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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Someone needs to start a ChroniclePitchBot account...

Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"The downgrade 'reflects Xavier’s significantly weaker-than-expected preliminary fiscal 2026 operating performance and a budgeted deficit in fiscal 2027,' according to Fitch. The report also gave Xavier a negative outlook, which assesses the subject’s potential trajectory."

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Congratulations! I was recently re-reading the forum in GIH on your book and learned a ton.

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

YOU HAVE BEEN UPDATED. I like the combination of "here's some (more) bad news" and "Wellbeing Tips from your Friends in Human Resources."

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Interested in applying to be provost? 😂

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A higher ed email truism: the more innocuous the subject line (e.g., "Message to the campus community"), the more devastating the content.

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My employer has (enthusiastically!) embraced AI, rebranding the Center for Innovation as "The Loop," or "Xavier University's signature AI initiative and public home for learning, questioning, and building with AI while keeping people responsible for consequential choices." loop.xavier.edu/index.html

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The Loop — Xavier University

The Loop is Xavier University's home for responsible AI learning at the Robinette Center for Innovation. The building is being renovated through 2026 while AI literacy programs run for Xavier faculty ...

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"The worries that artificial intelligence is degrading education have been building for months. Students are using it for everything, including cheating...Many university leaders are embracing A.I. with enthusiasm anyway."

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Universities Sound Warnings About A.I. Even as They Embrace It

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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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What the FUCK!!

Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe Al could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Nice, congrats! Also, abrazos y fuerza!

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 25/08/2026

I think the universal grieving comes in no small part from the fact she represented the best of what America could be, and that she never stopped chasing that ideal, artistically and socially

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🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️‍🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared.

Black and white photo of Dolly Parton with gay artist Keith Haring.

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Scam, you say?! I'm just waiting for my new friend Terry to give me a call. I mean, I already wired the guest fee and everything.

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It's just weird that she wants my credit card info and Social Security number. But I guess NPR can't be too careful.

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

What are the chances THE Terry Gross uses a Gmail account to invite guests to come on @nprfreshair.bsky.social?

Screenshot of a phishing email from "Terry Gross" to invite the author of The Driver's Story (Me!) on Fresh Air

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Molly Warsh @mwarsh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I mean, I know I'm biased as I am all in on @feegiconference.bsky.social, but it truly is a wonderful space to present work, meet new colleagues, and learn about wide-ranging scholarship on the early modern world. Next meeting is in Pittsburgh in April 2027! #earlymodern feegi.org/index.html

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FEEGI

The Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) aims to encourage scholarship and collaboration across the boundaries of national histories and disciplinary frameworks.

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A year ago (almost). And here we are now...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Happening right in front of us. The world's richest man.

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Thank you! Super helpful. browner@xavier.edu

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Anyone with access to the International Journal of Maritime History able to do me a favor and send a copy of this review? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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scarylawyerguy.bsky.social @scarylawyerguy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Haitian migrants in Ohio fled a dangerous country to carve out a life in the U.S. doing shit work (factories, home health care, etc) that actual "Americans" refuse to do. it's the story of our nation's immigration patterns dating back 150 years and yet b/c of their skin color, they are vilified

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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

“Watergate pales in comparison to what we’re doing” is quite the thing to imply

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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Our 2026 Supplement (#18) "Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850" Edited by @hsmurphy.bsky.social (@kingshistory.bsky.social @cemskcl.bsky.social) Has now been published by @academic.oup.com academic.oup.com/past/issue/2...

Cover of the 18th Past & Present history journal suppment "Medicine, Race and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600-1850" edited by Hannah Murphy. It is in the journal's standard colours of red and grey with text providing key bibliographic information in white. Most of the lower half of the cover is taken up by a historical pen drawing likely from a medical handbook of various surgical and other medical instruments

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Lloyds is also quite eager these days to fund (certain kinds of) research on slavery and the slave trade...

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Man, Iran really took Trump to the cleaners. Eh?

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Just a friendly reminder. If the US had taken only a small fraction of the money and military equipment it has squandered fighting and losing to Iran, and instead helped Ukraine, the Middle East would be more stable and Russia would be facing defeat.

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

London people, please join us and/or help spread the word about this Voices in Slavery's Archive workshop on July 1 in Brixton. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-v...

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Workshop: Voices in Slavery's Archive Project

The 'Voices' project works closely with descendant communities to understand potential uses of the reports of the 'Protector of Slaves'.

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#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative @slaveryarchive.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Stories of enslaved Africans return to Guyana through ‘Voices’ archive, check these news about this new amazing project by historian Diana Paton, Randy Browne and other dear historians newsroom.gy/2026/06/10/s... #slaveryarchive

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Stories of enslaved Africans return to Guyana through ‘Voices’ archive project

“These individual stories, we think, are very precious,” Professor Diana Paton said, as a project seeks to make slavery-era testimonies accessible in Guyana.

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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Congratulations to author Casey Schmitt, whose book THE PREDATORY SEA has won the John Lyman Book Award in World Maritime History from the North American Society for Oceanic History! bit.ly/3QIXP7n

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Nice to see this review of THE DRIVER'S STORY in @thejerpano.bsky.social. Linda Noel praises "its clear prose, informed observations, and brevity," & its "in-depth analysis of the workings of the system of slavery and the lives of individuals caught up within it." muse.jhu.edu/pub/12/artic...

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Project MUSE -- Verification required!

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Anne E @anita5446.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

WILD shot in the electronic dark: does anyone know the population of Fort-de-France and Saint-Pierre (Martinique) in 1860? Preferably urban vs. whole municipality? 🗃️ I WILL THANK YOU FORMALLY!

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Um, was this meant to reassure me? 😅

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

*months (I'm sure the ms. also has some typos)

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

As an impatient person, having a manuscript under review for nearly six month is...character building?

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

So glad to see this! Not surprised in the least, either. Go celebrate!

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