Some *very scientific* ideas to find out what these are: 1. Smash them with a rock 2. Eat them 3. Squish in hands 4. Throw away and pretend they don’t exist 5. Put them in the garage to see if “it hatches” Chat, what do?
Micah Carlson 🗃️
@micahcarlson.bsky.social
Historian. I write about ghost stories as historical method in the U.S. South. Public history theorist in the streets, archive critic in the sheets. Expert at petting cats and responding to bruh. Sometimes funny.
AI has started blocking the Wayback Machine from chronicling the web. Considering that nearly 40% of websites disappear after 10 years, this will enforce a giant loss in collective memory.
AI’s biggest casualty could be history itself
The Internet Archive is a vital resource that has helped the search for truth in more than one global event, writes Anthony Cuthbertson, but it is in danger of becoming the latest collateral damage of...
the-independent.com
In other news, I successfully defended my dissertation today. 🎓
“The bourgeoisie is leading its society to complete bankruptcy. It is capable of assuring the people neither bread nor peace.” - Trotsky
I just remembered how my old cat Dennis used to bring in dead baby animals and hide them in my baby's room and wow what a cat
*Gestures wildly to historians* there’s no one I’d rather face this with than you. 🗃️ www.historians.org/perspectives...
The 2025 Academic Jobs Report – AHA
The latest available data on higher education hiring proves that history departments are shrinking.
historians.org
when this is all over one way or another, I cannot wait for the first work on this period that examines it through the lens of literally every faction desperately aping the aesthetics of perceived past successes utterly ignorant or uncaring of the context that made them successful
the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)@merovingians.bsky.social · 3mo agoeverything is cargo cult
The canvas hack has the kind of monocultural event vibe as old academic twitter. It brings me back to better times…. Anyway, the jokes are truly stellar.
Secret rules are an old power structure refusing present-day oversight
Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA@arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhite supremacy culture in organizations can look like: - low trust - information hoarding among "higher ups" - presumption of incompetence imposed on workers outside of the inner circle of "higher ups" - selective praise of worker performance - uneven filtering of key information across the org
happy may day! every right you have as a worker was written in blood ❤️
RANDOM QUESTION: How do people feel about dance parties at academic conferences (in the humanities)? Thinking of helping an academic conference be more *human.* There are no jobs, the funding is snatched…I think we need more joy and community. Nerds need to be in their bodies, not just heads
Feeling cute, might finish this dissertation or whatever
✨🌱🌙Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—🕯️🗃️✨
A reminder to partner, uplift community voices to speak for themselves, hold consent as a non-negotiable value, and never ever extract
Johnnie Jae@johnniejae.bsky.social · 4mo agoI'm just gonna say it.....any White person claiming to be an expert on Indigenous peoples is full of bantha poodoo. Once anyone says they have "studied" Indigenous people, my eyes start rolling and I have to use all my self-control not to immediately kick a shin cuz Bitch, you've learned nothing.
April 9 is a significant date. On this date, Lee surrendered to Grant, Marian Anderson sang her famous concert at the Lincoln Memorial after the DAR denied her the use of their hall, and the Nazis executed Dietrich Bonhoeffer. These three events are more connected than you might think.
We would have zero tolerance for people of the past who said “we did nothing because we couldn’t tell if he was joking or not.”
History is not a settled field. We remain in discussion, debate, and research on every event in the past and are likely to forever remain uncommitted to one singular “true” version of the past.
M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray.bsky.social · 4mo agoWhat's something that experts/practitioners in your field universally agree upon, but that remains a "hot take" among the general public?
Currently Frames of War, but ask me again tomorrow
Verso Books@versobooks.bsky.social · 4mo agoWhat's your favorite book from our Radical Thinkers series?
Today’s deep question on why education still matters in the era of AI.
Jordan S. Carroll 🌹@jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 4mo ago"why teach students anything if they can just look information up in books?"
On the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, John Sloan's searing March 1911 illustration for the New York Call, a Socialist newspaper, responding to the tragic event
Rachel Holliday Smith@rachelholliday.bsky.social · 4mo agoit’s the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the site of which — it’s easy to forget — is an active classroom building our Lilly Sabella went there to talk to professors and students about what it means to study on the same floors where the fire took place
I wonder how many archival documents are never used because they're only available on microfilm and historians come to the reasonable, measured conclusion that life is too short?
The destruction of schools and universities is an attempt to destroy the possibility of imagining a future. Judith Butler, Barnard College, Feb. 28, 2026 (paraphrased)
John Quincy Adams had zero Fs to give when he sat for this daguerreotype c. 1843. Elected to Congress not long after his term as president, JQA spent years bashing the Slave Power on the House floor. @lmchervinsky.bsky.social for @inpursuitusa.bsky.social inpursuit.substack.com/p/john-quinc...
My PhD thesis is on "Yo what's up!" on youtube. My degree has three copyright strikes and is now demonetized.