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.

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

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · last yr.

Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create

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

Chris Ashwood@cashwood.proteaglyco.com · last yr.

There are great conferences and science in the US, but with the way things are right now, it’s too risky to attend.

'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.'

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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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

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

My brilliant colleague @richardfallon.bsky.social at @nhm-london.bsky.social has a new book!

Richard Fallon@richardfallon.bsky.social · last yr.

It's here.

It's here.

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

Our new edited book 'Forced Migration' is out in ebook form, with hardcopies coming very soon! Many thanks to my tireless co-editors @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social & @evansmithhist.bsky.social - check it out here: brill.com/display/titl... @dgb-history.bsky.social

Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949

"Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949" published on 24 Mar 2025 by Brill.

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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...

‘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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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...

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…

hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com

Evan@evansmithhist.bsky.social · last yr.

New collections added pt 1 • Chinese Poster Collection (UC Berkeley) • Cuban Poster Collection (UC Berkeley) • Radical Community Archive Collections (disability activism) • Redstockings (women's liberation collection) hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-onli...

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?

Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · last yr.

In a new episode of the BBC History Extra podcast, the Society's President, Lucy Noakes, considers the state of history in UK higher education today bit.ly/4cwSiaJ Lucy discusses the impact of cuts, restoring a student numbers cap, and history's contribution to national culture #skystorians 1/2

THIS! 👇🏽👇🏽

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · last yr.

All genuine historical work is revisionist. It revises what we thought we knew, with new evidence & new interpretations, in the present, for the present, respecting the reality of the past AND the multiple things it can be made to say. Everything else is self-interested myth-making.

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

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.

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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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...

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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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... 🗃️

🚨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

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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AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP): The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2233... #skystorians 🗃️

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 🧵

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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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

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

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.

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

Now more than ever

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

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

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...

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

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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