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Nathan Cardon

@ncardon.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of U.S. History @unibirmingham.bsky.social. Wrote a book about world's fairs in Atlanta (1895) and Nashville (1897). Just finished another one about Americans, bicycles, and the world.

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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 13/10/2026
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Majority of Canadians support closer formal ties with European Union: poll
Approval ratings for the idea were highest in British Columbia and lowest in the Prairies
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Dr Stuart McKie @bigfridge224.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
30,000 job losses in one of the few sectors we are still genuinely world-leading, and zero national conversation beyond tuition fees and loans. UK Higher Ed is sinking and apparently no-one has noticed.
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Marianne Heaslip @marianneh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Heat pumps *are* defense spending. They cut our reliance on gas, and so weaken Russia.
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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Apparently, I almost made it on to a syllabus in Texas... and then didn't!
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Nathan Cardon @ncardon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Signed.
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Nathan Cardon @ncardon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My new book has a cover! The folks @columbiaup.bsky.social did a fantastic job. It captures one of the book's key arguments on the relationship between an 'everyday technology' of American mobility, the US frontier, and empire. Look for it on store shelves just in time for Bike Month 2027.
A historical painting from Remington bicycles showing a cycling scout on the American frontier, rifle attached to bicycle.
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Nathan Cardon @ncardon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Thanks!
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Nathan Cardon @ncardon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My new book has a cover! The folks @columbiaup.bsky.social did a fantastic job. It captures one of the book's key arguments on the relationship between an 'everyday technology' of American mobility, the US frontier, and empire. Look for it on store shelves just in time for Bike Month 2027.
A historical painting from Remington bicycles showing a cycling scout on the American frontier, rifle attached to bicycle.
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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Second week on strike with UCU Edinburgh. We will be on strike for five weeks - taking out the entire first half of term, up to the first assessments - but we could be back in the classroom tomorrow if management withdrew the threat of compulsory redundancies.
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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Good pedagogical practice leads to generative class discussion leads to wider insights leads to asking the right questions....
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Nathan Cardon @ncardon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This week my MA group enthusiastically agreed to do part of the seminar screen free. They later asked why the library only had digital copies of the assigned books; they wanted physical copies. They resent AI. I wonder if universities are ready for the counter-revolution against tech?
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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bournville Lantern Lectures… Disrupted Sat 17 Oct Bournville Quaker Meeting House Step back in time for an immersive performance & lively retelling of an original Bournville Lantern Lecture, brought to life by Birmingham Rep’s Creative Learning Department. sellymanormuseum.org.uk/events/2026-...
A magic lantern slide showing an aerial view of houses and gardens in Bournville, Birmingham in 1906.A magic lantern slide showing houses on Linden Road, Bournville in 1906.A magic lantern slide showing children playing in a park in Bournville, Birmingham in 1906.A magic lantern slide showing children gathered either side of a small river in Bournville Park, Birmingham in 1906.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pretty remarkable how quickly the idea of Low Traffic Neighborhoods has gained traction in New York after working in London.
gothamist.com
NYC lawmakers want 'low-traffic neighborhoods' with more speed humps, street changes
The bill mandates a select number of "traffic-calming devices" in five different neighborhoods.
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Jerome Alexander Horne @jahorne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Starting in October, MBTA buses will be equipped with automated enforcement cameras to issue warnings, and later tickets, to vehicles caught illegally blocking bus lanes and bus stops. www.wcvb.com/article/mbta...
wcvb.com
MBTA to begin automated enforcement of bus stop, bus lane violations
MBTA buses will soon be equipped with cameras to issue warnings, then tickets, to vehicles blocking bus lanes and stops.
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Saima Nasar @saimanasar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please join us in celebrating the Centre for Black Humanities’ tenth anniversary. CBH is holding a two-day symposium titled ‘Collectivity, Community, Collaboration’. Our keynote will be Professor Christina Sharpe. Cfp below. Please spread the word!
