‘Sunil Amrith writes from a position of empathy for the “all-too-human” desire to escape from the binding constraints of nature – a project that we are only now “belatedly” realising has been won at a catastrophic environmental cost.’ Oliver Cussen on 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

✉️ Explore 145,000 medieval merchant letters as a live map: the correspondence network of Francesco di Marco Datini (c.1363–1412), spanning Florence to Barcelona to North Africa. Visualise routes, travel times & seasonality. docuracy.github.io/datini/ #DigitalHumanities #MedievalHistory

@indiedivattv.bsky.social, the most heartbreaking thing about your story is how common it is. People living with disabilities are not being supported by our governments: they're being attacked, denied basic dignity and fundamental human rights, day in day out.

The AHA has filed an amicus brief supporting Philadelphia’s lawsuit over the removal of the Freedom and Slavery Exhibit at Independence National Historical Park. Erasing this history narrows public understanding of the nation’s founding. Read more:

I don't think people fully understand yet just how fragile university-hosted digital resources are after external funding ends (especially if the lead academic retires or moves or is made redundant).

I wonder if my two friends whose NEH grants were DOGEd are ever going to get back that $40,000 they were planning to live on for a year.

Right Fit is a vital program in BC that is basically the only way wheelchair users can find accessible rental housing in an impossible housing market. The NDP govt is defunding it. Please sign to save it. c.org/6QVqb2KmNm

Today is Earth Day, but each year it can feel a little more like Groundhog Day. While we replay the same pipeline debates in Canada, the rest of the world is racing ahead on renewable energy — which is growing so fast that it met all new electricity demand in 2025. www.cbc.ca/news/science...

how it feels to say "sprezzatura"

Happy National Garlic 🧄 Day! Greeks & Romans loved garlic—but Mesopotamians loved it 1000s of years before them. The Greek ἄγλις (Latin alium) is an Akkadian loan word. At Pompeii, there was even a garlic seller (aliarii) workshop ( 📸 by @pompei79.bsky.social): pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpic...

we've accepted higher ed governance structures where a proliferation of mid-level admins carry water for high-level corporatist admins who have not taught or researched at the universities they head. both layers are always already on their way up & out, leaving those of us who stay always salvaging

I see they’re axing their undergrad degrees in music theory and musicology as well. OSU has an outstanding music theory program and (no inside knowledge) I would bet you that the faculty maintain this small major on top of their regular teaching load at a cost of zero additional resources

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Increasingly I keep being told by normies that they would “love to go to the symphony someday” and it’s starting to drive me crazy because if you want to go, you can just go! It’s not a once-in-a-lifetime thing! It’s not expensive! You don’t have to know anything! Just buy a ticket and go!

US media is going to be all-in with Vance in 2028. What should be a historic repudiation of Trump and his entire regime will end up being a nailbiter because Vance likes to give journalists juicy insider information.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Always exciting to see the Avignon Papacy in the news

Sharif University in Tehran was just bombed Founded in 1965, it is one the most elite science and engineering institutions in the world. Alumni include the mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win the Fields Medal Here is the list of other alumni en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Not weighing in on Avi Lewis one way or another (as noted, he's mostly "Jenny's brother" to me, and also "Naomi's husband") but "We believe in more pipelines" sure is a take in 2026.

This is amazing, AMAZING news for Canada's political landscape.

Musicologists! I’m looking for someone willing to review The Cambridge Companion to Florence B. Price by Samantha Ege and Alexandra Kori Hill. For the Journal of Musicological Research!

Who will hold Mark Carney’s Liberals accountable, if not the New Democrats? | @althiaraj.bsky.social Really good piece: www.thestar.com/politics/pol...

very here for Steven Van Zandt, who is clearly so very over the fascism bsky.app/profile/alex...

Did you see the viral video of a woman being handcuffed by ICE agents at SFO Sunday night? They knew where to find her because TSA officials tipped them off under a new Trump administration program. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

It must be *infuriating* to TSA agents, who are NOT getting paid, to see lazy ICE agents, who ARE getting paid, lounging about the airport and doing nothing to help either them or passengers.

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“Musician Angels Appear to Saint Hugo of Lincoln", 1632 by Vicente Carducho. Hugh, the founder of the first Charterhouse in #England was offered the bishopric of Lincoln in 1186 - he accepted only after this chorus of angels sang to him (Museo del Prado) #Carthusian

“WRITE A HISTORY? You mean a real history, of course, not the ruck of pious romances which the Government calls history & compels the nations to buy. I shall be glad to do it, for in my clandestine trade I am like an artist who paints beautiful pictures, but lives among the blind.” - Mark Twain

A federal judge has ordered more than a thousand Voice of America staffers back to work by Monday. It's a major defeat for the Trump administration's effort to cut the news outlet to the bones. n.pr/3NJLNco

Wow! #Sinners www.aaihs.org/the-sinners-...

Also, when admins decide it’s majors they care about, it’s hard not to see that as an opportunistically chosen metric based on who they can threaten with it. If they could attack certain departments based on *too many* majors and not enough gen-ed credit hours generated, they’d do that instead.

"Decisions about multi-million dollar EdTech subscriptions are made without faculty governance, usually without faculty input, and sometimes by a single individual (often a CTO) who may have zero teaching experience."- @mattseybold.bsky.social theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/against-te...

Ever wondered how pressmen and compositors at the early-modern Plantin Press structured their careers? 📘🕰️ Join the University of Antwerp as a PhD fellow and dive into the rhythms of labour between 1580–1840 Apply by 1 July 2026 👇 #PhDPosition #EarlyModern #PlantinPress #PrintingHistory #Antwerp

So many students just really want tiny classes where people know their names & they can make friends. They want to have real conversations w real people. They want to have the time & space to build relationships.

students are also frustrated by rampant careerism. they *want* options; they *want* to pursue things that interest them; they *want* more than the credential from college. we saw this in 2020-21: why did students hate distance learning so much? because college is about more than completing credits.

fuck me for being this person, i guess, but public universities are a civic good and shouldn’t be run like businesses. and if you’re going to insist on running them like so, at least do some market research. students like their professors; they don’t want MOOCs taught by ChatGPT.

I teach an entire ten week graduate seminar on how money is political and they just ... minted it out.

Dear everyone, As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included. A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.

This is from 1975.

Honestly I need historians to be the plaintiffs in every case I cover because if they make it to discovery you just KNOW those primary sources are going public. Exhibit A: The American Historical Association uploading video depos of the DOGE bros to YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkCz...

absolutely dying to investigate this piano purchase

You couldn't make this up if you tried. These dudes.

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

Self portrait with madrigal, c. 1578. by Marietta Robusti c. 1550-1590 (The Uffizi) #InternationalWomensDay

Not only did the US, per its own ‘intelligence,’ bomb this girls primary school, THEY BOMBED IT TWICE. www.reutersconnect.com/item/the-pri...

No interruptions, please. We’re building universal child care.