Hello someone I know is doing a survey on sentiments re AI in museums & archives - relevant whether you work in the field or just like going to museums forms.gle/MUcvs9oGStUU...

Heritage Adapts! was launched today to support locally-led adaptation actions by tens of thousands of stewards of heritage sites, cultural practices & intangible cultural heritage worldwide. There are now hundreds of learning & action tools available online. Join in here: act.heritageadapts.org 🌎

it’s honestly funny this strategy comes after a wave of stories on how companies are admitting AI is too expense and they’re not seeing the ROI on AI spending. but mark carney is concerned only 12% of canadian businesses are using AI and wants to force many more to adopt uneconomical bullshit tech.

University administrators two years ago: we can’t allow social justice movements to change the university as we know it University administrators today: in order to accommodate the new probabilistic bullshit generator no one likes we must change everything about the university

Just two more weeks! We look forward to reviewing all article proposals after the deadline. bsky.app/profile/muse...

"Future Geographies: Art in the Century of Climate Change features 35 works drawn from the last quarter century. It is a big show — the ideas it tackles are global in their implications and impact." @nichecanada.bsky.social

What can universities learn about ties with tobacco industries, especially in the context of current debates re: fossil fuel dissociation? Now out in @plosclimate.org: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2026...

"This fall, MCNY will open the Puffin Foundation Center for Social Activism, dedicated to civic engagement [+] the city’s rich history as a hotbed of political organizing... 'We’re certainly aware of the moment we are all living through... We’re just continuing to do what we do...'"

Today we have "Mining Data and Canada’s Great Acceleration" by John Sandlos This is the 4th post in a series about the Great Acceleration as a framework and reconnaissance for Canadian environmental history, published in collaboration with @activehist.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/05/20/m...

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

We've all wanted to throw our writing in the toilet—& might preserve it for posterity. In Germany, a "well-preserved notebook from the 13th to 14th centuries" was found within a medieval latrine. 🚽 It is a Latin text in/on a mixture of a leather, wood, and wax. www.lwl.org/pressemittei...

Just absolutely bonkers stuff.

The Comeback...the show that you are

Something big just happened on Haida Gwaii. For the first time in B.C., a utility-scale solar project is now taking a meaningful bite out of a diesel-fuelled remote grid. It's a product of years of work from the Haida Nation, and it could signal a tipping point. (photos: Katherine Cheng) 🧵

Me! I am one of those academics and you can be one too!

"A Haitian Revolution Reading List" from the New York Public Library (includes fiction and non-fiction) www.nypl.org/blog/2026/05...

📢 Dream job alert for degrowth & climate justice folks 🌱✨ Research & Degrowth International is hiring a Communications Officer in Barcelona 🇪🇸. If you’re into activist comms, media strategy, social movements & ecology— this might be for you 💥 🗓 Apply by May 15 degrowth.org/blog/2026/04...

Opportunity | Join our Museums for Climate Justice Steering Group 🌍 Are you passionate about museums tackling the climate crisis? Do you have expertise to help them to be bold and champion change? If so, we want to hear from you: we're recruiting new members to our campaign steering group 👇

Jamal Shead WOW

This Raptors game might kill me

Because someone will bring it up: alt text has been a web requirement since the 90s and is not “training” AI image recognition models. It’s for providing access to users who cannot see an image or need help with context.

- Documentation and digitisation - Conservation - Collections-based scientific research - Research into collection history and provenance - Outreach, education or related project The next application deadline is 31st July 2026.

I spoke to @theguardian.com about a new report on the harms of the critical minerals rush, from @un-water.bsky.social. While the harms are very real, communities aren’t passive victims. They are political protagonists in the struggle for a less extractive economy. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Can play and design be reoriented towards anti-extractive futures? We developed a new, alternative board game to do just that! 1/3 (Photos courtesy of Garry Tutte)

I sent this interview around to so many journalist friends when it first came out; it reinvigorated me and my love for and devotion to our profession. This is such a tremendous loss for journalism. Every journalist must speak out about Israel killing our colleagues over and over and over again.

Last night, after an hours-long public hearing, Monterey Park became the first city in California to pass an ordinance permanently banning data centers. The city council voted unanimously to declare data centers a public nuisance, and to "prohibit all data centers within city limits." My story:

The @cndhistassoc.bsky.social has written to Minister @JulieDabrusin to take issue with this attack on knowledge. You should too! cha-shc.ca/advocacy/cha... #cdnhist #envhist

📖 Join us this Wednesday for the final meeting of the @energy-ethics.bsky.social Virtual Reading Group on #EnergyHeritage! Our concluding theme is INDIGENOUS & SOLAR FUTURES ☀️; we'll be reading Kinder, LaDuke, and some #solarpunk fiction. No need to have attended prior sessions!

⚠️ Palantir released what it describes as a vision for “The Technological Republic” in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry. These points stand out:

Doug Ford, to students: "money doesn't go on trees!" Doug Ford, for himself: uses your tax dollars to buy himself a private jet. Can we stop pretending Premier "God bless the Westons" cares about everyday people in Ontario?

Good news vibes! #AlaskaSky #Alaska

Members of the Palestine FA have been denied visas to enter Canada for the pre-World Cup FIFA Congress on April 30 in Vancouver. These meetings of FIFA's member associations are the main platform the Palestinian FA use to officially raise the issue of illegal Israeli settlement clubs.

This was a good meeting, chaired by @millarlaura.bsky.social and attended by 113 people from museums, archives, libraries, historical societies, along with historians. A temporary advocacy committee is being set up to steer the work coming out of today’s discussion. #archives #library 📚

I encourage anyone interested in the future of archives, history, research, and accountability across Canada to join this meeting and help identify strategies for advocacy/awareness raising for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. April 17, 2026: 12 noon ET. www.linkedin.com/posts/laura-...

Museum studies courses need to emphasize the importance of ADA compliance in art nonprofits not just as a chore, but as an essential part of an institution’s mission to serve the public.

loved editing this story by Cam Fenton about the hurdles to grizzly restoration in the Cascades. illustrations by the amazing Karlene Harvey, who reimagined grizzlies on the land:

Correctional Services Canada will be eliminating all prison librarians at federal prisons. This will save between $1.5 million and $2.5 million annually.

Parks Canada, which includes responsibility for many national museums across Canada, is “...ceasing or reducing lower priority activities, such as library services,” according to the budget.

The Canadian Museum of History and Canadian War Museum are cutting permanent staff levels by 18% over the next 3 years. Currently, they receive $78 million but at the end of four years, there will be a permanent annual cut of $5.1 million. This has resulted so far in a loss of 67 positions.

We had an amazing time playing MINE-O-POLIS at CONTACT Gallery yesterday--thank you to everyone who came out and for your invaluable feedback on the game. We look forward to finalizing it and making it available to all on our website 🎲

Our team got together yesterday for a final "mock play" session of Mine-o-polis before today's soft launch. A labour of love, it is genuinely good and I can't wait for it to be out into the world. If you're into critical extraction studies and alternative modes of public engagement, stay tuned!

Waitlist spots are now available!

Both parties are intent on destroying higher education in Canada, and at the same time Canada likes to make self righteous noises about what is happening in the US re immigration and detentions. Fix your own back yard.

New special issue of academic zines! journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/un...

Big thanks to our Mine-o-polis team who is working hard behind-the-scenes to get game cards and pieces (3D)printed! www.beyondextraction.ca/mine-o-polis