Reposted by Marcy NortonMarcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026My blurb for Chloe Ireton’s new book, forthcoming from Hurst in November: “Chloe Ireton has brought to vivid life a love story in *Plotting for Freedom* and thereby made a unique, moving, deeply human, and sure to be lasting contribution to Atlantic history.” hurstpublishers.com/book/plottin... 03111
Reposted by Marcy NortonAna Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 12/09/2026Every time a Democrat gets asked asked about “boys in girls sports” OR Hasan Piker, they should bring up this. 738196
Reposted by Marcy NortonTrevor Wiley @mearcsteppende.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Want to learn how early medieval people living on the coast in Scotland hunted seals and seabirds? Or how collecting sea snails on the beach was part of new Christian practice? You should check out my new article in Water History! link.springer.com/article/10.1... #medievalskylink.springer.comWild animals, small practices, and the formation of an early medieval coastal landscape on the Firth of Forth - Water HistoryThe large-scale landscape changes that occurred in northern Britain from roughly 400–800 C.E. were built on a vast array of smaller shifting practices which reflected the realities of local environmen... 510345
Reposted by Marcy NortonKarl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Upcoming conference at Columbia University on Thursday, September 24: "Animals Across Borders." Free and open to all, but you need to register ahead of time. Details on poster below. 01112
Reposted by Marcy NortonPenn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Congratulations to our Penn Press finalists for the Frederick Douglass Book Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, Frederick Douglass Portrait and Abolition: Kim F. Hall's THE SWEET TASTE OF EMPIRE and Casey Schmitt's THE PREDATORY SEA! bit.ly/46idC1cbit.lyYale Announces 2026 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists 0156
Reposted by Marcy NortonBrett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Congratulations to all the finalists for this well-deserved recognition, with a special shout out to @csschmitt.bsky.social for writing a truly transformational book. macmillan.yale.edu/glc/stories/...macmillan.yale.eduYale Announces 2026 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists 2235
Reposted by Marcy NortonCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/08/2026NYT: “.. The move could prevent residents from raising concerns about — or even learning about — data centers before permits are approved and construction starts.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/c... 1331312716
Reposted by Marcy NortonStacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The American Historical Association hired a lobbying firm to help silence member advocacy on Palestine. In this essay, Adam Rzepka covers @historians.org's relationship w/ Thorn Run Partners, its deep ethical conflicts, & the advocacy crisis AHA has thrust upon us. www.chronicle.com/article/a-sc...chronicle.comOpinion | A Scholarly Association’s Secret Washington PlaybookDid the American Historical Association ask a corporate lobbying firm for advice on how to silence its members? 11332196
Reposted by Marcy NortonManisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Historian here A great response to the performative albeit damaging disguised as funny piece by Tyler Austin Harper by a historian of course newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/racism-and...newsletter.thedriftmag.comRacism and labor at Bates: the other side of the storyAndrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper 45123
Reposted by Marcy NortonMolly Warsh @mwarsh.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Research funding opportunity aimed at early career and independent scholars and grad students- check it out, global early modernists! Apps due Nov. 1. @feegiconference.bsky.social #earlymodern #skystorians #globalhistory 01411
Reposted by Marcy NortonKaren Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Cambridge prof committed plagiarism, accused of sexual assault, still on the job and the press has barely noticed. 29249
Reposted by Marcy NortonMél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026“We found that the data centers that already exist affect nearby residents and the nation as a whole in five main areas: air quality, water quality, noise levels, land use and energy costs.” 063
Reposted by Marcy NortonEric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Prisciliano Trejo Ricano came to the U.S. at 3yrs old. ICE took him this June. He was 29. He told his family he didn't feel right but ICE wouldn't give him medical attention. After a month, ICE finally moved him to a hospital Prisciliano died five days later enlacelatinonc.org/en/Young-Mex...enlacelatinonc.orgA young Mexican man living in Durham died in ICE custody.News in Spanish about politics, immigration and community issues for Latinos in North Carolina. 3917441051
Reposted by Marcy NortonAlyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Which Senate Dems STILL haven't signed onto S.4814 to #ExtendTPS #ProtectHaitians? Schiff (CA) Baldwin (WI) Hassan & Shaheen (NH) Heinrich (NM) Kaine & Warner (VA) Kelly & Gallego (AZ) Klobuchar (MN) Fetterman Peters & Slotkin (MI) Rosen (NV) Murphy (CT) & Ossoff (!) HAITIANS NEED US - ☎️✊ 32418
