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FoFcast @fofcast.fellowshipoffans.com · 07/08/2026

🦖 Dinosaurs. 👻 A haunted Starfleet ship. 🍻 And a Hangover. Join Strider & guest @cartomark.bsky.social for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 discussion, as we boldly go where we have not gone before! 🚀 Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAXs... 🖖🏻 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds ⁠

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 Episodes 1-3 Review & Breakdown

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 19/05/2026

We need historians because what we remember matters. Public memory shapes how we understand the past and present. What story do you think should be remembered more widely? #WeNeedHistorians #TalkAboutHumanities

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Bill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

My U of MN department has launched a scholarship fund to honor Alex Pretti (BA '11) who got a Geography degree before becoming a VA Nurse. Here's how to give. The money goes to support students in our department. Thanks! makingagift.umn.edu/give/fund.ht...

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Donate to the University of Minnesota

There are many ways to give that not only help create excellence at the U, but also contribute to your own personal and financial goals.

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Mark Rhodes @cartomark.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I've never actually dug into journal rankings before to realize how much the positions and publications of the editorial board actually matter to the metrics. The constant spam requests at least make more sense now.

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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

This week on Wonkhe: The peer review system is at risk of being overwhelmed. Bashir M Al-Hashimi calls for a culture shift to address the growing volume of artificial intelligence-enabled research outputs

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Detection tools won’t save the scholarly record from the AI paper avalanche

The peer review system is at risk of being overwhelmed. Bashir M Al-Hashimi calls for a culture shift to address the growing volume of artificial intelligence-enabled research outputs The peer review...

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Mark Rhodes @cartomark.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Talk about articles written for very different futures! We submitted this in July '24. How can we physical navigate sustainably through challenging heritages as this administration dismantles nearly all forms of public service? Nevertheless, Amtrak offers options. openurl.ebsco.com/EPDB%3Agcd%3...

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Amtrak's Sustainable Futures: Slow Tourism and a Nationalization of Industrial Heritage.

Discover this 2025 paper in Material Culture by Rhodes II, Mark Alan; and, Hannum, Kathryn L. focusing on: UNITED States; AMTRAK (Company); SUSTAINABLE tourism; HISTORICAL archaeology; DEINDUSTRIALIZA...

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Mark Rhodes @cartomark.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Well, this is a first. Just received article proofs back with entire swaths of AI-generated material. Important data and citations cut, phrases washed out, and paragraphs of fluff added. I'm shocked...and waiting to find out if this from Taylor & Francis copyeditors or the journal. Heads up!!

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Mark Rhodes @cartomark.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

First time using ArcPro... same amount of yelling at my computer as always, BUT, now I have a draft map of every place (580 unique sites!) recommended to visit by National Museums Scotland Publishing! @museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk @tourismgeographies.bsky.social @iashedinburgh.bsky.social

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Mark Rhodes @cartomark.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Got a paper back a couple months ago from a middling journal with 3 rejects/major revisions. One of the best pieces of publishing advice has been from @dhkaplanoh.bsky.social: don't change a thing...reformat and send it back out. Just received 3 accepts/minor revisions from a top journal.

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ALT: dwight schrute from the office is wearing glasses and a suit and tie .

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Mark Rhodes @cartomark.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I'm very excited to be able to kick off the semester here at the University of Padova/Padua for the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master's in Techniques, Heritage, Territories of Industry (TPTI). Time to talk about the diversification, deromanticization, and present absence of industrial heritage!

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Michael Allen @mjallen176.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Reminder as you file your taxes, Intuit, the parent company of TurboTax, reported a total annual revenue of $16.3 billion for fiscal year 2024, representing a 13.34% increase from 2023. Hashtag lawyers, lobbyists, and corporations. www.forbes.com/sites/kellyp...

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IRS Kills Off Popular Free Direct File Option For The 2026 Tax Filing Season

While the IRS hasn’t officially confirmed that the program is dead, the website indicates that the program is closed—and states have been notified that it will not be in place for 2026.

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Mark Rhodes @cartomark.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Not just most, nearly all 97%! Now, let's compare those figures to other groups. Are our trans students welcome? Our Indigenous students? Do our international students feel safe?

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Abdul Azim Ahmed @abdulazim.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Thank you Seren - I'm incredibly pleased and excited Muslim Wales is available for purchase. I really want these stories out there, for the names of Welsh Muslim pioneers to be known, and for Wales' Islamic history to be celebrated. Please do buy, order into libraries, and share with friends.

