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New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

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Thailand's recent deportations of Uyghurs to China have eerie parallels with a large deportation in 2015, in which the country bowed to Beijing, writes historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom.

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Not going to be at AAS this year, but I can vouch for COSI. Many fond childhood memories of the place.

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A long time ago, I did research on fishing. Here's a new chapter I wrote that synthesizes work on the topic, along with whaling. (Link should be correct.) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Hoping that printed proofs will be at the @uwapress.bsky.social booth at AAS in Columbus this year.

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I just signed the book contract for _Revolutionary Natures: Grassroots Environmental Histories of China's Mao Era_, a collection of fascinating essays by a great group of scholars that will be published by University of Washington Press next year.

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Serena Williams!

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Kendrick Lamar is about to perform at the Super Bowl halftime show. Follow live with our reporters.

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Big as the Super Bowl.

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Big as the what?

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‘Global Environment’ 18.1 is now available. This is a special issue called ‘Visions of Sustainability’, guest edited by Laura Meneghello. It’s #openaccess online, thanks to all of our #subscribetoopen and KOALA supporters! @globalenvironment.bsky.social #envhist

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Excited to see that this article by my former UCSD student, Thomas Chan, has been published. It's a great read!

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In The Last Peasant War, Jakub S. Beneš presents a history of the largely forgotten peasant revolution that swept central and eastern Europe after World War I—and how it changed the course of interwar politics and World War II. Out now. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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At a time when more historians are working collaboratively to produce different kinds of projects, the AHA’s Guidelines for Acknowledgment of Collaborators “affirms the importance of fully & publicly recognizing and crediting the work of all contributors.” 🗃️

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THE HUNGRY CITY A Year in the Life of Medieval Barcelona @cornellupress.bsky.social Understanding the multiples aspects of the city through the famine perspective. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

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#publishingjob Publishing Fellowship Princeton University Press • remote or hybrid, Princeton, NJ • $45K • "for individuals with no prior publishing experience, who are from communities historically underrepresented within US publishing" • app deadline 1/26 👇

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Good interview with Susan Shirk. pekinghotel.substack.com/p/the-death-...

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A new fire is the #TedWilliams Fire just north of San Diego. 2 acres in heavy fuels with a medium rate of spread. Evacuations underway now. app.watchduty.org/i/40917

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We're hiring @uwpolisci.bsky.social & the La Follette School of Public Affairs)! I'm chairing the search committee. Please share with your networks #polisky #PSJMinfo

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FEATURED JOB: Elihu Rose Scholar in Modern Military History, New York University Arts and Science, www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

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Proposal deadline January 15! Theme: "History, Social Science, and Digital Methods for Researching China" fudan-uc.ucsd.edu/events/young...

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Meet our Board - Ruth Morgan - @ruthamorgan.bsky.social I am interested in “developing a portfolio of prizes to recognise and celebrate cutting-edge contributions to the study of environmental history.” #envhist

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The University of Glasgow History Department has just advertized a tenure track position in early modern and modern Asian history with a strong interest in Chinese and East Asian history: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

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www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/the-... @sjpyne.bsky.social busy right now. @iceho.bsky.social

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A little historical context as Eaton fire moves toward Mt Wilson - photo shows the observatory watching fires from the 1924 season, which was considered monstrous at the time, and might be taken as the first of a century-long cycle of historic conflagrations.

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Applications are open for the 2025-27 Past & Present Fellowships @ihr.bsky.social are open Applications close on 31st Jan 2025 Fellows appointed will commence on 1st Oct 2025 and be tenable for 24 months Please share with your network www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

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One of my advisees, a former student, and an all-time great China historian. Must've been an awesome panel.

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Moments and people like these make academia worth it :) #AHA25 @yixueyang.bsky.social @yiming.bsky.social

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Sitting at the crossroad of #feminism and Afro-Asian solidarity: “representations of Afro-Asian solidarity prioritise men’s internationalist activism&homosocial bonds, often simplify women’s role." #MabelRobinsonWilliams #blackfeminism madeinchinajournal.com/2024/04/10/t... @madeinchinajournal.com

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Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025⁠

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Deadlines approaching! Tuesday is the last day for submissions to the St Andrews Article Prize, but the deadlines for the Turku Book Prize and the Tallinn Dissertation Prize are also coming up soon. #EnvHist

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Bob Reinhardt’s “Exploring Submerged Resilience” reflects on the Atlas of Drowned Towns, a public digital history project that provides a platform for exploring and recording the histories of US towns that moved or disappeared to make way for big dams. Read more in the American Historical Review. 🗃️

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Best TV show of the year. Also, the only one I've watched, but I enjoyed it. www.fxnetworks.com/shows/englis...

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Anyone else remember when Noah's Bagels was actually pretty decent?

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RIP to an all-time great.

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I was a little too young to be aware of his first stint in Oakland, but I have fond memories of sitting in the bleachers and watching him play CF when he returned.

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RIP to an all-time great.

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Environmentalists Warn U.S. Running Out Of Small Wooded Areas Where Buddies Can Smoke Up theonion.com/environmenta...

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My first term of teaching in the AI era was not fun.

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Teaching evaluations have arrived. Scared to look...

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Author copies arrived this week! I just mailed this stack to family and friends, an experience that leaves me brimming with gratitude. Thanks also to everyone at @uncpress.bsky.social who helped make this possible!

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