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Patricia Goldsworthy

@pgoldsworthy.bsky.social
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Historian of visual culture, North Africa, and French imperialism My book, Colonial Negatives: Picturing History & Identity in Morocco, is available now! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9…

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Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Instructing Colonial Natural History Seminar Series is back and we have a stellar line up: @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social, 6 Oct; @cberiksen.bsky.social, 28 Oct; Jim Endersby, 25 Nov; and Ma. Mercedes G. Planta, 9 Dec. All seminars are on Zoom, 15-16 CET
Poster for Instructing Colonial Natural History, Autumn Term 2026 seminar series. The design uses an 1785 watercolour by Sarah Stone showing the interior of Sir Ashton Lever’s Museum in Leicester Square, London: a dark green natural-history collection crowded with display cabinets, birds, shells, antlers and other specimens, with green curtains opening onto receding galleries and a large elephant on the right. Four online seminars are listed: Sadiah Qureshi, 6 October; Christoffer Basse Eriksen, 28 October; Jim Endersby, 25 November; and Ma. Mercedes G. Planta, 9 December. All seminars are on Zoom, 15.00–16.00 CET. Registration: instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se
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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As a professor, most of what I do is log in to things
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 27/09/2026
The underlying assumption is that budget allocations in universities are ideologically neutral: that institutional investment just goes to wherever lots of students choose to spend their time. But this is not how it works. Admin decide what forms of knowledge they want to incentivize.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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Patricia Goldsworthy @pgoldsworthy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
For the very first time, faculty and staff at my institution are scheduled to strike simultaneously - next week, on the first day of classes. Here's hoping we're all successful!
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/news/2026/se...
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Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online
Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad
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Ana Struillou @anastruillou.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Very happy to share my new article (in French!) in the Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine in a beautiful issue on the mobility of paper & maritime history 🦑 ⚓ On archives, mobility, and travelling notaries across the Mediterranean ⚓ Don't hesitate to email for a PDF lnkd.in/ef-kjw4e
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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What the Kennedy Center’s Tax Return Reveals
A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026
AI has exposed the austerity con game in higher ed. For years, we have been told there is no money for students, faculty, staff, capital improvements, libraries. But somehow universities have suddenly come up with the money to pay for AI services??
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Christine Adams @profchrisadams.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My first piece with Made by History at its new location--the culture wars are not a new thing. Thanks to @kathrynbrownell.bsky.social and @carlygoodman.bsky.social for editing and encouragement! share.inquirer.com/6z46Xa
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‘Culture wars’ can matter deeply
During the French Revolution, women's progress became a potent culture war issue, leading to new constraints.
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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#GiftArticle on university leaders still pushing for AI while studies show it agrees learning (also, no shit, Sherlock!) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...
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Universities Sound Warnings About A.I. Even as They Embrace It (Gift Article)
As A.I. upends education, university leaders have been all over the map about how to respond. It can be very confusing for students.
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Rick Jobs @richardivanjobs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
unsurprisingly, ‘finding’ and filming ‘lost tribes’ remains a thing for anyone teaching our book, this could be a great supplement for identifying persistent themes but also noting important distinctions
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‘This is colonialism for clicks’: the influencers attempting to meet and film the world’s most isolated tribes
A new breed of adventurer is chasing internet fame by targeting uncontacted peoples. Critics say they are risking the wellbeing of these remote communities – and their own lives
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
AI apologists to actual disciplinary experts & experienced teachers
NEW YORKER “allow me to interrupt your expertise with my confidence” cartoon
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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
GFY! (from the @chronicle.com)
I get it. You hate AI. You think it destroys human capacities and the environment while also undermining critical aspects of humanities research and teaching. But if you care about your students and the future of the humanities, those objections are not sufficient. You need to engage with AI, understand both its appeal and its limitations, and integrate that awareness into your teaching.
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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
New from Henry Holt - a kids' book on Toussaint Louverture, by Jay Leslie with illustrations from Rocky Cotard! #HaitianSky #BookSky 🗃️ bookshop.org/p/books/tous...
