I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities! Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December. Applications are welcome until 24 October. #envhum #envhist #energyhistory

@usofdisaster.bsky.social at the @hazcenter.bsky.social workshop!

Democracy is alive!!

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In case you don't know her work, be sure to catch the Disasterology newsletter by @samlmontano.bsky.social

Disasterology: February 2025

This newsletter is a compilation of recent disaster ~things~ that I think are cool, important, or otherwise of interest to people who are intrigued with disaster (broadly defined).

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Education for Disaster Justice--open access article available now! Please read, share, and send me feedback--always looking for new Disaster Haggyo ideas!

Education for Disaster Justice - Science & Education

Disasters reveal injustice in society; disasters create new injustices. These two intertwined ideas were the inspiration for an action research project, the first Disaster Haggyo, held across multiple...

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Buffalo Creek was a foundational event in disaster studies thanks to Kai Erikson's research. If only every disaster had a Kai Erikson we would live in a safer world today. www.nytimes.com/1977/02/20/a...

Everything in Its Path (Published 1977)

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Weather History@weatherhistory.bsky.social · last yr.

February 26th, 1972: The Buffalo Creek disaster occurred in the Buffalo Creek Hollow of Logan County in West Virginia. A coal slag dam on the Middle Fork of Buffalo Creek burst, sending a fifty-foot wall of water down a narrow valley, killing 125 people. pophistorydig.com/topics/buffa...

Disaster as policy option.

When we say disasters aren’t natural this . . .

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last yr.

Hundreds of Federal Emergency Management Agency employees were fired as part of a wave of terminations of federal workers over the weekend. The cuts, which come in addition to the firing of over 200 last week, target probationary and contract employees.

Seattle folks: I'm giving a (free) public lecture Feb 24, where I'll explain what our team's decade of research on online rumors & disinformation reveals about the once-alternative media ecosystem that is driving the rise of right wing populism around the world. www.washington.edu/facultystaff...

2025 University Faculty Lecture

A Spotlight on Rumors: Illuminating How Influence and Improvisation Shape Online Conversations

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psst . . . Slow Disaster podcast is coming soon . . .

TONIGHT! 7pm eastern time. Join an open forum on Disaster Research & Emergency Management hosted by DRJ. www.disasterresearchersforjustice.com It's a chance to talk about shared concerns among disaster researchers+emergency managers. Meeting link available upon request. @samlmontano.bsky.social

Trump's NIH policy is a $2 billion chainsaw to the Massachusetts economy. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/10/b...

‘A $2 billion chainsaw to the Massachusetts economy’: Auchincloss fires back at NIH funding cuts - The Boston Globe

Representative Jake Auchincloss said Monday that he will try building congressional support this week to exert pressure on the National Institutes of Health to halt its new policy associated with rese...

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🚨We’ll be having a Disaster Researchers for Justice meeting Thursday to discuss *gestures around*. Practitioners, journalists, students, and others who do disaster work are also welcome to join. Message Scott for info. #GreySky

Scott Gabriel Knowles@usofdisaster.bsky.social · last yr.

Please join: Open Forum on Emergency Management in America. Thursday evening at 7pm eastern time--hosted by Disaster Researchers for Justice. Respond to this post and I will send meeting details. Hope to see many people there. @samlmontano.bsky.social @katestarbird.bsky.social @revkin.bsky.social

Please join: Open Forum on Emergency Management in America. Thursday evening at 7pm eastern time--hosted by Disaster Researchers for Justice. Respond to this post and I will send meeting details. Hope to see many people there. @samlmontano.bsky.social @katestarbird.bsky.social @revkin.bsky.social

We are delighted to announce the publication of volume 1, issue 2 of the Journal of Disaster Studies, published by @pennpress.bsky.social! This issue includes a wide array of articles and other scholarly content (see the TOC in the thread below), all in open access: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54211

The historians will remain.

Democracy in action, Franklin, MA. Town hall with @repauchincloss.bsky.social. People ran to the mics.

NEW article alert from @jds-disasters.bsky.social: "Trust, Traffic, & Contemporary Evacuation Barriers in Hurricane Ida" by Jennifer Trivedi, Sarah DeYoung, Prosper Anyidoho, Maria Porada, Tricia Wachtendorf, Rachel Davidson, Linda Nozick. @danielaldrich.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

Now more than ever you need it . . . Get your fresh disaster research! Journal of Disaster Studies Issue 2 is now live and open access. Please read and share. research! @jds-disasters.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/journal/886

Next week I will hold an online open forum for people who want to talk about FEMA and the future of emergency management in the USA. I know organization is happening at many levels. Contact me if you are interested. @samlmontano.bsky.social @danielaldrich.bsky.social @katestarbird.bsky.social

FEMA disappearing will impact every community in America. Suicidal move. And totally predictable.

And when a major disaster inevitably occurs . . .

"Can [memorials] accommodate what can't be fully remembered or known bc of the absence of evidence or... silences in the archives? Perhaps one way to address these absences, as... Mabel O. Wilson will explore, is thru diff modes of provisional mark making, materialities, + sensorial experiences."

Unknown, Unknown: Provisional Architectures of Memory – A Lecture by Mabel O. Wilson

At a moment when liberated citizens topple monuments erected to the power of despots and dictators abroad or when communities decide that monuments glorifying Confederate leaders, officers, […]

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Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In 2022, @clintsmithiii.bsky.social visited Holocaust monuments across Germany to see how the country memorializes the sins of its history—and what America can learn about atonement. theatln.tc/yofyQRA4

Thinking about how when I asked the FEMA leadership panel at the IAEM conference in November what they recommended state and local emergency management agencies should do to prepare for the potential loss of FEMA funding I was dismissed out of hand.

As we watch ongoing shocks around the world, please join us for an open-to-the-public talk on #disaster risk reduction on Thursday February 6th at 6:00 pm at @Northeastern in Renaissance Park 909.

When people are trapped and minutes count, research shows it is family, friends and neighbors who are already on the scene and are most likely to save lives. It’s often everyday citizens who also take on immediate tasks such as debris removal. theconversation.com/amid-la-fire...

Amid LA fires, neighbors helped each other survive – 60 years of research shows how local heroes are crucial to disaster response

In emergencies, when every minute counts, research shows family, friends and neighbors are often saving lives. These local efforts go uncounted, yet they’re crucial.

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I don’t think anyone outside emergency management understands how small state emergency management agencies are…

Come to my "final lecture" as a professor at the #Hiroshima Peace Insittute on Thursday Feb 6th. Title: "Legacy Sites: Traces of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Cold War in the United States" #NukeSky #HistSTM #EnvHum Details in the link: www.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp/news/c000747...

Feels like a good time to share an excerpt from a feature I wrote on the history of FEMA & the US disaster response system: myworldsonfire.beehiiv.com/p/sorriest-b...

'The sorriest bunch of bureaucratic jackasses I’ve ever known'

Expanding your understanding of disasters

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