New book review:
Choe on Lepler, Jessica M.: _Canal Dreamers: The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions_. University of North Carolina Press, 2025. Published by H-Environment.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20149098
🌊🌊🌊 New on H-Oceans 🌊🌊🌊
Check out Clara Luce (Rice University)’s review of Beatriz Martinez-Rius (JAMSTEC)’s book _New Deep Territories: A Story of France’s Exploration of the Seafloor_, pub 2026 @uchicagopress.bsky.social
Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
So does this mean I could get money to "develop" a course I taught 20 years ago?
(Seriously though, could totally do a course under this name teaching/critiquing the concept?)
New on H-Sci-Med-Tech:
Check out Joris Mercelis (@hhu.de)’s review of @alicelovejoy.bsky.social (U of Minnesota)’s book _Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War_, pub 2025 @ucpress.bsky.social
#hstm
Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
New on H-Sci-Med-Tech:
Check out Susan Crutchfield (U of Wisconsin-La Crosse)’s review of @aearhart.bsky.social (@tamu.bsky.social)’s book _Digital Literary Redlining: African American Anthologies, Digital Humanities, & the Canon_, 2025 @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Review @hnetreviews.bsky.social
New on H-Sci-Med-Tech:
Check out @samhfranz.com (@upenn.edu)’s review of Reem Hilu (Washington University in St. Louis)’s book _The Intimate Life of Computers: Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s_, pub 2024 @uminnpress.bsky.social
#hstm
Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
JOB ALERT: Two 4.5 year postdoctoral positions to work on my Wellcome-funded project 'Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health'. Please share widely!
CLOSING DATE: 23 April (the date on Jobs.ac.uk is apparently incorrect)
New on H-Sci-Med-Tech:
Check out Simon Cole (U of California, Irvine)’s review of Midori Ogasawara (@uvic.ca)’s book _ Colonial Surveillance: Technologies of Identification and Control in Japan's Empire _, pub 2026 @stanfordpress.bsky.social
#hstm
Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
Andrew McTominey, Waterscapes:
Andre Tavares, Architecture Follows Fish
Roll up, roll up! Spring is here and I am looking for reviews for @urbanhistory.bsky.social. Here are some titles we're interested in. If you want a copy of anything below (in return for a review) or want to pitch something to us, drop us a line! Beginning with the incomparable Timothy Mitchell...
New on H-Sci-Med-Tech:
Check out Grace Maria Eberhardt (U of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign)’s review of Rebecca Monteleone (University of Toledo)’s book _The Double Bind of Disability: How Medical Technology Shapes Bodily Authority_, pub 2025 @uminnpress.bsky.social
Review @hnetreviews.bsky.social
The book is available #OpenAccess from @mitpress.bsky.social at direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...
New on H-Sci-Med-Tech:
Check out @desenoz.bsky.social (@uconn.bsky.social)’s review of Edward Beatty & Israel G. Solares (@engineeringhistory.bsky.social)'s ed vol _An Engineered World: The Role of Engineers in Global Modernity_, pub 2025 @mitpress.bsky.social
Review avail @hnetreviews.bsky.social
New on H-Sci-Med-Tech:
Check out Elliot King (Loyola University Maryland)’s review of Zef M. Segal & Nurit Melnik’s book _Computational Literacy for the Humanities_, pub 2025 @routledgebooks.bsky.social
#hstm
Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
I know the tweet is Al generated when they use " ," before and.
“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”
Mexico’s overwintering monarch population grew 64% this winter, with butterflies covering their largest area of forest since 2018. The recovery remains fragile, but suggests there’s been a positive impact from conservation efforts in the butterflies’ core habitat. buff.ly/XoPKQ9d
#ShareGoodNewsToo
New on H-Sci-Med-Tech:
Check out Raquel Sequeria (@notredame.bsky.social)’s review of @davidgunkel.bsky.social (Northern Illinois Uni)’s book _Person, Thing, Robot: A Moral & Legal Ontology for the 21st Century & Beyond_, pub 2023 @mitpress.bsky.social
#hstm
Review avail @hnetreviews.bsky.social
Tapping the sign
Snapped on my way out of the building this evening.
Between large book cases, a researcher is conducting research in the museum collection. Photo by Almicheal Fraay
Fellowships! The National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam has published a call for proposals to conduct research into its maritime historical collection.
More information, including the English translation of the call texts, can be found here www.hetscheepvaartmuseum.nl/collectie/on... #skystorians
New on H-Sci-Med-Tech:
Check out @astroholbrook.bsky.social (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social)’s review of Chris M. Cannon (@uafairbanks.bsky.social)’s book _In the Footsteps of the Traveller: The Astronomy of Northern Dene_, pub 2025 @umanitobapress.bsky.social
#hstm
Review @hnetreviews.bsky.social
Line graph time series of monthly global carbon dioxide and methane abundance from January 1984 through 2026. There are seasonal cycles and long-term increasing trends for both greenhouse gases. Current carbon dioxide levels are at 439 ppm, and current methane levels are at 1946 ppb.
The latest monthly status on carbon dioxide and methane levels...
For more data/info: gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/
MARYLAND COME GET YOUR CATS
Less than three hours to go before this giveaway ends!
New on H-Sci-Med-Tech:
Check out Andrew J. Bielecki (@columbiauniversity.bsky.social)’s review of Pamela O. Long’s book _Technology in Mediterranean and European Lands, 600–1600_, pub 2025 @ Johns Hopkins University Press
#hstm
Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
A screenshot of a TikTok comment says “never seen a cybertruck at the library”
Seven-word death punch
The book is available #OpenAccess from @mitpress.bsky.social
#hstm
doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
