71% of our planet is ocean, but you wouldn’t know it from traditional maps.
Shift your land-based perspective this Earth Week with a story about the Spilhaus Projection map and the WHOI oceanographer who created it: go.whoi.edu/spilhausmap
@meghankroberts.bsky.social @nataliajagielska.bsky.social
#CFP Female Networks of Knowledge: Natural History between Private and Public Spaces (Vienna, November 19-20, 2026), due May 30.
Conference explores how women shaped scientific knowledge via networks that crossed the domestic, social, and institutional from early modern to 19th c. #envhist #histstm
Purpura snails “milked” for purple dyes by Indigenous Mixtec in Mexico precipitously drop in population initially because in the 1980s, a Japanese company pursued their extraction year round for the kimono industry, leaving organisms to bake in sun or drown in open water.
#giftarticle #envhist
Such an important and criminally under-studied dimension of the Asia-Pacific War:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
He even kind of looks like him! Maybe a nephew…?
This is the Trinity located in Hartford, Connecticut! Unfortunately, candidates must be authorized to work in the United States. The college will not sponsor H1B visas, but might be able to extend existing J visas. Questions to the departmental chair, jreganle@trincoll.edu.
Trinity College is hiring a VAP in Japanese History to teach a pre-1868 survey and a natural disasters seminar for 2026-27. Search committee asks for a cover letter, including a brief explanation of their teaching experience, CV, and names of two referees to lidija.petrus@trincoll.edu by May 4.
Update: 1200 years of climate data now safe with next caretaker!
Separate thread on progress of beer fridge?
He could have gone for cheap shots (there were plenty of opportunities) but David took the time to write a thoughtful and super informative rebuttal to the drivel in Monthly Review.
Worth a read even if you didn't see the original
Got my hands on a paper copy of the recent "Animal Mobilities" issue of Osiris (volume 40). Very interesting stuff in here!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/osiris/c...
Update: 1200 years of climate data now safe with next caretaker!
Thr South Korean president criticized Israel, Israel got super mad about the mention of the Holocaust, and not the far worse reference. The president compared them to imperial Japan, which is like the worst thing a Korean can call anyone or anything www.theverge.com/policy/91358...
I thought historians didn’t subscribe to this way of thinking.
In 2024 The Conversation had 8.3M in revenue and 7.8M in expenses and paid $0 to writers. Is that really ok with you?
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NEW EVIDENCE: Former Xinjiang police officer (2014–2023) confirms that detentions and forced labor continue today.
From 2023, officials detained Uyghurs who avoided forced labor or allegedly disobeyed state orders.
Thread below:
foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/16/c...
Here I am at the UNC Press booth with my amazing editor @catehodorowicz.bsky.social and MY BOOK.
I’m very excited to dive into Subodhana Wijeyeratne’s new book with Stanford University Press on the history of Japan’s space program. It is a very welcome addition to the growing body of work on the global history of space technologies.
Important reminder from Christian de Pee, new in History & Theory, that Chinese history as we know it was also a product of Japanese imperialism.
So what’s it going to take to *really* decolonize our field?
Can’t wait to read and teach this new edited volume by @mmuscolino.bsky.social, which breaks us out of the binary of the Mao era as environmentally destructive vs. sustainable!
#envhist #histstm
Good luck!! The idea sounds very cool.
Maybe see who’s cited Mitman via Google Scholar? That way you’re not going backwards in time but forwards! All of these other suggestions seem like great directions post-Mitman!
Ahhh, thank you for listening to a very long talk in a very hot room!
Jinx!
Beyond Mitman’s Breathing Space?
Poster for the talk by Banu Subramaniam (University of Massachusetts Amherst), entitled "Migrant Ecologies: Plant Worlds and the Afterlives of Empire". It will take place on Monday, 20 April 2026, at 4 pm (CET) via Zoom.
Next Monday, we will kick off this semester's lecture series with the talk by Banu Subramaniam. Banu will talk about migrant ecologies, plants, and the afterlives of Empire.
Just register for the talk via the link and join us on Zoom!🤗 rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#HPBio #HistSci #PhilSci
Fascinating critique by @chaciav.bsky.social on the resilience paradigm as neoliberal response to climate change, through a study on Japanese and Korean women diving in extreme environments
Summer 2002: 17 y.o. me on college tour, telling my dad “I want to go THERE” when learning from a horrified Amherst guide that a pack of Hampshire students stole the American flag from their 9/11 “patriot rally” and burned it.
I’m now married to an Amherst grad 😭
Hampshire, you will be missed!
It’s making me rethink my choice of assigning Kuramoto’s Manchurian Legacy!