Dr. Conevery Bolton Valencius, PhD

Historian of energy, earthquakes, and environments, @BostonCollege Author: The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes, 2013; The Health of the Country, 2002

[Dr. Conevery Bolton Valencius, PhD @Conevery]

Excellent news for Juneteenth! *Gray Gold* by Mark Milton Chambers, on early lead mining in the middle Mississippi Valley, has been awarded a Clark C. Spence Book Award by the Mining History Association. #mininghistory #envhist #BlackHistorians

[Alisa Bokulich ➡️ 🦋🌤️ @AlisaBokulich]

🌋Join us next week for fantastic lineup of speakers at our @BUCPHS Colloquium on PHILOSOPHY OF THE GEOSCIENCES held Friday May 5th & Saturday May 6th, 10am - 5:30. Event will be hybrid w/ in person @BU_Tweets & via Zoom. Register now for free at link https://t.co/yn2yYr2Pj5 🌏

[Dr. Conevery Bolton Valencius, PhD @Conevery]

This is in fact the cutest baby book reveal of all time -- and ALERTA is a book about earthquake warning systems I am interested to read! #earthquakes

[Beth ‘order ALERTA’ Reddy @beth_reddy]

Obligatory weekly reminder that I wrote a book and you could buy it: the cutest baby book reveal of all time edition

[Dr. Conevery Bolton Valencius, PhD @Conevery]

Having Jay Turner come talk with my Energy History seminar is a highlight of this term! Check out *Charged* if you are interested in how we are going to power our future! @_jay_turner

[Jay Turner @_jay_turner]

The reviews are coming in for my new book, Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future.

Thanks so much to Matthew Eisler for such a thoughtful review of Charged in @HNet_Reviews.

Excerpts from Eisler's review in the thread below…

[Alisa Bokulich ➡️ 🦋🌤️ @AlisaBokulich]

📌Save the date: upcoming @BUCPHS Boston Colloquium on *Philosophy of the Geosciences* held Friday May 5th & Saturday May 6th. Event will be hybrid with in person at @BU_CDS Bldg room 263 & via Zoom by registering at link https://t.co/yn2yYr2Pj5 Free & all welcome!

[Dr. Conevery Bolton Valencius, PhD @Conevery]

We all need stories of grace and hope in the face of climate crisis. Grist is awarding prizes for the best ones!

[Tory Stephens 🌱 @torystephens]

Writers! We want your story.

Submit your hopeful climate fiction story to our writing contest!

Learn more here: https://t.co/00jBajXaxo

No Submission Fee
$8,700 in Prizes
Deadline: June 13, 2023

#writingtips
#CallforSubmissions
#SubmissionsCall

[Alisa Bokulich ➡️ 🦋🌤️ @AlisaBokulich]

Super excited to announce our upcoming @BUCPHS Boston Colloquium on *Philosophy of the Geosciences* held Friday May 5th & Saturday May 6th. Event will be hybrid with in person at @BU_CDS Bldg room 263 & via Zoom by registering at link https://t.co/EKWtDgPLug Free & all welcome!

[Visualizing Energy @VisualizeEnergy]

Where in the US is new #solar generating capacity being built? How big is a new #windfarm compared to a new #natural gas power plant? Our #visualization has answers to these and other questions about what's happening in the #electricpower sector.

[Dr. Conevery Bolton Valencius, PhD @Conevery]

Excited to have Victor Seow come to my BC Energy History seminar class tomorrow and talk about coal, China, and the craft of writing. @EastAsiaSciTech

[Dr. Conevery Bolton Valencius, PhD @Conevery]

Terrific stuff at BU!

[Alisa Bokulich ➡️ 🦋🌤️ @AlisaBokulich]

The Brink magazine @BUexperts just dropped a story about my Phi-Geo Research Group here at BU & some of our research together...
https://t.co/J1zSgGPUEO

[Dr. Conevery Bolton Valencius, PhD @Conevery]

Yes

[Jake Walter @jakewalter9]

Early this morning (about 4 AM local time), a M4.0 occurred near Chandler, OK. The light shaking was widely felt across both OKC and Edmond. It occurred adjacent to several injection wells that have been injecting and lower volumes in recent years (1/n)

[Emily G Cunningham MBE @EG_Cunningham]

🧵9/n

EVERY SINGLE SAMPLE we took in Antarctica as part of our microplastic research contained plastic microfibres.

I found plastic from tourists in the penguin colonies.

We even found a big piece of plastic on the seabed.

[Dr. Conevery Bolton Valencius, PhD @Conevery]

Elementary school children shouldn't have to lobby for laws to keep them safe in their school buildings. Grown-up legislators should keep them safe. *We* should keep them safe.

[MNEA @MNEA_]

We are back at the Capitol supporting our elementary students and families in their demand for safe schools

[Alisa Bokulich ➡️ 🦋🌤️ @AlisaBokulich]

Submissions open 2023 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics
Topic: Laws & symmetries in practice of physics (in honor of 40th anniv Nancy Cartwright's book How the Laws Physics Lie)
Prize: $1,000 + workshop
Deadline: Sept 10th, 2023
[email protected]

[Jay Turner @_jay_turner]

Have you heard of China-based CATL and wondered just how big a player it is in the battery world?

This great thread puts CATL's scale in context, along with lots of other useful analysis of the battery sector.

[Juliette Kayyem @juliettekayyem]

"There are complex, hand-wringing-worthy problems in our social life: deficits and debts and climate change. Gun violence . . . is not one of them. Gun control works on gun violence as surely as antibiotics do on bacterial infections." @adamgopnik

[Tim Lawrence @datadyne007]

A plume of black smoke emits from an orange line train to signal the selection has been made.

[Larry Chretien @LarryChretien]

A bill worth serious consideration given the new report from IPCC ☀️👇🔥

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Sister Rosetta Tharpe is credited as the Godmother of Rock ‘N’ Roll. Before Elvis, Johnny Cash or Little Richard, there was Sister Tharpe- A Black woman who forged her own sound in a male dominated industry.
She does not get the credit she deserves. #BlackHistoryMonth