Margaret Schotte
@schottemargaret.bsky.social
Early modern history, DH & Indian Ocean. Loves all things bookish, maritime, & history-of-science. ☞ she/her 🌈
I went on a MPIWG summer school (on theme of Human Origins) during my PhD. It was awesome and I learned A LOT. #STS #HistSTM apply apply apply!
Erika Milam@emilam.bsky.social · 9h agoPlease circulate: www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/news/call-ap... Seeking 10 Early Career Fellows to participate in 2 summer academies to be held in Berlin June 14–18, 2027 & June 26–30, 2028: SCIENCE IMAGINES ITS FUTURE. How have scholars deliberated about investing scarce resources in an uncertain future?
I’m unaware of any historians making this claim. At *most* we might refer to Adrian Johns’s argument about print presenting new challenges to authority over truth. But that’s not an institutional argument.
I’ve seen in two culture /higher ed magazines recently the claim that the printing press engendered a crisis of authority at universities bc anyone could publish what they wanted and people could learn things without universities. This is not true.
Happy Lower Don Trail Opening day to all who celebrate!!!! After what feels like a decade of closure (since 2023 in reality), the trail has finally (mostly) been reopened. I took a ride down to see the finished product. So far its looking promising. #bikeTO #cycleTO #LoveTheRavines #Toronto
I posted this last Saturday but if you happen to be in Niagara this afternoon you should absolutely go because Natasha is such an engaging presenter.
Dr. Natasha Henry-Dixon@nhenrydixon.bsky.social · 3w agoHeritage Haldimand commemorates Emancipation Day on Sat., Aug. 1st. I’ll be presenting “Black Enslavement and the Possibilities of Freedom in the Niagara Peninsula”, sharing research on the enslavement of Black people in the Niagara Peninsula and the possibilities of freedom in the region. Join us!
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@lynbennetthfx.bsky.social and my book has arrived on my desk! Pre-orders available now for shipping on 22.09.2026! www.mqup.ca/Books/E/Earl...
It’s a Fair Question….. “Why is it that it takes 900 years and 5000 impact studies to build high speed rail but a 5 minute city council meeting is all it takes to approve a massive data center?”
It‘s quite possible that with this move, @harvard.edu could become the only Ivy League university without a writing center. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Harvard College Lays Off Writing Center Director, Consolidates Center | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Harvard College Writing Center will no longer operate as a standalone unit after its director was laid off and its functions were consolidated as part of a restructuring in the Faculty of Arts and...
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This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
I keep thinking about how often the mass layoffs in media, government and big companies, especially women and people of color, will lead to poorer outcomes for years because the people who would point out potential problems or blind spots were deemed non-essential, a "bad fit", and/or too expensive.
Thinking about the fact that Toronto has two 70MM IMAX projectors - at Ontario Science Centre and at Ontario Place, the world's first IMAX theatre - that have been closed by Doug Ford for nonsensical reasons.
Nina Metz@ninametz.bsky.social · 2w agoWhy Aren’t There More Imax 70mm Screens for ‘The Odyssey’? variety.com/2026/film/ne...
If you think filling out surveys like this is a waste of time because the government has already made up its mind, yes, in that regard it probably is. But it's still good to tell them their AI plans suck, and for it to be on record that lots of stakeholders think their AI plans suck.
Like all Canadian government surveys on AI, this is hilariously pro-AI. But it only takes like 5 minutes to fill out, and at the end you can make it clear that the only focus of the government when it comes to AI and culture is that Canadian artists need copyright protections from AI scraping.
Sonja Boon@storiedselves.bsky.social · 2w agoCanadian arts and culture folks: the federal government has launched a (methodologically flawed) survey on "the Cultural Sector's readiness for Artificial Intelligence". If you're ready to resist or refuse genAI, here's your chance to let them know. pch.research-recherche.ca/f/s.aspx?lan...
Seventeenth century, French, astronomer, cartographer, geodesist, Jean-Félix Picard, who made a very accurate determination of the length of one degree of meridian arc, was born 21 July 1620 #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/g...
Getting the measure of the earth.
It is generally accepted that the Pythagoreans in the sixth century BCE were the first to recognise and accept that the earth is a sphere. It is also a historical fact that since Aristotle in the f…
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Incisive thread on the Trump admin’s tightening of visa rules for noncitizen students as a new white-nationalist twist on a long history of using immigration restrictions to exert racial power: (By the author of a new book, Degrees of Empire: Noncitizen Students and the Making of U.S. Higher Ed)
Abbie Boggs@abbieboggs.bsky.social · 2w agoOn 7/17, the Federal Register published a new rule to tighten the conditions on student visas. Now it goes to Congress for review and likely applications starting 9/15. My students are getting official emails and starting to ask questions, so wrote up some observations based on my research: 1/
Out today!
Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · 2w agoHow goods and people in motion across the ancient world were entangled through consumption. Sea of Treasures by @caeliambulator.bsky.social is now available (15 September UK/EU pub). Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #AncientWorld #AncientHistory #History
This is Courtney's back of envelope math on the anthropic settlement! A reminder to all authors of the first question I asked her: do I have to pay taxes on this? (yes)
Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 2w agoAmount remaining for authors: $1,377,538,691.54 Number of total works on which claims were made: 440,490 Amount per work = $3,127.28
3/3 Gilded silver ship automaton by Hans Schlottheim for kunstkammer of Rudolf II, born OTD 1552. Canons actually fire, so be careful where you're seated at the table!
2/2 Aboard the table galleon heralds & electors take turns honoring Rudolf II (#BTD 1552); and a mechanism makes them move. How cool is that?
Great table ornaments of the renaissance: Mechanical galleon with heralds & electors paying homage to Rudolf II, whose birthday is today.
Again, in my experience in education, the best way to clear the LLM bar isn't seeing drafts or notes, looking for common slop phrasing, intrusive surveillance, using AI detectors, or listening to your gut (but they are great ways to punish real human work) but talking to the person who submitted it.
Posted while First Nations communities in Northern Ontario are literally being incinerated and the skies above Canada’s biggest cities are glowing orange
Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 3w agoThe world wants to do more with Canada. Our MOU with Alberta will unlock those opportunities in energy — and create lasting benefits for Canadians.
Is this the link? actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...
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Qualia goes where curiosity leads. This week, columnist Natalie Wolchover tracks the secret of left-handedness through developmental biology, genetics, evolution, and culture. www.quantamagazine.org/why-am-i-lef...
Why Am I Left-Handed? | Quanta Magazine
An invisible difference in 10% of humans poses deep mysteries in several fields at once.
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As the one responsible for all tech in a state library/archive that's about the size & with the same remit as some national libraries, let me amplify: libraries need more funding. Tell your politicians & administrators. We are getting crushed by the fact that "digital" is more expensive than books.
James Elder@jameselder.bsky.social · 4w agoGood news, but the fact that this is only happening now, nearly three years after the cyber attack shows 1) what a huge job BL staff have had rebuilding services, 2) that the BL is underfunded, and 3) the impact this has had on academic research, especially in the humanities.
A Norway fan has gone viral for not taking part in their Row celebration after matches and won't do it if they win the World Cup "It’s factually wrong; they didn’t row, they sailed over the Atlantic”
