Minerals @imperialminerals.bsky.social · 25/08/2026New Minerals publication available. This one explores the way artisanal, informal, illegal, and migrant labour marks the various forms and genres of South African mining literature, from the late nineteenth-century diamond rush compound novels to the speculative fiction of a ‘Rainbow Nation’ 000
Reposted by MineralsSarah Comyn @sarahcomyn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026My article on reading mining and degrowth in South African literature for a special issue of Textual Practice is now online 🎉 And I think there are a few free eprint links available: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comWhite ants and mining: reading degrowth in South AfricaSouth Africa has an abandoned mines problem. These mines pose serious risks to lives and the environment and raise questions of what degrowth may look like in parts of the Global South that are con... 045
Reposted by MineralsDuncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Including an image of diamond miner being chased by a police officer shouting “Hi! Waar’s yo pas” ! What you are looking for really shapes what you see. 063
Reposted by MineralsDuncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Interesting new article about the "illicit diamond buyer" in c19th South Africa by @imperialminerals.bsky.social. A lot to learn in it. I've seen this map of claims before without fully noticing it is decorated with caricatures of African miners being chased by police. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... 2136
Reposted by MineralsRoyal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 02/04/2026The Commemorations Grants scheme has opened for the third year. Funded by the @deptcultureirl.bsky.social, this scheme provides between €1,500 and €10,000 per project. The deadline for applications is 29 April 2026. www.ria.ie/grants/commemorations-bu… 055
Minerals @imperialminerals.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Delighted to have an article, 'The Racialized Energy and Labour of Illicit Diamond Buyers in Colonial South Africa' published as part of this special issue edited by Michael Tondre: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... This article has come from the Research Ireland-funded Imperial Minerals project and 142
Reposted by MineralsHuw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Nigel Biggar attacking Alan Lester and colleagues through a proxy student ‘whistle blower’ in the national media, with no right of reply. Disgraceful MAGA tactics. 01710
Reposted by MineralsDavid Hendy @davidhendy.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Fantastic blog by my former colleague @alanlester.bsky.social forensically refuting the disgraceful attacks on the University of Sussex by the disgracefully ignorant Nigel Biggar. If you’re interested in protecting academic freedom please do read and sharealanlester.co.ukSmearing Sussex (and Me): Responding to Nigel Biggar’s Latest Attack in The SpectatorThe University of Sussex, Feb 2026, taken by the author. Alan Lester The Spectator has published an article by Nigel Biggar smearing the University of Sussex as repressing students who ‘don&#… 23925
Reposted by MineralsSarah Comyn @sarahcomyn.bsky.social · 20/02/2026And now I have a helpful 20% discount code for anyone interested too: 26AFLY1 113
Reposted by MineralsCharlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social · 09/02/2026This book has the most scathing dedication by an illustrator I have ever seen (and he is completely right) #kidlit 6737229
Reposted by MineralsSarah Crook @sarahcrook.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Please do share this doctoral opportunity with MA/MSt students - four years of AHRC funding to work on the history of children's play in Wales, supervised by me and the lovely and brilliant Dr Jacky Tyrie. Any questions get in touch! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...swansea.ac.ukHistory: Serious about Play: Childhood, Play and Policymaking in Wales, 1945 to the present (RS936) - Swansea UniversityWe offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now. 05369
Reposted by MineralsDavid Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 09/02/2026"this does not need a balm this needs an ending" --Dionne Brand, Nomenclature for the Time Being Audio: milkweed.org/between-the-...milkweed.orgDionne Brand : Nomenclature — New and Collected Poems | Milkweed EditionsToday’s guest Dionne Brand, to borrow the words of John Keene, “is without question one of the major living poets in the English language.” Kamau Brathwaite called Brand “our first major exile female ... 06731
Reposted by MineralsJohn MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social · 02/02/2026The deadline for submissions to the Vcologies Early Career Paper Prize has been extended to February 15! Submissions should be emailed to Kathleen Frederickson. See attached flyer for details! #envhist #envhum 098
Reposted by MineralsGe(Gigi)Tang @gigitang.bsky.social · 20/01/2026I was funded by the minerals project to visit Museum Africa to consult its fascinating postcard collections on SA’s extractive histories. The postcards discussed in this article offer a glimpse into how this highly commercial medium shaped global perceptions of mining capitalism and abstract labor. 054
Minerals @imperialminerals.bsky.social · 20/01/2026@gigitang.bsky.social article, 'Race, Postcards, & the Visual Politics of Chinese Indenture in South African Gold Mines' has been published in Victorian Studies! In it, Gigi compares how 3 SA postcard publishers represent the arrival of indentured Chinese workers👇 imperialminerals.ie/publications...imperialminerals.ieImperial Minerals — Race, Postcards, and the Visual Politics of Chinese Indenture in South African Gold Mines 041
