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Bobby Lee
@bobbylee.bsky.social
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Historian of the United States, mostly in the 19th c., colonialism, land, GIS. American abroad
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Bobby Lee @bobbylee.bsky.social · Jun 12
My latest article just published and is open access, for now at least.

It’s about how Brown got reparations for property made by slaves after the American Revolution. 🗃️
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Justice for the Edifice: Praying Compensation for Rhode Island College, 1770–1800
In 1770, Rhode Island College, now Brown University, erected the biggest building in Providence. Donations tied to the slave trade funded the College Edifice, now University Hall. Some donors grew ric...
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Bobby Lee @bobbylee.bsky.social · 2h
Anyway huge congrats to these three!
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Bobby Lee @bobbylee.bsky.social · 2h
Imagine making a huge scientific breakthrough, winning a nobel prize for it, and CNN reduces it to "Harry Potter-like work"
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Bobby Lee @bobbylee.bsky.social · 9h
Finalists for the National Book Awards
www.nationalbook.org/2025-nationa...
2025 National Book Awards Finalists Announced
Twenty-five Finalists to contend for National Book Awards in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature
www.nationalbook.org
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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 11h
Seriously, this is amazing.
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 11h
🧠 Alzheimer’s reversed in mice

A new study found that injecting nanoparticles can 'remind' the blood–brain barrier to function properly again, restoring normal brain activity in mice. Human trials could follow within years.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #Alzheimers 🧪
Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy
Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy - Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport
www.nature.com
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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 19h
Archives!
Ah!-chives
Argh!-chives
Blah!-chives!

What was your last research day like?

Mine has been a lot of argh!, alas.

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social · 20h
It's the official publication day for ETHANOL: A HEMISPHERIC HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE OF BIOFUELS. Want to know why the US turns 40 percent of the corn crop into fuel? How the US and Brazil became the world's two largest ethanol producers? Tom Rogers and I have answers.
www.oupress.com/978080619601...
Ethanol - University of Oklahoma Press
Though ethanol, a liquid fuel made from agricultural byproducts, has generated controversy in recent years—good or bad for the environment? a big-ag boon o...
www.oupress.com
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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · 1d
Yesterday I submitted the proofs for Claiming Land, Claiming Water: Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic. This volume I’m editing with Jessica Roney is out next spring with @pennpress.bsky.social, but here’s a peek now at our table of contents!
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Bobby Lee @bobbylee.bsky.social · 1d
The EOs effects were/are so extensive and complicated that we don’t have any published maps that even attempt to visualize the transformation writ large beyond 1890 (and do a questionable job before then), at least not to my knowledge
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Bobby Lee @bobbylee.bsky.social · 1d
The EOs get rolled up in the lit with statutes and treaties, and “treaty-like agreements,” itself a bizarre bit of legalwashing that’s taken hold through repetition
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Bobby Lee @bobbylee.bsky.social · 1d
Thinking these days about how extensively the US used Executive Orders in the late 19th and early 20th c. to take and reconfigure Indigenous land.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 1d
What an amazing book. Just incredible
Picture of “What Jane Knew ANISHINAABE STORIES AND AMERICAN IMPERIALISM, 1815-1845” by MAUREEN KONKLE
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Bobby Lee @bobbylee.bsky.social · 1d
Once again gave several ai enabled tools a shot, once again disappointed
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Bobby Lee @bobbylee.bsky.social · 1d
Periodic reminder: 3 weeks left to apply for this assistant prof of 20th c US history job 🗃️

Please spread the word!
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Bobby Lee @bobbylee.bsky.social · 5d
Once again, please tell your friends who want to study the modern US but not live in it about this job

Applications close on Oct 27
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor, History of the United States since 1920
The Faculty of History is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in post-1920 U.S. political history and/or the history of the United States in the World since 1920, beginning 1 October, 2026. The
www.cam.ac.uk
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Humap: the digital humanities map platform @humap.bsky.social · 2d
Pictured: 1853 Plan of the Town of #Tampa, #Florida, #UnitedStates

This beautiful georeferenced map is from Tampa Through Time, created by the University of South Florida!

