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Keith Grant

@keithsgrant.bsky.social
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PhD in History | Historian of early North America, Emotions, and Book Culture | Assoc Prof at Crandall University | Writing a book about African Canadian leader Rev. Richard Preston (1791-1861) in Virginia, England, and Nova Scotia.

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 2h
A Black-capped Chickadee perched along the nature trail after caching a sunflower seed. This time of year their brain volume increases to help them remember where they've cached their food.
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Thinking Historically for Canada's Future @thinkhist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
2026 Virtual Historical Thinking Institute (VHTI) Join educators, historians, researchers, and other professionals from across Canada and beyond for the 2026 Virtual Historical Thinking Institute (VHTI). www.canadashistory.ca/education/pr... @carlapeck.bsky.social @canadashistory.bsky.social
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Author Simulator. My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Title: Author Simulator 

Level 1: Get to desk and begin! (Platform video game-style image of an author jumping from a block onto  a cloud with desk and computer) Result: success!

Level 2: Press on despite distractions! (Author typing as the desk/clod moves past a ghost and a spider) ) Result: success!

Level 3: Deliver manuscript to editor! (Author jumping over fire pit onto platform where editor waits) Result: success!

Level 4: Accept minor criticism! (Author lying ded in fronto of editors desk) Result: better luck next time!