Reposted by MineralsPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.thezebra.orgDr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away 545270779546
Reposted by MineralsNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 06/01/2026When the active shooter on campus is the Israeli state, does anyone offer thoughts and prayers? 03713
Minerals @imperialminerals.bsky.social · 19/12/2025You can also listen to Assoc. Prof Tom Nurmi's brilliant keynote which opened the symposium. In his paper, Tom engages closely with previous Minerals roundtables and provides a philosophical exploration of minerals in our contemporary era through Emerson's poetry imperialminerals.ie/podcasts/qua...imperialminerals.ieImperial Minerals — Quarry of Thought: Minerality and AI 001
Minerals @imperialminerals.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Read @gigitang.bsky.social reflection on the brilliant Critical Minerals symposium she & Katie Donnelly organised for the Minerals project. The symposium was generously supported by UCD College of Arts & Humanities seed funding & @ucdhumanities.bsky.social imperialminerals.ie/2025/12/19/c...imperialminerals.ieImperial Minerals — Critical Minerals Symposium Reflections 054
Reposted by MineralsSarah Comyn @sarahcomyn.bsky.social · 08/12/2025I'm giving a public talk at Universistät Konztanz's ZKF on Wednesday at 5:30pm. I'll be talking about my @researchireland.ie Imperial Minerals project, Illicit Diamond Buyers, Zama Zama, Koleka Putuma, William Kentridge, and more. You can join online! 👇 www.uni-konstanz.de/forschen/for...uni-konstanz.deZKF Public Talk: The Carceral and Geopower Logics of South Africa’s Mining Imaginary 012
Reposted by MineralsKit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 07/12/2025Check it out!! Hodder & Stoughton have an open submission window for all fiction genres. Get in quick. Details in link. Please share :)hodder.co.ukHODDER & STOUGHTON OPEN SUBMISSIONSVisit the post for more. 27074
Reposted by MineralsMiriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 04/12/2025Weird situation. AI adoption in the work world is stagnating, while higher-ed institutions are rushing to embrace it so that students will be prepared for…the work world? 16628192
Reposted by MineralsRebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Same for literary studies. Non-tenure-track lit studies scholars I know you're out there and publishing articles and books. And if you're tenure-track and know NTT authors, let me know about their work! I can reach out and confirm that they're cool with being listed. 13929
Reposted by MineralsAlan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Great to see this out in the world 0104
Reposted by MineralsDeidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Look at this excellent handkerchief from 1769 at the V & A museum: a showcase for #18thc practices of remediation. Made to imitate a quodlibet/medley print, a genre that itself aims to simulate, in a trompe l'oeil idiom, a scatter of small printed papers. Imagine blowing your nose on that! #scraps 711630
Reposted by MineralsMatthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 15/11/2025This is a 52-pound 9000+ page accordion-bound artist’s book of Donald Trump’s lies, conceived, printed, and bound by Jill and Ray Nichols of @leadgraffiti.bsky.social in Delaware. Each of the 9000 pages has the text (per the Washington Post) of one or more of Trump’s lies; none are repeated. 7316142
Reposted by MineralsSarah Comyn @sarahcomyn.bsky.social · 14/11/20255 Academy in Exile Fellowships-Deadline Extended, 30 November 2025. Eligibility: scholars with PhD in the humanities, social sciences, law, who are at risk because of their academic work/civic engagement in human rights, democracy, & the pursuit of academic freedom. www.academy-in-exile.euacademy-in-exile.euAcademy in Exile 044
Reposted by MineralsKatja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 13/11/2025🔔 Admissions are open for the M.Phil in Environmental History at Trinity College Dublin. Come and join us - or recommend our course to your students! #envhist #skystorians More info here 👇 www.tcd.ie/courses/post... 01211
Reposted by MineralsDavid Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Congrats to Omar El Akkad & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson both shortlisted for the 2025 Writers' Trust Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction ICYMI here are my 2025 conversations with each Omar: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar... Leanne: tinhouse.com/podcast/lean... @biidaasamose.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org 06920
Reposted by MineralsRebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 09/11/2025It’s that time of year friends! Thanks to @erinbartram.bsky.social and our friends at @contingent-mag.bsky.social, Laura and I are putting together a list of 2025 articles & books by contingent & indie lit critters. DM, reply, email me @ suny press. And spread the word!! 24334
Reposted by MineralsDuncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Fitting advert in the airport in Zambia's biggest mining region: 182
Reposted by MineralsAnna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 30/10/2025A permanent post in my department. Closing date Dec 14th 2025, interviews in March. Please spread #histscicam.ac.ukAssistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400Applications are invited for the position of Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Please note 14251
Reposted by MineralsJohn Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename. 135106241481
