Edward Guimont
@eguimont.bsky.social
Historian, focus on science, colonialism, and pseudoscience.
Co-author of When the Stars are Right: H. P. Lovecraft and Astronomy (Hippocampus Press, 2023)
Be on the lookout for The Power of the Flat Earth Idea, out soonish from Palgrave Macmillan
Co-author of When the Stars are Right: H. P. Lovecraft and Astronomy (Hippocampus Press, 2023)
Be on the lookout for The Power of the Flat Earth Idea, out soonish from Palgrave Macmillan
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Edward Guimont
@eguimont.bsky.social
· Nov 15
The stars are right for you to buy, or ask your local library to purchase, a copy of When the Stars are Right: H. P. Lovecraft and Astronomy from the friendly shipping shoggoths of Hippocampus Press!
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Can anyone recommend a good text / source for sea monsters and imagined marine life in early modern period? Niche request. Cheers!
November 12, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Can anyone recommend a good text / source for sea monsters and imagined marine life in early modern period? Niche request. Cheers!
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Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are."
November 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are."
My article on Mark Twain's interest in astronomy, written with research done at @marktwain.bsky.social, is now out:
Shadow of the Comet: Mark Twain, Astronomy, and Space Fiction
Abstract. Mark Twain was born in 1835, the same year Halley’s Comet appeared. Near the end of his life, Twain became convinced he would die with the comet’s return in 1910, which he did. This article ...
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October 30, 2025 at 12:34 AM
My article on Mark Twain's interest in astronomy, written with research done at @marktwain.bsky.social, is now out:
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I've got an article in November's @historytoday.com on the remarkably durable hypothesis that Earth is hollow, from Halley to Symmes to underground feminist utopias to UFOs. You know the drill — to the centre of the Earth (I've probably used that one before).
October 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
I've got an article in November's @historytoday.com on the remarkably durable hypothesis that Earth is hollow, from Halley to Symmes to underground feminist utopias to UFOs. You know the drill — to the centre of the Earth (I've probably used that one before).
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A call for 🦕🦖🦣 contributors! With Victor Monnin, I'm editing a collection about extinct animal parks—it's a field guide, of sorts, that turns a critical eye on places real, imagined, and yet to be. Find the full CFP for LANDS OF THE LOST here: tinyurl.com/dinoparks #PaleoSky #HistSci #EnvHist #STS
October 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
A call for 🦕🦖🦣 contributors! With Victor Monnin, I'm editing a collection about extinct animal parks—it's a field guide, of sorts, that turns a critical eye on places real, imagined, and yet to be. Find the full CFP for LANDS OF THE LOST here: tinyurl.com/dinoparks #PaleoSky #HistSci #EnvHist #STS
In honor of today’s holiday in the US, I present an article I wrote for @eclasproject.bsky.social on how Columbus came to be seen as the one who disproved the Flat Earth:
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Flat-out stupid
Questions for discussion
eclas.shorthandstories.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
In honor of today’s holiday in the US, I present an article I wrote for @eclasproject.bsky.social on how Columbus came to be seen as the one who disproved the Flat Earth:
eclas.shorthandstories.com/lent/flat-ou...
eclas.shorthandstories.com/lent/flat-ou...
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When the Soviet Union fell, Russians lost their sense of past and future at once. Collective hallucinations flourished in the void.
In the United States, our reality is now disintegrating in a similar way.
In the United States, our reality is now disintegrating in a similar way.
When a Superpower Declines, Shared Reality Dissolves
When the Soviet Union fell, Russians lost their sense of past and future at once. Collective hallucinations flourished in the void. In the United States, our reality is now disintegrating in a similar way.
jacobin.com
October 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
When the Soviet Union fell, Russians lost their sense of past and future at once. Collective hallucinations flourished in the void.
In the United States, our reality is now disintegrating in a similar way.
In the United States, our reality is now disintegrating in a similar way.
From Journal of UFO History Vol. 1 No. 3 (Jul/Aug 2004). The man in the goatee between Fuller and McDonald is Richard C. Hoagland, of Space Shuttle Enterprise, Face on Mars, and Hale-Bopp fame.
September 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
From Journal of UFO History Vol. 1 No. 3 (Jul/Aug 2004). The man in the goatee between Fuller and McDonald is Richard C. Hoagland, of Space Shuttle Enterprise, Face on Mars, and Hale-Bopp fame.
