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Douglas Peers

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historian, has-dean, and senior staff officer to an alpha-beagle.

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Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"We'll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it's public, because they need to understand that there's consequences for these things" The only thing that's missing is pig's blood - but otherwise Hegseth has mastered the colonial logic of exemplary violence. youtube.com/watch?v=nOxz...
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Pete Hegseth says execution of Fort Hood mass killer will be livestreamed
YouTube video by Guardian News
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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played
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Douglas Peers @dpeers.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
if it is any consolation I am going against the flow and coming in this afternoon for the peace and quiet
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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Karl Marx:
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Wtf Blonde Man with Mullet
ALT: Wtf Blonde Man with Mullet
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Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Very much looking forward to Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social talking about the Jamaican uprising of 1832 this Wed. @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social All welcome, either in person or online, but please register: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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British History in the Long 18th Century
Supported by Mark Storey and Carey Karmel, in memory of Arthur Burns
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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The University of North Carolina is hiring a historian of Science and Technology, with time, place, and theme otherwise open. Military historians with that expertise should feel encouraged to apply. careers.historians.org/jobs/2260958...
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Douglas Peers @dpeers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
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‘Birdwatching is close to rapture’: Margaret Atwood on why she has given C$1m to avian research
Award-winning novelist celebrates late partner’s love of birds with gift to establish the Graeme Gibson chair in avian biology
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 24/09/2026
New from History UK: a valuable and interesting survey of UK history students use of and attitudes towards GenAI in HE teaching - their preliminary report is published today: bit.ly/4hatsRR The report is by Dr Sarah Jones and Dr Simon Peplow @simpep.bsky.social #skystorians
Opening page of History UK's statement on their survey and report on AI and History Students in UK universities. Full text: 

