Carlos Dimas

@carlosdimas.bsky.social

Historian of LATAM. Writing book on the history of (mal)nutrition, rural health, and agriculture in 1950s El Salvador. 1st book on cholera epidemics and state-building in rural 19th century Argentina. Made in LA w/ Salvi roots🇸🇻 LA Galaxy

Not going to AHA, but seeing people post screenshots of their panels. Always interesting to see the all east coast based panels. Cost and distance are high from the west, but weather has to be just as much of a deterrent to not going

For more than a century, native oysters have been missing from Scotland's Firth of Forth. Now they're back! 🦪🦪🦪 It's a buzz knowing people are working hard to restore vital ocean habitats Imagine what it'll be like having a huge oyster reef back in the F of F! 💙 www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🦑

Oysters doing well in Firth of Forth after reintroduction, say experts

Early signs of success seen in area where native European oysters were fished to local extinction by early 1900s

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Coming 2/8/24, “Revolutionary Aesthetics: Afterlives of Central American Insurgency,” an exhibit of a selection of Penn Libraries’ Central American political posters, co-curated by me, undergrad Logan Saenz, and PhD student Josué Chávez. www.library.upenn.edu/events/revol...

Revolutionary Aesthetics: Afterlives of Central American Insurgency

Selections from a recently-acquired collection of posters from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama offer a window into Central America's Cold War-era conflicts from the...

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