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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel

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Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 04/04/2025

'It’s not alright to amend and ram through an environmental law for political gain. Laws should naturally hold democracy within them. In changing the law to favour big industry, Labor and the Liberals are ignoring vast numbers of their people, both Tasmanian and the wider Australian population.'

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No, Tasmania's salmon industry shouldn't be protected from environmental challenges — it prioritises profit over nature

'To undermine and ransom nature by prioritising the profits of multinational industries is not alright.'

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RCPSG Heritage @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Medical bag of Henry Lillie, surgeon to the Scottish whaling fleet. He highlighted cruelty to whales and campaigned for new whaling laws. His book The Path through Penguin City (c.1955) is one of the most influential books in whaling conservation tinyurl.com/4mbnz87h #ArchiveConservation #Archive30

A large leather medical bag. The top is open to show a glimpse of the medical instruments inside

A photograph taken from above the medical bag so the contents can be seen. A fabric pouch lies on the top and underneath can be seen some syringes and various other fabric pouches containing instruments

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Keep in mind: the NEH’s budget is 0.01% of the entire federal budget. This is not about savings - it is about the destruction of the Humanities and the critical thinking abilities that they teach. 🗃️

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 03/04/2025

Call for Papers: 'Mobilising Imperial History: Crime, Policing and Control in the British Empire' bit.ly/3Ye0Pco Dr Aparajita Mukhopadhyay (Kent) will host a workshop on 15 July. Calls for papers are now invited. This event is supported by the Society's Workshop Grants scheme for 24-25 #skystorians

Book cover of book titled 'The History of Railway Thieves in India'.

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Robbie Richardson @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

The now extinct ivory-billed woodpecker, as drawn on wood by an Indigenous person in Florida around the year 650 CE.

A faded drawing of a woodpecker on an old plank of wood

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The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Check out our latest OA article '‘A Scheming Unprincipled Native and Notorious Mischief Maker’: The 1882 Ngāpuhi Petition to Queen Victoria and Settler Disinformation in the Late Nineteenth-century British Empire' by Darren Reid. This is part of an upcoming special issue: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

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‘A Scheming Unprincipled Native and Notorious Mischief Maker’: The 1882 Ngāpuhi Petition to Queen Victoria and Settler Disinformation in the Late Nineteenth-century British Empire

In light of the inability of most late-nineteenth-century Indigenous petitions to the British Crown to achieve their stated objectives, many historians conclude that the rise of settler self-govern...

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

More new collections added • Scandinavian anarchist press • Freedomways (US civil rights) • Tribune Socialiste collection (France) • Sources on the Development of the Socialist International 1907-1919 • Vietnam Courier (late 1960s) hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-onli...

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radical online collections and archives

I am very interested in the growing amount of radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised. As there are so many and from many different places, I thought it would b…

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

History as a university subject for all is in deep peril. By the end of this Parliament you might need a row of A*s to study it, in just a handful of elite institutions. Is that what you really want?

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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

THIS! 👇🏽👇🏽

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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Past lecture from SEA US 2022- the lectures series @UNESCO Chair 🌊“Indigenous People, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Climate Change” by Paul Montgomery @PMonty18 @TCEHTCD YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIQN... #fishweirs #OceanDecadeHeritage #MaritimeCulturalHeritage

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

One element of this problem is the widespread inability/unwillingness to distinguish between the slave trade and slavery. So many people (including students, broadcasters etc) conflate the two, and then magically abolish slavery as an institution and practice in the British colonial world in 1807.

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Most Britons do not know scale of UK’s involvement in slavery, survey finds

Vast majority unaware how many people were enslaved and for how long, although poll finds support for reparations is rising

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Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I have often reminded clients that what makes something a contribution is that it inspires others to take some of the ideas further. I really enjoyed reading where Clare O'Farrell took my thoughts on impatience. clare-ofarrell.com/2025/03/25/t...

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The impatient writer

Most writers struggle to a greater or lesser degree with the blank page. In a newsletter post titled “Perfectionism vs Impatience”, the academic and scholarly writing coach, Jo VanEvery, deals with…

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Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Delighted to announce an exciting collaborative PhD studentship at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social and the Imperial War Museum in London. The project is entitled "Lithographs of the First World War: printmaking, propaganda and mobilisation" and funded by the AHRC. 👇👇👇 warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his... 🗃️

A French lithograph of the First World War entitled La Tradition. It shows a French WWI soldier embracing a soldier of the French revolutionary wars. René Georges Hermann-Paul
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Cambridge Collections Connections Communities @camglamresearch.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

🚨Are you a professor from overseas, interested in working with Cambridge collections to bring expertise, skills & knowledge in an underrepresented area? We would love to hear from you! Check the latest Visiting Professorships scheme @leverhulme.bsky.social www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/news-events/... #GLAM

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The Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorships - Collections Connections Communities

The Leverhulme Trust has opened its second round of applications for Visiting Professorships: https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/visiting-professorships If you are interested in applying to the above Visiti...

