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Bonnie Effros

@historianofarch.bsky.social
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historian of archaeology, recovering early medievalist, newly implanted Vancouver academic, immigrant and granddaughter of immigrants, she/her, views my own

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
🇫🇷 Sen. Claude Malhuret: "I compared the Trump presidency to Nero's court. I was wrong. It's a court of miracles. An anti-vax ex heroin addict as Health Sec; a climate skeptic as Econ Sec; an alcoholic TV host as Def Sec; an ex Qatari agent as Attorney Gen; a Putin groupie as Homeland Security Sec."
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
“From April 14-18, select UBC graduate programs at UBC Vancouver will re-open their applications for US citizens to be considered for Sept 2025 or Jan 2026 entry - they are ready to provide quick admissions decisions for these applicants“ #gradstudent #gradschool www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
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US Applicant Week
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Just come across this really useful list on the links between natural history and empire, featuring moi as ‘essential reading’. Perfect if you’re interested in museums or science more broadly too. Also ideal for passing to students as a starting point. daily.jstor.org/natural-hist...
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Natural History: A Reading List - JSTOR Daily
This annotated bibliography samples scholarship on the rich—and difficult—history of natural history.
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Peter M. Shane @petermshane.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The question I've been asked most as we endure the legal dumpster fire that is the Trump Administration is, "What can we do about it when it's not election season?" @timothynoah.bsky.social has an outstanding essay in the @newrepublic.com addressing that question. newrepublic.com/article/1931...
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Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance
Ordinary people have more power than they know.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
"Institutions with resources must resist thuggish bullying, not just for their own sakes, but to protect others who will find it much harder." @sulliview.bsky.social on Columbia University's short-sighted capitulation to Trump's intimidation. #TrumpTyranny www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Columbia should have said, ‘see you in court,’ not ‘yes, Mr President.’ | Margaret Sullivan
Institutions must resist thuggish bullying. There is no satisfying Trump. He will move the goalposts again and again
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Bonnie Effros @historianofarch.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
More bad news regarding Russell group universities with massive cuts to staff at Newcastle and possibly Northampton
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 11/12/2024
Beloved prof teaching Ethical Leadership at UBC gets fired for showing…ethical leadership. 🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻 Anti-Palestinian racism is surging on campuses. Its victims are many, its harms are real.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Could you all share? We're advertising a 2 yr postdoc position for someone who works in #VastEarlyAmerica #VastEarlyAmericas to help coordinate the @jcblibrary.bsky.social projects and programs around 2026. Fuller info here: apply.interfolio.com/159279 and v happy to answer questions!
Ad for the position posted at interfolio @ apply.interfolio.com/159279
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
"One of my teachers at Columbia was Joseph Brodsky...and he said 'look,' he said, 'you Americans, you are so naïve. You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language.'"
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
NB Also an issue at TNA: 'the AHA issued a statement urging reconsideration of a policy change by the Secrétariat général de la défense et de la sécurité nationale that renders “some well-known sources, and many others yet to be analyzed, practically inaccessible, even to professional researchers.”
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AHA Statement Concerning Access to French Archives
In solidarity with the French Association of Archivists, the AHA issued a statement urging reconsideration of a policy change.
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Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social · 03/05/2024
Statement from UCLA Classics on the University's failure to protect student protestors classics.ucla.edu/uncategorize...
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Statement of Members of the Department of Classics on the University's Failure to Protect Student Protestors - Department of Classics - UCLA
2 May 2024 We, members of the Classics Department, some of whom have been present at the events of April 30 and May 1, strongly condemn the attack by agitators...
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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
#BonfireOfTheHumanities News Courses including Anthropology English, Music and Audio Technology, Philosophy and Art History under threat at the University of Kent Canterbury and Medway. Health and Health Care also threatened. The University blames, among other factors, the impact of #Brexit.
kentonline.co.uk
Nine courses could be ‘phased out’ at university facing financial problems
Nine courses, including journalism and art history, could be phased out at the University of Kent as a consultation is launched.
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Leona Archer @larcher.bsky.social · 04/02/2024
Horrendous news from the University of Kent.
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Bonnie Effros @historianofarch.bsky.social · 20/01/2024
My UBC colleague Avi Lewis speaking on South Africa’s case against Israel youtu.be/yuJJ0rO5gVk?...
