Gregory A Good
@geocosmohistory.bsky.social
I am Gregory (Greg) Good, historian of science, with an eye on technology, environment, and bigger worldviews. I write about human understanding of Earth and our near-space environment since about 1800. #histsci #histech #envhist #histgeo
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Day two on Blue sky, I should define my interests a little: #histsci #histech, history of geology, geophysics, meteorology, aeronomy, near space, astronomy. I'm interested, in short, in the long term implications of Copernicus
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Introducing our Spring 2026 catalog—featuring bold new voices, groundbreaking studies, and artful reimaginings across genres.📚
#SpringReads #NewReleases #BookCatalog
#SpringReads #NewReleases #BookCatalog
November 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Introducing our Spring 2026 catalog—featuring bold new voices, groundbreaking studies, and artful reimaginings across genres.📚
#SpringReads #NewReleases #BookCatalog
#SpringReads #NewReleases #BookCatalog
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Jack Bouchard writes about Terra Nova, one of the earliest sites of colonial fishing activity in North America for our blog. Read now:
Harbours and Beaches Alongside a Forgotten Sea: Terra Nova's Legacy - Yale University Press
Jack Bouchard— On a September day in the year 1542, a French Basque captain named Robert Lefant sat in a portside room in the little Spanish town of Fuenterrabía, answering... READ MORE
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October 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Jack Bouchard writes about Terra Nova, one of the earliest sites of colonial fishing activity in North America for our blog. Read now:
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Interview: Historian of science Michael Gordin tells us why he and Diana Buchwald felt there was room for another book on Einstein, why fascination with Einstein remains high, and new areas of Einstein research. popsciencebooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/mich... #interview #einstein #historyofscience
Michael Gordin - Five Way Interview
Michael D. Gordin is Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and Dean of the College at Princeton University. A specialist ...
popsciencebooks.blogspot.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Interview: Historian of science Michael Gordin tells us why he and Diana Buchwald felt there was room for another book on Einstein, why fascination with Einstein remains high, and new areas of Einstein research. popsciencebooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/mich... #interview #einstein #historyofscience
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October 27, 1930, birthday of American mathematician and computer programmer Gladys Mae West.
She created an accurate model of the Earth's shape, and her work on satellite geodesic modelling laid the foundations for GPS technology 🛰️🌐
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_...
She created an accurate model of the Earth's shape, and her work on satellite geodesic modelling laid the foundations for GPS technology 🛰️🌐
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_...
October 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
October 27, 1930, birthday of American mathematician and computer programmer Gladys Mae West.
She created an accurate model of the Earth's shape, and her work on satellite geodesic modelling laid the foundations for GPS technology 🛰️🌐
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_...
She created an accurate model of the Earth's shape, and her work on satellite geodesic modelling laid the foundations for GPS technology 🛰️🌐
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_...
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Reading William Whewell's 1832 review of Lyell's Principles of Geology, Vol 2, in which he coined "uniformitarianism", and I just love this passage summarizing what in many modern geological textbooks would describe as the principle of uniformitarianism.
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babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hv...
October 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Reading William Whewell's 1832 review of Lyell's Principles of Geology, Vol 2, in which he coined "uniformitarianism", and I just love this passage summarizing what in many modern geological textbooks would describe as the principle of uniformitarianism.
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hv...
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hv...
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In our editorial introduction (free to all to read!) we lay out our decolonial approach and why we won’t define “Indigenous” or “maps and mapping”
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Issue Editors’ Introduction: Indigenous Maps and Mapping
Published in Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography (Vol. 77, No. 1, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
In our editorial introduction (free to all to read!) we lay out our decolonial approach and why we won’t define “Indigenous” or “maps and mapping”
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Issue 77.1 of @imagomundi.bsky.social is out!
I co-edited this issue on Indigenous maps and mapping with Natchee Blu Barnd. Articles cover topics in North America, Africa, and Hawai’i.
#newissue #histcart #maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
I co-edited this issue on Indigenous maps and mapping with Natchee Blu Barnd. Articles cover topics in North America, Africa, and Hawai’i.
#newissue #histcart #maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
Imago Mundi
Volume 77, Issue 1 of Imago Mundi
www.tandfonline.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Issue 77.1 of @imagomundi.bsky.social is out!
I co-edited this issue on Indigenous maps and mapping with Natchee Blu Barnd. Articles cover topics in North America, Africa, and Hawai’i.
#newissue #histcart #maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
I co-edited this issue on Indigenous maps and mapping with Natchee Blu Barnd. Articles cover topics in North America, Africa, and Hawai’i.
#newissue #histcart #maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
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Congratulations to this year's winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics. Be sure to check out our oral histories with:
John Martinis: repository.aip.org/node/129661
Michel Devoret: repository.aip.org/node/129778
John Martinis: repository.aip.org/node/129661
Michel Devoret: repository.aip.org/node/129778
October 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Congratulations to this year's winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics. Be sure to check out our oral histories with:
John Martinis: repository.aip.org/node/129661
Michel Devoret: repository.aip.org/node/129778
John Martinis: repository.aip.org/node/129661
Michel Devoret: repository.aip.org/node/129778
I'll be listening to this podcast later today. The Carrington Event set the stage for generations of study of solar effects on the terrestrial environment and on our emerging electromagnetic techno system.
