat Earth beliefs.

You can check out our other upcoming seminars and register for email invitations here - online and open to all: www.eclasproject.org/our-upcoming...

08.01.2026 10:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i just found out trump can't do all that stuff cuz it's illegal

04.01.2026 00:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1685    πŸ” 130    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 10

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

03.01.2026 18:16 β€” πŸ‘ 9512    πŸ” 2234    πŸ’¬ 102    πŸ“Œ 66
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A Blaring Warning For The Democratic Party Democrats don't have to wonder if popularism will fail. It already has.

Wrote about the Labour Party's failed popularist experiment as feckless quant-brain U.S. liberals toy with the idea of a popularist agenda in 2026 and beyond: badfaithtimes.com/a-blaring-wa...

02.01.2026 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 654    πŸ” 136    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 33
Endeavour | Journal | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier Read the latest articles of Endeavour at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

Happy New Year! Excited to announce that as of January 1, @sarahmpicks.bsky.social and I are the new co-editors-in-chief of the Endeavour history and philosophy of science journal. If ever you had an idea for an article in that realm, now is the time to pitch it to us!

01.01.2026 22:17 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Avi Loeb y los cientΓ­ficos que se pasan al β€˜lado oscuro’: cuando el enemigo de la razΓ³n duerme en casa Figuras como el fΓ­sico de Harvard, que defiende que los cometas interestelares podrΓ­an ser naves alienΓ­genas, erosionan la credibilidad de la ciencia desde dentro. Sus perfiles prosperan en un ecosist...

Buenos dΓ­as. Se me lean ustedes esto, por favor πŸ˜‰Avi Loeb y los cientΓ­ficos que se pasan al β€˜lado oscuro’: cuando el enemigo de la razΓ³n duerme en casa www.eldiario.es/1_c3aebe?utm...

14.12.2025 07:45 β€” πŸ‘ 209    πŸ” 119    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 17
Auchincloss is bought by AIPAC

Auchincloss is bought by AIPAC

Hey @aipac1.bsky.social , Massachusetts's 4th Congressional District includes 35 municipalities. That's Brookline and Newton β€” but also Fall River, the largest city in the district, along with Taunton, Attleboro, and dozens of working-class communities you seem to have forgotten exist.

17.12.2025 23:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It’s one of the most influential social psychology studies ever. Was it all a lie? A classic book on UFO believers and their "cognitive dissonance" after aliens failed to land is called into question.

NEW: When Propecy Fails is one of the most famous social psychology books of all time, a look at a small group of UFO believers when the β€œspacemen” failed to land. I wrote about a new study from an independent researcher who says the book is not what it seems. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

25.11.2025 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 383    πŸ” 110    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 33

Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.

19.11.2025 13:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2314    πŸ” 577    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 40
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Got a Black Hebrew Israelite history book at the airport bookstore on the way to #HSS2025

15.11.2025 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe Conceptions of the Watery World in Greco-Roman Antiquity by Georgia L. Irby. As for specific examples, not sure what sources go into them best, but Porphyrios the Byzantine whale, and the story of Alexander the Great's bathysphere and his fight with a sea monster.

12.11.2025 12:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Can anyone recommend a good text / source for sea monsters and imagined marine life in early modern period? Niche request. Cheers!

12.11.2025 08:54 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 0

Hope Alexandra Pelosi makes a documentary about this that I can hear @willsloanesq.bsky.social talk about some day.

10.11.2025 23:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are."

10.11.2025 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 4652    πŸ” 1138    πŸ’¬ 1120    πŸ“Œ 1299
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Time’s Arrow A Quarry Farm Testimonial Visit the post for more.

You can read my writeup of my stay, which included watching the Star Trek: TNG episode with Twain in his own house, here:

30.10.2025 00:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Shadow of the Comet: Mark Twain, Astronomy, and Space Fiction Abstract. Mark Twain was born in 1835, the same year Halley’s Comet appeared. Near the end of his life, Twain became convinced he would die with the comet’s return in 1910, which he did. This article ...

My article on Mark Twain's interest in astronomy, written with research done at @marktwain.bsky.social, is now out:

30.10.2025 00:34 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I've got an article in November's @historytoday.com on the remarkably durable hypothesis that Earth is hollow, from Halley to Symmes to underground feminist utopias to UFOs. You know the drill β€” to the centre of the Earth (I've probably used that one before).

28.10.2025 08:16 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
A promotional image for an edited collection called "Lands of the Lost: A Field Guide to Dinosaur Parks Physical, Fictional, and for the Future." The collection editors Dr. Victor Monnin & Dr. Alison Laurence are putting out a call for contributions. Abstracts are due January 10, 2026 to dinoparkfieldguide@gmail.com. Find the full call at: https://tinyurl.com/dinoparks

The background image is of the outdated-but-adored Iguanodon models at Crystal Palace Park.

A promotional image for an edited collection called "Lands of the Lost: A Field Guide to Dinosaur Parks Physical, Fictional, and for the Future." The collection editors Dr. Victor Monnin & Dr. Alison Laurence are putting out a call for contributions. Abstracts are due January 10, 2026 to dinoparkfieldguide@gmail.com. Find the full call at: https://tinyurl.com/dinoparks The background image is of the outdated-but-adored Iguanodon models at Crystal Palace Park.

A call for πŸ¦•πŸ¦–πŸ¦£ contributors! With Victor Monnin, I'm editing a collection about extinct animal parksβ€”it's a field guide, of sorts, that turns a critical eye on places real, imagined, and yet to be. Find the full CFP for LANDS OF THE LOST here: tinyurl.com/dinoparks #PaleoSky #HistSci #EnvHist #STS

13.10.2025 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Flat-out stupid Questions for discussion

In honor of today’s holiday in the US, I present an article I wrote for @eclasproject.bsky.social on how Columbus came to be seen as the one who disproved the Flat Earth:

eclas.shorthandstories.com/lent/flat-ou...

13.10.2025 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

French remake of the Secret Mall Apartment in Providence.

12.10.2025 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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When a Superpower Declines, Shared Reality Dissolves When the Soviet Union fell, Russians lost their sense of past and future at once. Collective hallucinations flourished in the void. In the United States, our reality is now disintegrating in a similar way.

When the Soviet Union fell, Russians lost their sense of past and future at once. Collective hallucinations flourished in the void.

In the United States, our reality is now disintegrating in a similar way.

08.10.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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