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historian | japanese empire, environment, technology | wabanaki territory more here: www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/sc…

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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 01/10/2026
Beijing is carrying an older geography of extraction into the AI era, turning Uyghur land, energy and labour into computing power while remaining silent about coercion and surveillance. Donate to support our #GVSpotlight: globalvoices.org/2026/08/24...
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West-to-east energy, east-to-west computing: The Uyghur costs of China’s digital order
Beijing is carrying an older geography of extraction into the AI era, turning Uyghur land, energy and labour into computing power while remaining silent about coercion and surveillance.
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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Meta’s Muse Charm is just like Tamagotchi except the stupid animal that you’re trying to keep alive is … AI surveillance capitalism.
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Meta’s Muse Is Adults-Only. Why Does It Look Like a Kids’ Toy?
Meta says Muse is just for adults, though its cuddly, Labubu-like mascot—and upcoming Tamagotchi-style AI device—may be disarming for users of all ages.
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H-Net Job Guide @h-net-job-guide.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New job: Mellon Assistant Professor in Modern Japanese History Vanderbilt University jobs.h-net.org/jobs/70487
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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Excited to be working with Norton on two new histories of Japan! I have my work cut out for me for approximately the next decade!!
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Maine Public @mainepublic.org · 28/09/2026
The University of Maine System Board of Trustees voted today to remove the name of U.S. Sen. George Mitchell from UMaine programs after he was referenced hundreds of times in the Epstein Files. bit.ly/4ykgd77
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Board of Trustees votes to remove George Mitchell's name from UMaine programs
The University of Maine System Board of Trustees voted today to remove the name of U.S. Sen. George Mitchell from UMaine programs after he was referenced hundreds of times in the Epstein Files.
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Oleg Benesch @olegb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm thrilled that Michele Monserrati's excellent article on uses of samurai symbolism by the Italian far-right in the early twentieth century has been featured on JSTOR Daily: daily.jstor.org/why-italian-...
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Why Italian Fascists Loved Samurai - JSTOR Daily
Japan offered Italian Fascists a powerful example of how ancient traditions could serve modern nationalism.
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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Everything you ever needed to know to make fish skin and fish leather clothing! 👇👇👇 edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4... Detailed comparative study between Nivkh, Nanai/Heje, and Ainu in Amuria from a scholar who had trained as a fashion designer, with photographs of some beautiful artifacts
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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lots of sketchy things happen in motels, did not expect isolating photosynthetic organelles from a nearby swamp to be one of them #giftarticle
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In an $80 Motel Room, a Discovery to Shed Light on the Origins of Life (Gift Article)
A scrappy science project led to a significant discovery: two new species of a rare organism that could elucidate a fundamental transition in the history of life on our planet.
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Bryan Lowe @bryandaniellowe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My book, How Buddhism Spread in Japan, 650–850, is now available for purchase. You can get 30% off with the code JAPAN30 through November 15, 2026. uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/how-bu...
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How Buddhism Spread in Japan, 650–850
Between the late seventh and early ninth centuries, Japan changed from a land largely without Buddhism to a country where Buddhist ideas, images, and practices were everywhere. The introduction of …
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#LandBack! The Penobscot Nation regained 11,297 acres of their ancestral homelands near sacred Mt. Katahdin in Maine. Its the first phase of a 30,000-acre land return. tribalbusinessnews.com/sections/rea...
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Penobscot Nation regains 11,297 acres in first phase of major land return
The Penobscot Nation has regained 11,297 acres near Katahdin as partners pursue a $32.5 million effort to return more than 30,000 acres.
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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Everything you ever needed to know to make fish skin and fish leather clothing! 👇👇👇 edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4... Detailed comparative study between Nivkh, Nanai/Heje, and Ainu in Amuria from a scholar who had trained as a fashion designer, with photographs of some beautiful artifacts
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China Law Translate / Jeremy Daum @chinalawtranslate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I belatedly compiled some of my notes on China's Ethnic Unity Law here. www.chinalawtranslate.com/a-few-notes-...