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Infectious Diseases @infectiousdz.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Crises don’t pause just because the world looks away. Cholera deaths jumped 32% in February, driven by conflict, displacement, and climate disasters. Weak infrastructure & limited healthcare mean a disease is killing people that clean water and sanitation could prevent 🧵

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Multi-Country Outbreak of Cholera, External Situation Report #24, Published 20 March 2025 - South Sudan

Situation Report in English on South Sudan and 28 other countries about Coordination, Health, Epidemic and more; published on 20 Mar 2025 by WHO

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John M. Kinder @johnmkinder.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

World War Zoos, my new history of #zoos and World War II, has hit the warehouse. Much more between now and release date: April 22. Hit me up for interviews, visits (live and Zoom), podcasts, etc. -- I am up for any chance to talk zoos, war, politics, & animals! @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Cover of John Kinder's book "World War Zoos" showing monkey

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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Feels wrong to celebrate while academia is on 🔥, but this week I got the lovely cover for my long overdue book *The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean* forthcoming from UPenn Press! #RaceB4Race #RenSA2025 #RSA2025 #Shax2025

Tan Book cover with green and brown text. Upper right corner has a seventeenth century engraved image of a Black body that looks like classical sculpture with a white head. It is holding a sheaf of cane.

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George L. Mosse Program @glmosseprogram.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

It’s #MosseWednesday! Join Mirjam Brusius on March 27th for her Mosse Lecture, “Skulls, Sculptures, and the Kaiser’s Museums: Global Entanglements, Colonial Race Science, and German Memory Culture (c. 1900-today)” at Columbia University’s Deutsches Haus.

Third Annual Mosse Lecture. A Lecturer by Mirjam Brusius with Respondent Prf. Avinoam Shalem. Skulls, Sculptures, and the Kaiser’s Museums: Global Entanglements, Colonial Race Science, and German Memory Culture (c. 1900-today) Thursday, March 27th, 2025 from 6-8 PM With a reception to follow Hosted at Deutsches Haus, 420 W. 116th St Mosse Lectures Columbia | Germanic Languages Columbia | European Institute Columbia | MESAAS Institute for comparative literature and Society Columbia University The Society of Fellows and the Heyman Center for the Humanities Columbia University

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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Images from #ChasmIsland (Anindilyakwa: Burrabarra or Barrubarra), #GulfCarpentaria #Australiahome to #IndigenousPeopleslike #Kurtijarand the now extinct #yalangalanguage. Showing images of hunting from #boats or #canoes for #turtles, #dolphins & #dugongs. 1/6 #coastalhistory #maritimeheritage

Map of Chasm Island (Anindilyakwa: Burrabarra or Barrubarra). Google Maps.

William Westall (1803) Chasm Island, native cave painting, 1803, watercolour. National Library of Australia

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Now more than ever

Me, a very light skinned Black woman in black wire glasses and big hair holding up a black poster that says "THERE IS NOTHING MORE EPHEMERAL THAN A WEBSITE" in gold ink

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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Your friendly, periodic reminder that the Canadian History & Environment series at @ucalgarypress.bsky.social exists. That it's print & open-access, here: press.ucalgary.ca/series/canad... That it's great. That there's room for more. That I edit the series, so talk to me. #envhist #cdnhist

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Post-doctoral fellowships available at Kew, closing 20 April. For proposals covering plant-people relationships, broadly defined, and using methods from the humanities, social sciences and life sciences see careers.kew.org/vacancy/kew-... Informal enquiries: planthumanities@kew.org

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Kew Research Fellow (Enhanced Partnerships) - Careers | Kew GardensMenuClose menu

We are seeking applications from promising early-career scientists with interesting, innovative, and viable research ideas for the Kew Research Fellowship in Plant and Fungal Science. The Kew Research...

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

PhD on offer at Kew: Plants and their Products: Biocultural collections at Kew Gardens & the South Kensington Museum during the long nineteenth century If only I could apply! Fascinating mutual interests of Kew and the V&A in plants. Closes 16 May www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...

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Philippa Hellawell @pbhellawell.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I'm very pleased to share news of a new project I am leading at The National Archives. PASSAGE combines archival research on the transatlantic trade of enslaved people with an international programme that centres the research of West African & Caribbean scholars. Read more here: shorturl.at/XLyC8

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Major grant to fund research into the history of transatlantic slavery - The National Archives

The National Archives has been awarded a £1 million grant by Lloyd’s Register Foundation for a new, collaborative research programme on the history of the transatlantic trade in enslaved people. PASSA...

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Philippa Hellawell @pbhellawell.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

PASSAGE is recruiting for two fixed-term posts to join me working on 18thC records of enslavement 1) Collections Researcher (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/aZwqn 2) Project Cataloguer (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/6aSpz If you have questions, please let me know & please circulate widely!

