Reposted by Sara CaputoExeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The University of Exeter has confirmed that it won’t proceed with compulsory redundancies “at this time”. This means colleagues do not need to complete the pro forma, and there will be no selection process. 431389
Reposted by Sara CaputoThe Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 05/08/2026📢PROJECT UPDATE📢 You may have seen the news that the University of Exeter, home of the wills project, has placed 500 academics at risk of redundancy. The project leader Prof. Jane Whittle & project co-investigator Dr Laura Sangha are both at risk, alongside almost all of the History department. 1/ 1115190
Reposted by Sara CaputoDr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Last week, about a third of the History department were able to gather together on graduation day. Rather than lend our intellectual authority to the official procession and ceremony we invited our students to come and celebrate their achievements with us in a shady courtyard. They came. 1/ 633199
Sara Caputo @saracaputo.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Petition here, for those who haven't seen it yet. #Exeter #UCU c.org/N2wCysqZj2c.orgSign the PetitionStop Redundancies at the University of Exeter 031
Reposted by Sara CaputoBen Phillips @benphillips1989.bsky.social · 23/06/2026A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide. 16231273
Reposted by Sara CaputoMaggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 15/04/2026NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty. "People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.” futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comAI Use Appears to Have a "Boiling Frog" Effect on Human Cognition, New Study WarnsA new study claims to offer the first causal link between AI dependency and cognitive erosion. Researchers warn of long-term implications. 4821641177
Reposted by Sara CaputoElaine Murphy @plymprivateer.bsky.social · 01/02/2026BCMH New Researchers is Maritime History conference will be in Southampton on 17/18 April this year -CFP now open - details and submission link here www.maritimehistory.org.uk/new-research... #maritimehistory 01515
Sara Caputo @saracaputo.bsky.social · 23/10/2025It was also not super common yet to represent run-of-the-mill voyages as tracks on maps, and few charts have survived, so your best bet is probably looking at textual accounts. 120
Sara Caputo @saracaputo.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Coming back North required a different route, due to the trade winds. A classic study discussing this is John Law, 'Technology and Heterogeneous Engineering: The Case of Portuguese Expansion', in Bijker et al., The Social Construction of Technological Systems (MIT Press, 2012). 130
Reposted by Sara Caputoweatherwaxesme.bsky.social @weatherwaxesme.bsky.social · 06/10/2025@saracaputo.bsky.social I saw your book and thought, that would be an excellent read for our sailing trip in Croatia. Was not disappointed, great book! 131
Sara Caputo @saracaputo.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Oh, thank you! A really lovely picture and a very flattering comment, especially coming from someone with the sky-high standards of Granny Weatherwax. 010
Reposted by Sara CaputoScottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 08/10/2025We've joined the blue sky! Just as the skies darken for winter too Please let your followers know that the Scottish History Society has arrived! Find out more about memberships, the society, and events at our website: scottishhistorysociety.comscottishhistorysociety.comThe Scottish History Society 611068
Reposted by Sara CaputoScottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History Join us for a series of free, online lectures to explore sources of women's lived experience, intellectual and religious networks, and socio-political power in medieval and early modern Scotland. scottishhistorysociety.com/shs-winter-l...scottishhistorysociety.comSHS Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History 24537
Reposted by Sara CaputoJack El-Hai @jackelhai.bsky.social · 23/09/2025"Ocean routes’ complicated beginnings." Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @saracaputo.bsky.social & @uchicagopress.bsky.social! Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe 161
Reposted by Sara CaputoJohn Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 22/09/2025I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgHistorical Journal Call for Special IssuesWelcome to Cambridge Core 07673
Sara Caputo @saracaputo.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Thank you! I don't think any book *could* ever truly explain this, but Tracks does certainly grapple with the hugely mind-blowing nature of voyaging, and how people have tried to make sense of it, or indeed wield it. 010
Sara Caputo @saracaputo.bsky.social · 04/09/2025press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...press.uchicago.eduTracks on the OceanAn engaging look at ocean routes’ complicated beginnings and elusive impact. Sara Caputo’s Tracks on the Ocean is a sweeping history of how we have understood routes of travel over the ocean and ho... 100
Sara Caputo @saracaputo.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Thank you! More writing about maps is always a good thing, and the more paths leading to it the merrier. I'm delighted you are enjoying the book. 010
Reposted by Sara CaputoBrooke Jarvis @brookejarvis.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Did a seagull write these 108212
Reposted by Sara CaputoGianamar Giovannetti-Singh @gianamar97.bsky.social · 07/08/2025So excited to share my new article in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social: "Colonial World-Making and Global Knowledges at the Early Modern Cape of Good Hope" (Open access) academic.oup.com/past/advance... 814340
Reposted by Sara CaputoJochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Are you looking for a publisher for your manuscript in cultural history or heritage studies? We are setting up a new book series with Bloomsbury, titled Cultural History and Historical Culture. 210147
