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Jacob Darwin Hamblin

@jdhamblin.bsky.social
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History professor. Science, environment, war, world affairs. jacobdarwinhamblin.com Making the Unseen Visible: osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/makin…

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Mediapart @mediapart.fr · 26/04/2026
L’accident de la centrale soviétique en 1986 n’est pas seulement la plus grave catastrophe atomique de l’histoire. C’est aussi un révélateur contemporain du « colonialisme nucléaire », selon l’historienne Tatiana Kasperski. Par @jadelindgaard.bsky.social
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« D’une certaine façon, Tchernobyl est une catastrophe coloniale »
L’accident de la centrale soviétique en 1986 n’est pas seulement la plus grave catastrophe atomique de l’histoire. C’est aussi un révélateur contemporain du « colonialisme nucléaire », selon l’historienne Tatiana Kasperski.
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Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Headed to Stockholm next week to participate in the "40 Years After Chornobyl" international conference at Södertörn University! Can't believe it has been four decades. Apr 27 and 28. www.sh.se/english/sode...
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Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Just finished giving the Sarton lecture at the AAAS meeting in Phoenix. Lots of engagement with the audience on soft power and “America’s Cold War Science Experiment.” Now on to enjoy the sun in Phoenix before returning to Oregon! aaas.confex.com/aaas/2026/me...
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<b>SARTON: Jacob Darwin Hamblin:</b> America's Cold War Science Experiment
Science seems under siege like never before. Universities face threats to federal research funding. Scientists stand accused of subverting American values. Some worry about losing ground to China or E...
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Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I will deliver this year's Sarton Lecture at the 2026 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. I'm deeply honored to be selected. The title of my remarks: "America's Cold War Science Experiment." February 14, 2026.
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Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Add another to the long history of playing with the burden of proof for veterans' cancer, from Agent Orange to radiation effects and other chemical exposures. This time male breast cancer www.propublica.org/article/vete...
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Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage
A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...
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Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Hey, she's inspiring, what can we say? Was glad to participate in this roundtable on @juliairwin.bsky.social 's book!
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Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Every other nuclear-aspirant is watching Ukraine today and saying "mental note: never give up your nukes." Amidst everything else, we might be watching the utter breakdown of the nonproliferation regime today
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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
See Raina Bhagat's review of "Making the Unseen Visible: Science and the Contested Histories of Radiation Exposure," edited by @jdhamblin.bsky.social & @atomiclinda.bsky.social, published in 2023 by @osupress.bsky.social; review @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
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Manik @manik.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
yoinked this image from Twitter, then ordered my copy join me
One day, when it's safe,
 when there's no personal
 downside to calling a
 thing what it is, when it's
 too late to hold anyone
 accountable, everyone
 will have always been
 against this
 Omar El Akkad
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
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Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
If they change the name of Botany Bay, the botanists are gonna be PISSED
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Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Not the Onion www.politico.eu/article/dona...
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Danish MEP slams ‘absurd’ proposal to rename Greenland ‘Red, White and Blueland’
Member of Congress said the U.S. will “proudly welcome” Greenlanders to “join the freest nation to ever exist.”
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Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
just cruised over to google maps and I see that they have caved
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Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
As I wrap up my history of technology course this week, this pic is perfect
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/03/2024
Breaking News: France voted to explicitly enshrine access to abortion in its Constitution, making it the first country in the world to do so. The impulse for the change was the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022. www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/w...
French lawmakers are gathered at the Palace of Versailles. A headline reads: "France Is First Country To Make Abortion a Constitutional Right." Photo by Thomas Padilla/Associated Press.
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Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
My review of Sarah Scoles, Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons, in Science mag. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 23/01/2024
I wrote an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times last year for the non-changing of the Doomsday Clock, and the difficulty of treating climate change with the same countdown metaphor. As it didn't change this year, either, I think it is still appropriate? www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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Opinion: Nuclear threats? Climate change? What catastrophe will lead to doomsday?
The famous Doomsday Clock moved recently — a reminder that the potential disasters we face don't happen overnight.
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ICEHO @iceho.bsky.social · 09/12/2023
The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History is now available! This volume was edited by Emily O'Gorman, @wsanmartin.bsky.social, Mark Carey, and @wildpasts.bsky.social. Truly a special moment in the international environmental history community! www.routledge.com/The-Routledg... #envhist
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The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History
The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History presents a cutting-edge overview of the dynamic and ever-expanding field of environmental history. It addresses recent transformations in the field and ...
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Roonie the Rabbit @rooniecomics.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
It totally counts. #comics #animalcomic #fear #skink rooniecomics.com/com...
SKINK (thinking): Today, I'm going to talk to people. | SKINK (thinking): Or maybe... one person. | A pause while a skink vibrates with anxiety. | SKINK (thinking): Talking to myself counts.