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Mark Brennan @markabrennan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dawn Flood Plain, St Marys River, Nova Scotia. 2026
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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In this quiet painting, young domestic servant in wealthy household has interrupted her dusting duties & stands engrossed in reading a book. On the elegant tabletop is a still-life of a stationery box, Asian vases & a porcelain figure (William McGregor Paxton, The House Maid, 1910, NGA, Washington)
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sandy Cove in Autumn Maud Lewis c. 1964
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Press of the Varying Hare @varyinghare.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So far, it’s been a busy fall with (among other things) a short handset book on the press that is proceeding at a rate of a sheet per week — set type, proof, dampen paper, print, dry paper, fold paper, diss type, repeat.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A Different Kind of Gaze Lee Munn 2026
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Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada @cndhistassoc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Theme: “Feeling/Not Feeling Canadian: A Workshop Exploring Histories of Emotion in Canada”. Deadline: November 30, 2026. #history #cdnhist
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CFP: Exploring Histories of Emotion in Canada Workshop | Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada
An event entitled "Feeling/Not Feeling Canadian: A Workshop Exploring Histories of Emotion in Canada" will take place from June 16-17, 2027 at the University of Winnipeg. The deadline to submit a prop...
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Daniel Samson @ruralcolonialns.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#JamesBarryDiary 24/9/1876 And still another most beautiful day indeed - sunny and calm and complete as any one could desire. Our Summer is gone and we are into the Autumn weather, and which I always like the best of the whole year. God be praised Amen.
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ERC Project Atlantic Exiles @atlanticexiles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
3/ @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social discusses the exodus of the French Huguenots as an antecedent to the modern concept of a "refugee crisis". He underscores how the Huguenots developed and appropriated a refugee identity for themselves that was not just religious, but also political in nature.
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Inventing the Refugee Crisis: Huguenots and the Rise of Refugee Identity | Itinerario | Cambridge Core
Inventing the Refugee Crisis: Huguenots and the Rise of Refugee Identity - Volume 50 Issue 2
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A Tufted Titmouse shaking off some raindrops on a rainy morning.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Pine Trees at Sunset Tom Thomson 1915
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ravens' Chorus Kenojuak Ashevak ~ Inuk 2002
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Asters and Apples J.E.H. MacDonald 1917
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Ian LeTourneau @ianletourneau.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Tomorrow is Buy a NB Book Day! You could celebrate by ordering a chapbook published by Emergency Flash Mob (my press). Here are two new chapbooks, published this month. _Near You_ is expected today or Monday! DM or reply for more info!
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Celeste-Marie Bernier presents the first standalone biography of Anna Murray Douglass, wife and co-revolutionary of Frederick Douglass, honoring her history-making role as a campaigner, liberator, and freedom-fighter. Read a sample for free now: buff.ly/4etAj6v
Cover of Anna Murray Douglass: Biography of a Revolutionary by Celeste-Marie Bernier. The cover is a photograph of Anna Murray Douglass as a duotone in pink and red. There are three squares made of transparent gold triangle patterns overlayed. The title is written large in a bold white script across the cover. The subtitle is smaller below and aligned left. The authors name appears in the top left corner of the cover in white.
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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Very excited to see my forthcoming book on page one of the Winter 2027 @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social catalogue. Joe Clark: Progressive, Conservative, Canadian will be released in early 2027!
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A male Northern Cardinal going through a molt enjoys a berry.
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Keegan Matheson @keeganmatheson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
He's done it. Vladimir Guerrero Jr., in the 150th game of the season, has his 1st home run at Rogers Centre. He watched every second of it before he took a step. #BlueJays
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Keith Grant @keithsgrant.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A highlight of your bookish weekend! 😆
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Keith Grant @keithsgrant.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Excellent Saturday reading!
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026
Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This House Wren was singing from a stump in a field of False Sunflowers and Goldenrod.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Dunville, Placentia Bay, Newfoundland Alan C. Collier 1969
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Time to Be Billie Rae Busby 2024
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Cosmos Molly Lamb Bobak n.d.
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A male White-breasted Nuthatch scooting down a tree along the nature trail.
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Warbler migration time is a delightful time. This little beauty wearing a black necklace is a Canada Warbler. I rarely see these birds and typically get a single photo of them per year.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Algonquin Park, September Tom Thomson 1913
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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Help! I read a novel that was so disappointing it seems to have put me off the whole concept of fiction. Struggling to get back in my usual reading groove. What’s the best novel you’ve read lately?
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com
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Mark Brennan @markabrennan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"All of October" acrylic on panel. 6X7 inches.
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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Our 2026 Ralph Gustafson Prize for Best Poem is now open for submissions! Our judges this year are Farah Ghafoor, Fawn Parker, & Patricia Young! Prize: $2000 + Publication! Deadline: Dec. 1, 2026 Guidelines: thefiddlehead.ca/poetry-contest #poetrycontest #poetry #callforsubmissions #canlit #litmag
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rough Draft vs Final Draft
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We are grateful Wendell Berry shared some of his final poems with us. They were published in our last winter issue with illustrations by Stephen Crotts: www.plough.com/articles/six...
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Keith Grant @keithsgrant.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Unlocking a 400-year-old mystery in a Nova Scotia marsh | CBC News
On a river in southwest Nova Scotia, an investigation by a historical sleuth is uncovering long-lost traces of North America’s past.
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Keith Grant @keithsgrant.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Folks, can any of you recommend a very good Canadian consultant who specializes in SSHRC grant application editing? If so, would you please DM me? Editors/consultants, please feel free to tell me about your own services, too. Thank you!
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A male American Goldfinch enjoying thistle seeds.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Mirror Lake Franklin Carmichael 1929
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Keith Grant @keithsgrant.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"I wondered how our lives would be if we could all manage to experience this stillness, this natural slowness. These places force a busy overthinking mind into submission, there is no-where for it to go out here. The mind is always bought back to awareness, a more natural, normal way of being." 🙏
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The Paddling Was Easy
"The morning had been enough, tomorrow would be enough and my remaining days, I promised myself, would also be enough. "
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Keith Grant @keithsgrant.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Folks, can any of you recommend a very good Canadian consultant who specializes in SSHRC grant application editing? If so, would you please DM me? Editors/consultants, please feel free to tell me about your own services, too. Thank you!
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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Get $5 off the hardcover edition of The Lives of Lake Ontario by Daniel Macfarlane, the authoritative history of the use and abuse of Lake Ontario! Use coupon code ONTARIO, valid until the end of September. buff.ly/SMpotNt
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A female Ruby-throated Hummingbird rests for a few seconds before zooming off.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Early Morning Light 2 Adele Webster 2024
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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Also this is so important. Creating more opportunities for community creates more opportunities for students to understand why their ideas matter and why they would want to do the work to develop those ideas. Worth reading the whole report./3
It’s clear that unthinking, “opportunistic” use of AI tools to complete assignments diminishes what students learn and damages the learning communities they belong to. Learning works when it’s both challenging and social; knowledge is built through cognitive friction, whether that’s disentangling the steps of a mathematical proof with your study group, adjusting an experiment over and over until it works, or having a spirited argument with a peer (rather than getting “the” answer from AI). That’s why it matters for students to go to college!

Students need to believe that doing the work themselves is in their self-interest. It will take more than top-down AI use policies to inspire that conviction. As a community, we need to cultivate a campus culture in which (1) AI restrictions that instructors impose clearly support student learning, personal growth, and professional success; and (2) students have a shared culture that values and fosters residential learning and discourages excessive reliance on AI.
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Keith Grant @keithsgrant.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I *love* this emphasis on the importance of community in this moment!
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Keith Grant @keithsgrant.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"Millions of Canadians share the same remote job, interning as John Schneider’s co-manager." 😂
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Keegan Matheson @keeganmatheson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Are you between the ages of 18 and 50, and can throw over four innings? Please report to 1 Blue Jays Way.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Mountains Near Revelstoke, B.C. Doris McCarthy 1937
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