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Micah True

@micahtrue.bsky.social
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Early modern New France and France (literature, history, theatre) • Zags hoops • novels • academic life *Recent book: The Jesuit Relations: A Biography*

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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can't wait to share a stage with the great @historianmairi.bsky.social next Friday at this exciting event in Toronto. Please come!
Poster for an event called "Conversations: The Jesuit Relations of New France." The speakers are Mairi Cowan and Micah True. The event is 1-3 pm on October 9 in St. Joseph Chapel at Regis College.
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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Congratulations to Micah True for being a finalist for the 2026 Grand Prix de l'Institut d’Histoire de l’Amérique Française! The Jesuit "Relations": A Biography buff.ly/JcAzZxF
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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am honoured and thrilled to see my book, The Jesuit Relations: A Biography, on the shortlist for the Grand Prix de l'Institut d'Histoire de l'Amérique Française, particularly in such excellent company! 🎉 @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ihaf.qc.ca/les-finalist...
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Le prix Lionel-Groulx remis en causes
Lisez la version préliminaire de la note de recherche de Karine Hébert, François-Olivier Dorais et Marilyne Lafrenière au sujet de la dénomination du plus prestigieux prix de l’Institut.
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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Happening this Friday in Calgary!
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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Kid just reported this convo with her teacher, about a speech she's writing: Teacher: "Think about most adults' attitude toward AI." Kid: "They hate it?" Teacher: "...Clearly, you have better adults in your life than I do." I am accepting high fives.
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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Wrote.”
wapo.st
Using AI, a professor wrote 200 papers this year. Researchers are alarmed.
An online platform removed 257 papers written or co-written by the University of Chicago’s Nicholas Polson after other academics raised questions.
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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mine are “sneak peak” and “forward” (instead of foreword).
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 23/09/2026
Thinking again of The Possession of Barbe Hallay by @historianmairi.bsky.social, a scholarly microhistory of diabolical events in Quebec City in the 1660s. It give SUCH a vivid impression of what life threw at the French settlers. www.canadashistory.ca/explore/book...
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The Possession of Barbe Hallay - Canada's History
Book Review: Mairi Cowan, an associate professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga, has scoured religious and civil records to track the life of Barbe Ha...
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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Everyone has a least one friend like this, right?
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It ys tyme for Tulip skeptics to face some difficulte trouthes. Tulips are the waye of the future. Yf you do not invest yn Tulips you are way behinde. Yf you do not teache your children about Tulips thei will not be able to compete on the jobbe market. Onlye Luddites dislyke Tulips.
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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
what a surprise...
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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My hell triathlon (three things you hate happening all at once): Driving in heavy traffic while listening to someone narrate the dream they had last night, at Disneyland.
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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A pattern I’ve noticed: companies want to turn the goods they used to sell into services that you pay for on an ongoing basis. Eg, my hvac company won’t sell a furnace anymore. Instead, it wants a monthly payment to use the machine (so you’re locked into them for service and replacement). Hate this.
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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I bought one this summer and can confirm: super fun to drive, very zippy, more convenient than gas if you get a charger installed at home. And there are plenty of good options now aside from Tesla (which…ick.)
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John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I want to teach 2 scholarly articles to my HS kids who are reading Huck Finn. Which 2 should I teach? Hoping some people here can recommend (👋 @mattseybold.bsky.social). I do some famous essays about it (the Morrison essay, for instance) but looking for something with more history/scholarly textures
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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Anyone going to be in Calgary on Oct. 2? I'm Giving a lecture in the Religious Studies Lecture Series. It's both a loose thread from my last book and an early glimpse of my new project.
events.ucalgary.ca
Copycat in New France? Unraveling the Mystery of a Little-Known Surgeon’s Report from the Seventeenth-Century Jesuit Mission to the Wendat
A little-known text recounting the experiences in the Jesuit mission to the Wendat of a French surgeon, and apparently written in the 1640s, shares...
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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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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 03/09/2026
feeling unexpectedly emotional as we visit saerbeck, a town of just 7200 in central germany that formed a climate municipality. they produce 4.5x the electricity they need, and have developed a whole array of climate solutions. one of them? a climate action curriculum that starts in kindergarten.
lady presenting about saerbecks climate curriculum
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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
When your brother-in-law asks you to inscribe a copy of your book for him.
Photo of an inscription in a book that reads “good luck reading this. Sorry there aren’t more pictures.”
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Lady Haha @lensman23.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
MapQuest Downloads Soar After Company’s Refusal To Rename Lake Ontario share.google/IBejExTi79WC...
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MapQuest Downloads Soar After Company’s Refusal To Rename Lake Ontario
Legacy online mapping service MapQuest has shot to the top of the App Store in the U.S. and Canada. But will customers engage with the modernized product long term?
