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Caitlin G. DeAngelis

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graveyard historian; spouse to @fionawh.im; she/they 🏳️‍🌈 Cambridge, Massachusetts THE CARETAKERS (War Graves gardeners in the French Resistance) www.globepequot.com/9781633888999/t…

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 7h
A big auction this evening selling lots of Revolutionary-era and Early Republic documents from Londonderry, New Hampshire: www.auctionninja.com/ancient-and-...
screenshot of an auction site showing lots of pay documents from the early 19th century, most organized into lots of 50 that are currently going for $3-13
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Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com · 11h
For the evening crew!
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"GenAI is here, so I'm going to teach my students how to use it well." Are educators who choose to do this aware that they're complicit in exploiting and traumatizing data labellers in Global Majority countries? I guess they would have willingly enslaved people 200 years ago.
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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 16h
"discreet"
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Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We picked some of our favorite nonfiction history book covers in recent memory. See what made our list and why, and tell us what you would add! www.draftingthepast.com/12-history-b... #booksky
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12 History Book Covers We Love
The covers of history books don't always stand out for their design, but these do.
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Ian Taylor @wellhopper.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#31DaysOfGraves day 5 - vehicle. The winged car tyre grave of Beatrice Blore-Browne in Llandudno, who in July 1914 became the first woman to drive a car up the Great Orme as reported in the Flintshire Observer, though I'm now a little more curious about the perils of playing draughts in Harringay
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you liked "Madame Behave," a 1925 comedy starring famed female impersonator Julian Eltinge, whose character is forced to crossdress for Reasons, you might also like Veggie Tales' "Madame Blueberry," in which Christian produce adapt "Madame Bovary" to warn children against the sin of greed.
recommendation from ebay, showing that I showed interest in a VHS copy of Madame Behave, and suggesting "You might also like" Veggie Tales
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Parents and teachers are being crushed by the app avalanche. The kids are also frustrated — they get very little direct instruction on how to use the bewildering ed tech, but plenty of punishment for getting it wrong. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/05/l...
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Two kids, 12 apps, and zero clue? Welcome to the platformization of school, sports, and life, parents. - The Boston Globe
School updates. Sports schedules. Lunch menus. There’s an app for that — and parents are losing it.
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SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Payment request for passage of an enslaved man from Bermuda to Virginia nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2011.10…
Payment request for passage of an enslaved man from Bermuda to Virginia
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Final mouse melon harvest of the season. These were a big hit with the toddlers in our lives.
A hand holding a dozen tiny mouse melons, which look like watermelons but are about the size of a grape
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes, health care costs a lot in terms of money, but it also costs a lot in terms of my fucking patience because what do you mean that you have *denied* my request to have the "no-show" penalty removed from an appointment that was cancelled *by the doctor* and I have proof??????
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today in AI news: More libraries succumb to "high volume" traffic (AKA AI scraper bots) and are forced to make their services slower and more annoying for real researchers.
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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Atrium of a nondescript midtown office building
Small round lights  on strings like stars suspended from the ceiling and skylights
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
Truly, I already knew intellectually that medical emergency exceptions to abortion bans are useless, but Tierra Walker's case was ... painfully demonstrative ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Tierra Walker’s Death Was Preventable. The Conservative Legal Movement Made It Predictable
Republican politicians have made Texas doctors increasingly afraid to provide lifesaving abortion care.
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Dan Thomas @itsdanthomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most disappointing video you’ll see today.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I wonder whether the Gen Alpha version of “millennial beige” will be a new Arts & Crafts movement. I don’t mean the current iteration of sticking a vinyl William Morris reproduction to a backsplash. I mean stenciling their walls with paint made from foraged berries.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
By targeting defendants in open criminal cases, ICE creates an infinite legal limbo: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/02/m...
The warrant, issued when someone doesn’t appear in court, ends up being punitive, Rangaviz argued, and it shouldn’t be issued against someone who, like his client, simply can’t show up for reasons outside of their control.

He said it creates a Catch-22: Because there’s an open warrant, ICE is unlikely to let the person out on bond. If the person isn’t let out on bond, they can’t come to court and have the warrant removed.

That leaves his client and others like him “stranded between a criminal case he cannot resolve and an immigration proceeding that will use that unresolved case against him forever,” Rangaviz wrote. (The Supreme Court announced this week that it would hear a challenge to the administration’s practice of denying immigration bond hearings.)
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/10/2026
Want to learn about the history of our city?  Well you’re in luck. This month, we’re hosting a massive scavenger hunt across the city — all about the history of organizing in NYC. Sign up at organize.nyc.gov and come see the city through the eyes of the people who built it.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#31DaysOfGraves from @annaandthedead.bsky.social Day 1: Flower Samuel, Son of Mr Jabez West- cot & Anne his Wife who died March 24th AD. 1765. Aged 11 Months and 9 Days North Burial Ground, Providence, RI
small gravestone with classical column borders and an intricately carved rose in the tympanum
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
*A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw* Hits Bookstores Today #CivilWarMemory #booksky 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/a-glorious...
