Professor Heidi Tworek @heiditworek.bsky.social (RSC College, @ubcdemocracy.bsky.social) is a member of the Expert Advisory Group on Online Safety, which advises on addressing harmful online content and strengthening online safety. 📱 Learn more in our #RSCVoices spotlight: bit.ly/3REZues

People should actually be very alarmed that while AP's business model is shot to bits, Americans are still very much reliant on the news it delivers. The alternatives in some cases are inferior or non-existent. apnews.com/article/news...

AP says it will offer buyouts as part of pivot away from newspaper-focused history

The Associated Press says it will offer buyouts to an unspecified number of its U.S.-based journalists as part of an acceleration away from the focus on newspapers and their print journalism that sust...

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The BBC’s job is to “inform, educate, and entertain”? Let’s talk about the middle word. What follows is the story of what we found in an FOI request (per the Observer) about the Corporation killing off plans to launch an online catalogue and failing to deliver ‘learning for people of all ages’. 🧵

Concerns about sexualized deep fakes on Grok weaves together online harms, privacy, AI regulation, and platform regulation. Canada has thus far struggled to respond. Heidi Tworek (@heiditworek.bsky.social) examines why on this week’s Law Bytes podcast. www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/01/law-...

The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 255: Grappling with Grok - Heidi Tworek on the Limits of Canadian Law - Michael Geist

The Law Bytes podcast is back, starting with an episode on the limits of Canadian law in addressing the concerns associated with Grok AI, the AI chatbot that garnered global attention over the widespr...

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I’m proud of this work with Netheena, @heiditworek.bsky.social and our @ubcdemocracy.bsky.social team.

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🌟 Today, we launch our latest policy brief 'How Universities Can Better Address Online Harassment'. The brief reviews international best practices for institutions to support researchers facing abuse. democracy.ubc.ca/publications...

@heiditworek.bsky.social discusses the undulation of communication technologies and their ability to both attract and oppose the energy of globalization in @globaldiscnct.bsky.social's recent volume. Find Heidi's chapter and the entire open-access collection: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Dis:connectivity and Globalisation

Globalisation is one of the most contested concepts of our time. From its promise of borderless flows of people, goods, and finance in the 1990s, it embodies today almost the opposite: deglobalisation...

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Dalhousie University & U of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia invite applications for Roper-Hannah Chair in History of Healthcare & Health Equity. Deadline apply October 1, 2025. Posting and direct application link see: dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/19481 #HPS

Delighted to be elected as a fellow of @royalhistsoc.org! Deepest thanks to @davidrarmitage.bsky.social for his support.

The USPS "turns 250 on July 26, 2025 📫🎂. Since its founding, architecture, transportation, and technology have been integral to how the USPS operates. Trace the history of the post office’s built forms, and a narrative of an evolving nation unfolds with it."

For 250 years the USPS has put its stamp on the country’s built environment

The United States Postal Service (USPS) turns 250 on July 26, 2025, and since its founding, architecture, transportation, and technology have been integral to how the service operates. Trace the histo...

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New paper on impact of #healthmisinformation with the amazing Hannah Bauer This meta-analysis aims to help fact-checkers identify dangerous misinfo and to help researchers plan studies on health misinformation. doi.org/10.1080/1041...

Impact of Exposure to Health Misinformation on Belief in Health Misinformation: A Meta-Analysis of RCTs

Health authorities have labeled health misinformation a major global health threat and academic scholars consider exposure to health misinformation a barrier to an individual’s informed decision-ma...

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It was such a fab experience editing with Andy and working with 50 amazing authors! Take a peek!

Andy Denning@andydenninghist.bsky.social · last yr.

The book edited by @heiditworek.bsky.social and me with @routledgehistory.bsky.social is two years old, and to celebrate its attainment of toddler status, is now available in paperback! Great for classes in HIST/IR with 50+ contributors in 40 globally-framed, thematic chapters!

If this is accurate, WeTransfer is unusable for professional creative work. Would violate most work-for-hire contracts to share copyrighted material with a third party like this.

Rami Ismail (رامي)@ramiismail.com · last yr.

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No

Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.

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Sovereignty is deeply tied to information ecosystems – from digital platforms to local news. Is Canada truly resilient? This article by @heiditworek.bsky.social and @lageneralista.ca breaks down Canada's vulnerabilities and what to do about them www.cigionline.org/articles/how...

