Gerard Fitzgerald

This is not going to turn out well... There May Be More Peril in the U.S. Markets Than Meets the Eye www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/b...

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

I guess he doesn’t disagree about the Saddam Hussein part?

Autumn in the crabapple tree is LIT this year!

Today's artist w/out a known birthday: Hans Hoffmann of Nuremberg, Munich, & Prague. Painted after nature & after Durer. Here, hedgehog.

Download all those docs you’ve been meaning to look up, #envhist peeps. 👇

If you are in the Netherlands on 6 November, come over to Delft!

"(Ant)icolonial Figures: Characterizing Ants in 16th Century New Spain" by Elise Milburn is part of a series about “uncharismatic” species in environmental history Spanish sources viewed ants as destructive pests; Indigenous sources framed them as guides. niche-canada.org/2026/10/23/p... #envhist

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/n...

Working at the WRM Archives yields many oddities, but none like this prototype Northern Electric Ry. steel interurban! Designed on Oct. 9, 1908, this McKeen-esque motor-combine would have been the N.E.'s first steel car. It was never built — a product of the N.E.'s over zealous spending.

How Trump Gave the Worst Polluters a Free Pass www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

Chemical plants and other industrial facilities had been required to curb their toxic emissions. A New York Times investigation shows how they got out of it. Here are key takeaways.

huh. what could this posssssssssibly mean. the US media willful professed ignorance on this stuff is increasingly embarrassing. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

every time i watch US broadcast news, local or national, i feel my brain cells being snatched from me despite my best efforts otherwise

Civil War Campground - 1926 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104480

Four Lane Road - 1956 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104082

The Cat Boat - 1922 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104058

17 October 1927 | French Jewish girl Yvette Achach was born in Oran. In February 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy. She did not survive.

AOC: "When no one was watching, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed was getting glasses for kids ... but when no one was looking, Mike Rogers was taking checks from pharmaceutical interests. When no one was watching, he went to go work for them in the revolving door after he left Congress."

Reading Part II now. More impeccable journalism from @brishti.bsky.social and @mikegraeme.bsky.social. “That keeps me alive,” Hamel is heard saying, as a city worker drags her items away. “Not my wool blanket!” Hamel shouted as she tried to grab it. www.defactomedia.ca/unhoused-peo...

Ukrainian drones hitting Moscow oblast right now. All four Moscow airports have been closed. The Mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin says the Russians have been intercepting drones heading to the capital. #explodey

Hot off the press! 📚 Glad to see 𝘈 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴, edited by Stephen Mosley, now in print. I had fun writing the chapter on "Work, Energy, and Power," with thanks to Stephen for shepherding the whole project to completion. #envhist #envhum #histstm

A special thank you to our recurring donors from the Ukrainian soldiers! 🇺🇦 Your consistent support helps us deliver vehicles to those defending Ukraine on the frontlines 🫡

The Iran War has drained America’s strategic petroleum reserve to its lowest level since 1982.

This Day in Labor History: October 15, 1990. President George H.W. Bush signed the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. This provided a path forward for compensation for Cold War uranium miners but still largely left out the Navajos, suffering and dying from their work for this nation's nukes!!

Russia under massive, combined attack: Reports indicate that Flamingo missiles and UAVs are being launched. It is reported that nearly 250 drones are headed towards Moscow. Support us : ko-fi.com/osintradar445

#HumansOfBluesky #aofoto Early morning ferry trip. Passing the time by enjoying the fresh air, view and conversation. #ECK #Ferry #MorningLight

Lise Meitner was the 2nd woman to earn a physics PhD at the Univ of Vienna and Germany’s first female physics professor. She fled Nazi Germany, helped explain nuclear fission, and has an element named for her. 49 Nobel nominations, she never won. Her male colleague did. #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance

Some of you may be wondering why these incredible #histSTM & #BookHistory videos were taken down in the first place. I can't speak to that, but I'm glad they're back. (Jason's chats with Nick Wilding, Adrian Johns & @prossian.bsky.social are personal favorites.) #histsci #histastro #astronomy 🗃️📜🔭

The 2026 State of the Climate Report is out. "The rate of warming appears to be accelerating. At current rates, 2°C above pre-industrial levels could be reached before 2050. Temperature data come from Rohde and Hausfather (2020)." 1/2

"But three other outside scientists — Jeff Masters of Yale Climate Connections, University of Pennsylvania’s Michael Mann and North Carolina State University’s Carl Schreck — said they believe the study underestimates how much climate change has added to Polo’s strength"

"Study says global warming did more than El Niño to turbocharge Hurricane Polo" by @borenbears.bsky.social for the @apnews.com: apnews.com/article/clim... 🧵

Really looking forward to the first IHR Parliaments, Politics & People seminar of term, this Tuesday (20 October)! Frederick Hyde will be talking about the Arrow affair, the 1857 election and Palmerston. FREE in London and online. Sign-up details here: historyofparliament.com/2026/10/13/c...

magical

I’ll eat this whale in one mouthful.

the odorous cedar chips of the wrecks danced round and round, like the grated nutmeg in a swiftly stirred bowl of punch

Students in @cmuengineering.bsky.social found overlaps between working in the Winthrop Community Garden and the classroom: solving community centered problems. For more than a decade, the garden has served as an outlet for students to put engineering concepts into practice and connect with nature.

CMU researchers are helping prepare NASA’s Roman Space Telescope to map dark matter, study dark energy and create one of the most detailed views of the universe ever captured. 🧪⚛️ #Astrophysics #Cosmology www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...

Four days after Musk wrote, “Zelensky has gone too far.” @financialtimes.com #ukraine www.ft.com/content/3708...

Trump has cut off intelligence to Ukraine so that Putin can more easily bomb civilians including children.

⚡️ 'This cannot be a coincidence' — Ukraine's Starlink access restricted without warning, Zelensky adviser says. Ukraine relies on Starlink to operate its mid-strike drones in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

Russia launched dozens of ballistic missiles at Ukraine early Wednesday in one of the largest attacks of the war. About 600,000 people were left without power in the capital, Kyiv, President Zelensky said. nyti.ms/4yFoW3n

Volodymyr Zelenskyy feels ‘betrayed’ by Donald Trump over Starlink access

She's always there, watching, waiting, smiling #TravelWithNatalie (Kent Nishimura/AFP via Getty)

So this is both scary and frustrating. Bc it seems like the idea is to turn the field of sociology into the right’s new boogeyman equivalent of CRT (now that the term is useless to them/too semantically bleach to coalesce around).