@collecol.bsky.social is back! 🪲 We've put together a great seminar series - we hope you'll come along! On 2 Oct 11am EDT/4pm GMT we're doing a reading club - Appadurai's "The Museum, the Colony, and the Planet: Territories of the Imperial Imagination". All info ⬇️ www.chstm.org/group/collec...

So happy to welcome Marcy Rockman as Visiting Researcher @liftingrocks.bsky.social @linneuni.bsky.social 👇 lnu.se/en/meet-linn... #heritagefutures #futuresliteracy #climateheritage

me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines

Via Rail is my favourite Canadian airline.

ICYMI: I have a new article on Canadian Transgender History for Defining Moments Canada. Follow the link below!

I have been using a lot this book by Cara New Dagett for my thesis on #petroculture and narratives in the Norwegian Petroleum Museum in Stavanger. My aim was to show how petroculture informs us and reinforce bigger systems: patriarchy, capitalism and extractivism.

I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities! Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December. Applications are welcome until 24 October. #envhum #envhist #energyhistory

just speechless at this.

FREE TO BE MORE: Creative Activism in the Era of Black Lives Matter, as edited by @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social & Ra'anaa Yaminah Ekundayo, with d'bi.young anitafrika is now available for pre-orders: uofrpress.ca/Books/F/Free... It is about the power of social justice informed artistic practice! ✨️

The Alchemy Lecture 2025 Sound—at the Interregnum Glen Coulthard Canisia Lubrin Madeleine Thien Immanuel Wilkins Date: October 30, 2025 Time: 5 - 8 p.m. (Reception: 5 - 6 p.m.) Venue: Tribute Communities Recital Hall, CIBC Lobby (Location) YorkU Event type: Hybrid – in person and online

Just finished Oil People by David Huebert. @camillemarys.bsky.social and @finnarne.me advised it, and it is definitely a very nice recommendation. Thank you! There is a lot in this book, I could talk about #petromasculinity, of course #petroculture /1

“leftists have an infighting problem” buddy you should see what they’re doin to each other on the far right

🚨🚨🚨🚨 This is a photo from a few minutes ago in Tulkarem in the West Bank. Today, Israel abducted over 1,500 Palestinians in the West Bank, the largest number since 2001.

Welp, it's here! Advanced copies of Science in Resistance have just arrived. Thanks a lot to the team at @ucpress.bsky.social for sending them. www.ucpress.edu/books/scienc... And related news: I'll soon be going on a train tour to give talks and readings of this book - more info below 1/

So sad to learn of Brian's passing. He was a truly transformative teacher during my time at the iSchool. He also was a really cool guy - here is a photo of him accompanying our PhD cohort to the Climate March in Toronto

Premier Fod was asked today: “Grassy Narrows is still being poisoned. Will you compensate Grassy Narrows for the ongoing mercury crisis?” Ford: “Hopefully the federal government’s going to help you” Grassy Narrows: Still waiting for justice #FreeGrassy #OnPoli #GrassyNarrows

I will soon be hosting an interdisciplinary workshop at @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social on "Heritage: A Concept at the Crossroads of Biology and Culture" (Sept 19th), co-organized with Giovanna Targia. Programme here: philevents.org/event/show/1...

I don't use feedback on my writing from an LLM because it can't read and I write for readers. When students say they find LLM feedback "helpful" what are we signaling about what's important about their writing? Helpful for what goal? Helpful how? What values are being reinforced?

One more week to get your abstracts in for EASLCE 2026 and join the orca uprising! Would love to see many of you here in Utrecht in April next year. #envhum

I have a meeting this week with a brilliant student who wanted my perspective on pursuing an academic career. I’m debating whether to send this in advance or afterward.

"The academic career is framed as a privileged but high-risk venture that ppl knowingly choose to embark on so they must endure the consequences or find a way to cope, thus obscuring deliberate adoption of biz models that [deprioritize] investment in staff + render large sections of the workforce 🗑️"

Sweden's indigenous Sami fear for future amid rare earth mining plans u.afp.com/Sd8u

New from @amsterdamupress.bsky.social - Nautical Rutters & New Bodies of Knowledge in the Age of the First Globalization, 1400-1600 Edited by Luis Ribeiro, David Salomoni, & Henrique Leitão www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... Available for download as #OpenAccess - admin.library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

Great overview of the current AI landscape, its impact on workers, w/ mention of resisting efforts like @guerrillamedia.bsky.social Translators Against the Machine

The response to this piece has been incredible. Huge thanks to all the translators and localizers who shared their stories. I'm now planning the next two editions: First, if you're a healthcare worker—a nurse, therapist, tech, admin, doctor—and AI has impacted your job, I'd love to hear from you.