How to Confront Canada’s Digital Dependence

Even a cursory glance at Canada’s digital providers exposes substantial reliance on foreign firms.

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📢 Call for Registration! JGH and the Toynbee Prize Foundation are delighted to announce the Second TPFxJGH Publishing Workshop with @emleake.bsky.social‬ and @heiditworek.bsky.social‬ (July 9 8-9:30 am PST/3-4:30PM GMT via Zoom). Find out more and register here: toynbeeprize.org/posts/call-f...

Awesome new faculty job -- the University of British Columbia is looking for a senior ecosystem scientist to fill a new research chair position. geog.ubc.ca/job-opportun...

@heiditworek.bsky.social and @lageneralista.ca argue that we should think about a public option for social media. Read more about why and what that could look like! www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

A public alternative to social media

It is increasingly clear that private social media companies’ values do not align with maintaining a vibrant information ecosystem.

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A public alternative to social media. "History has shown it it is possible to change course after allowing private and foreign companies to control a new communications space," write @heiditworek.bsky.social and @lageneralista.ca www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

A public alternative to social media

It is increasingly clear that private social media companies’ values do not align with maintaining a vibrant information ecosystem.

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The worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone. So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment. It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/ expertvoicestogether.org

Rebekah Tromble@rebekahtromble.bsky.social · last yr.

I spoke with Science about scholars—myself included—self-censoring. In my case, my team and I feared losing our NSF funding for Expert Voices Together (expertvoicestogether.org), a program, ironically, built to support researchers and journalists under attack. www.science.org/content/arti...

A chance to join the editors-at-large team at the Toynbee Prize Foundation! Please circulate to PhDs and early career historians! toynbeeprize.org/posts/call-f...

Unhappy to confirm that the entire Historical Advisory Committee at the State Department received termination notices this afternoon (myself included). The HAC, set up by Congress, oversees the office that produces the FRUS series. history.state.gov/about/hac/in... 1/

🌐 In The Conversation, Chris Tenove and Heidi Tworek (@heiditworek.bsky.social) examine how Canada’s foreign interference threats are both new and deeply historical. 🔗 theconversation.com/foreign-inte...

Foreign interference threats in Canada’s federal election are both old and new

Canadians should be alert to foreign interference in the federal election, but the most important thing to do is cast a ballot based on their own well-informed priorities, worries and aspirations.

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The US has cut billions of dollars in COVID and pandemic readiness research funding, saying "Americans moved on years ago.” The public health and broader science community MUST stop aiding this shift in research priorities by referring to COVID in the past tense. www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Suggesting the world is “post COVID” contributes to an unwitting shift in research priorities

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Researchers who have had grants terminated--tell your story! The #DefendResearch team is collecting testimonials about this impact of #censorship on research that we will use as part of a toolkit for contacting elected officials. #NSF, #NEH, #NIH www.defendresearch.org/testimonials

Testimonials

In support of protecting free and open scientific inquiry and publication, we are collecting short testimonials from researchers on the impact of censorship on their work and the broader community. T...

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His work on American media remains tremendously illuminating

Chris Tenove @cjten.bsky.social & Prof @heiditworek.bsky.social write about foreign interference that pose a risk to Canada’s election, including the enduring harm of disinformation campaigns to our nation’s democratic health. More @theconversation.com: theconversation.com/foreign-inte...

Breaking - White House is forcing out top leadership at the National Archives. “The exodus of senior staff is seen as a huge loss for the agency, which is considered nonpartisan and dedicated to the preservation of history and documents.” www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/p...

White House forcing out top leadership at National Archives in major shakeup | CNN Politics

The Trump administration is forcing out senior leadership at the National Archives and Records Administration in a major shakeup, according to a source familiar. President Donald Trump has been highly...

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A new issue of the Journal of Contemporary History means new book reviews: first up is @heiditworek.bsky.social on The Wireless World: Global Histories of International Radio Broadcasting by @kindkovacs.bsky.social, @rebeccapscales.bsky.social et al. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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breaking the bluesky posting seal to share the exciting news that @heiditworek.bsky.social and I have a new article available from Past & Present on the perils and promises of periodization in global history. Send a chat or email @ institutional addresses for access. academic.oup.com/past/advance...

The Promises and Perils of Periodization in Global History: Lessons from the Inter-War Era*

Abstract. This article considers the role of periodization in global history through the lens of the inter-war era. The global turn has shifted the ‘metage

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