Want to hear the latest Supermassive Podcast episode? 🎙️📻
It's all about the world's most powerful solar explosion 166 years ago – the Carrington Event – and why something similar today could be devastating. ☀️🌍
Check it out via your usual podcast provider or at: podfollow.com/supermassive/
It's all about the world's most powerful solar explosion 166 years ago – the Carrington Event – and why something similar today could be devastating. ☀️🌍
Check it out via your usual podcast provider or at: podfollow.com/supermassive/
October 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I'll be listening to this podcast later today. The Carrington Event set the stage for generations of study of solar effects on the terrestrial environment and on our emerging electromagnetic techno system.
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Very happy to announce that the Handbook of the Historiography of Earth and Environmental Sciences I coedited with Elena Aronova and Marco Tamborini is now available, for free (open access) via this link:
link.springer.com/referencewor...
link.springer.com/referencewor...
Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences
This open access handbook assesses the historiography and the future of major themes and approaches within the history of the earth sciences.
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October 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Very happy to announce that the Handbook of the Historiography of Earth and Environmental Sciences I coedited with Elena Aronova and Marco Tamborini is now available, for free (open access) via this link:
link.springer.com/referencewor...
link.springer.com/referencewor...
If you are in Toronto...
📅 Join us for the IHPST Fall 2025 Colloquium on Oct 9 🕒 3-5 PM and hear about three of Darwin's guiding assumptions about common ancestry. More information here: ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/ihpst...
October 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
If you are in Toronto...
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After a long hiatus, AIP's postdoc position for historians of the physical sciences is back!
3 years, $77,500 per year + benefits. Work in the Washington, DC area, close to Univ of Maryland. Open to US citizens/permanent residents. Apply by Nov. 15! #histsci
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3 years, $77,500 per year + benefits. Work in the Washington, DC area, close to Univ of Maryland. Open to US citizens/permanent residents. Apply by Nov. 15! #histsci
workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...
September 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
After a long hiatus, AIP's postdoc position for historians of the physical sciences is back!
3 years, $77,500 per year + benefits. Work in the Washington, DC area, close to Univ of Maryland. Open to US citizens/permanent residents. Apply by Nov. 15! #histsci
workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...
3 years, $77,500 per year + benefits. Work in the Washington, DC area, close to Univ of Maryland. Open to US citizens/permanent residents. Apply by Nov. 15! #histsci
workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...
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Tomorrow 9/30 12pm EST, hear historian of science and exploration Michael Robinson talk on "Out There: Scientists, Exoplanets, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life," a Brown Bag for the @amphilsociety.bsky.social: bit.ly/4nZBr4S
#HPS #histsci
#HPS #histsci
This Week: 2026-2027 Library & Museum Fellowship Opportunities Now Available
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September 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Tomorrow 9/30 12pm EST, hear historian of science and exploration Michael Robinson talk on "Out There: Scientists, Exoplanets, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life," a Brown Bag for the @amphilsociety.bsky.social: bit.ly/4nZBr4S
#HPS #histsci
#HPS #histsci
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At AIP we've launched a new policy research program to go deep on current questions and pull together more comprehensive pictures. Leading this work, Lindsay Milliken has produced her first public product, a primer on the new $100,000 fee on H-1B petitions.
Policy primer: A new $100,000 fee on H-1B Visas
President Trump has issued a proclamation requiring a $100,000 payment for each new H-1B petition. We examine what it does and does not do, how it is being justified, and what developments to look out...
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September 26, 2025 at 1:41 AM
At AIP we've launched a new policy research program to go deep on current questions and pull together more comprehensive pictures. Leading this work, Lindsay Milliken has produced her first public product, a primer on the new $100,000 fee on H-1B petitions.
A photo from a grueling hike in the White Mountains in New Hampshire. The views through rain and mist and occasional wings were incredible. Vacation ends soon.
September 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
A photo from a grueling hike in the White Mountains in New Hampshire. The views through rain and mist and occasional wings were incredible. Vacation ends soon.
Copenhagen calling for an #HPS postdoc
#HPS program at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for Postdoc in History and Philosophy of Science as part of research project Human Variables in Biodiversity Assessment (PI: Joeri Witteveen): employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...
#philsky #PhilJobs #philsci
Deadline is November 7, 2025.
#philsky #PhilJobs #philsci
Deadline is November 7, 2025.
Post-doc position in History and Philosophy of Science
employment.ku.dk
September 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Copenhagen calling for an #HPS postdoc
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2025 marks the end of three decades of work in history of physics at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.
