Lina Mair
mair-lina.bsky.social
Lina Mair
@mair-lina.bsky.social
Intrigued by the depths and complexities of change, past and present
PhD candidate (project on early Vermont), Historian/Americanist
history of Early America and transatlantic history, revolutions, spaces, knowledge, culture
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This is profoundly bad. The data generated by NASA feeds research in many, MANY disciplines. I, for instance, am a historian, and my dissertation (now book project) uses satellite imagery as a major source for exploring the historical relationship between people and the environment.
August 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Everything is terrible, except the view-from-below paws of this ready-to-sew trompe l’oeil cat issued by Arnold Print Works, MA c. 1892 (courtesy Fashion and Textile Museum London)
August 16, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Why? This doesn't make sense
Cries in PhD candidate
I really wanted to apply, but clearly this one is not yet for me
August 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Tragedy in Texas hill country, where 4 months’ worth of rain in just four hours caused Guadalupe River levels to spike 30 feet in just an hour and a half - in the middle of the night.

Two dozen are dead in the resulting floods and another 20 young campers still missing.

apnews.com/article/texa...
Why the Texas floods were so severe
Flooding rains in and around Kerr County had brought a widespread 10 to 15 total inches by Friday morning. Four months of rainfall came down in four hours.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Recent survey attack in my emails: What can we do so people accept AI more at their workplace?
My thoughts: please stop.
and: people are likely to accept it too easily, so maybe put some questions in between? Like maybe asking how, when, and where it would actually be useful?
July 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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My colleagues put together an excited program for the Konstanz University's Mediterranean Platform in the upcoming summer term - and many presentations are hybrid!
Feel free to share 😀
April 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
On this day in 1911 a fire destroyed a large section of the New York State Capitol. It included the collections of the New York State Library which were housed there at the time. Within hours vast amounts of documents were reduced to ashes. #history nyslibrary.libguides.com/capitolfire/...
Resources: Capitol Fire: The Capitol Fire of March 29, 1911
Resources: Capitol Fire: The Capitol Fire of March 29, 1911
nyslibrary.libguides.com
March 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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The guy in charge of The Atlantic.
a computer generated image of the earth with a few green dots on it
Alt: Atlantic Ocean
media.tenor.com
March 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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For #WomensHistoryMonth: Mary Norris, an early American woman of #science, loaned her telescope to Philadelphia’s observation of the 1769 Transit of Venus (part of an international astronomical effort). Norris was formidable—John Adams said that if she’d been his wife, “I should have shot myself”
March 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Please share: Master students, come to wonderful Konstanz, study with my wonderful colleagues, have great discussions in the Mediterranean Platform, attend wonderful excursions and enjoy a cafeteria with a lake view: 😎🤩
www.connections.clio-online.net/studyprogram...
MA Mediterranean History at the University of Konstanz
Program Focus: The Mediterranean as a dynamic historical space, shaped by cultural, economic, and political entanglements. - Transregional and comparative perspectives, connecting Europe, Asia, Africa...
www.connections.clio-online.net
March 21, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Re-reading this wonderful book
March 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Äiti would tell me to put the book away, and go out and play.
March 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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I already cancelled my trip and I‘m not the only one I‘ve seen this conference season, I expect more people to do the same as SCMS, PCA and other events in my field get closer (like by this point we were all long booked and it‘s financially tougher to back out than simply not to book).
A lot of global academic conferencing is centered around the US, and US academic orgs have to be thinking very seriously now. You cannot continue to carry on with in person conferencing as if foreign scholars have no impediments to travel.
I know we like to pretend everything is "normal" again but..
March 16, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Heute wäre sie 92 geworden. Rest in power.
March 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Notes from Early American history

In September 1766 governor Henry Moore of colonial New York and Guy Carleton future governor of Quebec met at Isle de la Motte, Vermont.
There they discussed the location of the boundary between the two provinces paving the ground for the Canadian border.
March 15, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Finally made the step to join here!
November 14, 2024 at 10:34 AM