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*A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw* Hits Bookstores Today
It’s been a long time coming, but today is the official release of A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Gravestone of Pompey Brenton in God's Little Acre, Newport, RI, 1772 This stone was carved by John Stevens III, who carved many portrait stones in the 1770s, including several for Black Newporters like Pompey Brenton.
a lovely blue-gray slate stone with intricate foliate border and a portrait of a man with curled hair and wings in the tympanum. Inscription: In Memory of Pompey Brenton who died August the 5th AD 1772 ages about 55 Years
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 29/09/2026
Democrats seem headed for big wins, but one avenue for self-sabotage would be adopting R's framing on trans rights. @billiejsweeney.bsky.social spoke with insiders incl Lanae Erikson of Third Way and Rep. Sarah McBride for this substanial piece of new reporting. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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Democrats Lose by Punching Down on Trans Issues, Strategists Say - Assigned Media
Insiders, including at centrist think tank Third Way, are cautioning Democratic candidates against echoing Republican talking points on trans rights.
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Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Villanova Theatre is hiring! We’ve just opened our search for a TT Assistant Professor of Playwriting position. Details below, and very happy to answer questions. jobs.villanova.edu/postings/36362
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Tenure track Assistant Professor of Playwriting
Why work at Villanova?Join a mission-driven organization. Since Villanova University’s founding in 1842, we have been inspired by the values of truth, unity, and love, and are a community dedicated to...
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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 28/09/2026
Five months ago I was fired by the US government. Now, one of the biggest categories on the academic job market is "being right wing." I wrote about what's at stake. buttondown.com/anotherway/a...
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The "free speech" government fired me
"Free speech" advocates are killing free speech
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
While we’re talking about campus sexual violence, I want to revisit the recent history of a topic where we have seen some of the biggest backslides: Expelling rapists from school.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETax
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CHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’
Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My high schooler has a teacher who requires that all assignments be submitted by typing answers into the speaker's notes on Google Slides, in case you're scratching your head over the baffling formatting choices in your college students' work.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
cw: discussion of how the campaign against trans athletes is part of the larger attack on Title IX that makes it even more difficult to punish sexual abusers on college campuses
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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Call for proposals for a workshop, my people! Slavery and transimperial trade next March at William & Mary. Please spread it far and wide: I want to read your many great proposals!
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2027 Workshop Call for Proposals - Atlantic Exchanges Workshop
Atlantic Exchanges 2027 Slavery and the Commercial Machinery of Empires The Atlantic Exchanges Workshop invites proposals for its second edition, […]
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There is a vision of what the Real Electorate is in the minds of people like this that is mostly about their own experience of their long-ago childhood and is not troubled at all by reality, in which women in lower income households are overwhelmingly part of the workforce and long have been
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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Big congratulations to two of my dear friends on their book releases today. First up is @civilwarmemory.bsky.social's new book on the life and legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. You can get this for 30% at @uncpress.bsky.social by using code 01HATM30 uncpress.org/978146969717...
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A Glorious Fate
Robert Gould Shaw (1837–1863) is best known as the heroic colonel who led the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment—one of the first regiments of Black so...
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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm astounded that the Boston Public Schools is still pushing forward with their "AI Ambassadors" program that pays students and staff to act as tech evangelists in the district. When your education policy aligns with Linda McMahon's, you are gravely off-course.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As a survivor reading between the lines of this very carefully written story it sounds like Jonathan McKinsey was a trans man in an abusive and controlling marriage who was targeted for violence repeatedly by his ex-wife and her parents and eventually murdered. But as a reporter? I can't be sure.
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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)
Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And listen, I don’t know *shit* about this story and: None of this happens in a vacuum, either. Whole situation is vastly heartbreaking to me, this family’s story, this paper’s complicity with and erasure of trans genocide, etc. Obvs as a DV survivor, whole situation breaks my entire heart.
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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪
A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🏺 🗃️ Archaeologists/Historians - please shoot me your favourite examples & sources on ancient named animals, the older the better! Prefer farm animals but others also welcome 🐏 🐂 🐖 🫏... 🐕 #histsky (I already have Bramati 2025, & Alivernini & Bramanti 2023)
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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
This country is horrifying
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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 28/09/2026
Soggy storrowing www.universalhub.com/2026/soggy-s... #CambridgeMA #MemorialDrive #storrowed
Box-truck driver engages in battle of wits with Mem Drive bridge and loses
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Made a little pouch for a relative who is turning 2 this week.
