“From April 14-18, select UBC graduate programs at UBC Vancouver will re-open their applications for US citizens to be considered for Sept 2025 or Jan 2026 entry - they are ready to provide quick admissions decisions for these applicants“ #gradstudent #gradschool www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...

Just come across this really useful list on the links between natural history and empire, featuring moi as ‘essential reading’. Perfect if you’re interested in museums or science more broadly too. Also ideal for passing to students as a starting point. daily.jstor.org/natural-hist...

The question I've been asked most as we endure the legal dumpster fire that is the Trump Administration is, "What can we do about it when it's not election season?" @timothynoah.bsky.social has an outstanding essay in the @newrepublic.com addressing that question. newrepublic.com/article/1931...

"Institutions with resources must resist thuggish bullying, not just for their own sakes, but to protect others who will find it much harder." @sulliview.bsky.social on Columbia University's short-sighted capitulation to Trump's intimidation. #TrumpTyranny www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

More bad news regarding Russell group universities with massive cuts to staff at Newcastle and possibly Northampton

Beloved prof teaching Ethical Leadership at UBC gets fired for showing…ethical leadership. 🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻 Anti-Palestinian racism is surging on campuses. Its victims are many, its harms are real.

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 my teachers at Columbia was Joseph Brodsky...and he said 'look,' he said, 'you Americans, you are so naïve. You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language.'"

NB Also an issue at TNA: 'the AHA issued a statement urging reconsideration of a policy change by the Secrétariat général de la défense et de la sécurité nationale that renders “some well-known sources, and many others yet to be analyzed, practically inaccessible, even to professional researchers.”

Statement from UCLA Classics on the University's failure to protect student protestors classics.ucla.edu/uncategorize...

#BonfireOfTheHumanities News Courses including Anthropology English, Music and Audio Technology, Philosophy and Art History under threat at the University of Kent Canterbury and Medway. Health and Health Care also threatened. The University blames, among other factors, the impact of #Brexit.

Horrendous news from the University of Kent.

My UBC colleague Avi Lewis speaking on South Africa’s case against Israel youtu.be/yuJJ0rO5gVk?...

Back to the Middle Ages. Blood libel conspiracies are vogue again apparently.

This is such a good piece by Alvin Tillery, especially in putting Gay's academic record in context. Two points. Black students at Harvard, including Gay, were told that hate speech was protected. No problem with white students flying confederate flags on campus. medium.com/@atillery2/p...

To commemorate the 120th anniversary of her death, a statue of Louise Michel will be erected facing Sacré-Coeur, “monument any-communard qu’elle pourra défir du regard.” A lovely act of justice. 🗃️

Horrifying proposal by the British government to destroy paper records of wills and other probate documents. Sharing my message in case it helps others formulate their response 🗃️

We filed our appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive yesterday. If we are unsuccessful in our fight, libraries won’t be allowed to own and lend digital books, only license them from big media corporations. Why is that bad for YOU? 🧵in comments blog.archive.org/2023/12/15/i...

Especially after this past week or so, people should be ready to fight.

Fascinating that there is so much data about these remains - since so often collections of human remains focused on typology of skulls, etc rather than the individuals from whom they came. This will be an important research tool- thank you for your work on this inventory.

Not clear why we are not hearing more about this cyberattack that continues to make much of the British Library unusable…and this also affects interlibrary loans across the UK…are they going to rejig REF requirements as a consequence? Read More: www.publicbooks.org/how-to-lose-...

JOB: the University of Northern British Columbia is hiring a TT Assistant Professor in #envhist, period and place open! www2.unbc.ca/79306/assist...

I wonder whether the tens of thousands of digital-only copyright deposit books will ever be recovered. www.bbc.co.uk/news/enterta...

My department is hiring an Assistant Professor in the art or architecture of the Middle East, North Africa, and Iberia, from 600–1500 CE! We're so excited to have authorization for this long-hoped-for position.

“When I see people watching the horrible tragedy that is happening here as if it were a Super Bowl of victimhood, in which you support one team and really don’t care about the other, empathy becomes very, very selective. You see only some pain. You don’t want to see other pain.”

Alert - motion to eliminate funding for the NEH. US folks please contact your rep right away this will be voted tonight. 😳⬇️🗃️

The Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) invites applications for a two-year Assistant Professor position in Anthropological Archaeology starting ​​1 July 2024.  anth.ubc.ca/about/job-op...

Half a million people in London right now. Jewish activists in New York last night. Polls in both countries overwhelmingly support a ceasefire in Gaza. Cannot imagine this level of support even five years ago. Whatever happens, the Palestinians are no longer alone.

Jews calling for a cease fire have taken over Grand Central ✊ Tell me again how they’re marginal. Absolute nonsense.

Reminder: the deadline for submissions for the FCHS annual meeting is on Nov 1!

#BSkyHistorians! Emily Marker won the George Louis Beer Prize from @ahahistorians.bsky.social for her #CornellPress book "Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era" - www.historians.org/research-and... Check out more here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

The AHA is pleased to announce the winners of its 2023 prizes, which honor exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, public history, and other historical projects. Congratulations to the 2023 awardees! 🗃️