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J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is similar to the AC issue- we need to prioritize energy use and RE used to power data centers and not displace fossil energy is not the way.

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Gwyn McClelland @gwynjapan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

New open access book in Emotions in History series. 🤓 Pleased to have a chapter included. (We have been working on this since 2018)❗️

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Loves and Loyalties in Imperial Japan

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Gwyn McClelland @gwynjapan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

New open access book in Emotions in History series. 🤓 Pleased to have a chapter included. (We have been working on this since 2018)❗️

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Loves and Loyalties in Imperial Japan

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Gwyn McClelland @gwynjapan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

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JSAA-ASAJ Conference 2027: Cross-Currents in Japan, Australia and Asia-Pacific Studies: Charting new Directions and Broader Horizons across Changing Worlds

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Ginny Tapley Takemori @ginnytkmr.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

All 12 stories in this brilliant, heartbreaking collection (my translation) start with the heading, The 15th of August 1945, 81 years ago today, the day Japan surrendered. War should be avoided at all costs. #booksky #translation

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I am looking for a reviewer for this book for the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (@jich.bsky.social). If interested, do let me know! uncpress.org/978146969391...

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Territorial Discontent

This one-hundred-year history of the island of Guåhan, also known as Guam, charts how Indigenous CHamorus and Filipino migrants navigated and negotiated t...

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Gwyn McClelland @gwynjapan.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Coming up in 2027: Joint JSAA-ASAJ Conference in Hachioji. The CFP will be out soon.

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Coming up in 2027: Joint JSAA-ASAJ Conference in Hachioji. The CFP will be out soon.

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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 21/07/2026

James Lovelock is one of the greatest climate scientists that ever lived. We're about find out how on point his statements from over 18 years ago were.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 21/07/2026

Exactly right. Humanities costs are: salary, office space, computer. We fund lots of other disciplines across the university.

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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 21/07/2026

Next month, Japan will mark the 81st anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. According to the welfare ministry, the average age of hibakusha was 86.66 as of the end of March. 👉 ebx.sh/p2VCM9

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

"don't cite what you haven't read" remains the basic entry level academic responsibility; & if your discpline "doesn't have that as a norm" then sorry, your discipline needs reforming for this new world. Citations are structural parts of trust and knowledge building, not trinkets or optional extras

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

One of the reasons - despite being raised Jewish, living in Jewish out of home care as a teen, being the child of a Jewish parent and grandparent, having attended Jewish youth groups and an orthodox Chabad school, and converting orthodox at age 18 - I didn’t feel comfortable making a submission

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

New: The false material and bad-faith arguments presented by Jillian Segal against the ABC and SBS draw attention to deeper flaws in the royal commission

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A Nadir for the Royal Commission

How it became a platform for Jillian Segal's attack on the public broadcasters

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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

who could have possibly repaired this

A tree with a wedged opening where there is one googly eye

Closeup of the tree wedge hole with two googly eyes inside that look cozy

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Robert Nordström (PhD) @rnords.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Japanese Electric Vehicle (EV) sales during the first half of 2026 more than doubled from the same period last year, with more than 59,000 new vehicles sold during this period. Still, EVs only account for around 3% of new car sales. news.web.nhk/newsweb/na/n...

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Australian Academy of the Humanities @humanitiesau.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The Australian Academy of the Humanities has today issued a statement emphasising humanities expertise is essential to Australia’s new national AI framework, and the goals of the Office of Artificial Intelligence: humanities.org.au/news/humanit...

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Melek Ortabasi @mortabasi.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Begging Anglophone scholars of comics and pop culture to follow their counterparts who are Japan experts. There are a bunch of starter packs hanging around. We’re here.

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mulboyne.bsky.social @mulboyne.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

A firm in Nara has developed a calligraphy brush for left-handers called "Lefty". The third picture shows the differences when ろ is written by a left-hander with a normal brush, then written with the Lefty. www.yomiuri.co.jp/culture/dent...

Picture of the "Lefty" brush. Rather than a straight shaft and brush tip, the shaft of the Lefty makes a right angle, and the brush then angles back.

The differences when ろ is written by a left-hander with a normal brush, then written with the Lefty

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Julia C. Bullock @juliacbullock.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Attention Japan scholars: Nagoya University's Gender Research Library just posted the CFA for its 2027 Visiting Researcher program. I'm the current scholar in residence (for a wee bit longer) so feel free to DM me with questions. www.grl.kyodo-sankaku.provost.nagoya-u.ac.jp/news/3777.html

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GRL Visiting Program 2027: Call for Applications - 名古屋大学ジェンダーリサーチライブラリ

The Gender Research Library (GRL) at Nagoya University is inviting

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 23/06/2026

Multiculturalism as we know it in Australia, as a Commonwealth set of policies to recognise diversity in the population and support groups’ own organised cultural life, is almost entirely a Liberal Party achievement. It’s a genuine shame and historical irony that they can’t see that.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

When these data centers become debt traps in a few years at most, the next Dem president should offer to wipe out those debts if they're sold for a dollar back to cities for community centers, mutual aid hubs, YMCA-style temporary housing services. Try to salvage anything out of this mess.

