Marcy Norton
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Historian & Writer. THE TAME & THE WILD: PEOPLE AND ANIMALS AFTER 1492 (Harvard, 2024).
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)
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An open-access article on hammocks, by
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@johnmkuhn.bsky.social
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Iâm so grateful for this recognition for THE TAME AND THE WILD!
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The amazing
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and I have been talking about hammocks for 12 years! Our article is out today!
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John Kuhn
4 days ago
If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....
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Shannon Mattern
6 days ago
âAnd then you have librarians who are experiencing a real existential crisis because they are getting asked by their jobs to promote [AI] tools that produce more misinformation. It's the most, like, emperor-has-no-clothes-type situation that I have ever witnessed.â - Alison Macrina
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AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
https://www.404media.co/ai-is-supercharging-the-war-on-libraries-education-and-human-knowledge/
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AAUP
13 days ago
âTrumpâs compact is the greatest single incursion into the freedom & autonomy of higher education to ever happen in this country.â â Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
#DefendHigherEd
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âStudents Are Terrifiedâ: How Trumpâs Higher Education Compact Puts Queer Students at Risk
The heavy-handed document promises federal funding in exchange for ideological compliance. So far, it's unpopular.
https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/10/29/university-compact-trump/
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Karen Graubart
16 days ago
Apropos of nothing, let me celebrate Anna More's fantastic Norton Critical Edition of Sor Juana's Selected Works. Terrific edition and a great selection of the recent scholarship on a complex figure.
wwnorton.com/books/978039...
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Sor Juana InĂŠs de la Cruz: Selected Works
A wealth of background and analytical material makes Sor Juana's proto-feminist writings, newly translated, all the more compelling., Sor Juana InĂŠs de la Cruz: Selected Works, A Norton Critical Edit...
https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393920161
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Art History Animalia
about 2 years ago
Happy
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! FernĂĄndez de Oviedo was the first European to publish a written description of a sloth, in 1526. There was also an unpublished sketch in his notes. Sadly, the original is now lostâŚbut not before being faithfully copied in an 18th c. manuscript, so we have this:
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Thank you
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AAUP
27 days ago
đ¨đ¨đ¨ And THREE stood up! Penn has joined MIT & Brown in rejecting Trumpâs loyalty oath compact. When we join together and fight back, WE WIN! No amount of federal bribery is worth surrendering the freedom to question, explore, and dissent. LETâS GO!
#DefendHigherEd
@aaup-penn.bsky.social
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Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment
With the decision, Penn becomes the third university to decline the offer.
https://www.thedp.com/article/2025/10/penn-rejects-white-house-compact
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Lisa Forte
27 days ago
It contained totally made up book titles and citations, it got the names of judges wrong, it attributed quotes to wrong people đŹ $440k report đ¤Ż
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report
Partial refund to be issued after several errors were found in a report into a departmentâs compliance framework
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/06/deloitte-to-pay-money-back-to-albanese-government-after-using-ai-in-440000-report
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Clara Jeffery
28 days ago
These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"
We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/republican-hitler-group-chat-nazi-politico/
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Penn Press
28 days ago
TOMORROW: Author Jordan B. Smith will discuss his new book THE INVENTION OF RUM, which explores the history of rum from its origins in the Caribbean to its impact on the Atlantic world, in a virtual event hosted by
@jcblibrary.bsky.social
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bit.ly/43dxv8o
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Ashton Pittman
about 1 month ago
ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi. David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sightâsoon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison. Here's their story.
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ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.
A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/a-long-way-from-home-mississippi-father-faces-deportation/
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Henny Gesserit
about 1 month ago
This is only 12 miles from where my family lives. When you use AI in any form, people are affected directly
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Casey Schmitt
about 1 month ago
If you're bored tonight around 7pm EST, join Jessica Chopin Roney and I for a conversation about The Predatory Sea! đď¸
librarycompany.org/events/fires...
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Fireside Chat- The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean
https://librarycompany.org/events/fireside-chat-the-predatory-sea-human-trafficking-and-captivity-in-the-seventeenth-century-caribbean/
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Very happy about this!
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Delighted & honored !
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Dan Greene
about 1 month ago
Dwayne has his job back because we organized for it. We fight or we die. Join AAUP today
www.aaup.org/join
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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock
about 1 month ago
These are the lowest cost insurance options for a 62 year old Georgian making $65k. 2025: $228 2026: $1142 She will lose $704/month in credits because of GOP cuts to health care. This is a crisis. We cannot wait to fix this.
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AAUP
about 1 month ago
The Trump adminâs offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda. This is corruption. Adherence to âloyalty oathsâ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.
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Universities Must Reject Trump Admin 'Loyalty Oath' Compacts
The AAUP and AFT warn that the Trump administrationâs offer to give preferential treatment to colleges and universities that court government favor in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological...
https://www.aaup.org/news/universities-must-reject-trump-admin-loyalty-oath-compacts
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JVG 骨
about 1 month ago
Absolute all-timer sentence in today's
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amanda moore đ˘
about 2 months ago
A man was just chased and arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too.
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Rafi
about 2 months ago
I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college withâs wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and heâs trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation
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Christopher Webb
about 2 months ago
Speaking of voices under attackâŚcan we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. ⢠Joy Reid ⢠Don Lemon ⢠Melissa Harris-Perry ⢠Tiffany Cross ⢠Jemele Hill ⢠Marc Lamont Hill ⢠Karen Attiah ⢠Amber Ruffin
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Prof Mike Yearworth
about 2 months ago
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
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OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
https://www.computerworld.com/article/4059383/openai-admits-ai-hallucinations-are-mathematically-inevitable-not-just-engineering-flaws.html
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Karen Attiah
about 2 months ago
I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.
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Ivan Kreilkamp
about 2 months ago
Goebbels denounces the "society rabble that followed them with thundering applauseâparasitic scum, inhabiting our luxury streets, that seems to have only the task of proving with how little brains people can get along and even acquire money and prominence"
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History News Network
about 2 months ago
Read an excerpt from âThe Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbeanâ by
@csschmitt.bsky.social
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@pennpress.bsky.social
www.hnn.us/article/free...
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Freedoms Lost in Translation
In the 17th-century Caribbean, a personâs legal status depended on who controlled the land where they labored.
https://www.hnn.us/article/freedoms-lost-in-translation
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique
about 2 months ago
âNot only is the ratio of AIâs resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.â
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Iâm deeply disturbed by Berkeleyâs decision to return to McCarthyism
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Brian DeLay
about 2 months ago
I try to resist criticizing UC's leaders. They are my colleagues, I believe they love our institution, & they are often prevented from publicly sharing the full context of the difficult decisions they have to make. But I am appalled by what they've done to these 160 faculty, staff, & students.
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Opinion | When Universities Become Informants
A practice from the McCarthy era makes an ugly return.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/when-universities-become-informants?sra=true
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Glenn Shepard
2 months ago
Botanizing and ethnobotanizing at the INPA herbarium in Manaus with Beto Vicentini and Mike Hopkins: important collections from the early 2000s documenting sophisticated environmental knowledge of the Baniwa and Yanomami people of Amazonas state, Brazi
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AHA Career Center
2 months ago
New History Job Posted Today: Early Modern European History, Brown University | Brown University
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Early Modern European History, Brown University | Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island, The Department of History at Brown University invites applicants for a full-time, tenure-track position, at the Assistant Professor level, in Early Modern European history. The successful candidate will have defended the Ph.D. thesis by the time of appointment. The History Department places a high priority on research excellence and high-quality teaching. Interested candidates should address in their cover letter how they would contribute to the research and/or teaching missions of our diverse and inclusive university community. Please also send a curriculum vitae, an article or chapter length writing sample, and contact information (name, phone and email) of three references in a separate document via http:// apply.interfolio.com/173465 Review of applications will begin October 10, 2025 . To assure full consideration applicants should submit their materials by that date.  Brown University provides equal opportunity and prohibits discrimination, harassment and retaliation based upon a personâs race, color, religion, sex, age, national or ethnic origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law, in the administration of its policies, programs, and activities. The University recognizes and rewards individuals on the basis of qualifications and performance. The University maintains certain affirmative action programs in compliance with applicable law. Â
http://dlvr.it/TN097R
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Dr. Katherine Haenschen
2 months ago
There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their
@washingtonpost.com
feed. So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.
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Duke University Press
2 months ago
In "Archival Irruptions,"
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traces how British colonial authorities in Jamaica criminalized Obeah, a religious practice held by enslaved Africans. Read the introduction for free now.
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)
2 months ago
So much horror in how people in tech and VC think. "More than a dozen big tech companies provide five-figure subsidies to any employee who needs or wants to outsource gestational labor. A shocking number of techies now believe growing a baby can be a straightforward business transaction."
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Casey Schmitt
3 months ago
A nice cocktail to celebrate the end of a long road! đď¸
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Rebecca Solnit
4 months ago
Powerful work assembling the facts and voices and making the case--that Trump indeed has a great deal to hide.
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Jay Rubenstein
4 months ago
Medieval History Job Alert! University of Tennessee, where I used to work. Unbelievably strong medieval studies. Unbelievable that they are hiring in this climate! Please share this post.
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37862790...
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Assistant/Associate Professor of Medieval History (1100-1500) - University of Tenn, Knoxville job with University of Tennessee Department of History | 37862790
The Department of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville invites applications for a tenure-track professor of medieval history (1100-1500).
https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37862790/assistant-associate-professor-of-medieval-history-1100-1500-/
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Rebecca Solnit
4 months ago
That USAID food wasn't intended for Gaza, but right now huge quantities of food are available for Gaza, but Israel is preventing its delivery; starvation as a weapon of genocide. Artificial scarcity as a weapon of war.
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Sarah Kaplan
4 months ago
â[Children's] small bodies are shutting down â they canât breathe, their immune systems are collapsing." Meanwhile, Gaza health authorities say more 1,000 people have been shot and killed trying to access food distribution sites backed by Israel and the US.
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Mass starvation stalks Gaza as deaths from hunger rise
Aid agencies warned for months that Israelâs harsh limits on food aid would bring acute malnutrition and widespread suffering to Gazaâs 2.1 million people.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/24/gaza-starvation-israel-restrictions/
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The Guardian
4 months ago
Pope condemns Gaza warâs âbarbarityâ as 93 reported killed by Israeli fire while waiting for food
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Pope condemns Gaza warâs âbarbarityâ as 73 reported killed while waiting for food
Pontiff also speaks of anguish over Israeli strike on territoryâs only Catholic church, which killed three people
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/20/pope-condemns-barbarity-of-israel-war-gaza?CMP=bsky_gu&utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium#Echobox=1753095280
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News Eye
4 months ago
đ¨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. đ§ľ
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
4 months ago
I think this is the most horrifying post I have ever read.
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Casey Schmitt
4 months ago
There's a discount code for pre-orders! If you've always wanted to read about sixteenth- and seventeenth-century smuggling, piracy, and human trafficking in the Caribbean AND you love a good deal, use: PENN-CSCHMITT30 for 30% off. đď¸
www.pennpress.org/978151282814...
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The Predatory Sea â Penn Press
A new interpretation of captivity, human trafficking, and colonization in the seventeenth-century CaribbeanA century before the height of the Atlantic slave ...
https://www.pennpress.org/9781512828146/the-predatory-sea/
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Eileen Clancy đ§ż
4 months ago
Remember the Philosophy professor who ICE abducted? When ICE threw tear gas, a canister landed under the wheelchair of a bystander. Prof. Caravello was jumped trying to help him. A mensch. Two days later â Caravello is still disappeared. Is there enough known info to file a habeas corpus petition?
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Maxwell Frost
4 months ago
I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, Iâm not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
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