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Yachts are rich people's carbon bombs. Yachts are a policy failure. We should put a 100% luxury tax on yachts, and put the money into green infrastructure that cuts carbon pollution and protects coastal communities from floods.

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Andy Bass @andybassny.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

A historical marker commemorating literary icon Toni Morrison was unveiled in Ithaca, New York, on what would have been her 95th birthday, February 18, 2026. It stands in front of the house where she lived while a graduate student in American Literature at Cornell University in the 1950s.

A flyer publicizing an unveiling ceremony for the Toni Morrison historical marker is taped to the covered marker in front of 513 North Albany Street in Ithaca, New York, on February, 18, 2026. The marker was a project of Cornell University’s Toni Morrison Collective. The group is comprised of Cornell faculty, librarians, and scholars dedicated to celebrating the legacy of the 1955 alumna of Cornell University’s College of Arts and Sciences. The marker was sponsored by the William G. Pomeroy Foundation through its New York State Historical Marker Grant Program. The unveiling ceremony was moved indoors due to rain. (Andy Bass photo, 2026)

Organizers of the Toni Morrison historical marker project and community members stand on the sidewalk between Morrison’s former home and the newly unveiled roadside historical marker on February 18, 2026. Left to right are three members of Cornell University’s Toni Morrison Collective—Kofi Acree, Director for the John Henrik Clarke Africana Library; Margaret Washington, Professor Emerita in the Department of History; and Anne Adams, Professor Emerita in Africana Studies and Comparative Literature. Beside them are Anastasia Sopchak, Research Historian and Engagement Associate at the William G. Pomeroy Foundation; Elizabeth Bittel, Civil Rights Education and Training Specialist at the Cornell Office of Civil Rights; Kaleb Hunkele, artist and lecturer at the Ithaca College School of Humanities and Sciences; and Cally Arthur, retired staff member in the Department of Global Development. Bittel and Hunkele are current residents of Morrison’s former home. (Andy Bass photo, 2026)

A street view shows the newly unveiled Toni Morrison historical marker (left) in front of the duplex at 511-513 North Albany Street in Ithaca, New York, on February 18, 2026. Morrison lived in an upstairs apartment on the left side of the duplex (#513) from 1953 to 1954 while a graduate student at Cornell University. She received a Master of Arts in American Literature from the school in 1955. (Andy Bass photo, 2026)

A close-up view shows the north side of the newly unveiled Toni Morrison historical marker at 513 North Albany Street in Ithaca, New York, on February 18, 2026. The cast aluminum marker was sponsored by the Syracuse-based William G. Pomeroy Foundation through its New York State Historical Marker Grant Program. (Andy Bass photo, 2026)

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Mark Rhodes @cartomark.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I'm very excited to be a part of the revival of the Cornish Studies journal by the Institute of Cornish Studies. We are currently looking for submissions for our first issue, especially from ECRs! Check out details online: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen... #Cornwall #Cornish #Kernow #Kernewek

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Institute of Cornish Studies | Institute of Cornish Studies | University of Exeter

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Mark Rhodes @cartomark.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Wrapping up my first major fieldwork of my Fulbright on EU industrial heritage policy. I started in SW Sardinia where the exciting Mines.B slow tourism mining routes initiative was born alongside their own Cammino Minerario di Santa Barbara and the first UNESCO Geopark.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

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Mark Rhodes @cartomark.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I'll ditto that! 5 classes I took in college: >Intro to Ethnic Studies (required for all freshmen!) >Minnesota (pre-1858) >Europeans in Indian Country and Indians in Europe >Castles, Crags, and Coastlines >Immigrant America

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Mark Rhodes @cartomark.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I've had a rocky relationship with my alma mater this past year, but SCSU has shown its quality over the past month in the face of overwhelming adversity and violence. Very proud to see the new president take a non-negotiable stance protecting and supporting students. @scsualumni.bsky.social

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Kyle Blomquist for U.S. Congress @blomquist4congress.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I'm in a border district. My people in the U.P. can't see a doctor or afford housing. Some are living in bitter cold without heat or hope. D.C. continues to treat this xenophobic immigration hysteria as a legitimate priority while my people's basic needs are forgotten. That is utterly enraging.

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Mark Rhodes @cartomark.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Today marks the end of my fabulous APS (@amphilsociety.bsky.social) Fellowship at IASH (@iashedinburgh.bsky.social). What began as an empirical assessment into National Museums Scotland's books has instead revealed the relational, emotional, and fluid dynamics underpinning our national museums.

