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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 10h

Holy shit. The premier program in journalism.

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Sarah Pickman @sarahmpicks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ah I would love to see these in person!

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Kat Long @katlong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Frederic Edwin Church was one of the most famous American artists in the 19th century. He showed off his huge landscape paintings in theatrical frames, complete with curtains. Each gallery show was a media event. So how did "The Icebergs" go missing?

smithsonianmag.com

'The Icebergs' Is One of Frederic Edwin Church's Most Spectacular Paintings. For Decades, No One Knew Where It Was

In the 1970s, the administrator of a boys' home in England wound up finding the missing 19th-century piece and bringing it back into the spotlight

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tell your members of Congress to vote to protect the Kennedy Center. It’s up for debate.

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Jenn @jennburrill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Russia struck the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv. People inside the building are climbing out onto the windows to avoid being burned alive Russia has damaged 4,650 educational institutions in Ukraine. Another 423 educational institutions have been completely destroyed

euromaidanpress.com

"Reminiscent of 11 September at World Trade Center": Russia strikes Ukraine's century-old National Academy of Sciences in central Kyiv, people are climbing onto windows not to be buried alive - Euroma...

A Russian drone struck the National Academy of Sciences in central Kyiv, setting it on fire as people inside fled through the windows.

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...

londondaily.com

Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 24/09/2026

TODAY: @swordsjew.bsky.social with sketches of the frozen North. “You may drift across the world. You may sink and be lost forever.” flaminghydra.com/polar-impres...

flaminghydra.com

Polar impressions

This whale is watching you and judging you for your incursion into his kingdom. His judgement is ruthless but resolves in your favor. You are cleansed.

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Sarah Pickman @sarahmpicks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Looks pretty cool for historians of exploration out there: CFP for special issue on doctor-explorers

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Keivan Stassun, a member of the board that oversaw NSF before Trump ousted all its members in April, told Inside Higher Ed that 'fundamentally, what’s going on is the agency has been decapitated.'"

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Sarah Pickman @sarahmpicks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please circulate-this should be a fantastic workshop!

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Art History Meets Glaciology In Episode 6.4 of NiCHE Conversations, @issygapp.bsky.social & @sarahmpicks.bsky.social joined @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss new research developments in Arctic pasts and visual culture, including the rise of interdisciplinarity www.youtube.com/shorts/1330W...

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Art History Meets Glaciology

YouTube video by Network in Canadian History & Environment - NiCHE

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Sarah Pickman @sarahmpicks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“In this moment, we’re up against a fascism that is against all humans, in a way. We quote Kelly Hayes, an activist based in Chicago, and she says, ‘Every fascism has its subhumans, and for techno-fascists, it’s just humans in general.’"

theintercept.com

Apocalypse Now: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Investigate the End-Timers Alliance

What’s driving religious fundamentalists, tech accelerationists, and anti-immigrant ethnonationalists to bring about the end of the world?

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You don't solve a budget shortfall by auctioning off 45 million acres of national forest to the timber industry. The regime is liquidating public land for a permanent taxpayer-funded payout. Demand your representative block this corporate giveaway: 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

actionnetwork.org

Tell Congress: Stop Trump from destroying 45 million acres of our National forests

Contact Congress today!

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026

More than any higher ed development in recent memory, institutional subsidies for AI at R1 universities prove that austerity is a choice. It is not “too expensive” to invest in a humanities research infrastructure; rather, it is a choice that R1 universities make not to & subsidize AI instead.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

How dare the National Museum of the American Indian refer to George Washington with a name that he was given by the Iroquois in 1753, a name which he himself used in his correspondence! So glad to see Fox News taking a stand against the politicization of history. s/

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The Trump administration has threatened funding cuts over what it calls the Smithsonian's push to reframe America's founding as "a deeply flawed creation of the country."
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David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem have now withdrawn from the Ed Sheeran tour.

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This post is making the rounds again for some reason and therefore I feel I must inform you that they’ve hired another one so there are now TWO forensic pathologists working in Iceland.

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Future Heist @futureheist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So the bad news about methods of cooling data center that use less water: they rely on forever chemicals. "In “two-phase immersion cooling” systems, servers are immersed in a pool of Pfas with a low boiling point." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.com

‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn

Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres

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Sarah Pickman @sarahmpicks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Don't forget that submissions are open now, closing November 5!!

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Bart Harley Jarvis @williamzabka424.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One thing I really miss about the time before cell phones is being able to sit in a waiting room without listening to people have full ass conversations or watching weird videos super loud on their phones. Bring a book or sit there awkwardly waiting like everyone else you assholes.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The thing is, you could actually write a pretty good article about hiking as a response to industrialisation and its links with the Romantic movement and radicalism. Not earth shatteringly original, but a nice piece for the lifestyle section. That does not appear to be what this is, though.