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Toussaint!: Hero of the Haitian Revolution
This vibrant and compelling picture book biography tells the story of Toussaint Louverture, the Haitian hero who led his people to freedom.Ayiti, the Pearl of the Antilles, was once a pristine paradis...
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Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff @lempika7.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🏀🇫🇷Les Bleues Key Idea 5️⃣ France starts its #FIBAWWC quest this Friday w/new captain Gabby Williams at the helm. I've spoken with Gabby about her transatlantic story. 👉 And it's stuck with me, for she articulated the real life impact of athletes' sports diplomacy practice.
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FrenchHistTO @frenchhistto.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Please join us Sept. 25th, 4:30pm at @UofT to hear @christinawelsch.bsky.social present: "At the Crossroads of Defeat: Sepoys, the French Company, and Military Mobility in Eighteenth-Century South India" More info and to register: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/crossr... #frhistory 🗃️
Poster for a French History Seminar, talk by speaker, Christina Welsch, The College of Wooster. Title: "At the Crossroads of Defeat: Sepoys, the French Company, and Military Mobility in Eighteenth-Century South India"  Date: Sept. 25, 2026, 4:30-6:30pm. Location: room 108N, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON M5S 3K7.  At left of poster, image of South Asian soldiers in various attire, 18th-c. hand-coloured engraving in pinks, greens, and red.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
school vandalism, you can ban it www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/n...
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A.I. Is to Be Banned in N.Y.C. Elementary and Middle Schools (Gift Article)
A new policy to be announced by the Department of Education bars younger students from using A.I., but stops short of a moratorium.
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Judith DeGroat @jdegroat.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Excellent review essay, @aiross.bsky.social ! Great issue altogether, @eldrclaire.bsky.social et cie.!
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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Congratulations 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/...
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Yale Announces 2026 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists
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Age of Revolutions @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In this fascinating new Age of Revolutions essay, explore how mouchoirs in colonial Haiti served as more than fashion, illuminating networks of identity, culture, and connection among women of color. @robtaber.bsky.social ageofrevolutions.com/2026/09/02/w...
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What’s in a Headwrap? Using Mouchoirs to Illuminate Connections Between Women of Color in Colonial Haiti
By Robert D. Taber Dress and grooming standards are often political. In the contemporary United States, this ranges from Sikhs in the US military advocating to wear turbans as part of their uniform…
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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Interesting research on neo-colonialism in Africa. Turns out the Eurozone is a much worse offender (by an enormous margin) than China. @70sbachchan.bsky.social and @katemac.bsky.social might be interested.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 26/08/2026
Kind of hard for a professional organization to argue that history is integral to democracy when it goes to lengths to quash democracy within its own membership. And this isn't what I want my members dues to be used for. I suspect many will feel the same. 🗃️
If the AHA leadership continues to heed that advice, its members can expect further silencing of their voices within the organization. In addition to recommending that the AHA frame the historical profession as an arm of the “national security” apparatus, Thorn Run has told its leadership that it should reroute “all future requests for public statements,” “all member concerns regarding conflict zones,” and “all concerns regarding historians in conflict zones” to a leadership committee, so that it can contain and control “out-of-scope debates.” The aim, in other words, is to “utilize the January 2026 veto as a safe harbor precedent to prevent future mission-creep” by shifting from vetoes to a place where institutional silence ensures that there is nothing to veto.
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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The 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...
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Opinion | A Scholarly Association’s Secret Washington Playbook
Did the American Historical Association ask a corporate lobbying firm for advice on how to silence its members?
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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The deadline for submissions to French Historical Studies' special issue on "European-Indigenous Relations in the French Americas" is only a week away! If you have a manuscript you are thinking about submitting and have questions, feel free to reach out by DM or email (CFP below)
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amulya.bsky.social @amulya.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
My husband Drew wrote this at breakneck speed while moving cross-country and caring for an 8 month old, bc he felt it was necessary, ethically and politically, to correct the record. If you read Tyler Austin Harper's piece, I hope you'll read this.