Small green bag crocheted with colorwork, featuring a lighter green dinosaur. I want to say brontosaurus but I know the lingo has changed since I was a kid and I don’t remember the current name for Littlefoot’s people.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.
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ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?
Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.
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Old North @oldnorth1723.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Some historians draw distinctions between "slave societies" and "societies with slaves." As Jaimie argues in this video, when it comes to New England's ties to slavery, the truth is more complicated.
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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Relatedly: of the 777 students admitted to Stuyvesant's freshman class this autumn, three (3) are Black www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/n...
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An Elite N.Y.C. Public School Admitted 777 Students. Only 3 Were Black.
New York’s specialized high schools give disproportionately few seats to Black and Hispanic students, continuing a pattern that has drawn criticism.
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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 25/09/2026
I'll be presenting a paper on nonbinary erasure at Critical Feminist Histories in Canada, a hybrid conference taking place in Kingston and online next week. 🌈🗃️ 🏳️‍⚧️
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See me at the Critical Feminist Histories in Canada conference | Nico Mara-McKay
I will be presenting a paper at the Canadian Committee on Women's and Gender History's 2026 conference, Critical Feminist Histories in Canada.
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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This looks like a cool queer history conference!
Call for Papers: Queer Rural History Symposium
Date: Monday 15th March 2027
Venue: The Museum of English Rural Life, Reading, RG1 5EX
Lunch to be provided for all attendees
About the Symposium
Until recently, studies of queer history have focused almost exclusively on the urban sphere, given the greater availability of archival material evidencing queer lives in the city. The few queer rural histories which have been popularised in public consciousness are those of aristocrats in country homes, such as Anne Lister and Vita Sackville-West. However, it goes without saying that people with dissonant sexualities and gender identities lived and loved in all corners of society throughout the centuries, including the countryside. As such, there is a growing appetite for broader research into this area. How did queer people meet those who were like-minded in regions of scarce population density? What forms did their relationships take against a backdrop of criminality and stigma? And how did rural attitudes towards queer people differ to those in the city?
This one day symposium aims to bring together researchers of all backgrounds, and at any stage of their work, to share ideas and discuss methods on this emerging field of study. It works towards the goal of not just filling gaps in academic knowledge that exist for both rural history and queer history, but also to show queer people living in the countryside today that there is, and always has been, a heritage and a place for them.Proposals
We invite proposals on themes such as, but not limited to, the following:
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Queer histories of the working and middle classes in rural areas
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Methodologies for recovering queer rural histories, such as the use of museum and archive collections
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Queer rural networks: how they met and flourished
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The response of rural communities to queer relationships
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Migration of same sex couples from the city to the countryside and vice versa
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The ways in which museums and archive services respond to queer rural history
If you would like to submit a proposal, please send an abstract (max 250 words) along with a short bio (50 words) to symposium organisers Tim Jerrome and Esther Rutter at t.jerrome1@uni.brighton.ac.uk. It is preferable that these come in the form of a Word document attached to the email. The deadline for submissions is 5pm on Sunday 6th December 2026.
If you would like to attend the symposium without presenting a paper, let us know via the above email as we need to ensure we do not go above capacity.
We are currently applying for funding to help cover travel costs for those who need it. Please let us know if you would like to attend but would require assistance with travel costs to do so. Priority will be given to attendees where cost would otherwise be a barrier to participation.
Many thanks to Rainbow Canopy (The LGBTQ+ network of Forestry England), the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund, and the staff at The MERL for helping us to fund and organise the symposium.
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Acey Deecey 🚀🚀 @mcgarrygirl78.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Fantastic article on the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture. We're living in an era of the government trying to erase our achievements and darken our futures.
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For Years, the Smithsonian Strove to Bring the African American History and Culture Museum to the National Mall. Now, It Celebrates a Decade as a Beacon of Understanding, Community and Resilience
The museum lovingly called the "Blacksonian" chronicles the past and present and envisions the future to tell the stories of Black life in America
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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...
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Interactive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labels
Pork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for.
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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So I learned from my friend who is the director of the Wolfe Institute of the Humanities that they have lost funding & can either higher an administrator or run faculty fellowships. That Wolfe fellowship + one other fellowship at CUNY central were the only ways peeps at CUNY with a high teaching 1/
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Finally time for my autumn birch forest hat!
Selfie featuring a hat with white and gray ribbing and dark gold crochet top
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Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am facing 17 years in federal prison for doing my job and standing up to Trump’s merciless immigration enforcement campaign. I am finding the strength to keep standing up every single day.
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U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver is eight months pregnant and facing 17 years in jail | Jenice Armstrong
McIver’s inner strength is next level. She is running for reelection while fighting efforts by the Trump administration to jail her. Plus, she’s repping her constituents and caring for her family.
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