Brad Bolman
@brad
Historian @tulaneu.bsky.social Lab Dog is out: www.labdogbook.com Rotten Beauty is next: www.rottenbeauty.work Website: brad.bolman.com Newsletter: ~Views expressed may not reflect those of my employer~
This was an especially good game on the Le Monde liveblog which posts this GIF after every goal
Love this bit from the Guardian live chat about how most of the Norwegian player names are about farming
I’ve enjoyed following the NBA playoffs through Le Monde coverage while I’m in France, which kind of gives you the impression one man named Wembanyama is taking on a scurrilous horde known as “the Knicks”
Every day I cycle in New Orleans, a city once imagined to rationally improve on Paris, I think
It's kind of beautiful to have something I wrote reviewed by someone across the world in a language I can't read at all www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/la...
In the early 1990s, Bruno Latour was not hired at the Institute for Advanced Study. I wrote an article about that decision and what it reveals about the science wars and the history of science studies, now live @histsocialscience.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/article/985884
At least 13 ICE agents doing absolutely nothing at New Orleans airport today, glad to see our tax dollars hard at work
Did not have "Epstein talked into watching Karen Barad lecture by Deepak Chopra and compares her to will.i. am" on my government dump bingo card but here we are
Just finished work on an article that returns to this period, so quite enjoyed this reflection on the survival of Social Text after the Sokal hoax and the clear-eyed defense of student protestors
Absolute apotheosis of sports gambling culture in this offer the Pelicans sent: gamble on sports for a gamble to gamble more
I’m extremely jazzed to be officially working on this book. Although it’s history first and foremost, I’d love to hear from more folks in fungal biology about their exciting new findings, so please reach out!
The new Meta facility in Louisiana uses double the energy of the entire New Orleans area (chart from the Hullabaloo)
I remember being amazed when I first learned how active US actors were in deposing foreign governments in Latin America, but looking back it's kind of remarkable how open people were about it at the time (image is NYT in 1911)
People without smart glasses will never be able to light money on fire to create this
I wanted an example for students of the limits of tools like ChatGPT and why it matters to do your own work, so I asked what sources were missing from my book. I found the answer revealing about the limitations of the model, not least because it just recommended things in the book