We talked to Alex Blum, who led the 7-year Final Theory history research group there, about what they learned, how they worked, and how it can be a model for future #histsci.
We talked to Alex Blum, who led the 7-year Final Theory history research group there, about what they learned, how they worked, and how it can be a model for future #histsci.
Q&A: Alex Blum on the Final Theory history group
AIP History Weekly Edition: September 19, 2025
www.aip.org
September 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
2025 marks the end of three decades of work in history of physics at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.
We talked to Alex Blum, who led the 7-year Final Theory history research group there, about what they learned, how they worked, and how it can be a model for future #histsci.
We talked to Alex Blum, who led the 7-year Final Theory history research group there, about what they learned, how they worked, and how it can be a model for future #histsci.
The journal Earth Science History, which I edited earlier in my career, has an issue out on the discovery of the Megalosaurus
The journal Earth Sciences History has a series of articles honoring the 200th anniversary of the naming of Megalosaurus:
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September 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The journal Earth Science History, which I edited earlier in my career, has an issue out on the discovery of the Megalosaurus
A follow-up to my repost yesterday for applicants to Cambridge
If applying by Oct 15th, PhD applicants should contact prospective supervisor ahead of time to get feedback on research proposal. If applying for Dec 2nd deadline, there'll be an online advice session Nov 4 w/ our Director of Postgrad Ed Nick Hopwood on how to make a strong application. Sign up:
Postgraduate Open Days | Postgraduate Study
Virtual Postgraduate Open Days 2025 Warm-up webinars: 1 September & 6 October Virtual Open Days: 3 to 14 November Join us for our Virtual Postgraduate Open Days and discover if Cambridge is the right ...
www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk
August 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
A follow-up to my repost yesterday for applicants to Cambridge
US colleagues in #philsci #sts #histsci #histmed, please encourage your students to consider the Gates Cambridge Scholarships. Deadline for US residents is October 15th. They need to first apply for admission to the Department of HPS for MPhil or PhD (2026 entry) www.hps.cam.ac.uk/study/postgr...
International Scholarship at The University of Cambridge
International postgraduate scholarships at the University of Cambridge
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August 26, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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@naomioreskes.bsky.social gave this *excellent* interview at @rigb.org back in May. A great primer on a lot of big problems in science - trust, disinformation, freedom - and why the onus is on scientists 🧪
Misinformation and distrust in science - with Naomi Oreskes
YouTube video by The Royal Institution
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August 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
@naomioreskes.bsky.social gave this *excellent* interview at @rigb.org back in May. A great primer on a lot of big problems in science - trust, disinformation, freedom - and why the onus is on scientists 🧪
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So excited to share my new article in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social:
"Colonial World-Making and Global Knowledges at the Early Modern Cape of Good Hope" (Open access)
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
"Colonial World-Making and Global Knowledges at the Early Modern Cape of Good Hope" (Open access)
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
August 7, 2025 at 9:08 AM
So excited to share my new article in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social:
"Colonial World-Making and Global Knowledges at the Early Modern Cape of Good Hope" (Open access)
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
"Colonial World-Making and Global Knowledges at the Early Modern Cape of Good Hope" (Open access)
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
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Check out my contribution to Elena Aronova, @hallucigenia.bsky.social & Marco Tamborini's "Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences," an essay on the "Historiography of the International Geophysical Year (1957–1958)" #histsci #envhist
link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
Historiography of the International Geophysical Year (1957–1958)
This chapter explores the International Geophysical Year (IGY) as a landmark moment in the history of geophysical sciences, examining its origins, execution, and lasting impact through the lens of existing scholarship. Initiated in the early 1950s, the IGY harnessed...
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August 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Check out my contribution to Elena Aronova, @hallucigenia.bsky.social & Marco Tamborini's "Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences," an essay on the "Historiography of the International Geophysical Year (1957–1958)" #histsci #envhist
link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
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I just noticed that Metropolitan Science will be out in paperback - exciting news! Not available until next year, but can be pre-ordered for a relatively affordable £26.09 @jasminekt.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli... #earlymodern #histSTM 🗃️
Metropolitan Science
Exploring distinctive practices in the artisanal, mercantile, and governmental sites of London, Metropolitan Science offers a new perspective on the development…
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August 4, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I just noticed that Metropolitan Science will be out in paperback - exciting news! Not available until next year, but can be pre-ordered for a relatively affordable £26.09 @jasminekt.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli... #earlymodern #histSTM 🗃️
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A nice article on the importance of long term observing by Chris Trail:
theconversation.com/an-underwate...
theconversation.com/an-underwate...
An underwater observatory keeping the pulse of the Southern Ocean for nearly 30 years yields fresh results
From the wave-lashed surface to the deep sea, the Southern Ocean Time Series is a crucial tool for scientists to keep the pulse of this important region of Earth.
theconversation.com
July 30, 2025 at 3:45 AM
A nice article on the importance of long term observing by Chris Trail:
theconversation.com/an-underwate...
theconversation.com/an-underwate...