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A few notes on the Ethnic Unity Law
This is not an overview of the Ethnic Unity Law, because Articles, like that by NPC Observer, have already done an admirable job of explaining how the law
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Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I wrote a book last year showing how tech companies' values and goals show up in the rhetoric of their products themselves — including through AI chatbots. People questioned that; maybe it seemed too dystopian? Well, I've been collecting other examples in the wild, and here's the latest.
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Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here are the resources I shared with the professor, by the way. @lutzfernandez.bsky.social has created a Google Doc critiquing, and offering resources to respond to, common talking points arguing in favor of the usefulness of AI.
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Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet
Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (“AI” is used loosely here, as it is by many purveyors and boosters....
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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
One transformative thing that Netflix and others did to 21st-century media was making foreign-language TV accessible to everyday Americans, which the @nytimes.com barely captures. Missing: Asura, Babylon Berlin, Dix pour cent, Endeavour, Line of Duty, Poldark, Zone Blanche, etc. Other recs?
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I often say local news has some of my favorite immigration reporting. @bostonglobe.com is a perfect example. They consistently interview people I've wanted to hear from & flag issues early. Plus a solid immigration newsletter A sobering, very relevant interview: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/24/m...
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An ICE agent shot and killed her partner in Maine. Now, she wants justice. - The Boston Globe
In her first sit-down interview with a newspaper, Martha Karolina Rojas Alvarez called for justice to be carried out for the killing of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, her partner and father of their ...
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 24/09/2026
Too much of the China “AI” discussion is about imaginary things. @afrawang.bsky.social in The New Yorker brings us the opposite—a story of how people are using LLM technology and what AI means from one of many culturally situated perspectives. Read: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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What China’s Vibe-Coding Capital Can Tell Us About the A.I. Boom
Liangzhu, a small town near the tech hub Hangzhou, has become a haven for tech workers burnt out by the grind of China’s booming tech industry.
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Sea and Steppe" by @ultradaphne.bsky.social is part of the series “Gender and Atlantic Ocean Environments,” co-edited with Written in the Waves journal, for their special issue Soil and Sea. niche-canada.org/2026/09/22/s... #envhist #envhum #migration
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Sea and Steppe
Many poets have compared kovyla, the native feather grass of the Ukrainian steppe, to sea waves. When I look at the ocean I crossed, I can remind myself of who I am and where I came from.
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Hannah Shepherd @hannahjshepherd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Excited to announce that The Narrowing Sea has won the UHA Best Book Award! Thrilling that my work has connected with urban historians beyond East Asia. www.urbanhistory.org/Awards
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Urban History Association
Distinguished service and scholarship in urban history.
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Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue @criticalai-journal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#criticalAi4.1, Remember to check out Kit Pribble's “ Against Optimized Efficiency,” on why foreign language learning remains an essential human and creative practice in the age of generative AI! read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
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Against Optimized Efficiency: Why Foreign Language Learning Still Matters | Critical AI | Duke University Press
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 22/09/2026
it's a growing field
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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
To surveijazzle (v.): “to beautify every single AI-capable camera on our campus as an indicator of our support and love for the campus surveillance now bestowed upon us from up high [by] sticking luxurious gems of many colors on each and every camera."
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Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm on @askhistorians.bsky.social today, answering questions about my brand-new book, #TransformingNight, from @uwapress.uw.edu! 🌌💡🌃🛰️ www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Timeline cleanse: Can’t stop laughing at these ingenious entries for the annual historical artifact costume contest at the National Museum of Korea The porcelain carp won, but my favorite was the bronze rattles.
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This is Korea’s most unhinged cosplay contest #shorts
YouTube video by The Korea Herald
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Max Weber Stiftung @maxweberstiftung.de · 22/09/2026
#CfP Did The Empire Make Sense? Exploring the Potential and the Limits of Colonial Environmental Knowledge 📍#Conference at #GHILondon @ghilondon.bsky.social 📅 18–20 May 2027 | Apply by November 16, 2026 🔗 www.ghil.ac.uk/event...