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Collections Researcher (Transatlantic Slavery) at The National Archives

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The RSPB is in touch with the authorities, and an emergency response is underway. If you are on the beaches, please do not touch this material and keep dogs away from it. ⚠️ (2/2)

A close-up image shows plastic nurdles scattered among sand and debris on the Norfolk coast. These pellets are clumped together, charred, and coated in residue, with some appearing loose among natural materials. A yellow-orange statement overlay with caution stripes at the top delivers an urgent message about the pollution threat to seabirds and marine life. The statement reads:

Plastic nurdles are washing up along miles of the Norfolk coast, including RSPB Titchwell. Some are loose, others are clumped, charred, and smelling of kerosene. We believe they are from last week’s North Sea collision.

This area is internationally important for wildlife, a crucial migration route, vital feeding ground for seabirds, and soon a nesting site for rare birds.

We have just days to act before tides wash this pollution back into the sea and food chain.

The RSPB is in touch with authorities, and an emergency response is underway.

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

BREAKING: Plastic nurdles are washing up along miles of the Norfolk coast, including RSPB Titchwell, following last week’s North Sea collision.🚨 This area is vital for migrating & nesting birds. We have just days to act before this pollution spreads further. (1/2)

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Alzbeta Hajkova @alzbetahajkova.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Visiting a friend at his college that eliminated most of the humanities a couple of years ago but is now building something called ✨The Ideas Center✨ … How is this world even real

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Sophia Nicolov @sophianicolov.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I cannot wait to get my hands on this

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Dr Sara Dominici @saradominici.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I am very excited to announce a new fully funded PhD opportunity with Imperial War Museums: "'Convinced ambassadors of Empire’?: exploring the visual record of Black Caribbean men and women serving in the UK during the Second World War" Thank you for sharing! www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship – ‘Convinced ambassadors of Empire’?: exploring the visual record of Black Caribbean men and women serving in the UK during the Second World War

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Sophia Nicolov @sophianicolov.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Please read this thread about this critical research on plastics and sea birds. The findings are horrifying. An important reminder about the toll this kind of work has on the people involved too.

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

And the work is absolutely BRUTAL, mentally. That part isn't really recognized (or supported) beyond the superficial. We're all expected to carry on as normal. And it seems like nothing changes. Every year it's the same - more plastic, more necropsies, more tears. bsky.app/profile/thel...

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

It adds to our growing list of "problems that are not obvious or that do not immediately result in mortality" associated with plastics - a problem dismissed by many folks in conservation 10 years ago (and even some today!) that our team has found in the last two decade (4/5)

five people stand around an island benchtop in a research station. Everyone is processing a sample or helping with some part of data collection

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Most worryingly, we found evidence of neurodegeneration in <90-day-old seabird chicks with high levels of ingested plastic - protein expression signatures akin to what we see in human patients with dementia, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's (3/5)

Four hundred three pieces of plastic removed from sable shearwater A. carneipes 90-day-old chick.
On the left are five plastic items (0.073 g) removed during lavage, and on the right are the 398 items (41.812 g) that remained inside the stomach after lavage. The 398 items could not be removed during lavage as the large volume of plastic created a blockage. Instead, these items were recorded during necropsy after the bird was deceased. Pumice (128 pieces, 6.819 g) and squid beaks (not counted) also ingested by the bird are displayed in the petri dishes

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Dr. des. Jonatan Palmblad @palmblad.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

My article on the usable past has been reposted by @whitehorsepress.bsky.social, and it's now illustrated. Mobilize the past: "In history, there is no lack of voices forgotten, neglected, ignored, silenced and oppressed – and many of these voices still have much to say!"

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Robbie Richardson @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Sagayenkwaraton or “Vanishing Smoke,” a Mohawk delegate to London, as depicted in a miniature by Bernard Lens III in 1710. Among his tattoos can be seen a crayfish on his chest.

A painting of an Indigenous man with faint tattoos on his face and heavy tattooing on his chest; he is dressed in eighteenth-century clothing.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The Dance of the Rats, ca. 1690 Attributed to Ferdinand van Kessel (Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main)

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Sophia Nicolov @sophianicolov.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Tessa Fraser Campbell’s stunning whale installation in Winchester Cathedral. A peaceful afternoon surrounded by the immensity of history represented on this site.

A photo taken from below of three sperm whale sculptures which are suspended from the ceiling of the cathedral. There is light projected which is a mix of blues, greens and purples.

A photo take from the back of Winchester Cathedral’s nave. The three whale sculptures are suspended at the other end. Along the sides of the knave banners are suspended with abstract images on them which are lit up in blue and green.

A photo taken of below of the sculpture of an adult sperm whale and a calf. They are suspended from the ceiling. There is a large arched stained glass window in the background.

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