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become impossible to ignore in higher education. For historians, working in a discipline which depends on interpretation, evidence, and critical thinking, the development of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has raised particularly significant questions. In 2026, we launched a survey to gather the perspectives of people who are often overlooked in considerations of the impact of AI and appropriate responses – history students themselves.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Stanford University...is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a campus banner." feels like a South Park episode. what are we doing here yall www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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Stanford violated its AI policy by turning a Hispanic student into a fake Black woman in ad
Stanford University is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a dining hall advertisement.
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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sad news. His books illuminated my work hugely 🙏🏾
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ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Karen Dubinsky, Professor Emerita of History and Global Development Studies at Queen’s U, passed away on 4 Sept. 2026 after a brief illness. Karen was a longtime supporter of—and contributor to—Active History. We mourn her loss, even as we celebrate her life. Post by Susan Lord and Scott Rutherford
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Remembering Karen Dubinsky (1957-2026)
Karen Dubinsky, Professor Emerita of History and Global Development Studies at Queen’s University, brilliant scholar and generous friend to so many, passed away on 4 September 2026 after a br…
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The provost of Dartmouth, at which I teach, has been using AI to write both academic papers & national op-eds, according to brave reporting by @thedartmouth.bsky.social. Many students are already bitter about AI. This leaves us as faculty no ground to stand on. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
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Op-eds, academic articles by Provost Santiago Schnell flagged as ‘AI-written’ by ‘near-zero error’ AI detector Pangram
Schnell said he used artificial intelligence for “making writing processes more efficient,” but that AI was not a “substitute” for his own “intellectual judgment or authorship.”
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."
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New Learning Outcomes Announced | English
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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🚨the Department of History at the University of Toronto (St George campus) is hiring an Assistant Professor in the history of early modern or modern South Asia jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
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Assistant Professor - South Asian History
Assistant Professor - South Asian History
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 10/09/2026
‘Many of the passengers aboard the 𝘞𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘩 were war veterans, returning to Britain to rebuild what they had fought to defend a few years earlier.’ Colin Douglas on the role of the Caribbean in building Britain’s Blitz spirit, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Colin Douglas | Beyond the Blitz
The story of the Blitz cannot be fully understood as a national story. It was part of a global war. While the Luftwaffe...
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Historians, help me out: Do we have precedent for what to do when the media interviews members of cults and just platforms them, with zero acknowledgment that they are living inside their own delusions? www.marketplace.org/episode/2026...
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The Hugging Face hack shows what happens when AI agents work together
Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, says the attack presents a narrow window for humans to act.
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ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Jim Clifford adds to ongoing AI discourse by exploring LLMs and Fable, an Anthropic AI model. Make sure to check out the rest of our posts exploring the use of AI in academia and history!
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How Do We Talk about LLMs?
By Jim Clifford It is never fun to watch friends argue. Generative AI has created multiple fractures across our universities and the community of historians. The stakes are high and we are all deal…
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Ladies & gents: I give you what is easily the dumbest Canadian think-tank paper of the entire fucking decade. THIS IS NOT HOW YOU USE H-INDEXES YOU ABSOLUTE MUPPETS. H-INDEXES ARE CORRELATED WITH AGE & FIELD OF STUDY ALL THIS TELLS YOU IS WHITE SCHOLARS ARE OLDER & MORE LIKELY TO BE IN SCIENCES.
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The equity excellence trade-off: A study of EDI in the Canada Research Chairs Program | Macdonald-Laurier Institute
The analysis reveals that EDI has actively weakened Canadian research and reduced overall academic performance at Canadian universities.
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Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
JOB!! The Department of History at the University of Ottawa invites applications for a position in medieval and/or transregional history, 7th-16th centuries. French or English, bilingualism an asset. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...
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SJ Brison @brison.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
More on Talia Bettcher's move to the University of Waterloo! uwaterloo.ca/news/arts/ma...
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Making the world a safer and kinder place for trans people | Waterloo News | University of Waterloo
Dr. Talia Bettcher joins Waterloo as the Eddie Goldenberg Chair in Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Trans Community Resilience
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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
In light of Agent Orange’s decision to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America” @jagwoolf.bsky.social and I are returning the favour.We’ve issued an executive order to all members of our household (i.e. our dog) that henceforth the most suitable body of water herein be referred to as “Lake Donald Trump”.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 27/08/2026
Carney to rename rest of Great Lakes as "Lake Legal Adult" so Trump will never want to touch them
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Carney to rename rest of Great Lakes as "Lake Legal Adult" so Trump will never want to touch them
OTTAWA - After Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America,” Prime Minister Mark Carney announced he would preemptively rename the rest of the Great Lakes as “Lake Legal...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Donald Trump is so incompetent he is going to create a toilet paper shortage *while* he gives us explosive diarrhea.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
But don't forget that people, especially women, who raise concerns about AI's role in education, democracy, climate collapse or research (for example) are ill-informed, and probably being hysterical. 😒
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Dr Jennifer Howes @jhowesuk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Publication day for my article on contested statues of Robert Clive in London & Calcutta, Co-written with Jayanta Sengupta. This pic shows a plywood mock-up of the London statue, 1916. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/contested...
Plywood cut-out of a statue, 1916. The tall plinth it stands on is made of wood and canvas. Photo from British Library, Curzon Manuscripts.
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Northwestern University admin accepting $35 million for the football program from MAGA donors Dick and Liz Uihlein while also shuttering the African Studies program and its 80-year-old history is a pretty good encapsulation of higher ed in the US.
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I think it's bad that the UK press can escalate what is essentially a workplace matter into national news ahead of the fucking country being on fire and then get away with hounding their victim until they die.
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Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
My god, what an image. Dead kings in a plastic box, carried off as the world burns.
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Tanroop Sandhu @tanroopsandhu.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Sumit Sarkar was an absolute giant of a historian. Sad to hear of his passing. His work, I'm sure, will continue to inspire for generations to come.
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Douglas Peers @dpeers.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Black academics suffer when life stories eclipse scholarship www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/blac...
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Black academics suffer when life stories eclipse scholarship
Fixating on the remarkable life story of ex-University of Cambridge professor Jason Arday did a disservice to black scholars, says Femi Owolade
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Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This is a fantastic book - in case my blurb wasn't clear... 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
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Douglas Peers @dpeers.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
sticky walk this morning along the Conestogo River but the birds were definitely enjoying the bugs more than us
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year
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Dr Adam Prime @primeadam.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Thousands of forgotten Punjabi WW1 soldiers recognised for first time
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Forgotten Punjabi WW1 soldiers recognised for first time
Nearly 10,000 soldiers' names are being added to the official database of war dead, a cherished step for many of their descendants.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/07/2026
looking ahead, surely the next round will be easier - the english have never had a problem with viking invaders before hold on, I’m getting a note
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 06/07/2026
So under the new rules does the call to FIFA come from Starmer, Burnham or the King
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Douglas Peers @dpeers.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
We have lost another giant in the field. A wonderful eulogy from Durba Ghosh to a scholar whose work will continue to inform, inspire, and at times irritate (though in the best possible way). RIP Tom
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
On the beauty of archives. Will our digital age’s records be so well preserved? Let’s hope so www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Aurangzeb's akhbarat: The empire that ran on news reports - and what they reveal about Mughal India
Thousands of forgotten news reports are reshaping our understanding of Aurangzeb and the Mughal world.
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Says the Convoy's doughnut delivery boy.
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Dr Priya Atwal @priyaatwal.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Been catching up on today’s news about Reform’s plans to introduce a ‘patriotic’ British history curriculum. Can I point you all to my BBC radio series, which explored just how problematic state-led national history textbooks can be? www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...
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BBC Sounds - Lies My Teacher Told Me - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of Lies My Teacher Told Me on BBC Sounds.
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Douglas Peers @dpeers.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
and to add insult to injury it was probably written with AI assistance
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Just so, so many people who need to be punched for this.
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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I know there are lots of things to be concerned about these days but I'm reposting this for #envhist and #cdnhist. It's an ATIP story as much as it is a story about the loss of a service and the devaluing of knowledge - and the work that Parks Canada researchers did and do. 1/
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Douglas Peers @dpeers.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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An expat in Dubai has a startling revelation: the Stephen Collins cartoon
Reality check …
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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/03/2026
I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life
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shrek is standing on top of a set of stairs with two knights .
Alt: Lord Farquaad Some of you may die but it’s a sacrifice I am willing to make gif
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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The Board of Peace has wasted no time starting its first war.
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Mark Condos @mark-condos.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Are you interested in how revenge and honour shaped British and French colonial warfare? Then check out my new book, Empire with a Vengeance, published with @hurstpublishers.bsky.social. Available now for pre-order from Waterstones: www.waterstones.com/campaign/feb... @waterstones.bsky.social
Book cover of Empire with a Vengeance, by Mark Condos. The coveri mage is a reproduction from the cover of Le Petit Journal, depicting the allied punitive expedition to Baoding during the Boxer Rebellion in China, featuring the execution of a Chinese official and destruction of the city's walls.
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I am thrilled that my book Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India: Histories of the Ephemeral 1748–1858 has now won the 2026 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy prize (Association for Asian Studies/South Asia Council)! www.asianstudies.org/grants-award... Honoured to share it with the great Charu Gupta.
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Coomaraswamy Prize - Association for Asian Studies
Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize The Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize honors a distinguished work of scholarship in South Asian Studies that promises to define or redefine the understandin...
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Douglas Peers @dpeers.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
and I am marooned between printmakers and block artists, Norwegian Football experts, supernatural fandom, and Canadian Soccer Community. Not sure what any of them did to deserve a neighbour like me
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