View of German Historical Institute London
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Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures @futuremountain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
CFP: Towards a Posthumanistic Mountain Humanities, Online Workshop 11 December 2026. shorturl.at/wnsS8 #Mountains #EnvHist #EnvHums #HistGeog #IndigenousKnowledge #AnimalHist #NewAnimism #NewMaterialism #AssemblageTheory #Posthumanism
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Magnus Fiskesjö @magnusfiskesjoe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Latest, on China's settler colonialism in Tibet journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Timeline cleanse: Can’t stop laughing at these ingenious entries for the annual historical artifact costume contest at the National Museum of Korea The porcelain carp won, but my favorite was the bronze rattles.
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This is Korea’s most unhinged cosplay contest #shorts
YouTube video by The Korea Herald
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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Intermittent photos of the day: Gullies and an incised stream in a landscape of thick loess, far eastern Inner Mongolia (near Kulun, close to the boundary with Liaoning), 2005.
Deep gullies in thick loess, incised below a tableland surface covered with grazed grassland and scattered trees.A braided stream incised below a loess tableland, with trees on the steep slopes on either side of it.
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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New “History Lab” in the September issue of the American Historical Review on how to read, decipher, and interpret the archives of nature in #envhist, including tracking premodern elephant populations via Qing ivory statues, by Jonathan Schlesinger and others
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Volume 131 Issue 3 | The American Historical Review | Oxford Academic
The official journal of the American Historical Association. Publishes research that brings together scholarship from every major field of historical study. Articles include original interpretation an...
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“I’ve been running an experiment all summer. At book events, I ask the room how many people have heard of Vincent van Gogh, and every hand goes up. Then I ask how many have heard of Jo. In a crowd of 100, I get one hand, occasionally two. Once, I got none at all.”
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The woman who made Vincent van Gogh famous
"Without Jo van Gogh, there would be no Vincent van Gogh posters in dorm rooms, no sunflowers on tote bags and cat collars, no immersive experiences in converted warehouses in every mid-sized city in ...
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
we're hosting a daylong workshop on how to track the financial interests of university trustees who offer such funding, how to work for legislative protections and workplace protections in the classroom and far beyond, join us! www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
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Against the AI Campus: Building Power in Higher Ed
Welcome Reception / October 23 / 6-8 PM Central / Chicago, ILWorkshop / October 24 / 9AM-5 PM Central / University of Illinois-Chicago Email us to inquire…
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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What makes these beaded sculptures of fleeting children by Numata Yuka even more poignant is that this ”abandoned” elementary school in Japan was actually closed in 2012 due to demographic decline. Historical photos of Yuya Elementary in Gero, Gifu, here: gero-art-discovery.jp/en/school_fo...
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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Authors, have you ever wondered how to turn a revised dissertation into a proposal? Or when the best time is to submit? Our acquisitions team has answers to these FAQs and more 👇 uncpress.substack.com/p/what-autho...
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What Authors Ask Most
Advice from UNC Press acquisitions staff on proposals, timelines, and more
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Molly Warsh @mwarsh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New issue of the JEMH is out! It opens with Guillermo Wilde and Fabián R. Vega on "Decentering European Written Culture" in Jesuit-Guaraní missions in Paraguay #EarlyModern #historians @earlymodhistory.bsky.social
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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New “History Lab” in the September issue of the American Historical Review on how to read, decipher, and interpret the archives of nature in #envhist, including tracking premodern elephant populations via Qing ivory statues, by Jonathan Schlesinger and others
academic.oup.com
Volume 131 Issue 3 | The American Historical Review | Oxford Academic
The official journal of the American Historical Association. Publishes research that brings together scholarship from every major field of historical study. Articles include original interpretation an...
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Micah Muscolino @mmuscolino.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Preorder now. You cannot get such an expertly crafted and researched history of empire, ethnicity, and the environment anywhere else.
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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Once again, the median pay for an adjunct professor in the United States of America is $3,500 per course. Not per month, per course.
