I have listened to and read lots and lots of What AI will Mean for College and the one big thing that gets skips all the time is TEACHING. Information provided is not teaching. 8/

Very good visualisation-explanation of the problems of representing the earth 🌍 in two dimensions elpais.com/internaciona...

¿Cómo se hace un mapa? El problema de aplanar la Tierra y por qué la ONU abandona Mercator

Ningún mapa es una representación perfecta de la realidad. Cualquier intento de allanar el globo supone algún tipo de distorsión

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A few days to submit your proposal to this workshop on the information that names convey from a historical perspective (Trondheim, October 12-13). More info here: fjbeltrantapia.github.io/allthenames/...

❗Call for Papers: 5th Norwegian 🇳🇴 Winter Games in Economic History ☃️ ❄️ Host: @oslomet.bsky.social 28 January 2027 📄 CfP Deadline: 23 October 2026 Obligatorisk skitur til Bislingflaka på fredag 29. kommer i tillegg

CfP: Workshop “What was in a name? Culture, naming practices and individual outcomes in the past" (Trondheim, October 12-13). More info here: fjbeltrantapia.github.io/allthenames/...

CfP: Workshop “What was in a name? Culture, naming practices and individual outcomes in the past" (Trondheim, October 12-13). More info here: fjbeltrantapia.github.io/allthenames/...

We have an open call for a postdoc interested in causal effects of Voting Advice Applications on political behaviour (deadline Aug 20): www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (304454) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (304454), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Thursday, August 20, 2026

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Crecí creyendo que nunca ganaríamos un mundial, como cantaba la @lahabitacionroja.bsky.social Bueno, pues ya van dos!! ⚽️⚽️⭐️⭐️

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Cansado de las secciones de historia de España en muchas librerias: o el imperio español o la guerra civil 😬😬

Yes!! 💪🏼

PhD positions in the humanities at NTNU, history included. Join us in Trondheim! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Up to 7 PhD Research Fellow Positions (304877) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Job title: Up to 7 PhD Research Fellow Positions (304877), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Thursday, October 1, 2026

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PhD positions in the humanities at NTNU, history included. Join us in Trondheim! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Up to 7 PhD Research Fellow Positions (304877) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Job title: Up to 7 PhD Research Fellow Positions (304877), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Thursday, October 1, 2026

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Machine Learning is causing massive leaps everywhere. Also in Economic History. There is a conversation we need to have. What ought to be the new scientific standards? Together with two coauthors . Our argument: We should maybe care a bit less about accuracy 📝🧵

🗣️ Published today in @aeajournals.bsky.social. Ethan Lewis and I use a visa lottery, as a nationwide randomized experiment, to test the effects of foreign labor on US firms and workers. doi.org/10.1257/app.... A concise summary from @nber.org —> www.nber.org/digest/20221...

Quite timely I created my first tile plots on name prevalence in a small region in North-western Spain over more than 4 centuries. 😊

Nicola Rennie@nrennie.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This week's #TidyTuesday data compares baby names in Scotland, Northern Ireland, and England & Wales 📊 One of the interesting things about this data is that you can often spot trends related to current events 👸 Code: github.com/nrennie/tidy... #DataViz #ggplot2 #RStats #QuartoPub

Por si os interesa, mi libro sobre "Capital y Trabajo: 50 peliculas esenciales sobre economia" ya esta en acceso abierto para que lo disfruteis, leais y useis (incluye un apendice con ciclos de cine como material docente). hdl.handle.net/10609/154317

My first tile plot 😊 Ongoing work with Fran Marco-Gracia. The popularity of male names in a small region in North-western Spain between 1600 and today. Continuity and change over more than 4 centuries.

Preparing for the next iteration of the MA/PhD course on "Quantitative methods for historians" fjbeltrantapia.github.io/quantitative... at NTNU. It will take place intensely during one week in September (7-11) in case students from other universities want to join us in Trondheim.

In June 15-16, the 1st SPEIN Workshop will bring to @kcl-spe.bsky.social economists, economic historians, and political scientists studying the political economy of Spain. If you work in or are interested in the field and would like to learn more, get in touch! www.tonirodon.cat/spein-confer...

All you ever wanted to know about bread production, prices, markets, and political economy in early modern Spain, now on Early View! "The Bread of Toledo", Joint with David González Agudo at @uv.es. Open access: doi.org/10.1111/ehr....

<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online Library

We study the market for common white bread in the city of Toledo through a new 266-year-long series of bread prices, obtained from the cash purchases and wholesale bread-for-wheat contracts of large ...

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Regular reminder that there are alternatives to Google Search and Google Chrome. Some European alternatives are listed here: european-alternatives.eu/alternative-... (where you can also find alternatives for other tech products should you be looking for them)

European alternatives to Google Search | European Alternatives

Google is the biggest search engine in the world, from the USA-based company Alphabet.

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TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 4mo ago

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

Really pleased to see our global stunting data up on our world in data. We hope it helps people contextualise child stunting in a much longer historical lens. Thanks to Hannah and Tuna for visualising and explaining the data so well! The link to the original paper is here: doi.org/10.1136/bmjg...

Our World in Data@ourworldindata.org · 4mo ago

✍️ New article: “Childhood stunting fell dramatically over the 20th century” One in four children in the world today suffers from “stunting”. That’s 150 *million* children under five. A stunted child is too short for their age due to poor nutrition and frequent infections.

Summer season is apparently on in Trondheim 😍😍🎾🎾

Preparing a presentation about quantitative history for 4th graders (aged 9-10). 😅😅 Wish me luck! 🤣🤣

Open access article providing a descriptive account on the issue of missing girls in 18th-century Spain www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Society, economy and missing girls in 18th century Spain

Relying on local-level information in late-18th-century Spain (almost 17,500 locations), this article (1) shows that average child sex ratios were extremely high, a result that cannot be explained ...

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If you use digital newspaper collections this new OA paper is for you - it’s full of great insights into how to understand what’s in them and the many hidden perils of digital search (like the systemically poorer OCR for cheaper and more left-leaning newspapers - who knew?). Please share

Daniel Wilson@danielwilson.bsky.social · 10mo ago

!Stop Press! Article on bias in digitised newspaper collections: ’Whose News’, in the new journal of @comphumresearch.bsky.social by Kaspar Beelen, @jonhistorian61.bsky.social, @kmcdono.bsky.social and me. See blog for summary & 🧵 1/7 Article doi.org/10.1017/chr.... Blog is.gd/2IFc30 #dh #c19 🗃️

Come and work with us: Associate Professorship in Environmental History: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... (deadline for applying: May 3)

Associate Professor (297742) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Job title: Associate Professor (297742), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Sunday, May 3, 2026

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Anne-Sofie Schjøtner Skaar (NTNU) defending her thesis today on witchcraft trials in 18th-c. Norway. First, the public lecture, whose topic is promising!!