Dr. Penelope K Hardy
@pkhardy.bsky.social
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Historian of science, technology, & medicine, especially tech of ocean science. Associate professor of history. Book review editor for H-Sci-Med-Tech & H-Oceans. She/her/hers.
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Dr. Penelope K Hardy @pkhardy.bsky.social · Nov 2
Calling all grad students, independent scholars, librarians, museum pros, academics …

✔️this list of available 📚 & DM me to review your pick for H-SciMedTech!

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#HSTM #HPS #STS #HistSci #PhilSci #HistTech #HistMed #RHM #LitMed #MedSocio #MedAnthro #MediaStudies #InfoStudies
H-SciMedTech Books for Review
Below are the books currently available for review with H-SciMedTech. Interested in reviewing one? Message Penelope Hardy @pkhardy on Twitter or @pkhardy.bsky.social, or send an email to phardy@uwlax...
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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 23h
My colleague Jack Bouchard's book Terra Nova is out today! It's about early 16th-century mariners and the seasonal fishery around present-day Newfoundland, and its place within the Atlantic World. I cannot wait to read it

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Terra Nova
A bottom-up story of the fishworkers, whalers, First Nations, merchantwomen, oceans, and animals who together made a new colonial world in the early Atlantic...
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Dr. Penelope K Hardy @pkhardy.bsky.social · 1d
Oops, _Architecture Follows Fish: An Amphibious History of the North Atlantic_, was published *2024* @mitpress.bsky.social

and you can find it here: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204910...
Architecture Follows Fish
Architecture Follows Fish is set in the North Atlantic, and its protagonist is fish. In this book author and architect André Tavares explores the notion of ...
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Dr. Penelope K Hardy @pkhardy.bsky.social · 1d
🌊🌊🌊 New on H-Oceans 🌊🌊🌊

Check out Katherine McNally (@yale.edu)’s review of André Tavares (University of Porto)’s book _Architecture Follows Fish: An Amphibious History of the North Atlantic_, pub 2022 @mitpress.bsky.social

#oceans‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬
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Review available
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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 1d
Sent this q to VICTORIA, but also figure I should ask here — does anyone know of scholarship on strategies that advertisers (e.g. of fraudulent or illegal goods or services) used to evade surveillence, esp in Victorian Britain? Or strategies that advertisers used to track responses to ads in +
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dr. eerie katherine @actualkatherine.bsky.social · 2d
Also hey if any of y'all have Baltimore-based/-related USCT stories or tidbits of info, pleeeeease send them my way! I'm determined to do a Black Baltimore in the Civil War tour someday
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 2d
If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.
CFP: A Time of Monsters
The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 3d
my wife is a Cal fan and apparently this week they’re putting a “59” on their football helmets to honor the 59 Nobel laureates tied to Cal in order to flex on Duke

this is maybe my favorite dunk anyone has ever done on Duke
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 7d
Another call for sources: I'm reporting on pediatric Covid vaccine access. If you've had trouble finding pediatric doses in stock, or if your child was turned away, I'd love to hear from you: [email protected].

Thanks to those who replied to my pregnancy callout; that story will be out soon.
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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 6d
Check out Sharon Kingsland's review of Elizabeth Lawson's "Moss and Lichen," published in 2024 by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #histsci #planthist
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Raf De Bont 🟥 @rafdebont.bsky.social · 6d
RIP Jane Goodall — she forever transformed what it means to do fieldwork.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91
Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour
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Michael D. Barton @darwinsbulldog.bsky.social · 7d
Historian of science John van Wyhe (not on BlueSky) asks:

Can anyone decipher this charity that Darwin supported in 1872?

"Dr [illeg] Jackson subscription charity"

#histsci #HPS
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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 7d
If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)?

Hoover
FDR
Truman
Eisenhower
JFK
LBJ
Ford
Carter

And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏
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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 7d
Unless and until you have at least one cat in your household you will never realize how often the phrase “obligate carnivore” comes out of your mouth. “Stop stealing Cheez-It’s, Charley! You’re an obligate carnivore!” “Get your paw out of my son’s oatmeal, Chessie! You’re an obligate carnivore!”
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Dr. Penelope K Hardy @pkhardy.bsky.social · 8d
🌊🌊🌊 New on H-Oceans 🌊🌊🌊

Check out Derek Lee Nelson’s review of Ryan P. Kelly, Terrie Klinger, & John J. Meyer’s book _Between the Tides in Washington and Oregon: Exploring Beaches & Tidepools_, pub 2022 ‪@uwapress.uw.edu

#oceans‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 9d
The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
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Leila Belkora PhD, astrophysics @leilabelkora.bsky.social · 9d
This weekend I went to a service for a friend, a great reader and book-discusser in my bookclub.

Her colon cancer had reached stage 4 before she knew about it.

I mention it, because I once talked another friend into getting a colonoscopy and her tumor was found in time. Do it.
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 11d
If there's someone doing work out there on the fringes that matters to you, please let them know, because this world is going to tell them the opposite every day.
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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 13d
#EnvHist folks - what are some go-to readings for narratives about conservation in the UK, especially late 19th-early 20th C.??
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 12d
BE THE MONSTER YOU WISH TO SEE AT THE END OF THE BOOK
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 12d
Morning walk
Wheat paste poster that says the all the world is dying and the new world struggles to be born now is the time of monsters. There's a picture of Elmo
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 12d
Morning walk
Wheat paste poster that says the all the world is dying and the new world struggles to be born now is the time of monsters. There's a picture of Elmo
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 12d
Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves the World Day, everybody.

42 years ago today, Lt. Col. Petrov prevented an accidental nuclear war.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...
Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia
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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 12d
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day! On this day one man prevented the apocalypse.
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Leon Xiao @leonxiao.com · 12d
Wrote my first book review on a video game law history book. H-Sci-Med-Tech got quite a few more interesting #GameStudies books up for review!
Dr. Penelope K Hardy @pkhardy.bsky.social · 13d
New on H-Sci-Med-Tech:

Check out @leonxiao.com (City University of Hong Kong)‬’s review of Julien Mailland’s book _The Game That Never Ends: How Lawyers Shape the Videogame Industry_ pub 2024 @mitpress.bsky.social
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#HSTM

Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
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Dr. Penelope K Hardy @pkhardy.bsky.social · 13d
New on H-Sci-Med-Tech:

Check out @leonxiao.com (City University of Hong Kong)‬’s review of Julien Mailland’s book _The Game That Never Ends: How Lawyers Shape the Videogame Industry_ pub 2024 @mitpress.bsky.social
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#HSTM

Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
Dr. Penelope K Hardy @pkhardy.bsky.social · 13d
And if that's something recent that should be on that list but isn't, I can try to get a review copy!
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