Reposted by Marcy NortonAnna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Political reasons for tenure denials are a violation of faculty governance and academic freedom The best part? The president (Jim Davis) is himself not an academic, and got tenure not as a result of a formal review, but pro forma from the Board of Regents as part of his hiring contract 214046
Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Very honored that our article on hammocks won this award from the RSA! 1185
Reposted by Marcy NortonYohad Zacarías @yzacarias.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Espero no equivocarme, pero creo que es la primera reseña disponible en español del libro de @marcynorton.bsky.social. Ya publicada en revista Historia de la PUC (Chile, Stgo.) revistahistoria.uc.cl/index.php/rh... 101
Reposted by Marcy NortonAmerican Medieval Podcast @americanmedieval.bsky.social · 08/07/2026It’s here, finallly! We talk about the MEDIEVAL F-WORD!!! Of course we mean “feudalism.” Ada Kuskowski joins us to explain how the term is modern, not medieval, and what was really going on… Enjoy! #medievalsky podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...podcasts.apple.comThe Medieval F-Word (“Feudalism”) with Ada KuskowskiPodcast Episode · American Medieval · July 8 · 57m 24817
Reposted by Marcy NortonRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/07/2026This is the secret main essential true 250th anniversary event: the brave voice of democracy and justice; the brutal forces of silencing; it's all here. 191221432
Reposted by Marcy NortonTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Bounded or not, everything genAI produces is based on somebody’s words, and everything it produces is also not that person’s words 2365
Reposted by Marcy NortonElizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 12/06/2026This is really good “Concentration camps are places where groups of people targeted based on their identity are imprisoned in violation of their legal and human rights.” They then go through these criteria and explain how Delaney Hall meets each one. 4445196
Reposted by Marcy NortonScott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 12/06/2026🚨 RED ALERT: Our national forests are under attack. Trump is moving forward with an illegal plan to completely destroy the US Forest Service. We need to flood Congress with letters TODAY. It takes 60 seconds to auto-send yours. Click, sign, and share: 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...actionnetwork.orgTell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal Plan to Destroy the US Forest ServiceContact Congress today! 10313200
Reposted by Marcy NortonAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 12/06/2026"The authors of the Vanderbilt report lob a ton of accusations at humanities research, but they seem to have read almost no actual works of scholarship (and there’s growing evidence that they seriously mis-represented the claims of what little scholarship they supposedly read)." shorturl.at/h1vjNopen.substack.comProducing Epistemic Doubt About the Humanities For the Sake of Profit: AI's VersionThe Center-Right's strategy to discredit cultural knowledge draws from the same playbook as Big Tobacco and Big Oil because humanist reason threatens their bottom line. 13415
Reposted by Marcy NortonKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/06/2026Just announced: OpenAI plans to lease a 9.2 gigawatt 100% fossil-fuelled data centre on Ohio. Its emissions will be between 20 - 37 MTCO2-e - somewhere between the total grid emissions of France -> Netherlands As much GHGs as 9.5 average coal plants. Will raise US total emissions by 0.5% 32562458
Reposted by Marcy NortonDuckDuckGo @duckduckgo.com · 29/05/2026Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3) 317148615237
Reposted by Marcy NortonEmily Pawley @emilypawley.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Friends, @alixhui.bsky.social and I and 70+ historians have been working on this gigantic project for three years and it finally feels like it's going to be real. 921066
Reposted by Marcy NortonDonovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Powerful stuff from our students: "AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it.... With our own university leading the charge, AI is now corrupting those few sacred spaces and leaving us with nowhere to engage in true scholarship." 526890
Reposted by Marcy NortonJ.D. Porter @jdporter.bsky.social · 23/02/2026The Price Lab’s Critical Approaches to AI Working Group has released a white paper in which we advocate for AI-free instruction in reading, writing, & research. These are fundamental skills in the humanities (& in general), & with decisive action we can keep teaching them well in the age of AI!pricelab.sas.upenn.eduCritical Approaches to AI Working Group | Price Lab for Digital HumanitiesThe Price Lab is the University of Pennsylvania's center for innovative uses of technology in the study and teaching of history, art, and culture. 25827
Reposted by Marcy NortonMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 28/02/2026Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war. 182171133541
