Excited to be working on a new project on the history of weather gambling, featuring fraud, bribery, gambling syndicates, & even Chicago's wrongly accused Catherine O'Leary and her cow. (Turns out 2020, when sports seasons were canceled due to Covid, was not the first time people bet on rainfall...)
Thank you for reading--I am glad you found it useful!
Thank you, Eileen, as always, for the kind words. I have not been on any social media as of late but will try to check in on here more frequently!
Tried an "unessay" in my Accidents & Disasters course. Students ran a "Time Travel Agency" and created presentations for a client who wanted to compare Arwen Mohun's vernacular risk culture at Coney Island and Action Park NJ. Travel brochures, videos, Instagram stories, slide decks--so much fun!
Cover reveal! Pre-orders coming in the new year; releases July 2024. Grateful to the folks at the University of Oklahoma Press for such a wonderful cover!
I could not be less surprised by this. I am a data point. I've watched so many (and I mean TOO MANY) of my women colleagues experience the same. Women networks in academia are so fragile because there's never a sense of security or permanence. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Women feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life balance. Women feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life...
🚨Calling all data & AI people: stop what you are doing and read the brilliant new journal Critical AI from Duke UP ed. Katherine Bode & Lauren M. E. Goodlad! The minute I finished the introduction to "Data Worlds," I went back and read it again. It is that good. read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
Prepping for San Fran Earthquake & Fire in my Accidents & Disasters course, using @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social 's A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster + photographs from The Atlantic to ask how "the joys of disaster" can exist. Always a profound discussion.
Ah got it--thank you!
FWIW, I just looked you up and Visioneers is listed...