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The top frame is from 2015, when French meteorologists did a “forecast” from a #climate heated August 2050 - a warning on what could possibly happen in 35 years time. Bottom frame: well, it’s happened in barely a decade, only it’s already *much* worse than predicted. It’s a runaway train.

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Byron @johnnyboyapril.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I think we would be better off with clean water and affordable electricity than a Google that scans information and summarizes for us.

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Gaijin Mommy @gaijinmommy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

WHO MADE THIS 💀!

Parody of the manners posters on subways that encouraged ppl to engage in less savory behaviors at home instead of the train, encouraging Japanese men who clean up stadiums to great media praise to also help out cleaning at home and I am dead. I simultaneously love the person who made this and hate them for thinking of it first. It is high art.

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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This might be one of the funniest chart about energy scenarios I’ve seen. You can hardly see “actual” for gas

Winners and Losers
The IEA overestimated gas growth in Asia and underestimated solar

Gas
• Forecast 547 TWh
• Actual 17 TWh

Solar
• Forecast 465 TWh
• Actual 1,333 TWh

Note: Shows expected growth in Asian power generation between 2018 and 2025, based on actual 2018 generation, actual 2025 generation, and the 2018 World Energy Outlook's Current Policies Scenario estimates for 2025. Actual 2025 generation figures are from Ember.
Source: International Energy Agency, Ember, Bloomberg Opinion calculations

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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

So, how many journalists are going to call Pauline Hanson what she is, a despicable, divisive, and deranged racist! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06... We are keeping receipts, and we're taking note of the enablers, apologists and sycohants.

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Hanson pledges to end multiculturalism as police investigate GetUp stunt

A banner interrupted the senator’s first address at the National Press Club in 30 years, in which she laid out a vision for an Australian "monoculture".

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

all these things can be true at the same time: 1) acknowledge China’s lead in green tech; 2) be critical about CCP state capitalist authoritarian party rule; 3) be critical of state capitalist US empire, esp under Trump; 4) not be racist against Chinese(Asian perceived people)

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 16/06/2026

Australia Institute research suggests that removing the 50% CGT discount will level the playing field for first-home buyers and improve tax fairness, with polling indicating broad public support for these measures. Read more on The Point ➡️ theaus.in/4ow1FNx

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Paola Cavaliere @paolajp.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Today and tomorrow I am working with students of the School of Human Sciences, University of Osaka, to discuss disaster research directions. Everyone is welcome! Looking forward to it😀

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

don't forget Toad

3 fans in Japan supporters section dressed as Mario, Luigi, and Toad

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Gwyn McClelland @gwynjapan.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Taught my students the proverb: 猿も木から落ちる　during last trimester, and got a hand drawn picture of a monkey from a student this morning with the handwritten proverb in my inbox. #even monkeys fall from trees.

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Cute Monkey Makes Heart Hands - Love You

ALT: Cute Monkey Makes Heart Hands - Love You

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Colman O'Sullivan @colmanos.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Thousands have turned out for an Anti-Racism rally in Belfast city centre, organised by United Against Racism and supported by Trade Unions

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 11/06/2026

Emma Shortis shares some thoughts after watching the first day of hearings for the Public Inquiry into AUKUS. Watch the full hearing here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3x5qTfTzMA

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Predatory Journals @predatoryjournals.org · 31/12/2024

😱 The largest and most up-to-date list of #Predatory journals and publishers. #2025 😉 predatoryjournals.org/news/f/preda...

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Lawrence @ldog562.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

absolutely...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/06/2026

Data centre pauses are rational, evidence-based responses to the frantic, emotion-driven impatience behind the current mode of development. They are the reasonable middle position. (Australia still seems to be a bit behind on this......) www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

By Jim Benton

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May-lee Chai (she/her) @mayleechai.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Subhed from the NYT article on CSU adoption of ChatGPT: “California’s public universities spent $16.9 million on A.I. during a financial crisis, and the result has been chaos.” Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...

A University
System Went All In on Al. Now It's Tearing Itself Apart.
California's public universities spent $16.9 million on A.l. during a financial crisis, and the result has been chaos.
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By Linda Kinstler
Linda Kinstler spoke with over 60 students, faculty members and administrators at several campuses over the course of a year, as well as with several technology executives involved in the A.l. Initiative.

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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Some of my students: I used Chappy for all my homework My friend: AI is the future why resist My other friend: AI is the best secretary Me, when I see what AI really produces: Y’all aren’t seeing this? Y’all really aren’t okay, are you? 😐

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Michael Chesnut @michaelchesnut.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Article on changing immigration rules in Japan, and their impact on small restaurants run by foreign owners. Gift article. Sounds like this change results for a great loss for everyone involved. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/w...

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How Curry Shops Got Caught in Japan’s Immigration Crackdown

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Emily @suika.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Yet another big anti-war demonstration in Tokyo tonight. #戦争させない0529

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

A Pope is a Pope and will always believe many things I do not believe, but that does not change how absolutely bang-on correct and beautifully articulated this is.

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