My blurb for Chloe Ireton’s new book, forthcoming from Hurst in November: “Chloe Ireton has brought to vivid life a love story in *Plotting for Freedom* and thereby made a unique, moving, deeply human, and sure to be lasting contribution to Atlantic history.” hurstpublishers.com/book/plottin...

Every time a Democrat gets asked asked about “boys in girls sports” OR Hasan Piker, they should bring up this.

Ryan Mac 🙃@rmac.bsky.social · 4w ago

Child sex abuse material, some created by Grok, continues to spread on X. An incredibly disturbing read. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...

Want to learn how early medieval people living on the coast in Scotland hunted seals and seabirds? Or how collecting sea snails on the beach was part of new Christian practice? You should check out my new article in Water History! link.springer.com/article/10.1... #medievalsky

Wild animals, small practices, and the formation of an early medieval coastal landscape on the Firth of Forth - Water History

The large-scale landscape changes that occurred in northern Britain from roughly 400–800 C.E. were built on a vast array of smaller shifting practices which reflected the realities of local environmen...

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Upcoming conference at Columbia University on Thursday, September 24: "Animals Across Borders." Free and open to all, but you need to register ahead of time. Details on poster below.

Congratulations to our Penn Press finalists for the Frederick Douglass Book Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, Frederick Douglass Portrait and Abolition: Kim F. Hall's THE SWEET TASTE OF EMPIRE and Casey Schmitt's THE PREDATORY SEA! https://bit.ly/46idC1c

Yale Announces 2026 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists

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Congratulations to all the finalists for this well-deserved recognition, with a special shout out to @csschmitt.bsky.social for writing a truly transformational book. macmillan.yale.edu/glc/stories/...

Yale Announces 2026 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists

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NYT: “.. The move could prevent residents from raising concerns about — or even learning about — data centers before permits are approved and construction starts.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/c...

The American Historical Association hired a lobbying firm to help silence member advocacy on Palestine. In this essay, Adam Rzepka covers @historians.org's relationship w/ Thorn Run Partners, its deep ethical conflicts, & the advocacy crisis AHA has thrust upon us. www.chronicle.com/article/a-sc...

Opinion | A Scholarly Association’s Secret Washington Playbook

Did the American Historical Association ask a corporate lobbying firm for advice on how to silence its members?

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Historian here A great response to the performative albeit damaging disguised as funny piece by Tyler Austin Harper by a historian of course newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/racism-and...

Racism and labor at Bates: the other side of the story

Andrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper

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Research funding opportunity aimed at early career and independent scholars and grad students- check it out, global early modernists! Apps due Nov. 1. @feegiconference.bsky.social #earlymodern #skystorians #globalhistory

Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI)@feegiconference.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Call for applications: FEEGI RESEARCH AWARDS - we will award two $1000 research grants to support travel to archival or other field sites. This award is open to all FEEGI members, but is intended especially for graduate students, independent scholars, and untenured faculty. feegi.org/awards.html

Cambridge prof committed plagiarism, accused of sexual assault, still on the job and the press has barely noticed.

Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺@katherineschof8.bsky.social · 2mo ago

further receipts: www.ft.com/content/ae7f...

“We found that the data centers that already exist affect nearby residents and the nation as a whole in five main areas: air quality, water quality, noise levels, land use and energy costs.”

Lee West@whodat35.bsky.social · 2mo ago

ICYMI: 5 ways data centers endanger their local communities and the country as a whole. theconversation.com/5-ways-data-....

Prisciliano Trejo Ricano came to the U.S. at 3yrs old. ICE took him this June. He was 29. He told his family he didn't feel right but ICE wouldn't give him medical attention. After a month, ICE finally moved him to a hospital Prisciliano died five days later enlacelatinonc.org/en/Young-Mex...

A young Mexican man living in Durham died in ICE custody.

News in Spanish about politics, immigration and community issues for Latinos in North Carolina.

