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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

44 percent off @cornellupress.bsky.social books, including my own, with the promo code below. Lots of great choices!

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

It's the official publication day for ETHANOL: A HEMISPHERIC HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE OF BIOFUELS. Want to know why the US turns 40 percent of the corn crop into fuel? How the US and Brazil became the world's two largest ethanol producers? Tom Rogers and I have answers. www.oupress.com/978080619601...

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Ethanol - University of Oklahoma Press

Though ethanol, a liquid fuel made from agricultural byproducts, has generated controversy in recent years—good or bad for the environment? a big-ag boon o...

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Victor McFarland @vmcfarland.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Look what came in the mail today! I was thrilled to contribute a chapter to this volume by @perhogselius.bsky.social and @siegfriedevens.bsky.social, based on a fantastic conference in Stockholm.

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Victor McFarland @vmcfarland.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Green darner in our garden. Monarch butterflies get all the attention, but other native insects are long-distance migrants, too! These dragonflies can fly for hundreds of miles between Mexico, the US, and Canada.

A large female green darner dragonfly. She has a bright green thorax and a patterned dark red abdomen, and is perched on a mottled reddish-green stem of Monarda fistulosa.

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Victor McFarland @vmcfarland.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

Aurora over Columbia, MO. Easily visible even in town with houses and streetlights nearby.

Bright columns of northern lights, pink and green, in the night sky.

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

@dudleymarianna.bsky.social and I are looking for papers for panel(s) on landscapes of energy history and transition for #ESEH2025! We also plan a workshop session on new methods and approaches within #energyhistory. Let us know whether you want to be involved in either / or by 11 Oct! #envhist

Flyer for the ESEH2025 conference and call for papers, for more information see https://eseh2025.com

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Victor McFarland @vmcfarland.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

One week left to apply for the Michael J. Hogan Foreign Language Fellowship offered by SHAFR. Graduate students can receive up to $4,000 for language study or research in foreign language archives.

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The Michael J. Hogan Foreign Language Fellowship

The Michael J. Hogan Foreign Language Fellowship was established to honor Michael J. Hogan, long-time editor of Diplomatic History.

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Victor McFarland @vmcfarland.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

Thanks to Liat Spiro & the Toynbee Prize Foundation for the invitation to join this roundtable w/ Trish Kahle & Mark Hendrickson. I really enjoyed reviewing @eastasiascitech.bsky.social's book CARBON TECHNOCRACY. Highly recommended reading for all historians of energy, labor, and 20th c. East Asia!

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Victor McFarland @vmcfarland.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Ohio buckeye leaf, already changed color and fallen in Columbia, MO.

A fallen leaf in red, yellow, and brown autumn colors on a stone surface.

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Victor McFarland @vmcfarland.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

Goldenrod soldier beetle on our showy goldenrod. Seems to be transferring a lot of pollen!

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Victor McFarland @vmcfarland.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

Petra Dolata and I are presenting a working paper at tomorrow's CHSTM Energy History online meeting. We'll be discussing Walter J. Levy, maybe the most influential oil consultant in the world during the quarter-century after WWII.

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Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine | Promoting scholarly and public understa...

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