Take a look tampa-through-time.humap.si...

#MapMonday #MappyMonday #USA #USAHistory #GIS #HGIS
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 4d
Dartmouth’s response to the Trump admin’s corrupt contract, short and sweet: “You have often heard me say that higher education is not perfect and that we can do better. At the same time, we will never compromise our academic freedom and our ability to govern ourselves.”
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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 4d
Dartmouth response to the Trump Administration Compact

president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10...
Response to the ‘Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education’ | Office of the President
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Bobby Lee @bobbylee.bsky.social · 4d
Nobody tell the admin about the big ol’ peace medals the mint used to make
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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 4d
Excellent resolution from UVA. Well done, @uvahumanities.bsky.social

Now, friends at Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Texas, etc need to step up.
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Bobby Lee @bobbylee.bsky.social · 4d
Big Vinegar is not gonna like this
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Viral apple cider vinegar weight loss study retracted for flawed science
BMJ Group has pulled a widely reported apple cider vinegar weight-loss study after experts uncovered major flaws in its data and analysis. Attempts to replicate the results failed, and irregularities ...
www.sciencedaily.com
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Bobby Lee @bobbylee.bsky.social · 4d
‘The somewhat eyebrow-raising term Dr Jordan and others in the field use to refer to what they are creating is "wetware".’
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Scientists race to make 'living' computers powered by human cells
BBC News goes inside the lab powering computers with 'mini brains' grown from human cells.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 5d
Apply for this free PhD course on Energy Humanities in Stavanger, Norway!

Please pass the opportunity on to students you know. Students from anywhere are welcome.

#envhum #envhist
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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 22d
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
Poster showing a wind turbine from frog perspective. The picture is in light pink and blue nuances and announces a PhD course in energy humanities. More information can be found in this website. https://www.uis.no/en/research/collaboration/the-greenhouse-centre-for-environmental-humanities/humanities/apply-for-phd
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Richards Center Penn State @richardscenter.bsky.social · 4d
We're looking for TWO postdoctoral scholars in African American history and history of the Civil War era. Fellowships are for two years, and the anticipated start date is July 1, 2026. The deadline to apply is NOVEMBER 1!

Links in the replies below.
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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 5d
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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 5d
Here is a review of my new book *Freedom Ship* by Eric Foner, published yesterday in *The New York Review of Books* (@nybooks.com).

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
The Underground Railroad’s Stealth Sailors | Eric Foner
The web of Atlantic trading routes and solidarity among maritime workers, many of them Black, meant fugitive slaves’ chances of reaching freedom below deck were better than over land.
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Bobby Lee @bobbylee.bsky.social · 5d
Probably think about this like once a month
www.theguardian.com/science/2007...
From Bambi to Moby-Dick: How a small deer evolved into the whale
Fossil hunters have discovered the remains of the earliest ancestor of the modern whale: a small deer-like animal that waded in lagoons and munched on vegetation
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Bobby Lee @bobbylee.bsky.social · 5d
“Just four of the 26 members remain on the council’s website: Russell Berman, Keegan Callanan, William English and Matthew Rose, The Washington Post reported. All four were appointed by President Trump.”
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Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn @michellelkahn.bsky.social · 5d
More bad news re: the authoritarian takeover of the Humanities:

thehill.com/homenews/adm...
White House dismisses majority of National Council on the Humanities
The White House dismissed the majority of members on the National Council on the Humanities on Wednesday. Just four of the 26 members remain on the council’s website: Russell Berman, Keegan Callana…
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Bloomberg Tax @bloombergtax.com · 5d
The Oklahoma Supreme Court broke with 150 years of precedent when it held that Native Americans living and working on tribal land must pay state income tax, a Muscogee (Creek) Nation citizen told the US Supreme Court.
Tribal Member Asks Supreme Court to Review Oklahoma Tax Ruling
The Oklahoma Supreme Court broke with 150 years of precedent when it held that Native Americans living and working on tribal land must pay state income tax, a Muscogee (Creek) Nation citizen told the US Supreme Court.
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