Looking for contributions on colonial legacies in contemporary cultural production from a transatlantic perspective. Topics include slavery, empire, colonial archives, public memory, and plantation legacies. If this resonates, feel free to reach out — happy to share more details 👇

Our new special section in the Journal of Urban History is now online— Capital Cities of Latin America: New Approaches and Scales: journals.sagepub.com/toc/juha/52/... Many thanks to editors Ernie Capello & Josh Savala & the authors for fascinating discussions about urban plans and imaginaries.

Amid talk of mid-term vote issues and potential issues … remembering this www.npr.org/2024/11/05/g...

#MultilingualCritical Author: @yeseniabarragan.bsky.social Publication by Basic Books Nov. 11, 2026

#Agenda Via @openreflections.bsky.social

#Agenda @bridgetparaguay.bsky.social

Information on childhood cancer burden is crucial for effective cancer policy planning. A new #GBD study analysed the global burden of cancer in children and adolescents aged 0–19 years. Explore the findings ➡️ spkl.io/63324AFnco#GBDIHME_UW

Esta noche tienes una cita con Informe Semanal. Hoy, con estos reportajes 🔸'Cuba, en Candela’ 🔸'De fronteras a puentes’ Este es un avance de lo que podrás ver en 'De fronteras a puentes’ rtve.es/directo/cana...

The investigative journalist, author @nassiraelmoaddem.bsky.social don't understand why the authorities in France don't react indignantly when a journalist is threatened with death, by a senator and former mayor of Le Blanc-Mesnil (Seine-Saint-Denis), simply because she is doing her job.

Alma tombe amoureuse de son professeur de composition, Alexander Von Zemlinsyy, jusqu'à... sa rencontre avec le compositeur et directeur de l'Opéra de Vienne, Gustav Mahler ! ➡️ https://l.francemusique.fr/Zq0

Report by @jasperbunskoek.bsky.social , Maaike Kempes and Koen Voskuil @rtl.nl

There are more than 700,000 households in the Netherlands with problematic debts, such as not being able to pay their energy bills or health care premiums. Among other things, tens of thousands of young people. Experts are worried, because debts make young people vulnerable to criminal recruiters.

In addition to the lawless wars, worldwide, in favor of the big oil and gas companies, they now also want to guarantee broad immunity from law. As a first step, they passed a law in Utah. Article: @karenzraick.bsky.social & David Gelles Open access www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/b... 1/2

#Agenda @climatecentral.org

A new study by @audeber.bsky.social et al introduces deep-learning frameworks for the large-scale discovery of antiphage defense systems and defines a systematic atlas of bacterial antiviral immunity. defensefinder.mdmlab.fr/wiki/refseq_... 1/3

"It is understandable that an author wants to bring her book to the attention of a wide reader; without being labeled and marginalized. Yet it is unfair to nuance the publication of her own grandfather's diary because of the fear of being seen yellowed." Author @mavidonate.bsky.social 1/3

Hoy escribo el artículo de opinión semanal sobre una de mis especialidades, Nixon. Viene a cuento por su “teoría del loco” que en 1969 era una estrategia. www.eldiario.es/129_c81d78?u...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “When the Supreme Court rules against the Trump administration’s attempt to constrict birthright citizenship, we should applaud that result,” Stephen Vladeck says. “We must not lose sight, however, of the opportunities the court won’t have to rein in the administration.”

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band played their new tune “Streets of Minneapolis” — written and released just days after ICE officers fatally shot Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti — to kick off their Land of Hope and Dreams tour in Minneapolis on Tuesday. @nytimes.com

For the first time ever, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will stream the two opening songs of the Springsteen & E Street Land of Hope & Dreams American Tour kickoff in Minneapolis — live and free at approximately 7:30 p.m. CT tonight!

Never in my life did I think I would get profiled in @thelancet.com, but here it is! I’m so grateful to Aarathi Prasad and Janna Palmer for recognizing the value of the work I do, especially as that work is being attacked from all sides. I will keep fighting for as long as I can!

Yet another tragicomic event: Despite proven genocide described by all disciplines of academia, many countries continued to provide logistical support to Israel. And now Netanyahu's administration is using this "import" as a weapon against exporters. First, they stop military imports from France.

Three charts based on #CopernicusClimate data you shouldn’t miss this month: 📉 Anomalies in ‘wet days’ in Europe from 1 Jan to 20 Feb - C3S 1️⃣ bsky.app/profile/cope... Explore the article: climate.copernicus.eu/exceptional-... ⬇️

📉 Maps of 5-day period during the March heatwave in the US - World Weather Attribution @wwattribution.bsky.social 2️⃣ bsky.app/profile/wwat...   Explore the article: www.worldweatherattribution.org/record-shatt...  ⬇️

📉 Marine heat wave at the Southern California coast – @bennollweather.bsky.social   3️⃣ x.com/BenNollWeath...  ⬇️

Find out more about ERA5 reanalysis and other datasets available in the #C3S Climate Data Store (CDS) 👉 climate.copernicus.eu/what-coperni... 👉 cds.climate.copernicus.eu#!/home #ClimateChange

Keir Starmer, primer ministro de Reino Unido, sobre el conflicto en Oriente Medio: "Esta no es nuestra guerra y no nos van a arrastrar a ella". ▶️rtve.es/play/24-horas/

The SAVE Act goes beyond voter ID. It would require a passport or birth certificate to register to vote, which would block millions of American citizens from voting.

📣“Congressional authorization isn’t just a box-checking exercise:" "It’s a means of ensuring that the solemn decision to go to war is made democratically and accountably" -- not at the whims of one person.

The Society is an international organisation of 7000 historians with representatives in more than 60 countries worldwide: bit.ly/4dHQI8g Applications to join the Society are welcome at anytime from researchers of any subject area / any country 2/2

#Agenda @royalhistsoc.org bit.ly/4s5UMCS

#Agenda @secrio.bsky.social

📢 One in ten (11%) members of gen Z have reported emotional abuse and 3% have experienced violence from a partner in the past year, according to new @ucl.ac.uk research. Read more: bit.ly/4m1Tnf5

Great use of the Millenium cohort. Parental poverty is the most important factor. Poverty and family adversity trajectories and not in education, employment or training (NEET) status in late adolescence: evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/4/1/...

Another paper showing that family poverty is more important than psychosocial adversities Parental socioeconomic resources and adverse childhood experiences as predictors of not in education, employment, or training: a Finnish register-based longitudinal study: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

There is one song in particular that sums up the vision of fair water distribution. It is from The Nile Project,a collaboration of musicians from all 11 countries in the Nile Basin.In Ya Abai Wuha (Waters of the Nile) they sing:"If we have love and peace, that is more than enough for all of us." 1/2

By @helenpilcher.bsky.social www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/...

Monk parakeets are cheeky blighters & expert builders who build mahoosive, communal, car-sized nests at the top of utility poles. Not a problem if u like ur parakeets neon, but not great if u like ur power functional! Me in BBC #Wildlife again #science 🧪 www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...