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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Yep, still crickets and total strangers on here. As empty of life and interest as a clear blue sky

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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Sigh. Wish this were an isolated instance.

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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Practically everything you are seeing on social media, in the NYT today, etc. about the currently developing #ElNiño is clickbait exaggeration, verging on the insane. Comparisons with 1877-78 are wildly premature, alarmist, & blatantly misuse and misunderstand historical scholarship on #ENSO

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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Why is there an AI bot embedded in Grammarly impersonating #envhist Bill Cronon? This is scandalous.

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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I wish my university colleagues would cease referring to 'academic freedom' during our fight against tyranny. We are fighting for our **constitutional freedoms**--for universal human rights--the same rights and freedoms belonging to everyone--not for special rights unique to our station or guild.

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Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Today at @stsucl.bsky.social #histsci Reading Group we discussed @guanoguy.bsky.social et al ‘Ecologies of Resistance: the Many Colonizations of Rapa Nui’, AHR, 2024, doi.org/10.1093/ahr/... & @farsouthhistory.bsky.social ‘Shaky Claims’, Isis, 2024, doi.org/10.1086/733152 (ht Jordan Goodman)

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Ecologies of Resilience: The Many Colonizations of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), c. 1200–present

Abstract. The history of Rapa Nui has often been told as a cautionary tale meant to reflect on the destructive tendencies of our own civilization, but it l

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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

For the record, climatologist-epidemiologist-activist-historians don't get much attention either. I'll be surprised if my repost gets single-digit likes in this lonely social media desert.

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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

New disease alert! The gods of irony were working overtime when they created a potentially deadly allergy to Texas BBQ caused by the Lone Star tick. The Evil Eye of Texas is upon you.

close-up photo of lone star tick with "eye" on its back, with caption

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Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

#WorldToiletDay 🚽 The Latrines at Housesteads Roman Fort (Vercovicium) in Great Britain. They included wooden seats along the sides, set over a deep channel. A smaller channel in the centre of the building was used for washing sponges. followinghadrian.com/2013/05/09/h...

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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Donald, the first of his name, king of the #guano birds

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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Caves often stink, but this was the wrong kind of guano.

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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Cooperation between ecologists and historians has allowed a robust reconstruction of the historical introduction of the Italian crayfish, Austropotamobius fulcisianus, to Spain in the late-16th century @ebdonana.bsky.social @um.es New OA paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Rachel Jabaily @racheljabaily.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Hey #Botany2025 The Palm Springs Art Museum is incredible! Do go if you can (note it's closed M, T, W.) Here is artist Karen Kitchel's work American Grasslands: Prairie, Pasture, Crop, and Lawn #palmspringsart

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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

I've been writing about 19th c epidemics in the Pacific. A common, deadly symptom of severe measles infections is unstoppable diarrhea (dysentery). Maybe get your kids vaxxed?

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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Trump's theatrical military deployment to Los Angeles will cost at least $134 million according to Pentagon officials. That's almost the same amount the NEH budgeted for all scholarly projects and state grants in the humanities in 2024 ($142 million) in our whole damned country.

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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Peru knows this problem too well. Check out Mark Carey's book on the subject. AI doesnt seem to know it (or for that matter, anything about Peru), so zero cheaters on this unit of my history of disaster class!

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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Starlink is trash--literal trash. It will slowly rain huge amounts of pollution into the upper atmosphere, which will filter down to the stratosphere, where they could cause the ozone hole to come back. And for what gain?

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Lisa Ko @iamlisako.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The AI book list and general enshittification reminded me that I've been credited as blurbing hundreds of books I never have, including books by Patti Smith, Amy Tan, Sidney Sheldon, Joyce Maynard, and Elmore Leonard? And I can't get these fake blurbs taken off publisher and bookstore websites?

Blurbs attributed to "Lisa Ko, author of the leavers" for Elmore Leonard, Sidney Sheldon, Joyce maynard, Peter Maas, Amy Tan, and Patti Smith

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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Sure, let's study the efficacy of covid vaccine boosters! But don't ban them until *after* that lack is scientifically demonstrated. Exhibit n+1 that this administration hates personal freedom, hates evidence, hates truth, hates ME.

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 15/05/2025

Could this be the biggest climate story of the year? For the first time on record, China's emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand Full analysis + outlook by Lauri Myllyvirta: www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/7

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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

This is bad. Hopefully this massive, invaluable archive will continue to have a host, but it won't have anything new added to it. This was the single most valuable online resource my history majors used for producing their senior capstone papers this semester, themselves an endangered species

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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

#guano birds ever at the ready when and where history is being made

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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

For £79, an AI bot in the guise of Agatha Christie will "teach" you how to write. U of Illinois Business School is implementing these avatar bots in online classes in the guise of business faculty. This is the current end game of my job and profession and I'm pissed. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/w...

