The edited collection that I contributed a chapter on penguin eggs to is part of Berghan Books' summer sale! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/McCahe...

Antarctic Materialities | Berghahn Books

Independent Publishing since 1994

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Water in World History is part of Routledge's Summer Sale! If you assign the book in class, I'm happy to talk about the possibility of zooming in to meet your students! www.routledge.com/Water-in-Wor...

Water in World History

This book takes a thematic approach to the global history of water, covering a wide range of human interactions with water and the ways in which it carries both life and death. Water is one of the mos...

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Why does it always take so long to grade the last 5% of any set of assignments?

Well. Good. Because boys aren't playing girls sports. Girls are, including trans girls. We need to absolutely reject this framing that trans girls are the same as boys. They fucking aren't and I'm tired of *Democrats* just accepting the right wing framing there.

Garnet Henderson@garnethenderson.com · 2w ago

“I do not support boys playing in girls sports.” - Amy Acton on June 30

The call for ESEH 2027 is out! Submit your proposal by 15 October. We offer standard formats like panel sessions, individual papers, book presentations, and posters, but also repeat our creative Different World Sessions! Read more here: eseh.org/cfp-14th-bie... #EnvHist #EnvHum

I am so over these random phishing things from "book agents" that are suddenly appearing in my work email.

We have put together a team of partner institutions at OSU to help create community around the journal--this includes generous support from the Mershon Center! mershoncenter.osu.edu/news/mershon...

Mershon Center enhancing scholarship as the new home for two journals

Through support of two new initiatives, the Mershon Center is enhancing the scholarship relevant to national, international, and human security. The Mershon Center is proud to announce that we are the...

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Teaching an intensive 1-month food history summer class. So once again:

www.eseh2027.at Call is out now! See you in #Salzburg ! @eseh.bsky.social @esehnextgate.bsky.social #EnvHist #EnvHum

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 @joshuarushton8.bsky.social and I are holding an online colloquium 'Environmental Approaches to the Reformation World' on 30 Sept 2026 🌳 🌊 ⛪ 🐄 Deadline for submissions 1 September.

Can finally share! ASEH and Forest History Society are pleased to announce the search for the next editor of Environmental History has concluded with the appointment of Ellen F. Arnold, PhD. Ellen and her team at the Ohio State University will begin transitioning into their new roles this summer.

Summer class experiment: replacing 500 word "guided response essays" with 5 minute videos addressing same question.

Seem to be ok on jet lag now. But yesterday tired me rolled over on my glasses, bending them, so I have to wear my old ones for now and they are not quite the right prescription so I feel a bit out of sorts anyway. Harumph.

Did you hear about the DC July 4 fireworks show? It promises 850,000 fireworks in 40 minutes. That's 354 per second. You'll miss up to 142 of them every time you blink. For your edutainment, I proudly present the nerdiest thing you will read about this dangerously absurd / absurdly dangerous event.

Three Hundred Fifty-Four Fireworks per Second — Chad M. Topaz

Organizers promise 850,000 fireworks in roughly 40 minutes over the National Mall this Saturday. I did what a mathematician does with a big number: I divided. It did not make the show look better.

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My "Super Secret Penguin Project" began when I wondered....I wonder where penguins are in the archive.....I spent the last two days (plus today) at the @uva.nl archives, and once again the answer is--penguins are everywhere!

Google translate options of the day--for Japanese zoo catalog for Tokyo zoo. Eventually it settled on Penguin (Humboldt's Penguin) for the caption, but it went through 2 alternates: Penguin (even when you struggle you're still a penguin) and Penguin (when you stand firm you look like a penguin)

after a rather long travel day, I'm in Amsterdam, prepped for three days of intense archive work before returning home.

The kind of small moment I'm chasing this week in sixth-century writing: “It was winter time, so they lit a fire, warmed some wine and fell asleep after they had drunk it.”

Still using my ancient copy of Gregory's History of the Franks that I first read as an undergraduate. Layers of different readings all across the pages.

@aikerots.bsky.social has two new post-doc opportunities associated with his exciting interdisciplinary project on maritime goddesses: a historian of Chinese religion and a historian or anthropologist of Japanese religion. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Two Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in East Asian Religions (303894) | University of Oslo

Job title: Two Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in East Asian Religions (303894), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, August 31, 2026

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New idea: Buddy show about Gregory of Tours (Cumberbatch) and Venantius Fortunatus (Martin Freeman--why mess with a good pairing?) They get into hi-jinx caused alternately by Gregory spinning tall tales and Fortunatus trying to sing and flirt with nuns.

Gregory of Tours was a GOSSIP

Back from grading AP world history exams in Louisville--going to spend this week working on an upcoming conference talk on weather in early medieval Gaul: www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Ancient Weather Perspectives | Radboud University

This project investigates the way in which weather influenced the lives of people in Late Antiquity.

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Check out my new article! It argues that the rise of continental drift should be understood within the context of the geopolitical shift that came from decolonization. lmk if you can't access! #histsci #STS www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Geology as geopolitics: continental drift and the southern hemisphere

This article argues that the mid-twentieth-century acceptance of continental drift cannot be understood solely as the result of new geophysical eviden…

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Needing to post again--Ohio Wesleyan University is looking for an adjunct to teach two medieval history courses in the Fall: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

If anyone would like to historcize the anti-data center env justice movement and its relationship to health for @nursingclio.bsky.social, please pitch! 🌿💪

Sara Luterman@slooterman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

You know who really, really hates data centers? Women.

Starting to come out of my post-semester rest and recuperation period by dipping my toes in the penguin project again. I read a recent book on penguins and searched through the ARTIS library holdings in prep for my upcoming visit.

Just booked an exploratory research trip to the Artis Library at Amsterdam. I'll spend three days penguin hunting in June!

Somehow managed to finish grades with minimal mistakes. Need a major reboot.

So much grading to do and no extension on grading deadlines following canvas outage.