Just finished giving the Sarton lecture at the AAAS meeting in Phoenix. Lots of engagement with the audience on soft power and “America’s Cold War Science Experiment.” Now on to enjoy the sun in Phoenix before returning to Oregon! aaas.confex.com/aaas/2026/me...
I will deliver this year's Sarton Lecture at the 2026 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. I'm deeply honored to be selected. The title of my remarks: "America's Cold War Science Experiment." February 14, 2026.
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
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
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
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!
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 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...
#envhist
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 …
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