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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Looking to explore a career outside academia? Recent PhDs: apply by March 11 to be an ACLS Leading Edge Fellow! Put your humanities PhD skills to work at mission-driven nonprofits across the country. Learn more: www.acls.org/LeadingEdge

Photos of 2025 ACLS Leading Edge Fellows with text ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship, Apply now. Deadline: March 11, 9:00 PM EDT.

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Mark Rhodes @cartomark.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

50 years from now we'll be visiting the Minneapolis Homeland "Security" Shootings Site wondering how we could have let things get so bad and vowing "never again" while the next demagogue plays upon the nation's fears and vulnerabilities for their personal benefit.

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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 25/01/2026

We will need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission when these cruel, lawless people are out of office. They must be held accountable in order for our nation to heal.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/01/2026

an administration staffed to the top with degenerate liars

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: "I just saw a video of more than 6 masked agents pummeling one of our constituents and shooting him to death. How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end?"

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

What we are watching is a paramilitary force learning that they can kill with impunity, that the regime will smear the victim and defend them. Unless politicians and the legal system exerts accountability, it will not stop. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...

And what are they learning? Experts on the formation of internal security services in authoritarian regimes point to a sense of impunity as a warning sign. Regime officials abuse their power when they know they will be protected, and even praised, for doing so.

Over the course of weeks and months, we have seen images of DHS officials abusing American citizens and immigrants alike, including killing them. What we do not hear is regime officials calling for credible investigations into such abuses, or even expressing any concerns. Renee Good’s killer was announced innocent, and both Good and her wife was instead the subject of an investigation, a perversion of justice so obvious that an FBI agent and half-dozen career Department of Justice prosecutors assigned to Minnesota resigned.

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Mark Rhodes @cartomark.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Illegal action is illegal... Who knew‽ Howabout we enforce our own laws?

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Mark Rhodes @cartomark.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

@mprnews.org has been ON IT the past two weeks. Maybe it's time Minnesota takes some pointers from Catalonia and summon their fire fighters to help maintain the law and order that these federal forces show zero regard for. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

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Fear factor: Intimidation becomes a calling card as Twin Cities ICE surge widens

Six weeks into the immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota, observers say there are signs that federal agents are employing violence more frequently and with little apparent restraint against citiz...

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The American Geographical Society @americangeo.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Master’s & Doctoral students at universities in the U.S.! Apply today to be considered for an award of $2,000 to support your #geography #gis #geospatial research. Projects with a fieldwork component will be prioritized. Email the proposal materials below to ags@americangeo.org before Jan. 16th.

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Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time @deindustrialpol.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Happy New Year!🎊 Read our latest blog post by Melissa Meade from Seton Hall University. Learn about how public memorialization struggles to center workers in the narrative of industrial history.

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Whose Names Are Carved in Bronze? What a Coal Mining Memorial Reveals About Memory – Deindustrialization

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Mark Rhodes @cartomark.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I've seen so many calls that the #Smithsonian is "changing history." History is always changing and is always political. The question and concern should lie with how power is shaping those changes. Luckily, we have the Citizen Historians tracking this... www.citizenhistorians.org/exhibit-chan...

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Exhibit Changes | Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

"In every society fallen to authoritarianism, the state goes after the press first+ closes in on universities next. All of us who live, work,+learn within the university should think of our institution as part of the larger constitutional structure of the nation." www.chronicle.com/article/univ...

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Universities Need a New Defense

The authoritarian threat is growing. The old playbook won’t work.

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Mark Rhodes @cartomark.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Perhaps @npr.org's best journalism yet. It says something that they're willing to put so many resources into mapping out an attack on our government even after our government defunds them. apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/

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Jan. 6, 2021: A visual archive of the Capitol attack

NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

The destruction doesn't make for a photo-op like tearing down the East Wing of the White House or bulldozing the Rose Garden, but it's every bit as bad. Generations of American children learned to spell and count, learned the Preamble to the Constitution, from watching shows produced by the CPB.

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 05/01/2026

As nationalism grows ever more central to international politics, the Vienna-based Central European University department that studies it is on the verge of extinction. So what would be lost if this small but scrappy program disappears?

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The rise and fall of nationalism studies

What the demise of a small department in an embattled university says about the future of Europe and the world. 

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Mark Rhodes @cartomark.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Time to break out this old playlist that I've tweaked a bit since grad school. open.spotify.com/playlist/1zY...

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Anti-war Songs

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