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Which Senate Dems STILL haven't signed onto S.4814 to #ExtendTPS #ProtectHaitians? Schiff (CA) Baldwin (WI) Hassan & Shaheen (NH) Heinrich (NM) Kaine & Warner (VA) Kelly & Gallego (AZ) Klobuchar (MN) Fetterman Peters & Slotkin (MI) Rosen (NV) Murphy (CT) & Ossoff (!) HAITIANS NEED US - ☎️✊

Alyssa GO SEE #NAZA 📽️@drsepinwall.bsky.social · 3mo ago

THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS & we can still stop it. Please call your Senator NOW & ask that they sign onto S.4814 & extend TPS for Haitians for 3 years. This will be a catastrophe for our neighbors who have been here legally!! Here's the call script! drive.google.com/file/d/1XXEs...

Political reasons for tenure denials are a violation of faculty governance and academic freedom The best part? The president (Jim Davis) is himself not an academic, and got tenure not as a result of a formal review, but pro forma from the Board of Regents as part of his hiring contract

Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 3mo ago

UT President interfering with faculty tenure. Just the latest egregious example of administrator overreach and political capitulation. Non-paywall follows.

Very honored that our article on hammocks won this award from the RSA!

postmedieval@postmedieval.bsky.social · 3mo ago

the @rsaorg.bsky.social has announced the recipients of its 2025 Renaissance Studies Article Prize on the theme of ‘Renaissance Ecologies,’ and we couldn’t be happier that an article published in /postmedieval/ won first prize!!

Espero no equivocarme, pero creo que es la primera reseña disponible en español del libro de @marcynorton.bsky.social. Ya publicada en revista Historia de la PUC (Chile, Stgo.) revistahistoria.uc.cl/index.php/rh...

It’s here, finallly! We talk about the MEDIEVAL F-WORD!!! Of course we mean “feudalism.” Ada Kuskowski joins us to explain how the term is modern, not medieval, and what was really going on… Enjoy! #medievalsky podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

The Medieval F-Word (“Feudalism”) with Ada Kuskowski

Podcast Episode · American Medieval · July 8 · 57m

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This is the secret main essential true 250th anniversary event: the brave voice of democracy and justice; the brutal forces of silencing; it's all here.

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3mo ago

14-year old girl arrested for speaking out against Data Centers in her community

Bounded or not, everything genAI produces is based on somebody’s words, and everything it produces is also not that person’s words

This is really good “Concentration camps are places where groups of people targeted based on their identity are imprisoned in violation of their legal and human rights.” They then go through these criteria and explain how Delaney Hall meets each one.

Ben Werdmuller@werd.io · 4mo ago

"We’re publishing this blog post to explain our decision to refer to Delaney Hall as a “concentration camp” and clarify the term’s meaning." This is incredibly important. jerseybee.org/2026/06/11/w...

🚨 RED ALERT: Our national forests are under attack. Trump is moving forward with an illegal plan to completely destroy the US Forest Service. We need to flood Congress with letters TODAY. It takes 60 seconds to auto-send yours. Click, sign, and share: 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal Plan to Destroy the US Forest Service

Contact Congress today!

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"The authors of the Vanderbilt report lob a ton of accusations at humanities research, but they seem to have read almost no actual works of scholarship (and there’s growing evidence that they seriously mis-represented the claims of what little scholarship they supposedly read)." shorturl.at/h1vjN

Producing Epistemic Doubt About the Humanities For the Sake of Profit: AI's Version

The Center-Right's strategy to discredit cultural knowledge draws from the same playbook as Big Tobacco and Big Oil because humanist reason threatens their bottom line.

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Just announced: OpenAI plans to lease a 9.2 gigawatt 100% fossil-fuelled data centre on Ohio. Its emissions will be between 20 - 37 MTCO2-e - somewhere between the total grid emissions of France -> Netherlands As much GHGs as 9.5 average coal plants. Will raise US total emissions by 0.5%

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

Friends, @alixhui.bsky.social and I and 70+ historians have been working on this gigantic project for three years and it finally feels like it's going to be real.

Powerful stuff from our students: "AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it.... With our own university leading the charge, AI is now corrupting those few sacred spaces and leaving us with nowhere to engage in true scholarship."

Ian Petrie@icpetrie.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Editorial from our student newspaper: "In its tireless support for AI, the University has essentially endorsed shortcuts and the outsourcing of academic thinking"

The Price Lab’s Critical Approaches to AI Working Group has released a white paper in which we advocate for AI-free instruction in reading, writing, & research. These are fundamental skills in the humanities (& in general), & with decisive action we can keep teaching them well in the age of AI!

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.