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Bonnie Effros @historianofarch.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
Back to the Middle Ages. Blood libel conspiracies are vogue again apparently.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
This is such a good piece by Alvin Tillery, especially in putting Gay's academic record in context. Two points. Black students at Harvard, including Gay, were told that hate speech was protected. No problem with white students flying confederate flags on campus. medium.com/@atillery2/p...
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Carolyn Eichner @eichnercarolyn.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
To commemorate the 120th anniversary of her death, a statue of Louise Michel will be erected facing Sacré-Coeur, “monument any-communard qu’elle pourra défir du regard.” A lovely act of justice. 🗃️
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Louise Michel honorée par la Mairie de Paris - L'Humanité
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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
Horrifying proposal by the British government to destroy paper records of wills and other probate documents. Sharing my message in case it helps others formulate their response 🗃️
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 16/12/2023
We filed our appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive yesterday. If we are unsuccessful in our fight, libraries won’t be allowed to own and lend digital books, only license them from big media corporations. Why is that bad for YOU? 🧵in comments blog.archive.org/2023/12/15/i...
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Internet Archive Defends Digital Rights for Libraries | Internet Archive Blogs
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Jen @cassiciacum.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
Especially after this past week or so, people should be ready to fight.
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Bonnie Effros @historianofarch.bsky.social · 16/12/2023
Fascinating that there is so much data about these remains - since so often collections of human remains focused on typology of skulls, etc rather than the individuals from whom they came. This will be an important research tool- thank you for your work on this inventory.
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Bonnie Effros @historianofarch.bsky.social · 16/12/2023
Not clear why we are not hearing more about this cyberattack that continues to make much of the British Library unusable…and this also affects interlibrary loans across the UK…are they going to rejig REF requirements as a consequence? Read More: www.publicbooks.org/how-to-lose-...
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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
JOB: the University of Northern British Columbia is hiring a TT Assistant Professor in #envhist, period and place open! www2.unbc.ca/79306/assist...
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Assistant Professor
The University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) invites applications for a tenure-track position in the Department of History at the rank of Assistant Professor, with a proposed starting date of
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
I wonder whether the tens of thousands of digital-only copyright deposit books will ever be recovered. www.bbc.co.uk/news/enterta...
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British Library: Employee data leaked in cyber attack
A group of cyber criminals have claimed they are behind the ransomware attack and are auctioning off the data.
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Rebecca Zorach @rabbitrez.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
My department is hiring an Assistant Professor in the art or architecture of the Middle East, North Africa, and Iberia, from 600–1500 CE! We're so excited to have authorization for this long-hoped-for position.
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Open Positions: Department of Art History - Northwestern University
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
“When I see people watching the horrible tragedy that is happening here as if it were a Super Bowl of victimhood, in which you support one team and really don’t care about the other, empathy becomes very, very selective. You see only some pain. You don’t want to see other pain.”
nytimes.com
‘I Feel a Human Deterioration’
The Israeli writer Etgar Keret has spent the last few weeks trying to make sense of the violence and loss around him. So far, he can’t.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Alert - motion to eliminate funding for the NEH. US folks please contact your rep right away this will be voted tonight. 😳⬇️🗃️
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Bonnie Effros @historianofarch.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
The Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) invites applications for a two-year Assistant Professor position in Anthropological Archaeology starting ​​1 July 2024.  anth.ubc.ca/about/job-op...
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Andy Khouri @andykhouri.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
Half a million people in London right now. Jewish activists in New York last night. Polls in both countries overwhelmingly support a ceasefire in Gaza. Cannot imagine this level of support even five years ago. Whatever happens, the Palestinians are no longer alone.
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Jews calling for a cease fire have taken over Grand Central ✊ Tell me again how they’re marginal. Absolute nonsense.
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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
Reminder: the deadline for submissions for the FCHS annual meeting is on Nov 1!
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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
#BSkyHistorians! Emily Marker won the George Louis Beer Prize from @ahahistorians.bsky.social for her #CornellPress book "Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era" - www.historians.org/research-and... Check out more here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Book cover with a blue, white, and red patterned design on top and book title with author name in white with black background on the bottom.
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 23/10/2023
The AHA is pleased to announce the winners of its 2023 prizes, which honor exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, public history, and other historical projects. Congratulations to the 2023 awardees! 🗃️
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American Historical Association Announces 2023 Prize Winners
The American Historical Association is pleased to announce the winners of its 2023 prizes.
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