Reposted by Sara CaputoJason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social · 13/07/2025People don't seem to know that anyone can buy an interrail pass which makes European train travel much cheaper. Please tell them! www.interrail.eu/eninterrail.euInterrail.eu | 1 rail pass, 33 countriesTravel across Europe and discover 33 countries by train with Interrail. Enjoy the best rail travel experience in Europe with our Interrail Pass! 173
Reposted by Sara CaputoTrish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...slate.comDrowning Doesn’t Look Like DrowningDrowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect. 10955944782
Reposted by Sara CaputoMark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Excited to be giving the keynote address for this on Thursday afternoon, entitled 'Making and Unmaking the World of the Early English East India Company'. The talk involves a lot of drinking, multilingual cursing, and things going up in flames. And that's if it goes well! #earlymodern #skystorians 1307
Reposted by Sara CaputoCameron Holloway @cameronholloway.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Really enjoyed speaking to Julian Clover for Cambridge Radio's Cambs Politics cambridge105.co.uk/cambs-politi...cambridge105.co.ukCambs Politics 08/06/2025Julian Clover and Trevor Dann present the June edition of Cambs Politics; featuring Lucy Nethsingha, the Lib Dem leader of Cambridgeshire County Council, Mike Davey, the former leader of Cambridge … 011
Reposted by Sara CaputoMark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 03/06/2025There's no doubt that editors for academic publishing need more help and support to keep things going. But my god, this isn't it. I've published in a number of OUP outlets. This would force me to reconsider. I suspect other #SkyStorians will, too.alpsp.orgOxford University Press and Hum sign agreement to pilot Alchemist ReviewOxford University Press partners with Hum to pilot Alchemist Review, an AI-based editorial assistant that will enhance manuscript assessment while reducing a... 1112850
Reposted by Sara CaputoDr Cathryn Pearce @cathrynpearce.bsky.social · 22/05/2025So happy to see this out! www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi... #CoastalHistorytaylorfrancis.com‘It's an Ill Wind that Blows Good to Nobody’ | 28 | The Environment, SCoastal inhabitants of the nineteenth-century Atlantic Archipelago witnessed a larger number of shipwrecks, driven by increased storm frequency and intensity at 3218
Sara Caputo @saracaputo.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Congratulations, Cathryn! It looks super interesting! 110
Reposted by Sara CaputoMaria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Wrath keeps overtaking me everytime I think about RFK. Why? I'm a type 1 diabetic. I got it when I was 14. Guess what you need if you're a type 1 diabetic? Insulin. Or you die. But my family believed that it could be cured with herbs & faith healing. I had a near death experience when I was 14. 🧵 401840515
Reposted by Sara CaputoRoyal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 01/05/2025Applications now invited for the Society's Masters' Scholarships 2025-26 bit.ly/4bJs8je Scholarships support history students, from groups currently underrepresented in academic history, to undertake a Masters' degree at a UK university. Closing date for Stage 1 applications: 6 June #Skystorians 01531
Reposted by Sara CaputoAdrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 27/04/2025A very succinct summation of why AI isn't going to be the thing they say it is. There's no road to there from where we are. 27979236
Reposted by Sara CaputoJames Kirkham @jdkirkham.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Icebergs? The size of a city? 90 miles from the UK? Must be a joke, right? No! Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com shows massive tabular icebergs broke off the UK in the last ice age before the UK’s ice shelves disintegrated from climate warming. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @bas.ac.uknature.comChange in iceberg calving behavior preceded North Sea ice shelf disintegration during the last deglaciation - Nature CommunicationsMassive tabular icebergs broke off of the UK during the last ice age. The widespread break-up of the ice shelves which produced these giant icebergs can be traced to around 18,000 years ago, and likel... 28430
Reposted by Sara CaputoJustin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight: 16043743010373
Reposted by Sara CaputoDr. Penelope K Hardy @pkhardy.bsky.social · 22/04/2025🌊🌊🌊New on H-Oceans 🌊🌊🌊 Check out Sijian Wang (Uni of Hawaii at Manoa)’s rvw of @saracaputo.bsky.social (@cambridgeuni.bsky.social)’s bk _ Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps, & Maritime Travel_pub 2024 @uchicagopress.bsky.social #oceans Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.socialh-net.org 141
Sara Caputo @saracaputo.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Such a lovely review! I'm very glad that she liked the book. Thank you to you both. 021
Reposted by Sara CaputoGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 17/04/2025The @royalhistsoc.org reports on the tragic and stupid cuts to university History provision in the UK. The RHS alone has worked with 23 depts in trouble, and 90% of post-92 History groups have made cuts. Madness. royalhistsoc.org/rhs-presiden... 13830
Sara Caputo @saracaputo.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Such a great surprise in the post today! Fantastic study by @jakedyble.bsky.social. Digs really deep into early modern Italian archives and comes out full of original ideas. It won the British Commission for Maritime History Prize, too! Open Access: openaccess.boydellandbrewercms.com/publications... 13513
Reposted by Sara CaputoSMH Historians @smh-historians.bsky.social · 08/04/2025The Society for Military History is now archiving historical materials related to military history that are disappearing from federal or state websites. We are open to submissions, anonymously or otherwise. Please see www.smh-hq.org/archivedreso... and note there the submission links.smh-hq.orgArchived Resources | The Society for Military History 4309187
Reposted by Sara Caputodamniel spookradski @self.agency · 08/04/2025in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list 1993164368