Traditional historical sources have hidden women’s engagement with the economy, according to Cath Bishop & coauthors, who introduce a new issue of the Asia-Pacific EcHR on women & finance with a thoughtful lit review & fascinating examples from Aotearoa New Zealand & Australia!

Making, spending and saving: Women and money in Australasia

Moneymaking, investment and the giving and receiving of loans are often portrayed historically as men's business. Even female spending was patrolled by men. This article, and the special issue it int....

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We're running a short online survey to inform development of the Curran Index. If you're interested in Victorian periodicals, whether or not you've used the Curran recently, please complete the survey! Survey closes 10th August. Please retweet. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Call For Proposals: Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds April 15-17, 2027 Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library (Co-chairs Julie Hardwick and Karin Wulf) Details at: forms.gle/QWcB23XGbwu6...

The current issues of @aeajournals.bsky.social J Eco Perspectives has a nice primer on weak instruments and IV more generally. One of the "Don'ts" for applied researchers is copied below: don't search over a pool of instruments for a "strong" one and then go with that IV estimate.

Nadine Wilson tells the fascinating story of Becky Johnston, a mixed ancestry woman who accumulated land & wealth in timber extraction without losing ties to her Aboriginal community – in an era of intense racism and land loss by Aboriginal communities. Open access in the Asia-Pacific Econ Hist Rev

Becky Johnston (1858–1938): A case study of Aboriginal women's financial agency in early 20th century New South Wales

This article introduces Becky Johnston, a mixed-descent Worimi woman on the lower Mid-North Coast of New South Wales, Australia. During the 1920s, Johnston became a businesswoman and landowner despit...

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You can now quickly identify single female plaintiffs in Court of Requests cases by searching REQ 2 for the code "SFP". Over 2,500 hits. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_s...

Daniel F Gosling@thegozfather.bsky.social · 4d ago

Some very REQciting news. My Court of Requests pleadings (REQ 2/16-424) project is now complete. Over 28,000 items dating from c.1547-c.1625 (Edw VI to Jas I) now searchable online. Happy researching everyone 🙂 discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C...

My paper on the "Pig in the Python" is now available with no paywall from NIH. I argue that the demand for young workers will grow dramatically over the coming decades, likely leading to rising wages, stronger unions, and lower inequality. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12

Happy publication day to Tony Ballantyne and his major new history, Captain Cook and the Unsettled Afterlives of Empire, which is out in bookshops across Aotearoa New Zealand now.

This is very cool: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

14,000-year-old archeological find affirms Heiltsuk Nation's ice age history | CBC News

An ancient settlement uncovered on B.C.'s Central Coast has been carbon dated at 14,000 years old — one of the oldest ever found on Pacific Northwest Coast — supporting the oral history of the Heiltsu...

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How Does a #Bilingual Speaker’s Brain Process Two Languages? New Research Suggests That Both Rely on the Same Neural Wiring www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/h... #neurolinguistics #langsky

How Does a Bilingual Speaker's Brain Process Two Languages? New Research Suggests That Both Rely on the Same Neural Wiring

Scientists have long wondered whether different neural mechanisms govern each language within a bilingual speaker’s brain. A recent study of people who speak both English and Spanish hints at a single...

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Super cool if you study Canadian history: an interactive digital map of Hudson's Bay Company posts! Thanks, @trailmark.bsky.social! #cdnhist #cdnhistory trailmark.cloud/trailmark/pu...

🧵 the myth of the ‘miniature expert’

Aaron Tay@aarontay.bsky.social · last wk.

1/ Information literacy has a confidence problem. We often teach novices to “evaluate the evidence” as though a checklist can turn them into temporary experts.

ospe.on.ca/advocacy/a-m... This is how it’s done. Listening to, and being guided by, science.

A Major Win for Indoor Air Quality: Toronto's Board of Health Moves to Adopt Stronger Ventilation Standards

The Ontario Society of Professional Engineers celebrates a major win for indoor air quality with stronger ventilation standards in Toronto.