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Coming in February! An edited collection on rivers past and present and how they move. The code E27RIVER gets you 30% off a preorder from Duke. #envhist #rivers #envhum
Cover of the book Rivers on the Move, edited by Bathsheba Demuth, by Mark Healey, anyone Giacomo Pareinello & Laurence Smith. Cover shows white swirls of a river channel on a blue background
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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In 1965, an American scholar bought her first stolen god from two boys outside a Kathmandu temple. Grains of rice were still stuck to it — offerings from worshippers. She paid less than $2 and wrote in her diary: "I don't think the temple will miss it at all." 🧵 www.himalmag.com/mary-slusser...
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Mary Slusser’s secret loot of Nepal’s sacred art and heritage
A US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States
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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Excellent oped in @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social by my @harvard.edu colleague Jill Lepore. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
But of course, the machine conversation is not free. It comes at the cost of our common life together as teachers, learners, and researchers, colleagues, mentors, and friends. Not to mention, supervising student researchers is our job.
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Tina Adcock @tinaadcock.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So pleased that the Women's #EnvHist Network has chosen *A Cold Colonialism* as their featured book for fall 2026! www.envhistwomen.com/newbook-adco...
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Adcock-ColdColonialism
A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North by Tina Adcock Winner of the Canadian Historical Association's 2026 Clio Prize (The North)  Exploration has long been pivotal to...
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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When #Harvard has a banner year in fundraising, nearly erasing its budget deficit of $365 million, that’s when you know that the reason behind its academic cuts has been purely ideological, not financial.
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FAS Raised Roughly $800 Million In FY2026, Far Surpassing Its $500 Million Target | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences raised roughly $800 million in fiscal year 2026 — far surpassing its $500 million target and marking the school’s strongest fundraising year in at least five yea...
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Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A first for me-- I was quoted in the NYTimes this morning! Thanks to Tiffany May for including me in this important story on English language learning in China in the age of AI www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/w...
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In the Age of A.I., Some in China Wonder if Learning English Is Worth the Trouble
A math teacher’s viral post prompted a debate over the language, which some see as an optional skill — and a symbol of Western dominance.
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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When #Harvard has a banner year in fundraising, nearly erasing its budget deficit of $365 million, that’s when you know that the reason behind its academic cuts has been purely ideological, not financial.
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FAS Raised Roughly $800 Million In FY2026, Far Surpassing Its $500 Million Target | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences raised roughly $800 million in fiscal year 2026 — far surpassing its $500 million target and marking the school’s strongest fundraising year in at least five yea...
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
After a short hiatus, we are now accepting applications to our visiting scholar program. More info to be found on this page: www.sprachlit.lmu.de/carsoncenter... #envhum #envhist #researchstay #RCC
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Ella Maillart @ellamaillart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
'A Kyrgyz Boy and His Mother', Ella Maillart, 1932 "Since 1916, many attempts have been made to wean them from their nomadic lives and settle them in colonies founded by Russians. But they show little interest in cultivating the earth. ..." #EllaMaillart #Photography #Kyrgyzstan #TianShan #Nomad
 'A Kyrgyz Boy and His Mother', Ella Maillart, 1932

A woman weaves a 'terme' - patterned tapestry - using camel wool in the Tian Shan region of Kyrgyzstan. Her young son in a heavy winter coat and plush fur hat stands nearby watching the traditional craft process. 

Ground looms like this were portable and well-suited for nomadic lifestyles. They were most frequently used to weave long, incredibly durable yurt bands. These decorative and functional structural straps wrapped tightly around the wooden lattice frames of yurts to protect them against fierce high-altitude winds.
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
ILWCH call for papers. Changing the Waters: Labor in the History of Rivers, Lakes, Deltas, and Wetlands www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Changing the Waters: Labor in the History of Rivers, Lakes, Deltas, and Wetlands
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/09/2026
Colleges could subsidize books for students rather than paying for premium versions of ChatGPT
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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 15/09/2026
For more than 3,500 years, cobalt has coloured some of the world’s most celebrated artworks and objects; by tracing chemical signatures, Victoria Kemp’s research @ox.ac.uk explores how a single raw material can reveal hidden histories of trade, technology and cultural exchange.
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The invisible currency of cobalt
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