Quoting s'thing @cnygren.bsky.social & I are publishing soon: "the literacy argument is being made in advance of its necessity...it presumes a state in which those who are “AI illiterate” are disempowered, precisely in order to make an argument in favor of compulsory indoctrination in its use."

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4h ago

“If it's this embedded in the world, then it needs to be embedded in the learning and in the coursework…”

Again, the financial incentives are all on the side of AI. Why would a profit-seeking AI corporation donate millions to a teachers' union? To convert teachers into AI adopters. There is no similar deep-pocket corporation giving money NOT to use AI.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h ago

“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”

‘More than just objects’: Australian book sellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI

‘More than just objects’: Australian book sellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI

Secondhand booksellers believe they may have been caught up in the AI supply chain that sees old books scanned then destroyed

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I never thought that I would have to write this piece about my university. But after weeks of demonstrating privately to senior managers that their case is based on a false prospectus, that their data are inaccurate and their claims misleading, there was little choice. substack.com/@lucasamin/n...

Inside Britain's university crisis

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

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‘Fossils Unearthed’: a new blogpost written by three of this year’s Natural History Humanities Visiting Fellows, @arnoldke.bsky.social, Elizabeth Hoiem and Conall Treen. www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/ccc-ecr...

CCC ECR Network Reimagining Collections Workshop: Fossils Unearthed - Collections Connections Communities

CCC ECR Network Reimagining Collections Workshop: Fossils Unearthed Dr Katharine Arnold, Dr Elizabeth Hoiem, Dr Conall Treen, Natural History Humanities Visiting Fellows, 2025-2026 During the first we...

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A short thread on Trump's attack on the Smithsonian Institution. First, his executive order accuses the Smithsonian of being "inaccurate" without ever specifying these supposed inaccuracies. (No doubt because none exist.) 1/ www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump orders Smithsonian to post warnings about 'inaccurate' US history

The Trump administration has often accused the world's largest research museum of harbouring an anti-American bias.

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Now opening nominations for the Best Image of Climate Politics in a Nutshell 🌎

Only three days left to apply! I started on a similar position here and it really helped me get my feet + teaching/admin experience after finishing the PhD. It's a fantastic place to work and our students are great! ✨ 🚨 Deadline ➡️ 23 July #envhist #envhum #histstm

Katherine Arnold@arnoldke.bsky.social · 4w ago

🚨 JOB KLAXON #skystorians #envhist #envhums Cover for some of my teaching next year - 0.5 FTE at University of Liverpool. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSE899/l...

🗃️ Tyler Austin Harper’s insane Andrew Mellon Foundation hit piece, which of course @theatlantic.com was happy to print, has rightfully pissed off everyone in the Humanities. As someone who works in higher education funding, here is a 🧵 on why this article is even more infuriating than you think.

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 6mo ago

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has become the country’s preeminent funder of humanities research, Tyler Austin Harper writes. Is it saving American arts and letters—or killing them?

Great to see the Guardian champion the SHAPE (Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences) subjects, but this piece gives impression that they are expensive, whereas many are 'cheap to teach' subjects subsidising more expensive subjects, mainly in STEM and medicine. The crisis demands better understanding.

The Guardian view on humanities cuts in universities: academic departments are more than cost centres | Editorial

Editorial: Literature, the arts and social sciences must not be sacrificed as higher education funding is squeezed

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🚨 JOB KLAXON #skystorians #envhist #envhums Cover for some of my teaching next year - 0.5 FTE at University of Liverpool. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSE899/l...

Lecturer in Environmental History (Teaching & Scholarship) (0.5 FTE)- Grade 7 at University of Liverpool

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Only three days left to apply! I started on a similar position here and it really helped me get my feet + teaching/admin experience after finishing the PhD. It's a fantastic place to work and our students are great! ✨ 🚨 Deadline ➡️ 23 July #envhist #envhum #histstm

Katherine Arnold@arnoldke.bsky.social · 4w ago

🚨 JOB KLAXON #skystorians #envhist #envhums Cover for some of my teaching next year - 0.5 FTE at University of Liverpool. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSE899/l...

We had such an amazing turnout for this & great engagement from the audience about some historical questions, but also some very practical concerns about what it means to teach with material objects in a world of digitization, AI, declining attention span, & much more. #hss-eshs #envhist #envhum

Collection Ecologies@collecol.bsky.social · 3w ago

We had a fantastic panel in the last slot of the last day of #HSS-ESHS #HSS2026 called "Pedagogies of Things in the Natural History Humanities" with @arnoldke.bsky.social, @annalsvensson.bsky.social & Kelly Whitmer. If you were there, we'd love to hear your thoughts! 🌿 #envhist #envhum

We had such an amazing turnout for this & great engagement from the audience about some historical questions, but also some very practical concerns about what it means to teach with material objects in a world of digitization, AI, declining attention span, & much more. #hss-eshs #envhist #envhum