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So it was interesting to read this about the founder of Chinese AI lab Moonshot seeing the arts and humanities as key to his technological edge www.ft.com/content/4730... (HT @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social)

I'm looking forward to reading this article... an impressive use of carefully curated historical datasets! #earlymodern

Mauricio Drelichman@mdrelichman.bsky.social · 2w ago

New article in early view at RHE-JILAEH! Together with David González-Agudo and Valentina Ramírez, we reconstruct the cost of housing in Toledo between 1489 and 1810. This is one of the longest such series in existence anywhere in the world. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📄 New paper in PNAS! Using data from ~40,000 Norwegian trios, we extend evocative gene–environment correlation to family demography. Accounting for parental PGIs, most traits showed no associations, but children's ADHD PGI predicted parental separation. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"Scientists who use AI are morons who aren't reading" I'm a computational social scientist and I feel like LLMs are a lot of things, but one thing they can be is a computational tool for text-based information in science. Here is what I am doing this morning

Nous recrutons un·e spécialiste en engagement et stratège de contenu📢 Si la communication, recherche et l’innovation vous passionnent, rejoignez-nous et contribuez à l’essor du Navigateur des installations de recherche! bit.ly/4vHD3Du 📍 Ottawa (hybride) 🕒 Contrat d’un an 📅 Août 10, 2026

An update of *The Factories, Research and Design Establishments of the Soviet Defence Industry: a Guide* by Keith Dexter and Ivan Rodionov, is now available as Version 24 warwick.ac.uk/vpk/ -- now more than 34,000 entries

Likely a terrible idea, but I'm going to persist in assigning a hopefully AI resistant assignment for my Family Policy class. It is process focused and assignments without full citations will fail. jrpepin.github.io/Family-Polic... #AcademicSky

An interactive atlas of the British Empire's civil service: ~16,000 Colonial & India Office careers (1820–1966), every move an arc across the map. Rebuilt from the digitized Indian and Colonial Office Lists with a knowledge graph. WIP, feedback welcome: jimclifford.ca/col_matching/

Interior from Pop Wuj/PopVuh. The Mayan Sacred Book. 63 watercolours by artist Jesus Mora, interpreted by Paul Seesequasis. With the support of Ontario Arts Council, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Leon Levy Foundation. Available in three limited collector’s editions,

"The Seaway channel cut directly through the Kahnawake reserve, severing it from the water and rapids that provided the community with its name, leaving a traumatic legacy in its wake." - @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2014/02/12/a... #envhist #cdnhist #indigenoushistory

A River Runs Under, Along, and Through It: Montreal and the St. Lawrence Seaway

Montreal’s development was shaped by the St. Lawrence River; the Seaway transformed infrastructure, economies, communities, and ecological relationships, profoundly, citywide.

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Cool new paper about correcting the biases in cultural data using methods from ecology. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...

Correcting collection bias in comparative studies of diversity

Abstract. Comparative analyses of diversity in human populations often rely on historical, archival and observational data, which are systematically shaped

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There are several meteorology and weather-related panels at #eshs-hss, which I've had to miss because of other duties. I'll use this chance to flag our call for contributions for a Sourcebook on histories of weather and weathering teleskopos.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/c...

Call for Contributions: Histories of Weather & Weathering

Call for Contributions: A Sourcebook for Histories of Weather and Weathering (working title) Editors: Rebekah Higgitt, Tamara Caulkins and Lotta Leiwo We invite contributions to this planned open a…

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Open access in QJE!📢 Using newly assembled archival data, we show how the AMA's nationwide campaign against national health insurance, labeling it "socialized medicine" and promoting private insurance, helped steer the U.S. away from universal health care academic.oup.com/qje/article/...

Why Doesn’t the United States Have National Health Insurance? The Political Role of the American Medical Association

Abstract. This article examines how the American Medical Association (AMA) helped shape the development of the U.S. health insurance system in the critical

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Just published in Historical Methods: Chris Minns & coauthors link Ontario marriage to historical census records to show married women & men had similar rates of intergenerational mobility 1871-1901. Unexpectedly, the inclusion of more false positive links does not bias the mobility estimates. OA

Mobility and marriage: Preliminary findings from a new longitudinal dataset of Canadian women, 1871-1901

This article develops a methodology to create a longitudinal historical database of women by linking Ontario marriage records 1859-1938 to complete count Canadian census data between 1871 and 1921....

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“Canciones” is one of her best. But even after all the money Linda made for her label, they hated the idea of a Spanish-language album. “You owe me this,” she said. “Canciones” was for years “the biggest-selling non-English language album in US history, going double platinum and earning a Grammy” ✨

How Linda Ronstadt fought — and won — a battle to release the Mexican 'songs of her father'

Linda Ronstadt wanted to honor her father's Mexican heritage with an album of Spanish folk songs. Her label put up a fight. Here's what happened next.

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Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 3w ago

Happy 80th birthday to a legend, a Mexican-American icon, and one of the greatest vocalists of all time, Miss Linda Ronstadt ✨