Dr. Penelope K Hardy

Terra Nova A bottom-up story of the fishworkers, whalers, First Nations, merchantwomen, oceans, and animals who together made a new colonial world in the early Atlantic...

My colleague Jack Bouchard's book Terra Nova is out today! It's about early 16th-century mariners and the seasonal fishery around present-day Newfoundland, and its place within the Atlantic World. I cannot wait to read it

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Architecture Follows Fish Architecture Follows Fish is set in the North Atlantic, and its protagonist is fish. In this book author and architect André Tavares explores the notion of ...

Oops, _Architecture Follows Fish: An Amphibious History of the North Atlantic_, was published *2024* @mitpress.bsky.social

and you can find it here: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204910...

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Check out Katherine McNally (@yale.edu)’s review of André Tavares (University of Porto)’s book _Architecture Follows Fish: An Amphibious History of the North Atlantic_, pub 2022 @mitpress.bsky.social

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Sent this q to VICTORIA, but also figure I should ask here — does anyone know of scholarship on strategies that advertisers (e.g. of fraudulent or illegal goods or services) used to evade surveillence, esp in Victorian Britain? Or strategies that advertisers used to track responses to ads in +

Also hey if any of y'all have Baltimore-based/-related USCT stories or tidbits of info, pleeeeease send them my way! I'm determined to do a Black Baltimore in the Civil War tour someday

CFP: A Time of Monsters The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

my wife is a Cal fan and apparently this week they’re putting a “59” on their football helmets to honor the 59 Nobel laureates tied to Cal in order to flex on Duke

this is maybe my favorite dunk anyone has ever done on Duke

Another call for sources: I'm reporting on pediatric Covid vaccine access. If you've had trouble finding pediatric doses in stock, or if your child was turned away, I'd love to hear from you: maggie.astor@nytimes.com.

Thanks to those who replied to my pregnancy callout; that story will be out soon.

Check out Sharon Kingsland's review of Elizabeth Lawson's "Moss and Lichen," published in 2024 by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #histsci #planthist
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Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91 Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour

RIP Jane Goodall — she forever transformed what it means to do fieldwork.
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Historian of science John van Wyhe (not on BlueSky) asks:

Can anyone decipher this charity that Darwin supported in 1872?

"Dr [illeg] Jackson subscription charity"

#histsci #HPS

If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)?

Hoover
FDR
Truman
Eisenhower
JFK
LBJ
Ford
Carter

And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏

Unless and until you have at least one cat in your household you will never realize how often the phrase “obligate carnivore” comes out of your mouth. “Stop stealing Cheez-It’s, Charley! You’re an obligate carnivore!” “Get your paw out of my son’s oatmeal, Chessie! You’re an obligate carnivore!”

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Check out Derek Lee Nelson’s review of Ryan P. Kelly, Terrie Klinger, & John J. Meyer’s book _Between the Tides in Washington and Oregon: Exploring Beaches & Tidepools_, pub 2022 ‪@uwapress.uw.edu

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The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

This weekend I went to a service for a friend, a great reader and book-discusser in my bookclub.

Her colon cancer had reached stage 4 before she knew about it.

I mention it, because I once talked another friend into getting a colonoscopy and her tumor was found in time. Do it.

If there's someone doing work out there on the fringes that matters to you, please let them know, because this world is going to tell them the opposite every day.

#EnvHist folks - what are some go-to readings for narratives about conservation in the UK, especially late 19th-early 20th C.??

BE THE MONSTER YOU WISH TO SEE AT THE END OF THE BOOK

Wheat paste poster that says the all the world is dying and the new world struggles to be born now is the time of monsters. There's a picture of Elmo

Morning walk

Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia

Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves the World Day, everybody.

42 years ago today, Lt. Col. Petrov prevented an accidental nuclear war.

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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day! On this day one man prevented the apocalypse.

Wrote my first book review on a video game law history book. H-Sci-Med-Tech got quite a few more interesting #GameStudies books up for review!

New on H-Sci-Med-Tech:

Check out @leonxiao.com (City University of Hong Kong)‬’s review of Julien Mailland’s book _The Game That Never Ends: How Lawyers Shape the Videogame Industry_ pub 2024 @mitpress.bsky.social
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And if that's something recent that should be on that list but isn't, I can try to get a review copy!

H-SciMedTech Books for Review Below are the books currently available for review with H-Sci-Med-Tech. Interested in reviewing one? Message Penelope Hardy @pkhardy.bsky.social or send an email to phardy@uwlax.edu. If we haven’t m...

(And if you want anything on this list, I can send it to you in exchange for a review!)

I know it won't solve all problems, but for edited volumes reaching out to chapter authors will sometimes get you a PDF. Also, those of us with institutional access will help with PDFs of specific chapters when/if we're able.

Independent scholars, how do you work with edited volumes and other books pubbed by textbook publishers? because my budget absolutely cannot support repeatedly paying $50-80 per ebook. A couple weeks of unpredictable interlibrary loan only gets you so far.

i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”

New on H-Sci-Med-Tech:

Check out Eric J. Richards (@btiscience.bsky.social)‬’s review of @mattholmes.bsky.social’s book _The Graft Hybrid: Challenging Twentieth-Century Genetics_ pub 2024 @upittpress.bsky.social
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