Working on a book, article, or dissertation on #18thc British world? The Lewis Walpole Library offers 4-week visiting fellowships and 2-week travel grants for scholars. The deadline for applications is November 2. 🗃️ More info: walpole.library.yale.edu/fellowships/...

Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online: Former British Colonies Enslavement Registers #skystorians #18thc #C18

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Jason M. Kelly Ph.D. FSA FRHistS (he/him)@jasonmkelly.bsky.social · 2w ago

Here's an introduction that @ianmilligan1.bsky.social and I put together to teach students how to use Git with Github. We hope you find it useful. jasonmkelly.com/jason-m-kell... #digitalhumanities #dh #digitalhistory

Here's an introduction that @ianmilligan1.bsky.social and I put together to teach students how to use Git with Github. We hope you find it useful. jasonmkelly.com/jason-m-kell... #digitalhumanities #dh #digitalhistory

Introduction to Git and Github — Jason M. Kelly

This guide introduces how to use Git on your computer and how to sync repositories with GitHub. It covers installation, basic configuration, common commands, creating and cloning repositories, committ...

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"To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing." Raymond Williams

AI and the Corporate Capture of Knowledge #digitalhumanities #highered ino.to/L7FKCo9

History is being rewritten at the Smithsonian museums. #history #skystorians

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine www.nytimes.com/interactive/... #highered #stem #research

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine

A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

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I am happy to announce that Lasana Kazembe and I have been awarded a grant by the Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation to develop our project, "Civics Kits: Tools for a Democratic Future." #humanities #arts #democracy #citizenship #education

Humanities and arts degrees disappearing in parts of UK: Students from rural and disadvantaged areas disproportionally affected by subject cuts, British Academy warns www.timeshighereducation.com/news/humanit... #highered #academicsky

Humanities and arts degrees disappearing in parts of UK

Students from rural and disadvantaged areas disproportionally affected by subject cuts, British Academy warns

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Victorian Society's Online Autumn Lecture Series 2025: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hot-off-th... #c19 #skystorians

Hot Off The Press: Victorians in the Bookshops - 7 talks for 6

Our autumn lecture series celebrates the remarkable recent flourishing of publications on Victorian architecture and related topics.

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Also due on the 15 September are proposals for 'Terraqueous Globe: Land and Sea in the Age of Sterne' #cfp #skystorians #18thC #BSECS 🗃️ Full details at the link below: www.bsecs.org.uk/news-and-eve...

🎉📣 Announcing the IHR Research Training Courses for October - December 2025. Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

First They Came For National Park Service Staff. Then They Came For the Funds. Then They Came For the Books. Where Will It End? #NationalParks #PublicHistory #NationalParkService open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

First They Came For National Park Service Staff. Then They Came For the Funds. Then They Came For the Books. Where Will It End?

Today The Washington Post is reporting on some of the books that National Park Service employees have flagged for review owing to their content.

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JUST IN: A federal judge has blocked the cancelation of $175 million in National Endowment for the Humanities grants, mass terminated by DOGE in April. She says the effort was transparent viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment.

E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c... #science #environment #publichealth #research

E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm

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This is my new puppy who visited me in my office for the first time today. She was very helpful with my research.

Meredith Martin's essay “Paradise Lost” pairs Horvath’s Room for the Lost Paradise with Vigée Le Brun’s Prince of Nassau portrait to explore rococo simulation, colonial extraction, and period room historiography: https://loom.ly/ViyGIrs #18thcentury #arthistory

Happy to announce that our essays for “Room for the Lost Paradise: A Symposium” — part of the Resplendent Dreams: Reawakening the Rococo exhibition at the IMA — are now available on Journal18 www.journal18.org/nq/room-for-... #18thcentury #18c #arthistory #art #skystorians

Room for the Lost Paradise: A Symposium – by Jason M. Kelly

On June 6, 2025, Resplendent Dreams: Reawakening the Rococo opened at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) in Indianapolis. The exhibition brings together three artists—Robert Horvath, Diego Montoya, ...

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Since May: Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time. Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time. A judiciary at war with itself.

Report: National Science Foundation headquarters to be taken over by HUD, displacing 1,800+ employees #science #research

Just so we're clear... Article I Section 8: Powers of Congress The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States;

Any time press coverage slips from what happened and why, into "political strategy," and especially when it tries to show us a clever or winning strategy that may have eluded our senses... Any time that happens we are entitled to doubt it, as Greg Sargent does here. newrepublic.com/article/1966...

Trump’s Fury at Gavin Newsom Backfires—and Reveals His Own Weakness

The media has it wrong. Trump is not coming across as fearsome and strong. Instead, his watch-me-play-fascist-on-TV routine is self-evident overkill.

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Fulbright Board Resigns After Accusing Trump Aides of Political Interference. #highered #academia #research www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

Fulbright Board Quits, Accusing Trump Administration of Political Interference

The board of the prestigious program told the State Department it had no right to cancel scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers.

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My thoughts on what’s going on in Los Angeles:

IAHI-NACBS Visiting Research Fellowship Supports access to resources for scholars working on projects that bring together aspects of British Studies and Environmental Studies. Due: June 23, 2025 #history #envhist #c18 #18c #18thc #environment #environmentalhistory www.nacbs.org/fellowships/...

Tool to identify poisonous books developed by University of St Andrews. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Tool to identify poisonous books developed by University of St Andrews

Arsenic was historically mixed with copper to create a vivid green for book covers, which can irritate modern day readers

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