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I got tired of waiting for the journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social to cover this (it IS summer), but this is to say that ALL the staff members in Women & Gender Studies here were laid off last week, on the top of the cutting of 5 lecturer positions in the program last year.+
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Annia Ciezadlo @anniaciezadlo.com · 15/08/2026
"Universities now have more adjuncts than tenured and tenure-track professors combined. Many adjuncts make around $4,000 a course, and a quarter of adjuncts make less than $25,000 a year. In no city in the United States is this enough money to live off comfortably."
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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Collègues français ou historiens de Fr! Est-ce que vous connaissez des archives numerisées des quotidiens français des années 1960? Je crois que Gallica ne va qu'aux années 1950. There are tons of US sites where I can search for news photos - mais je serais ravi d'en trouver du Monde, Fig, Lib &&
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Rebecca Scales @rebeccapscales.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Finally got my hands on Tirailleurs to consider for my WWI/Film course this fall. Didn't love the film, but thought it raised some interesting historical questions to debate/discuss. Curious whether anyone else has taught it to undergrads. How did they react? What reading(s) did you pair it with?
A poster for the French-language film Tirailluers
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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I shared last week how I pair short primary source excerpts from American Yawp Reading & others with short secondary sources from places like We're History or @jstordaily.bsky.social Several peeps asked for my pairings, so I've added pairings from 1st & 2nd half U.S. history to my website 🗃️ #sschat
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Rachel Michelle Gunter, Ph.D. - Pairing Primary and Secondary Sources
When choosing readings for assigned readings or class activities, I try to pair short excerpts of primary sources with secondary sources. There are 2 main ve...
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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The Chronicle has been full of a lot of crapola lately. But it was fun to see my friend & past coauthor @michaelgvann.bsky.social lauded as Sac State's "faculty fighter" (& they mean in a literal sense!). www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
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When College Gets Gory
On the campy, violent, inspiring, dismaying, downright-confusing world of Sacramento State’s Combat U.
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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Please give this page a follow! It's a public history project by debbielinsleyliles.bsky.social mapping the migration of enslaved people into TX in the 19th century. & if you know anything about the Civil War, you know that's a lot of enslaved people especially from 1860-65, as slavery spread west 🗃️
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Patricia Goldsworthy @pgoldsworthy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Our union president compiled a chart of salaries for different career stages (first year TT, promotion to Associate, promotion to Full, end of career) at my university (Western Oregon University). Adjusted for inflation, faculty are making between 5,000 to 25,000 less now than we were in 2009
Chart showing Tenure Track salaries at Western Oregon University from 2009 to 2026 at different career stages (first year on TT, promotion to Associate, promotion to Full, end of career). Adjusted for inflation, faculty make between 5,000 to almost 25,000 less now than they did in 2009
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I passed my dissertation defense! Not sure if I’m Dr. Heydari yet, or if that has to wait until I get the piece of paper in the mail in December. Some minor revisions to take place in August. Thank you all for your support and friendship along the way. I can believe this is real.
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Society for French Historical Studies @sfhs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Suzanne K. Kaufman “Incident at Sousse: West African Soldiers, Legionnaires, and the Racial Politics of Colonial Policing in 1930s French Tunisa.” FHS 46 no 3 (2025) has won the FCHS article prize. CONGRATULATIONS! #historians #skystorians read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
Winner of FCHS (French Colonial Historical Society) Article Prize
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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
think what you will of the Amaury family, but the NYT's entirely negative portrait of their alleged greed & lucrative ownership of the Tour de France misses a crucial part of their business model while the Tour is the only cycling race around that generates 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
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Is the Amaury Family, Owners of the Tour de France, Hurting Cycling?
The Amaurys of Paris own the race, but won’t share any of the $170 million in media revenue. Sponsors and riders say their resistance is dooming the sport.