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Sarah Pickman @sarahmpicks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Met a friend at the Morgan Museum last week and got to see this beautiful 1851 Morgenstern painting of the Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

“Amidst public battles over who was or could become 🇺🇸, dept stores + museums constructed period rooms that presented a compensatory fantasy of 🇺🇸 history + identity[. They played a] role in creating consumers [+] citizens w/ a shared, fictional narrative defined through the furnishing of the home.”

journals.uchicago.edu

The Home-Coming : Nativism and the Period Rooms of Wanamaker’s New York City Department Store and the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s American Wing, 1919–1925 | Winterthur Portfolio: Vol 58, No 4

For at least a century, students and practitioners of American material culture have meticulously written about and examined the American Wing period rooms at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Contempor...

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Trying so hard to not shout BUT OUR BOOK COVER IS UP SO I CAN FINALLY POINT YOU ALL TO THE MOST GRATIFYING COLLABORATIVE PROJECT EVER. @emilypawley.bsky.social Head over on Nov 17th for the OA version &/or NOW to preorder it: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205625... #envhist #envhum #hisSTM #skystorians

mitpress.mit.edu

A Historian's Handbook for Saving the World

The work of historians is vital to this moment. As climate debates shift from “believing the science” to fighting for the massive changes needed ...

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

It’s 9/11 eve, don’t forget to racially profile yourself and put out those little three ounce bottles of shampoo for TSA Santa

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Not just that —mainstream media kept platforming the officials, consultants, and strategists who led us into disaster after disaster. Rewarded with book deals, speaking pundit contracts, and academic positions.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

No question that "AI" has already and will continue to supercharge vaccine resistance, anti-science narratives and assorted conspiracy theories re health in exactly this way, except this is happening at the highest levels of the US govt instead of some influencer on social media.

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Torsten Kathke @kathke.com · 08/09/2026

The future of education is apparently "what if you combined the maleficent rigor of Victorian boys schools with the handwavy pseudo-science of 1950s psychology experiments?"

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 08/09/2026

Fun fact: there have been no wild elephants in Finland after the development and adoption of the Lahti L/39 “elephant gun”

The Finnish 20 mm anti-tank rifle Lahti L-39, also known as the “elephant gun,” on the front in September of 1941. Image: P. Kaario/SA-Kuva (CC BY 4.0)

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“Smithsonian’s Secretary to Resign as Trump Tries to Rule the Institution In the face of escalating White House attacks about how museums present American history, Lonnie G. Bunch III has announced his decision to depart”

nytimes.com

Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch Is Resigning

In the face of escalating White House attacks about how museums present American history, Lonnie G. Bunch III has announced his decision to depart.

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Sarah Pickman @sarahmpicks.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I lived it: I was reading a published memoir that referred to “the turn of the century” and it was the turn of the 21st century

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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Labor Day is about unions. Unions built the middle class. You can’t support the middle class without supporting unions. Massively powerful companies & their politicians spend LOTS of money telling you not to support unions. Because it’s the only thing they fear. Happy Labor Day

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“Germany runs trade surpluses and retains large-scale manufacturing employment to an extent that lies far beyond the wildest dreams of Trumponomics. And none of this appears to make a bit of difference to the resentment that underlies right-wing extremism on both sides of the Atlantic.”

paulkrugman.substack.com

Neo-Nazis and the Impotence of Trumponomics

Crude economics doesn’t explain what just happened

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deb6377.bsky.social 💚🌎🦋🐸 @deb6377.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"You bought a hat. A dark green beanie. REI. Minneapolis. Sometime since 2024. Now Homeland Security wants your name, your card, your address. No, I’m not bullshitting you. Yes…it’s batshit crazy 92 subpoenas went out. A judge signed none of them."

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

When old SVU episodes don’t hold up in modern times.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“Introduce this Palaeolithic tribe to modernity … Let’s land on this bitch.” As a collective influencers are a plague on the planet. The bunch trying to photograph indigenous communities for clicks? My thoughts on them are better left unsaid. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

theguardian.com

‘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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Sarah Pickman @sarahmpicks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"A new agreement between Greenland’s Port of Nuuk and the proponents of two planned deepwater ports in Nunavut is an early step towards creating an infrastructure network to support increasing maritime traffic across the North American Arctic, the CEO of West Kitikmeot Resources Corp. said."

rcinet.ca

Nuuk, Nunavut port proponents sign agreement on Arctic shipping cooperation

A new agreement between Greenland's Port of Nuuk and the proponents of two planned deepwater ports in Nunavut is an early step towards creating an infrastructure network to support increasing maritime...

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