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Agatha Christie, Who Died in 1976, Will See You in Class

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 01/05/2025

AHA executive director @jgrossman.bsky.social said about the lawsuit: “The NEH leverages its very small budget to support work in nearly every venue where Americans engage with the humanities. . . . It makes no sense to eviscerate the agency that helps all Americans.”

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Charlotte Connelly @curatorconnelly.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I just finished this by @siobhanangus.bsky.social, please all read it so we can talk about it. It's insightful and thought provoking and hits many of my interests (material-led histories of media, science, exploration and extraction). Now mentally curating the exhibition of the book...

Book cover: Camera Geologica: an elemental history of photography, Siobhan Angus

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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

If you've heard of the Great Acceleration, here's a view of its current endgame

1970s-style market crash graphic ending in chaotic volatility composed of Donald Trump's signatures, by Álvaro Domínguez for the New York Time (2025)

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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

The sixth National Climate Assessment has been axed. As I mentioned in my history of disaster class today, seems akin to burying one's head in the sands of Galveston Beach in early Sept 1900 #climatecrisis www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/c...

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National Climate Assessment Authors Are Dismissed by Trump Administration (Gift Article)

The Trump administration told researchers it was “releasing” them from their roles. It puts the future of the assessment, which is required by Congress, in doubt.

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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

A grim trend--natural carbon sinks are turning into greenhouse gas emitters, in this case Finland's boreal forests, also in parts of Amazonia though not Australia (see comments)

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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I used to tell my kids that the beavers built *everything* in Prairie Park (Lawrence KS). I was only slightly exaggerating.

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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Now that i've deleted Fb and all other Meta apps from my devices, I need someplace to post AI horror comedy. Today's story: AI writing cancer treatment textbooks for billion$ publishing companies. pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/12/1...

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$119 Springer cancer treatments book: ‘As an AI language model …’

Peter Purgathofer looked over “Advanced Nanovaccines for Cancer Immunotherapy” by Nanasaheb Thorat, published in March by Springer Nature. On page 25, he found why we pay Springer the big bucks: [h…

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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

As a former American Meteorological Society Dissertation Fellow, I approve of this message. If you'd like some insight into what can happen when storm prediction and warning networks are disrupted or demolished by politics, see the thread below. www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...

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Stand Up for NOAA Research – The Time to Act is Now

The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.

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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I love me a good article on "dung hill schemes" and "excremental flows".

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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I am the Lorax. I speak for the guano birds #envhist

Gadsden flag parody with penguin saying Don't Tread on Me

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Wen-Yi Huang @wenyihuangtw.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

New book: Ranjan Chakrabarti 's Climate, Calamity and the Wild: An Environmental History of the Bengal Delta, C.1737-1947 reurl.cc/RLoNRg #envhist #climate #disaster

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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

New info here on how to bring places like Tanzania into our understanding of global climate history. Such concerns inspired our collaboration newly published in the AHR showing how past La Niña droughts affected Easter Island. The southern 2/3 of the world is still barely known. #envhist #climate

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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

The Overkill hypothesis, esp. in Australia, has long wondered about the ecological and biodiversity changes resulting from Terminal Pleistocene mass extinction in the plant kingdom. Here we're gaining some new fine-grained tools to study this issue at the species level. #envhist

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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

These people get me. They know my needs without even asking #guano

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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

At the AHA annual ball, we had the privilege to be among the first to see the intro to Ken Burns & Co's new series The American Revolution coming this fall. I am very troubled by its thesis: "The American Revolution was the most consequential revolution in history"--**all #history** #skystorians /1

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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Welcome to the new world that #guano, Chilean nitrates, & the Haber-Bosch process made. Clear increases in N and N:P ratios in plant tissues over the 20thc--but coolest of all, using herbarium specimens as a physical archive. #envhist

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

a short thread of Nicolas Cage resembling various philosophers 1. Spinoza

left: Nicolas Cage with long black hair and a moustache in a black top
right: Spinoza with long black hair and a moustache in a black top

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 19/12/2024

THREAD This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis 1/31

Adam Curtis Title Card: We Too Are Trapped In A System. Text over a background of a large office building

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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

This tracks: two guys murdered *each other* because one guy criticized the other's stupid loud truck in a supermarket parking lot in Lawrence, KS, just before I moved from there to UofArizona.

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Moms Demand Action @momsdemandaction.org · 19/12/2024

NEW: A report from Everytown found that states that did not require a permit for people to conceal carry a gun had nearly triple the rate of road rage shootings in 2023 than states with the most protective standards.

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Road Rage Shootings Have Doubled — And This Might Explain Why

Angry drivers shot someone in traffic at least once every 18 hours in 2023.

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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I somehow missed A v Humboldt I; here's its successor. Too bad OG Humboldt didnt have a beer company to sponsor his Wanderlust. #histsci

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