Jacob Darwin Hamblin

Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...

Add another to the long history of playing with the burden of proof for veterans' cancer, from Agent Orange to radiation effects and other chemical exposures. This time male breast cancer www.propublica.org/article/vete...

Hey, she's inspiring, what can we say? Was glad to participate in this roundtable on @juliairwin.bsky.social 's book!

Every other nuclear-aspirant is watching Ukraine today and saying "mental note: never give up your nukes." Amidst everything else, we might be watching the utter breakdown of the nonproliferation regime today

See Raina Bhagat's review of "Making the Unseen Visible: Science and the Contested Histories of Radiation Exposure," edited by @jdhamblin.bsky.social & @atomiclinda.bsky.social, published in 2023 by @osupress.bsky.social; review @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum
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One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this Omar El Akkad

yoinked this image from Twitter, then ordered my copy

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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

If they change the name of Botany Bay, the botanists are gonna be PISSED

Danish MEP slams ‘absurd’ proposal to rename Greenland ‘Red, White and Blueland’ Member of Congress said the U.S. will “proudly welcome” Greenlanders to “join the freest nation to ever exist.”

Not the Onion www.politico.eu/article/dona...

just cruised over to google maps and I see that they have caved

As I wrap up my history of technology course this week, this pic is perfect

Such a great title! Looking forward to reading it!

French lawmakers are gathered at the Palace of Versailles. A headline reads: "France Is First Country To Make Abortion a Constitutional Right." Photo by Thomas Padilla/Associated Press.

Breaking News: France voted to explicitly enshrine access to abortion in its Constitution, making it the first country in the world to do so. The impulse for the change was the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022.
www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/w...

My review of Sarah Scoles, Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons, in Science mag. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

thanks for commissioning the review, Daniella!

Opinion: Nuclear threats? Climate change? What catastrophe will lead to doomsday? The famous Doomsday Clock moved recently — a reminder that the potential disasters we face don't happen overnight.

I wrote an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times last year for the non-changing of the Doomsday Clock, and the difficulty of treating climate change with the same countdown metaphor. As it didn't change this year, either, I think it is still appropriate?

www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History presents a cutting-edge overview of the dynamic and ever-expanding field of environmental history. It addresses recent transformations in the field and ...

The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History is now available!

This volume was edited by Emily O'Gorman, @wsanmartin.bsky.social, Mark Carey, and @wildpasts.bsky.social.

Truly a special moment in the international environmental history community!

www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

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SKINK (thinking): Today, I'm going to talk to people. | SKINK (thinking): Or maybe... one person. | A pause while a skink vibrates with anxiety. | SKINK (thinking): Talking to myself counts.

It totally counts. #comics #animalcomic #fear #skink rooniecomics.com/com...

Smiling woman with blond curly hair against a backdrop of greenery. Text reads: Episode 36, Catherine McNeur.

NEW! I might have alarmed Catherine McNeur with my enthusiasm, because I love her work so much -- including her new MISCHIEVOUS CREATURES. In this ep, I asked how she writes beautifully about place and learned this book resulted from multiple archival surprises. 🗃️ draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...

As we think about the place of history of science on the web (and celebrate our first official post here), let's look at a great paper from the archives. David K. Hecht's 2011 article about Rachel Carson, "nonscientific attributes were central in legitimating Carson as a public scientist."

I was curious, I clicked, 404 not found, just fyi!

Three years ago, the United States officially withdrew from the 1992 Open Skies Treaty, having given notice of its intentions on May 22, 2020, citing spurious Russian “violations” as the reason. In less than four years, Donald Trump and his unilateralist wrecking crew abandoned …

A small modular reactor’s demise calls for big change in Energy Department policy NuScale Power Corp., which is developing America’s flagship small modular reactor, has lost its only firm utility customer, even though the US Energy Department had already given NuScale hundreds of...

If you are interested in climate change, and also global security, and aren’t yet following the debates about small modular reactors, you probably should. #nuclear #climate thebulletin.org/2023/11/a-sm...

Please read and circulate this editorial by editors of the journal History and Technology, Amy Slaton and and Tiago Saraiva, which fully vindicates my STS (UCL) colleague Jenny Bulstrode and her paper 'Black metallurgists and the making of the industrial revolution'

doi.org/10.1080/0734...

Also Anne Boyer:

It lives! Anyone interested in nuclear humanities, nuclear colonialism, radiation effects, the history of all things atomic, and putting scholarship into conversation with advocacy, will find something to read in this volume. Just got my hands on my copy. #sts #histsci #envhist #nuclear

a local Portland tip for fellow historians of science: if you enjoy baked goods and wouldn't mind a stroll, Ken's Artisan Bakery is about a mile from the conference hotel. #HSS2023 #HSS23 #histsci

Looking forward to commenting on this panel on environmental silence, organized by @alixhui.bsky.social on Sunday at this weekend's History of Science Society annual meeting in Portland. #histsci

Really looking forward to seeing and listening to the plenary lecture by @nickytheprof.bsky.social at this weekend's History of Science Society meeting! This is on Friday btw! #histsci

History of Science Society meeting coming up this weekend, in Portland. Excited for this panel on nuclear fallouts, including OSU grad student Celia Oney. This is on Friday fyi #histsci

Less War, Less Warming: A Reparative Approach to US and UK Military Ecological Damages | Briefing | ... The US and UK militaries are two of the institutions most responsible for climate crisis in the world. Only a reparative approach can begin to account for their role in environmental breakdown.

New from us & Common Wealth: the US and UK militaries are among the most prolific polluters in world history. We show that the monetary costs of environmental damages caused by these militaries & associated industries is at least $111 billion since 2015. www.common-wealth.org/publications...