Hello friends,

I hope you’re well. It’s the start of the baseball season, which means it’s time to watch this video on repeat.

If you live in or near Chicago, you should consider adopting Biscuit, a dog with heart-melting eyes, before I feel compelled to.

Behold, Biscuit! (seriously, look at Biscuit)

I was recently interviewed by a Yale project called “Order of Multitudes,” and it’s available here.

If you’re thinking “too much of you in there,” here’s a collaborative review I wrote of David Graeber and David Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything for Chicago Review with my UChicago IFK colleague Hannah Moots. All good ideas are Hannah’s, all bad ones are mine.

Two academic journal special issues that I was fortunate enough to be part of are also mostly available:

• My own Journal of the History of Biology issue on experimental animals and model organisms has an introduction here. It took over two years to get this thing published, given the glacial speed of mid-pandemic academic life.

• A German special issue on the history of ethology in Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (I can never spell this correctly on my first try). I wrote about the weird connection between early American dog behavior studies and eugenics.

I’ve been really enjoying this South Korean band Say Sue Me. Enjoy this concert:

Sincerely,

Brad