Job Alert! DH postdoc at Edinburgh - Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to work on the AHRC-funded project "Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana", which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...

We are sorry to learn of the death of Doris L. Garraway, author of "The Libertine Colony" and a contributor to the journal Small Axe. buff.ly/ttM0p1g

The Department of History and the Integrated Liberal Studies Program at the UW-Madison invite excellent candidates who work in the history of science with a focus on water to apply for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor. wisconsin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UW_Mad...

Hurricane Melissa left at least dozens dead amid widespread destruction across Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica, where roofless homes, toppled utility poles and water-logged furniture dominated the landscape Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/48UWh0Y

The stories of enslaved African people and more than 1,000 British plantation owners who were compensated after abolition have been brought together in a searchable archive for the first time. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Finishing a Ph.D. on slavery in early American or Atlantic history this year? Consider applying for the University of California's President's Postdoc program. I'd love to sponsor at applicant if working with me @ucsantacruz.bsky.social might be a good fit! ppfp.ucop.edu/info/how-to-...

We need to call it what it is: a president using government coercion to silence voices he doesn't agree with is authoritarianism, plain and simple. It's the Orbán playbook, the Putin playbook, and now the Trump playbook. And it should alarm every American.

In "Archival Irruptions," @ktgerbs.bsky.social traces how British colonial authorities in Jamaica criminalized Obeah, a religious practice held by enslaved Africans. Read the introduction for free now. buff.ly/3JlgBEt

My Dept of History at W. Michigan University in Kalamazoo is hiring an Asst/Associate Prof in African American History. Please come join us! 2-2 load/generous research & travel funding, diverse & culturally lively community/ free college in MI for kids. ?s welcome. www.wmujobs.org/postings/4277

The party of death

Forget sharks, this is the real summer threat. “Blood-sucking ticks that trigger an allergy to meat are exploding in # & spreading across the US…& could cover the entire eastern half of the US & infect millions”https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/29/lone-star-ticks-increase-climate-crisis

Gotta tell ya, I don’t super love it when every historian I know suddenly has expertise that’s ✨relevant✨ to current events

A federal program to protect US cities against extreme heat has just evaporated

Scores of scientists at the NIH sent their Trump-appointed leader a letter titled The Bethesda Declaration, challenging “policies that undermine the NIH mission, waste public resources, and harm the health of Americans and people across the globe.”

Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.

Come work with me! TT History Education position! careers.hprod.onehcm.usg.edu/psp/careers/...

One might have thought that last November, when Missourians voted to enshrine “reproductive freedom" in the state constitution, that would have been the end of the conversation. Alas, the Missouri Supreme Court doesn’t seem to be inclined to listen. This week, the court halted abortions.

Could you all share? We're advertising a 2 yr postdoc position for someone who works in #VastEarlyAmerica #VastEarlyAmericas to help coordinate the @jcblibrary.bsky.social projects and programs around 2026. Fuller info here: apply.interfolio.com/159279 and v happy to answer questions!

One of the bedrocks of digital preservation is institutional commitment. All of this thread is a masterclass in how this can be eroded.

Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

This isn't hypothetical. The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.

See the problem here?

“Q: When it comes to the state of vaccines, what does the average person need to know right now? A: Understand that this is really bad. It will affect your health and the health of the people you love. You need to tune in and be aware of what’s happening, even though it’s really depressing.” 🧪

No one should be above the law, most especially the President. Ignoring a Supreme Court ruling to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return isn't just cruel; it's unconstitutional. They're saying the quiet part aloud — if they get away with it now, they'll do it to anyone.

As an infectious disease physician, it is hard to even put into words the scale of damage that has been inflicted on our ability to do disease surveillance and plan interventions. We will see multiple outbreaks and a resurgence of many infectious diseases as a direct result. We are bracing for this.

The Medici Archive Project is offering twelve short-term fellowships for graduate, pre-doctoral students, and postdoctoral candidates, working on fields related to early modern Italy (preferably with a specific emphasis on Tuscany or Medici history) #earlymodern 🗃️

I found out last night that one of my neighbors died a few weeks ago. He was forced into early retirement by DOGE & the stress of having to get all the right paperwork back to them on a short & inconsistent time line spiked his BP so much he had a stroke & fucking died. DOGE killed my neighbor.

ITSS🌊 PhD Fellow Rasmus Christensen is organising a graduate seminar in early modern #Caribbean #history! 🥳 Send in your application by May 1, 2025 📨 More info can be found here: inthesamesea.ku.dk/news/graduat...

🚨House Republicans just passed a bill that would disenfranchise 70 million married American women. Under the SAVE Act, women who took their spouse’s last name and don't have an updated passport or birth certificate would be turned away at the polls.

Of all the political memes circulating right now, this one was the biggest hit with my 18th-century-specialist colleagues 😂😂😂

The U.S. now has more than 600 measles cases in 22 states, most are in Texas. People usually recover, but doctors are stressing how dangerous and long-lasting the disease can be.

IMLS' budget was about .0046% of the federal budget. Research has shown that for every $1 spent on libraries, the community receives between $5 to $9. Museums generate $50 billion in economic impact. This has nothing to do with government efficiency and everything to do with American destruction.

Calling #ECRs in #History! 🥳 You can apply to attend the workshop 'From Insurance to Chartered Companies: New developments in the history of business, slavery, and colonialism' at IISH in #Amsterdam! Deadline is April 29, 2025 📨 Email IISH for more information 😊

NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos. Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB

She doesn't mention cloture specifically. But I think it's clear what Pelosi is saying here. And I think her saying it is a pretty big deal.

CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up. Tomorrow is the cloture vote. KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️ Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill. Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.

People who don't pay much attention would think we're crazy to state that a core project of the current conservative movement is to disenfranchise women.

🚨NEW: climate inaction will cost more than a third of global GDP this century, but an investment of less than 2% GDP now will reduce harms by 90% - a "massive opportunity for humanity", finds a report from Boston Consulting Group and University of Cambridge.

Holy cow. This is VERY well done. This is what Team Fight looks like.

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

It should be very clear to every Senate Democrat that any vote for Cloture will also be considered a vote for the bill. People aren’t going to be tricked with procedural games. They know exactly what is going on. Defend Medicaid. Vote NO on Cloture. NO on bill.

I'm pleased to share my new article has just posted online and is available open access: "Black Rangers, Enslaved Mobilities, and the Black Geography of Early Nineteenth-Century Grenada," Slavery & Abolition, 1–22. doi.org/10.1080/0144...

“Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of Schumer’s leadership team, urged Democrats to oppose the bill because it would give Trump more power to spend as he sees fit, rather than as Congress had appropriated.” www.huffpost.com/entry/govern...

New, from me: Trump and Musk are engaged in a broad-based downsizing of government, using that downsizing to selectively target their enemies, while expanding their political power by trading exceptions to the downsizing. It's a new spoils systems. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-and-...

PASSAGE is recruiting for two fixed-term posts to join me working on 18thC records of enslavement 1) Collections Researcher (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/aZwqn 2) Project Cataloguer (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/6aSpz If you have questions, please let me know & please circulate widely!

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.