CALL FOR PAPERS
Centre For Black Humanities 10th Anniversary Symposium: 
‘Black Humanities: Collectivity, Community, Collaboration’
Keynote Speaker: Professor Christina Sharpe
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th April 2027
University of Bristol

The Centre for Black Humanities is an interdisciplinary research collective dedicated to 
advancing scholarship on the artistic and intellectual contributions of people of African 
descent. It is inspired by and expands legacies of scholarship, art, and activism relating 
to Black lives across time and space. Building on our international and multilingual
networks, and our home in the port city of Bristol, our research often engages with 
communities beyond traditional academic settings and addresses inequality and social 
justice through innovative collaborations. By centring an ethics of care and generosity, 
despite the chronic conditions of life in and beyond the academy, we support earlycareer scholars and visiting scholars/practitioners. In turn, we seek to interrogate and 
repurpose institutions of knowledge production such as universities, museums and
publishing houses, within entangled contexts of reparative justice, decolonization, and 
the climate crisis. We imagine collectivity, community and collaboration as methods for 
Black Humanities research going forwards.To celebrate the Centre’s 10-year anniversary, we will be holding a two-day symposium 
entitled: ‘Black Humanities: Collectivity, Community, Collaboration’. The keynote 
will be Professor Christina Sharpe, Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at 
York University (Canada), and author of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (2016) and 
Ordinary Notes (2024). We invite scholars and practitioners (at all levels, independent 
and affiliated) to submit abstracts for presentations of 15 minutes. The event will be 
held in person at the University of Bristol. We invite presentations that speak to Black 
Humanities in its multi/anti/undisciplinary forms. We are particularly interested in work
that speaks to the following themes:
- Collectivity, Collaboration and/or Community in Black Humanities
- Black Humanities/Studies in times of polycrisis
- Black Health
- Environmental Justice
- Radical Imaginaries (how creative works make sense of Black pasts/present and 
help to shape Black futures)
- Methods for solidarity and/or incompleteness
- Folklore and storytelling as method
- Translation and multilingual solidarities
- Beyond critique
Please submit your abstract of no more than 250 words, along with a short bio of no 
more than 100 words, to cbh-publicity@bristol.ac.uk. Abstracts should be submitted 
no later than Friday 30th October 2026. A publication and podcast series are planned to 
follow on after this event.
You may reach us at cbh-publicity@bristol.ac.uk in case of any questions or 
observations.
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Nathan Cardon @ncardon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The first rule I learned when walking and cycling in the UK is that Audis and BMWs always have the right of way.
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🎨Marcel Dzama
Illustration featuring a bicycle being ridden by some kind of rodent in a green suit, with a smiling man riding on the handlebars.
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Cycle Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ontario Society Of Professional Engineers (OSPE) continues to speak out against the province's reckless and arbitrary scheme to rip out 19 km of protected bike lanes. Now will engineering firms heed this message before bidding on Ontario's RFP?
ospe.on.ca
OSPE Statement: Where Things Stand on Bill 212 and Toronto's Bike Lanes
Explore the OSPE Statement on Bill 212 and its impact on Toronto's bike lanes and transportation planning.
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Fire Brigades Union @fbunational.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This wildfire season, FBU members have faced the fire service's most challenging period since the Blitz. All the while, without proper PPE, welfare facilities or sufficient relief. FBU BEMM rep Dwight Williams moving an amendment to the NEU motion on Climate heat emergency.
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Jesse Feld @jessersfeld.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Every city in France above 150k people has a tram or subway. I was just in Reims🇫🇷 - 177k people live there. Equivalent to Ipswich🇬🇧 / Barrie, ON🇨🇦 / Midland, TX🇺🇸 Yet they have 2 fast tram lines along with a rapid bus network and high-speed rail. It grows downtown, businesses thrive, traffic drops.
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Nathan Cardon @ncardon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Like Godfather II, the sequel is as good as the first: "An ideological wool has been pulled over our eyes, but focusing on stealing cars can correct our vision to...a scene of stealing in full view, a daylight robbery experienced by any pedestrian who has ever tried to cross a road."
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Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"With every motorized vehicle churned out, and every square foot of space they stole, a me-first, get-out-of-my-way way of being increasingly took root." You should read both of these pieces.
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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Stealing Cars, Part II: Fordism and Flexible Enclosure
urbancyclinginstitute.substack.com
Stealing Cars: Fordism and Flexible Enclosure
Long Ride | Historian John Munro explains how the colonial logic that fueled the automotive industry led to a new concept of streets
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Justin F Jackson, Ph.D. @justinfdjackson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Biking, gender, empire? I can roll with that.
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Nathan Cardon @ncardon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The effect of this policy was obvious back in Ontario this summer: massive fuel-guzzling pick-up trucks, often pulling rec. trailers or boats, going 20-30km/h over the limit. All subsidised by the Canadian government.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 09/09/2026
“In addition to monitoring activists in the vicinity of Anthropic executives and keeping tabs on protests near physical Anthropic assets, the firm is also implementing a ‘pre-crime’ approach… In some cases, that also means reporting suspects to police before a crime occurs.” @drboguslaw.bsky.social:
prospect.org
Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
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Nathan Cardon @ncardon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Anthropic researcher quits over AI labs ‘gambling with our lives’ - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
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Anthropic researcher quits over AI labs ‘gambling with our lives’
Latest departure highlights mounting unease inside Silicon Valley companies racing to build ever more powerful systems
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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Labour's absence on this issue is a testament to their disinterest in the legacy of Councillor Waseem Zaffar.