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This week, I had a wild chat with Dr Jerrold Coe about the weirdness of paperback forteana in the 50s, 60s, and 70s- the pulpy madness of recycled stories, crazy cover art, and myth making for fun and profit.
Coe writes about these titles on his blog, Paperbacks 🧵
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Coe writes about these titles on his blog, Paperbacks 🧵
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Collecting Old Weird Paperbacks with Jerrold Coe
Podcast Episode · The AP Strange Show · 09/28/2025 · 1h 32m
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September 28, 2025 at 11:51 AM
This week, I had a wild chat with Dr Jerrold Coe about the weirdness of paperback forteana in the 50s, 60s, and 70s- the pulpy madness of recycled stories, crazy cover art, and myth making for fun and profit.
Coe writes about these titles on his blog, Paperbacks 🧵
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Coe writes about these titles on his blog, Paperbacks 🧵
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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🚨THIS IS NOT A DRILL🚨
#batw2026 is celebrating two decades over two weeks!
Join us online 18-19 April 2026 or in person in Boston 24-25 April 2026!
Check out and share the CFP. You won’t want to miss it! britainandtheworld.org/2026-20-year...
#batw2026 is celebrating two decades over two weeks!
Join us online 18-19 April 2026 or in person in Boston 24-25 April 2026!
Check out and share the CFP. You won’t want to miss it! britainandtheworld.org/2026-20-year...
2026 - 20 Years of BATW Events Page — Britain and the World
britainandtheworld.org
September 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
🚨THIS IS NOT A DRILL🚨
#batw2026 is celebrating two decades over two weeks!
Join us online 18-19 April 2026 or in person in Boston 24-25 April 2026!
Check out and share the CFP. You won’t want to miss it! britainandtheworld.org/2026-20-year...
#batw2026 is celebrating two decades over two weeks!
Join us online 18-19 April 2026 or in person in Boston 24-25 April 2026!
Check out and share the CFP. You won’t want to miss it! britainandtheworld.org/2026-20-year...
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Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
September 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
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Dogs are getting vaccinated less and rabies rates are rising, in part because 37% of Americans think vaccines will give their dogs... pawtism.
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September 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Dogs are getting vaccinated less and rabies rates are rising, in part because 37% of Americans think vaccines will give their dogs... pawtism.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Beginning the journey of reading through the APRO Bulletin for a project related to the history of ufology for next year’s plate.
August 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Beginning the journey of reading through the APRO Bulletin for a project related to the history of ufology for next year’s plate.
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Words/phrases Democrats should never use:
* bipartisan
* my Republican friends
* real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans)
* yea (when voting on Republican bills)
* distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did)
* woke (in derogatory sense)
* bipartisan
* my Republican friends
* real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans)
* yea (when voting on Republican bills)
* distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did)
* woke (in derogatory sense)
August 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Words/phrases Democrats should never use:
* bipartisan
* my Republican friends
* real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans)
* yea (when voting on Republican bills)
* distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did)
* woke (in derogatory sense)
* bipartisan
* my Republican friends
* real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans)
* yea (when voting on Republican bills)
* distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did)
* woke (in derogatory sense)
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Okay I guess I can see why this new logo is controversial
August 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Okay I guess I can see why this new logo is controversial
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My new piece for @newrepublic.com looks at the super-weird origins of the Right's hatred of the Smithsonian, tying in the Enola Gay, Bible Giants, the History Channel, and racism. newrepublic.com/article/1992...
The Super-Weird Origins of the Right’s Hatred of the Smithsonian
The Trump administration has stepped up its antagonism of America’s treasured museums. But conservative antipathy toward the institution began long ago—with the bones of Bible giants.
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August 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
My new piece for @newrepublic.com looks at the super-weird origins of the Right's hatred of the Smithsonian, tying in the Enola Gay, Bible Giants, the History Channel, and racism. newrepublic.com/article/1992...
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the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
August 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
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Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt theonion.com/researc...
August 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt theonion.com/researc...
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lol it actually happened
June 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM
lol it actually happened
How many Democrats who made a career of saying “vote blue no matter who” for the last decade will now endorse an independent running against the winner of the Democratic primary?
June 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
How many Democrats who made a career of saying “vote blue no matter who” for the last decade will now endorse an independent running against the winner of the Democratic primary?
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After almost six years of work, my manuscript on the political history of the Flat Earth movement has been sent in to the publisher.
May 31, 2025 at 7:42 PM
After almost six years of work, my manuscript on the political history of the Flat Earth movement has been sent in to the publisher.