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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Weird how these efforts to reinvent college never seem to want input from actual instructors “…advisers include tech executives, CEOs, a onetime Vermont secretary of education, a NASA engineer and current and former administrators from Harvard University, Dartmouth College, Tufts University” etc.
npr.org
A makeover for college: No gym, no meal plan and two years of work
A new model in Vermont emphasizes hands-on learning while stripping away frills like gyms and meal plans that increase costs. Other newly created institutions are also reimagining college.
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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Honestly the first uni to market itself as an AI-free teaching institution is going to get a huge enrolment boost
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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Fun moment, as someone who used to write pieces like this for a college paper a million years ago: the U of Alberta student paper interviewed me about the prize my book recently won.
thegatewayonline.ca
U of A professor wins national award for book on Jesuit “Relations” - The Gateway
U of A professor Micah True awarded the 2026 CHA Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize for 'The Jesuit 'Relations': A Biography.'
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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Free merch idea: mugs, t-shirts etc. showing the Gulf of Alaska relabeled as the Gulf of Canada. Would buy.
cbc.ca
Trump moves to rename Lake Ontario to 'Lake America' amid trade spat with 'entitled' Canada | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an order directing the interior secretary to rename Lake Ontario to "Lake America," as the trade war with Canada persists.
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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I believe I would very much enjoy teaching a room full of first-year university students who had all been taught this in high school. Bravo, sir.
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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚
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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I would read a long-form, New Yorker style article exploring how we all became convinced that smelly, loud, inconvenient-to-fill gas mowers are necessary for the really quite small lawns in a city. Manual reel mowers always were and still are more than adequate.
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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I am a fan of this recurring feature of the local paper in Juneau, Alaska. Instead of just warning readers about how AI threatens news operations, this paper has decided to show them just how badly LLMs distort the news (and steal actual reporting). Seems very effective.
juneauindependent.com
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
2025-26: the first year Canadian universities employed more tenured/TT professors over the age of 70 than under the age of 35.
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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I try hard not to behave like a pedantic a-hole, but I have my limits. And one of those limits is the third instance of “unphased” when an author meant unfazed. Would chuck this novel in the bin, except it’s an ebook.
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Nicholas Thompson @nxthompson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
"Trump is fighting a trade war that very few Americans support, under leadership that most Americans reject, to achieve results that virtually all Americans would dismiss as pointless if not crazy." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
How to Lose a Trade War
Trump’s bullying of Canada is failing.
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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Such a good point.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
SUPPORT THESE DATA CENTERS (from magic city books : magiccitybooks.com )
Support These Data Centers: Schools, Libraries, Bookstores, Museums, Public Media, Concerts, Elders, Farmers Markets, Record Stores, Theaters.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The cyclospora outbreak has reached 13,895 cases across 47 states. The FDA has recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,500 measles cases — breaking 2025’s record. “Make America Healthy Again.”
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
If there’s a tool that lets me “write” 10 articles a year instead of 1 without any change in my life, let me say: I have zero interest in that Since it’d obviously ramp up “productivity” talk, further perverting an area of life where volume is not an end in itself, I’d avoid it on that ground alone
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing
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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I’ve been feeling like I’m in a black-grey-dark blue clothes rut so I set out to add some colour to my wardrobe and ended up buying four light-blue shirts. Pretty sure I’m doing this wrong.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
One of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Wish I could share an example of an AI-generated paper we receive all the time because they are *weird*. Mechanical manucripts that tick the boxes as academic content but really contribute nothing to knowledge. If AI has benefits for research, we're not seeing it. Just seeing shoddy autoscholarship.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
replace “ai” with “green energy” in any of these stories and imagine the public and political backlash
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
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Joe Borsato @theecoalchemyst.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Come hear my talk at the University of Toronto for the World Congress of Business History today at 13:30. There will be Indigenous political economies, trans-Atlantic travel, and plenty of Anglo-French conflict over imperial dominance. #BusinessHistory #IndigenousHistory
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
World on fire and the billionaires want all of the water.
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This. This is the correct, science-backed, responsible framing. Wish more news outlets did it like the CBC.
cbc.ca
'Just stop burning fossil fuels.' Scientists stress that our smoky skies only have one true fix | CBC News
Smoky skies in Toronto have led to new scrutiny of government efforts to fight fires and manage forests. But scientists say the realistic way to tackle the smoke is fighting climate change itself.
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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Not the point of the article, but: the photos accompanying this (excellent) piece make me want to take a month-long solo vacation on Adak. Looks peaceful.
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I'm not posting Odyssey memes because one must be wary of GIFs bearing Greeks.
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