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Nathan Cardon @ncardon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/not-fast-but...
birminghamdispatch.co.uk
Not fast but furious: popping the bonnet on the 20mph row
‘It’s f***ing insane’
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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
FWIW I think the Burnham government is 'continuity Starmer' in failing to grasp how serious and dangerous this stuff is, and how sharply they should move on it. (The line has been crossed!) bsky.app/profile/yeom...
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Nathan Cardon @ncardon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This will be essential reading to a wide audience, and will no doubt be assigned in many history department's seminars.
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Jonathan Boff @jfb1066.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
global.oup.com
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Nathan Cardon @ncardon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Rerun or sequel? Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on end times fascism - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
giftarticle.ft.com
Rerun or sequel? Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on end times fascism
How nationalists, theocrats and tech titans turned their backs on a shared future
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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Map showing Lower Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 04/09/2026
Now do cars.
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Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Huge. Huge testament to the power of organising. Huge relief for Exeter friends and colleagues. Huge waste of time and resources. Huge reputational damage done. Huge warning to universities who want to treat their staff like they don’t matter.
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Nathan Cardon @ncardon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
@birminghamdispatch.bsky.social
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Nathan Cardon @ncardon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I'm 100% certain I saw Wes Anderson in Digbeth last night.
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 01/09/2026
Summer 2026 is provisionally the UK’s warmest summer on record with the season’s mean temperature made around 130 times more likely due to human-induced climate change. Here, we delve into the numbers 🧵
Mean temperature for 2026 in the UK. The map shows widely above average temperature, particularly in the south. Rainfall amounts in summer 2026 in the UK compared to average. The maps shows widely dry conditions, though the west of Scotland is slightly wetter than averageSunshine duration in summer 2026 compared to average. The map shows widely sunny conditions in the season, with the south of the country particularly sunny.
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ᴄʏᴄʟᴏᴢ @cyclozparis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The New Yorker 1929 🚲🚴🏼 #bike
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Better Streets for Birmingham @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org · 28/08/2026
Great opinion piece in The Guardian on the #20mph media frenzy over the past week, generated from just being a footnote - continuing a 12-year-old policy - in the next Birmingham Local Plan!
theguardian.com
Dear culture-war motorists, look to the future. We'll all be driving at 20mph soon | Christian Wolmar
There are howls of protest from the right about plans for Birmingham to be a 20mph city. But it will be a good thing, and others will follow, says transport writer and podcaster Christian Wolmar
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Nathan Cardon @ncardon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...
currentaffairs.org
The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate
Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 21/07/2026
"To accountants, some courses or departments may be viewed as cost centres. But to lecturers and students, and the places in which they are based, they are cultural resources – repositories of knowledge built up over decades." bit.ly/4gOTZo2 #Skystorians
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The Guardian view on humanities cuts in universities: academic departments are more than cost centres | Editorial
Editorial: Literature, the arts and social sciences must not be sacrificed as higher education funding is squeezed
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Fascinating that our local police are baffled and powerless to catch the uninsured & often unlicensed boy racers who drive at 2-3x the speed limit on residential streets EVERY NIGHT or the quadbikers who rip up our parks and green spaces, but a bicyclist? Oh, *then* they're happy to Do Enforcement.
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Professor Whittle is one of four colleagues in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Faculty at the University of Exeter elected to Fellowship of the British Academy this year. 🗃️ ALL FOUR of these outstanding scholars were placed at risk of redundancy last month. Here's their statement:
A written statement from from University of Exeter scholars just elected to the British Academy Fellowship 2026. There are photos of each scholar at the side of the text.
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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Bicycles are often seen as vehicles of liberation, and for very good reason. But in this essential article, @ncardon.bsky.social shows us how bicycles have also been technologies of imperial identity. Check out this nuanced, deeply researched account while you wait for Nathan's new book!
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Modern American History @modamhist.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
On First View!
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daviddoddington.bsky.social @daviddoddington.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
We've got a new shiny submission site, too, and we welcome original submissions relating to American history in the (long) 19th C. We welcome standard research articles, roundtables, conversational pieces, historiographical, theoretical, methodological, or pedagogical interventions.
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daviddoddington.bsky.social @daviddoddington.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
🧵With apologies for the delay, we're delighted that @anchistjournal.bsky.social Volume 27. 1 is out in its entirety, with articles on Jefferson's life and legacies, Malthusian politics in the US South, convict leasing, culture, temptation, and the US Civil War: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fanc20/2...
tandfonline.com
American Nineteenth Century History
Volume 27, Issue 1 of American Nineteenth Century History
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Nathan Cardon @ncardon.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This week my bike took me to the cricket.
A crowd walks to Edgbaston stadium. England players losing to India on a cricket field.
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