Collection Ecologies@collecol.bsky.social · 3w ago

We had a fantastic panel in the last slot of the last day of #HSS-ESHS #HSS2026 called "Pedagogies of Things in the Natural History Humanities" with @arnoldke.bsky.social, @annalsvensson.bsky.social & Kelly Whitmer. If you were there, we'd love to hear your thoughts! 🌿 #envhist #envhum

We had a fantastic panel in the last slot of the last day of #HSS-ESHS #HSS2026 called "Pedagogies of Things in the Natural History Humanities" with @arnoldke.bsky.social, @annalsvensson.bsky.social & Kelly Whitmer. If you were there, we'd love to hear your thoughts! 🌿 #envhist #envhum

Slightly belatedly, this was the excellent roundtable yesterday on History of Science as Agent of Change? Handling Colonial Natural History Objects #ESHS-HSS

Nice to see friends’ books on the tables! #eshs-hss

BREAKING: Woke Secretary of War Approves Gender Affirming Care At Taxpayer Expense thehill.com/policy/defen...

🌿📚🏛️ Are you nursing an #ESHS-HSS hangover from last night's cèilidh? Are you burned out from seeing everyone you know? Come to my talk about plants + collections at 9:15 in the museum this morning and I promise you can have a snooze. All are welcome! 🌿📚🏛️

Not only that, but a large contingent of the wider @collecol.bsky.social network also came! So many people there working on collections, natural history, museums, environmental history, etc. 🌿🪲 What a great way to kick off the conference! #hss2026 #eshs-hss

Elaine Ayers@eayers0.bsky.social · 3w ago

Big thank you to the many, many #ESHS-HSS people who came to @arnoldke.bsky.social and my pub night last night! Incredibly having friends from so many walks of life in one place. Let's do it again tonight - Yale drinks, CALM drinks, and of course the cèildh.

Not only that, but a large contingent of the wider @collecol.bsky.social network also came! So many people there working on collections, natural history, museums, environmental history, etc. 🌿🪲 What a great way to kick off the conference! #hss2026 #eshs-hss

Elaine Ayers@eayers0.bsky.social · 3w ago

Big thank you to the many, many #ESHS-HSS people who came to @arnoldke.bsky.social and my pub night last night! Incredibly having friends from so many walks of life in one place. Let's do it again tonight - Yale drinks, CALM drinks, and of course the cèildh.

Big thank you to the many, many #ESHS-HSS people who came to @arnoldke.bsky.social and my pub night last night! Incredibly having friends from so many walks of life in one place. Let's do it again tonight - Yale drinks, CALM drinks, and of course the cèildh.

We have made the news! #eshs-hss (overlooking the blandly sweeping statements made about Edinburgh and #histSTM) www.heraldscotland.com/news/2627512...

Thousands of academics descend on Scottish capital for 'landmark' event

The five-day conference is being held at Edinburgh University, the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC), and the National Museum of…

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what they learned from minneapolis was not “don’t do this again” but “keep it quiet next time”

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 4w ago

Reminder: Memphis is still “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Task force members have reportedly killed at least two people in four days.

New blog on Teaching the British Empire in Schools. The Spectator couldn’t resist misrepresenting the way the Empire is taught in their attacks on @willdalrymple.bsky.social and @zackpolanski.bsky.social Here’s the truth. alanlester.co.uk/blog/teachin...

Teaching the British Empire: Experts Versus The Spectator

Alan Lester The Spectator’s owner Paul Marshall and its editor Michael Gove are afraid of William Dalrymple. His sequence of books on colonial India that have sold millions, his Empire podcast with…

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“Cornell researchers found that at the current rate of AI growth, the burgeoning industry could represent 24 to 44 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, the equivalent of adding five to ten million cars to US roadways.”

The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost Incomprehensible

The extent of the pollution being put out by thousands of data centers is shocking. Some developers are exploiting regulatory loopholes.

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Great article and great discussion thread here. The loss of comprehension and analytical skills, of being able to follow and formulate a logical argument, are deeply worrying and (as below explained) lead to socially destructive populism. @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social has also written on these themes

Sam Byers@sambyers.bsky.social · 4w ago

Obviously this is excellent, detailed, and in many ways pretty terrifying - essential reading for anyone with even a passing concern for literature, thought, learning etc. I would only add that there is an even broader crisis here around attention. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

🚨 JOB KLAXON #skystorians #envhist #envhums Cover for some of my teaching next year - 0.5 FTE at University of Liverpool. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSE899/l...

Lecturer in Environmental History (Teaching & Scholarship) (0.5 FTE)- Grade 7 at University of Liverpool

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The Department of Education has now officially submitted proposals to eliminate International Education and Fulbright Hays programs, which have funded thousands of students and scholars to study languages and conduct research abroad. I encourage you to make public comments and contact your reps.

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Official Publications from the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

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