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Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
NEW! I might have alarmed Catherine McNeur with my enthusiasm, because I love her work so much -- including her new MISCHIEVOUS CREATURES. In this ep, I asked how she writes beautifully about place and learned this book resulted from multiple archival surprises. 🗃️ draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...
Smiling woman with blond curly hair against a backdrop of greenery. Text reads: Episode 36, Catherine McNeur.
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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences @hsnatsci.bsky.social · 25/11/2023
As we think about the place of history of science on the web (and celebrate our first official post here), let's look at a great paper from the archives. David K. Hecht's 2011 article about Rachel Carson, "nonscientific attributes were central in legitimating Carson as a public scientist."
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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
Three years ago, the United States officially withdrew from the 1992 Open Skies Treaty, having given notice of its intentions on May 22, 2020, citing spurious Russian “violations” as the reason. In less than four years, Donald Trump and his unilateralist wrecking crew abandoned …
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Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
If you are interested in climate change, and also global security, and aren’t yet following the debates about small modular reactors, you probably should. #nuclear #climate thebulletin.org/2023/11/a-sm...
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A small modular reactor’s demise calls for big change in Energy Department policy
NuScale Power Corp., which is developing America’s flagship small modular reactor, has lost its only firm utility customer, even though the US Energy Department had already given NuScale hundreds of...
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Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Please read and circulate this editorial by editors of the journal History and Technology, Amy Slaton and and Tiago Saraiva, which fully vindicates my STS (UCL) colleague Jenny Bulstrode and her paper 'Black metallurgists and the making of the industrial revolution' doi.org/10.1080/0734...
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Kim Andrews @kqandrews.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
Also Anne Boyer:
The first page of Anne Boyer’s essay “No,” which appears as the first piece of her 2018 essay collection “A Handbook of Disappointed Fate.”
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Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
It lives! Anyone interested in nuclear humanities, nuclear colonialism, radiation effects, the history of all things atomic, and putting scholarship into conversation with advocacy, will find something to read in this volume. Just got my hands on my copy. #sts #histsci #envhist #nuclear
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Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
a local Portland tip for fellow historians of science: if you enjoy baked goods and wouldn't mind a stroll, Ken's Artisan Bakery is about a mile from the conference hotel. #HSS2023 #HSS23 #histsci
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Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
Looking forward to commenting on this panel on environmental silence, organized by @alixhui.bsky.social on Sunday at this weekend's History of Science Society annual meeting in Portland. #histsci
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Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
Really looking forward to seeing and listening to the plenary lecture by @nickytheprof.bsky.social at this weekend's History of Science Society meeting! This is on Friday btw! #histsci
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Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
History of Science Society meeting coming up this weekend, in Portland. Excited for this panel on nuclear fallouts, including OSU grad student Celia Oney. This is on Friday fyi #histsci
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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
New from us & Common Wealth: the US and UK militaries are among the most prolific polluters in world history. We show that the monetary costs of environmental damages caused by these militaries & associated industries is at least $111 billion since 2015. www.common-wealth.org/publications...
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Less War, Less Warming: A Reparative Approach to US and UK Military Ecological Damages | Briefing | ...
The US and UK militaries are two of the institutions most responsible for climate crisis in the world. Only a reparative approach can begin to account for their role in environmental breakdown.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/10/2023
At least 1,500 children under the age of 10, including 600 under the age of four, have been killed in Gaza since Oct. 7, according to a list released on Thursday by the health ministry there. More than 100 were listed as less than a year old. nyti.ms/45KtzKJ
A bar chat that shows how many adults and children have been killed each day in Gaza, according to the Gazan Health Ministry. Data is through Oct. 25, 2023
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Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · 15/10/2023
I just watched a commercial for the Google Pixel 8 embracing AI to fake your own photos. Stalin would be impressed!
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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 15/09/2023
A great opportunity for STS practitioners who have a writing project that needs finishing -- from The Ann Johnson Institute. tinyurl.com/4r2dp8aj 🗃️
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Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
The AHR finally reviewed The Wretched Atom and it's worth the wait academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...
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Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
Here's one with a cute beaver logo and a pre-order discount code. Great cover, with stellar essays by scholars and people from affected communities. #envhist #sts #envhum #histsci
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Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
Headed out tomorrow to the annual Cascadia Environmental History Collaborative workshop (at Mount Rainier!) & remembering one of its co-founders, the amazing Linda Nash, author of Inescapable Ecologies #envhist #envhum www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · 18/09/2023
I am honored to support the authors working on histories of downwinder communities all over the world. New edited history! osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/making-...
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Making the Unseen Visible
Many of the effects of nuclear fallout and radiation have been intentionally hidden by governments around the world. Public knowledge has been driven by activists demanding recognition and justice. Ma...
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Jacob Darwin Hamblin @jdhamblin.bsky.social · 18/09/2023
Obligatory first post! Ending a hiatus from social media and hoping to join conversations here.
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