The fantastic mid-17th century gatehouse at Stokesay Castle, Shropshire ❤️
Timothy Hyde
@hydetimothy.bsky.social
Historian of architecture, urbanism, modernity / MIT / Author of Ugliness & Judgment / research: architecture & law, building sites, ugliness, Antarctica
Our new book is *A Historian's Handbook for Saving the World*--it's a sprawling supernova put together by more than 70 historians, and we're super proud of it. Also, it's out on November 17th from MIT and it's OPEN ACCESS. mitpress.mit.edu/978026205625...
A Historian's Handbook for Saving the World
The work of historians is vital to this moment. As climate debates shift from “believing the science” to fighting for the massive changes needed ...
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Fun return to the Maritime History Archive with 21 senior students in my Seafarers class, pouring over 1930 crew agreements for passenger liners, White Star line mainly. Several stowaways, a few fights, couple of deaths, and a lot of men too old to be shovelling coal for low wages. #MaritimeHistory
This talk in our 🍂 online series provides an overview of questions that arise when we consider the history of Victorian architecture through the lens of fossil fuels, before turning to the reassessment of a single case: Euston Station in London, the first major metropolitan railway terminus in the 🌍
MIT recently installed over 500 new surveillance cameras all over campus, without discussing the effect on privacy and political speech with its own faculty (who know a lot about this). In response, faculty wrote this piece fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn... and are bedazzling the surveillance cameras...
How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter
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Happy 4th anniversary to the night in Svalbard when my phone took this unedited photo of a giant lunar halo over the glaciers of Svalbard to which the only response was to fall into hysterical laughter, serially taken up by each shipmate, how else to respond to such outlandish, annihilating beauty
Look at the external advisory board for the Cornell Committee on the Future of the American University. Why is the American Enterprise Institute involved? Why is David Brooks involved? provost.cornell.edu/initiatives/...
Jonathan Feingold@jpygold.bsky.social · last mo.worth noting that PPI & Goldwater Institute are among the rightwing ecosystem bulldozing higher education in Texas. @asheeshks.org Who are the people comfortable putting their name on this "report"? bsky.app/profile/ashe...
"Professional schools draw, shamelessly, on the architectures, grammars and vocabularies developed by our colleagues in the humanities." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
On Proper Objects of Study and the Humanities (opinion)
A recent report on the humanities criticizes the distortion of scholarship in the service of political goals. Other disciplines would like a word.
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not quite www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/26/o...
America built the world’s greatest research engine. Now it’s shrinking. - The Boston Globe
At public and private universities across the country, high-impact science is being damaged and derailed.
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Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · last mo.~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this.
Did you know? The House of Tomorrow (1933 world's fair in Chicago) is being restored in northern Indiana and is nearly finished? I'll be speaking about it there next weekend.
Anyway if this gig doesn’t work out I’m gonna start a bar for historians and call it The Memory Hole
Extremely excited to announce an article co-authored by myself and Aaron Hyman on the visual and material cultures of Dutch piracy in the early modern Caribbean is now out in Renaissance quarterly @rsaorg.bsky.social , and open access! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Recasting the Silver Fleet, or The Propaganda of Piracy in the Dutch Caribbean | Renaissance Quarterly: Vol 79, No 3
In 1628, the Dutch West India Company captured a Spanish silver fleet off the shore of Cuba. A broadside by Claes Jansz Visscher (1587–1652) celebrated the event, illustrating the battle and providing...
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The Athletic might be writing articles targeted at @langealexandra.bsky.social and the ever-growing hockey/design community on Bluesky: www.nytimes.com/athletic/748...
Jason Marshall spent years playing in pro hockey arenas. Now he builds them
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"Inland Empire" by Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió explores how modernist architecture and urbanism structured US settler colonialism, placing them in critical dialogue with Indigenous design and resistance in Southern California. Read the intro for free: buff.ly/XnZvixp
On O. M. Ungers’s 100th birthday, I wrote about his legacy of architectural design, theory, and history, and why it’s so relevant today www.archpaper.com/2026/09/o-m-...
I had the pleasure of teaching these women 19th-Century American Women Writers. Few made it to the finish line. College is hard and prison is brutal. But these women did receive their BAs, and everyone who participated (especially me) got the lesson of a lifetime.
WyoFile@wyofile.com · 2mo agoSix students at a Lusk prison graduated with University of Wyoming bachelor’s degrees earlier this month. They were the first group to reach this milestone under a program that offers higher education to incarcerated people.
I thought I knew what concentration and focus looked like. Then along came this egret in South Lancaster (Ontario) yesterday to take things to a whole new level.
Amherst College is looking for a Director of Public History and Engagement: networks.h-net.org/jobs/70277/a... 🗃️
Amherst College - Director of Public History and Engagement | H-Net
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National Museum of Denmark (@nationalmuseet.dk and @thehem.bsky.social) is hiring a 2.5-year Postdoc for the Viking Age project 'Bag Sejlet'. Explore textile networks, multispecies worlds, or everyday life. 📍 Copenhagen 📅 Deadline: Sept 9, 2026 #VikingAge #Archaeology #Postdoc #ArchSky
Two and a half-year Post.doc. position - ‘Bag Sejlet’ (‘Behind the sail’)
This is an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled and motivated researcher to join the National Museum’s emerging centre for Viking Age Research, in a 2.5 ye
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Gift article: As fires raged in Utah, a team called for help but waited for days. By the time it arrived, two USFS contract pilots had died, and the flames had spread significantly. “We just don’t have enough people in the system, not for this kind of fire season.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/c...
Federal Job Cuts Are Making Wildfires Harder to Fight (Gift Article)
The Trump administration pushed out thousands of veteran U.S. Forest Service staff. An ‘extraordinary’ fire season is testing those who are left.
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A top Forest Service official (and billionaire Trump appointee) demanded help to fight a 7-acre fire on his Idaho property. The response amounted to “9 aircraft, including helicopters, air tankers and tactical planes.” It cost over $100,000 and diverted precious resources. 🎁🔗 : wapo.st/4wZEqPD
Top Trump official asked for more resources to fight a small fire near his Idaho ranch
Michael Boren, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, asked for more aircraft to contain a 7-acre blaze last month, officials said.
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Our sharpest critical voice lucidly distills both the form ("somewhat akin to a brutalist Himalayan salt lamp") and the function ("a kind of cenotaph for neoliberalism")
dyke siegmund@katewagner.wehwalt.net · 3mo agoI wrote about the Obama Presidential Center for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Internal National Park Service records shared with us: 2024 - $7 million allotted for White House grounds projects and upgrades 2026 - $323 million allotted for White House grounds projects and upgrades ===>
Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 3mo agoEXCLUSIVE: Trump turns National Parks into "piggy bank" Funding shifts from parks to White House vanity projects macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/trump-turn...
Deaths and close calls while fighting wildfires have strained an already on-edge workforce. They've also raised questions about policies and priorities amid an intense wildfire season.
When tragedy strikes, America's wildland firefighters ask, was it 'somebody that we loved?'
Deaths and close calls while fighting wildfires have strained an already on-edge workforce. They've also raised questions about policies and priorities amid an intense wildfire season.
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I checked with my spouse (who’s an immunologist and bacterial geneticist) to get a nuanced understanding about this AI-created-a-virus news:
