I am excited to share this photograph of lichenologist Elke Mackenzie in 1975! Prior to her transition in the 1960s, Mackenzie was the botanist on Operation Tabarin, a 1943-46 British expedition to the Antarctic Peninsula. Thanks to the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation for digitising 🏳️‍⚧️🐧

Round 2 submissions are open now! Submit your art proposals or apply to illustrate the NPT here - you have until 6/30! www.newpolartimes.com/contribute/s...

P.S. With all respect to my beloved woodpigeons, swifts > doves as symbolic representation of the Paraclete. Doves are dumb and randy all the time, whereas swifts are screaming maniacs that never slow down, and that, my friends, is the Holy Spirit in action.

Hurry! This is your last chance to submit a proposal for the New Polar Times! Submissions close at 11:59 PM EST on March 31st. www.newpolartimes.com/contribute/s...

This made me cheer. It gets directly at a problem I’ve often noticed: people don’t fundamentally understand what a historian *does*.

Can't wait!

They should rename the world's largest iceberg 'Shackleton' because it clearly knew that South Georgia is the perfect place to die after four decades of fruitless wandering in Antarctica. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

CFP Edited Collection: "Imagining Explorers: From National Narratives to Public History, Explorers and Exploration in the Public Realm" via H-HistGeog: networks.h-net.org/group/announ... 🗃️

Can't wait to attend remotely!

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

If you're a reading teacher and you're teaching "three cueing" or "MSV" reading techniques, please read this and share it with everyone you know: www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

"Uninhibited access to archives is — and should be — an essential characteristic of a democracy."

If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.

*record scratch* Yep, that's me. You may be wondering how I got into this crazy situation. Well,

Hey, guys - the website & call for proposals for the NPT are up now! If you're interested in submitting your writing or art, be sure to have a look!