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Jean Beaman @jean23bean.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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One UK mosque attacked ‘every five days’, says British Muslim Trust
More than 70 attacks have been recorded over past year, including acts of violence, property damage and vandalism
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
“Pipeline” was right there
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Lebron James 'I'm Open' Basketball Gesture
Alt: Lebron James exasperated meme
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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Have any other academics experienced the dystopian future of AI copyediting? In a kafkaesque doom spiral with @tandfonline.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social as their bot randomly reassigned authors to texts. Just one example of zillions of errors introduced, impossible to communicate with
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Bryan Banks @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Working on my Great Pigeon Massacre book. In trying to describe French farming practices and how pigeons became such a politicized subject, I find myself pushing back against the narrative that French farmers were somehow behind English ones. /1
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
the best day for the presidents of every R1 to hold a press conference screaming that higher ed is our second largest export and destroying it is economic sabotage and soft power detonation was Jan 21st 2025. the next best day is tomorrow.
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Patricia Goldsworthy @pgoldsworthy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
We've known Baba and Marcy (the couple in this article) for around 20 years. They lost their home and all their belongings in the Eaton Fire in Altadena, CA, and are battling insurance companies to pay what they're owed. Please share widely www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Fire survivors were finally ready to rebuild homes. A new barrier is leaving them 'demoralized'
Fire survivors in Altadena and Pacific Palisades say they're running into another rebuilding roadblock: mortgage lenders delaying or denying insurance funds that have been allocated for their construc...
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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
New curated collection of @sfhs.bsky.social Journal, *in open access!* 🗃️ It focuses on how France has always been a nation of immigrants, like the US. @maheo.bsky.social @fondationme.bsky.social veuillez partager ce lien - ces articles sont gratuits au public seulement pour une durée limitée.
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yblent.bsky.social @yblent.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I often hate on journalists, but one thing they do well is calling people for comment when an article puts them on blast: I wish Appiah had sought and included responses from Caroline Levine and whoever teaches the University of Pennsylvania’s English 2300.401 “Queer Poetry from Homer to Hughes.”
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Youssef Chouhoud @chouhoud.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
We lost an absolute giant in the scholarly community. Dr. Esposito did much to counter the errant public perspectives on Muslims and Islam in the aftermath of 9/11--and he uplifted a generation of scholars trying to do the same. May his memory be a blessing. www.linkedin.com/pulse/memori...
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In Memoriam: Professor John L. Esposito (1940–2026)
It is with profound sadness that I share the passing of my dear friend and colleague, Professor John L. Esposito, on July 15, 2026, one of the most consequential scholars of Islamic studies and interf...
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
LAWSUIT alleging Google illegally copied books and stole books from behind paywalls. “The result is an AI system that competes directly with Plaintiffs’ and the Class’s works in the market,” the lawsuit claims. #AI #booksky 1/
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U.S. Publishers Sue Google, Alleging Massive Copyright Infringement Behind Its Gemini AI Service - Publishing Perspectives
The lawsuit accuses Google of illegally copying millions of works to train its Gemini AI service which, the publishers argue, is already being used to flood the marketplace for books with “AI-generate...
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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
V interesting, although of course it’s not at all true that researchers have overlooked the “ground-level workers” of authoritarianism. Yet another case of quants discovering a problem historians have been studying for decades and declaring it “new” 🗃️
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Rick Jobs @richardivanjobs.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
“The extent of reflexive commentary on research and writing processes in anthropology and history makes the work suitable for . . . being taught across anthropology, history, art history, history of science, Latin American studies, and Native American and Indigenous studies.” H-Diplo 🗃️🏺
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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Excited to share the Call for Papers for a special issue of French Historical Studies on "European-Indigenous Relations in the French Americas" (which I am co-editing w/Scott Berthelette) Feel free to reach out via DM/email if you have any questions CFP here: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
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Submission Guidelines | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
Submission Guidelines | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press Submission Guidelines  CALL FOR PAPERS Special issue of French Historical Studies on European-Indigenous ...
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