Reposted by MineralsUCD Library @ucdlibrary.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Wonderful to host the launch of "Creative Pedagogies in Practice: Case Studies from Creative Futures Academy at University College Dublin", with essays reflecting on how creative pedagogies foster critical thinking in teaching & learning. @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social @creativefutures.bsky.social 035
Reposted by MineralsAlan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 21/10/2025"Climate & History," @nichecanada.bsky.social's Canadian History & Environment Summer School, 29-31 May 2026, on Prince Edward Island.🦞 Apply now to attend! The deadline is 30 Nov, but we'd much appreciate early apps. #envhist #cdnhist #chess2026 #gojays niche-canada.org/2025/10/20/c...niche-canada.orgCHESS 2026: Climate & History - Call for ParticipantsWe are pleased to invite applications to attend the 2026 Canadian History & Environment Summer School. 01910
Reposted by MineralsGe(Gigi)Tang @gigitang.bsky.social · 13/10/2025 📢Registration is OPEN! Join us at UCD on 7 Nov for the Critical Minerals Symposium – insights & networking all in one place! Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/critical-m... 075
Minerals @imperialminerals.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Registration is now open for the one-day symposium on Critical Minerals being organised by @gigitang.bsky.social and Katie Donnelly on 7 November. Featuring a keynote by Associate Prof. Tom Nurmi, 'Quarry of Thought: Minerality and AI' More details 👇 imperialminerals.ie/events/regis...imperialminerals.ieImperial Minerals — Register now! Critical Minerals Symposium 020
Reposted by MineralsJulia Ditter @juliaditter.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Call for Contributions: Victorian Infrastructures & their Environmental Legacies We're still looking for articles to be included in our @openlibhums.org special issue! Abstracts are due 31 October, full texts 31 March '26. @bavs-uk.bsky.social @rs4vp.org @asleuki.bsky.social @easlce.bsky.socialshorturl.atOLHJ_CfP.pdf 12420
Reposted by MineralsPamela K Gilbert @pamelakgilbert.bsky.social · 17/10/2025New series just dropped! Victorian/ 19th C Global Anglophone folks, please take a look. www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...cambridge.orgElements in Victorian Literature, Science, and the Environment « Humanities# « Cambridge Core BlogMany eco-scholars today have lamented our current tendency to soft denial. We acknowledge major environmental concerns such as climate change while continuing to go about our lives as if they don’t ex... 01611
Reposted by MineralsAAUP @aaup.org · 15/10/2025BOOM! 💥💥💥 Brown REJECTS Trump’s loyalty oath! “I’m concerned the compact, by its nature & provisions, would restrict #academicfreedom & undermine the autonomy of Brown’s governance, critically compromising our ability to fulfill our mission.” — Christina H. Paxson, Brown University Presidentnytimes.comBrown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment 727865
Reposted by MineralsDolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Apply now for a free week-long PhD course on Energy Humanities organized by the Greenhouse and the project Energy Lives! project run by @melinabuns.bsky.social Takes place in Stavanger, Norway, 1-5 December 2025 www.uis.no/en/research/... #envhum #envhist #energyuis.noApply for PhD Course on Energy Humanities5 ECTS PhD course ‘Themes within Environmental Humanities’ to be held in Stavanger, 1-5 December 2025. This year’s thematic focus is the developing field of the Energy Humanities. 02923
Reposted by MineralsMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 15/10/2025'In a time of ecological crisis and economic inequality, the authors argue that closing off inquiry into alternatives to GDP growth is not just anti-scientific but dangerously regressive.' 081
Reposted by MineralsLuca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 13/10/2025In a day in which those who perpetrated a genocide and those who were complicit gather to pat themselves on the back as peacemakers, I recommend two books. 0174
Reposted by MineralsAdam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 11/10/2025We are hiring! Prospective PhD students in environmental history, history of science, history of technology and STS interested in the climate and environmental impacts of AI look here. Please share in your networks. #envhist #histsci #AI #anthropcoene 12025
Reposted by MineralsJamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 11/10/2025Honestly, it’s exhausting that people think Gazans should only ask for help to survive to eat, to stay alive but not to dream, to study, or to rebuild their lives. Wanting education, safety, and a future isn’t greed. It’s being human. 291436503
Reposted by MineralsMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Quarry Farm Symposium, my favorite event on our annual calendar, kicks off tonight with a discussion of everyday ecofascism with @aprilanson.bsky.social & Alexander Menrisky. This year’s theme is Energy Studies, co-organized with @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social. marktwainstudies.com/2025-quarry-... 1135
Reposted by MineralsJohn MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social · 02/10/2025The deadline for submissions to the next Northeast Victorian Studies Association conference is just two weeks away! Just because the theme is “Silences”doesn’t mean you should let this CFP pass by you in silence—go ahead and submit!northeastvictorianstudies.wordpress.com 042
Reposted by MineralsPriti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social · 02/10/2025The deadline for Curran Fellowships is fast approaching: Oct 15 (letters due a week later). Who doesn't want money for travel & research? So much exciting work to do on British/empire periodicals of the long 19th c! 078