Translators against the Machine is an initiative run by @guerrillamedia.bsky.social to share our experiences navigating the ever-changing localization industry. I've been a translator for 7+ years and since the launch of ChatGPT things have been crazy. Read my (candid) piece: #Translation #xl8

“I find it disheartening that instead of a society that once valorized translators as intercultural communicators and professionals who could uphold a bilingual society, we're flattening culture with AI systems that don't allow for a more organic exchange between languages.”

DFA was asked to drop this proposal for "interest arbitration". Accommodations for caregiving responsibilities seems like a reasonable ask of one of Atlantic Canada's "top employers". This is easily done and costs nothing. But @dalhousieu.bsky.social said no. #KeepDalStrong

excited to share the call for the workshop EXTRACTIVE NATURES / NATURES OF EXTRACTION happening at @uobrisceh.bsky.social on 6-7 Nov 2025, 
made possible by the @britishacademy.bsky.social deadline: 10 September! full call below ⤵ #envhist #envhum

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

The last comment in this thread brings an important student perspective to AI and teaching. ChatBots have ruined trust between students and faculty. When we read a strong essay we automatically wonder if the students cheated. I hate this terrible dynamic. activehistory.ca/blog/2025/06...

It doesn't get much better than this on a Sunday morning youtu.be/3q_dP9iXhsc

What assignments are people planning this year? I’m interested in assignments that encourage students to avoid the temptation of AI, but forces them to learn something either way. StoryMaps works well in a 50 student 2nd year class. I don’t know if it scales to 200+ first years.

The Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine is organising a MINESCAPES working group. Convened by @tinasmussen.bsky.social and others. Details, membership, and participation here: www.chstm.org/group/minesc... #mininghistory #envhist #minescapes #extraction

Final days to get your abstracts in for this very timely conference exploring the ethical, political, and environmental stakes of minerals. See more details here: imperialminerals.ie/events/criti...

The daughters of Hermann Göring's aide - who refused for years to talk with art-theft investigators - put their home in Argentina up for sale, and GUESS WHAT.

a single paragraph from the mouth of ai minister evan solomon demonstrates why any hope of canada adopting sensible tech policy has gone out the window thanks to mark carney

2% is a milk, not an offer! #keepdalstrong Keep Dal Strong Dalhousie Faculty Association

It's only a matter of time before AI-infused Canvas sites feature students using AI to contribute to "discussion" threads to which their classmates use AI to respond, and which the professor then uses AI to grade. We will have arrived at the singularity of computers just talking to each other.

I'm not reflexively anti-technology. I was always that guy at my uni who was eager to try out some new thing that might be a cool new way for students to learn. But those new things were just tools we could choose to use, they weren't the entire ocean in which we had no choice but to swim.

job Archival Consultant, Know History, Ottawa Starting Fall 2025 csn-rec.ca/job-postings...

1000 faculty hit the picket lines tomorrow, 930 am, lockout by @dalhousieu.bsky.social. A first for CDN research intensive universities. A reckless move by the Board - jeopardizing the fall term, ruining relations with faculty for years to come. Join us on the picket lines to #keepdalstrong!

So good

Just sharing the “Xtreme endnotes” assignment @parisnoire.bsky.social mentions here in case anyone else finds it helpful as we begin a new academic year. FWIW, it’s a purely analog exercise in an AI-freaky world & my students have never not had fun doing it.✌🏽 www.historians.org/perspectives...

Jacqueline’s work is amazing! Free walk opportunity this weekend ⬇️ Join scholar, activist, and writer Jacqueline Scott as she leads a walk uncovering the local Black history in relation to the environment and neighbourhoods near Todmorden Mills #Toronto www.toronto.ca/explore-enjo...

Excited to finally announce the release of my first ever book, and the first ever book from we here press. It is a pocket-size guide to my archival theories and experiences in the form of essays- some you may have heard in part as lectures, some which are unpublished until now. www.weherepress.org

Kinross Gold wants to dump inadequately treated industrial wastewater upstream of Grassy Narrows. Speak out before Ontario makes its decision. Take action with 1 click: leadnow.ca/campaigns/re... #FreeGrassy #GrassyNarrows

US Senator Ron Wyden has called for an IRS investigation into MoMA trustee Leon Black’s financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein, citing “suspicious transactions” that he claims have not been properly reviewed. buff.ly/pimI5Or