Come work with me! My department (History at Davidson College) is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Middle Eastern history, broadly defined to include North Africa, West Asia, and the Islamic World. Please help spread the word. fa-exci-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Please help spread the word: Davidson College’s Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor. The specialization is open, but we are hoping for candidates who add to, rather than replicate, existing strengths in teaching and research among our GSS faculty.

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Please help spread the word: Davidson College’s Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor. The specialization is open, but we are hoping for candidates who add to, rather than replicate, existing strengths in teaching and research among our GSS faculty.

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Hey all, I wrote a review of Elisa Camiscioli's wonderful new book _Selling French Sex: Prostitution, Trafficking, and Global Migrations_ in the latest issue of the Journal of Modern History. The book is a fascinating read. www-journals-uchicago-edu.proxy048.nclive.org/doi/10.1086/...

Wish I could see this exhibit on the Terror, and thanks to Paul Werner for bringing us this report with fabulous images. Especially the David poster in which he blames his imprisonment on jealous painters! theorangepress.substack.com/p/the-revolu...

The Revolution will not be trivialized.

New ways of thinking about the Terror of 1793-94

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Excited that my article "Feathered Foes: Bird Preservation, National Identity, & Fashion in Belle Époque France," is in the latest issue of French Politics, Culture & Society. Find out how ladies' hats became a matter of environmental policy! 🗃️ nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Ted Chiang: "The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."

The Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies at Davidson College is hiring a 2-year Visiting Professor, specialization open! Deadline to apply is Feb. 1, 2025. www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

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Let’s talk about the architecture of Wicked. 🚨 Spoilers ahead: At first, I was intrigued by the shift of the depiction of Oz from Art Deco (in The Wizard of Oz, 1939) to Art Nouveau. But after seeing the movie, I can’t stress how absolutely brilliant production designer Nathan Crowley is.

Marc #Bloch va entrer au #Panthéon. Un professeur d'histoire, un résistant, un penseur décisif et visionnaire du dialogue entre l'histoire et les sciences sociales. www.liberation.fr/sciences/his...

L’historien et résistant Marc Bloch va entrer au Panthéon

Emmanuel Macron a annoncé ce samedi 23 novembre, à l’occasion d’un déplacement commémoratif à Strasbourg, que la nation allait rendre hommage à l’auteur de «L’étrange défaite», fusillé par l’occupant ...

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Tenure Track job in African American History at UNC Charlotte. www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

extremely interesting that no one with money is to blame for the state of things!

Announcing: the Bridges Project brought to you by the Western Society for French History! Connect with "alt-ac" history PhDs! Learn how to support grad students on non-TT paths! Find out how other unis successfully support doctoral students! And more! A must-read for faculty www.wsfh.org/bridges

Texas OB-Gyns Release Letter After News of the Deaths of Josseli Barnica and Nevaeh Crain as a Result of Texas Abortion Ban #WeWontGoBack

Phonebanking right now and heartened by all the folks on this zoom training from across the country helping my home NC county GOTV. 🥹

A Texas Woman Died After the Hospital Said It Would be a “Crime” to Intervene in Her Miscarriage Josseli is one of at least two pregnant Texas women who died after doctors delayed emergency care. She’d told her husband that the medical team said it couldn’t act until the fetal heartbeat stopped.

A Texas Woman Died After Waiting 40 Hours for Miscarriage Care

Josseli Barnica is one of at least two pregnant Texas women who died after doctors delayed emergency care. She’d told her husband that the medical team said it couldn’t act until the fetal heartbeat s...

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On archives and slavery. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The history of Caribbean slavery is being lost. Britain must act now to preserve it | Laura Trevelyan and Nicole Phillip

Climate-related disasters are destroying precious records, warn campaigner Laura Trevelyan and Nicole Phillip of the University of the West Indies

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Every day I check on @archive.org to see how it's doing. It's been strange, upsetting to lose it for so long. I can feel its loss whenever I think of following an idea. So much of what makes me think, I find in it's library. For me, outside paywalls and such privileged access, it is everything.

Internet Archive@archive.org · 2y ago

Latest update from @brewster.kahle.org (Oct 17, 5:58pm): blog.archive.org/2024/10/18/i...

What? No. God, no.

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2y ago

New: The National Archives is pushing Google Gemini AI on workers despite concerns from archivists about accuracy of the historical record. Internal presentation shows the "AI-Mazing Techventure" they are embarking on www.404media.co/ai-mazing-te...

There is no ethical use of generative AI.

Leighton Andrews@leightonandrews.bsky.social · 2y ago

Of course it does. www.thetimes.co.uk/article/9167...

Can it code as well as a human? Well, no. But can it increase implementation speed? Also no. But does it reduce overtime? Not as much as NOT using it does. But does it write less buggy code? Quite the opposite, actually! But does it save money? In the long run, almost certainly not. But is it more e

David Slack@slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 2y ago

The reason AI grifters push their product so hard in creative fields is that untrained eyes can’t tell how badly the output sucks. For anything with an objective standard of success, their climate-destroying plagiarism machine just straight up doesn’t fucking work. www.cio.com/article/3540...

"It’s conspicuous, then, that the present anti-feminist backlash coincides with calls to abandon the technological tools that freed women’s hands and schedules." www.momleft.com/p/return-dow...

Return Down For What?

Can I bring my washing machine to your utopian vision of the mythic past?

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I don't feel like the national media is conveying right now what a catastrophe is unfolding in western North Carolina.

Best source for updates out of western North Carolina I've found yet.

Live Updates: 'Multiple' fatalities confirmed; floods cut off much of WNC

Live updates: The latest on flooding and weather in Western North Carolina amid Hurricane Helene's assault on the Southeast.

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It is not good in Asheville & western NC right now. There’s no power and no water and all roads out are blocked. There is an extensive list of places to donate to here: www.wfmynews2.com/article/weat... thank you all

How you can help residents of western NC after Hurricane Helene

There are plenty of places to donate cash or supplies.

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We absolutely should not be subject to any system that makes us powerless to save a life and empowers politicians to take life away as they please.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2y ago

Prosecutors believe Marcellus Williams was wrongfully convicted. Missouri is still set to execute him this evening unless the Supreme Court intervenes. “He hasn’t given up hope”

I’ve logged back in to post Marcellus Williams poems. You can read a few here.