Reposted by Marcy NortonWilliam M. Cavert @williamcavert.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Emergency healthcare funds needed: A Twin Cities 18-yr old student, w/ parents unable to work because of ICE, suddenly diagnosed with leukemia. She is uninsured, has huge bills, and can't help support her family. Please help if you can. (I confirm this is genuine) www.gofundme.com/f/support-an...gofundme.comDonate to Support Anita’s Fight Against Leukemia, organized by Vicky HidalgoHi, my name is Anita. I’m 18 years old, and I was just diagnosed with leukemia (A… Vicky Hidalgo needs your support for Support Anita’s Fight Against Leukemia 17490
Reposted by Marcy NortonNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/02/2026“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum. 5151281746
Reposted by Marcy NortonRepresentative Seth Magaziner @magaziner.house.gov · 27/01/2026Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record. 6702441710975
Reposted by Marcy Nortonjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/01/2026if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too. 441229204262
Reposted by Marcy NortonKathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 27/01/2026...and if it's the same "prison" or detention center in Texas where ICE has been sending people, there isn't enough food, and everyone is crying and screaming, and people can't get their medications, and no one can get in to help them. A FIVE YEAR OLD. 111949
Reposted by Marcy NortonJeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son." 1962469812672
Reposted by Marcy NortonMother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/01/2026“Another adult living in the home was outside and begged the agents to let him take care of the small child and was refused." Instead, an agent “took the child, and directed him to knock on the door asking to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home, essentially using a 5-year-old as bait.motherjones.comICE detained a 5-year-old Minnesota boy and used him as “bait”The preschooler is one of at least four children from the same school district who have been detained this month, according to school officials. 18335186
Reposted by Marcy NortonHolly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Despite all the redactions in the documents released yesterday, there is no question that Epstein’s trafficking was overt as was his language of “purchase” and “slave.” 36320
Reposted by Marcy NortonKarin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 15/11/2025“The nation’s largest public funder of the humanities appears to be transforming into a vehicle narrowly tailored to the president’s agenda. “ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...nytimes.comFired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H. 12020
Reposted by Marcy NortonCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14/11/2025We didn't plagiarize, you made us plagiarize by asking questions to which we stole the answers. "Because its output is generated by users of the chatbot via their prompts, OpenAI said, they were the ones who should be held legally liable for it – an argument rejected by the court."theguardian.comChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rulesOpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists’ work without permission 12415114
Reposted by Marcy NortonKatharine Gerbner @ktgerbs.bsky.social · 14/11/2025An archival irruption is a "rupture in the narrative field an archival source that creates an opportunity to write an alternative narration about the past." For those who want the full explanation, you can watch the virtual launch here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pbo...youtube.comNovember 2025 | Archival IrruptionsYouTube video by DepartmentHistory 111
Reposted by Marcy NortonDr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 12/11/2025An open-access article on hammocks, by @marcynorton.bsky.social and @johnmkuhn.bsky.social, which will interested #earlymodern #histsci and #VastEarlyAmerica folks! 🗃 043
Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social · 12/11/2025I’m so grateful for this recognition for THE TAME AND THE WILD! @harvardpress.bsky.social 061
Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social · 11/11/2025The amazing @johnmkuhn.bsky.social and I have been talking about hammocks for 12 years! Our article is out today! 0164
Reposted by Marcy NortonShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 07/11/2025“And then you have librarians who are experiencing a real existential crisis because they are getting asked by their jobs to promote [AI] tools that produce more misinformation. It's the most, like, emperor-has-no-clothes-type situation that I have ever witnessed.” - Alison Macrina404media.coAI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another." 015786
Reposted by Marcy NortonAAUP @aaup.org · 30/10/2025“Trump’s compact is the greatest single incursion into the freedom & autonomy of higher education to ever happen in this country.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President #DefendHigherEdrewirenewsgroup.com‘Students Are Terrified’: How Trump’s Higher Education Compact Puts Queer Students at RiskThe heavy-handed document promises federal funding in exchange for ideological compliance. So far, it's unpopular. 36337